Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings

by Mark Daniel Nelson

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Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings is a new tutorial and style guide for portfolio and skill building in acrylic painting. Due out 9th June 2020 from Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 144 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is the second book by the author with a similar format. A gallery table of contents contains a thumbnail of each of the tutorial paintings with page numbers. The following chapters progress thematically: a chapter on materials, tools, and supplies is followed directly by the tutorials. Each of them includes some technique or lesson on applying paint, using materials, preparing ground, painting different surfaces, reflections, color contrast, intricate details and more.

Each of the individual tutorials contains a materials list in a bullet point sidebar, a short introduction and information on the lesson takeaway, and detailed step by step process photos. The photos are very well rendered and clear. Many of the photos show the position of the brush and hands for clarity.

The author has also included an abbreviated glossary and index as well as some online supplies links. Worth noting, the tutorials in the book utilize a palette which includes only the standard "basic 8" colors.

This is a worthwhile skill (and portfolio) building guide full of tutorials with accessible digestible short projects. Five stars. This would make a superlative choice for all ages, especially bundled with the basic supplies.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.