Roost Books - Field Guide to Color
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- 144-page interactive workbook for color exploration
- Guides personal color wheel development
- Includes tints, shades, and mixing experiments
- Prompts for naming custom color variations
- Works with watercolors, gouache, or water-based media
- Suitable for artists, designers, and hobbyists
- 7.5 x 9 in. paperback format
Deepen your relationship with color through guided experiments
You mix, paint, compare, and discover how colors behave in your specific medium with your particular approach. Rather than memorizing abstract principles, you build understanding through focused experiments, creating personal color wheels, exploring how many variations of a single hue you can mix, naming each one to cement the relationship between perception and pigment.
The format balances guidance with space. Prompts direct your exploration without dictating results, while generous painting areas accommodate watercolor, gouache, or any water-based medium you prefer. You'll work through tints and shades systematically, then apply that knowledge to more intuitive color meditations that connect technical understanding to expressive choices. Solomon's examples demonstrate possibilities without prescribing outcomes, respecting that your relationship with color will differ from another artist's.
This approach serves both structured learners who appreciate methodical progression and intuitive creators who need room to explore. Graphic designers gain practical mixing skills; hobbyists develop confidence with color decisions; experienced artists refresh their understanding through hands-on practice. The workbook format means you create a permanent record of your color explorations, a reference you built yourself, reflecting how colors actually mix and interact in your work.
