Making Color Sing, 25th Anniversary Edition: Practical Lessons in Color and Design
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Making Color Sing, 25th Anniversary Edition: Practical Lessons in Color and Design

Paperback – January 11, 2011

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Price
$17.59
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Watson-Guptill
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0823031153
Dimensions
8.3 x 0.45 x 11 inches
Weight
1.43 pounds

Description

About the Author Jeanne Dobie , a teacher and painter whose work is shown widely and often wins coveted awards, lives in Pennsylvania. She is an extremely talented watercolor painter who was a Juror of Award for the 2007 and 2014 American Watercolor Society International Exhibitions. Dobie’s work has been featured on various covers and articles.

Features & Highlights

  • In the 25th anniversary edition of
  • Making Color Sing
  • , Jeanne Dobie teaches you new ways to think about color and make it work for you, through 31 clear, easy-to-follow exercises. No color exists in isolation; colors are always interacting with one another. As this nationally recognized author explains, understanding color relationships is the key to successful painting. Do you know how to use the push and pull of warm and cool colors to create a feeling of space? Can you generate exciting vibrations through the interplay of complements? Have you ever considered disguising one color in a scene to accent another color? All these possibilities—and more—are discussed and clarified with illustrations. The lessons on color lead into another essential painting consideration: composition and design. Painting is much more than copying what you see. It involves finding a structure that allows you to organize and thus communicate your impressions and reactions. Dobie encourages artists to experiment with different arrangements of shapes and values to build a dynamic foundation in their paintings. This manual stimulates new ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow artists to express themselves with paint.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Excellent book

Very nice all round - great colour-mixing ideas and wonderful illustrations. I wish I had gotten the hardcover version, its a good collectors book.
8 people found this helpful
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Excellent treatment of using color

An older book, re-issued with a new cover. This is the best book about using color that I've seen. Smart and articulate. Only problem is, it's nearly entirely about using watercolor. Doesn't say so on the sales page or on the cover. Even so, there's much here I can use with my chosen medium -- acrylics. Great title, too.
5 people found this helpful
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Three Stars

May be good for beginning and intermediate painters - mostly in watercolor. I was disappointed.
4 people found this helpful
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Excellent book on color!

This is an excellent book on color. It provides solid information, things to think about when making color choices, and lessons to practice color concepts. The color illustrations are beautifully printed and are good examples for each lesson. It is a good source of information for all levels of water color artists.
2 people found this helpful
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PALLETTE CHANGER

This book is very readable. After reading I have simplified my palette by using her colors. She makes the mixing of colors from this simple pallete very user friendly.
2 people found this helpful
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A solid reference

I used her recommendations to create a color chart of greens and neutrals. It was so impressive that all my fellow art students wanted a copy! I am using her palette for her greens and neutrals so far. More to do yet with her recommendations.
2 people found this helpful
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Making Color Sing, Jeanne Dobie

I have owned a copy of the earlier version of this book since 2006. I wanted this copy since I wished to give a copy of this book to an artist friend of mine. Jeanne Dobie, the author did an excellent job of describing how to use water colors with glazes, etc. I have recommended this book to a number of my artist friends and several have purchased the book and are impressed with it.
2 people found this helpful
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I learned so much from this book!

Best book on color theory I have ever read that was specific to water colors. It really changed the way that I paint.
1 people found this helpful
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Easy to understand, amazingly insightful

This is the best watercolor related purchase I have ever made. I’m only on page 14 and Jeanne Dobie has already answered every single problem I’ve had with mixing colors for the past two years. She pointed out things that I had noticed but been unable to change and gave such easy to understand solutions! I feel like I could move a mountain with this new knowledge (or at least paint myself moving one). HIGHLY recommend if you paint with watercolors you need this in your library.
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Five Stars

Love this book! Just learning about the "mouse colors" helped my art SO much! A definite buy for watercolorists.
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