Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting: Fun, Creative and Innovative Techniques

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Discover abstract painting with acrylics!

“If you approach your art with a playful attitude you’ll be more apt to keep making art, and the more art you are making, the better your art will be.” –pg. 10

Like a diving board for creativity, Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting will let you plunge joyfully into artmaking. With the belief that an attitude of playfulness is key to artistic growth, award-winning acrylic artist Jo Toye leads you on an engaging workshop-style adventure filled with innovative techniques, inventive approaches and breakthrough results.

  • Work Small. Start by discovering how working on a small canvas yields big payoffs. When you shouldn’t have anything to lose but a couple of minutes and a little piece of paper, you’ll be able to find that you paint more fearlessly, absorb new concepts faster and enjoy yourself more.
  • Step-by-Step Instruction. Learn what tools Toye finds most useful in making art, together with 17 step by step demonstrations showing how to use them to best effect.
  • Start-to-Finish Painting Projects. At the heart of the book, 8 start-to-finish painting projects put it all together. Discover fresh takes on stenciling, sponging, making and working with gesso. Use razor blades and applicator bottles to create distinctive linework. Achieve wonderfully original patterns the usage of resist pens, mouth atomizers and India ink. Experiment with Clear Tar Gel, pour paint with pipettes, work over top a “failed” painting…all yielding brilliantly original results.

Heavily illustrated and filled with exciting ideas you will not find anywhere else, Abstract Explorations in Acrylic Painting will inspire you to paint, experiment, play…and come away with some of your best work yet!

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