Depicting the Colors in Country and Coastal Cottages

Depicting the Colors in Country and Coastal Cottages
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781931780308

This book answers a common problem identified by artists at all levels, accurate color mixing without wasting material. A must for the landscape artist.

Depicting the Colours in Country and Coastal Cottages

Depicting the Colours in Country and Coastal Cottages
Author: Craig Letourneau
Publisher: Colour School of Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Color in art
ISBN: 9781931780124

The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.

Depicting the Colours in Water

Depicting the Colours in Water
Author: Craig Letourneau
Publisher: Colour School of Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2002
Genre: Color in art
ISBN: 9781931780100

The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.

Color Mixing Swatch Book

Color Mixing Swatch Book
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780967962856

This pocket-sized guide to quick and accurate color mixing is an essential reference for artists of all media. Inside are 2,460 printed color mixes from 12 standard artist paints. Each page features the range you can get from any two of these colors. Artists can seek out the color they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They'll also find invaluable information about every color including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colors used to attain it. The book's compact and convenient design lets artists take it anywhere, capturing the color inspiration as it hits them.

Waterside Cottages

Waterside Cottages
Author: Barbara Jacksier
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1423608461

Cottages near the water tend to be snug and modest, with exteriors painted in sun-reflecting whites, nautical blues, or playful colors. The interiors of these houses likewise avoid formality in favor of a casual approach.

French Country Cottage

French Country Cottage
Author: Courtney Allison
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1423648935

Discover design inspiration as a photographer and blogger details the story of her renovation of a 1940s cottage in the California countryside. A little, abandoned vacation house that could, set in the center of rolling fields and trees becomes the cottage home of her dreams. A French country–style cottage filled with original elements and an exquisite mix of rustic and refined. The years of renovation allowed Courtney to create a lifestyle that is fueled by inspiration and beauty, a touch of whimsy, and an abundance of everyday elegance. The journey has been shared on her popular blog French Country Cottage, and now, through the publication of her first book, her readers will experience a reveal of more of her home and property and the inspirations behind her beloved style. Courtney's inspiring photography reveals every nuance of her style and home including a muted color palette, old brassy door knobs, chippy paint, antiques, her greenhouse and garden, and an abundance of entertaining and holiday decorating style. Blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor and embracing well-worn as well loved, French Country Cottage is a style that celebrates simplicity, indulges in romance, cherishes pieces with history and believes a chandelier and fresh flowers belong in every room.

Vintage Cottages

Vintage Cottages
Author: Molly Hyde English
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1423625889

The simple, unique and interestingly appointed cottage is a place for escape, filled with art, books, color scents, sounds, textures, and memories. Vintage Cottages features unique and personalized decor ideas focused on style, color, and regional taste and liveliness that honors tradition while looking forward to a lifestyle that is uncluttered, unhurried, and reflective of rugged, unapologetic individuality. Molly Hyde English is the founder of Camps and Cottages (camps-cottages.com), a retail store in Laguna Beach, California, which maintains its uniqueness as a leading style source for designers. She is also the author of Camps and Cottages. Her work has been featured in Country Home, House Beautiful, and on HGTV. Tom Lamb is a landscape and architectural photographer and resides in Laguna Beach.

Perfect English Cottage

Perfect English Cottage
Author: Ros Byam Shaw
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781849757300

Perfect English Cottage explores 18 inspirational homes that celebrate the best of cottage style in the English countryside. Perfect English Cottage explores 18 inspirational homes that celebrate the best of cottage style in the English countryside. The book explores the decorating and design solutions that make the cottages as attractive inside as out, as well as practical and comfortable to live in. Bestselling author Ros Byam Shaw takes a fresh look at this perennially appealing style, which she divides into five chapters: Character, Holiday, Romance, Simplicity, and Elegance. The featured homes are incredibly varied, from a tiny house with exposed beams to a pared-down Georgian gem, to a picture-perfect cottage with roses over the door—and plenty more adorning the interior. Each section ends with a Get The Look page devoted to ideas for recreating the style in your own home.

Mixing Greens

Mixing Greens
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Green in art
ISBN: 9781931780131

The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1994
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780958789196

For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists primaries - give new colours when mised. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis. In this exciting new book, Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment of the principles underlying colour mixing. It is the first major break-away from the traditional and limited concepts that have caused painters and others who work with colour so many problems. Back Cover.