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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
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From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book is the follow up to the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist.
James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. A researched study on two of art’s most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensible tool for any artist.
“James Gurney’s new book, Color and Light, cleverly bridges the gap between artistic observation and scientific explanation. Not only does he eloquently describe all the effects of color and light an artist might encounter, but he thrills us with his striking paintings in the process.” –Armand Cabrera, Artist
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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
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MizNovember –
I have bought quite a few art related books over the years and this one is honestly the most useful in my entire collection. I think every artist should have this book. I think this should be given out as textbooks to art students. It’s just so dang useful! It is written in a very approachable manner and broken down into two-page spreads for each subject. There is no pretentious lecturing or pontificating like some art books. Just really useful information laid out in an easy to reference guidebook. GET IT!
Thiago U –
Chegou em perfeito estado e super rápido, de um dia pro outro já estava em mãos. Eu já possuía o Imaginative Realism do Gurney (livro também excepcional) e lendo agora o Color And Light fico com a recomendação pra que façam diferente de mim hahah O C&L é fundamental para um entendimento mais aprofundado do IR, sendo ele quase como uma DLC do C&L. Dito isso, recomendo demais as duas leituras, pontuando a prioridade do Color And Light na ordem para melhor entendimento.
artniti –
This book did not disappoint, in fact it is one of the best books I have ever read so far. Art is a subjective process where you rely more on a hunch and instinct to get things looking good. To find an artist who is conscious enough to explain all the workings of color and light is not easy since it is like putting a formula to emotions.
Chapter 1 Tradition
In the first chapter, the author wastes no time and delved right into how the great masters did it in their time with the limited pigments and how they made up for the limitations with skill.
Chapter 2 Sources of Light
In the second chapter, the quick basics of light is briefly explored from direct sunlight to window light. In the later part of the chapter, James Gurney gives accurate descriptions on rare occasions where there is a hidden light source or light sources that emits from objects.
Chapter 3 Light and Form
The third chapter covers all the lighting from each direction and all the various types of shadows.
Chapter 4 Elements of Color
This is where it gets interesting. There are some articles and books on Color that are either too technical or too brief. In this chapter, we are introduced to the basics of color and there is a sub-page on the history of color wheels that is very enlightening. You must be thinking, “Color Wheels again..” but I can assure you that most of your questions about how the wheel came to be and other variations of the wheel is all covered here.
Chapter 5 Paint and Pigments
After the introduction to color, we get right into traditional paint and pigments. Here, the techniques for color mixing and pallete arrangements are introduced. You can’t help but feel that the author is being very generous with his knowledge really. He also briefly covered a warm underpainting in this chapter.
Chapter 6 Color Relationships
The 6th chapter is a prelude to the coming chapter. It is basically a demonstration that color information changes depending on the adjacent colors that is placed next to that color. It is all about color relationships and how the warm and cool colors differs from each pallete.
Chapter 7 Premixing
The core of the book lies in Chapter 7. It covers the all important color picking or in the traditional sense, premixing. It teaches the reader how to restrict their color pallete in order to create more harmony in a painting.
Chapter 7 Premixing
In this chapter, gamut mapping and masks is covered with examples of how it would look like in an actual painting.
Chapter 8 Visual Perception
Next, there are some exceptions when it comes to all the rules of colors and here it is covered in the Visual Perception chapter. Tricky situations like moonlight color and color constancy is covered in depth.
Chapter 9 Surfaces and Effects
The final chapters are filled with techniques to render all other forms of effects like scattering, hair, caustics, motion blur and highlights.
Chapter 10 Atmospheric Effects
Finally, the rest of the book covers all the atmospheric effects of sunlight and certain materials like snow, water, rivers and underwater. If you are expecting to be spoon fed with palletes and sure fire methods of handling color then you are mistaken. However, after going through this book, you will be armed with an understanding of color like never before
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Javier Ovalle –
Excellent quiality of impression with beautiful photos and illustrations. Great contents.
SFP –
This is just brimming to overflowing with useful illustrations, explanations, examples. Pleasent read. Don’t think you could find a better book on light if you triedl
Amazon Customer –
It’s a good book showing light, shade, the color wheel, perspective, etc. However, the constant drawings of dinosaurs was not entertaining. It was hokie, childish and boring.
sukhjot –
If you’re looking for books that’ll help you grow as an artist, you’ve more than likely already heard of this book. Either just from its reputation or perhaps you’ve seen/heard/read other artists swear by this book. Surely it can’t be that good, right?
It can and is.
James Gurney is an incredibly talented illustrator & a very great teacher so the contents of this book can be easily followed & applied to your own work.
Each page basically has its own technique that it teaches you (reflective light, bounce light etc) and each page is accompanied with one of Gurney’s many illustrations that perfectly show of whatever he is teaching you. So this book is filled with great informative explanations AND with illustrations to help you visualize what Gurney is teaching you on that page.
I cannot recommend this book enough, for new artists and seasoned artists…you’re guaranteed to come away with something you didn’t know beforehand.
Scrawller on da Waller –
This is an extremely well condensed educational course on nearly all the aspects of light and color, focused mostly on oil paintings as examples. It’s strutted with a sub-concept / aspect of light or color with 2-5 paragraphs and 3 examples (usually oil paintings), per 2 page spread… there are lots of spreads… and it is enjoyably written and easy to understand for a lay person interested in improving their art hobby. The appendix in the back has beautiful notes on a couple dozen other recommended works.
He has a few spreads at the front about history, then you’re diving right in!
Enjoy!
Author of dinotopia is great at breaking down concepts to digestible pieces EVERY instructor should read this book regardless of field as an example of how to make short and effective communication with limited visual aids for individual concepts.
Sheer brilliance, if not genius.
Protoslime –
Incredible amounts of quality information in this book. Lots of pictures and examples throughout. It’s not an instructional book, so if you’re looking for step-by-step information, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Its primary focus is on concepts and applications rather than instructional. Highly recommended for beginner or professional-level artists looking to understand color and light.
Salma Algamdi –
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Daisy A Rodríguez –
Great book, it gives a lot of insight on how to view light and it’s effects on color when painting. I look back to it as reference when working on my own pieces.
Felipe E B. –
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Me gustó que llegó en buenas condiciones, el libro está increíble. James Gurney abarca muchos temas sin abrumar al lector.
Comienza con un poco de historia del arte y va abordando cada tema por página. La parte de color me gustó mucho ya que siento yo es la más completa.
Montserrat –
Es un libro tirando a corto pero genial. Bien impreso y con un toque como a satén en las páginas.