Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (952 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823006972 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorStephen Quiller is an internationally recognized artist and teacher and is the author of the bestselling art guides Acrylic Painting Techniques and Painter's Guide to Color. He lives in Crede, Colorado
Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles.With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein.. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structur
Aspiring Artist and Designer said This is probably the second best book on color that I have read and anyone can understand. While I am a watercolour painter, this book also talk to the acrylic and oil artist. This book has a lot of information about colour and how it works in order to have an outstanding painting with colors helping each other rather than it looking chaotic and somehow out of sync. The only other books that I would recommend on color that. Elanor Guinevere said A complete color theory course. This is a color theory course in detail with exercises and examples. I bought it to accompany a many part video course by the author, but the book can be used alone with no problem. The author takes you through simple color combinations (complimentary), with all their possibilities -to the more complicated analogous, split compliment. "so many insights on complimentary colors" according to Jane C. Nowlin. Just what I needed to feel confident in changing color palettes when I want to change a mood. I was not always able to correctly name the complimentary color for say cerulean blue. In this book I learned it's not an orange but is a coral (Cad red light) in watercolor. compliments are not just a name…or a couple. It's a whole s
Stephen Quiller is an internationally recognized artist and teacher and is the author of the bestselling art guides Acrylic Painting Techniques and Painter's Guide to Color. He lives in Crede, Colorado.