
Creative Color for the Oil Painter
$7.98
Best Sellers Rank: 1530420 in Books
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0486404722
Language : English
Publisher : Dover Pubns
Publication Date : January 1, 1999
Pages : 160
Rich illustrated book offers beginning and experienced artists step-by-step advice on how to analyze colors of nature, choose and mixing the right colors, creating effective color schemes and apply color with expressiveness and creativity. Also includes a wealth of pointers on observing local and atmospheric color, studying color perspective, developing an accurate eye for color and rending colors of such common subjects as trees, skies, clouds, water, sunrises and sunsets, faces, figures and more. Enhanced with works by such masters as Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Edward Hopper. A comprehensive source of information for amateurs and professionals alike. 148 illus. (128 in color).