Acrylic paints are beloved by beginning painters and seasoned professionals alike, because this lightweight, versatile, fast-drying, water-based medium is well suited for a wide variety of applications. Acrylics will teach you everything you need to know about colors, brushes, and other tools for working with this medium. In addition to learning about techniques such as stippling, painting wet into wet, scraping out, spattering, and masking, youÆll discover comprehensive instructions for painting a variety of subjects in acrylic, including landscape elements. ItÆs all inside this valuable guide!
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Serious Instruction for Serious Artists
That's what the Artist's Library series is all about! The books in this series will help you expand your creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each 64-page paperback focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tips, and plenty of encouragement.
The quality of instruction in this series is unsurpassed. Each book is written and illustrated by a professional artist who specializes in the particular medium and is uniquely qualified to guide the reader to a new level of expertise.
About the Author
R. Bradford Johnson is an artist whose paintings reflect his love for rural Americana. He graduated from Whittier College, where he earned a B.A. in Fine Art. A skilled technician, Roger pioneered translucent techniques in acrylic, writing the successful Farewell to Fond Memories in 1978 on painting in this manner.
Roger has received more than 100 awards for his paintings, has taught workshops for the past 16 years, and has been represented by many prestigious galleries. His work has been feature in Southwest Art and Art voices magazines; has been included in such books as Contemporary Western Artists and American Artists of Renown, and, in 1972, he was selected as one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America" by the National Jaycees. His paintings currently hang in more than 800 private collections worldwide and have been put into print by Haddad's Fine Art Publishers, Pine Mountain Publications, and Wheelhouse Enterprises.
R. Bradford Johnson is an artist, but in his realistic treatment of barns, rural landscapes, and warm sunsets I the country, he is also a chronicler of a vanishing American heritage.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
GOOD BOOK FOR ONE LIMITED TECHIQUE,
This review is from: Acrylics: Translucent Techniques for Landscape Painters (Paperback)
This small volume is quite good but the buyer needs to understand that the book is just what the title says it is "Translucent Techniques for Landscape Painters." This is not a step by step painting book for beginners. It's focus is on one aspect of the use of acrylics. Recommend.
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Very good introduction to acrylic landscape painting,
By Alaskaguy "Alaskaguy" (Anchorage) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acrylics (Artist's Library series #04) (Paperback)
This was my first book on acrylic painting. It's a fairly brief read, but it covered all the main points that I needed to realistically depict a simple landscape with a few supplies and a starter set of paints. (I used theGrumbacher Academy Acrylics 10 Color Set). I've read at least 50 books on art since then, and have produced a good number of paintings and drawings on a variety of subjects, but I'm still using and gaining skill in the methods I learned from this book. It's excellent.
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this book,
This review is from: Acrylics (Artist's Library series #04) (Paperback)
This book demonstrates some great watercolor-type techniques to use with acrylics for realistic landscapes. R. Bradford Johnson demonstrates texturing on barns, tree trunks, fence posts, foliage, grass, etc. I really like the palette of colors he uses - and yes, it includes black! He transfers his drawings to water color paper and predominantly uses transparent & translucent techniques, although he uses some opaque techniques with white for details.
This is one of the first painting books I ever owned and it's still one of my favorites.
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