Decorative Artist's Guide to Realistic Painting - Softcover

DeRenzo, Patti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0891349952 ISBN 13: 9780891349952

Publisher: North Light Books, 2002

Synopsis

This book is a decorative painter's dream: a complete course in the basic techniques of realistic painting! They'll learn about form, values and color - the building blocks of realism - while painting six fun, attractive projects. Patti DeRenzo, CDA, makes it easy by sharing her special "acrylic blending" technique that makes an acrylic painting look like it was done in oil, with the same softly rounded edges and refined gradation of values so common to oil paintings. They'll learn how to: Blend acrylic paints with special worksheets, and exercises; Mix values and use a value placement map (a pattern showing the exact placement of the light, medium and dark values); Glaze in highlights, shines and accent colors; Paint shadows and reflected light; DeRenzo also shows how to paint such textures as metal, porcelain, glass and fabric in projects that range from beginning through advanced.

About this title

About the Author:

Patti DeRenzo CDA is one of the acknowledged masters of realistic still life painting among decorative painters. She is an accredited Ann Kingslan teacher (the only one to achieve this status using acrylics) and a popular seminar and national convention teacher. Patti has been painting for more than 24 years, and has published seven other books. She lives in Crestline, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0891349952
• ISBN 13: 9780891349952
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128