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Art Instruction Book - ACRYLICS - Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Landscapes - by Barry Herniman

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Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects.

This beginner’s guide to painting the landscape in acrylics is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time.

Build up your skills in easy chunks, learning about form and composition, colour mixing, working with acrylics and capturing the drama of the natural world.

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Each of the 33 quick-and-easy studies takes no more than 30 minutes, and will teach you how to apply a crucial technique to your work, or paint a particular aspect of the natural landscape.

The book also contains 3 larger paintings that demonstrate how to combine the elements learned into vibrant and inspiring landscapes

The exercises are all worked at postcard size ideal for a 6 x 4 inch (A6) watercolour pad with all the required tracings included.

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: BC Paperback + 32 pages of tracings
Publication: 17 September 2020
Size: 216 x 280 mm
Illustrations: 450
Pages: 128

Table of Contents

  • Tracings
  • Introduction 6
  • Basic painting equipment 8
  • Tips and Techniques 10
  • Preparing and mixing paint 12
  • Washes 14
  • Simple landscape 18
  • Distant hills 20
  • Using different surfaces 22
  • Misty scene 24
  • Rocky outcrop 26
  • Trees and skies 28
  • Winter trees 30
  • Green fields 32
  • Autumn trees 34
  • Summer sky 36
  • Moddy sky 38
  • Lakes and rivers 40
  • Flowing stream 42
  • Bridge 44
  • Quiet reflections 46
  • Stepping stones 48
  • Coastlines 50
  • Towering cliffs 52
  • White water 54
  • Beachscape 56
  • Rough seas 58
  • Evening on the estuary 60
  • Harbourside 62
  • Town and country 64
  • Country lane 66
  • Rustic barn 68
  • Successful shadows 70
  • Townscape 72
  • Country cottage 74
  • Doorway 76
  • Ox-eye daisies 78
  • Hills, Mountains and Snow 80
  • Hills 82
  • Misty mountains 84
  • Snowy lane 86
  • Wintry woodland 88
  • Lakeland River 90
  • Garway Village 92
  • Towards Achill Head 94
  • Index 96