'Acrylic Workbook' introduces the necessary theory and techniques required to learn how to paint with acrylics, an increasingly popular medium, all at a pace that both informs and inspires.
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.
great beginner's book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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.
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