Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
by Michael Wilcox
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Author: Michael WilcoxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-10
ISBN: 0967962870
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: School of Color
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Book Review: I'd given up on painting until I read this book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book really is a 'must-have.' I originally read the first edition of this book, which I think presents his ideas in a clear and simple way without the daunting number of color charts that appear in the current edition. But his basic insight is explained clearly in both editions, it's easy to understand, and once you've read it YOU WILL BE ABLE TO QUICKLY AND PREDICTABLY MIX THE COLORS YOU WANT ON THE FIRST TRY!! And if you didn't mix enough you will easily be able to mix more and it will match the first batch.
I had given up painting when the frustration of not being able to mix the colors I wanted took all the fun out of it. But once I read the book and 'got it' I was energized to try this out for myself and it paid off immediately (in this edition much of what you need to know is in the first 33 pages before the color exercises begin). Right away I could mix the colors I wanted and do it over and over. Now I am painting again and enjoying it much more. And my paintings have improved, because as he points out, paintings made with a limited palette automatically have harmonious colors. It's surprising to learn that you can make most of the colors you need from so few colors. In art school I'd been told to use a 'limited palette' but nobody told me which colors needed to be in it or how many are considered a 'limited palette.' Here the author offers his own version which is the most versatile, and he tells you how you can modify it to suit yourself. Now that I'm in the habit of mixing colors myself I've also noticed that I can look at the paintings of the masters and decode how, for example, Winslow Homer could paint an entire scene with an orange-red, a greenish-blue, and white. Everything from skin tones to grey rocks to stormy blue oceans were painted with those three colors, and I can see how he mixed them and why they produced the effects that they did. As the author points out, color mixing is now a thinking process, it's no longer hit-or-miss.
I highly recommend this book!
Summary of Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Michael Wilcox is the specialist publishers of books, courses, workbooks, videos and CDs covering all aspects of colour mixing and use, artist's paints, pigments and painting techniques.With sales of more than 400,000 copies, this has become the standard reference book in its field.The only book ever published which explains what happens when colours are combined and how to mix them quickly, accurately and without waste.For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists' primaries - give new colours when mixed. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis..This book has changed the way that artists and all who use colour think about colour mixing. By unravelling the many ambiguities and myths inherent in the established way of working, Michael Wilcox has transformed colour mixing from a haphazard affair into a thinking process.Graphic Design Books
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