How to paint with oils, acrylics & gouache
Subtitle: learn to build confidence and skill levels with 30 practical exercises
By: Ian Sidaway
Publisher: Southwater
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wigston, Leicestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781780192154
Subjects: Gouache painting; Technique; Painting; Acrylic painting
Description: “Includes an introduction to artists&#x2019; materials, including canvases, papers, paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, supports, varnish, easels and more. Learn basic techniques such as scaling up photographs, making an underdrawing, blending, brush strokes, and special effects, such as sgrafitto, impasto, and drybrush. Covers popular subject areas from landscapes and nature to still lives &#x2013; paint an Italian country scene, anemones in alla prima style, and studies of autumn leaves, pumpkins, a teapot and seashells.” &#x2013;Back cover.
Notes: "All the basics shown step-by-step: mixing paint, brushstrokes, underpainting, working with alla prima, glazing, scumbling, impasto, drybrush work and more"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Oil paint; title: Acrylic paint; title: Gouache paint; title: Paintbrushes; title: Alternative pain applicators; title: Palettes; title: Oil additives; title: Acrylic additives; title: Supports; title: Varnishes; title: Auxiliary equipment; title: Applying paint; title: Tone; title: Scaling up; title: Underdrawing; title: Underpainting; title: Toned grounds; title: Washes; title: Wet into wet and blending; title: Painting alla prima in oils; title: Glazing; title: Scumbling; title: Impasto; title: Removing paint; title: Drybrush; title: Gouache techniques.