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Van Wyk, Helen.
Color mixing the Van Wyk way :
a manual for oil painters /
Helen Van Wyk.
Rockport, MA :
Art Instruction Associates,
1995.
128 pages :
color illustrations ;
28 cm.
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Includes index.
Introduction -- Preface: A more practical color wheel ; Warm and cool colors ; Dimensionalizing your color ; The colors of my palette ; Materials -- The "In-the-beginning" of color mixing -- Thalo yellow-green -- Cadmium yellow light -- Cadmium orange -- The color red -- Cadmium red light -- Grumbacher red -- Yellow ochre -- Raw sienna -- Light red -- Burnt umber -- Burnt sienna -- The darkes cool color: violet -- Alizarin crimson -- The coldest cool color: blue -- The warmest cool color: green -- The color gray -- Choosing colors for backgrounds -- Color and the focal point -- Drapery: a popular background -- Painting the color of shadows -- The color of highlights -- Glazing with color -- Building color with brushwork -- The color of flesh -- The color of landscapes -- Paintings by Helen Van Wyk.
The author shares her experience mastering the skill of color mixing, presenting step-by-step techniques of mixing accompanied by illustrations.
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COLOR IN ART.
Painting
Technique.