This book shows readers how to use acrylic in a variety of ways.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 takes the most popular techniques and makes them accessible to the contemporary artist and crafter. Six different artists show the reader using mini-demos, full demonstrations, finished examples and artist profiles how they can use the most current techniques.

About the Author

Patti Brady's paintings, prints and hand painted books have been exhibited nationally and reviewed by the New York Times. She is currently the Working Artist Program Director for GOLDEN Artist Colors, Inc., and has lectured and taught on the use of GOLDEN acrylics at a number of universities and art schools around the globe.