Color: Creative Painting

Color: Creative Painting is the second volume in Barron's new art instruction series. Barron's Creative Painting Series focuses on creating finished, professional-looking paintings.

Understanding and mastering color is a must-have skill for painting in oil, watercolor, tempera, acrylic, gouache, and other color media. This book analyzes all aspects and uses of color in art.

The authors explain the color circle and apply color theory to demonstrate use of complementary and contrasting colors. Referencing works by major painters, they show how artists use color to express moods and emotions, as well as how to create surreal effects.

They discuss techniques for applying color in various wet and dry media, and show how color plays an important role in an abstract painting. The examples they give include paintings by artists such as Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, Ernst, Rothko, and others.

Vivid and effective color illustrations are used on every page. Color: Creative Painting is recommended for advanced students and experienced amateurs.

Authors — Gemma Guasch and Joseph Ascunción.

Hardcover. 160 pages. 9¼" × 11½" (24 cm × 29 cm).