Even More Colors: Workbook 2: Using Convenience Colors

by Amy Lindenberger, Ann Kullberg (Editor)

In Amy Lindenberger's first book, A Workbook, Amy presented a strategy for using a 12-color palette plus black and white to match any color. But colored pencil artists tend to like to own full sets of colored pencils. So where do all of these other colors - known as convenience colors - fit into this strategy? In this book veteran author Lindenberger shows how the convenience colors are related to the 12-color palette in terms of hue, value and intensity, by categorizing colors from five major colored pencil brands. Then, in meticulous fashion, Amy illustrates, through a series of progressively more challenging drawing exercises, how the artist can use that information to create drawings that are unified and balanced in terms of color. Together with Amy, explore the concepts of warm/cool, complementary and analogous colors, organizing colors by family and value to create better portraits, various ways of creating and using neutrals (browns and grays) and - finally - using color schemes and color symbolism to use color in a more expressive way. It is a tour de force of practical color knowledge and practical methods to apply to your own understanding and usage of color. Even More Colors is even more comprehensive than her first workbook, providing you with many opportunities to learn deeply while putting your new skills into action. Color doesn't have to be daunting - let it be exciting!

158 pages, Paperback

Published June 6, 2022

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ann Kullberg does not publish bad anything, but this and its predecessor are my favorites so far. I enjoy getting analytical about color. Whoda thunk it?