If you are looking for a book packed with acrylic painting tips then the book Terry’s Top Tips for Acrylic Artists by Terry Harrison will offer some great tuition with 115 great tips from one of today’s professional acrylic artists working today.
As an artist who paints using acrylics, I often cast my eye over the books that land on my desk as part of my day job. One such book is Terry’s Top Tips for Acrylic Artists, an acrylic painting techniques book packed with some great tips and techniques.
This acrylic painting technique book is from Search Press, known for their range of informative art instruction books. Like others in the series this is a smallish pocket book that you could easily take with you if painting outside. At 160mm x 215mm x 17mm thick with a spiral bind and in hardback, this is a handy book to have around. The spiral binding allows you to lie the book completely flat without the pages wanting to fold back over and close. This is great when trying to paint and want your hands free. The hardback cover means this book can the knocks and bumps without the corners of the covers turning up, a pet hate of mine.
There is so much information on the internet it’s hard to know where to start. This weekends trawl of the internet has thrown up this video clip that I wanted to highlight. Terry Harrison shows us how to paint simple trees in acrylic with great effect and I particular like this method as it’s a similar method of painting that I use. Building up the layers of paint, both wet and dry, can produce some great effects and using those old brushes for extra textures adds another dimension.
Enjoy the video clip and feel free to let us know what you think.
This weeks trawl of the net has thrown up this demonstration by artist Maxim Grunin which I wanted to highlight to you. Using Acrylic paints myself, I found this clip really interesting as I like the end result and especially the sheer scale of the piece, along with the apparent ease in which Maxim produces the piece.
If you have any interesting video clips or have come across any clips on the internet, let us know, as we would be interested to take a look.
I always have trouble when thinking about painting snow but with winter approaching snow could be on the agenda for one of your next paintings. The David and Charles book Acrylic Landscapes in a weekend, by Keith Fenwick has a great tip for painting snow, see below…
Painting Snow
You need to plan ahead when painting a snow scene, as the most important thing is to leave the white of the paper uncovered to represent the snow. However, snow does not always appear uniformly white. There will be cloud shadows and shadows or reflections from surrounding objects.
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This week’s trawl of the net I came up with this little gem showing Terry Harrison painting with Acrylics. As a painter, I love the use of really old paint brushes that give you great textures and marks and no matter how old the brushes get I always keep them handy.
Terry Harrison uses an everyday sponge to great effect when painting the trees and bushing in his painting. The grass effect Terry gets when he lightly drags the sponge down has a lovely painterly feel and I will certainly give this technique a go in my traditional paintings in the future. Terry has produced a number of great books to help the budding artist, but enjoy this clip and watch out for other great clips to follow.
RUBooks have a great range of Art and Photography books and being an artist myself I love to look through the many we have.
Acrylic Landscapes in a Weekend is a structured course of quick and easy projects that show you how to create acrylic landscape paintings in just one weekend.
Discover all of the materials and techniques that you will need to get you painting successfully with acrylics.
If you are looking for a book packed with acrylic painting tips then the book Terry’s Top Tips for Acrylic Artists by Terry Harrison will offer some great tuition with 115 great tips from one of today’s professional acrylic artists working today.
I always have trouble when thinking about painting snow but with winter approaching snow could be on the agenda for one of your next paintings. The David and Charles book Acrylic Landscapes in a weekend, by Keith Fenwick has a great tip for painting snow, see below…