Acrylic Painting with Lee Hammond

by Lee Hammond, Jolie Lamping, Amy Jeynes

Book Overview

Instruction for Beginners - Results Like a Pro

You can learn to paint with skill and confidence. Lee Hammond makes painting with acrylics accessible and fun with sound guidance, practical tips and encouraging advice.

As Lee explains, the magic of acrylic painting is in the layers. Painting in layers makes it easy to block out shapes, add details and cover mistakes. Just follow along step by step, and in no time you'll be painting a variety of beautiful subjects so realistic and detailed no one will believe you're just a beginner.

Starting with the basics, Lee's masterful instruction includes:

Help with choosing brushes, paints and other materialsEasy methods for thinning paint, mixing colors and preparing surfacesVisual explanations of color and compositionClose-up instruction for getting the details just right, including textures, shading, reflections, highlights and skin tones40 step-by-step painting demonstrations for painting still-lifes, landscapes, portraits, flowers, animals and more

Try Lee's proven techniques and start achieving the paintings of your dreams

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581807090
• ISBN13: 9781581807097
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Acrylic Painting With Lee Hammond

This is a good book for anyone interested in acrylic painting. It covers various techniques and subjects. Very good !

fun with acrylics

I have thoroughly enjoyed using this book on acrylic painting. It shows step by step how to produce fantastic paintings using all kinds of techniques and ideas. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone wishing to know how to make your paintings look professional and have a great time doing it.

Good Self-help Book

I am really enjoying this book. It illustrates some of the different techniques used by Lee Hammond. I am taking some local art classes, and this book gives me some interesting projects to work on at home. Even the simple example of making a round ball or shere look three-dimensional is helpful to a new painter and is not as easy as it looks. She stresses that there is an "Awkward Stage" in any painting, and she points this stage out in each of the projects in the book. This has helped and encouraged me to give my paintings the final details needed to make my paintings more realistic.

Acrylic Painting with Lee Hammond

A great book for beginners, but also great for the advenced artist. It simplifies many challenging areas; such as, fur, hair, glass and and fabric.

The greatest book if you are a beginner !

I currently have 3 books by Lee Hammond, being "Acrylic Painting ..." one of them. The book starts with all the materials you need to start painting in this medium and using her techniques. Then the author explains the different strokes and ways of using acrylic paint. Then she explains the 5 elements of shadowing (this is explained in all of her books) in a black and white example and then how to do it in blue, red, green and yellow. Then you can apply the same techinique to other colors. She explains all the terminology used when talking about color. I have found very interesting and useful how to build your own palette from the basic palette of 7 colors. Yes you only need 7 colors to paint whatever you wish !! That's not all ! She explain you color schemes, composition, tricks to help you paint with ease, ... Then there are a bunch of step by step projects about still life, animals, landscapes, seascapes, flowers and people. That makes a total of 40 projects. So the book is just great but the most important thing is that my paintings have improved dramatically. I'm wishing to buy her new book "Paint people in acrylic".