Acrylic Painting with Lee Hammond

This is a good book for anyone interested in acrylic painting. It covers various techniques and subjects. Very good !

I have thoroughly enjoyed using this book on acrylic painting. It shows step by step how to produce fantastic paintings using all kinds of techniques and ideas. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone wishing to know how to make your paintings look professional and have a great time doing it.

I am really enjoying this book. It illustrates some of the different techniques used by Lee Hammond. I am taking some local art classes, and this book gives me some interesting projects to work on at home. Even the simple example of making a round ball or shere look three-dimensional is helpful to a new painter and is not as easy as it looks. She stresses that there is an "Awkward Stage" in any painting, and she points this stage out in each of the projects in the book. This has helped and encouraged me to give my paintings the final details needed to make my paintings more realistic.

A great book for beginners, but also great for the advenced artist. It simplifies many challenging areas; such as, fur, hair, glass and and fabric.

I currently have 3 books by Lee Hammond, being "Acrylic Painting ..." one of them. The book starts with all the materials you need to start painting in this medium and using her techniques. Then the author explains the different strokes and ways of using acrylic paint. Then she explains the 5 elements of shadowing (this is explained in all of her books) in a black and white example and then how to do it in blue, red, green and yellow. Then you can apply the same techinique to other colors. She explains all the terminology used when talking about color. I have found very interesting and useful how to build your own palette from the basic palette of 7 colors. Yes you only need 7 colors to paint whatever you wish !! That's not all ! She explain you color schemes, composition, tricks to help you paint with ease, ... Then there are a bunch of step by step projects about still life, animals, landscapes, seascapes, flowers and people. That makes a total of 40 projects. So the book is just great but the most important thing is that my paintings have improved dramatically. I'm wishing to buy her new book "Paint people in acrylic".