Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780958789189
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780958789189
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780958789189
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: Mark Gonyea
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080509055X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"A clear and simple guide for young artists"--Cover.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080509055X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"A clear and simple guide for young artists"--Cover.
Confident Color
Author: Nita Leland
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Color Mixing Swatch Book
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780967962856
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780967962856
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Artist's Guide to Mixing Colours
Author: Jenny Rodwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715308462
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715308462
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Perfect Color Choices for the Artist
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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
Author: Simon Jennings
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811841436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811841436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958789196
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958789196
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891344094
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Examines different paints available and discusses their strengths and weaknesses
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891344094
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Examines different paints available and discusses their strengths and weaknesses
Artist Toolbox: Color
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster
ISBN: 1633222721
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Walter Foster
ISBN: 1633222721
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
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.