Acrylics. Alwyn Crawshaw

      

       Copyright

      Off Home, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 25 cm (12 × 10 in)

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in 1979

      by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London

      This edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      © Alwyn Crawshaw 1979, 1986, 1999

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Photography by Nigel Cheffers-Heard and Michael Petts

      Alwyn Crawshaw asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

      Source ISBN 9780007458691

      Ebook Edition © MAY 2019 ISBN: 9780008363246

      Version: 2019-05-13

      HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.

       Note to Readers

      This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings:

       Change of font size and line height

       Change of background and font colours

       Change of font

       Change justification

       Text to speech

       Page numbers taken from the following print edition: ISBN 9780007458691

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Portrait of an Artist

Introduction

What are Acrylic Colours?

       Materials and Equipment

       Mixing Colours

       Brush Control

       Perspective, Shape and Form

       Oil Technique

       OIL TECHNIQUE

       Simple Exercises

       Watercolour Technique

       WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE

       Simple Exercises

       OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Hedgerow Poppies

       OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Norfolk Pheasant

       OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Evening Landscape

       OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       The Grand Canal, Venice

       WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Spring Landscape

       WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Winter Landscape

       WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

       Venetian Canal

       About the Publisher

      Norfolk Pheasant, acrylic on primed hardboard, 25 × 28 cm (10 × 12 in)

       Portrait of the Artist

      Alwyn Crawshaw working outdoors.