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1	Making Color Sing more books like this by Jeanne Dobie add to wishlist Through easy-to-follow exercises, this manual seeks to stimulate new ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allowing 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 colours ... see all copies from $4.18! new only from $13.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers more books like this by Michael E Doyle add to wishlist Stunningly updated, totally redesigned, practical, and ready to use This new edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing is the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings. In an easy to use, step-by-step approach, this ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $12.09! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes more books like this by Helen Van Wyk add to wishlist Written in a clear style this detailed guide to mixing colour is full of recipes for getting just the right shade for all kinds of painting styles in oil based or acrylic media.' see all copies from $14.82! new only from $18.08! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light: In Oil, Pastel and Watercolor more books like this by Chris Saper add to wishlist Color-mixing recipes and step-by-step demos in oil, watercolor and pastel teach artists how to effectively capture the realistic, glowing skin tones of various ethnic groups. see all copies from $20.61! new only from $20.61! \| SVS
5	The Simple Secret to Better Painting Simple Secret to Better Painting more books like this by Greg Albert add to wishlist A painting is only as good as its composition. No matter how well the colours match, how realistically the subject matter is drawn, or how accurate the perspective is, if the composition is weak, a painting will not be as impactful or as interesting as it could be. One of the most important elements to any painting, composition can also be one of ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $13.59! \| SVS
6	Confident Color: An Artist's Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity more books like this by Nita Leland add to wishlist This approach to color theory makes selecting colors easy and efficient. Readers will understand the importance of color schemes and color contrasts, and how learning to use them effectively can be advantageous when painting. Color Schemes unite paintings by creating harmony and dominance to achieve an expressive use of color. Color Contrasts ... see all copies from $17.98! new only from $20.50! \| SVS
7	The Painter's Guide to Color more books like this by Stephen Quiller add to wishlist This guide to paint formulations explores value and intensity, complementary and analogous colours, and the ways in which colour can be used to evoke moods and express atmospheric conditions. It includes a removable colour wheel. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Zoltan Szabo's Color-By-Color Guide to Watercolor more books like this by Zoltan Szabo, okl add to wishlist Aims to teach painters the best way to use colour on the palette, regardless of their skill levels. Szabo's reference system provides listings of the properties of each colour; notes of oddities and inconsistencies; and three-step demonstrations showing the potential uses for individual colours. see all copies from $35.30! new only from $59.75!
9	Color Drawing: A Marker/Colored Pencil Approach for Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior and Graphic Designer more books like this by Michael E Doyle add to wishlist Shows how to use colored pencils and felt-tip markers to create architectural drawings with greater impact and aesthetic appeal. Beautifully illustrated in color. "An excellent book. Highly recommended".--Library Journal. Illustrated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.81! \| first editions
10	Masterful Color: Vibrant Colored Pencil Paintings Layer by Layer more books like this by Arlene Steinberg add to wishlist Opposite or complementary colours create contrast and vibrancy. This guide is loaded with instruction on how to layer coloured pencil colours effectively to create deep, vibrant colours that exude richness. It includes extensive coverage of basic techniques, detailed information on composition, colour theory, textures and more.Colour pencil ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $18.68! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Fill Your Watercolors with Light and Color more books like this by Roland Roycraft add to wishlist Roland Roycraft's watercolor paintings are highly regarded for their sparking, atmospheric qualities. Artists can bring this glowing quality to their own work by experimenting with the masking and paint pouring techniques that make his art unique. They'll see first-hand how to capture the glinting light of snow, the glow of a sunset or the sparkle ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $185.28! \| first editions
12 view cover	Capturing light & color with pastel. more books like this by Doug Dawson add to wishlist First published in 1992 and now reissued in paperback, an exploration of colour, shape, value and line for pastel artists in which the author discusses materials and equipment, explains how to make paintings glow with natural or artificial light, and outlines fifteen ways to create a painting. see all copies from $15.98! new only from $182.86! \| first editions
13 view cover	Capturing Radiant Light & Color in Oils and Soft Pastels more books like this by Susan Sarback add to wishlist Oil and pastel painters will learn new ways of seeing and painting light and colour. Readers will expand their colour perception and learn to bring this new awareness into their paintings. The author uses the full-colour seeing method, a way to see and paint colour as affected by the surrounding light. The book contains examples and demonstrations ... see all copies from $13.10! new only from $18.72! \| SVS
