Making Color Sing

Making Color Sing
by Jeanne Dobie

Making Color Sing
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Author: Jeanne Dobie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-15
ISBN: 0823029921
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
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Summary: 5 Stars

This book is loaded with excellent information on making your watercolor paintings really sing with color. Many other books are full of fluff and the same old same old. This author is a consummate teacher and shares tips and techniques that make it all easy. I LOVE this book. It has become my art bible!

Summary of Making Color Sing

Through clear, illuminating exercises, this best-selling book stimulates new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow 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 colors can create a feeling of space; how to disguise one color in a scene to accent another; and many more tidbits of colorful advice.

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