Introduction

Oil and acrylic are two of the most popular and versatile painting mediums available today. No matter your skill level, if you’ve ever painted before, you probably used paintbrushes and acrylic or oil paints to create art.

Now it’s time to branch out and try something new with the help of Oil & Acrylic Workshop! This book features tips, techniques, and art from three diverse oil and acrylic artists. Learn about their tools and materials as well as their distinctive methods, and then create your own expressive, vibrant, and unique art using the step-by-step projects featured in this book.

First you’ll meet Kimberly Adams, who uses her fingertips and oil paints to create gorgeous landscapes full of texture and detail. Then Bridget Skanski-Such reveals the varied tools and techniques, including acrylic paints, brushing, stippling, block printing, spattering, and finger painting, that can be used to create her romantic, magical animal and nature subjects. We finish with Yiqi Li, who uses palette knives and oil and acrylic paints to convey the emotion and beauty in nature.

Learn how these three artists’ tools and materials work, and then express yourself via the diverse methods and endless colors, textures, and effects featured in Oil & Acrylic Workshop. Let’s get started!