Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
by Betty Edwards
from Tarcher
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 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.
Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Josef Albers
from Yale University Press
Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media
by Jim Krause
from How
The best-selling author of Idea Index and Layout Index returns with an all-new title! Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas--guaranteed to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web.
From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier! Designers will start working with color in exciting new ways and create original, eye-catching designs that pop off the page. It's all the inspiration they need to explore and experiment with color as never before!
Just like the other clever little design books in this series, Color Index is portable, packed with inspiration, and neatly packaged in a colorful, sturdy vinyl jacket.
Exploring Color
by Nita Leland
from North Light Books
Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
by Leatrice Eisemann
from How
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color
by Johannes Itten
from Wiley
In this book, the world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions.
The New Munsell Student Color Set
by Jim Long
from Fairchild Books & Visuals
Blue and Yellow Dont Make Green
by Michael Wilcox
from School of Color
Artists, designers, printers, and crafters alike would agree that the selection and use of color is of great importance to their work. And yet, a great deal of misunderstanding surrounds color mixing. Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment for the principles underlying color and color usage. This revised edition of the original Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green--the first major breakaway from the traditional concepts of the three primary colors: red, blue and yellow--contains more than 80 pages of new information on the transparency and makeup of colors and includes many new color mixing swatches.
Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing
by Pat Rogondino
from Chronicle Books
Today graphic design is done almost exclusively on screen, where colors look different than when they are printed. To help designers and the people who work with them address this critical disparity, authors Michael and Pat Rogondino have completely revised and expanded their standard manual, Computer Color (0-87701-739-5). A boon for all designers, production people, artists, and printers, Process Color Manual provides an astounding 24,000 colors that match from computer display to printed page. The standard-issue Pantone color books, by comparison, can cost as much as $175 and offer only 3000 colors! Also included with the book is a handy cardboard mask, white on one side and black on the other, that allows the user to isolate a specific block of color. This sturdy color guide partly came about due to demand from the people who have sworn by the previous edition: Chronicle Books designers. For accuracy, accessability, value, and sheer volume, Process Color Manual is indispensible to everyone who works with graphics and colors.
The Designers Guide to Color Combinations
by Leslie Cabarga
from North Light Books
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Liquitex How to Mix & Use Color How to Mix & Use Color
Color has assumed a central importance in many areas of everyday life: fine arts, fashion, home decoration, crafts, advertising, industry, and architecture. Although the experience of creating color remains personal, there are easy ways to mix colors and to relate one color to another effectively. This book contains all the information you need to learn how to do so. The Liquitex How To Mix & Use Color Book will help you to: Locate a specific color or general color area. Mix color while controlling value and intensity. Select alternative mixing methods to achieve a color. Compare color for opacity, transparency, permanency, and cost. Understand basic color terminology. Relate the Mixing Guide to the traditional color wheel and other color systems. Gain further knowledge about color relationships. The book also includes two pull-out full color sections featuring the Liquitex Acrylic Mixing Guide, Value Finder Card, and Acrylic Color Chart. Paperback. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.
Barron's Color Color
Color is the second volume in Barron's new art instruction series that focuses on creation of finished, professional-looking paintings. Books in this series are intended for use by advanced art students and experienced amateurs. Understanding and mastering color is an indispensable skill for creating paintings in oil, watercolor, tempera, gouache, and other color media, and this book analyzes all aspects and uses of color in art. The authors explain the color circle, then apply color theory to demonstrate effective use of complementary and contrasting colors. Drawing extensively on works by major painters, they show how artists use color to express moods and emotions, as well as how to create surreal effects by heightening contrasts, or by giving objects colors unlike those in nature. They discuss techniques for applying color in various wet and dry media and show how color plays an important role in an abstract painting. Their examples include paintings by such artists as Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, Delaunay, Ernst, Rothko, and many others, with full-color illustrations on every page. Hardcover book measures 9 1/4 in. x 11 5/8 in., 160 pages. Barron's, 2005. ISBN: 0764158619
Barron's Color Color
