Waterstones Acrylic Painter, The
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Price: £19.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A complete course on acrylic painting, covering classic approaches and new innovations for a medium that's widely embraced by both beginners and experienced artists for its versatility, quick-drying properties and non- toxicity. Noted artist and School of Visual Arts instructor James Van Patten shows how acrylics can provide all painters with a vast range of possibilities for producing highly expressive art. Readers will learn how to use acrylics to create a wide variety of effects in everything from non-representational works to painterly realism to photorealism. Van Patten offers guidance on materials, tools, processes, balance, and composition and focuses on effectively using colour in painting. Replete with detailed step-by-step technical demonstrations and a catalogue of inspiring works by notable past and contemporary artists, as well as the author and his students, The Acrylic Painter provides a classic art instruction manual for painters of all abilities. Waterstones Acrylic Painter, The - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780385346115
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ISBN: 9780385346115
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Author: Rockon
Rating: 5
Review: This book his for the serious Acrylic artist. It's a excellent book..Very clearly explained...Very detailed James Van pattern" is not only a very good artist at what he does and shows. But as a teacher he inspired me alot.. I cannot talk my highly of his knowledge of this wonderful versatile medium..if you love photo realistic painting then this book is for you.. I purchased this on kindle..it's display of print size and a double click on the photos and paintings enlarged with no problem. If you are reading your own reviews james.. Thank you kindly for your donation of encouragement it's helped a great deal in my work already.
Author: Jeff Walmsley
Rating: 1
Review: I was disappointed with this book. There is plenty of decent, well-written advice but backed up with very poor and, for different reasons, mostly useless illustrations. (You would have thought the illustrations to be just as important as the text in a book about painting.) The relatively few full-page illustrations are not infrequently devoted to non-artwork - like brushes, paint tubes, colour spectra and exhibition walls; indeed there is a wholly unreasonable plethora of illustrations of brushes, bottles, canvases, knives, cleaning materials, staplers, palettes and retailers' shelves throughout the book. This is such a pointless and frustrating use of expensive colour printing, and a common failing with most publishers. In my large collection, and in terms of the number of pages so devoted, I must have literally a score or more books' worth of pictures of art materials - often the same ones. Perhaps publishers and manufacturers think that these illustrations will make me buy their products; in my case, at least, the exact opposite is true. Many of the illustrations are tiny - little better than large thumbnails - and cannot be "read", so that the nuances the author often refers to are undetectable. Worse, the author himself favours high contrast works (nothing like the cover in other words), and in every case, the large shadow areas read as dense, featureless black - although I have no doubt that in the originals these areas are full of the author's desired nuances. The works of other artists which are reproduced (including a few risible abstracts) are more readable, or in some cases would be if they were not ridiculously small. As a final reproach, many pages are only half printed on - we've paid for these empty spaces, we want them filled ! In my totally subjective view, therefore, one of Watson and Guptill's flops, and one which does no justice to the unfortunate author. One is left wondering if W&G's book design department ever takes any notice of anything other than its own introspective self-admiration. One longs for their book designs of the eighties and nineties, which gave true value for money. It's not surprising that many of these books now command huge second-hand prices. Haven't they noticed ?
