The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors

The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780958789189

Select your paint with confidence and protect your valuable work. This book is about artist's paints, a guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent and the bad. It also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each color and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across. Vital Information for the concerned artist.

A Book About Color

A Book About Color
Author: Mark Gonyea
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 080509055X

"A clear and simple guide for young artists"--Cover.

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.

Perfect Color Choices for the Artist

Perfect Color Choices for the Artist
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Michael Wilcox offers an entirely new way of creating color harmony and contrast with Perfect Color Choices for the Artist. It's the only complete artist's guide to selecting, mixing and using color. Based on the way that colors in nature are related, this book teaches artists how to achieve perfect color in their art. Artists not only learn the color relationships of plants, animals and nature, but also how to mix and apply those colors to their paintings. Readers will find over 1,000 color arrangements and 400 illustrated examples, plus easy-to-follow instruction and guidelines for mixing and using color in any medium. Michael Wilcox has experienced a widely varied background, including periods as a professional artist, a conservator of art works and an engineer. His research in art and design led to the book Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green followed by the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints. Wilcox has also published the Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors, a guide that shows how to select a suitable palette in any medium-watercolors, oil paints, acrylics and more. He lives and continues his research and writing in Bristol, England.

Artist's Color Manual

Artist's Color Manual
Author: Simon Jennings
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003-11-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811841436

Developed by the same team that created "Artist's Manual"and "Art Class," both top-selling art reference books, "Artist's Color Manual" is the ultimate guide to color for visual artists.

Confident Color

Confident Color
Author: Nita Leland
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2008-10-21
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Reviews the history of color theory and systems, addresses the use of elements and principles of color design, looks at seven types of contrast and how to achieve color harmony, explains the split-primary color mixing system and the use of full-spectrum palettes, and includes demonstrations.

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.

Artist Toolbox: Color

Artist Toolbox: Color
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633222721

Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects.