Acrylic Innovation: Styles and Techniques Featuring 64 Visionary Artists

Acrylic Innovation: Styles and Techniques Featuring 64 Visionary Artists

Nancy Reyner

Language: English

Pages: 144

ISBN: 1600618642

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Acrylic is often used as a substitute for oil paint or watercolor, but the real gold mine is in allowing the medium freedom to do what it does best. This book shows how today’s artists are doing exactly that. It’s loaded with original artwork and valuable insight from 64 artists, incredibly diverse in styles and subjects, each using acrylic in unique ways to create expressive and personal art.

· 64 artists offer their individual ideas, approaches and inspirations for working with acrylic paints

· 29 styles, ranging from photorealism to minimal color field and everything in between, are explored through artist profiles, artwork and boundary-breaking “challenges” that provide dynamic starting points for your own art

· 29 step-by-step demonstrations illustrate acrylic-driven techniques you can take straight to your work, including collage and assemblage, reverse painting, printmaking, accidental stenciling, working with metallic mixtures and more

A follow-up to the best-selling Acrylic Revolution,Acrylic Innovation takes you outside your comfort zone. Dip in whenever you feel the urge to experiment, have fun and see fresh and exciting results.

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edges of these forms are all somewhat ambiguous—they are neither hard nor soft and do not clearly indicate whether one form is in front or in back of another. Notice how the space feels and compare this to the next image. Define Edges to Enhance Space A wider variety of edges are created by intentionally making some edges cleaner, crisper and harder while others are softened and blended. Now it’s easier to tell which form is in front of which, and the space feels more expansive. Eliminate

Contemporary artists: Sam Scott, Agnes Martin, Vernon Fisher’s “blackboard” paintings, Joan Mitchell • The calligraphic-style scribble paintings of Cy Twombly Leah Dunaway Fusion 2 Acrylic on canvas 56" × 46" (142cm × 117cm) VARIATIONS ON MARKING SPACE Beth Ames Swartz The Fire and the Rose: But Heard, Half-Heard, in the Stillness Acrylic on canvas 54" × 66" (137cm × 167cm) Variation 1: Contrast Marks With Background Small vertical strokes repeat to create a background field.

cloud and lighten colors underneath. The thicker the application of a matte product, the more this cloudy and lightening effect will be apparent. Acrylic products labeled semigloss or satin have matting agent in them as well, just less in proportion to a matte product. Also, colored paints when dry will vary naturally in sheen, according to the pigment. • Acrylic has a two-part drying process. The first part of the acrylic drying process, known as “dry to the touch,” means the top layer of the

to pose with costumes and objects. Photograph this setup using different lighting and use it for a painting. TRANSFERRING DIGITAL IMAGERY Photorealism demands exact painting techniques using extreme detail, perfect proportions and scale. Many realist painters enjoy the challenge of painting with minimal references and mostly imagination. Other painters take advantage of photographic processes in their paintings. This technique prints a color image directly onto an acrylic skin for use as an

Goya, Gustave Courbet and Eugène Delacroix • Contemporary artist Janet Fish Sherry Loehr Tulips and Oranges Acrylic on board 24" × 36" (61cm × 91cm) VARIATIONS ON STILL LIFE Sherry Loehr Koi Chi Acrylic on board 36" × 24" (91cm × 61cm) Variation 1: Using Living Subject Matter Instead of using the traditional inanimate objects for a still life, Loehr paints live swimming fish. Visible here is Loehr’s trademark style contrasting realistically detailed forms with looser

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