Making Color Sing, 25th Anniversary Edition: Practical Lessons in Color and Design

I bought this book because my watercolor instructor recommended it. It was her Bible & she recommended it to all her students, especially beginners.The book has great information about thought process, color mixing,... accompanied with beautiful artwork from the artist who wrote the book. The artist explained many fundamental stuff that any beginner watercolorist needs to know using her work as examples showing how she applied what she preached.This book will not ask you to buy a bunch of colors. But instead it teaches you how to mix color from a limited pallet.

I've recently reviewed my old high school art book 'How to Draw What You See', and LOVED the section on B/W value paintings. I felt like I'd stumbled on an art secret and wanted to introduce color.This book was EXACTLY what I wanted. I was able to expand on that knowledge of values and was able to escape triads at the same time.I'm trying to learn. Browns were really hard for me to understand or mix properly. Little did I know I was mixing several opaque colors. With the knowledge from this book, I was able to order a few pure transparent colors and make a cool/warm brown of both lights and darks. Instead of getting lost in an endless cycle of correcting my painting, I just re-sketched my drawing with my brush.The improvement has been encouraging, and rewarding. Like other books, there's plenty of eye candy too...maybe more paintings than in many books. I highly recommend this book if you are struggling with color like me!

This is one my favorite books on watercolor, certainly one of the best on the color side of watercolor painting. I love that the book is totally focused on watercolor and does not attempt to be a generic book on color at the expense of addressing the challenges and advantages of a specific medium. Jaanne Dobie clearly knows her way around watercolor and managed to condense all that experience in a very useful book that not only shows you how to use watercolor but explains why. A word of warning. Jeanne Dobie's will often make use of and reference "fugitive" watercolors in this book. These are watercolors that do not have very good lightfastness (i.e., they will fade in time). It is a matter of personal choice as to whether one uses these pigments or not, since you could argue that there are no appropriate replacements. I personally choose not use use fugitive pigments. I only mention this because a beginner watercolorist may not even be aware that certain pigments are not long-lasting.

It’s a good book, especially for color in context with watercolors. It has decent exercises. It wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be - I was hoping for new information, and while this is a good consolidation of information, it isn’t anything new.

Clearly written and contains so much good information! It has helped me a LOT!

Me encanta el libro, tiene explicaciones y ejercicios de teoría del color excelentes! Muy bueno para tenerlo de referencia

I bought this book after reading lots of reviews. I've been painting watercolors for a couple of years and loved the idea of a class on color theory in a book. This book is classic and timeless. Online I found an updated palette since the book is really old. Actually, I bought it used and the book is in perfect condition......looks like it was almost brand new and was less than half the amount for a new one. Buying some books through Amazon that are used has often been a great deal. Great book for learning colors. I love it!

The service was wonderful and timely. Love the book. Slowly reading the book now. I so enjoy the tips and lessons which I am planning to incorporate slowly but steadily. I thank the author sincerely for this gift.

Very informative, easy to understand, and with beautiful examples of paintings with colors that "pop." A wonderful book. A+++ Seller thank you.

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I have bought and gifted this book to a close friend of mine and I have got some great feedback. It is worth buying.

This is a great book, If you would like to get a deeper understanding about color, characteristics and how to apply them

J’ai enfin trouvé dans ce livre les réponses pratiques à des questions essentielles que chaque aquarelliste vient à se poser à un moment donné, s’agissant du traitement de la couleur en aquarelle. C’est pour moi une révélation.En peinture, il faut du temps et de la pratique pour commencer à comprendre certains concepts. Je pense que ce livre est incontournable quand on possède déjà un niveau de pratique de l’aquarelle. Il clarifie beaucoup de questions que l’on se pose (ou que l’on devrait se poser !) et est un véritable guide des choses essentielles à acquérir pour obtenir les plus beaux rendus de couleurs.Je ne comprends pas du tout la critique que j’ai lue disant que ce livre est dépassé. Rien de plus faux! L’auteur choisit de nous enseigner les principes essentiels avec un certain choix de couleurs, et elle s’en explique très bien: ce choix permet de mettre clairement en application ce qu’elle enseigne et de voir facilement les résultats.Par la suite, lorsqu’on a bien intégré les notions indispensables, bien appris les couleurs, libre à chacun de choisir sa palette.