If you’ve been wrestling with color in your artwork, help is on the way when you order this remarkable new book by artist/author Dan Bartges with the cooperation of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Color Wheel Company. A must-read for any painter determined to capture color harmony in every painting (regardless of artistic style or medium), Color Is Everything clearly explains how to master color in a concise yet conversational style. “I designed this book,” comments the author, “with just one purpose in mind: To make color your strongest, most dependable ally at the easel.”
The high-quality, 96-page book features more than 100 full-color illustrations, photographs and paintings by the author as well as master works by world-renowned artists including Cezanne, Picasso, de Kooning, Goya and Sargent. The book’s series of suggested assignments will accelerate your understanding and add strength to your color competency by applying the color wheel’s time-tested core principles, employed by most accomplished artists.