The Artist's Guide to Selecting Colors - Softcover

Wilcox, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0958789185 ISBN 13: 9780958789189

Publisher: North Light Books, 1997

Synopsis

This is a book about artists' 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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The aim of this book has been to guide the artist away from poor, often harmful colors towards the more worthwhile. In this context 'harmful' refers to the damage likely to be caused to a painting after exposure to light. Too often the artist puts enormous creative energy into a piece of work without realising that certain colors used will ensure its eventual distruction. There is no need whatsoever for this situation to exist.

From the Author:

Paints which fade, darken or otherwise deteriorate in color should be a thing of the past. It would be simplicity itself for manufacturers to offer only colors which are reliable. They have at their disposal a wide choice of lightfast pigments with excellent handling qualities to choose from.With the information supplied in this book, you will help to bring about change by making your selection of paints with confidence and knowledge.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0958789185
• ISBN 13: 9780958789189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120