Download or read book Zoltan Szabo's Color-by-color Guide to Watercolor written by Zoltan Szabo and published by Northlight. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the true masters of the medium, this practical reference guide will help you achieve the famed brilliance of watercolor. It includes: descriptions and usage tips for 40 artist's-quality colors - arranged in spectral order within seven major hue sections; tests for determining a pigment's transparency, permanence and other characteristics you need to know to use the color successfully; sample palettes that use a minimum of colors for maximum aesthetic results; and Zoltan's Color Systems Dial. Use it to identify at a glance the major color schemes, such as split complementary and triadic - and to see each color mixed with a warm neutral, with a cool neutral and with its complement in various degrees of dominance.