Hazel Harrison is a practising artist who works in all painting media, often using her own photographs as a source of reference. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. Hazel lives in a small village in the Peak District, UK, and divides her time between painting and writing art instruction books.

Introducing acrylics Techniques Blending Broken Colour Brushwork Building Up Charcoal and Acrylic Collage Colour Mixing Colour Grounds Dry Brush Extruded Paint Glazing Grounds Impasto Ink and Acrylic Knife Painting Line and Wash Masking Mediums Monochrome Techniques Monoprint Oil and Acrylic Opaque Techniques Palette Pastel and Acrylic Pencil and Acrylic Scraping Scumbling Sgraffito Spattering Stencilling Supports Texturing Transparent Techniques Underdrawing Underpainting Wax Resist Watercolour and Acrylic Wet into Wet Themes Landscape Buildings and townscapes The figure Animals Still life Abstraction and fantasy Index and credits