Textures

📖 The Scoop

(back cover)
Open this book and discover how to add interest and originality to your paintings by varying their surface textures in unusual ways. For example, you can use tissues and crumpled paper, incorporate modeling pastes, or experiment with many other unconventional materials. You will find ten practical, step-by-step oil and acrylic painting exercises, each with clear instructions for employing unusual techniques that depart from more traditional approaches to painting. Also included is a special section that offers suggestions on ways to experiment with non-typical materials and produce highly original effects.

Books in Barron's Painting Recipes series encourage artists to think like an imaginative cook when starting out on a new painting. Just as a creative chef experiments with original combinations of ingredients to produce a culinary masterpiece, so too should an artist try working with unusual substances and materials to add more graphic interest to their work.

Genre: Art / Mixed Media (fancy, right?)