Acrylic Artists Guide To Exceptional Colour Sundell Lexi by Sundell, Lexi instant download after payment.

1 volume : 23 cm, \"This easy-to-use book brings a welcome clarity to the myriad choices of colour and paint varieties on offer today. You will find out how to choose a powerful and balanced palette of exceptional colour that will suit your working style - and put a stamp of individuality on your paintings. Discover how to use organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colours, and the new iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics, along with gels, mediums, and other products that can modify colour. See for yourself how to choose and apply a wide variety of creative colour schemes, with explanations of their colours and qualities, information on colour mixing, and step-by-step painting demonstrations for each colour scheme.\"--Publisher's description, Colour and vision -- Paints and pigments -- Basic mixing -- Colour wheels -- Section one: Pigment properties (Fluid and heavy-body acrylics ; Pigment permanence ; Opaque and semi-transparent acrylics ; Luminescent acrylics ; Gel mediums and grounds ; Flow release, varnishes and drying extenders ; Wash properties ; Using texture in paint) -- Section two: Pigment aesthetics (Mixing colour on the palette ; Mixing colour wet-into-wet ; Mixing colour with layers and glazes ; Comparison of colour schemes ; Primary palette ; Six-colour palette ; Analogous colour plaette ; Complementary palette ; Split-complementary palette ; Tetradic colour palette ; Tertiary palette ; High and low colour key ; Luminosity in colour ; Colur value ; Colour temperature ; Neutrals and earth tones), Section three: Choosing pigments for painting (Choosing and using a colour scheme ; Light, shade, and shadow ; Backgrounds ; Skies and clouds ; Water scenes ; Buildings ; Plant life ; Still life ; Animals ; Landscapes and trees ; Portraits and figurative painting) -- Paints and brushes -- Cavas and other substrates