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Hilary Page's Guide to Watercolor Paints
Author: Hilary Page
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823022618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The best resource for identifying the particular watercolors you will need for your work. Included in this book are the products of the leading manufacturers of watercolors around the world, including: Blockx, Daniel Smith, Da Vinci, Fragonard, Grumbacher, Holbein, M. Graham & Co., Maimeri, Old Holland Rembrandt, Rowney, Sakura, Schmincke, Sennelier, Shiva, Van Gogh, Winsor & Newton. Each paint has been personally tested and evaluated by the author, and samples of the paints throughout the book illustrate the paints' essential characteristics.
The Wilcox Guide to the Finest Watercolor Paints
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780967962801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1991, this guide has been a studio essential for every watercolorist who wants to buy the right paint-the first time around. Now completely and revised and updated, the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints features all-new information on literally thousands of watercolor paints. Sorted by color, each tube of paint is subjected to the same tests for lightfastness, toxicity and overall performance. Full-color examples of each paint's hue at varying degrees of dilution are shown, so artists can choose the best paint brand and color for their needs. A buyer's guide to more than 2,000 watercolor paints; features full-color comparisons of each paint's charactistics.
Depicting the Colours in Water
Author: Craig Letourneau
Publisher: Colour School of Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781931780100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Colour Notes series is aimed at the keen amateur artist struggling, as always, to mix and use colour. A series of paintings and studies is shown with full guidance given to mixing and applying the colours used. Following very extensive research the subjects have been carefully chosen to answer the most commonly expressed questions. The artist will collect the books in order to cover the wide range of subjects tackled.
Getting the Most from the Wilcox Mixing Palette
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781931780230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Instead of mixing expensive mud, you will soon gain control of colour mixing as you use the palette. Your work will improve dramatically and you need to use just six colours for an enormous range. Twelve at the most, and you have virtually every mix possible.
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780958789196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists primaries - give new colours when mised. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis. In this exciting new book, Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment of the principles underlying colour mixing. It is the first major break-away from the traditional and limited concepts that have caused painters and others who work with colour so many problems. Back Cover.
Perfect Color Choices for the Artist
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Michael Wilcox offers an entirely new way of creating color harmony and contrast with Perfect Color Choices for the Artist. It's the only complete artist's guide to selecting, mixing and using color. Based on the way that colors in nature are related, this book teaches artists how to achieve perfect color in their art. Artists not only learn the color relationships of plants, animals and nature, but also how to mix and apply those colors to their paintings. Readers will find over 1,000 color arrangements and 400 illustrated examples, plus easy-to-follow instruction and guidelines for mixing and using color in any medium. Michael Wilcox has experienced a widely varied background, including periods as a professional artist, a conservator of art works and an engineer. His research in art and design led to the book Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green followed by the Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints. Wilcox has also published the Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors, a guide that shows how to select a suitable palette in any medium-watercolors, oil paints, acrylics and more. He lives and continues his research and writing in Bristol, England.
Color Mixing Swatch Book
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780967962856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pocket-sized guide to quick and accurate color mixing is an essential reference for artists of all media. Inside are 2,460 printed color mixes from 12 standard artist paints. Each page features the range you can get from any two of these colors. Artists can seek out the color they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They'll also find invaluable information about every color including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colors used to attain it. The book's compact and convenient design lets artists take it anywhere, capturing the color inspiration as it hits them.
The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780958789189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Select your paint with confidence and protect your valuable work. This book is about artist's paints, a guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolors, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent and the bad. It also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each color and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across. Vital Information for the concerned artist.
Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-century Britain
Author: Theresa Fairbanks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1794, Paul Sandby (1725-1809) exhibited his newly paintedA View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills.Sandby, one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and one of the preeminent British landscape painters of the day, included the celebrated Whatman papermaking mill at the center of this landscape composition. James Whatman I and his son James Whatman II were the most famous English papermakers of the eighteenth century, and by 1760 Turkey Mill was the largest paper mill in the country. This handsome and engaging book looks at how theView of Vinters and Turkey Millis both a superb example of Sandby's art and an important document of the rise of industry in the British countryside and of the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of painting in watercolor. It also features other watercolors by Sandby and materials relating to the processes of papermaking and to the Whatman family and its mill.
