The Watercolourist's Complete Guide to Colour
Colour always presents a special challenge for the watercolourist. In this complete guide, master watercolourist Tom Hill teaches you how to use colour to your best advantage. You'll learn how to achieve textural effects, mix colours and choose colour palettes (warm, cool, low-key, high-key, tonal, minimum), and how to create the effects of distance and atmosphere through colour.
You'll learn all of these skills through numerous examples and colour charts throughout the book illustrating ...
• wash and glazing techniques
• "charging" a wet colour into another wet colour
• analysis of 40 popular pigments including colour temperature, transparency or opacity, degree of stain, and other useful observations about each colour
• how several different primary colours can make a surprising array of colour - and showing how red, blue and yellow can each be either cool or warm
• how light affects colour, including a detailed explanation of how to paint reflected light
• the use of many different palettes
• plus much more to help you create the effects you want in your paintings.
In addition to the easy-to-use charts and examples, there is a wealth of simply beautiful paintings by Hill sprinkled throughout the book, showing all of the theories in practical applications. The last chapter is dedicated to 10 step by step demonstrations of:
• colour in shadows
• colour in a white subject
• colour in a colourful subject
• colour in water
• colour in clouds and sky
• painting the greens in nature
• intensifying a colour's brilliance
• painting greys that aren't muddy
• using colour to create distance
• redesigning your subject's colour
In this book, Tom Hill teaches you how to master the use of colour in your watercolour paintings with methods that are easily understood by beginners as well as intermediate and advanced painters. (Front flap of book – 1993 hardback Studio Vista edition)
| Possible opportunities to buy this book on watercolour painting or obtain reviews ... |
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| Amazon US UK Canada (1993 hardback Studio Vista edition) |
| Amazon US UK Canada (1997 or 1992 hardback North Light Books) |
| Amazon US UK Canada (1998 paperback Writers Digest New edition) |
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