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Dec 31, 2024 | ISBN 9781800921610
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Leisure Painter – October 2024
Your pocket-sized, one-stop guide to contemporary acrylics inspiration, practical exercises and exciting ideas for acrylic artists. In this innovative, ideas-led mini guide, master artist and best-selling author Hashim Akib showcases the versitility and vibrancy of acrylic painting. Featuring 64 practical exercises and inspiring insights, on a wide range of subjects, from portraiture to the urban landscape and using a variety of approaches, from colour dabbing, working on a base colour and refining chaos into order, this book is ideal for beginners to intermediate artists. It will inspire you with new ideas, push you creatively, and encourage you to develop your own artistic style.
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- Acrylics, what’s the fuss? 8
- Acrylics in a nutshell 10
- Brush up on the basics 12
- What brush? 14
- Warm ups 16
- Acrylics like watercolour 18
- Neat paint 20
- Adding a twist
- Spray! 22
- Palette of pigments 24
- Slow it right down 26
- Flow improver 28
- Glazing with acrylics 30
- Modelling paste 32
- Colour theory
- Families of limited colour 34
- Black and white into colour 36
- Work brighter 38
- Close tones 40
- Flat areas 42
- Dominant black 44
- Base colour 46
- Break the harmony 48
- Brushwork
- Drawing with a rigger 50
- Linework with a card 52
- Drawing lasso 54
- Ways to paint a parrot I – easy 56
- Make every mark count 58
- Pressure 60
- One hit wonder 62
- Planning and playing
- Chaos into order 64
- Edit your shots 66
- Glitching out 68
- Playing with size 70
- Mixing marvellous mud 72
- Coloured cards 74
- Unhappy accidents 76
- What to paint
- Ways to paint a parrot II – medium 78
- Painting the everyday 80
- Café scenes 82
- Animals 84
- Night scenes 86
- Acrylic architecture 88
- Colourful snow 90
- Ways to paint a parrot III – hard 92
- Professional tips
- Portraits on commission 94
- Working on a series 96
- When it’s finished 98
- Keeping inspired 100
- Finishing 102
- Floating frames 104
- Tints and black 106
- Notan 108
- One-session painting 110
- Painting water 112
- Buildings with character 114
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