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Color on Metal: 50 Artist Share Insights and Techniques

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This is a great book for the coffee table. It has lots of beautiful color pictures with a brief history of the artist and the piece in the photo but if you are looking for ideas with detailed information on how to color metal using mediums other than paint, don't waste your time or money.

50 artists share insights but the techniques seem to be limited to a brief explanation and a footnote at the bottom of a picture listing the material used. While many of the photos are great examples of what "can" be done with color, you won't be finding out "how" with this book. But hey, you will get to read 50 esoteric explanations of abstract principals, the kind that artists throw in their bios to make their work seem more interesting than it really is. As a coffee table book it's fine but the useable information is extremely limited.

I love everything that Tim McCreight has written. However, I wish I had read this title more thoroughly. I am a beginner in metal and was looking for a book to give me recipes for Patinas. This did not. It may help me later on after I have developed more skills.

In this marvelous book, color takes its rightful place along with form, texture, and function. Fifty artists are featured, with a description of each's concepts and techniques, alongside superb photography. Although the information is a sufficient platform for further learning, "Color on Metal" is not a tutorial (nor a formulary) but a stimulating exploration of each artist's personal approach to surface and color. You will find these diverse and often ingenious expressions anything but afterthoughts or casual embellishments. They are differences that make the difference, and it's simply impossible to come away indifferent or uninspired by the rich creative potential of both old and new methods surveyed in this well-organized, beautifully photographed "must have" book.

First off ,I agree totaly with david barnetts views.its a insight book .Just read the title and it says what the book is all about.To me it shows what can be done and whom has done it.Grant you id love to see in the book a way to contact the artists.As a artist IMHO its sometimes very helpfull to see what can be done in order to open up my mind to new ideas.Tim does have some very helpful information in the front..I have not seen a book of Tim McCreight's that i have not liked very much as I have learned alot from..I have bought many of Tim's books as they are done very well....

I would love to see a more complex book from him on how to do anodizing of niobium and titanium,the ins and out and useage of anodizers.how to paint and do all the tricky stuff as i feel he can do..

This book gave me a lot a great techniques and insights into coloring metals!