Color Harmony in Your Paintings by Margaret Kessler
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Book Reviews of Color Harmony in Your Paintings
Book Review: Color engraving is not color harmony
Summary: 2 Stars
The theoretical part of the book is well written and useful for the beginner. But you can find similar descriptions also in other books. The main challenge for an artist is not to mix colors to create a new colour but to combine a lot of colors that looks pleasant. In this book you can find not any hints and examples to combine colors in different ways. The author informs you instead that it is your task to find out the colors you like. Apart from few paintings all paintings looks like the painting on the cover of the book (colorless and with colour engravings, in most cases: brown). The author confuse obviously colour harmony with colour engravings. If I made such pictures with my camera, I would trash them. In case you would like to learn something about colour combinations or get some ideas and inspirations: do not buy this book.Book Review: Color Harmony In Your Paintings
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book to be well written and the most useful book on color to date. Chapter 2: Choosing a Color Scheme, is not something I've seen in other books on color. The color schemes shown are broken down and explained in text and with illustration using both artwork samples and the color wheel. It makes it easy to see how to choose and use a particular scheme. Chapter 3: The Munsell Color Wheel is also something I've not seen before. Munsell's approach makes more sense to me and will most likely be the color wheel I will use most in the future. I highly recommend this book to all artists.
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