An inspirational guide to understanding and using color offers aspiring artists a perspective of the role of color in an artistic composition, demonstrating how color can create the illusion of space, light, and atmosphere.
A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods.
" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light.
With a fresh, contemporary take on the subject of color, this essential guide features step-by-step projects and practical tips and techniques to put color knowledge to effective use.
Including more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging, this volume explains how to: see what is really there rather than what you "know" in your mind about colored objects perceive how light affects color, ...
Everyone can draw and paint, including you!
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Color First, Ink Later presents a unique method for working with watercolor on the go—painting first, then adding sketch lines in ink—by Mike Daikubara, the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Sketch ...
This book is a practical manual intended specifically for anyone interested in delving into the technique of granting color to fashion figurine illustrations to give them more life and expressiveness.
An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory.
Printed on luxe watercolor paper excellent for paints, marker, pencil, or any coloring medium, the bold ink outlines from celebrated stationer Linda &Harriett become vivid, frame-worthy works of art with just a few splashes of color.
In this book, artist and workshop teacher Patti Mollica walks you through surprisingly simple and efficient strategies for achieving that kind of powerful composition, whatever your subject.