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.

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.

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.

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.

Glazing

Glazing
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Color in art
ISBN: 9780646913209

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.

Watercolour

Watercolour
Author: John Barber
Publisher: Search Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Paint mixing
ISBN: 9781844481767

The Winsor & Newton Guide to Colour Mixing Watercolour takes the uncertainty out of colour mixing for artists. Organised around the primary colours, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tints, the book presents a gallery of precise colour mixes to enable an artist to recreate what is on the page in their palette and on their work of art.Clear, concise outline of the principles of colour mixing using watercolours At-a-glance guide to more than 5,000 hues and shades Complete visual reference to mixing watercolour Inspirational galleries of successful watercolour works using colour mixingBook Contents: Chapter 1 - Tools and Materials, Chapter 2 - Mixing Watercolours, Chapter 3 - Reds and Oranges, Chapter 4 - Yellows and Greens, Chapter 5 - Blues and Purples, Chapter 5 - Neutrals and Flesh Tones,

Depicting the Colours in Textures

Depicting the Colours in Textures
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: School of Color Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2004
Genre: Color in art
ISBN: 9781931780186

Add realism to your work through the accurate depiction of a range of textures

Painting Vibrant Watercolors

Painting Vibrant Watercolors
Author: Soon Y. Warren
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440314728

Paint Watercolors that Shine! Make the most of watercolor's fresh, vibrant nature through light, color and contrast. In the first few chapters, artist Soon Y. Warren helps you lay the groundwork—everything from choosing and lighting subjects to color theory and perspective. Then, follow along with a thrilling series of step-by-step demonstrations to put your ideas into action for paintings that shine! Learn how color, value, contrast and composition affect the impact of your paintings Discover the plans and techniques you'll need for successful, realistic watercolors Follow 16 demonstrations to create brilliant paintings Paint a variety of subjects, including still life, landscapes, water scenes, flowers, architecture and animals This book is the perfect balance of classic theory and hands-on technique. Engaging and easy-to-follow instruction gives you a solid foundation so you can take your work to the next level as you create dynamic paintings.