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Color : a course in mastering the art of mixing colors / Betty Edwards.

By: Language: English Publisher: New York, N.Y. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: 206 pages illustrations 22.9 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781585422197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 752 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Iaaf
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain . Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much-awaited new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.

Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and-for those involved in art, painting, or design-how to mix and combine hues. Including more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging, this volume explains how to:

see what is really there rather than what you "know" in your mind about colored objects
perceive how light affects color, and how colors affect one another
manipulate hue, value, and intensity of color and transform colors into their opposites
balance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting
understand the psychology of color
harmonize color in your surroundings

While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of color, reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly unweaving color's complexity, this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments (p. xi)
  • Introduction: The Importance of Color (p. xiii)
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1
  • Drawing, Color, Painting, and Brain Processes (p. 2)
  • Seeing Colors as Values (p. 3)
  • Why Values Are Important (p. 4)
  • The Role of Language in Color and Painting (p. 6)
  • The Constancies: Seeing and Believing (p. 8)
  • Seeing How Light Changes Colors (p. 10)
  • Seeing How Colors Affect Each Other (p. 12)
  • Chapter 2
  • Understanding and Applying Color Theory (p. 14)
  • Theories about Color (p. 15)
  • Applying Color Theory in Art (p. 17)
  • Chapter 3
  • Learning the Vocabulary of Color (p. 20)
  • The Three Primary Colors (p. 21)
  • The Three Secondary Colors (p. 23)
  • The Six Tertiary Colors (p. 23)
  • Analogous Colors (p. 23)
  • Complementary Colors (p. 25)
  • Naming Colors: The L-Mode Role in Mixing Colors (p. 26)
  • The Three Attributes of Color: Hue, Value, and Intensity (p. 28)
  • From Naming to Mixing (p. 31)
  • Moving from Theory to Practice (p. 33)
  • Part II
  • Chapter 4
  • Buying and Using Paints and Brushes (p. 36)
  • Buying Supplies (p. 37)
  • Beginning to Paint (p. 41)
  • Mixing a Color (p. 44)
  • Exercise 1 Subjective Color (p. 45)
  • Cleaning Up (p. 47)
  • Chapter 5
  • Using the Color Wheel to Understand Hue (p. 48)
  • Exercise 2 Making a Color Wheel Template (p. 49)
  • Exercise 3 Painting the Color Wheel (p. 51)
  • Exercise 4 Practice in Identifying Hues (p. 56)
  • Mixing Colors (p. 57)
  • Creating Colors: How Four Pigments Can Become Hundreds of Colors (p. 57)
  • Chapter 6
  • Using the Color Wheel to Understand Value (p. 60)
  • Value (p. 61)
  • Exercise 5 Shades of Gray-Constructing a Value Wheel/Hue Scanner (p. 61)
  • How to Use Your Value Wheel/Hue Scanner (p. 63)
  • How to Lighten and Darken Colors (p. 64)
  • Exercise 6 Two Color Value Wheels-From White to a Pure Hue, From a Pure Hue to Black (p. 65)
  • Other Ways of Lightening and Darkening Colors (p. 68)
  • Another Way to Darken a Color (p. 70)
  • Summing Up (p. 70)
  • Chapter 7
  • Using the Color Wheel to Understand Intensity (p. 72)
  • Exercise 7 The Power of the Primaries to Cancel Color (p. 73)
  • Exercise 8 Creating an Intensity Wheel-From a Pure Hue to No Color and Back Again (p. 77)
  • Exercise 9 Practice in Naming Hue, Value, and Intensity (p. 79)
  • Other Ways to Dull Colors (p. 80)
  • Part III
  • Chapter 8
  • What Constitutes Harmony in Color? (p. 84)
  • The Aesthetic Response to Harmonious Color (p. 85)
  • The Phenomenon of After-images (p. 86)
  • After-images and the Attributes of Color (p. 90)
  • Albert Munsell's Theory of Harmony Based on Balancing Color (p. 92)
  • A Definition of Balanced Color (p. 93)
  • Chapter 9
  • Creating Harmony in Color (p. 96)
  • Exercise 10 Transforming Color Using Complements and the Three Attributes: Hue, Value, and Intensity (p. 96)
  • Chapter 10
  • Seeing the Effects of Light, Color Constancy, and Simultaneous Contrast (p. 112)
  • The Next Step: Seeing How Light Affects the Colors of Three-Dimensional Shapes (p. 113)
  • Why It Is Difficult to See the Effects of Light (p. 115)
  • How to Accurately Perceive Colors Affected by Light (p. 116)
  • Three Different Methods of Scanning a Hue (p. 116)
  • The Next Step: Estimating the Intensity Level (p. 118)
  • The Three-Part Process of Painting (p. 119)
  • Exercise 11 Painting a Still Life (p. 121)
  • Chapter 11
  • Seeing the Beauty of Color in Nature (p. 134)
  • Color Harmony in Flowers (p. 135)
  • Floral Painting in Art (p. 136)
  • Colors in Nature Differ from Colors of Human-Made Objects (p. 139)
  • Exercise 12 Painting a Floral Still Life (p. 140)
  • Nature as a Teacher of Color (p. 155)
  • Chapter 12
  • The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors (p. 156)
  • Attaching Names to Colors (p. 157)
  • Using Colors to Express Meaning (p. 158)
  • Exercise 13 The Color of Human Emotions (p. 161)
  • Your Preferred Colors and What They Mean (p. 168)
  • Knowing Your Color Preferences and Your Color Expressions (p. 171)
  • The Symbolic Meanings of Colors (p. 172)
  • Practicing Your Understanding of the Meaning of Color (p. 188)
  • Using Your Color Knowledge (p. 190)
  • Glossary (p. 193)
  • Bibliography (p. 197)
  • Index (p. 199)