Highlights include:

• Dazzling contemporary and historical fine art examples

• Opportunities for writing, portfolio development, and critical analysis

• Outstanding student art

• Point-of-use instructional support for teachers

• Tips for developing good studio habits

• Student handbook

By John Howell White

HIGH SCHOOL / STUDIO SERIES

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This contemporary look at painting’s diverse media, tools,

and processes offers inspiration and instruction to students

and teachers alike. Dazzling fine art accompanies the

clear, practical text; hands-on studio experiences with

step-by-step photographs invite experimentation and

allow students to build skills sequentially. Accomplished

student artwork, historical background, career guidance,

and point-of-use instructional support round out this

exciting new addition to the Davis Studio Series.

eBook

Experience Painting

Available as eBook or print textbook.

Davis Digital PlatformWith Davis Digital, students and teachers can access their eBooks, ePortfolios, and other features from a computer, tablet, iPad, or from most mobile devices with an Internet connection.

• eBooks: Each eBook purchase includes the Student Book, the Teacher’s Edition, and the Reproducible Masters.

• Curriculum Builder: Easily organize and customize the curriculum to meet your students’ needs. Add your favorite lessons, videos, or projects.

• ePortfolios: You and your students can easily create online portfolios. Share your portfolios with parents, classmates, community members, and colleagues.

• Digital Images: Access a set of 50 fine art images for each eBook to introduce or extend the studio activities in the eBook.

• Student Accounts: Students can access eBooks from home or school and create ePortfolios to share their work. The purchase of an eBook includes options for 30, 55, or 230 student accounts.

Digital Fine Art ImagesExtend the fine art in the book with images from around the globe and across time correlated to each lesson. Low-cost sub-scriptions to more than 30,000 images are available. Learn more at DavisArt.com.

Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Basics of Painting

Chapter 2: Tempera and Gouache

Chapter 3: Dry Media

Chapter 4: Watercolors and Inks

Chapter 5: Acrylics

Chapter 6: Oils

Chapter 7: Encaustics

Chapter 8: Wall Painting

Chapter 9: Other Ways to Paint

Student Handbook

Glossary

Fig. 5–19. What do you think dominates this painting: the subject matter, the artist’s values and interests, or the painting process? Why do you think so?Kerry James Marshall, Better Homes, Better Gardens,1994. Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas, 100" x 142" (254 x 361 cm). Photo © Denver Art Museum

As you play with paint and imag-ery and make spontaneous choices, you’ll gradually develop your own artistic style. Your style will be evi-dent in the subjects you choose, the way you represent your subjects, and the way you use acrylic paint.

The development of style is a kind of “conversation” between your sub-ject, your values and interests, and your painting process. At times, the subject matter dominates, at times the painting process dominates, and at times your values and interests dominate.

Improvisation: Developing a Style

Chapter 5 Acrylics 20

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”Georgia O’Keeffe

Fig. 5–1. What do you notice first when you look at this painting? What message do you think the artist wants to send? Yoshitomo Nara, No Hopeless, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 46" x 35 ¾" (117 x 91 cm). © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Pace Gallery.

5 Acrylics

Chapter 5 Acrylics 2

Point-of-use videos demonstrate key techniques in the eBook.

Student eBook.

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