Find Your True Colors and Build Powerful Paintings!
More than any other single tool at your artistic disposal, color has the potential to command the eye, quicken the pulse, and elicit a sensory response from your viewer. Myriad books on the subject start and end with the color wheel. But to really get your color expression rolling, you need to learn how to listen to color when it speaks to you.

Rather than reinvent the color wheel, Mastering Color takes you leaps and bounds beyond it. This is a book about painting with passion, following your intuition and coloring 'outside the lines.' By combining your intuitive color sense with classic 'truths' for making color work in your paintings, you'll build powerful compositions that express your unique vision and really embrace your viewers. Every step of the way, you'll discover a master colorist's tried-and-true secrets for bringing sparkle, texture and energy to your work.

Let Color Speak for You!
Vicki has a passion for bringing the beauty of nature's colors to her canvas, and an equal passion for sharing her love of color with other artists. In Mastering Color, she offers an engaging and unique color workshop--from the basics of selecting a palette to advanced instruction on capturing light and designing powerful compositions. You'll learn about mother colors, 'the corner theory,' how to turn a limited palette into unlimited possibilities, how to use temperature and value to make color sing, and other concepts that other books don't even touch on.

Discover Valuable Lessons on Every Page!
This book is full of breakthrough lessons like mixing colors for your favorite subjects, understanding the value of color, discovering the importance of transition colors, how to discover hidden color notes in every subject, and how grays can be the magical element that makes other colors shine their brightest.

Best of all, you'll learn how you, too, you can employ the color know-how in this book, combined with your unique artistic voice, to make the difference between a painting and a personal masterpiece.

Mastering Color is filled with truly breathtaking pastoral scenes, still lifes, market scenes, figure paintings, ocean sunsets...I find myself being pulled into these scenes, drawn by the expressiveness of the strokework, the interplay of color, the unexpected sparks of light. Revealing captions and easy-to-understand instruction will inspire innovative ways to put color to work (and play!) in your own art.

Find Your True Colors
This book strikes a powerful balance between your joy for color and conventions passed down through generations of artists. Both beginning and seasoned painters will find something here to help them fine-tune, expand and personalize their use of color.

'In writing Mastering Color,' Vicki notes, 'I've sought to share new ideas and ways of perceiving color that you can adapt and make unique to yourself...Open your heart to the colors that shine brightly in the light and glow in the dark, colors that express your past and your present. Express yourself in the truest colors.'

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