The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working With Color

Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Expert watercolorist, illustrator, instructor, and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal, Shari Blaukopf, shares her essential color tips about color-water ratio, achieving bold color, avoiding muddy washes, painting in layers, and using wet-in-wet techniques. This essential handbook covers supplies and materials, sample color palettes, color mixing using limited palettes, monochrome sketches, and the power of complementary colors.

With a focus on using watercolor with greater confidence and knowledge, the book also delves into pencil and ink and water-soluble pencils. The instructional text is enhanced with stunning watercolor illustrations by the author and other expert urban sketchers from beautiful locations around the globe. The illustrations include examples of color swatches showing value, mixing, illustrations of complementary, analogous, and neutral color schemes, and sample galleries. Working with Color is an indispensable guide for on-location artists looking to expand and strengthen their expressive use of color.

Book Overview

This book is part of the Urban Sketching Handbook series, which takes you to places around the globe through the eyes and art of urban sketchers. Each book offers a bounty of lessons, tips, and techniques for sketching on location for anyone venturing to pick up a pencil and capture the world. Urban sketching is about engaging with the world around you, truly seeing all its riches, and taking the time to capture them on paper.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Essential techniques for using watercolor and color media on the go.
• Tips on color mixing and achieving expressive color.
• Insights into using limited palettes effectively.
• Guidance on capturing light and shadow in your sketches.
• Illustrations showcasing various color schemes and techniques.
• Advice on integrating different media for urban sketching.
• Inspiration from an international gallery of urban sketchers.

Why This Book Matters

Working with Color is not just a technical guidebook; it provides stimulating ideas about how to integrate expressive color into your sketches. Whether you work in pencil, ink, watercolor, or some combination of these, the tips and illustrations in these pages will inspire you to try new techniques and give you a fresh perspective on the colors in your sketch bag. This book is essential for anyone looking to enhance their skills in urban sketching.

Book Details

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