Tools and supplies -- Easels and work tables -- Paints -- Mediums and gels -- Brushes -- Palette knives and colour shapers -- Supports and grounds -- Demonstration: stretch a canvas or linen -- Demonstration: prepare solid panels -- Color -- Pigments -- Whites -- Choosing a color palette -- Edward Rice's working process -- Techniques -- Demonstration: scraping -- Demonstration: sgraffito -- Demonstration: impasto -- Demonstration: ragging -- Demonstration: tonking -- Mike Williams' working process -- In the studio -- John Hill's working process -- Philip Mullen's working process -- Demonstration: staining paint and gel layers -- Linda Fantuzzo's working process -- Portraiture -- Demonstration: subtractive monochromatic underpainting -- Demonstration: overpainting with transparent and opaque open acrylics -- Demonstration: grisaille variations -- Plein air -- Demonstration: building an underpainting with open acrylics -- Jim Campbell's working process -- Glen Miller's working process -- Mixed media -- Patti Brady's working process -- Demonstration: making an acrylic skin -- Demonstration: combining layers -- Demonstration: making a digital acrylic skin -- Varnishing -- Varnishing basics -- Demonstration: applying a final varnish -- Demonstration: removing a varnish -- Framing, shipping and storage -- Framing options -- Shipping -- Storage.