Color is the second volume in Barron's new art instruction series that focuses on creation of finished, professional-looking paintings. Books in this series are intended for use by advanced art students and experienced amateurs. Understanding and mastering color is an indispensable skill for creating paintings in oil, watercolor, tempera, gouache, and other color media, and this book analyzes all aspects and uses of color in art. The authors explain the color circle, then apply color theory to demonstrate effective use of complementary and contrasting colors. Drawing extensively on works by major painters, they show how artists use color to express moods and emotions, as well as how to create surreal effects by heightening contrasts, or by giving objects colors unlike those in nature. They discuss techniques for applying color in various wet and dry media and show how color plays an important role in an abstract painting. Their examples include paintings by such artists as Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, Delaunay, Ernst, Rothko, and many others, with full-color illustrations on every page. Hardcover book measures 9 1/4 in. x 11 5/8 in., 160 pages. Barron's, 2005. ISBN: 0764158619
Heinemann Library How Artists Use Book Series Color
The books in the How Artists Use series explore the characteristics of color, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, and perspective. Take a close-up look at these characteristics in works of art by well-known artists. Activities in each book help you use these characteristics in your own work. Learn how artists from the beginning of time to the present day have used these characteristics in their work. By Paul Flux. For ages 6-8, grade level 1-3. Heinemann Library, 2001. There are five paperback books in this series. Each book has 32 pages and measures 7 7/8 in. x 8 15/16 in. You'll find the answers to these questions and more as you read each book: Color: What are primary colors? How can artists use color to make things in their pictures "jump out" at you? How can colors be used to show different moods and feelings? Line and Tone: What is a line? What is tone? How do artists use lines to make pictures seem to move? Pattern and Texture: What is Op Art? Where do we find patterns and texture in everyday life? What is an engraving? Perspective (shown): How do artists create a sense of depth in their paintings? What is a vanishing point? How do artists use color to make things look far away? Shape: What is Cubism? How is shape used in sculpture? How did prehistoric artists use shapes in their drawings?
Crayola Color Wonder Refill Pad refill sheets pad of 30
Color Wonder is a unique ink developed by Crayola that shows up only on special paper Pad contains 30 sheets of paper for use with Color Wonder products.
Pantone Color Bridge Coated Color Bridge Coated
Match solids in process and RGB. An invaluable multi-use color reference tool, use PANTONE color bridge to: select and specify solid PANTONE Colors on coated stock determine how a PANTONE Color will appear when reproduced in CMYK create optimal display of PANTONE Colors on monitors and Web pages Previously known as the PANTONE solid to process guide. Now a new name reflects the substantial enhancements incorporated into this remake of the old favorite, including: Improved process matches and updated CMYK screen tint percentages Greater utility with RGB and HTML values added for solid colors Increased color area with taller, wider layout Whiter, more durable coated paper Produced using a complete digital workflow #GGS201. Measures 9 1/4 in. x 1 11/16 in. x 1 1/4 in. ISBN 1590650743
Publishers Group West Color Matching Handbook Color Matching Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Using Color
Beautiful color schemes are as varied as the millions of color variations the normal human eye is capable of detecting. The Color Matching Handbook teaches that there are no real color clashes, just discordant arrangements. Learn how to harmonize any palette with judicious accents and variations in tone and intensity, and how to use color to achieve desired effects--in art, in home design, and in the garden. 500 illustrations and photographs are included in this comprehensive guide. Spiral bound hardcover book measures 6 in. x 8 in., 224 pages. Thunder Bay, 2004. ISBN 1592231780
Publishers Group West Color Matching Handbook Color Matching Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Using Color
Beautiful color schemes are as varied as the millions of color variations the normal human eye is capable of detecting. The Color Matching Handbook teaches that there are no real color clashes, just discordant arrangements. Learn how to harmonize any palette with judicious accents and variations in tone and intensity, and how to use color to achieve desired effects--in art, in home design, and in the garden. 500 illustrations and photographs are included in this comprehensive guide. Spiral bound hardcover book measures 6 in. x 8 in., 224 pages. Thunder Bay, 2004. ISBN 1592231780
Crayola Color Changeables Markers pack of 7 color changeables markers plus one magic wand
There's a hidden color in every marker Crayola Color Changeables Markers have a unique formula that allows kids to create colorful drawings and then use the magic wand to make new colors appear. Color a picture with Crayola Color Changeables Markers. Wait five seconds, then use the Color Change Wand to magically change each bright color to a new color. Seven brightly colored markers and one magic wand come in every reusable pouch: orange turns to yellow, yellow turns to red, red turns to marigold, green turns to purple, black turns to orange, violet turns to coral, and blue turns to aqua.
Crayola Color Explosion Twisted Tropicals mini pack
Use Color Explosion markers to magically reveal wild tropical colors from blank white paper Twisted Tropicals enable you to draw twisted, multicolored designs and figures on the magic Color Explosion tablet with a single marker. It's a surprising revelation on every page, and you'll never have to wonder who stole your purple marker again The tropical Color Explosion markers work only on the special white paper included. The set contains a 12-page white tablet, 2 broad line Color Explosion markers, and one Color Explosion outline marker.
