Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette--a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works.
Lisa Solomon received her BA in art practice from UC Berkeley, her MFA from Mills College, and has been a professor in the Bay Area for over fifteen years. She is profoundly interested in bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative. Learn more at www.lisasolomon.com.
“Lisa Solomon’s fun and interactive A Field Guide to
Color functions as part sketchbook, part instruction. Learn
more about color theory as you complete 30 journal exercises with
the watermedia of your choice. Play, explore, and deepen your own
practice.”—Watercolor Artist magazine
“For many people, effectively using color in their work is a
mysterious process. But in A Field Guide to Color,
master-of-color Lisa Solomon breaks down how color
works so that we can make both playful and harmonious choices as we
create. This gorgeous and informative book is soon to be a bible
for every painter.”—Lisa Congdon, artist and author
of Art Inc. and Find Your Artistic Voice
“A Field Guide to Color is a thoughtful, informative,
beautiful book. It is almost too beautiful to use as the author
intended, as a true workbook to be painted and experimented in.
Even though I’ve worked as an artist for over a decade, I learned a
lot from Lisa’s book. The exercises are both informative and
meditative, making the book an essential part of every
artist’s—whether professional or
hobbyist—library.”—Jen Hewett, author of Print, Pattern,
Sew
“In her new book, A Field Guide to
Color, Lisa Solomon joyfully presents the basic concepts
of shade and saturation, all while inviting us to explore basic
principles of color theory through guided exercises. Solomon
expressly encourages experimentation through mixing, diluting, and
matching, all with gentle reassurances to try things and not worry
about getting it right or wrong. It is this freedom—the permission
to make marks, not to replicate an image but simply for
creation—that sets this book apart. A Field Guide to
Color provides a multi-hued reason to take a moment away from
screens and put brush to paper.”—Sonya Philip, creator of 100
Acts of Sewing
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