The new acrylics : complete guide to the new generation of acrylic paints

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Title:

The new acrylics : complete guide to the new generation of acrylic paints

Author:

Tauchid, Rheni author.

ISBN:

9780823031597

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005

Physical Description:

160 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

Contents:

1. The language of acrylics -- What are artist acrylic paints? -- Acrylic paint production -- Artist- vs. student-grade acrylics -- Acrylic primer -- The acrylic format -- Acrylic ink basics -- Specialty acrylics -- Innovations -- 2. Materials and equipment -- Preparing to paint -- Tools -- Improvisationals -- 3. About color -- Color in modern acrylics -- Questions of color -- Metallics -- Unique and unusual pigments -- 4. Acrylic mediums -- Unraveling the mystery of mediums -- Water -- Gel mediums -- Liquid mediums -- Specialty mediums -- Grounds -- Finishing mediums -- Applying medium -- 5. Basic applications -- Acrylic painting techniques -- Demonstration 1 : faux metallic surface -- Blending -- Staining -- Feathering -- Underpainting -- Glazing -- Problem solving -- 6. Alternative approaches -- Breaking barriers -- The mimic -- Painting with light -- Demonstration 2 : stained glass panel -- Acrylic transfers -- Demonstration 3 : acrylic transfer painting -- Printing -- Demonstration 4 : silk-screen printing -- Demonstration 5 : monotype -- Soft sculpture -- Special effects -- Mixed media -- 7. Decorative objects -- Making things -- Floors -- Demonstration 6 : floorcloth -- Acrylic mosaic -- Demonstration 7 : mosaic lampshade -- Demonstration 8 : drip light -- Demonstration 9 : transfer lamp -- Demonstration 10 : keepsake box -- Closing thoughts -- Featured artists.

Subject Term:

Acrylic painting -- Technique.

Artists' materials.

Summary:

Discusses how acrylic art paints have been improved due to advances in pigment and synthetic resin technology, and presents a guide to using acrylic paints, covering prepration, color, acrylic mediums, basic and alternative applications, and decorative objects.

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The acrylics of today have grown into the most adaptable art material of the modern age. Focusing on a popular art medium that has been around for over 50 years, The New Acrylics illustrates how artists can create lush textures, color, and luster with the modern acrylics readily available in any art supply store. These are nontoxic, environmentally sound, and exist in the most dazzling array of chemical formats--from the most fluid to the highly viscous. Not only do artists paint with acrylics these days, they can create rich metallic effects, or even 3-dimensional sculptures.

Traditional technique based books on acrylics cover traditional methods of painting. However, The New Acrylics is geared toward more nonconventional ways in which to manipulate modern-day acrylics, and demonstrates new applications such as glazing, textured effects, soft sculpture effects, or staining, thus reinventing the old way of handling acrylics, and revealing a fabulous new artistic medium.

The underlying theme of this dazzling and sophisticated book is to encourage artists to interpret and handle acrylic paints in a vibrant, fresh, and above all, individualistic style.

Author Notes

RHENI TAUCHID is the head of product development at Tri-Art, a manufacturer of acrylic artist paints and mediums. An accomplished artist, she conducts workshops and lectures on acrylics throughout the United States and Canada.

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Artist and paints developer Tauchid explains the properties and applications of acrylics, a medium touted as the most adaptable art material of the modern age. Tauchid begins by characterizing this do-it-all, fast-drying paint with its unparalleled clarity of dried pigment and bondable, virtually glass-clear polymers that do not degrade, discolor, or become brittle with time. These nontoxic chemical inventions, on the market for some 50 years, comprise more than 60 percent of all artists' paints sold in North America today. Technical in its approach, half the book describes the chemical components, attributes, production methods, and grades, moving on to a basic primer that lists materials and equipment. Tauchid then progresses to basic applications, which include glazing, underpainting, and staining, and goes on to discuss barrier-breaking alternative approaches (stained glass, acrylic transfer, even soft sculpture), complete with demonstrations. A variety of artists' work in eye-popping color and a wide range of styles amply illustrate this well-indexed resource. --Whitney Scott Copyright 2005 Booklist

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