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    Acrylic Painting: What You Need to Know When Learning How to Paint With Acrylics
    Acrylic Painting: What You Need to Know When Learning How to Paint With Acrylics
    Acrylic Painting: What You Need to Know When Learning How to Paint With Acrylics
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    Acrylic Painting: What You Need to Know When Learning How to Paint With Acrylics

    By Bernie Sanders

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    Whether you are brand new to painting, or have experience with oils or watercolors, this book gives you all the helpful tips and techniques to get the most from painting with acrylics. Compared to other paints, using acrylics is somewhat new. They were more often used in industry until water-based acrylics came on the market, in the 1950's. 

    I will teach you how to select paints and other materials for your painting enjoyment. Learning the differences in performance between acrylics and other types of paints is especially important. 

    Acrylics dry much more quickly than oils, for example. Once you master the techniques used in acrylic painting, you'll likely enjoy this medium. 

    This e-book also helps you in choosing and mixing colors, and in the creation of tints and shading in your work. 

    You'll learn everything you need to know, including:

    How acrylics differ from other paints

    What acrylic colors work most effectively

    Selecting paints

    Choosing brushes and other materials

    Different painting techniques used with acrylics

    Handy tips to make the most of your work with acrylic paints
        
    Acrylic painting is not as difficult as you might think. Learning the basics, in logical progression in this book, teaches you what you need to know in each step of painting, so you won't get lost. You can learn, practice and profoundly deepen your ability to impress with your acrylic masterpieces. 

    The promises of acrylic paints as an art medium are worth the study time and work involved. This e-book tells you all you'll need to know, and gives you confidence to explore with acrylics. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJVzon Studio
    Release dateFeb 15, 2017
    ISBN9781540165725
    Acrylic Painting: What You Need to Know When Learning How to Paint With Acrylics
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    Bernie Sanders

    Bernie Sanders ran to be the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is currently serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont's largest city for eight years.

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      Acrylic Painting - Bernie Sanders

      INTRODUCTION

      Beginners to painting and beginners to working with acrylics alike will benefit from this helpful e-book. You'll learn the methods that work – and those that don't – due to the unique characteristics of acrylic paints.

      From choosing the right type of acrylics – there are many – to purchasing the proper brushes, canvases and other equipment, I'll take you step by step through basic acrylic painting skills, from using brushes and palette knives to ensuring that your paint is the right consistency for your piece of work.

      I'll also show you how to use blocks of color, along with tinting and shading, to give your painting a multi-dimensional look and appeal. By building on a solid foundation, you can rely on your new skills as your painting projects become more challenging.

      Setting realistic goals for yourself is an important part of learning to work with acrylic paints. You'll probably experience at least a few setbacks, but you can learn from them and move on. Soon, you'll be able to produce works of art that you're proud to show off to others.

      This e-book shows you HOW to use the basics of acrylic painting to take you farther than you would have thought possible. You'll get a firm handle on the fundamentals, and build on that knowledge to make painting with acrylics an enjoyable and rewarding hobby – or perhaps even a business!

      CHAPTER 1 – HOW IS ACRYLIC PAINTING UNIQUE?

      There are several types of paint mediums in the world of art. Each type has history, properties, advantages and disadvantages, when you’re creating a unique painting.

      Oil paint has an illustrious history. It’s been the premiere medium utilized by many talented artists, especially those of centuries past. Oil allows you to create texture and depth to paintings.

      Acrylic paint is newer to artists than oils, and it has a versatility that gives it a well-deserved reputation as being somewhat easier to work with, as compared to oils.

      First, a Quick Look at Oil Painting

      Oil paint is made from tiny pigment particles, combined and then suspended in linseed oil and thinner. The mixture is stabilized and a drying agent is added. Oil paints take a long time to dry – if you create an oil painting, it may take three months or so for the surface to dry completely. 

      This does offer artists a chance to edit their paintings, and combine layers, which will add to the painting’s texture. It is supposed that oil paints will lose some of their original color as time passes.

      What’s Different – and Better – about Painting with Acrylics?

      Acrylic paints consist of pigments in acrylic resin and mineral spirits, with an agent for suspension. They dry very quickly. In some paintings, they can dry in just a few

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