Look again!
This is acrylics like you've never seen!
Charles Harrington's paintings are full of gem-like passages, delicate colors and the celebrated glow of watercolor. But look again...it's actually acrylics like you've never seen!

Acrylics: The Watercolor Alternative covers everything you need to explore this lighter side of acrylics. It offers a comprehensive painting course, from selecting materials, finding the perfect subject and designing powerful compositions to professional tips for framing and photographing your work. In between, you'll learn techniques and approaches for controlling the medium, creating textures, color mixing, glazing transparents over opaques, and more.

This book is creating a buzz among acrylic and watercolor painters alike. It combines the best of both worlds--watercolor's transparent luminosity and acrylics' forgiving nature--to create paintings that defy definition. There's no other book quite like it...a refreshing change of pace that sure to push your art into fresh and exciting territory.

Take Advantage of Acrylic!
In this book, Charles shares his discoveries, showing you how to make the most of 4 important attributes of acrylics that make it an attractive and capable alternative to watercolor'
* Acrylics are permanent when they dry.
* Acrylics let you use masking medium over painted areas without lifting pigment from previous applications.
* Acrylics offer a comfortable merging of transparent, translucent and opaque passages within the same painting.
* Acrylics are more durable than watercolor.

Open Your Eyes to What Acrylic Can Do for You!
At the heart of this book, 10 step-by-step painting demonstrations invite you to explore a wide variety of subject matter, from the earthy colors of mesas to the glass-like quality of porcelain figurines. With a wonderful assortment of textures, moods and levels of difficulty, these projects show you how to use transparent washes and opaque accents to capture:
* foliage, rocks, and other natural forms and textures
* the brilliance of color and light
* the reflective nature of water and other transclucent and reflective objects
* architecture and other intricately detailed subjects

You'll also experience the versatility of acrylics by painting on a number of different supports including watercolor paper, canvas and gesso-primed panels. And, just to remind you that mistakes can be corrected when using acrylics, you'll learn ways in which you can turn an otherwise failed painting into a keeper. The spirit here is to 'relax, paint and enjoy!'

Are You Game'
Being open to trying something new is part of being a great artist. So consider this a test.' Acrylic painters, are you ready to explore a new side of your beloved medium' Watercolorists, are you open to being delightfully surprised by the ease, versatility and lightness of acrylics' Give it a go and you'll never think of acrylics the same way again!

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