Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings : Pick up the Skills, Put on the Paint, Hang up Your Art.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Mark Daniel.

Series:

50 Small Paintings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2020.

Summary:

In Learn to Paint in Acrylic with 50 More Small Paintings, fifty short exercises walk the reader through creating tiny 5-inch-square paintings of lots of different subject matter using a wide range of techniques with acrylic paint.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Welcome

Project gallery

Chapter 1: Materials, tools, and techniques

Acrylic paint

Brushes

Palettes

Choosing a surface

Transferring your drawing

Color and value

Basic design principles

Displaying your work

Chapter 2: Putting on the paint

1 Basic paint application: Door

2 Mixing tints and shades: Envelope

3 Opaque layering: T-shirt

4 Expanding your color palette: Child's chalk drawing

5 Mixing values of gray: Wax crayon

6 Getting to know your brushes: Pastry with sprinkles

7 Cutting out a shape: Toy duck

8 Introduction to massing: Daisy

9 Textured layering: Red barn

10 Simple composition: Tabletop still life

11 Painting wood grain: Artist's palette

12 Distressing the surface: Brick wall

13 Simple reflections in water: Hot-air balloon

14 Rough and smooth surfaces: Egg on toast

15 Understanding fabric: Theater curtains

16 Color contrasts: Door and padlock

17 Intricate details: Butterfly

Chapter 3: Light, shadow, and form

18 Introduction to cubes: Block of butter

19 Introduction to ellipses: Pineapple slice

20 Introduction to spheres: Pincushion

21 Introduction to cones: Holiday hat

22 Light and shade on a cube: Multi-layered sandwich

23 Reflective surfaces: Pawn

24 Introduction to cylinders: Stack of pancakes

25 Creating a unified color scheme: Cactus

26 Multiple spheres: Toy panda

27 Hatching brushstrokes: Bee

28 Understanding color values: Paper bag puppet

29 Shadow colors: Building block giraffe

30 Combining cones and spheres: Ice-cream cone

31 Complex ellipses: Button flower

32 Multiple geometric shapes: Toy rocket

33 Reflected light: Takeout carton

34 Multiple textures: Paintbrush

35 Complex cylinder: Pretzel

Chapter 4: Interpretive approaches.

36 Random edges: Cumulus clouds

37 Expressive brushstrokes: Banana peel

38 Luminous light effects: City at sunset

39 Luminous glazes: Illuminated lightbulb

40 Creating clean, fresh whites: Swan

41 Simplifying the subject: Flamingo

42 Dramatic contrast: Light on road

43 Broken brushstrokes: Tree

44 Gradation and depth: Misty mountains

45 Mixing colors using glazes: Lighthouse

46 Complementary colors: Lemon branch

47 Translucency and transparency: Butterscotch candy

48 Painting a backlit subject: Thistle

49 Creating a sense of scale: Canyon vista

50 Tonalism: Landscape with setting sun

Glossary

Index

Credits.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781631598524

163159852X

OCLC:

1178650846