Making color sing
Book - 2011
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- Published
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New York :
Watson-Guptill Publications
[2011]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Twenty-fifth anniversary edition
- Item Description
- Reprint. Originally published: 1986.
- Physical Description
- 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780823031153
- Introduction: Commitment to excellence
- The pure pigment palette: creating with a personal palette
- Mouse power: achieving luminous grays
- Octanic color: mixing powerful color
- Greens, greens, and more greens: facing the challenge of green
- Push-pull with warm and cool: creating distance and atmosphere
- Push-pull and turn: making form appear three-dimensional
- Dark glows: getting the most from darks
- Singing color: making color pulsate
- White glows: refining subtle blushes of white
- The art of not mixing: layering with glazes
- Atmospheric glazes: working with gradated glazes
- A multilayered vision: glazing color creatively
- Error into asset: correcting with glazes
- Ordinary into extraordinary: transforming a painting with glazes
- Color bridges: creating transitions between colors
- Color camouflage: disguising with color choices
- Paint passages: weaving color through space
- Color vibrations: invoking visual tension
- Color as abstract pattern: designing with vibrating color
- Color composition: planning the color design
- Twelve shapes: thinking "shape"
- Shapes plus value plus color: taking an all-encompassing approach
- Unpainted shapes: using the white paper
- Beyond the subject: looking for a relationship
- Distinctive divisions: making shapes dynamic
- Right-on-the-mark values
- A subtle touch: handling a mass of midtones
- The impact of white: planning the white pattern
- The dark partner: designing a dark pattern
- A personalized light: changing the light pattern
- Pattern as subject: making a good design even better
- Conclusion: Unlocking you creativity.