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Decorative Artist's Guide to Realistic Painting [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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This book is a decorative painter's dream: a complete course in the basic techniques of realistic painting! They'll learn about form, values and color--the building blocks of realism--while painting six fun, attractive projects. Patti DeRenzo, CDA, makes it easy by sharing her special "acrylic blending" technique that makes an acrylic painting look like it was done in oil, with the same softly rounded edges and refined gradation of values so common to oil paintings. They'll learn how to: * Blend acrylic paints with special worksheets and exercises * Mix values and use a value placement map (a pattern showing the exact placement of the light, medium and dark values) * Glaze in highlights, shines and accent colors * Paint shadows and reflected light DeRenzo also shows how to paint such textures as metal, porcelain, glass and fabric in projects that range from beginning through advanced.

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Patti DeRenzo CDA is one of the acknowledged masters of realistic still life painting among decorative painters. She is an accredited Ann Kingslan teacher (the only one to achieve this status using acrylics) and a popular seminar and national convention teacher. Patti has been painting for more than 24 years, and has published seven other books. She lives in Crestline, California.

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (November 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0891349952
  • ISBN-13: 978-0891349952
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #812,564 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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