Transparent Watercolor Wheel: A Logical and Easy-to-use System for Taking the Guesswork out of Mixing Colours

by James Kosvanec

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 today's outstanding watercolorists

Genres: Art

144 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1994

Reviews

[Yue]

I need to implement the advises offered in this book before I rate it.

[Marianne]

Excellent reference on understanding transparent water color properties and how to make the most of them. The transparent color wheel is an excellent quick reference and the examples of use in actual individual artists' work are practical. I will continue to use this as a reference and guide as I explore ways to use and layer color!

[Pat Loughery]

Excellent work on transparent, staining and nonstaining watercolors. A bit technical but helpfully so, and a good resource for the bookshelf of anybody who wants to grow beyond beginner random experimentation.