Painting with Acrylics (03)

Wendy Jelbert provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful pictures.

Simple skills are developed using a series of demonstrations, which clearly illustrate how to capture the amazing qualities of this versatile medium.

Learn how to create pure acrylic pictures, scumbling and impasto effects, blended washes, glazes of colour and more.

Contents include playing with paint, painting skies, painting a cliff top, painting a sunlit window and painting a farmyard.

Wendy Jelbert studied sculpture, abstract art, pottery and printmaking at Southampton College of Art. She is a teacher and professional artist who works in pastels, oils, acrylics, inks and watercolours. She enjoys experimenting with different ways of using mixed media and texture and her sometimes unconventional methods often produce surprising and original results. She lives near Andover in Hampshire, and has three children, two of whom are professional painters. Galleries in Southampton, London, Brighton, Cornwall and Oxford regularly exhibit her work, and she has had a number of articles published in the Leisure Painter magazine. Wendy has written nine art books and has also made three videos – on mixed media, painting gardens and line and wash.