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Create artwork that is a reflection of you! Your artwork is your voice, as unique as your fingerprints, and Acrylic Expressions shows you to how to paint and express your authentic self. Learn to create a consistent and individualized body of work through workshop-style instruction and creative prompts. Discover how to paint intuitively by uncovering meaningful personal symbols and distilling them into a visual vocabulary. Then combine your interpretation and personal inspiration as you use acrylic paints and other materials to create textural, expressive, abstract-style works of art. Develop a signature painting style by discovering your own unique color palette.Find the source of your inspiration--childhood memories, folklore, the natural world--and create a personal library of symbols and marks to use to build complex and layered artworks.Learn to take a common theme and apply it to a variety of compositional approaches to develop your own series of self-reflective paintings.Features 20 step-by-step projects with painting and mixed media. Build intuitive art from scratch and learn to experiment with texture, color and even how to create painting surfaces with power tools.
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (August 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440344485
ISBN-13: 978-1440344480
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.5 x 10.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #66,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Books > Arts & Photography > Painting > Acrylics #42 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Mixed-Media #49 in Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Mixed Media
With a million DIY painting books out there--half of which I think I own--it's pretty clear to me that many of them just don't deliver and often exist simply as eye candy and promotional pieces for an artist's classes or product line. Swider's is without a doubt eye candy, but it is one of the best books out there right now with actual projects that both the hobby and working artist can jump into and try. Straightforward and step oriented, this book of acrylic painting projects gives clear instruction but definitely leaves room for the adventurous artist to go out on her own and make the art personal. I am a working and a teaching artist and this book is definitely going on my Recommended List. Thank you Staci for such a beautiful and useful addition to the artist's studio.
This is one gorgeous book. The artwork is stunning and mind blowing, not to mention the projects actually fun and useful. I teach private lessons and this is great for teaching creativity and multimedia to get adults and kids alike to think outside the box. Highly recommended for yourself as well.
Chock full of beautiful images and clear step outs and directions to create your own. Inspirational writing. I devoured it in one night and cleared a few hours the next day to use some of the ideas and inspiration. I'll be re-reading this one many times. Highly recommend.
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