This title is a beginners course which contains practical textual and visual instruction and includes step-by-step demonstrations. It is designed to take beginners through techniques at a realistic pace. Each lesson begins with a list of aims, followed by instruction on how to achieve them.
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Acrylic is an extremely versatile, very popular medium. Rodwell points out that it can be used instead of watercolor, oil, or gouache, sharing many of their advantages but few of the drawbacks. She emphasizes, however, that acrylic is exciting in its own right. Here, Rodwell provides ten lessons, from basic colors, textures, still lifes, and landscapes to collage. Designed for the hesitant beginner, these lessons begin with an outline drawing to be used as a guide. Finished paintings are fairly rudimentary and approachable. This is a solid first book for work in acrylics and can be followed by Rachel Wolf's The Acrylic Painter Book of Styles & Techniques (LJ 7/98), which references the work of seven master artists.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Jenny Rodwell studied at St Martin's School of Art, the Royal Academy and the School of Visual Arts, New York. She regularly contributes to the leisure painting press, illustrates children's books and works on animated films. Jenny lives near Sheffield.
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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great beginner's book,
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This review is from: Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons (Art Workbook Series) (Hardcover)
This is the best book on beginning acrylic painting that I have run across so far. I've found the exercises challenging but not too difficult. The 10 lessons seem to give the beginner a good grounding in basic concepts of color selection, composition, building the painting, and special techniques. I would highly recommend this book to someone who is interested to beginning to paint but does not have time to take lessons.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Pretty decent book for beginners,
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This review is from: Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons (Paperback)
This was one of the first books I bought when I just started acrylic painting.
This book introduces the reader to different brushes, textures, effects,etc. I actually did many of the exercises from this book and they came out pretty good. I enjoyed doing the exercises because a lot of the exercises were easy and precision wasn't really required, which let me just work on the basics of things (shadows,etc.) I definately wouldn't call this a complete course, but it might be a complete course of the basics of acrylic painting (to get you started). I would recommend this book if you're just starting acrylic painting and want a book that's fairly easy to do the exercises for.
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NOT A COMPLETE COURSE!,
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This review is from: Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons (Paperback)
Please don't name your book a complete course in 10 lessons if it is not. Only for beginners and remember not a complete course. Only if you don't know anything about painting, it gives very basic knowlege and it should say that is what it does.
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phthalo blue, carbon pencil, painting knife, broken colour, basic palette, foreground grass, cadmium yellow, palette colours, titanium white Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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