This is the book that will unleash infinity for you, if you are trying to get outside the box. I don't understand how someone thought this wasn't for artists. If these techniques are combined with any traditional skills, watch out!
I'll give a few brief examples from the book:
Using Liquin as a Resist
Liquin, made by Windsor and Newton, is a medium used to thin oil and alkyd paints and speed their drying. Used with watercolor however, it acts as a resist, pushing color around, and can result in some quite exciting effects. In the Example shown below, I put down a watercolor wash first and, while it was still wet, painted the lizard with a brush dipped in liquin.
Creating Brick Texture with Polystyrene
Polystyrene (foam plastic) is an interesting material to apply paint with, lending its texture to the depiction of various objects, such as brick walls in the example shown at left. To get this effect, I use a scalpel blade (heated first in a gas flame) to incise the brick pattern in a piece of polystyrene. (You can create any pattern you desire this way.)I then brushed watercolor onto the plastic and stamped it onto my paper. This technique certainly saves time when a wall is required in your painting.
Painting Directly on Fabric
Although the design at left looks as if it had been done using a batik process, in fact lynne Tinley created it simply by painting on a piece of black fabric with thinned acrylic paints. The black lines you see are the color of the fabric; the artist simply painted around them, negative fashion.
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I ordered this book based on the good reviews. They lied. The example photos are not good, and I would not recommend this book to anyone looking for new techniques. The stuff shown is really basic ideas about what different materials are for, such as chalk, acrylic paint, etc. So book is for someone wanting to know about different materials, not techniques.
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I ordered this book based on the good reviews. They lied. The example photos are not good, and I would not recommend this book to anyone looking for new techniques. The stuff shown is really basic ideas about what different materials are for, such as chalk, acrylic paint, etc. So book is for someone wanting to know about different materials, not techniques.
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Book arrived early and exactly as described: used but in very good condition
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