This essential, complete guide to the versatile, popular medium of acrylic for beginners and improvers introduces the basic materials and techniques, and leads the reader through a series of progressively challenging lessons. The learning objectives of the 10 step-by-step lessons are clearly set out to show the skills readers will achieve, and how they can use the techniques in subsequent paintings. It covers a diverse and popular range of themes, from still lifes and landscapes through to people and collages.