AcrylicWorks 5: Bold Values (AcrylicWorks: The Best of Acrylic Painti, Band 5) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1440352399 ISBN 13: 9781440352393

Verlag: North Light Books, 2018

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The unparalleled competition showcase for outstanding acrylic artists!

There's an old saying among artists that "value does all the work, while color gets all the credit." AcrylicWorks 5 gives value its due, showing how--in the hands of today's top artists--it brings drama to everyday subjects, conveys emotion and commands the eye.

The 5th competition book in the AcrylicWorks series, this volume delivers another bold and breathtaking show of the best in contemporary acrylic painting, selected from an international call for entries. A rousing blend of instruction and inspiration, these pages feature:

   • 127 stunning acrylic and mixed-media paintings by 100+ accomplished artists
   • Fascinating insights from the artists themselves, revealing the hows and whys behind each piece
   • Focus on the power of value--creative solutions, effective approaches and bold techniques
   • A rich variety of subjects--from still life and abstracts to people, animals and landscapes--portrayed in an equally glorious range of styles
A treat for artists and art lovers alike, AcrylicWorks 5 invites you to study these modern-day masterpieces, analyze them...or simply sit back and wonder at their incredible skill and artistry.

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Jamie Markle is a publishing and marketing consultant as well as a fine artist. As Vice President and Group Publisher at F+W Media for ten years, he was responsible for the creative and financial health of the art group, overseeing books, magazines, videos, online courses and digital content.

Jamie has worked with numerous editorial teams to inspire and instruct readers through the following magazines: The Artist's Magazine, Acrylic Artist, Cloth Paper Scissors, Pastel Journal, Drawing, Southwest Art, The Collector's Guide to New Mexico and Watercolor Artist. He also oversaw the content direction for North Light and IMPACT Books as well as videos and online content produced by Artists Network.

Jamie holds a degree in fine art from Xavier University, where he studied painting and drawing. He has worked in a variety of media over the years including acrylic, oil, pastel and watercolor.

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The unparalleled competition showcase for outstanding acrylic artists!

There's an old saying among artists that "value does all the work, while color gets all the credit." AcrylicWorks 5 gives value its due, showing how--in the hands of today's top artists--it brings drama to everyday subjects, conveys emotion and commands the eye.

The 5th competition book in the AcrylicWorks series, this volume delivers another bold and breathtaking show of the best in contemporary acrylic painting, selected from an international call for entries. A rousing blend of instruction and inspiration, these pages feature:

• 127 stunning acrylic and mixed-media paintings by 100+ accomplished artists
• Fascinating insights from the artists themselves, revealing the hows and whys behind each piece
• Focus on the power of value--creative solutions, effective approaches and bold techniques
• A rich variety of subjects--from still life and abstracts to people, animals and landscapes--portrayed in an equally glorious range of styles

A treat for artists and art lovers alike, AcrylicWorks 5 invites you to study these modern-day masterpieces, analyze them...or simply sit back and wonder at their incredible skill and artistry.

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Acrylicworks5

The Best of Acrylic Painting

By Jamie Markle

F+W Media, Inc.

Copyright © 2018 F+W Media, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4403-5239-3

Contents

Introduction, 4, 
1. Landscapes & Scenes, 6, 
2. Portraits & People, 34, 
3. Still Lifes & More, 64, 
4. Abstractions, 96, 
5. Animals, 112, 
Contributors, 138, 
Index, 142, 
About the Editor, 143, 

CHAPTER 1

Landscapes & Scenes

* NASSAU STREET Catherine McMillan Acrylic on canvas 34" × 70" (86cm × 178cm)

Nassau Street is a realistic painting of a well-loved area in Toronto, Canada. The contrast between a white overcast sky with bolder values throughout the piece is intended to contribute to the mood, which is one of desertion and neglect. Created from airbrushed fluid acrylics using hand-drawn, hand-cut stencils based on a photograph, this medium is integral in representing factual values by permitting overlap of several layers of varying transparency. In addition to revealing more and more the closer it is viewed, Nassau Street features a full range of values, intuitively developed based on the relationships between the subjects, namely the order in which they appear and the degree to which they overlap. Value is not only used to exaggerate depth, but also to depict the passage of time. Older items on the wall are muted, and newer, more intrusive or repetitive items on the wall are bolder.

* KEEP MOVING FORWARD Darien Bogart Acrylic on canvas 36" × 36" (91cm × 91cm)

I am extremely blessed to live in an area where walking out the front door takes me to an abundance of natural wonders. Not far from my home is one of my favorite trails; it meanders up and down hills lined with stone cliffs of various shapes and sizes. Depending on which way I turn, it can become a high mesa tour or hot desert trek. Communing with nature in the noonday sun quickly turns into finding the fastest way to a cool shady oasis.

