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Title: Hilary Page's Guide to Watercolor Paints by Hilary Page ISBN: 0-8230-2261-7 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compares with M Wilcox book
Comment: Helpful, providing definitive information on the behavior of the paint, accurate color photos, and information in disagreement with Wilcox's book--i.e. the color Opera by Holbien as a "permanent" color. (Color rec. by E. John Robinson). Useful when picking between different manufacturers, especially with online shopping.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent investment for watercolorists
Comment: This book is great! It explains everything you want to know about the nature and behavior of pigments. Hilary does a superb job of rating the quality of each paint manufacturer's products. Her information is accurate and very useful. I now understand a great deal more about the paints I'm using. After buying this book I changed my pallet to single pigment paints and no longer mix mud. I no longer waste money on dissapointing tubes of color.
Of all the books on watercolor I've read and own, this one has become my bible!
Rating: 4
Summary: very good for the artist to save money
Comment: As I am interested in the scientific end of things when studying color, I bought this book with a view to study what the author had to say about it. Being the medium is watercolor, a paste ready for painting with a brush mixed with water, the colors are indeed going to be different from that of other mediums. The author has done a tremendous job by detailing the different brands and rating them in terms of their lightfastness, whether they "stain" (have staying power for color in a painting) or not. I would term this book the "Consumer's Report of Watercolor Colors". So often, most books on color theory concentrate on one aspect of color, such as graphics on film or web graphics, and forget that different mediums mix color differently. For instance, someone involved with oil painting would need a different book on mixing color, as that is a different medium altogether. Also, there is no standardization of color among the various manufacturers of paints, and it makes it very difficult for the artist to know just what to buy. "Amber green" from one manufacturer could be very different from an "amber green" from another manufacturer, and vice versa, the same color could have different names from different manufacturers. The reason I am not giving it five stars, is that this point about color standardization is driven home better by an John Wilcox, another author on color and watercolor. Otherwise, this is a very good book for the discerning watercolorist.
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Title: Color Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Understanding Color by Hilary Page ISBN: 0823007529 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Transparent Watercolor Wheel by Jim Kosvanec ISBN: 0823054373 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Watercolor Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Painting by Hilary Page ISBN: 0823056929 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Watercolor Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists by David Dewey, Lee Boynton, Linda Gottlieb ISBN: 0823056392 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie ISBN: 0823029921 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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