The artist's color guide
Subtitle: watercolor : understanding the palette, pigments, and properties : exploring the colors in your palette
By: Hazel Soan
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781440335297
Subjects: Color in art; Color guides; Technique; Painting; Watercolor painting
Other titles: Watercolor :; Understanding the palette, pigments, and properties : exploring the colors in your palette; Exploring the colors in your palette
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rainbow in your palette; title: Color rules; title: The pigments; title: Transparency and opacity; title: Mixing colors; title: All the colors of the rainbow. The yellows ; The reds ; The blues ; The greens ' The browns ; The blacks and grays ; The whites; title: The end of the rainbow.