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A Field Guide to Color

Watercolor Explorations in Hues, Tints, Shades, and Everything in Between
By Lisa Solomon
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A Field Guide to Color by Lisa Solomon is an engaging, interactive workbook designed to deepen your understanding of colour through creative play. Whether you're an artist, graphic designer, or hobbyist, this book guides you to discover and develop a personal palette using water-based media like watercolours and gouache. Through a series of experiments and meditations, you explore colour theory, mixing, and personal expression, creating your own colour wheel, naming hues, and fostering a joyful connection with colour in both art and life.
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Ideal for artists, designers, and creative hobbyists looking to explore and enrich their use of colour through practical, hands-on exercises and meditative practices.

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Play with paint, get creative with colour, and discover your personal palette—a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how colour works.

A Field Guide to Color invites you to explore one of the most profound ways we have to express ourselves: colour. In this lively workbook for artists, graphic designers, hobbyists, and creators of all types, you will journal your way through fresh and enriching methods to develop a more personal connection to colour in your art and life.

Using watercolours, gouache, or any other water-based medium, delve into colour theory and explore your personal style. Engage in a balanced blend of experiments and colour meditations. Discover a personal colour wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with colour mixing by creating as many variations of one colour as you can—and then name them all (honeydew green, avocado green, mint ice cream...).

Through playful prompts and inspiring examples, and with ample space for painting, A Field Guide to Color will guide you to a new or enhanced relationship with colour, deepening your understanding of what colour can do for you.

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Praised by Watercolour Artist magazine as a fun, interactive blend of sketchbook and instruction, this book offers 30 journal exercises to deepen your colour practice. Artist Lisa Congdon calls it a 'gorgeous and informative bible' for painters seeking to make playful and harmonious colour choices. Jen Hewett, an experienced artist, praises its informative and meditative exercises, recommending it as essential for professionals and hobbyists alike.

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ISBN: 9781611806120

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 August 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Lisa Solomon received her BA in art practice from UC Berkeley, her MFA from Mills College, and has been a professor in the Bay Area for over fifteen years. She is profoundly interested in bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative. Learn more at www.lisasolomon.com.

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