Colour Demystified

A Complete Guide to Mixing and Using Watercolours

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Colour Demystified will banish the all-too-common confusion over the watercolour palette and give painters the confidence to experiment with colour mixing.This book demystifies colour, and helps artists understand how colour works in a highly visual way through the use of colour charts accompanied by examples, practical exercises, and analyses of watercolour paintings. Numerous artworks by a variety of contemporary artists are featured in the book, covering a broad range of subjects and palettes. Topics such as granulation, iridescence, staining strength, and transparent and opaque colours are explained clearly and simply, and there is practical guidance on colour relationships, using colour to create space, and how to be more creative with colour. Armed with a clearer understanding of colour and how it looks and behaves on paper, artists will be encouraged to be more bold and creative in their use of colour in their art.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-26
Mått216 x 280 x 11 mm
Vikt682 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagSearch Press Ltd
ISBN9781782217978

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Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists' problem-solving books and also writes for The Artist magazine. She works from her studio in Hampshire, UK, where she explores her passion for painting, drawing and crafts.Julie has won numerous prestigious awards for her watercolour paintings, including, most recently, the award of first prize for Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition 2019. Julie was also elected an associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in August 2019. Julie is the author of the Colour Mixing Guides in Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour, published by Search Press.

Introduction 6Materials 8The language of colour 14Pigments Demystified 38Tone & Value 58Step-by-step project: Leaf 66Palettes 72Step-by-step project: Carte Postale Birds 86The interaction of colour 98Step-by-step project: Christmas Cactus 104Modifying your Colours 112Step-by-step project: Daina’s Teapot 120Glazing 126Step-by-step project: Still Life with Tulips 132Mineral pigments & Luminescent watercolours 136Step-by-step project: Inside, Outside 144Experimentation & inspiration 148Step-by-step project: Trees and Birds 154Glossary 158Index 160

Non-professional artistic color education starts and stops with the color wheel, primary and secondary hues, and complementary and analogous colors. Award-winning UK watercolorist Collins (Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolour, 2005) changes the conversation by delving into all the different ways hues, shades, and tones can play together. She explores topics like palettes, interactions, and glazing in detail with the intention of inspiring new thinking and experimentation, and furthers her cause with several different gallery-type examples, 16 worksheets that showcase techniques (painting a freehand tulip, for example), and seven step-by-step projects—still life with tulips, carte postale birds, even just one leaf. To amplify the book’s title, she includes "demystifying” sidebars, observations, and recommendations that strengthen the artistic process, such as “the look of yellow differs in the center of green and red versus orange and green.” A book with an aesthetic sensibility that more than lives up to the title. Includes a glossary.