A Field Guide to Color: A Watercolor Workbook by Lisa Solomon

Explore color and creativity with this lovely book from Lisa Solomon. A Field Guide to Color’s vibrant pages invite you to play with paint, discover your personal palette, and connect with color in new ways. Using watercolors, gouache, or any water-based medium, you'll delve into color theory through a mix of experiments and meditative exercises.

Lisa Solomon has been a professor in the Bay Area for over fifteen years, and is passionate about blending creativity with everyday life. With her help you’ll create your own color wheel, explore tints and shades, and experiment with color mixing. With playful prompts and artistic examples, this workbook offers plenty of space for painting and will transform your relationship with color.

Plus, this book was printed on exceptionally high-quality, thick paper. Solomon encourages readers to paint directly in the book, although gives fair warning that the paper is no substitute for traditional watercolor paper, and will bend and buckle with repeated use.

“If you want to understand color, you need to immerse yourself in color. The way I use color has developed from time spent experimenting and by making lots and lots of mistakes. This book is the result of distilling years of my own experimentations with color.” ––Lisa Solomon, Introduction.

Softcover; 134 pages; 7.5” x 9”