Synopses & Reviews
Through clear, illuminating exercises, this brilliant book explores new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allows artists to express themselves with paint as never before.
In thirty-one practical and stimulating lessons, author Jeanne Dobie offers insights into ways to use both color and composition to make paintings come alive.
Lessons include:
Creating with a Personal Palette
Achieving Luminous Grays
Mixing Powerful Color
Making Color Pulsate
Invoking Visual Tension
Weaving Color Through Space
Designing with Vibrating Color
Planning the Color Design
Making Shapes Dynamic
Transforming a Painting with Glazes
Synopsis
Through clear, illuminating excercises, this best-selling book stimulates new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow artists to express themselves with paint as never before. Readers are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger vibrations; how the push and pull of warm and cool colors can create a feeling of space; how to disguise one color in a scene to accent another; and many more tidbits of colorful advice.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Jeanne Dobie, a teacher and painter whose work is shown widely and often wins coveted awards, lives in Pennsylvania.
From the Trade Paperback edition.