About this item
This new, sophisticated, comprehensive reference book will inspire and instruct painters on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways.Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age. Developments in the pigment industry have given acrylics a remarkably permanent, rich, and abundant palette, making it the favorite medium of many contemporary artists. As colors are being developed, their chemical components are also enhanced for better texture and handling.Art-supplies vendors now offer acrylic mediums for thinning, thickening, glazing, molding, pouring, texturing, and dozens of other uses. Even experienced acrylic painters can be confused - even intimidated - by this staggering diversity of products.
About the Author
Rheni is a materials consultant and part of Tri-Art's product development team, as well as a practicing visual artist and instructor, and founder of the Tri-Art Acrylic Education Program. She has a unique and thorough understanding of the material from both the painters and manufacturers point of view. In February 2005, Watson-Guptill published her book The New Acrylics, an in-depth look at the character and application possibilities of artist acrylic paints."The original working title for my book was 'Jazzing the modern medium', because my experience and approach to acrylics was and continues to be about improvisation. Stretching and splattering it outside the bounds of the formal and the normal.""When I have the time to paint, quiet my mind and open into creative articulation, it is my tools that take me there. The architecture of the each piece becomes dictated by a blurry mixture of form and design, wrapped up in the physical aspects of the acrylic medium.""When I teach and when I paint, I hope to inspire unfettered expression. Encourage artists to experience, not just use, their materials; get sticky in it, and find the joy in the process before getting hung up on end product."To schedule a book signing, demo or workshop: rhenitauchid@gmail.com
