Alwyn Crawshaw - Acrylics

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Off Home, acrylic on canvas , 30 × 25 cm (12 × 10 in)

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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First published in 1979

by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London

This edition published by HarperCollins Publishers 2019

© Alwyn Crawshaw 1979, 1986, 1999

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Photography by Nigel Cheffers-Heard and Michael Petts

Alwyn Crawshaw asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Portrait of an Artist

Introduction

What are Acrylic Colours?

Materials and Equipment

Mixing Colours

Brush Control

Perspective, Shape and Form

Oil Technique

OIL TECHNIQUE

Simple Exercises

Watercolour Technique

WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE

Simple Exercises

OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Hedgerow Poppies

OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Norfolk Pheasant

OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Evening Landscape

OIL TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

The Grand Canal, Venice

WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Spring Landscape

WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Winter Landscape

WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUE DEMONSTRATION

Venetian Canal

About the Publisher

Norfolk Pheasant, acrylic on primed hardboard , 25 × 28 cm (10 × 12 in)

Portrait of the Artist

Alwyn Crawshaw working outdoors.

Successful painter, author and teacher Alwyn Crawshaw was born at Mirfield, Yorkshire, and studied at Hastings School of Art. He now lives in Norfolk with his wife June, who is also an artist.

Alwyn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the British Watercolour Society and the Society of Equestrian Artists. He is also President of the National Acrylic Painters Association and is listed in the current edition of Who’s Who in Art . As well as painting in watercolour, Alwyn also works in oil, acrylic and occasionally pastel. He chooses to paint landscapes, seascapes, buildings and anything else that inspires him. Heavy working horses and winter trees are frequently featured in his landscape paintings and may be considered the artist’s trademark.

This book is one of eight titles written by Alwyn Crawshaw for the HarperCollins Learn to Paint series. Alwyn’s other books for HarperCollins include: The Artist At Work (an autobiography of his painting career), Sketching with Alwyn Crawshaw, The Half-Hour Painter, Alwyn Crawshaw’s Watercolour Painting Course, Alwyn Crawshaw’s Oil Painting Course, Alwyn Crawshaw’ s Acrylic Painting Course and Alwyn & June Crawshaw’s Outdoor Painting Course .

To date Alwyn has made seven television series: A Brush with Art, Crawshaw Paints on Holiday, Crawshaw Paints Oils, Crawshaw’ s Watercolour Studio, Crawshaw Paints Acrylics, Crawshaw’s Sketching & Drawing Course and Crawshaw Paints Constable Country , and for each of these he has written a book of the same title to accompany the television series.

Alwyn has been a guest on local and national radio programmes and has appeared on various television programmes. In addition, his television programmes have been shown worldwide, including in the USA and Japan. He has made many successful videos on painting and is also a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine and the International Artist magazine. Alwyn and June organize their own successful and very popular painting courses and holidays. They also co-founded the Society of Amateur Artists, of which Alwyn is President.

Alwyn’s paintings are sold in British and overseas galleries and can be found in private collections throughout the world. His work has been favourably reviewed by the critics. The Telegraph Weekend Magazine reported him to be ‘a landscape painter of considerable expertise’ and the Artists and Illustrators magazine described him as ‘outspoken about the importance of maintaining traditional values in the teaching of art’.

A Norfolk Fishing Harbour primed hardboard 30 × 40 cm (12 × 16 in) I was inspired to do this painting by the sunlight hitting the buildings.

Willows at Potter Heigham, Norfolk primed hardboard 12 × 28 cm (10 × 12 in) When I came upon this scene, I was inspired by the strong sunlight. The dark rain clouds and heavy shadows on the trees in the middle distance made the picture even more dramatic.

Introduction

Why use acrylic colours? I am constantly asked this question. The answer is that I like using them and they suit my personality. I believe that a painting comes from the inner self and this gives it the mood, the atmosphere, the invisible quality that makes it look alive. If you were inspired to paint a particular landscape and could paint it in, say, three minutes while that urge was there, then the painting would express your uninterrupted feelings on the canvas.

How Much Longer Have We To Wait? detail on canvas 25 × 25 cm (10 × 10 in)