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Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette–a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works.
Color is one of the most profound ways we have to express ourselves. In this lively workbook for artists, graphic designers, hobbyists, and creators of all types, you will journal your way through fresh and enriching ways to develop a more personal connection to color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, dive into color theory and explore your personal style while playing with a balanced blend of experiments and color meditations. Discover a personal color wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with color mixing while you make as many of one color as you can – and then name them all (honeydew green, avocado green, mint ice cream…). Through playful prompts and inspiring examples, and with lots of room for painting, this book will guide you to a new or expanded relationship with color and deepen your understanding of what color can do for you.
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Materials and supplies
In this book, you’ll learn to use watercolors, gouche, or any other water-based medium to explore color theory.
Discover the perfect color
One of the most important things to learn about color and color mixing is that often the tiniest amount of another color will generate an immense shift or alteration in your original hue.
Create a personal color wheel
What is a personal color wheel good for, you ask? It’s incredibly helpful to see how all your favorite ideas of color live together. Most likely there’s similarity.
Color meditations
Explore color theory while playing with paint through a balanced blend of color experiments and loose color meditations.
Saturation scale
Check out the example of a “saturation globe,” inspired by Philipp Otto Runge.
Square-within-a-square
Learn from Josef Albers-inspired exercise and see how colors and how we view them are relational.
Artist and teacher Lisa Solomon is your guide through these color explorations and adventures
“As an artist and an art teacher, I’ve spent decades studying color, and I’ve read countless books on color theory (some of which are listed in the resources section in this book). I’ve experimented with color in multiple media and in multiple ways. If you want to understand color, you need to immerse yourself in color. The way I use color has developed from time spent experimenting and by making lots and lots of mistakes. This book is the result of distilling years of my own experience with color. The exercises that follow are meant to offer you a substantial introduction to color theory through fun and playful experiments.”
Publisher : Roost Books; Workbook edition (August 27, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 1611806127
ISBN-13 : 978-1611806120
Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
Dimensions : 7.56 x 0.82 x 9 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book enjoyable for learning about color theory. They appreciate the watercolor workbook that allows them to practice and learn as they go. The educational value, content, and activities are appreciated by customers. They enjoy the meditation exercises and free-form practices. The writing quality is described as well-written and has many pictures and examples.
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