Acrylic Expressions: Painting Authentic Themes and Creating Your Visual Vocabulary

by Staci Swider

Book Overview

Create artwork that is a reflection of you Your artwork is your voice, as unique as your fingerprints, and Acrylic Expressions shows you to how to paint and express your authentic self. Learn to create a consistent and individualized body of work through workshop-style instruction and creative prompts. Discover how to paint intuitively by uncovering meaningful personal symbols and distilling them into a visual vocabulary. Then combine your interpretation and personal inspiration as you use acrylic paints and other materials to create textural, expressive, abstract-style works of art. - Develop a signature painting style by discovering your own unique color palette. - Find the source of your inspiration--childhood memories, folklore, the natural world--and create a personal library of symbols and marks to use to build complex and layered artworks. - Learn to take a common theme and apply it to a variety of compositional approaches to develop your own series of self-reflective paintings. - Features 20 step-by-step projects with painting and mixed media. Build intuitive art from scratch and learn to experiment with texture, color and even how to create painting surfaces with power tools.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440344485
• ISBN13: 9781440344480
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.8"