Acrylic Painting Mediums and Methods: A Contemporary Guide to Materials. Techniques. and Applications

This new sophisticated comprehensive reference book will inspire and instruct painters on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways.Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age. Developments in the pigment industry have given acrylics a remarkably permanent rich and abundant palette making it the favorite medium of many contemporary artists. As colors are being developed their chemical components are also enhanced for better texture and handling.Art-supplies vendors now offer acrylic mediums for thinning thickening glazing molding pouring texturing and dozens of other uses. Even experienced acrylic painters can be confused—even intimidated—by this staggering diversity of products. Painter and art materials expert Rhéni Tauchid simplifies this daunting subject clearly explaining each type of medium and suggesting ways it can enhance your painting practice. Over twenty step-by-step demonstrations teach you how to apply mediums to create vibrant colors sensuous surfaces and striking visual effects. Hundreds of beautiful photos illustrate mediums’ almost limitless potential and show you how other artists—both abstract and realist—are employing mediums to push their art in new creative directions. The first book of its kind this essential reference belongs on every acrylic painter’s shelf.Includes the Work of Contemporary Masters:Nick Bantock Diane Black Bruno Capolongo Pauline Conley Marc Courtemanche Marie-Claude Delcourt Claire Desjardins Marion Fischer Heather Haynes Lorena Kloosterboer Suzy Lamont Marie Lannoo Connie Morris Barry Oretsky Lori Richards Hester Simpson Ksenia Sizaya Rhéni Tauchid Alice Teichert Beth ten Hove Sharlena Wood and Heather Midori Yamada.

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: Monacelli Studio (June 21 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1580934935

ISBN-13: 978-1580934930

Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 0.9 x 10.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 3 pounds