Contents

Special Offers

Introduction

About This Book

Crash Course on Acrylic

Your Acrylic Toolbox

Pigment/Color

Acrylic Binders: Mediums, Gels and Pastes

Inventing With Your Toolbox

Application Tips and Materials

Distinctive Metallics

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

Prismatic Effects

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

Secret Tricks to Pouring

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

Optical & Luminous Effects

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