Artist Toolbox: Color
A practical guide to color and its uses in art
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Pub Date Dec 05 2017 | Archive Date Feb 20 2018
Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster | Walter Foster Publishing
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Description
Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art.
In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library.
The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781633222724 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 112 |
Featured Reviews
Kristin C, Reviewer
This is a really good book with very detailed explanations of color uses in multiple types of mediums. I also like the step by step instructions on different paintings some of which I have already used to practice.
Kellie R, Bookseller
This is the sort of handy reference book that is ideal for total beginners stepping into the realm of art for the first time. More advanced artists may pick up a titbit here and there, but it will be of limited use to them.
Jennifer M, Librarian
Beautiful reference title every artist should have on their shelf. I love the step by step descriptions of various media.
Janus A, Reviewer
I feel like this book was made because of people like me. Those who struggle with color combinations. Working as a graphic designer we have palettes the work in certainty in terms of color combinations appealing for the web and digital work that I kind of slacked off in terms of color experimentation. Whenever I feel like one color doesn’t work with the rest, it was so easy to change it. Hence the slacking.
You can’t exactly do that with painting especially when you work with watercolors. Glazing can only do so much to help make your pieces look like you meant them to appear as such when in truth you used the wrong color.
This book has been very helpful. I often play it safe and use the colors I already know work well with each other, so having another insight towards colors allowed me to take on color mixing more valiantly.
Much like the other Artist’s Toolbox book that I reviewed, this book also includes an activity section where you can adapt all that you read and learned from the previous chapters. The painting I created here is the first project (contributed by Maury Aaseng) you can follow through and create your own version.
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