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The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color Shari Blaukopf

The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color By Shari Blaukopf

The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color by Shari Blaukopf


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Summary

Working with Color,the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series, focuses on expressive on-location use of color.

The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color Summary

The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color: Techniques for Using Watercolor and Color Media on the Go: Volume 7 by Shari Blaukopf

Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color,the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series.

Expert watercolorist, illustrator,instructor, and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal Shari Blaukopfshares her essential color tips about 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 on using watercolor with greater confidence and knowledge, the book also delves into pencil and inkand watersoluble pencils.

The instructional text is enhanced with stunning watercolor illustrations by the author and other expert urban sketchers from beautiful locations around the globe. The illustrations includeexamples of color swatches showing value; mixing; illustrations of complementary, analogous, and neutral color schemes; and sample galleries.

Working with Coloris an indispensable guide for on-location artistslooking to expand and strengthen theirexpressive use of color.

The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color Reviews

Catch the color of a locale ... Offers practical color advice and essential techniques for on-site sketchers. * Artists Magazine *

About Shari Blaukopf

Shari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based workshop instructor, watercolor painter and sketch blogger who loves to travel and share her love of sketching. Shes the author ofThe Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color, and you can find her many online sketching courses at learn.shariblaukopf.com. Shes 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 watercolors are in corporate, government and private collections in North America and abroad, and shes a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. You can follow her sketches on her blog at shariblaukopf.com or on Instagram @sharisketcher.

Table of Contents

Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color
Author: Shari Blaukopf

Keys
Key I Basics
Tools
Brushes, pens, pencils, ink, palette, paper, paints
Terms
Vocabulary of color: value, hue, saturation, complementary, analogous, triad
Illustration: color wheel

Key II Pigments and Color mixing
An urban sketchers palette
Choosing colors
Color mixing
Understanding your pigments: Transparency and opacity

Key III Color and Value
The importance of white
The power of darks
High key sketches
Low key sketches
Atmospheric Perspective

Key IV Limited Color Palettes
Monochrome (Practice using only one color)
Triads (Limit yourself to the primaries)
Black plus one color (Choose a dark pigment and add an accent color)
Pure color

Key V Color Schemes
Complementary
Analogous
Split Complementary
Unity through color

Key VI Neutral Color
Mixing greys
Mixing browns

Galleries

Gallery I Mood and atmosphere
Gallery II Expressive color
Gallery III Light and shadow
Gallery IV Using a variety of media


Additional information

NGR9781631596803
9781631596803
1631596802
The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color: Techniques for Using Watercolor and Color Media on the Go: Volume 7 by Shari Blaukopf
New
Paperback
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
2019-03-28
112
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