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Name: How to paint with oils, acrylics & gouache
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Author: Ian Sidaway

📘 How to paint with oils, acrylics & gouache by Ian Sidaway

How to Paint with Oils, Acrylics & Gouache offers a clear overview of the artist’s toolkit, covering canvases, papers, paints, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, supports, varnish, and easels. Readers learn core techniques such as scaling photographs, creating underdrawings, blending, and a variety of brush strokes. The book also explores special effects like sgrafitto, impasto, and drybrush. It demonstrates application through popular subject matter, including landscapes, nature scenes, still lifes, Italian country scenes, anemones in alla prima style, autumn leaves, pumpkins, teapots, and seashells.

First publish date: 2012

Genre: Arts & Culture/Fine Art

Authors: Ian Sidaway

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