Lee Hammond’s Big Book of Acrylic Painting : Fast, easy techniques for painting your favorite subjects
This resource is packed with the best of Lee Hammond’s lessons and tips on working with acrylics, including more than 80 step-by-step exercises and demonstrations that will have you creating amazing paintings in no time flat.
Success is easy—just follow along with Lee!
With just seven to nine pigments, you can paint anything. You’ll learn how to add layers and details, one stroke at a time. Along the way, Lee ‘s friendly encouragement and quick tips will help you work past what she calls “the awkward stage,” so you can complete your paintings with confidence.
In addition to detailed information on selecting materials and mixing colors, you’ll also get complete visual instruction for painting subjects of all kinds, including:
• Still Life: Get proper proportions every time, using easy graphing techniques. You’ll also find demonstrations for painting the tricky parts, such as glossy textures and reflective surfaces.
• Landscapes: Lee shares proven tips for creating depth and realism in subjects ranging from forests and mountains to prairies and seascapes. She also shows how to paint realistic clouds, trees, water and more.
• Animals: This chapter provides step-by-step guidance for painting all your favorite creatures. There’s even extra instruction for getting the eyes, noses, fur and feathers just right.
• People: Painting people can be especially challenging, but success is easy with basic steps and practical guidance. One feature at a time, you’ll learn simple techniques for painting faces of all kinds—male or female, young or old. You’ll also find in-depth guidance for creating realistic fleshtones, eye color, hair and more.
This is a complete acrylic painting course right on your bookshelf. Follow along from beginning to end or refer to this guide when you need a quick lesson. Either way, after learning from a master like Lee Hammond, you won’t be a beginner for long. Get started today!
Expressive Flower Painting : Simple Mixed Media Techniques for Bold Beautiful Blooms
It’s almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint–center, petals, stem, voila! Expressive Flower Painting‘s exercises have a loose, free, contemporary style the likes of which you’d see in galleries, in shops, and even on clothing and home design goods. It’s not intimidating, and yet the paintings are colorful, immediate, and joyful and speak to the artist’s desire to play, be loose, and to create freely.
Lynn Whipple paints wildly and in small to large formats with a combination of acrylic paint, charcoal, and colorful soft pastel. Expressive Flower Painting presents a range of creative painting exercises that help readers develop vibrant nature paintings. This exciting book is an in-depth expansion of Lynn’s class called Big Bold Bloom Wild Painting, with additional content.
Expressive Flower Painting covers mark making, layering techniques, how to do “spin drawings,” color methods, painted backgrounds, working from life, and how to successfully combine a wide variety of media for the maximum effect.
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2 warmup and creativity exercises
a playful approach to painting bold blooms
expanding your process
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Lynn Whipple was born and raised in beautiful Winter Park, Florida, where she spent most of her time outdoors, climbing trees, making things with her hands, and collecting odd bits from nature. Surrounded by books, art, and music it seemed logical that she would grow up to be an artist, just like her mother and beloved grandfather. Lynn, after a seven-year stint as an art director, prop master, and set decorator for Nickelodeon Studios, has been a full time professional artist for the past 24 years. Lynn resides in Winter Park, Florida and shares studio space with her husband, artist John Whipple. They create art along side 25 other artist in a shared warehouse space called McRae Art Studios, which was founded by the Whipple family in 1987.
Lynn’s work has been featured in over a 20 art books, numerous magazines, newspapers, and on dozens of blogs. Lynn’s work has won many awards over the years as she travels nationally to show her work at juried art shows, galleries, and museums. She is recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowship Grants from the State of Florida Department of Cultural affairs, one in 2001 and one in 2005, as well as a Central Florida Individual Artist Development Grant in 2011. Lynn divides her time between making original artwork and teaching workshops both online and in person. Please visit her website at www.lynnwhipple.com
