Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons (Art workbook series) [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

by Jenny Rodwell (Author) "Acrylics are the most versatile of all paints..." (more)
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From Library Journal
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.

Product Description
An introduction to painting with acrylics for beginners. The course in ten lessons introduces the theory, techniques and methods for painting with acrylics. Contains details of material and equipment. Each lesson lists the aims with clear instructions on how to achieve them.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles; Workbook edition (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0715307207
• ISBN-13: 978-0715307205
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,682,988 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great beginner's book, June 3, 2000

By A Customer

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty decent book for beginners, December 2, 2006

By	Leslie Newman (Harriman, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NOT A COMPLETE COURSE!, March 12, 2004

By A Customer

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.