Zoltan Szabo's Color-by-color Guide to Watercolor

Book excerpt: Written by one of the true masters of the medium, this practical reference guide will help you achieve the famed brilliance of watercolor. It includes: descriptions and usage tips for 40 artist's-quality colors - arranged in spectral order within seven major hue sections; tests for determining a pigment's transparency, permanence and other characteristics you need to know to use the color successfully; sample palettes that use a minimum of colors for maximum aesthetic results; and Zoltan's Color Systems Dial. Use it to identify at a glance the major color schemes, such as split complementary and triadic - and to see each color mixed with a warm neutral, with a cool neutral and with its complement in various degrees of dominance.