Introduction: a contemporary approach
The technique and its possibilities
Presentation and characteristics of the medium
Painting with acrylic washes
working over color backgrounds
Transparent techniques with acrylics
Practice pages: transparencies with acrylic mediums
practice pages: washes with paint
Alternative methods of painting with acrylics
Reserves, sgrafitto and sanding
Practice pages: painting with flat and opaque brushstrokes
Practice pages: dry brush
Still life with brushstrokes and gradations
Notebook on effects: a couple of considerations
Still life with chair and hat
Urban scene with saturated colors
Notebook on effects: affinity and rejection between color contrasts
Seascape using the anticerne effect
Notebook on effects: colors and anticerne
Urban landscape with spattering effect
Notebook on effects: spattering on the support
Working on a textured base
Notebook on effects: effects with texture
Modern techniques: collage and abstraction
Notebook on effects: variations of a theme
Expressive approach to the human figure
Lessons from the master: Jean Dubuffet.
