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.
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The aim of this book has been to guide the artist away from poor, often harmful colors towards the more worthwhile. In this context 'harmful' refers to the damage likely to be caused to a painting after exposure to light. Too often the artist puts enormous creative energy into a piece of work without realising that certain colors used will ensure its eventual distruction. There is no need whatsoever for this situation to exist.
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Paints which fade, darken or otherwise deteriorate in color should be a thing of the past. It would be simplicity itself for manufacturers to offer only colors which are reliable. They have at their disposal a wide choice of lightfast pigments with excellent handling qualities to choose from.With the information supplied in this book, you will help to bring about change by making your selection of paints with confidence and knowledge.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A worthwhile reference book,
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This review is from: The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors (Paperback)
This is the latest in a fine series of reference books on color and paint selection written by Mr. Wilcox. This book delivers lots of useful information in clear language. I would particularly recommend it to students who are new to the sometimes bewildering world of color media. Readers who have the author's other books on color may not need this one, as there is a lot of overlap.
37 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
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recycled summary of stale views,
By drollere (Sebastopol, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors (Paperback)
michael wilcox deserves credit as one of the pioneers of modern standards in art materials. but he has overstayed his usefulness, and it badly shows in this book. wilcox does not discuss *pigments*, which are the actual chemicals that create paint color (and lose color if poorly made), because pigments have been updated since he wrote his first book, and he has not bothered to test the new pigments available. but what he calls "colors" are not paints either, so he does not review any specific paints made by specific manufacturers. he's left in the pitiable position of reviewing "colors" such as burnt sienna that vary widely from one manufacturer to another, or "colors" such as "chrome yellow" that no one makes anymore; advising us that each color is "usually" well made or poorly made, and implying whenever convenient that artists who use poor "colors" are stupid and paint manufacturers who make them are unscrupulous. at present hilary page's book is the only reliable, up to date and thoroughly researched paint guide available.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An informative book for students, teachers and artists!,
By Penny Ross (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors (Paperback)
A very informative book for any artist. We all buy paint, but the market is full of many brands and many qualities of paint. How do we make a selection? How do we avoid colors that fade or darken? How do we read the label of the tube of paint? What should be on that label? The name of the color is not important.All painters know that there are many different colors with the same name.
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