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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
By James Gurney
- Type
- Book
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 222 pages
- Price
- Paid
- Published
- 2010
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About this lesson
James Gurney explains how light and color behave in the real world and how painters can use that knowledge: light sources, color relationships, atmospheric effects, surface qualities and color mixing, illustrated with his paintings and plein air studies.
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