Creative Acrylics Review & GIVEAWAY

Learn how to paint with acrylics! This is Creative Acrylics: A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide to Creating with Paint & Mediums by Carla Co Chua. She introduces acrylics and provides painting tutorials on canvas and a few other surfaces. Learn about the tools and materials used in acrylic painting and what you need to get started. Set yourself up and start experimenting with your supplies. Practice exercises include color mixing, flat wash, glazing, dry-brush technique and adding texture. Begin the first of 16 acrylic on canvas lessons. Follow step-by-step photo and text instruction to make artwork. Lessons are organized by theme - still life, flowers, landscapes and skies, and adorable animals. The first lesson is a simple orange still life. Each lesson goes over a variety of fundamentals like color, composition, value, form, brushwork and perspective. Build your skills and confidence by completing all 16 paintings. The last chapter explores the versatility of acrylics. Create some DIY projects and crafts by learning how to paint on wood, fabric and leather. This is a fun and practical approach to learning about and working with acrylics. See excerpts and the complete table of contents below. Quarry Books released the 144 page paperback ‏on February 1, 2022. A Kindle edition is available. Get your copy below!

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1

MATERIALS

Acrylic paint

Substrates

Brushes

Mediums

Miscellaneous Tools and Materials

2

GETTING STARTED

Setting Up Your workplace

Color Theory

Basic Painting Techniques

3

STILL LIFE

A Simple Orange

Purple Grapes

Coffee Mug

Colorful Donuts

4

FLOWERS

Hydrangea

Rose

Sunflowers

Floral Bouquet

5

LANDSCAPES AND SKIES

Skies and Clouds

Pastel Evening Sky

Sunset Cityscape

Snowy Mountains

6

ADORABLE ANIMALS

Koi Fish

Fluffy Puppy

Colored Parrot

Tiger

7

PROJECTS

Cupcake Apron

Koi Pond Wooden Bowl

Floral Sneakers

Leather Tote Bag

Wooden Floral Brush Rest

TEMPLATES

RESOURCES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INDEX

Paint palette.

Paint brushes.

Types of acrylic paint.

2. GETTING STARTED - Basic Painting Techniques. Start of the practice exercises.

3. STILL LIFE - Orange. Start of the painting lessons.

4. FLOWERS - Start of the flower painting lessons.

One of the numerous helpful tips found throughout.

7. PROJECTS - Learn how to paint on wood, fabric, leather and canvas sneakers.

Creative Acrylics ISBN-13: ‎978-0760373279 is available at Amazon worldwide. The Quarto Publishing Group has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until April 20, 2022. Canadian & US addresses only. Good luck!

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