How to Create Color Harmony in Painting

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How to balance warm and cool colours More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Cliff Royal | permalink
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Your colour choices can make or break a painting. Understanding warm and cool colours can instantly give your paintings a sense of harmony. In the above Titian painting ' Bacchus and Ariadne' Tita...

For further reading: http://willkempartschool.com/how-to-balance-warm-and-cool-colours/ ^[1]

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Color Harmony in your Paintings: Margaret Kessler: 9781440323928: Amazon.com: Books More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by JOSE MELANDA | permalink
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Color Harmony in your Paintings [Margaret Kessler] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <DIV><P><B>Instill more emotion in your paintings through Color Harmony</B></P><P>Color is one of the most powerful tools an artist can use to capture a mood or express an emotion. However
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For further reading: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Harmony-Paintings-Margaret-Kessler/dp/1440323925 ^[2]

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Michael Chesley Johnson: Color Harmony in a Landscape Painting More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Lilly Li | permalink
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Michael Chesley Johnson built color harmony into an oil landscape painting by using a clear acrylic painting ground. See his step-by-step painting demo.

For further reading: http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/art-demos-techniques/how-to-use-a-clear-ground-for-color-harmony-in-painting ^[3]

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1. http://willkempartschool.com/how-to-balance-warm-and-cool-colours/

2. http://www.amazon.com/Color-Harmony-Paintings-Margaret-Kessler/dp/1440323925

3. http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/art-demos-techniques/how-to-use-a-clear-ground-for-color-harmony-in-painting