Acrylics: Translucent Techniques for Landscape Painters

Acrylic paints are beloved by beginning painters and seasoned professionals alike, because this lightweight, versatile, fast-drying, water-based medium is well suited for a wide variety of applications. Acrylics will teach you everything you need to know about colors, brushes, and other tools for working with this medium. In addition to learning about techniques such as stippling, painting wet into wet, scraping out, spattering, and masking, youÆll discover comprehensive instructions for painting a variety of subjects in acrylic, including landscape elements. ItÆs all inside this valuable guide!

R. Bradford Johnson is an artist whose paintings reflect his love for rural Americana. He graduated from Whittier College, where he earned a B.A. in Fine Art. A skilled technician, Roger pioneered translucent techniques in acrylic, writing the successful Farewell to Fond Memories in 1978 on painting in this manner.

Roger has received more than 100 awards for his paintings, has taught workshops for the past 16 years, and has been represented by many prestigious galleries. His work has been feature in Southwest Art and Art voices magazines; has been included in such books as Contemporary Western Artists and American Artists of Renown, and, in 1972, he was selected as one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America" by the National Jaycees. His paintings currently hang in more than 800 private collections worldwide and have been put into print by Haddad's Fine Art Publishers, Pine Mountain Publications, and Wheelhouse Enterprises.

R. Bradford Johnson is an artist, but in his realistic treatment of barns, rural landscapes, and warm sunsets I the country, he is also a chronicler of a vanishing American heritage.