Painting Party: Acrylic Painting for Beginners - Softcover

Painting Party builds confidence in the reader to produce paintings she’ll be proud of, even if she hasn’t picked up a paintbrush since high school. With lots of support for every single step in each painting, Anna knows that as adults, it’s hard to let ourselves make “mistakes.” In the paint-along style of an in-person social painting workshop, this book minimizes the perceived risk and offers fantastic rewards―congratulations from friends and family and a sense of achievement. Many of the projects include ideas for ‘something extra’ like collage or glazing techniques, sgraffito or scumbling, so readers with some experience can learn new techniques.

Anna Barlett lives in a long house on a foggy mountain in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Having always loved to draw and paint, she made and sold hand-painted handbags for three years (over 500 were sold) which helped to paint quickly. Anna started Shiny Happy Art in 2003 and has built a solid blog following. She unrolled the Paint Along side of Shiny Happy Art in December 2011, and since then has welcomed over 430 people to paint in her studio, with up to 21 painters per session.