How to mix colors

How to mix colors

Gabriel Martín Rig

Book - 2014

Overview: Art students and amateur painters alike will find advice and instruction in Barron's popular Pocket Art Guides series. Each title focuses on a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes tips that even experienced professionals will find helpful. These information-packed books are handy artists' companions for the reference shelf, but are also small enough to carry along with art supplies on field trips. How to Mix Colors explores the fundamentals of choosing and mixing colors as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Includes captioned color illustrations and notes on how famous artists solved specific problems.

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Subjects
Painting.
Painting > Study and teaching.
Color in art.
Published
Hauppauge, NY : Barron's Educational Series 2014.
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Gabriel Martín Rig (author)
Other Authors
Michael Brunelle (translator), Beatriz Cortabarria
Edition
First edition for the United States, its territories and dependencies, and Canada
Physical Description
95 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780764167171
  • Introduction: Mixing is the key to painting
  • Physics Of Paint:
  • Oils: mixtures with body
  • Homogeneous color or striated color?
  • Striated mixtures
  • In The Manner: Paul Signac
  • Transparencies and glazes
  • Watercolor: wetting is mixing
  • Mixing on wet and on dry
  • Glossary Of Effects: Your own color chart
  • Let's Experiment: Boats in a range of blues
  • Acrylics: hybrid paint
  • First mixtures using flat brushes
  • In The Manner Of: Paul Gauguin
  • Combining And Blending Colors:
  • Summary of color mixing theory
  • Let's Experiment: Scene with just three basic colors
  • Bright colors
  • Darkening with earth tones
  • Let's Experiment: Cityscape with earth tones and ultramarine blue
  • In The Manner Of: Peder Severin Kroyer
  • Glossary Of Effects: Neutral color mixtures
  • Working with yellows and ochres
  • Let's Experiment: Sunrise with lightened and yellow oil colors
  • Let's Experiment: Vase with acrylics: families of colors
  • Mixing dark colors
  • Problem with the greens
  • Glossary Of Effects: High key colors
  • Let's Experiment: Interior in red with acrylics
  • When to use white
  • Interpreting Color On The Model:
  • Developing a universe of mixtures
  • Progressively adjusting the colors
  • Choosing the dominant range
  • Developing the tones on the palette
  • How to resolve chromatic monotony
  • Let's Experiment: Greens in a landscape
  • In The Manner Of: Thomas Moran.
Review by Library Journal Review

Color is a painter's primary concern, no matter whether they use pastels, watercolor, acrylics, or oil paints. This compact guide offers some unusual insights, irrespective of media. The book is divided into three sections: the first deals with the physical qualities of various types of paint, the second part covers color mixing, and the third discusses the interpretation of color. Included are short, step-by-step exercises varied in format, a few featuring finished works with accompanying biographical outlines of their creators. VERDICT Artists of beginning and intermediate experience levels can use this guide to develop and sharpen their color skills. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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