'How to Paint Atmospheric Landscapes in Acrylics' is Fraser Scarfe's first book. It aims to show how traditional materials and painting techniques can be enlivened with modern approaches and an unsentimental, raw approach to landscape painting. This book is both heavily illustrated (it features 400 illustrations across its 192 pages) and inventive. For example, it contains a useful section on heavy body/impasto acrylic painting techniques, where Scarfe's paintings are shown under a raking light. This makes their surface topography evident, and allows the artist to discuss ways of livening the surface of your own paintings with impasto techniques.

• 400 illustrations across 192 pages