Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory

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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, Feb 1, 2002 - Art - 144 pages
Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles.

With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein.
 

Contents

THE COLOR WHEEL
10
Locating Colors on the Outside of the Quiller Wheel
18
Paintings Based on a Pure Color Palette
24
Value and Color Relationships The Range of the Monochromatic Scheme
37
ANALOGOUS AND SPLITCOMPLEMENTARY COLOR
52
Using Analogous Colors in a Study Selecting Analogous Colors Analogous
65
Interaction of Transparent Translucent and Opaque Glazing with Split
74
Using the Quiller Wheel to Set Up a Palette My Painting Approach
104
Paint Applications
110
Glazing Methods for Transparent and Translucent Color A Controversial
118
MASTER COLORISTS
124
Claude Monet Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt
130
The Taos School
136
Epilogue
142
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Painter's Guide to Color
Stephen Quiller
No preview available - 1999

About the author (2002)

Stephen Quiller is an internationally recognized artist and teacher and is the author of the bestselling art guides Acrylic Painting Techniques and Painter's Guide to Color. He lives in Crede, Colorado.

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