A Field Guide to Color: Watercolor Explorations in Hues, Tints, Shades, and Everything in Between

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Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette--a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works. Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette--a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works. Color is one of the most profound ways we have to express ourselves. In this lively workbook for artists, graphic designers, hobbyists, and creators of all types, you will journal your way through fresh and enriching ways to develop a more personal connection to color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, dive into color theory and explore your personal style while playing with a balanced blend of experiments and color meditations. Discover a personal color wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with color mixing while you make as many of one color as you can - and then name them all (honeydew green, avocado green, mint ice cream...). Through playful prompts and inspiring examples, and with lots of room for painting, this book will guide you to a new or expanded relationship with color and deepen your understanding of what color can do for you.

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LisaSolomons fun and interactiveA Field Guide to Colorfunctions as part sketchbook, part instruction. Learn more about color theory as you complete 30 journal exercises with the watermedia of your choice. Play, explore, and deepen your own practice.WatercolorArtistmagazine

For many people, effectively using color in their work is a mysterious process. But inAField Guide to Color, master-of-colorLisaSolomonbreaks down how color works so that we can make both playful and harmonious choices as we create. This gorgeous and informative book is soon to be a bible for every painter.LisaCongdon, artist and author ofArt Inc.andFind Your Artistic Voice

A Field Guide to Coloris a thoughtful, informative, beautiful book. It is almost too beautiful to use as the author intended, as a true workbook to be painted and experimented in. Even though Ive worked as an artist for over a decade, I learned a lot fromLisas book. The exercises are both informative and meditative, making the book an essential part of every artistswhether professional or hobbyistlibrary.JenHewett, author ofPrint, Pattern, Sew

In her new book,A Field Guide to Color,LisaSolomon joyfully presents the basic concepts of shade and saturation, all while inviting us to explore basic principles of color theory through guided exercises. Solomon expressly encourages experimentation through mixing, diluting, and matching, all with gentle reassurances to try things and not worry about getting it right or wrong. It is this freedomthe permission to make marks, not to replicate an image but simply for creationthat sets this book apart.A Field Guide to Colorprovides a multi-hued reason to take a moment away from screens and put brush to paper.Sonya Philip, creator of100 Acts of Sewing

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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.