Both students and professional artists will value this idea-filled book for its innovative ways to produce canvases of unusual luminosity and dramatic contrasts. Author Lexi Sundell brings a welcome clarity to the many new choices of color and paint varieties that have recently become available to artists. Here's advice on-- <BR> <BR> <LI> Choosing a balanced palette of exceptional color to suit the artist's personal working style <LI> Using organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colors, and the new iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics <LI> Applying gels, mediums, and other products that are now available for modifying and enhancing color <LI> Creating extraordinary color effects in subjects including water scenes, flowers and foliage, animal scenes, portraits, and much more <BR> <BR> The author explains the qualities of specific new colors and shows how to apply them in ways that will put a stamp of individuality on each artist's paintings. More than 400 vivid color illustrations.