Transparent Watercolor Wheel

About this book

Featuring a detachable fold-out color wheel and clear guidelines this unique book solves the problem of muddy blends taking the guesswork out of mixing clean watercolors every time. While the color groups of a standard wheel are shown this wheel goes much further organizing pigments into five categories: transparent nonstaining colors; semi-transparents; opaques; semi-opaques; and whitened and blackened colors. Detailed text explains how color groups interact some resulting in dull blends others producing luminous transparent effects. Readers are treated to abundant examples step-by-step exercises and analyses of work by several of todays outstanding watercolorists