Product Description

Through easy-to-follow exercises, this manual seeks to stimulate new ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allowing 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 colours can create a feeling of space; how to disguise one colour in a scene to accent another; and many more tips.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27855 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Dobie's guidelines make you colors sing!
The most helpful book I have read. Advice on which colors to use to set up a palette that does make your watercolors vibrant and alive. Jeanne gives you specific directions about transparent, staining and opaque watercolors in a way that makes one remember it. The book is full of wonderful color charts and examples of paintings. She is a rare find in that she is able to turn out gorgeous paintings and teach how to do it as well. Jeanne, when are you going to put out some videos? I want to SEE you paint!

A book to read over and over
Jeanne Dobie's use of color, and her inspiring instructions on how to really make color work for you, take water color instruction out of the "fill in the blank" mode, and really open the doors to creating art. There is something here for every level of ability. My copy rarely gets put away!

The best book on color I have ever read or owned.
Jeanne Dobie truly makes color sing. She also makes color theory understandable. Her paintings are beautiful. I have had this book for several years and have gone through it over and over. A real color bible. If I could only have one book in my art instruction library this would be the one.