Artist Toolbox: Color
A practical guide to color and its uses in art
Published on 7. December 2017
128 pages
978-1-63322-455-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Beverly
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
250 color images
File size
20,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-63322-455-1 (9781633224551)
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Walter Foster Publishing
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Founded in 1922 by artist Walter T. Foster, Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group, is the world's leading publisher of instructional art books and kits for adults and children. Walter Foster's diverse selection of drawing, painting, doodling, and mixed media art books and kits have created a foundation for millions of beginning, intermediate, and advanced artists looking to hone their talents, learn new techniques, and discover different mediums. From color mixing recipes and art tools to the fundamentals of drawing and painting, Walter Foster's books cover a wide variety of topics and mediums across a broad spectrum of traditional and eclectic subject matter for artists of all skill levels. Walter Foster Publishing continues to expand its offerings every year, producing cutting-edge art-instruction books and kits for a worldwide audience.
Maury Aaseng has always been excited about drawing and art. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Maury began an illustration career, and his freelance work has spanned a variety of subject matter and illustration styles, including cartooning, medical illustration, natural sciences, patient education, and watercolor. An avid nature enthusiast, Maury lives in northern Minnesota with his wife and two children. Visit www.mauryillustrates.com and maurymedicalart.com.
David Lloyd Glover has a 25-year international reputation exhibiting in major galleries in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. At the age of 18 he was a full-time newspaper and magazine illustrator. For his many galleries, Glover has created images ranging from Impressionist landscapes to iconic pop art images of jazz artists and rock stars. Glover has been featured on Barry Chappell's Art and Coin TV, channel 223 DirectTV.www.davidlglover.com
Jan Murphy graduated from UCLA. She has worked as a graphic designer and art director, and also teaches painting classes. Her background inspires her painting style, which incorporates architectural elements, saturated colors, and design. A member of the Oil Painters of America, Jan was a featured artist in the Directory of Illustration between 2012 and 2014.
Maury Aaseng has always been excited about drawing and art. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Maury began an illustration career, and his freelance work has spanned a variety of subject matter and illustration styles, including cartooning, medical illustration, natural sciences, patient education, and watercolor. An avid nature enthusiast, Maury lives in northern Minnesota with his wife and two children. Visit www.mauryillustrates.com and maurymedicalart.com.
David Lloyd Glover has a 25-year international reputation exhibiting in major galleries in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. At the age of 18 he was a full-time newspaper and magazine illustrator. For his many galleries, Glover has created images ranging from Impressionist landscapes to iconic pop art images of jazz artists and rock stars. Glover has been featured on Barry Chappell's Art and Coin TV, channel 223 DirectTV.www.davidlglover.com
Jan Murphy graduated from UCLA. She has worked as a graphic designer and art director, and also teaches painting classes. Her background inspires her painting style, which incorporates architectural elements, saturated colors, and design. A member of the Oil Painters of America, Jan was a featured artist in the Directory of Illustration between 2012 and 2014.
Content
- Intro
- INTRODUCTION
- MEET THE ARTISTS
- CHAPTER 1: COLOR BASICS & PAINTING CONCEPTS
- What Is Color?
- Color Terms & Properties
- Color, Light & Shadow
- Color Relativity
- Color Psychology
- Color & Mood
- Color Schemes
- Color & Composition
- Infusing Color
- CHAPTER 2: PIGMENTS
- Pigment Properties
- A History of Paint
- Pigment Chart
- CHAPTER 3: COLOR MIXING
- Basic Painting Materials
- Mixing Oil & Acrylic
- Mixing Watercolor
- Color Mixes for Watercolor
- Color Mixes for Oil & Acrylic
- CHAPTER 4: PAINTING DEMONSTRATIONS
- Project 1: Northern Lights
- Watercolor with Maury Aaseng
- Project 2: Goldfinch & Thistle
- Watercolor with Maury Aaseng
- Project 3: Tudor Hydrangea Garden
- Acrylic with David Glover
- Project 4: Apples & Plums
- Acrylic with David Glover
- Project 5: Watery Landscape
- Oil with Jan Murphy
- Project 6: Foothills
- Oil with Jan Murphy
