Reviews for Landscape Painting Inside & Out

The average rating for Landscape Painting Inside & Out based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-12 00:00:00 Ravi Goel I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher --- Revolutionize your work with acrylics. Get ready for the creative ride of your life. Tradition is out, experimentation is in with this cutting-edge how-to sampler of techniques to use with acrylic, the world's most versatile medium. Inside, you'll find inventive, non-traditional, downright inspirational ways to paint with acrylic (pour, scrape, squirt, roll, layer and excavate). Workshop style instruction covers a wide range of approaches: Watermedia Effects * Creating Texture Gels * Subtractive Techniques * Collage and Acrylic Skins * Acrylic Transfers and the Printed Image * Pours * Acrylic Encaustic * Metallic and Reflective Paints * Drawing and Resists with Acrylic * Traditional Techniques with Acrylic * Varnishing 18 step-by-step demonstrations illustrate a wide variety of techniques including engraving acrylic, intarsia, pouring acrylic objects and more. Studio visits profile 10 artists and their personal approaches to painting with acrylics. If you want to try something new...to put more play into your artwork...to test-drive some of those enticing products you've been eyeing...open this book and go for it. We're not talking just about brush and canvas anymore...get out the hand-sander and Plexiglas, and hold on tight (or better yet, let loose.), because this adventure-in-acrylics will take you through a variety of possibilities. Delicate transparent washes, lively impasto surfaces, radical multi-dimensional effects... What will YOU think of next? I love painting and creating with acrylics and am always looking for something to do with them to make them more "special". This book is beyond special: her work and ideas as shown in photographs are awe-inspiring to any amateur painter like myself. If you are looking to embellish or add to your acrylic paintings, this book is an excellent place to start. I love "dirty pours" and this gave me great ideas on how to go from there to absolute greatness. I loved the studio tours as well - this is a great book for any artists to have on their shelf.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-16 00:00:00 Daniel Suh RETHINKING ACRYLIC isn't particularly easy to get into, it is front-loaded with a lot of technical information and the authors seems overly wedded to Golden Paints products. That said, if you flip back and forth between the demonstrations and examples and the front matter it becomes easier to digest--and it is not difficult to identify equivalent products or substitutions in most cases. The author use a number of their own works to demonstrate the use of new products and techniques and also showcases a nice range of artists with other styles. The overall emphasis is in the use of acrylic products in ways that create unusual, often layered, textures and effects rather than simple laying of brush strokes. It would be the rare artists who didn't find something interesting to try in the cornucopia of ideas and the overall spirit of technically-informed experimentation will be useful to artists at all stages of their development. After browsing through the book for a while it certainly prompted me to try out some new techniques. Pouring, waxes, using objects for texture, and lifting dried "skins' of paint to apply on other surfaces. These ideas shook up my approach to acrylics as promised and produced interesting results. I look forward to trying some of the other techniques in the future or adapting them to my needs. It is unfortunate that the kindle version of this book is so poorly formatted, there are obvious and repeated errors in spacing, hard returns, and font color. Even a cursory proofreading would have detected these issues rather than inflicting them on the unfortunate reader. I am choosing to not let this effect y rating but it very much effects my reading experience. This book is also beginning to show its age. There is an extended discussion of Golden Paints Garnet Gel which was discontinued around the time of initial publication in 2008, and many novel products developed in acrylic application since then are obviously not included. However most of the common types of paint modifiers and manipulation methods are at least introduced and this book is a good jumping off point for broadening your techniques.