Color : a course in mastering the art of mixing colors
You will learn 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
Nonfiction
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
9781585421992, 9781585422197, 1585421995, 1585422193
53462201
Introduction : The importance of color : 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
Understanding and applying color theory : Theories about color ; Applying color theory in art
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
Buying and using paints and brushes : Buying supplies ; Beginning to paint ; Mixing a color ; Exercise 1. Subjective color ; Cleaning up
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
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
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 ; Others ways to dull colors
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
Creating harmony in color : Exercise 10. Transforming color using complements and the three attributes: hue, value, and intensity
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
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
The meaning and symbolism of colors : Attaching names to colors ; Using colors to express menaing ; 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