Nancy Reyner - Acrylic Innovation. Styles and Techniques Featuring 84 Visionary Artists

ACRYLIC
INNOVATION

Styles +
techniques
featuring 64
visionary
artists

NANCYREYNER Author of Acrylic Revolution

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Acrylic Innovation. Copyright 2010 by Nancy Reyner. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Reyner, Nancy.

Acrylic innovation : styles and techniques featuring 64 visionary artists/ Nancy Reyner. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60061-864-2 (alk. paper)

1. Acrylic painting--Technique. I. Title. II. Title: Styles and techniques featuring 64 visionary artists. III. Title: Styles and techniques featuring sixty four visionary artists.

ND1535.R48 2010

751.426--dc22

2010018580

Edited by Kelly C. Messerly, Designed by Clare Finney, Production coordinated by Mark Griffin

About the Author

Author photo by Reynaldo Villalobos.

Born and raised on the East Coast in the United States, Nancy Reyner received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University. Creating costumes and sets for theater and film to coordinating public arts programs for the state of New York, Reyner has had an expansive career in the arts, all of which inform her work. She now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been a painter for more than thirty years and exhibits and teaches both nationally and internationally. Her previous book, Acrylic Revolution, contains over one hundred acrylic painting techniques, and continues to be a best seller. Please visit her Web site, www.NancyReyner.com, for current work, her painting blog, workshops and gallery representation.

Artwork on Cover and Back Cover:

, Jongleur 2, pictured again

, (detail) Neutrino Blossoms, pictured in full

, (detail) Harrison Street Scooter, pictured in full

, (detail) The Fire and the Rose: But Heard, Half-Heard, in the Stillness, pictured in full

, Blue Shimmy, pictured again

, Rooftop Eden, pictured again

, Avocado on Orange, pictured again

, Aquamarine, pictured again

, Field of Dreams, pictured again

Nancy Reyner, Koi and River, acrylic on canvas, 60" 46" (152cm 117cm)

Nancy Reyner, Ocean Elixer, acrylic and gold leaf on panel 20" 20" (51cm 51cm)

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to those who helped connect me with the extraordinary artists included in this book: George Alexander, Bruce Cody, Bill Hinsvark, Katherine Chang Liu, Michael Matassa, Keith Morant and Renee Phillips. Many thanks to Reynaldo Villalobos for photography. Thank you to Bonnie Teitelbaum, Tekla Johnson and Eve Munson for inspiration and assistance. Thank you Phillip Cohen and to my wonderful family and friends for support. I thank my art professors Phyllis Bramson, Jane Wilson and the late Art Wood for their wisdom and encouragement. I cherish my dance teacher, Lori Brody, and all my cool dancer friends in Brodys Ballerinas for making life wonderful. Thank you to Mark and Barbara Golden, and to the staff at Golden Artist Colors for all their wonderful inventions, products and support, with special thanks to their technical department. I have enjoyed immensely working with the F+W and North Light Books staff, with extra thanks to Jamie Markle and Kelly Messerly.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my son, Jacob Cooper Cohen, who has been and continues to be a great inspiration for me.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sherry Loehr

Tulips and Oranges

Acrylic on board

24" 36" (61cm 91cm)

Gary Denmark

Jongleur 2

Acrylic and collage on board

48" 48" (122cm 122cm)

Bruce Cody

Capitol City Sunlight

Acrylic on canvas

16" 30" (41cm 76cm)

Hamish Allan

House and Hills

Acrylic on canvas

24" 24" (61cm 61cm)

INTRODUCTION:
HOW TO USE TH IS BOOK

Nancy Reyner

Essence (detail)

Acrylic and gold leaf on panel

32" 26" (81cm 66cm)

Need an idea? Want new motivation? Desiring new tips and techniques? Just flip through the twenty-nine styles in this book ranging from photorealism to minimal color field and everything in between. Read how other artists have taken the journey to create unique and personal art, offering advice and gems from their own experience and encouraging artists to invent, not replicate. An artists process can be viewed both mentally (the idea) and physically (the technique). A visionary artist develops and combines both to create a personal vision and unique art. This book is meant to inspire artists to find their own personal voice.

Throughout history the discovery of new art products spawned the invention of new art styles, ideas and techniques. The creation of oil paint was a catalyst for new styles of blending and realism that were previously unheard of for the egg tempera painters of that time. The invention of storing oil paint in tubes added portability for painters, taking them out of the studio and paving the way for plein air and onsite painting. Photography, digital imagery and computers have also made their mark.