WaLTer Foster Artists Library Series Acrylics

Acrylic paints are beloved by beginning painters and seasoned professionals alike, because this lightweight, versatile, fast-drying, water-based medium is well suited for a wide variety of applications. Acrylics will teach you everything you need to know about colors, brushes, and other tools for working with this medium. In addition to learning about techniques such as stippling, painting wet into wet, scraping out, spattering, and masking, you̠ll discover comprehensive instructions for painting a variety of subjects in acrylic, including landscape elements. It̠s all inside this valuable guide! Editorial Reviews From the Publisher Serious Instruction for Serious Artists That's what the Artist's Library series is all about! The books in this series will help you expand your creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each 64-page paperback focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tips, and plenty of encouragement. The quality of instruction in this series is unsurpassed. Each book is written and illustrated by a professional artist who specializes in the particular medium and is uniquely qualified to guide the reader to a new level of expertise. About the Author R. Bradford Johnson is an artist whose paintings reflect his love for rural Americana. He graduated from Whittier College, where he earned a B.A. in Fine Art. A skilled technician, Roger pioneered translucent techniques in acrylic, writing the successful Farewell to Fond Memories in 1978 on painting in this manner. Roger has received more than 100 awards for his paintings, has taught workshops for the past 16 years, and has been represented by many prestigious galleries. His work has been feature in Southwest Art and Art voices magazines; has been included in such books as Contemporary Western Artists and American Artists of Renown, and, in 1972, he was selected as one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America" by the National Jaycees. His paintings currently hang in more than 800 private collections worldwide and have been put into print by Haddad's Fine Art Publishers, Pine Mountain Publications, and Wheelhouse Enterprises. R. Bradford Johnson is an artist, but in his realistic treatment of barns, rural landscapes, and warm sunsets I the country, he is also a chronicler of a vanishing American heritage.