Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes 2

From dust jacket notes: "The structure of this book is basically what the title says it is: Color Recipes. We have included fifty-eight cookbook-like painting recipes on various subjects that we hope you will be interested in interpreting for yourself. When these are added to the number that appears in the first volume, Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes, we can happily and proudly say that very little subject matter has escaped the scope of our unique form of instruction. But there is more. Four sections more! To begin with - Section I - Helen' basic palette of colors is listed in her own inimitable way of analyzing each color, its characteristic and the color's reason for being on her palette....Section III deals with Composition...Section IV - Procedure - follows. The instruction in this part of the book alerts you to the wisdom of starting from the back and coming forward, blending edges of shadows, using found-and-lost line judiciously, applying highlights, and, the most important ingredient to painting a plausible, award-winning and salable picture: how to observe carefully. We call the final segment Achieving Textures. The embellishments that the artist uses to finish the painting are the last things put on but the very first that the viewer sees....This is a monumental work, but one that's written in a way that will make you understand the instruction and, what's more, one that will make you want to rush to your easel...."