Mix Your Own Watercolors is the complete artistÆs guide to successfully mixing watercolor paint colors. As you explore color theory, you will learn all about the basicsùfrom color relationships evident on the color wheel to the meaning of hue, tone, and intensity, as well as all about translucent colors, granulations, and backruns. YouÆll also discover how to mix specific watercolor pigments, following precise rations for mixing yellows, oranges, reds, violets, blues, greens, browns, and other neutralsùall with the help of full-color photographs and color-group illustrations. Anyone serious about the art of watercolor should not be without this book!
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Serious Instruction for Serious Artists
That's what the Artist's Library series is all about! The books in this series will help you expand your creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each 64-page paperback focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tips, and plenty of encouragement.
The quality of instruction in this series is unsurpassed. Each book is written and illustrated by a professional artist who specializes in the particular medium and is uniquely qualified to guide the reader to a new level of expertise.
About the Author
After a period of part-time study at art college, John Lidzey became a graphic designer and worked in several London art studios and advertising agencies. Following this, he taught typographic and graphic design at London art schools until he left education to pursue his own interests in painting in watercolor. He now lives in Sufflolk, England, painting, exhibiting, and writing, and his artwork has appeared in many books and periodicals. John's work is known for its tonality and rich color, and his enthusiasm for this aspect of watercolor is conveyed throughout this book.
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delightful and very useful mixing information,
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This review is from: Mix Your Own Watercolors (Artist's Library series #27) (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book. I enjoy the chosen colors for the mixtures created. This book is a perfect complement to others. For key colors it shows how the mixtures (not glazes) vary by percentages used. The examples of how these mixtures are used in existing paintings is inspiring and illustrative. I love this book and use it often. All levels of watercolor painters could benefit from it.
The book is a perfect complement the the simmilarly delightful book "Watercolor Artists Guide to Exceptional Color", which shows a wide range of painting subjects and the types of extraordinary color combinations (showing mixtures as well as glazes) that enable acheiving the desired results. It is also a complement to the rather technical and thorough book (while thorough, does not have illustrations like the one being recommended here) "Watercolor Mixing Directory", which shows 60/40 mixtures of 18 colors and also shows how glazing varies for each of the combinations versus mixing on the palette. These three books DO NOT DUPLICATE each other.
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Great Book,
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This review is from: Mix Your Own Watercolors (Artist's Library series #27) (Paperback)
I am looking forward to practicing the lessons in this book. It seems to be straight forward on how to layer colors to achive the end results. It is a handbook that will get much use.
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Before you begin to mix colors it is useful to have some idea of the general principles of color and to be familiar with some of the descriptive terms which are used. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak dilution, standard dilution, cadmium lemon, phthalocyanine blue, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elizabeth Harden, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Before you begin to mix colors it is useful to have some idea of the general principles of color and to be familiar with some of the descriptive terms which are used. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak dilution, standard dilution, cadmium lemon, phthalocyanine blue, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elizabeth Harden, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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