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by Wendon Blake
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ISBN: 0486299120 Dover Publications Price: $15.95 |
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Demonstrating how acrylic paints not only lend themselves to all basic watercolor techniques, this guide offers step-by-step coverage of painting surfaces, colors, and mediums as well as basic techniques: washes, wet-in-wet, drybrush, scumbling, opaque, and more. Includes 75 paintings by leading American watercolorists demonstrating extraordinary variety of techniques. 126 illustrations, including 21 in full color.
Table of Contents for Acrylic Watercolor Painting
| Chapter 1. Why Paint Watercolors in Acrylic? | |||||||
| What is Acrylic? | |||||||
| Permanence | |||||||
| Versatility and Simplicity | |||||||
| Chapter 2. Painting Equipment | |||||||
| Sable Brushes | |||||||
| Bristle Brushes | |||||||
| Synthetic Brushes | |||||||
| "Knives, Wooden and Plastic Tools" | |||||||
| Sponges and Paper Towels | |||||||
| Palettes | |||||||
| Water Containers | |||||||
| Easels and Drawing Boards | |||||||
| Lighting | |||||||
| Clothing | |||||||
| Accessories | |||||||
| Care and Cleaning of Painting Tools | |||||||
| Outdoor Painting Equipment | |||||||
| Chapter 3. Painting Surfaces | |||||||
| Watercolor Paper | |||||||
| Testing Watercolor Papers | |||||||
| Stretching | |||||||
| Japanese Papers | |||||||
| Fabric | |||||||
| Acrylic Gesso | |||||||
| Applying Gesso on Fabric | |||||||
| Applying Gesso on Panels | |||||||
| Applying Gesso on Paper | |||||||
| Tinted Painting Surfaces | |||||||
| Preparing Textured Surfaces | |||||||
| Chapter 4. Colors and Mediums | |||||||
| Gloss Medium | |||||||
| Matt Medium | |||||||
| Gel Medium | |||||||
| Testing Mediums | |||||||
| Retarders | |||||||
| Modeling Paste | |||||||
| Varnishes | |||||||
| Recommended Basic Palette | |||||||
| Colors You Might Want to Add | |||||||
| How Colors Behave | |||||||
| Testing Colors | |||||||
| Chapter 5. Wash Techniques | |||||||
| Washes with Acrylic Mediums | |||||||
| Flat Washes | |||||||
| Graded Washes | |||||||
| Dark Washes | |||||||
| Multiple Overwashes | |||||||
| Semi-Transparent Washes | |||||||
| Corrective Washes | |||||||
| Chapter 6. Wet-in-Wet Technique | |||||||
| Wet-in-Wet Painting with Acrylic Mediums | |||||||
| Controlling Surface Wetness | |||||||
| Controlling Paint Consistency | |||||||
| Controlling Drying | |||||||
| "Wiping, Lifting, and Scraping" | |||||||
| Correcting Wet-in-Wet Effects | |||||||
| "Chapter 7. Drybrush, Scumbling, and Opaque Painting" | |||||||
| Drybrush Washes and Strokes | |||||||
| Drybrush and Acrylic Mediums | |||||||
| Scumbling | |||||||
| Broken Color | |||||||
| Opaque Color | |||||||
| Mixed Media | |||||||
| A Final Note on Collage | |||||||
| Demonstrations |