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Go beyond the color wheel and unlock the potential of your oil painting palette with this unique and informative guide by an award-winning painter.
More than any other single tool at your artistic disposal, color has the potential to command the eye, quicken the pulse and elicit a response from your viewer. In this engaging and unique color workshop, Vicki McMurry offers insight for artists of every level. McMurry starts with basic principles, from...
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"This book explores the history of our understanding of color from the ancient world to the present, from Aristotle to Albers. Interspersed in the historical story are thematic essays that explore how color has been used across a wide range of disciplines and fields: in belief, commerce, language, nature, food, wellness, printing, and music. Many of the illustrations are drawn from the Royal College of Art's renowned Colour Reference Library, which...
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"From the various shades of pink used by artists to describe the blush of Madame de Pompadour's cheeks to Helen Frankenthaler's orange color fields to Prince's concert costumes, Color Scheme is a collection of palettes that reveal new ways of thinking about larger arcs in visual culture."--
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"In this updated edition of best-selling Intuitive Color & Design, Jean's workshop assignments get your creative juices flowing, giving you challenges to expand your quilting horizons. Start by learning to see line and colour; study the nuts and bolts of design; develop your colour work and composition; and when you get stuck, there's expert advice on problem solving. Design and piece spectacular, free-form quilts you'd never have guessed you could...
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Explore and create expressive palettes and paintings with Color Harmony for Artists.
Watercolor author, artist, and teacher Ana Victoria Calderon guides you through choosing, mixing, and using color with watercolor and mixed media to create the most expressive and appealing combinations and effects for a wide range of moods and subjects. You'll explore a variety of subjects and themes, including flowers, foliage, landscapes, skies, cities, figures,...
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Don't let those scraps sit there, sew them into these bursting-with-color projects from the author of Quilt Remix!
Popular patternmaker Emily Cier sews up all the colors of the rainbow in her second collection of all-new patterns that include wallhangings and lap quilts.
Divided into sections for the little stasher or the big stasher, this book gives separate cutting instructions for working with all scraps, or with all new fabrics. Emily brings...
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"Brilliant Inks offers beginners and beyond exciting techniques, lessons, and projects for painting, drawing, and lettering with vibrant colored inks. Apply these skills to eye-catching projects that include jewelry, accessories, dimensional artwork, and more"--
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"Capture all the hues of the garden with a few simple brushstrokes and Lorene Edwards Forkner's inspirational advice on observing color in nature, painting with watercolor, and gardening with joy and intention. If you love flowers and the rich colors of the garden, Color In and Out of the Garden is for you. Artist and garden expert Lorene Edwards Forkner shares her simple watercolor techniques for capturing every lovely hue in a miniature artwork....
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