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Color for Painters

A Guide to Traditions and Practice

By Al Gury

By Al Gury

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Category: Art | Crafts & Hobbies

Paperback $24.99

Oct 26, 2010 | ISBN 9780823099306

Color for Painters by Al Gury
Paperback $24.99
Oct 26, 2010 | ISBN 9780823099306

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About Color for Painters

Mastering Color: A Practical Approach
 
Adding color to any canvas is both art and science. In fact, it’s a discipline that can be explored and learned through the practical application of techniques that Al Gury has developed during his nearly 30 years of teaching at America’s first fine arts institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Richly illustrated with more than 270 full color images, including masterpieces from the past 500 years of Western painting, this book offers the instruction every painter needs to confidently construct a painting with color. Color for Painters:
 
-Traces the use of color in Western art from the classical world to the present. 
-Explores the use and properties of various pigments and materials. 
-Reviews the evolving approaches to color (from tonal to pointillism to the modern use of color as psychological expression). 
-Presents exercises for mixing and using paints. 
-Offers step-by-step demonstrations of all the basic color genres and techniques.
 
Students, experienced painters, teachers, and anyone who appreciates fine art will treasure this exploration of painting’s “wild beast.”

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Al Gury chairs the painting department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he also teaches drawing. Gury exhibits his work at the F.A.N. Gallery and has shown at the National Academy of Design in New York,… More about Al Gury

Product Details

Category: Art | Crafts & Hobbies

Paperback | $24.99
Published by Watson-Guptill
Oct 26, 2010 | 192 Pages | 8-1/2 x 10 | ISBN 9780823099306

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