| Materials and tools -- The arrival of acrylic paints -- New abstract painting: color and materials -- From pop-art to avant-garde -- Composition and characteristics -- Acrylic paint and its properties -- Commercial packaging -- Colors in acrylic paints -- The mediums -- Other tools -- Manufacturing acrylic paints -- Brushes: quality and types -- Supports: canvas and boards -- Priming for acrylic paints -- The palette and other mixing tools -- Techniques for acrylics -- Mixing colors -- Darkening and lightening colors -- Washes -- Layering with glazes -- Gradations and transparencies -- transparent impastos -- Dry-brush technique -- Flat paint -- Preliminary drawing -- Opaque in acrylics -- Painting with the Sfumato technique -- Painting with impasto -- Spattering and spraying -- Scraping and rubbing technique -- Working with textures -- Reserves with acrylics -- Stenciling -- Sgraffito -- Collage and acrylics -- Quick painting -- Working over medium and dark backgrounds -- Mixed techniques -- Expressive color -- Alternating effect -- Abstract painting based on nature -- Pure abstraction -- The impressionist heritage -- Monochromatic paintings -- Themes with acrylics -- Skies and clouds -- Water of the ocean -- Vegetation -- Trees -- Flowers -- Natural landscapes -- Domestic landscapes -- Urban landscapes -- Seascapes -- Still life -- Colorful still life -- Unusual motifs -- Interiors -- Nude figure -- Clothed figure. |
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