Contents
About This Book
Your Acrylic Toolbox
Pigment/Color
Acrylic Binders: Mediums, Gels and Pastes
Inventing With Your Toolbox
Application Tips and Materials
Essential Tips for Metallics
Basic application of gold leaf
Mixing Metal Leaf
Textured Metal
Sanding Metal Leaf
High Gloss Leaf
Gold Leaf Backgrounds
Intensify Metallic Hues
Decorative Designs
Subtractive Glazing
Tarnish Effects
Faux Leaf Patinas
Drawing on Leaf
Glitter and Metal Flakes
Metal Paint
Essential Tips for Reflective Paints
Multicolor Imprint
Veiling Layers with Pastes
Matte Skins Construction
Soft Melted Effects
Multiple Layering
Fake Wax
Underglow Effects
Overglow Sheens
Prismatic Layering
Embedded Pearlized Color
Essential Tips for Pouring
Surfboard Finish
Dirty-Mix Pours
The Supreme Pour
Smoothing Pours
Poured Glazing
Deep Pouring
Embedding Objects
Pouring Veiled Effects
Halo Staining
Metallic Rainbow
Color Field Staining
Marbleizing Color Fields
Shaped Edge Washes
Hard and Soft Edge Pouring
Essential Tips for Optical and Luminous Effects
The Paint as Itself
Polished “Stone” Effects
Sheen Shifting
Subtractive Metallic Grisaille
Metallic Drawing Surfaces
Stained Glass Effect
Veiling Metal Leaf
Glass Refraction
Pouring Embedded Leaf
Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Paints
Vibrating Optical Effects
High Contrast
Contributing Artists
About the Author
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Copyright