Watercolour Artist's Colour Mixing Bible (Artist's Bible) - Hardcover

Clinch, Moira; Webb, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844481395 ISBN 13: 9781844481392

Publisher: Search Press, 2006

Synopsis

A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Each is shown as a variegated mix straight from the palette as well as with wet-on-wet additions on the paper. The special colours are also demonstrated as glazes over the 18 standard palette colours, giving another 1000 options. Provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.l

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The Watercolour Artists Colour Mixing Bible : Book by Moira Clinch and David Webb

Review

Mar 06 Mixing paint is surely one of the foundation stones of good art, and here is a whole book to tell you all about it. But in grand old Search Press style it does of course tell you a lot more than that... ...It starts you off with decisions you need to make before you even make a purchase. Students' colors or standard? Tubes or pans? What paper to buy, or perhaps another surface? What about an easel, and how many brushes? When I bought my first materials I wish I had had a book like this to read before I made my purchases. The book then goes on to discuss different painting techniques, and discuss pigments and what they can do. The color wheel is there, but whereas in many books that is all it is - just sat there on the page looking inscrutable - here there are discussions about warm and cool colors, tones, shades and tints and more. Finally, after the hors d'oeuvres we get to the meat of the book, and that is the mixing. With a palette of 18 colors, the directory mixes 50 other colors to show what each can do, and what they look like when mixed. The colors are described as to their permanency, behaviour, particular uses etc and enough else so you can try it at home too. Go to the back and you can find out about making colors look transparent, mix subtle grays and find out about lightfastness. This truly is a very useful primer for any aspiring watercolour artist, and quite a few existing ones. * Myshelf.com * Feb 06 This is a book that is going to remain firmly in my bookcase. Too many times have I started a painting to find that I have made a major flaw in the painting by not getting the colours right. Help is on hand with this book which provides a visual guide to more than 2,500 mixes and glaze effects. I will no longer be at a loss when I need to add the right depth to my pictures. Almost like granny's old recipe book this is a treasure trove of colours that you may well never have used or known how to make. I have also learnt a lot about the importance of the right paper and read about several techniques that I have never tried before. Thanks to the authors of this book I will hopefully be producing a lot more tonal wonders in the near future. * minigallery.co.uk * Feb 06 This is a book that is going to remain firmly in my bookcase. Too many times have I started a painting to find that I have made a major flaw in the painting by not getting the colours right. Help is on hand with this book which provides a visual guide to more than 2,500 mixes and glaze effects. I will no longer be at a loss when I need to add the right depth to my pictures. Almost like granny's old recipe book this is a treasure trove of colours that you may well never have used or known how to make. I have also learnt a lot about the importance of the right paper and read about several techniques that I have never tried before. Thanks to the authors of this book I will hopefully be producing a lot more tonal wonders in the near future. * minigallery.co.uk * Jun 06 Colour mixing is an art, a skill in its own right and whole books have been written about it. In fact, this is one! There are two basic approaches. The first is to take a series of paintings and analyse their palette, building from there toward the practical aspect of structuring colour. The best of these is Tony Paul's How to Mix & Use Colour. The other approach is the encyclopaedia, of which there have been a number over the years. These typically contain only a few illustrations of actual paintings, usually relating to a specific subject or colour type, and mainly consist of pages of colours swatches. As far as attractiveness goes, the first type of book wins hands down, for the latter really is a bit like watching paint dry. However, we're serious students and we're not going to let such triviality put us off! And a good thing too, because, in the encyclopaedia approach, more is definitely more. More base colour, more mixes and more tints and more glazes. Structure is everything, because you need to be able to find your way around a book like this quickly and easily. It's not one you're going to keep by the bedside to dip into last thing at night - at least, not unless you suffer from insomnia, I suppose. But I'm being unfair. The pages of this book, which you should own unless you're one of those people who knew how to mix colour the day they were born (and there are people like that and, if you're one of them, please don't write and tell me this book is a waste of time!), the pages you should bookmark are nos 40-43. These give you the key to the colour sections and to the page layout. So, there you are, easel firmly planted, palette in one hand, brush in the other and the background hills are a wonderful shade of ... of ... of ... Right, go to greens, greens with a bit of blue, here we are, Cobalt Turquoise and mix it with Yellow Ochre, about 60-40. OK, in reality, you should be able to do something as basic as that fairly much straight off your head, but there will be occasions when a particular colour proves elusive. Now, you just know that fiddling around is going to result in grey mud, so this is where a book like this comes into its own. It's a cheat, really, but everyone has a few of those and no-one should be ashamed of it. The publisher claims more than 2500 mixes and glaze effect and I'm sure they're right. It's enough for anyone. Oh, it's also a handy coat-pocket size and spiral bound to that it'll lay flat when you're using it. They think of everything. * Artbookreview.net *

About this edition

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844481395
• ISBN 13: 9781844481392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256