Creating Exceptional Color With Acrylics - Softcover

Sundell, Lexi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438000960 ISBN 13: 9781438000961

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2012

Synopsis

Both students and professional artists will value this idea-filled book for its innovative ways to produce canvases of unusual luminosity and dramatic contrasts. Author Lexi Sundell brings a welcome clarity to the many new choices of color and paint varieties that have recently become available to artists. Here's advice on--

Choosing a balanced palette of exceptional color to suit the artist's personal working style

Using organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colors, and the new iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics

Applying gels, mediums, and other products that are now available for modifying and enhancing color

Creating extraordinary color effects in subjects including water scenes, flowers and foliage, animal scenes, portraits, and much more

The author explains the qualities of specific new colors and shows how to apply them in ways that will put a stamp of individuality on each artist's paintings. More than 400 vivid color illustrations.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
Want to create lively shadows, luminous
brights, or subtle grays? This book
shows you how.

Acrylic artists at all levels of ability will discover how to make the best choices for their color palette and raise the quality of their art to an exciting new level.

This easy-to-use book brings a welcome clarity to the myriad choices of acrylic color and paint varieties available today. You will find out how to choose a powerful and balanced palette of exceptional color that suits your working style and puts a stamp of individuality on your paintings.

Discover how to use organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colors, and iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics, along with gels, mediums, and other products you can add to modify color.

Explore ways to bring out extraordinary color in specific genres, such as landscapes, animals, florals, still lifes, portraits, and more. All genres are illustrated with paintings that demonstrate the author's instructive points.

See for yourself how to choose and apply a wide variety of creative color schemes, as author Lexi Sundell explains each color's qualities, tells you how to mix colors, and presents step-by-step demonstrations for each color scheme.

Lexi Sundell is an internationally known acrylic artist and teacher who lives and works in Montana. Her award-winning works appear in collections around the world--many of them exhibited in museums and at major art shows. Her paintings, which are known especially for the luminosity of their colors, often feature flowers from her extensive gardens.

About the Author

Lexi Sundell is an internationally known acrylic artist and teacher who lives and works in Montana. Her paintings appear in collections throughout the world and have been shown in museums and major shows.

Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1438000960
• ISBN 13: 9781438000961
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128