Realistic Painting with Alcohol Ink: Learn Intermediate and Advanced Techniques with 17 Animal, Landscape, Still Life, and Portrait Projects

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A follow up to their extensive and introductory painting book, Creating Art with Alcohol Ink, which teaches all the beginning techniques for those exploring alcohol ink, artists and instructors Laurie Williams and Sherry Williams return with this instructional resource for creating truly realistic art using this versatile medium. Learn and master the four main alcohol ink painting techniques that include blending, masking, creating a barrier layer, and painting on both sides. From there, tutorials are provided for painting skin tones, fur, stones, rocks, and water, botanical effects, trees, and animals. Also included are 10 realism projects to practice and put together the skills learned into stunning works of art. The authors have years of experience working with alcohol inks, mastering the brushes, blenders, masking, control, and layering that enables artists to create magnificent realistic art, from portraits to landscapes and still lives to photo realism.

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Experienced artists interested in painting with alcohol inks will be well served by this book's thoughtful advice and beautiful examples. - Library Journal
Realistic Painting with Alcohol Ink is a comprehensive discussion and description of alcohol ink art. It's focused on bringing alcohol ink to an intermediate level of painting and includes the principals that broaden the range of painting from a craft to a fine art. - Francine Dufour Jones, Founding Contributor to the Alcohol Art Community and Society

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Laurie William's is the founder of the Alcohol Ink Art Community. When shes not in the studio creating art, she is helping businesses across the US succeed in online marketing. Her painting journey began 20 years ago when she first discovered alcohol inks. Sheryl William's classes are the building blocks of techniques and tools that develop the necessary skills to express the art within. She began working with alcohol ink in 2013 and realized there was no limit to what you can do. She has been teaching online since 2015 and has hundreds of students worldwide.