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How to Paint Fast, Loose and Bold: Simple Techniques for Expressive Painting

by Patti Mollica

A practical framework for expressive acrylic painting

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A practical framework for expressive acrylic painting

Patti Mollica’s guide organizes expressive painting around a handful of concrete choices: simplifying values, using color boldly and making confident brush marks. Five technique exercises and five start-to-finish demonstrations give the book a hands-on structure, while its advice is framed for painting a range of subjects. The emphasis is on working efficiently and deciding what to leave out, an approach that addresses the common challenge of feeling unsure where to begin or trying to include too much. It is a technique-focused resource built around practice and demonstration rather than a survey of art history or materials.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Acrylic painters seeking practical technique exercises and demonstrations
  • Artists who feel unsure how to begin a painting or tend to include too much detail
  • Painters interested in stronger values, expressive color and brushwork

Themes

Acrylic painting techniquesComposition and valueExpressive color and brushworkPractice through exercises and demonstrations

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Book overview

Bold
Exciting
Powerful
A new level of artistic expression!

Every artist strives to achieve the kind of painting that commands attention from across the room and delights the eye up close. In this book, artist and workshop teacher Patti Mollica walks you through surprisingly simple and efficient strategies for achieving that kind of powerful composition, whatever your subject.

Complete with timed exercises and start-to-finish painting demonstrations, this book is for any artist who feels overwhelmed by where to start or daunted by the urge to paint everything in sight. Patti Mollica's mindful approach will lead you to better, bolder results, as well as greater confidence and joy in the process. So load your palette with ample paint, grab some fat brushes and get ready to paint fast, paint loose, paint bold.

- Start with a strong, simple value statement
- Get expressive with color
- Be brave with your brushwork
- 5 technique exercises
- 5 start-to-finish painting demonstrations
Paint fearlessly!
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