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The Watercolor Artist's Guide to Color A Visual Guide to Choosing and Using Color to Bring Your Paintings to Life

Taylor Richard
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781446313473
Publisert
2024-08-20
Utgiver
Vendor
David & Charles
Vekt
515 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
273 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Taylor Richard

Om bidragsyterne

Richard Taylor is an experienced and popular artist, who regularly teaches and lectures on all aspects of painting. He is the successful author of several books, including The Watercolourist's Year, Learn to Paint Buildings in Watercolour and Painting Houses and Gardens in Watercolour and was the Consultant and Contributor to The Art Course partwork. He writes for The Artist, Leisure Painter and Artists & Illustrators magazines and has also made several instructional painting videos.

The Watercolor Artist's Guide to Color A Visual Guide to Choosing and Using Color to Bring Your Paintings to Life

Taylor Richard
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Taylor Richard
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Embark on a voyage of discovery into the world of color with this comprehensive visual reference guide from renowned watercolor artist and art teacher Richard Taylor. Open the door to the world of watercolor paints, exploring their properties, color combinations and transformative potential, and inject vibrancy and life into your paintings. For those with some watercolor experience, the struggle to prevent your paintings from becoming dull, flat and lifeless is all too familiar. The purpose of this book is to help you move on from this frequent impasse, inspiring you to explore color for yourself using the vibrant, vivid and inspirational paintings, illustrations and diagrams as your constant guide. Designed for effortless learning by a highly experienced artist and art teacher, this resourceful guide presents theory and techniques at a glance. Every page bursts with inspirational images and enthusiastic encouragement for the reader to create their own color mixes. Inspiration, clarity and simplicity are the key components of this guide to artistic autonomy in the realm of choosing and using color. The recurring theme throughout this book is learning exactly how different paints and colors work together and how this knowledge can be used to transform your own paintings. Immerse yourself in the world of complementary colors, shadows and analogous mixes, taking your personal palette to new horizons. Learn about the delicate balance between warm and cool colors while harnessing the dynamics of yellows and purples side by side in your own paintings. With Richard Taylor as your guide, venture into schemes for color mixing, grasping exactly how touches of light and shadow can play upon your paper. Unleash the power of contrasts, breathing life into your subjects while embracing a simplicity of approach and the courage of taking a few chances. This invaluable resource equips you to grasp color theory and effortless application. It contains no secrets, but has harnessed a wealth of teaching experience and painterly knowledge to create this comprehensive guide to color for the watercolor artist. Whether you are an aspiring artist or seasoned watercolor painter, this guide ensures that you will unlock the full potential through the exciting medium of color. PLEASE NOTE: The paints used in this book are Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor paints. Other brands can be used but the exact pigments, and therefore the results of mixes, may not be the same.
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A voyage of discovery into color, this comprehensive visual guide from renowned watercolor artist and teacher Richard Taylor opens the door to the world of watercolor paints, exploring their properties, color combinations and transformative potential, to inject vibrancy and life into your paintings.
Les mer
The purpose of this book is to help you navigate your way through all the siennas, umbers, phthalocyanines and dioxazines. It is not possible to explore all of the many paints that are in production, so I have made a selection of the most common paints found in art stores and those that I use most frequently in my painting. I have concentrated chiefly on the color of the paints, rather than any other qualities they may have, to allow you to step off on your voyage of color discovery. Personally, I use a fairly limited palette of around six paints and dip into others when necessary. I also often use ready-made secondary colors – oranges, greens and purples – but only as a starting point, adding whichever color I feel is required to change the tone according to my needs. The question “Do red and yellow always make orange?” has never been far from my mind in creating this book. Yes, they will create an orange when mixed, but that orange will be entirely dependent upon the particular red and yellow that you start with – is this the orange that you were looking for? Sometimes they will create the color you are seeking, but sometimes they won’t. For this reason, I often start the color mixing process with a pre-mixed tube of orange paint and add other colors to it in small quantities until I have reached the desired result (stopping before I create a muddy brown instead of a dark orange). This will all be explored in the coming pages with examples and suggestions for you to try. These can only, however, be the solutions to the problems of color mixing that I personally have found. You will most certainly find others through experimentation and, maybe, a little risk taking with your paints. I have chosen easily sourced subjects as examples for you to paint in the comfort of your own home where the light is constant and the wind isn’t blowing your paper across the landscape. You don’t need a studio – a kitchen table will do nicely. I personally find the world of color both fascinating and still exciting after nearly 50 years of engagement and struggle with it. I do hope that this book will help you to feel the same. Of course, an understanding of the origins and qualities of paints helps greatly, but a passion for their application is what really counts. Enjoy using it!
