The Weekend Artist: You Can Paint with Acrylics (Leisure Arts #22584)

Featuring the art and text of Jerry Yarnell, this book demonstrates how anyone can paint with acrylics. It lists the basic supplies and explains techniques such as dabbing, drybrushing, feathering, gesso, glaze, splattering, scrubbing, scumbling (unorganized overlapping of strokes), underpainting, value, wash, wet-on-wet, and other methods. Seven paintings are explained step-by-step from beginning to finish. The paintings show a farmhouse in Country Peace, weathered wood in The Front Porch, a snowy scene in Winter Retreat, an eagle in The Guardian, a pond in Spring's Song, a creek in Rocky Waters, and a snowy night scene of a church in Evening Prayers. Stapled; 32 pages.F+W Publications is the author of 'The Weekend Artist: You Can Paint with Acrylics (Leisure Arts #22584)', published 2005 under ISBN 9781574868418 and ISBN 1574868411.