Making Color Sing

Through clear, illuminating excercises, this best-selling book stimulates new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allow artists to express themselves with paint as never before. Readers are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger vibrations; how the push and pull of warm and cool colors can create a feeling of space; how to disguise one color in a scene to accent another; and many more tidbits of colorful advice.

"Gets right down to the use of transparent color and how to creatively extract the very best of the medium."--Artist's Magazine

Through clear, illuminating exercises, this brilliant book explores new ways to think about color, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allows artists to express themselves with paint as never before.
In thirty-one practical and stimulating lessons, author Jeanne Dobie offers insights into ways to use both color and composition to make paintings come alive.

Lessons include:
Creating with a Personal Palette Achieving Luminous Grays Mixing Powerful Color Making Color Pulsate Invoking Visual Tension Weaving Color Through Space Designing with Vibrating Color Planning the Color Design Making Shapes Dynamic Transforming a Painting with Glazes

Jeanne Dobie is a nationally recognized artist. Known for her fresh approach to color and design, she has conducted workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Dobie is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is an elected member of both the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. Her work is represented in many collections, including the collection of the Frye Museum in Seattle. She has served as juror for national exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society.