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Embark on a voyage of discovery into the world of color with this comprehensive visual reference guide from renowned watercolor artist and art teacher Richard Taylor. Open the door to the world of watercolor paints, exploring their properties, color combinations and transformative potential, and inject vibrancy and life into your paintings. For those with some watercolor experience, the struggle to prevent your paintings from becoming dull, flat and lifeless is all too familiar. The purpose of this book is to help you move on from this frequent impasse, inspiring you to explore color for yourself using the vibrant, vivid and inspirational paintings, illustrations and diagrams as your constant guide. Designed for effortless learning by a highly experienced artist and art teacher, this resourceful guide presents theory and techniques at a glance. Every page bursts with inspirational images and enthusiastic encouragement for the reader to create their own color mixes. Inspiration, clarity and simplicity are the key components of this guide to artistic autonomy in the realm of choosing and using color. The recurring theme throughout this book is learning exactly how different paints and colors work together and how this knowledge can be used to transform your own paintings. Immerse yourself in the world of complementary colors, shadows and analogous mixes, taking your personal palette to new horizons. Learn about the delicate balance between warm and cool colors while harnessing the dynamics of yellows and purples side by side in your own paintings. With Richard Taylor as your guide, venture into schemes for color mixing, grasping exactly how touches of light and shadow can play upon your paper. Unleash the power of contrasts, breathing life into your subjects while embracing a simplicity of approach and the courage of taking a few chances. This invaluable resource equips you to grasp color theory and effortless application. It contains no secrets, but has harnessed a wealth of teaching experience and painterly knowledge to create this comprehensive guide to color for the watercolor artist. Whether you are an aspiring artist or seasoned watercolor painter, this guide ensures that you will unlock the full potential through the exciting medium of color. PLEASE NOTE: The paints used in this book are Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor paints. Other brands can be used but the exact pigments, and therefore the results of mixes, may not be the same.
Les mer
A voyage of discovery into color, this comprehensive visual guide from renowned watercolor artist and teacher Richard Taylor opens the door to the world of watercolor paints, exploring their properties, color combinations and transformative potential, to inject vibrancy and life into your paintings.
Les mer
The purpose of this book is to help you navigate your way through all the siennas, umbers, phthalocyanines and dioxazines. It is not possible to explore all of the many paints that are in production, so I have made a selection of the most common paints found in art stores and those that I use most frequently in my painting. I have concentrated chiefly on the color of the paints, rather than any other qualities they may have, to allow you to step off on your voyage of color discovery. Personally, I use a fairly limited palette of around six paints and dip into others when necessary. I also often use ready-made secondary colors – oranges, greens and purples – but only as a starting point, adding whichever color I feel is required to change the tone according to my needs. The question “Do red and yellow always make orange?” has never been far from my mind in creating this book. Yes, they will create an orange when mixed, but that orange will be entirely dependent upon the particular red and yellow that you start with – is this the orange that you were looking for? Sometimes they will create the color you are seeking, but sometimes they won’t. For this reason, I often start the color mixing process with a pre-mixed tube of orange paint and add other colors to it in small quantities until I have reached the desired result (stopping before I create a muddy brown instead of a dark orange). This will all be explored in the coming pages with examples and suggestions for you to try. These can only, however, be the solutions to the problems of color mixing that I personally have found. You will most certainly find others through experimentation and, maybe, a little risk taking with your paints. I have chosen easily sourced subjects as examples for you to paint in the comfort of your own home where the light is constant and the wind isn’t blowing your paper across the landscape. You don’t need a studio – a kitchen table will do nicely. I personally find the world of color both fascinating and still exciting after nearly 50 years of engagement and struggle with it. I do hope that this book will help you to feel the same. Of course, an understanding of the origins and qualities of paints helps greatly, but a passion for their application is what really counts. Enjoy using it!
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781446313473
Publisert
2024-08-20
Utgiver
Vendor
David & Charles
Vekt
515 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
273 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Taylor Richard

Om bidragsyterne

Richard Taylor is an experienced and popular artist, who regularly teaches and lectures on all aspects of painting. He is the successful author of several books, including The Watercolourist's Year, Learn to Paint Buildings in Watercolour and Painting Houses and Gardens in Watercolour and was the Consultant and Contributor to The Art Course partwork. He writes for The Artist, Leisure Painter and Artists & Illustrators magazines and has also made several instructional painting videos.

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