Colorways: Acrylic Animals is a really cute and inspiring guide. I loved the art style included, and personally found both the style and the guide to be soothing. I felt like the way Megan Wells explained everything made a lot of sense, and made the idea of getting started a lot less intimidating than it can sometimes be.
This book covers a little bit of everything, which is always a plus in my book. There are the basics, of course. The tools of the trade, how to create certain effects in paint, and so on. I particularly enjoyed the paint effects sections, but that’s just my personal preference.
The book then went on to covering color theory, which is an important, but difficult to explain basic of the art world. From there it moved on to actual projects; taking us step by step through a variety of different projects. It was brilliant seeing a piece slowly come together on the pages. It was educational as well, as intended.
I have to confess that while I adore all animal portraits, I did find myself particularly drawn to this style. I really enjoyed the lighter and freer style. It made everything feel so alive and genuine. I felt like it would apply especially well to pets – as there’s nothing better than seeing their endearing personality shining through.

Great inspirational reference with projects starting with grid work to capture your animal look, and moving on to color choices, flourishes, and techniques to complete original, magical, stylized pieces of art. Great book!

This book is for intermediate painters. There are some great idea in playing with color but the most basic techniques are not instructed. As a beginner, I wasn't sure how to do details and the best stroke and such to do them. Plus, mixing colors confused me as their was only a little instruction.
But I learned a lot and can see colors in a whole new light. I saw techniques that i would have never thought off.
As a how to book this is a pretty good book. As a piece of literature isn't not great. If I rad "expressive" one more time, I might hurl the book across the room lol. (also, i'm not even sure what that means for painting.)

I'ts an enjoyable instructional book for beginners on how to paint animals in acrylic. The subjects are sympathic, the colors are psychedelic, the layout of the book is coloured and joyful, however the result IMHO is more craft than art. One other negative thing, at least for me, the use of the grid method, using that you'll never learn to draw.

Grab your paints, canvas, and imagination because it's time to paint pointillistic pandas, tetradic llamas, vibrant flamingos, and complementary cows...and that's just the beginning! Each step-by-step project in Colorways: Acrylic Animals shows you not only how to capture an animal’s likeness, but also how to use color to create magical, other-worldly, and whimsical paintings. You'll also learn how to use acrylic paint to add texture and fanciful flourishes, like florals and collage, to your glorious animal subjects.

Colorways is a brand-new series from Walter Foster teaching artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork that's full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways shows artists how to break the "rules" of color and let their imaginations and artwork soar to new heights. In the Colorways series, flamingos are green, giraffes boast multicolored spots, and raccoons feature blue undertones.

I absolutely loved this book! I took a painting course in college and wish I would have had this book back then. It has clear and easy instructions and tips on how to start out painting with acrylics. It also has pictures that you can follow step by step in the book. My favorite one was the dolphin. I loved the colors and the animals that were used in this book. This is a perfect book for anyone who likes art and animals!

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Pub Date: 08 Jan 2019

This book is so inspirational! Beautifully styled and very helpful. Usually I use watercolours to paint, but I like to venture out of my comfort zone once in a while. The introduction and basics are clear and useful. I love the step by step tutorials to begin with. When you practise with them and get the techniques down, you can move on to other animals or things. There's also a really interesting technique using paint swatches and other mixed media tutorials that I can't wait to try. The book looks so colourful, it makes you happy by just reading through it.

This was a creative painting book. I enjoyed the artist's style of painting colorful animals, not just the colors you see in the photo.

This book is a great exercise in color theory. I found it unique that each step by step painting is a different example of the color theory. This technique makes it easier for a beginner to understand cool color, warm colors, complements, split complements, triadic, and value. When you are just reading about color theory it is more difficult to fully grasp the concepts and apply them on your own. By painting Megan’s examples you progress much more quickly.

Megan also provides tips on how to sketch the animals prior to painting. Some paintings use multimedia as well as acrylic paint.

I received this galley from NetGalley.