Introduction:
Welcome to the Thrill of Color
Q: Can ‘color sense’ really be learned?
A: Yes! And it’s “easier to learn than drawing.”*
This book will show you how to master color. As a result, you will have more confidence, you will paint better pictures, and you will have a lot more fun painting.
Once you understand color’s great powers and boundaries, color will become your best ally at the easel, a springboard to creative expression, and an endless source of enjoyment.
Also, understanding color will spare you from the frustrations of ‘guesswork painting,’ frustrations that have caused countless would-be painters to quit (don’t you become one!). Instead, you’ll face your easel with the confidence that produces better artwork.
Each time you begin a landscape, a still life or a portrait, you will know how to select a color scheme that supports your artistic objectives and that will command a viewer’s attention. As an art teacher I know tells her students, “Create paintings with irresistible color, paintings that pull people from across the room.”
This book focuses on those objectives, and each chapter builds on the previous one in order to develop your ‘eye for color’ in a clear progression of steps.
As you begin this exciting, worthwhile adventure, keep in mind what the artist Marc Chagall once said:
Color is everything. . . .”
*”Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing.” -- Eugene Delacroix
