Painter's Guide to Color (Latest Edition)

by Stephen Quiller

Overview

The Premier Guide for Painters to Understanding Color!

Painter's Guide to Color was written foremost with the painter in mind. However, weavers, textile designers, interior decorators, and commercial artists have all benefited from award-winning artist Stephen Quiller's innovative and accessible color theory techniques. Painter's Guide to Color will help you to train your eye to see and use color in exciting ways.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover, ISBN 1635619564.

Be sure to extend your knowledge of painting techniques with a copy of Casein Painting with Stephen Quiller (hardcover ISBN 1635619645, paperback 1635619653), also available from Echo Point Books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635619577
Publisher:	Echo Point Books & Media
Publication date:	09/04/2020
Edition description:	Reprint ed.
Pages:	148
Sales rank:	536,730
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Stephen Quiller is an internationally known painter and is a Dolphin Fellow and signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, National Society for Painters in Acrylic and Casein, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia, and Watercolor West. He has received the 2018 Silver Medal and the 2014 Gold Medal of Honor at the American Watercolor Society's International Exhibitions as well as many other honors. Known for watermedia and color, Stephen has written seven best-selling books on the subjects including Color Choices, Acrylic Painting Techniques, WaterMedia Painting With Stephen Quiller, Painter's Guide to Color, and Casein Painting With Stephen Quiller. He has created twenty artist instructional videos and DVD's on color, composition, and watermedia. He has signature lines of watercolor, palettes and brushes produced by the Jack Richeson Company and has developed the Quiller Color Wheel(R) that is used by artists throughout the world. Stephen's paintings have been on covers and the subjects of articles in many leading art magazines. He has served as a juror for most of the regional and international watermedia exhibitions and conducts a limited number of national and international seminars annually. However, he continues to spend most of his time painting on location or at his studio in Creede, located near the headwaters of the Rio Grande in southern Colorado. He paints deeply to capture the essence and the rhythm and spirit of the San Juans. He has painted professionally since 1972 and his works are enthusiastically collected. He and his wife Marta live in Creede, Colorado and during the summer months run the Quiller Gallery where his works are on view. To view his work and learn more go to www.quillergallery.com

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: THE QUILLER WHEEL AND THE PAINTER’S PALETTE

USING COLOR WHEELS

Who Can Use This Book? • Generic Color Wheel • The Quiller Wheel

CREATING "GRAYS" AND SEMI-NEUTRALS FROM THE TWELVE MAJOR COLOR NOTES

“Grays” • Semi-Neutral Colors •

Locating the Semi-Neutral Colors on the Quiller Wheel •

What Is Mud? • Why Are Semi-Neutral and “Gray” Colors Important? •

Different Ways to Neutralize Color

ORGANIZING YOUR MATERIALS

Selecting Your Palette • Selecting Your Paint

DISCIPLINE WITH THE PALETTE

Major Color Notes in Use • Different Visual Qualities

EXERCISES

CHAPTER TWO: THE VALUE-INTENSITY FOUNDATION

VALUE

Seeing Color, Thinking Value • Analogous Values • Contrasting Values •

Organizing the Values in a Composition • Seeing in Black and White •

Value Arrangement in Two Finished Paintings

INTENSITY

Analogous Intensities • Contrasting Intensities •

Using Analogous and Contrasting Intensities

COMBINING VALUE AND INTENSITY

Value-Intensity Charts • Organizing Value and Intensity in the Composition •

Varying Value and Intensity in Three Finished Paintings

EXERCISES

CHAPTER THREE: HARMONIOUS AND DISCORDANT COLORS, “GRAYS,” AND BLACKS

HARMONIOUS COLOR

Analogous Color • Color Family • Mother Color •

Underpainting • Glazing

DISCORDANT COLOR

Successive Contrast • Grays in Context • Cool in Warm, Warm in Cool •

Dominant and Subordinate Color • Opposite-Color Theory in Practice

“GRAYS” AND “NEAR GRAYS”

Mixing “Gray” and “Near Gray” with the Six Basic Complements •

Mixing “Gray” and “Near Gray” with Other Complements •

Mixing “Near Gray” with Two Near Complements •

Using Near Complements to Go from Cool to Warm • Using “Grays” as an Undertone

BLACKS

Mixing Blacks

EXERCISES

CHAPTER FOUR: EXPRESSING WITH COLOR

THE SIX COLOR FAMILIES

The Red Family • The Violet Family • The Blue Family •

The Green Family • The Yellow Family • The Orange Family

OTHER COLOR ELEMENTS

Gray • Black • Multicolors in Pure Hue • Metallics

EXERCISES

CHAPTER FIVE: PAINTING FROM LIFE

COLOR CHOICES OF THE TWELVE MAJOR COLOR NOTES

THE EXPANDED ARTISTS PALETTE

HOW TO USE THE PALETTE WHEN WORKING FROM LIFE

GALLERY OF PAINTINGS MADE DIRECTLY FROM LIFE

EXERCISES

CHAPTER SIX: MASTER COLORISTS

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Michelangelo Buonarroti

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD

IMPRESSIONISTS AND BEYOND

Berthe Morisot • Camille Pissarro • Georges Seurat • Edouard Vuillard

LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PAINTERS

Marc Chagall • Henri Matisse • Anders Leonhard Zorn •

Edvard Munch • Oskar Kokoshka

THE GLASGOW CIRCLE AND SCOTTISH WATERCOLORISTS

PAINTERS IN AMERICA

John La Farge • Frederick Childe Hassam • George Luks • John Marin •

Marsden Hartley • Hans Hojmann • Richard Diebenkom

THE TAOS SCHOOL

Nicolai Fechin • Victor Higgins

THE GROUP OF SEVEN

WILDLIFE PAINTERS

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX