The New Color Mixing Companion

Author: Josie Lewis
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1631595490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
The New Color Mixing Companion is a modern, hands-on guide to working with color featuring approachable projects that each explore a different aspect of color mixing. In The New Color Mixing Companion, artist and popular Instagrammer Josie Lewis (@josielewisart) offers easy lessons and exercises on how to mix color and create exciting palettes. This comprehensive guide starts with a crash course in essential terminology and visual vocabulary, then shows you how to go beyond the wheel and basic theory with hands-on projects that illustrate and illuminate a variety of color elements and techniques. The materials used—including watercolor and acrylic paints, and found or purchased collage papers—are accessible, inexpensive, and readily available. Plus, this art guide includes easy-to-use templates featured in many of the projects; their modern geometric layouts yield stunning color arrangements. With The New Color Mixing Companion, artists, crafters, and designers of all skill levels will learn to take color in a whole new direction!

Color Play, Second Edition

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607059657
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
New and improved! The essential guide to the art of color Color. It has the power to set a mood, make a statement, bring a design vividly to life. Now Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it easier than ever to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional meanings of colors, their physical effects on people, and much more - all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of beautiful quilts. • A feast for the eyes - over 100 new quilt photos show how to use color effectively • A must-have reference; includes swatches of tints, shades, and tones for all 24 colors in the Ives Color Wheel • A spark for your imagination: Try out five different color schemes for each of the 24 colors

Adventures in Design

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Bring more beauty and balance to your quilt designs • Everything you need to know about the essentials of good design from an internationally reknowned expert • Learn about the key elements of design and how to apply strategies for success • Practice what you've learned with exercises at the end of each chapter • An inspiring gallery illustrates design concepts by many prominent quilters and artists - including Alex Anderson, Paula Nadelstern, and Ricky Tims - with over 150 images showcasing all styles of quilts and fabric art, from traditional to modern This is the design textbook for quilters. Joen presents the eight elements of design: line, direction, shape, color, value, texture, proportion, and scale. You'll learn how to work with these elements using many guiding design principles, such as unity and balance. Whether you consider yourself to be a quilter, an artist, or a crafter, you can improve your design skills by exploring Joen's fresh, innovative approach.

True Color: True Color

Author: Giovanna Ranaldi
Publisher: Orange Hippo!
ISBN: 9781800690035
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Explore all the colors of the rainbow. From vermilion to indigo and a whole spectrum in between, this beautiful gift book is the ultimate introduction to the world of color. Kids and adults alike can learn about color wheels, warm and cool shades, where colors get their names from and how famous artists like Monet, Matisse and Mondrian used color to bring their own works of art to life. Create an impressionist painting, mix together your very own paint and try your hand at creating different tones using watercolors. Packed full of fun activity prompts and featuring 16 blank pages of high quality art paper for you to get creative, True Color is the perfect tool for unleashing your inner artist.

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958789196
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
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.

A Book About Color

Author: Mark Gonyea
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080509055X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
"A clear and simple guide for young artists"--Cover.

Visual Coloring

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 160705311X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Color Inspiration to Make Every Quilt a Knockout. Develop a keen color sense with Joen’s easy visual coloring technique. Learn to use this foolproof technique to select your quilt’s colors and fabrics. Do you get stuck when choosing colors and fabrics for your quilts? Joen comes to your rescue with this amazingly simple, practically foolproof technique. Using visual coloring, you’ll learn to select colors you love in nature and duplicate the effect in your work. You’ll find tons of photographs, fabric-swatch examples, and gallery quilts using this color selection technique, plus 5 simple and beautiful quilt projects.

The Wheel of Time Companion

Author: Robert Jordan
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466881232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 816

Book Description
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The definitive encyclopedia of the series, the companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including biographies and motivations of many characters that never made it into the books, but helped bring Jordan's world to life. Over the course of fifteen books and millions of words, the world that Jordan created grew in depth and complexity. However, only a fraction of what Jordan imagined ended up on the page, the rest going into his personal files. Included in the volume in an A-to-Z format are: An entry for each named character An inclusive dictionary of the Old Tongue New maps of the Last Battle New portraits of many characters Histories and customs of the nations of the world The strength level of many channelers Descriptions of the flora and fauna unique to the world And much more! The Wheel of Time Companion is required reading for The Wheel of Time's millions of fans. The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Colour Mixing Bible

Author: Ian Sidaway
Publisher: Gardners Books
ISBN: 9780715318232
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
This book helps artists understand how to mix colours in different mediums and how colour can help to develop their work. Artworks illustrate how to put theory into practice and it is suitable for beginners or professional artists.

Foolproof Color Workbook

Author: Katie Fowler
Publisher: C&T Publishing
ISBN: 9781644030370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Katie Fowler gets your creative juices flowing as you develop a comprehensive understanding of color theory and color relationships while completing these fun activities. So, go ahead, get coloring!