Cutting-edge Acrylic Techniques!
In a hands-on, workshop style, Rethinking Acrylics demonstrates the staggering range of this oh-so-versatile medium, capable of delicate transparent washes, lively impasto surfaces, and radical multi-dimensional effects. Acrylics are compatible with a wide range of materials, allowing for a virtual explosion of mixed-media artworks. There are more mediums, gels and grounds available for acrylics than for any other painting medium, affording you inexhaustible opportunities for applying pouring, brushing, scraping, squirting, swishing, rolling, flinging, sanding and what-have-you.
Discover everything you need to know to purchase, mix and work with acrylics successfully. From there, launch into chapter after chapter of possibilities: watermedia effects, creating texture with gels, subtractive techniques, collage and acrylic skins, acrylic transfers, and more.
Introduction
An Overview of Acrylic
Watermedia Effects
Creating Texture With Gels
Subtractive Techniques
Collage & Acrylic Skins
Acrylic Transfers & the Printed Image
Pours
Acrylic Encaustic
Metallic & Reflective Paints
Drawing & Resists with Acrylic
Traditional Techniques with Acrylic
Varnishing
Contributing Artists
Index
Patti Brady received her BFA from the San Fransisco Art Institute. Her paintings, prints, and hand-painted books have been exhibited nationally at the Brand Library and Arts Center in Glendale, California; the Arch Gallery in Chicago, Illinoise; Mill Collage in Oakland, Calidornia; and U.C. Berkeley in Berkeley, California. In 1994 her paintings were reviewed in the
New York Times. She was awarded a Silver Award in the California Discovery Project in 1995 and was the recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship Award for 2006. Her work is in the collections of the Greenville County Museum in Greenville, South Carolina; County Bank in Greenville, South Carolina; and the Contemporary Carolina Collection in Charleston, South Carolina, among others. 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. Visit her website at
www.pattibrady.com.