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Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
The Wilcox Guide To the Finest Watercolours
Colour Harmony and Contrast for the Artist
Colour Harmony and Contrast for the Decorator
The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colours
 

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Colour Harmony and Contrast for the Artist
  Colour Harmony and Contrast for the Artist
 

The realist as well as the abstract painter rarely produces outstanding colour work. Why should this be so, given the wide range of artist's colours now available? The answers lie within this book. Artist's Colour Solutions CD ROM and home study course.

424 pages, full colour, soft bound.

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We find the colours which surround us in the countryside, rainforest, desert, plain or seascape always balance beautifully. Yet when artists attempt or depict these very scenes in their work the colours seldom harmonize to the same extent.

The Realist as well as the abstract painter rarely produces outstanding work. Why should this be so, given the wide range of artist's colours now available? the answers lie in this book.
Your work could improve dramatically as you come to understand this vital area.
Customer Reviews
...If you have read "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" also by Wilcox, this is the de facto companion volume. In this he lays out systematically the various colour schemes available to the artist and uses examples of great art to teach each scheme. Furthermore he analyzes each scheme in relation to the palette he teaches in "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green." If, like me, you are a convert and use this particular palette, the analyses of the colour scheme choices is so helpful that it literally revolutionizes the way you will be able to simplify your colour choices.

The main thing is that one should first get a copy of "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green.' If you are detrermined to go straight for this book, the colour swatches from "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" are reproduced in the back of the book.

If you are a working artist, make sure you have the following palette on hand: Cadmium Yellow (light or Pale), Lemon or Hansa Yellow Light, Cadmium Scarlet or Cadmium Red Light, Permanent Rose or Quinacridone Rose, French Ultramarine or UltraMarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Winsor Blue red shade or Pthalocyanine Blue (or Prussian Blue), Pthalocyanine or Winsor Green blue shade, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna (white--except if using watercolor). These books are as good as it gets in terms of useful knowledge for the artist.

Nigel

...If I was stranded on an island, this would be one of the books I would like to have. Mr. Wilcox analysis of paintings by many of the great masters is inspirational and helpful. He teaches colour harmony through the use of a limited palette and discusses how many of the great paintings were painted using this method.

I don't know of any other art books (and I have read many) that accomplishes what this one does - teaches you to use colour in a concise and planned way in order to paint beautiful and harmonious paintings

Diana Lakes