Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques ofWorking with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series.
Expert watercolorist, illustrator, instructor, and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal Shari Blaukopf shares heressential color tipsabout color-water ratio, achieving bold color, avoiding muddy washes, painting in layers, and using wet-in-wet techniques.
This essential handbook covers:
- supplies and materials
- sample color palettes
- color mixing
- using limited palettes
- monochrome sketches
- the power of complementary colors
- using evocative, expressive color
With a focus onusing watercolor with greater confidence and knowledge, the book also delves intopencil and ink and watersoluble pencils.
The instructional text is enhanced withstunning watercolor illustrationsby the author and other expert urban sketchers from beautiful locations around the globe. The illustrations include examples of color swatches showing value; mixing; illustrations of complementary, analogous, and neutral color schemes; and sample galleries.
Working with Color is an indispensable guide foron-location artists looking toexpand and strengthen their expressive use of color.
Shari Blaukopfis a Montreal-based workshop instructor, watercolor painter and sketch blogger who loves to travel and share her love of sketching. She’s the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color, and you can find her many online sketching courses at learn.shariblaukopf.com. She’s been part of the Urban Sketchers community since 2012 and has given many watercolor workshops both on her own and internationally through the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program. Her watelƒO
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