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Rethinking acrylic, radical solutions for exploiting the world's most versatile medium, Patti Brady

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Rethinking acrylic

Patti Brady

radical solutions for exploiting the world's most versatile medium

Acrylic can mimic oil paint, watercolour, gouache, encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent washes, or troweled on in heavy thick impasto, it can be as transparent as glass or as dense and black as tar, with a tar-like consistency. This book shows readers how to use acrylic in a variety of ways

Introduction 9 -- Chapter 1 -- An Overview of Acrylic 10 -- All you need to know about the world's most versatile medium. -- Chapter 2 -- Watermedia Effects 20 -- Learn how to apply watermedia techniques to acrylic for effects that will blow you out of the -- water. -- Artist Profile: Patti Brady -- Chapter 3 -- Creating Texture with Gels 34 -- Get your creative juices flowing with the endless possibilities of acrylic gels. -- Artist Profile: K. D. Tobin -- Chapter 4 -- Subtractive Techniques 52 -- Uncover new ways of pushing your creative boundaries by excavating the acrylic surface. -- Artist Profile: Ulysses Jackson -- Chapter 5 -- Collage Acrylic Skins 64 -- Learn how to exploit acrylic's flexible skin. -- Artist Profile: Phil Garrett [P: Or should it be Phillip?] -- Chapter 6 -- Image Transfers 74 -- Discover how acrylic's versatility can be used for nontraditional forms of image reproduction. -- Artist Profile: Corrine Loomis Deitz -- Chapter 7 -- Pours 86 -- Use pours to push acrylic paint's physicality to the limit. -- Artist Profile: Patti Brady -- Chapter 8 -- Faux Encaustic 98 -- Discover why acrylic is the "bee's knees" when it comes to encaustic-like effects. -- Artist Profile: Barbara DePirro -- Chapter 9 -- Mysteries of Micas, Metals and Interference 108 -- Unlock the secrets to these glittery pigments and you'll know why all that glitters doesn't have to -- be gold. -- Artist Profile: Nancy Reyner -- Chapter 10 -- Drawing and Resists with Acrylic 122 -- Unleash your inner child by squirting, squeezing, dripping and splashing acrylic paints and -- mediums. -- Artist Profile: Merle Rosen -- Chapter 11 -- Traditional Techniques with Acrylic 134 -- Rediscover traditional applications with modern acrylic methods. -- Artist Profile: Dianne Bugash -- Chapter 12 -- Varnishing 148 -- Everything you ever wanted to know about the art of preserving your artwork. -- Artist Profile: Roy Kinzer -- Contributors 156 -- Index 158