A Field Guide to Color

By Lisa Solomon

Color is one of the most profound ways we have to express our personalities. In this creative workbook you’ll discover fresh ways to connect with color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, explore color theory while playing with paint through a balanced blend of color experiments and loose color meditations. Make a personal color wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with color mixing while you make as many of one color as you can. Through playful prompts and artistic examples—with lots of room for painting—this inspiring workbook will change the way you relate to color.

"In her new book, A Field Guide to Color, Lisa Solomon joyfully presents the basic concepts of shade and saturation, all while inviting us to explore basic principles of color theory through guided exercises. Solomon expressly encourages experimentation through mixing, diluting, and matching, all with gentle reassurances to try things and not worry about getting it right or wrong. It is this freedom—the permission to make marks, not to replicate an image but simply for creation—that sets this book apart. A Field Guide to Color provides a multi-hued reason to take a moment away from screens and put brush to paper." —Sonya Philip, creator of 100 Acts of Sewing