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Paperback
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN13: 9781581809992
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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"Everything was alive, pulsing with light and color."
--Susan Sarback This is more than a how-to-paint book. It's a how-to-see book ... specifically, how to tune in to nature's glorious subtleties of light and color. Forget complex theories. "Full-Color Seeing" is based on direct observation. It's about overcoming preconceptions and perceiving true color based on the colors that surround it, the way light hits it, time of day, season, weather conditions, and too many other factors for a mere formula to incorporate. You'll learn to see your subject--any subject--just as life truly presents it to you. This is the secret to capturing the living, breathing sense of atmosphere so celebrated in the works of the Impressionist painters. A revision of Susan Sarbacks' illuminating Capturing Radiant Color in Oils, this book offers twelve more years of fresh insights, new paintings and expanded coverage on soft pastels. The concepts explored here have been handed down through generations of artists: Sarback was taught "Full-Color Seeing" by master painter Henry Hensche, who learned it from Charles Hawthorne, a contemporary of Claude Monet. This step-by-step approach will add greater vitality to your artwork and forever change the way you see.
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| Both of Susan Sarbacks books are Excellent |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I purchased Susan's first book when it came out and recently picked up this second book. The book is really excellent. I have been painting for 40 years and have found the info in these books extremely helpful. Several years ago I purchased 'The Impressionist Landscape' by Lois Griffel. Also indispensible. All of these three books may be the most important books in my library of hundreds of books. If you want to learn basics in color application from pure color Griffel's book is a great book to start with. Sometimes I think that Sarback's books are a little more advanced because she is not specific about what colors to use when laying in a color. Lois Griffel spells out exactly what color she used. That is why Lois's book is important to mention.
Both of these painters learned from Henry Henche in the Famous Cape Cod School of Art and when you read these books you will find that they both have very different painting methods and color theory. And that's OK. Lois Griffel recently, just last year, sold the Cape Cod School building in MA and move west, and this is how close to the vest both of these astounding, living, artists are. Henche must have taught thousands of students, but these are the only books that I know of that teach oil painting in the original Monet method that was delivered to Hawthorn from Monet's studio apprentice directly.
All three of these books will start you painting color blocks. Copy the demonstrations, then set up your own blocks in real life. Start each book from page one and two and read each page. It is just like being at a workshop. I have done this with many books and have grown in leaps and bounds. Although it is not my style to paint like this, you will find that this color theory can carry over into any style or form of art you create. Color is so important, and if you are just starting out, or have been painting for years.......These books will blast you into a new direction in which you will never return.
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| This book is an eyeopener |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I was looking for a book to teach me more about the effects of colors and how they fit together to capture different moods in landscapes. I looked at the reviews of this book "Capturing Radiant Light & Color in Oils and Pastels" and decided to buy it along with a few other books about color. Before I read this book I wasn't very bold in the use of color. Every artist reaches a plateau. This book teaches you how to see color, the author calls it "Full-color-seeing". You can see and interpret color in different ways and the book teach you how. You can always paint the landscape with the exact color you see, but you don't capture how your soul experience the colors. The book teaches you techniques of how to experience colors, how to relax etc. and how to see them together to create a whole. The author is an artist and a teacher as well and it shows in the book. She knows about the pitfalls and guides you past them towards the goal of "full-color-seeing". A lot of tips. Step by step in (how and why) building up the landscape painting. Praticing methods too.
Light is color and color is light. The book was for me an eyeopener in the awareness of how I interpret color and how to look at the subject. The book teaches in a impressionistic style, but the colors are more radiant. You never have a boring painting subject after reading this book. The book is very valuable because it is a result of years of development as an artist. If you like painting landscapes and want to create the mood, what you feel, I recommend this book.
I would like to thank the author for writing this book.
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| My "Desert Island" art book |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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An amateur artist for about 60 years, I've finally decided to get serious. Studies with Chuck Ceraso, a local Colorado student of Henry Hensche, were interesting, which led to the purchase and study of a book by another Hensche student, Lois Griffel. While buying Griffel's book on Amazon, some other books came to my attention, including this one by Susan Sarback, so I ordered it. I can only say, "Wow!" She does a great job of explaining Hensche's theories on color perception and expression. The theories are illustrated with many beautiful color reproductions of her own works and others, including a number of progressive demonstrations which show the steps from blocking in color masses to applying final details. The whole is very impressive and inspirational -- her words, the paintings, even the overall design of the book. Certainly a live orientation to this style would be a good supplement, but an intelligent artist who is open to exploring color could gain great skill from studying this book alone. I thumb through it frequently for the sheer joy of encountering the illustrations. And yes, if I were marooned on a desert island, this could be my sole art book -- although a couple of compact, well-illustrated books on Picasso and Klee wouldn't be used for firewood either...
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| A must have |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book is just what I had been looking for. Informative and well written. I believe that this is a must have for any artist. Light is what it is all about.
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| Was it worth the wait ( one month! )? |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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It took many ,any emails and finally, after one month, I received the book....good book. Just find another seller is my advice!
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