North Light
Mastering Color: The Essentials of Color Illustrated with Oils

Vicki McMurray has a passion for bringing the beauty of nature’s colors to her canvas, and an equal passion for sharing her love of color with other artists. In Mastering Color, she offers an engaging and unique color workshop -- from the basics of selecting a palette to advanced instruction on capturing light and designing powerful compositions. You’ll learn about mother colors, “the corner theory,” and other concepts that other books don’t touch on.

Best of all, you’ll learn how you, too, can employ the color know-how in this book, combined with your unique artistic voice, to make the difference between a painting and a personal masterpiece.

Book specifications: hardcover, 144 pgs., 8 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in.
Publisher: North Light, 2006.