A well planned beginners guide book on acrylics: the basic materials required and the basic steps/techniques to start with. For me, it is quite useful and gives me a basic idea on what I would need.

A useful and practical guide. You can go for this one if you're a beginner like me.

Thank you, Quarto Publishing, for the advance reading copy.

"Creative Acrylics" is a great book for beginning artists. Carla Co Chua explains basic painting materials including paints, markers, inks, paper, canvas, brushes, and mediums in clear concise terms with beautiful photos. She covers workspace and easy set-up. The reader can learn in step-by-step instructions how to paint on cloth, shoes, bowls, and purses as well as canvas pictures one will be proud to hang on the wall.


Chua demonstrates how to paint georgous roses, bluebonnets, and sunflowers. The reader can decorate with clouds, mountains, skies, and enchanting sunsets. The pages are filled with adorable animal painting directions for colorful birds, fish, dogs, cats and tigers. There is also a section on still life painting which covers kitchen items such as cute coffee cups and donuts. The artist speaks openly about how painting is therapeutic for one's mental health. This wonderful project book can be used by parents to spend qualiry time with children that enjoy being creative.


Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group-Quarry for allowing me to review this delightful e-book. It was a honor! "Creative Acrylics will be published February 1, 2022.

This book was more of a beginners book than I was expecting or hoping for. I was also expecting more discussion of acrylic mediums, from the title and description, and there was hardly any except one brief mention.

I was already familiar with all the basic lessons presented here, but if I were completely new to painting then I can see how they might be useful.

The projects also didn't spark my interest at all. The style was too rough with not enough detail, and the subject matter was uninspiring. The pictures were not clear enough to follow the steps easily.

I also found the instructions to be lacking with too much glossed over if it were truly aimed at beginners. I think this book would be frustrating for painters at any level, with it being either too basic for those with any familiarity with painting or leaving out too many vital bits of information to introduce complete beginners to painting.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Quarry Books for providing an e-arc for review.