Making Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and Design

Making Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and Design by Dobie, Jeanne. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780823029938.

Through clear, illuminating exercises, this brilliant book explores new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allows artists to express themselves with paint as never before. In thirty-one practical and stimulating lessons, author Jeanne Dobie offers insights into ways to use both color and composition to make paintings come alive. Lessons include: Creating with a Personal Palette Achieving Luminous Grays Mixing Powerful Color Making Color Pulsate Invoking Visual Tension Weaving Color Through Space Designing with Vibrating Color Planning the Color Design Making Shapes Dynamic Transforming a Painting with Glazes