Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
by Michael Wilcox
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Author: Michael WilcoxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-10
ISBN: 0967962870
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: School of Color
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Book Review: Begining oil painter. What color paints should you buy...read this book first.
Summary: 4 Stars
First off, read the book, buy the paint colors suggested, then start mixing and make your own color chart. Then decide if the book is worth it or not. If mixing colors has been a chore instead of a joy buy this book.
Like other reviewers, I saved lots of money and headaches using the principles in this book. No, it does not have pictures of pretty artwork. You provide the artwork. I thought I knew how to mix colors. I used acrylic paints and guessed at what I wanted. Now I know how to get what I want out of any paint media. It is the only book about mixing color you will need. Read on for more about the book.
Let me tell you as a beginner oil painter it was maddening to try and figure out what color paints to buy. I have checked out, borrowed and brought several books on oil painting and color over the last few months. It was very confusing on what type and color of oil paints to buy. Each painter in each book had their own colors and brands they used. When I finally got the money together to order my paints I spent all day trying to wade through the color chips on the Internet and the books that I had. Of course unless you have the paint color in front of you on a canvass, you can in no way or how figure out the true color of the paint your buying.
I was lucky to have come across the Colour Bias System (called the six color system which is confusing because I thought that was the old color wheel system) on another artist's website who was nice enough to provide a short explanation and tell what colors she used. Unfortunately the colors she suggested did not match up with the names of the water-soluble oil brands I was interested in using. I was very excited to learn how to get a pink instead of a coral, and how to get a true green and not a sap green or get a sap green if I wanted it. Still I had the problem of which colors to order.
After much digging around on the Internet I found Talen's website. They make H2o water soluble oils. It has listed the names of their primary and secondary paint colors for the Colour Bias System. The primary colors are equal to the colors in ink for a printer - cyan, magenta, and yellow. The term secondary is not used in the traditional sense of green, orange and purple but, the other yellow, red and blue to use with the Colour Bias System. I jumped on that information and ordered my paints from them just because now I knew what to order.
It was a leap of faith because the colors were not what other artist where saying to use. I did not order any greens, trusting to what I had read about the Colour Bias System. I ordered the two yellows, the two reds, and the two blues, plus white, and burnt umber.
I just finished my first oil painting and I am please to tell you the Colour Bias System works. I made my own greens and was more than please with how they turned out.
Now comes in the book Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green. For some reason Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green was always checked out of my local library and I just came a crossed it.
If I had read it from the first I would not have been so scared when I got my paints and saw the colors. I just about fainted. I thought I had made a big mistake until I started mixing paint for my own color chart. Now I could see how it all worked. Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green would have made it easier to figure out how all the colors interact. It is not a matter of warm or cool it is a matter of orange-red verses a violet-red and so forth.
The pages describing paint colors to use, their pigments, and how and why to keep you pigments as pure as you can keep them is priceless. The Colour Bias System color wheel in the book makes it easy at a glance to remember which colors have what underlying tint and what colors work with and against each other. I like the addition of the other color charts. It does not bother me that the color charts lean to watercolors. You should have seen the color book I checked out for oil paints. Ugly! I am mixing my oils described the way in the book with beautiful results. I love clear clean colors and am getting them with the lest expensive oils. No book that I have gotten has or can produce true color charts that match perfectly with original paints. The printing process just does not allow it.
I was just at the art department of one of the biggest universities in the nation. One class was on color and the students were making a color chart with oils. I did not see one example of a student's work that was not all muddied. Thousands of dollars for an education and I have learned more about color from this book than those students will in that class.
The reason I gave the book four instead of five stars is that it gets too technical with color absorption and reflection. It could have been explained in a simpler manner and the principle was over worked.
Summary of Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Michael Wilcox is the specialist publishers of books, courses, workbooks, videos and CDs covering all aspects of colour mixing and use, artist's paints, pigments and painting techniques.With sales of more than 400,000 copies, this has become the standard reference book in its field.The only book ever published which explains what happens when colours are combined and how to mix them quickly, accurately and without waste.For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists' primaries - give new colours when mixed. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis..This book has changed the way that artists and all who use colour think about colour mixing. By unravelling the many ambiguities and myths inherent in the established way of working, Michael Wilcox has transformed colour mixing from a haphazard affair into a thinking process.Graphic Design Books
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