Download or read book The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilcox Guide to the Finest Watercolor Paints written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, this guide has been a studio essential for every watercolorist who wants to buy the right paint-the first time around. Now completely and revised and updated, the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints features all-new information on literally thousands of watercolor paints. Sorted by color, each tube of paint is subjected to the same tests for lightfastness, toxicity and overall performance. Full-color examples of each paint's hue at varying degrees of dilution are shown, so artists can choose the best paint brand and color for their needs. A buyer's guide to more than 2,000 watercolor paints; features full-color comparisons of each paint's charactistics.
Download or read book Hilary Page s Guide to Watercolor Paints written by Hilary Page and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best resource for identifying the particular watercolors you will need for your work. Included in this book are the products of the leading manufacturers of watercolors around the world, including: Blockx, Daniel Smith, Da Vinci, Fragonard, Grumbacher, Holbein, M. Graham & Co., Maimeri, Old Holland Rembrandt, Rowney, Sakura, Schmincke, Sennelier, Shiva, Van Gogh, Winsor & Newton. Each paint has been personally tested and evaluated by the author, and samples of the paints throughout the book illustrate the paints' essential characteristics.
Download or read book Depicting the Colours in Water written by Craig Letourneau and published by Colour School of Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.
Download or read book Getting the Most from the Wilcox Mixing Palette written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of mixing expensive mud, you will soon gain control of colour mixing as you use the palette. Your work will improve dramatically and you need to use just six colours for an enormous range. Twelve at the most, and you have virtually every mix possible.
Download or read book Blue and Yellow Don t Make Green written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists primaries - give new colours when mised. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis. In this exciting new book, Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment of the principles underlying colour mixing. It is the first major break-away from the traditional and limited concepts that have caused painters and others who work with colour so many problems. Back Cover.
Download or read book Color Mixing Swatch Book written by Michael Wilcox and published by Northlight. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized guide to quick and accurate color mixing is an essential reference for artists of all media. Inside are 2,460 printed color mixes from 12 standard artist paints. Each page features the range you can get from any two of these colors. Artists can seek out the color they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They'll also find invaluable information about every color including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colors used to attain it. The book's compact and convenient design lets artists take it anywhere, capturing the color inspiration as it hits them.
Download or read book Perfect Color Choices for the Artist written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Wilcox offers an entirely new way of creating color harmony and contrast with Perfect Color Choices for the Artist. It's the only complete artist's guide to selecting, mixing and using color. Based on the way that colors in nature are related, this book teaches artists how to achieve perfect color in their art. Artists not only learn the color relationships of plants, animals and nature, but also how to mix and apply those colors to their paintings. Readers will find over 1,000 color arrangements and 400 illustrated examples, plus easy-to-follow instruction and guidelines for mixing and using color in any medium. Michael Wilcox has experienced a widely varied background, including periods as a professional artist, a conservator of art works and an engineer. His research in art and design led to the book Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green followed by the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints. Wilcox has also published the Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors, a guide that shows how to select a suitable palette in any medium-watercolors, oil paints, acrylics and more. He lives and continues his research and writing in Bristol, England.
Download or read book The Artist s Guide to Selecting Colors written by Michael Wilcox and published by Northlight. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Select your paint with confidence and protect your valuable work. This book is about artist's paints, a guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent and the bad. It also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each color and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across. Vital Information for the concerned artist.
Download or read book Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth century Britain written by Theresa Fairbanks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1794, Paul Sandby (1725-1809) exhibited his newly paintedA View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills.Sandby, one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and one of the preeminent British landscape painters of the day, included the celebrated Whatman papermaking mill at the center of this landscape composition. James Whatman I and his son James Whatman II were the most famous English papermakers of the eighteenth century, and by 1760 Turkey Mill was the largest paper mill in the country. This handsome and engaging book looks at how theView of Vinters and Turkey Millis both a superb example of Sandby's art and an important document of the rise of industry in the British countryside and of the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of painting in watercolor. It also features other watercolors by Sandby and materials relating to the processes of papermaking and to the Whatman family and its mill.
Download or read book Mixing Greens written by Michael Wilcox and published by Northlight. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.
Download or read book Glazing written by Michael Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilcox Guide to the Finest Watercolour Paints written by Michael Wilcox and published by School of Color Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for artists, this book covers the range of pigments used in artists' watercolours, and helps safeguard your work.
Download or read book Watercolour written by John Barber and published by Search Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winsor & Newton Guide to Colour Mixing Watercolour takes the uncertainty out of colour mixing for artists. Organised around the primary colours, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tints, the book presents a gallery of precise colour mixes to enable an artist to recreate what is on the page in their palette and on their work of art.Clear, concise outline of the principles of colour mixing using watercolours At-a-glance guide to more than 5,000 hues and shades Complete visual reference to mixing watercolour Inspirational galleries of successful watercolour works using colour mixingBook Contents: Chapter 1 - Tools and Materials, Chapter 2 - Mixing Watercolours, Chapter 3 - Reds and Oranges, Chapter 4 - Yellows and Greens, Chapter 5 - Blues and Purples, Chapter 5 - Neutrals and Flesh Tones,
Download or read book Depicting the Colours in Textures written by Michael Wilcox and published by School of Color Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add realism to your work through the accurate depiction of a range of textures
Download or read book Watercolour Triads written by Jane Blundell and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following from 'The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours', which explored two-colour mixing using a 15-colour palette, this book looks at working with watercolour triads. The book shows triad wheels and charts for a range of triads, with sample paintings and sketches showing the triads in action. The triads are cross-referenced with mixes in the previous book.
Download or read book Painting Vibrant Watercolors written by Soon Y. Warren and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paint Watercolors that Shine! Make the most of watercolor's fresh, vibrant nature through light, color and contrast. In the first few chapters, artist Soon Y. Warren helps you lay the groundwork—everything from choosing and lighting subjects to color theory and perspective. Then, follow along with a thrilling series of step-by-step demonstrations to put your ideas into action for paintings that shine! Learn how color, value, contrast and composition affect the impact of your paintings Discover the plans and techniques you'll need for successful, realistic watercolors Follow 16 demonstrations to create brilliant paintings Paint a variety of subjects, including still life, landscapes, water scenes, flowers, architecture and animals This book is the perfect balance of classic theory and hands-on technique. Engaging and easy-to-follow instruction gives you a solid foundation so you can take your work to the next level as you create dynamic paintings.
