The Limited Palette

By Michael Vires

What is it like to be an artist? Are we all artists? How does an artist go about constructing a painting? Is there an actual process? How do artists use color? How does an artist develop their own style? As it turns out, according to this artist, all these topics and much more involving art, creativity, seeing, the process, color and the state of being an artist is not what we typically think they are.Michael Vires was born in Lexington, Kentucky, 1947. From beginnings as a child, and through thousands of drawings and paintings over a period of several decades, formulated his own process of How to Create Successful works of Art. In addition the reader, whether artist or art appreciator, may be inspired through this artist's personal vision of continuing and preserving traditional, yet Expressive Realism in its purist form.Michael Vires is a self-taught painter of portraits, landscape and still life in all 2-D mediums; a sought after muralist as well as a musician and writer. Learn more about this multi-talented artist through his blog.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470097567
• ISBN13: 9781470097561
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.2" x 6.5"