14 view cover	Color Is Everything: Master the Use of Color in Oils, Acrylics or Watercolors more books like this by Dan Bartges add to wishlist Finally, someone's written a practical, no-nonsense book about how to paint effectively with colour. A must-have book for beginners to advanced artists, the book explains how accomplished artists consistently choose perfect colours for their paintings. More importantly, author/artist Dan Bartges explains what great artists know about colour that ... see all copies from $5.67! new only from $5.67! \| SVS
15	Magic Realist Watercolor Painting more books like this by Rudy De Reyna add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $86.89! \| first editions
16 view cover	Color Mixing Handbook more books like this by Julie Collins add to wishlist This is the one-stop colour mixing reference for artists of all abilities, showing mixes for the five key media of watercolour, oils, gouache, acrylics and ink.It is a clear, indispensable, visual directory of over 8,000 appropriate mixes for practising artists, labelled for immediate accessibility, plus helpful tips on mixing throughout.It also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color more books like this by Dr. Tom Hill add to wishlist Starting with the principles of colour theory, Hill presents an analysis of 40 popular pigments with important descriptions of colour temperature, transparency or opacity and degree of stain.' see all copies from $2.49! new only from $36.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Hokusai: One-Hundred Poets more books like this by Peter Morse (Editor) add to wishlist The advice offered by the lively images from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries featured here is sometimes comically anachronistic, but is often evidence of a remarkably modern sophistication concerning balanced eating, sleeping, and exercising. see all copies from $31.90! new only from $31.90! \| first editions
19 view cover	Vibrant Watercolours more books like this by Shirley Trevena, Albert Jackson add to wishlist Shirley Trevena is well known for her vibrant use of colour. In this superbly illustrated book in Collins Artist's Studio series she focuses on using colour in particularly creative and innovative ways, offering the intermediate painter new insights into this essential aspect of painting. Colour is one of the most important subjects for the ... see all copies from $20.32! new only from $20.32! \| SVS
20 view cover	Colored Pencils: Learn the Techniques for Developing Fully Rendered Drawings from Simple Colored Pencil Sketches more books like this by Morrell Wise add to wishlist Colored pencil is a wonderfully versatile medium. ItAEs perfect when used alone for drawing or even used in combination for layering under various other media, such as felt tip pen or watercolor. "Colored Pencils" will teach you the techniques you need to take full advantage of this mediumAEs potential. Written by a professional artist with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	Hi-Fi Color for Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results more books like this by Brian Glen Miller, Kristy Miller add to wishlist This is an exciting and complete instructional package starting with the basics and progressing through step-by-step demonstrations that take you from line art to full, awe-inspiring colour.It features instruction on equipment, scanning, setting up pages, colour theory, flatting, rendering, special effects, colour holds, colour separations, and ... see all copies from $12.48! new only from $12.67! \| SVS
22 view cover	Raw Colour with Pastels more books like this by Mark Leach add to wishlist A pure-pigment medium, pastels have been used by painters for centuries for the powerful and evocative colour they can produce. Professional artist and experienced teacher Mark Leach uses pastel to translate beautiful landscapes into striking, minimalist paintings with simple form and strong blocks of colour, while still retaining a sense of ... see all copies from $9.17! new only from $9.69! \| SVS
23 view cover	How to Paint Skin Tones: Learn How to Capture Lifelike and Colorful Skintones in Oil, ... more books like this by James Horton add to wishlist Problem solving instruction and practical color mixing charts help artists in all mediums master one of painting's most basic and troublesome elements. see all copies from $9.94! new only from $26.95!
24 view cover	Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color more books like this by Kevin D MacPherson add to wishlist You'll find out how to see the colors of your subject accurately; mix clean, fresh color (including sensitive, subtle grays) from a limited palette; use light and shade to create an illusion of reality and to add unity to your painting; build a strong painting from the start by seeing the world as a mosaic of simple, interlocking shapes; and paint ... see all copies from $24.99! new only from $63.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Painting the Colors of Nature: Watercolorist's Guide more books like this by Karen Simmons add to wishlist In a clear presentation, acclaimed artist Karen Simmons explores the role of color in painting watercolors outdoors, where the changing light affects color throughout the day. Step-by-step, Simmons reveals how to paint landscapes, waterscapes, skies, flowers, seasonal scenes, and more, outdoors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| first editions

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