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Recommended Acrylic Painting Books
Acrylic painting is a versatile art medium, and there are many techniques you can learn and adapt to your own artistic inclinations. Once you master the basics of painting with acrylics, you should expose yourself to more advanced techniques that will take you to your artistic next level. This is a list of recommended reading to enhance your knowledge of acrylic painting. If you're just starting, you may not need to buy any of these books as yet. You may even go to your local library and borrow whatever they have available. But as you advance in your skills, you will want to explore new techniques, and these books give you new ideas on how to work with acrylics. For your convenience, I have included links to bookshops located in North America (including Mexico, USA and Canada), and Australiasia (including the Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, and Asia). I will be including links for Europe as soon as I can. Of course, sometimes a book may only be available in one particular geographical area, in which case you will have no other alternative but to pay the extra postage from one side of the planet to the other. I do that very often, as I am in Australia, and often order books from America and the UK.
This is a very nice book that allows beginners to take their acrylic painting skills to the next level in an easy to follow system. How to Paint Expressive Landscapes in Acrylic is part of a series of books for people studying how to paint.
I recommend this series because of the easy way they teach you how to paint. This book, like the rest in the series, comes with 15 step-by step projects that you can complete at your own pace. Each project exposes you to a new skill or acrylic painting technique with the assistance of:
Clickhere to find this book in North America (a new window will open). This book gives you a complete technical understanding of acrylic paints. About half of the book tells you interesting stuff about the chemical composition of acrylics, how they are made, and how they are graded in terms of quality and characteristics.
Of course, you do not need to know all the technical stuff when you're just starting, but as you advance in interest and skill, you may want to know this information to suit it to your own artistic designs.
Click here to find this book in Australasia. ![]() This book is very helpful in that it shows students how to use "quick studies" to improve on your style and editing, and conquer the fear of failure when you begin apainting. The author shows you how and why the "quick studies" approach works, and shares with you 9 areas where this method will improve yourpainting, including:
Clickhere to find this book in Australasia. Clickhere to find this book in North America (a new window will open). Acrylic Related Links:![]() ![]() Intro to Drawing | Figure Drawing | Intro to Sketching| Color Theory | Oil Painting | Water Colors | Acrylics | Charcoal Crayon | Still Life Painting | Painting Equipment | Painting Canvas | Art Glossary | Painting Outdoors | Perspective | Painting Tips and Techniques| Angel Drawing Prints and Posters | Link to This Site| Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
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