Communicating those values of a bright noonday sun is as challenging as the experience of hiking it. Applying the tools of contrast, shape and texture allows me to express the integrity and rugged beauty of this space. Keep Moving Forward not only becomes a mantra for navigating the outdoors but also my artistic journey.

* SONOMA COAST BLOOM Scott Anthony Acrylic on canvas 16" × 20" (41cm × 51

California coastal fields and headlands with their wonderful varied colors and erosion-carved shapes are one of my favorite painting subjects. Like Tomales Barn (page 19), this painting uses backlighting to emphasize value contrasts, but in addition depicts distance with misty, blue, lighter values. The large expanse of delicate violet flowers (I think they are wild radish) contrasts with the darker clumps of brush and the angular rugged headland cliffs.

Another feature that draws me to these scenes is the smell — there is a particular resinous, earthy aroma in the afternoon after any morning fog has cleared and the sun has heated up the ground that evokes some indescribable emotional memory in me. That is one of the things I was trying to convey here.

* SACRAMENTO RIVER #3 Timothy Mulligan Acrylic on canvas 20" × 24" (51cm × 61cm)

When I find an interesting location, I reimagine it with bolder colors and simpler shapes while trying to maintain the values. By blending the right colors, I create the sensation of the actual scene while making the water, trees and even hillside glow with intense color. I usually alter my color palette slightly depending on the subject. Within my paintings, I've tried to incorporate how the eye perceives color from an object and how other colors might be perceived between objects. Knowing that light contains all of the colors of a prism and that the eye sees only the color not absorbed by an object, it only makes sense that what I'm looking at might be more colorful than what one might expect. Or that the eye can be trained to perceive more colors. Shadows are excellent examples of where subtle yet complex color structures can be found. Using these principles, I often include colorful lines to help separate objects within a painting and help portray depth in a painting. If you look carefully at an object for long enough, you can see lines along the form's edge; I interpret these colors.

Using sketches and photographs, I developed the composition and ideas for my painting's color scheme. I paint in an expressive style mostly using palette knives. This allows me to work the canvas quickly, to experiment and make adjustments. By altering the thickness of the paint, I created linear movement and strengthened the composition. My work doesn't try to replicate a photographic image, but offers a new and personal vision of the scene.

* TETON SUNSET Edward DuRose Acrylic on canvas 30" × 30" (76cm × 76cm)

In Teton Sunset, I wanted the mountains to form a solid base for the painting, almost a flat geometric shape. The low horizon line and the dark value helps to accomplish this. The light passing through the trees helps to create that wonderful lighting of the last few minutes of daylight as the sun sets over the mountains. The view is from Schwabacher's Landing just off the highway in Grand Teton National Park; it is a well-known spot but very peaceful and a great place to watch wildlife. With the backlighting of the sun setting behind the cottonwood trees they become luminous and a great complement to the deep blues of the mountain and its reflection. I wanted the trees to dominate the painting even though the mountains take up a large portion of the piece.

* SPEAKING SOFTLY Ober-Rae Starr Livingstone Acrylic on canvas 30" × 40" (76cm × 102cm)

I start a painting by placing the dark values and light values on the canvas. Then I add color detail into these areas of dark and light along with some midvalues. I keep the colors within the areas of dark and light at much the same value so that the detail does not detract from the overall value composition. Because I like paintings with impact, the strong value contrasts of the dark land masses juxtaposed to the light reflecting off water during the hours of a sunset appeal to me. The contrast between dark and light values and the way they are orchestrated in a painting also help to hold a painting together and to lead the eye through a painting.

I use Golden OPEN and heavy body acrylics, and find the use of acrylics in this type of painting invaluable. They allow me to capture strong colors in the reflections in the water due to their quick drying time, permitting me to add layers of color and make value adjustments in short order.

* SUNRISE, COLES BEACH TASMANIA Wayne Edwards Acrylic on canvas 30" × 40" (76cm × 102cm)

From the onset of this work, value was to play a critical role. At first glance, we see a bold and dramatic coastline with a few devices to grab our attention such as the rising sea mist, crashing waves and the use of spot color. Yet when we take a closer look it is the interplay of values that allows the painting to work. The sky is graduated from left to right and not the usual from top to horizon. Furthermore, extremely dark and light values are found throughout the work with midtones nestled around them creating a balanced and harmonious scene.

* CROSSING THE BITTERROOT Edward DuRose Acrylic on canvas 24" × 30" (61cm × 76cm)

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: North Light Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1440352399
• ISBN 13: 9781440352393
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Herausgeber: Markle Jamie
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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