Judy Martin is a painter, teacher and the author of a number of practical art books. She lives and works in Brighton, on England's south coast, and exhibits in her home studio every year for the Artist's Open Houses during Brighton Festival. She studied painting and printmaking at Maidstone College of Art and went on to a two-year postgraduate degree at Reading University. She was a freelance writer and editor for a period of fifteen years, and has subsequently worked in adult education and at a mental health day centre, facilitating groups in art craft and ceramic work.

Introducing acrylics Techniques Accenting Acrylic and Pastel Blending Blocking In Broken Colour Building Up Charcoal and Pastel Coloured Grounds Dry Wash Edge Qualities Erasures Freathering Fixing Frottage Gestural Drawing Gouache and Pastel Gradations Hatching and Crosshatching Highlighting Impasto Linear Marks Masking Oil Painting and Pastel Overlaying Colours Pencil and Pastel Pouncing Projecting and Image Resist Techniques Scraping Out Scratchboard with Oil Pastel Scumbling Sfumato Sgraffito Shading Side Strokes Sketching Stippling Textured Grounds Tinting Washes Watercolour and Pastel Wet Brushing Themes Landscape The environment The figure Portraits Still life Index and credits