Color A course in mastering the art of mixing colors
Book - 2004
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- Published
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New York, NY :
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
2004.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 206 p. : col. ill
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781585422197
9781585421992
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Importance of Color
- Part I.
- Chapter 1.
- Drawing, Color, Painting, and Brain Processes
- Seeing Colors as Values
- Why Values Are Important
- The Role of Language in Color and Painting
- The Constancies: Seeing and Believing
- Seeing How Light Changes Colors
- Seeing How Colors Affect Each Other
- Chapter 2.
- Understanding and Applying Color Theory
- Theories about Color
- Applying Color Theory in Art
- Chapter 3.
- Learning the Vocabulary of Color
- The Three Primary Colors
- The Three Secondary Colors
- The Six Tertiary Colors
- Analogous Colors
- Complementary Colors
- Naming Colors: The L-Mode Role in Mixing Colors
- The Three Attributes of Color: Hue, Value, and Intensity
- From Naming to Mixing
- Moving from Theory to Practice
- Part II.
- Chapter 4.
- Buying and Using Paints and Brushes
- Buying Supplies
- Beginning to Paint
- Mixing a Color
- Exercise 1. Subjective Color
- Cleaning Up
- Chapter 5.
- Using the Color Wheel to Understand Hue
- Exercise 2. Making a Color Wheel Template
- Exercise 3. Painting the Color Wheel
- Exercise 4. Practice in Identifying Hues
- Mixing Colors
- Creating Colors: How Four Pigments Can Become Hundreds of Colors
- Chapter 6.
- Using the Color Wheel to Understand Value
- Value
- Exercise 5. Shades of Gray-Constructing a Value Wheel/Hue Scanner
- How to Use Your Value Wheel/Hue Scanner
- How to Lighten and Darken Colors
- Exercise 6. Two Color Value Wheels-From White to a Pure Hue, From a Pure Hue to Black
- Other Ways of Lightening and Darkening Colors
- Another Way to Darken a Color
- Summing Up
- Chapter 7.
- Using the Color Wheel to Understand Intensity
- Exercise 7. The Power of the Primaries to Cancel Color
- Exercise 8. Creating an Intensity Wheel-From a Pure Hue to No Color and Back Again
- Exercise 9. Practice in Naming Hue, Value, and Intensity
- Other Ways to Dull Colors
- Part III.
- Chapter 8.
- What Constitutes Harmony in Color?
- The Aesthetic Response to Harmonious Color
- The Phenomenon of After-images
- After-images and the Attributes of Color
- Albert Munsell's Theory of Harmony Based on Balancing Color
- A Definition of Balanced Color
- Chapter 9.
- Creating Harmony in Color
- Exercise 10. Transforming Color Using Complements and the Three Attributes: Hue, Value, and Intensity
- Chapter 10.
- Seeing the Effects of Light, Color Constancy, and Simultaneous Contrast
- The Next Step: Seeing How Light Affects the Colors of Three-Dimensional Shapes
- Why It Is Difficult to See the Effects of Light
- How to Accurately Perceive Colors Affected by Light
- Three Different Methods of Scanning a Hue
- The Next Step: Estimating the Intensity Level
- The Three-Part Process of Painting
- Exercise 11. Painting a Still Life
- Chapter 11.
- Seeing the Beauty of Color in Nature
- Color Harmony in Flowers
- Floral Painting in Art
- Colors in Nature Differ from Colors of Human-Made Objects
- Exercise 12. Painting a Floral Still Life
- Nature as a Teacher of Color
- Chapter 12.
- The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors
- Attaching Names to Colors
- Using Colors to Express Meaning
- Exercise 13. The Color of Human Emotions
- Your Preferred Colors and What They Mean
- Knowing Your Color Preferences and Your Color Expressions
- The Symbolic Meanings of Colors
- Practicing Your Understanding of the Meaning of Color
- Using Your Color Knowledge
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index