The Artist's Color Guide - Watercolor

The Artist's Color Guide - Watercolor
Author: Hazel Soan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440335297

The Artist's Color Guide - Watercolor is an inspiring yet practical guide to using color. Experienced artist and teacher Hazel Soan takes each color of the rainbow and demonstrates how to use the pigments to maximum effect and with lots of practical hints and tips. By exploring all the colors of the palette, this book aims to broaden the knowledge of every watercolor artist-- whatever their experience level-- so they can approach choosing and mixing colors with confidence and achieve the most striking results in their paintings.

The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color

The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color
Author: Tom Hill
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Color guides
ISBN: 9780891348542

Starting with the principles of colour theory, Hill presents an analysis of 40 popular pigments with important descriptions of colour temperature, transparency or opacity and degree of stain.'

Watercolor Artist's Guide to Exceptional Color

Watercolor Artist's Guide to Exceptional Color
Author: Jan Hart
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600580529

There are hundreds of watercolor paints on the market, with widely varying characteristics, appearances, and names. This easy-to-use book cuts through the confusion. In this informative, 128-page book, author Jan Hart covers pigment properties while providing helpful information on combining colors on the palette for optimal effect. The full-color book features an array of step-by-step painting demonstrations and a must-have glossary of pigment equivalencies for the most popular paint manufacturers.

A Field Guide to Color

A Field Guide to Color
Author: Lisa Solomon
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611806127

Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette--a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works. Color is one of the most profound ways we have to express ourselves. In this lively workbook for artists, graphic designers, hobbyists, and creators of all types, you will journal your way through fresh and enriching ways to develop a more personal connection to color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, dive into color theory and explore your personal style while playing with a balanced blend of experiments and color meditations. Discover a personal color wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with color mixing while you make as many of one color as you can - and then name them all (honeydew green, avocado green, mint ice cream...). Through playful prompts and inspiring examples, and with lots of room for painting, this book will guide you to a new or expanded relationship with color and deepen your understanding of what color can do for you.

Creative Watercolor

Creative Watercolor
Author: Ana Victoria Calderon
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1589239695

Creative Watercolor offers beginners a fun, modern, and practical approach to a timeless medium with instructions on how to paint simple motifs and lettering and embellish projects beautifully. In Creative Watercolor, popular watercolor artist and workshop instructor Ana Victoria Calderon shares her step-by-step techniques for painting modern motifs in this classic medium. Through a series of easy tutorials and projects, you will: Get an overview of basic materials and tools, plus options for embellishing your paintings Master essential techniques, starting with easy warm-up activities, learning to layer, and getting into the flow with watercolor, plus an introduction to scanning and digital editing for making multiples Learn to paint a variety of simple, beautiful motifs: flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and delightful lettering Use what you've learned to create unique, stylish stationery, including beautiful invitations, place cards, menus, monograms, recipe gift cards, thank you notes—any project you can imagine, for any kind of event you can think of! There's never been a better time to dive into the world of watercolor, so why wait? Grab a brush and get painting!

No-Fail Watercolor

No-Fail Watercolor
Author: Mako
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1645671550

Create Stunning Watercolor Projects in Just a Few Simple Steps Mako, the artist behind the beloved blog and YouTube channel makoccino, brings you the most comprehensive beginner’s guide to watercolor. If you’ve ever struggled with self-confidence concerning your art, or been overwhelmed by which brushes you need or how to blend paint, look no further than the gorgeous projects offered in No-Fail Watercolor. Through over 25 activities that are as lovely as they are accessible, Mako sheds light on the secrets to making dazzling watercolor paintings and guides you step by step through practicing and polishing your budding skills. Learn to differentiate between monochromatic, complementary and analogous colors in the Color Harmony chapter; build your understanding of different mediums and textures with techniques like Painting with a Sponge or Softening and Blending; and take a tour through exquisite landscapes with projects like Cloudy Sunset Sky, Enchanted Forest or Ocean Cave. Prepare to be challenged in the most fun way and to embrace simple but effective methods that will soon have you mastering watercolor. Above all, No-Fail Watercolor will remind you to let go of rigidity, to revel in the moment and to discover yourself along the way—because therein lies the true meaning of art.

Zoltan Szabo's Color-by-color Guide to Watercolor

Zoltan Szabo's Color-by-color Guide to Watercolor
Author: Zoltan Szabo
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Written by one of the true masters of the medium, this practical reference guide will help you achieve the famed brilliance of watercolor. It includes: descriptions and usage tips for 40 artist's-quality colors - arranged in spectral order within seven major hue sections; tests for determining a pigment's transparency, permanence and other characteristics you need to know to use the color successfully; sample palettes that use a minimum of colors for maximum aesthetic results; and Zoltan's Color Systems Dial. Use it to identify at a glance the major color schemes, such as split complementary and triadic - and to see each color mixed with a warm neutral, with a cool neutral and with its complement in various degrees of dominance.

Watercolor Painting

Watercolor Painting
Author: Tom Hoffmann
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823006743

The beauty of a watercolor painting lies in its diaphanous layers, delicate strokes, and luminous washes. However, the very features that define the beauty of the medium can make it difficult to master. This complete guide to understanding the relationships between color, value, wetness, and composition unravels the mysteries of watercolor to help your practice evolve. Experienced teacher and acclaimed artist Tom Hoffmann offers a unique, inquiry-based approach that shows you how to translate any subject into the language of watercolor. With Hoffmann as your guide, you’ll learn the key questions to ask yourself at every turn and time-tested methods to help you reach solutions. Hoffmann’s thorough explanations and step-by-step demonstrations delineate the process of composing a painting in watercolor, while art from more than thirty-five past and present masters, including John Singer Sargent, Ogden Pleissner, George Post, Emil Kosa, Jr., Mary Whyte, Trevor Chamberlain, Lars Lerin, Torgeir Schjølberg, Piet Lap, Leslie Frontz, and Alvaro Castagnet serve to illustrate and inspire. Whether you’re a serious beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this book will guide you toward the all-important balance between restraint and risk-taking that every watercolorist seeks.

The Complete Guide to Watercolor

The Complete Guide to Watercolor
Author: Ray Smith
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-06-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0789487985

For painters of every level, this comprehensive volume presents each creative process in clear, full-color photographic sequences. From mixing colors and applying washes to tonal studies and pattern in landscapes, The Complete Guide to Watercolor contains everything one needs to know about working in this very expressive medium. This all-in-one volume presents each process in clear, full-color photographic sequences, reveals secrets of the trade, and contains easy-to-follow projects to help master new techniques.