The absolute beginner's first strokes in acrylic can now be fun and rewarding. First Steps offers friendly instruction that is clear, simple and encouraging.
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Vicki Lord is the author of 3 instructional art books: "Painting Acrylics", "Fun with Alkyds and Oils", and "Techniques in Acrylics, Alkyds,and Oils". "Painting Acrylics" has been translated into several languages. She was the host of "Painting with Alkyds and Oils" on PBS and the Learning Channel, broadcast in the US, Cananda, Mexico, and Finland, and later distributed as instructional videos. She teaches workshops all over the world in several mediums and is working on a new book on creativity.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: First Steps Painting Acrylics (First Step Series) (Paperback)
If you can only purchase one book on acrylic painting, this is the one to have. The author covers every aspect of painting from landscape (trees, leaves, bushes, rocks, etc.) to portrait painting. She covers the types of brushes and how they are used. This book has everything I was looking for and more. There are some nice illustrations to follow. I'm so glad I purchased it!
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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This book like so many so-called beginner's acrylics books follows the usual pattern: a chapter on materials (this book's section is rather sketchy) and then an immediate huge jump into technique. Right after the sketchy materials section the author devotes a chapter on composition before getting into technique. The technique chapter is not very helpful; it shows you a catalog of the results of various techniques but provides no real help in how to achieve them. On the plus side the paintings shown (and there are lots of them) are appealing to me; however, I after reading the book I wouldn't have the slightest chance of even making a faint resemblance of them.
As my growing collection of unsatisfactory "beginner's" acrylics shows (the nearest big bookstore is almost three hours away) there is a huge difference between a gifted artist and a gifted art teacher, though in fairness what is probably lacking are gifted art instruction authors. When writing these books they apparently don't have any reader feedback (why not?) who could slow them down by asking questions like how do I thin the paint, how thing should it be, what's the best way to mix colors, how do I clean the brushes, how do I keep the paint from drying out on my palette or my painting, etc., etc., etc. The only painting book I've found so far which can truly claim to be a beginner's book is Jack Reid's "Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started". That book is full of exercise paintings that let the reader learn a technique on a simple painting; the paintings are simple enough so that the beginner doesn't get lost in the detail yet have some artistic character.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not very satisfying,
By Peter Wald (Florida, MO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Steps Painting Acrylics (First Step Series) (Paperback)
Not a lot of information in this book (i.e. 'tiny lines must be drawn with an inky or soupy like substance'. However the book does not tells you how to get this substance. Water, a medium or what and how much?).
Much book space has been spent on showing paintings.
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The journey of learning to paint with a new medium can be exciting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liner brush, fan brush, white gesso, transparent washes, painting surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Burnt Umber, Artist's Dictionary, Cobalt Blue, Vicki Lord, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Raw Sienna, Cadmium Yellow Light, Joseph Orr, Michael Wheeler, Cadmium Orange, Kathie George, Olive Green, Jan Miller, Experiment Try New!
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The journey of learning to paint with a new medium can be exciting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
liner brush, fan brush, white gesso, transparent washes, painting surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Burnt Umber, Artist's Dictionary, Cobalt Blue, Vicki Lord, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Raw Sienna, Cadmium Yellow Light, Joseph Orr, Michael Wheeler, Cadmium Orange, Kathie George, Olive Green, Jan Miller, Experiment Try New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- PRO LIGHTING SERIES: STILL LIFE by Roger Hicks in Back Matter
- How Many (Pull 'N Push) by Alan Snow on page 66
- Still Life by American Federation Of Art in Back Matter
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