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Colour

by: Edith Anderson Feisner

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
This book provides a thorough grounding in colour theory as well as expert advice about putting the principles into practice. Beginning with an account of colour fundamentals and a history of colour theory, the author then explores in depth the four dimensions of colour and their application to compositions in various media. The final part of the book focuses on the psychological, symbolic and cultural aspects of colour.

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Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors

by: Betty Edwards

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This guide published in 2004 is by the best-selling author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It distills the enormous existing knowledge about colour theory into a practical method of working with colour to produce harmonious combinations.

This is a must-have primer for people wanting to learn more about colour by an author who focuses on making art theory and practice accessible.

Release Date: 09/23/2004

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What Every Artist Needs to Know About: Paints and Colors

by: David Pyle

Learn about the history of colour, how paints and colours are made, pigment characteristics, permanence and stability. Includes crucial information about how pigments perform in different media -- acrylics, oils, and watercolor.

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Painter's Guide to Color

by: Stephen Quiller

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Provides an analysis of the painter's ideal palette and how it is organized with primary, secondary, and intermediate hues, the guide then explores value and intensity, complementary and analogous colors, the ways in which color can be used to evoke moods, express atmospheric conditions, and other essentials relating to color choice and usage. A range of master colorists' work is also included. A bound-in but conveniently removable color wheel is included with the book.

Release Date: 09/01/1999

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Artist's Color Manual: The Complete Guide to Working with Color

by: Simon Jennings

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The publishers state that the Collins Artist's Colour Manual is aimed at painters in particular and creative people in general, but will also appeal to designers, art students and educators and all those with a creative interest in the visual world.

The topics include colour identification, colour mixing, a comprehensive buyer's guide and interviews on the practical application of colour theory with practising artists.

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Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory

by: Stephen Quiller

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A book about discovering your own personal colour sense.
With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," (a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors), Quiller shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. He demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. It has a very useful section at the end which reviews the Master Colorists

Release Date: 02/01/2002

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Color in Contemporary Painting: Integrating Practice and Theory

by: Charles LeClair

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Charles Le Clair, author of The Art of watercolor, takes an in-depth look at the many ways color can be used in various types of painting. Colour theories are outlined and the book's thesis is that the reader must become acquainted with colour principles to use it spontaneously.
The main emphasis of the book is the way contemporary artists actually use colour - with examples of work by Milton Avery, Janet Fish, Richard Diebenkorn, Hans Hofman, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Wolf Kahn, Robert Rauschenberg, Harriet Shorr, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and other artists whose style and subject matter cover a wide spectrum

Release Date: 03/01/1997

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Making Color Sing

by: Jeanne Dobie

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Everybody who has ever read this this best-selling book seems to recommend it. Jeanne Dobie stimulates new ways of thinking about colour and generating responses that unlock personal creativity. Readers are provided with sets iof exercises and are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger vibrations; how the push and pull of warm and cool colors can create a feeling of space; how to disguise one color in a scene to accent another plus many more tips about colour

Release Date: 04/01/2000

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Color Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Understanding Color

by: Hilary Page

Release Date: 05/01/2001

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Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color

by: Lois Griffel

Release Date: 05/01/1994

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Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green

by: Michael Wilcox

I bought the original "Blue and Yellow don't make Green" a very long time ago. It opened my eyes to the chemical constituents of paint and influenced my buying decisions from then on. The book also influenced a lot of manufacturers practices as to the how artists' paint was formulated!

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.

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How to Mix and Use Colour

by: Tony Paul

34 popular colors are shown in terms of their mixing possibilities with 10 other colors. The characteristics and properties of each color are discussed, and color mixes are used and shown in actual paintings on the opposing pages. No matter what medium readers work in, they'll find comprehensive palette choices just for them. The book includes detailed instructions for: - Oils- Watercolor- Gouache- Ink- Soft Pastel- Oil Pastel- Acrylic- Egg Tempera

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Transparent Watercolor Wheel

by: Jim Kosvanec

With its unique fold-out color wheel, this book takes the guesswork out of mixing watercolors. By following the author's clear-cut guidelines, artists can avoid dull, muddy paintings and instead achieve glowing, luminous color in all their watercolors.
See also http://www.kosvanec.com/controllingtranswc.html

Release Date: 04/01/2000

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Choosing and Mixing Colours for Painting

by: Jeremy Galton

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COLOUR, HOW TO SEE IT, HOW TO PAINT IT

by: JUDY MARTIN

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Colour Mixing Bible

by: Ian Sidaway

Mixing colors accurately is an art unto itself. This visual directory takes all the guesswork out of mixing colors with scores of tips of mixing with oils, acrylics, watercolors, inks, pastels, and more. Hundreds of color illustrations make everything simple. It also starts with a simple explanation about the science of colour

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Watercolour Artist's Colour Mixing Bible

by: Moira Clinch

Publisher: A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Each is shown as a variegated mix straight from the palette as well as with wet-on-wet additions on the paper. The special colours are also demonstrated as glazes over the 18 standard palette colours, giving another 1000 options. It provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.

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Acrylic Artists Colour Mixing Bible

by: Ian Sidaway

Publisher: A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Each is shown as a pure mixture straight from the palette as well as with added white to produce a vast number of tint variations. The special colours are also demonstrated as glazes over the 18 standard palette colours, giving another 1000 options. It provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.

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The Watercolor Painter's Pocket Palette

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The Oil Painter's Pocket Palette

by: Rosalind Cuthbert

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The Colored Pencil Artist's Pocket Palette

by: Jane Strother

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Flower Painters Pocket Palette (Flower Painter's Pocket Palette)

by: Elisabeth Harden

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Flower Painter's Pocket Palette Book 2

by: Adalene Fletcher

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Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

by: John Gage

Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture from the ancient Greeks to the late twentieth century is a John Gage triumph. With originality and erudition, he describes the first theories of color articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle and the subsequent attempts by the Romans and their Renaissance disciples to organize color systematically or endow it with symbolic power. The place of color in religion, Newton's analysis of the spectrum, Goethe's color theory, and the theories and practices that have attempted to unite color and music are among the intriguing topics this award-winning book illuminates.With a large classified bibliography, discursive footnotes, and an exhaustive index, Color and Culture is an invaluable resource for artists, historians of art and culture, psychologists, linguists, and anyone fascinated by this most inescapable and evocative element of our perceptions.

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Theory of Colours

by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In this classic of speculative science, the author of Faust provides a unique perspective on the nature of color. Although not scientifically accurate in light of current knowledge, it offers an invaluable exploration of color, art, aesthetics, and philosophy, marked by inimitable prose and stimulating ideas.

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Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

by: Josef Albers

osef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers's unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers.
This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers's original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers's contribution to color theory and brings the artist's iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.

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The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color

by: Johannes Itten

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.

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The Elements of Color

by: Johannes Itten

This is the most complete document of one of the landmarks of modern education in art - the famous Basic Course at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Itten was the teacher who organized it at the invitation of Walter Gropius. First published in 1963 when Itten was still alive, the book has been revised and updated by Itten's widow, Anneliese Itten, and includes new material from the basic course at the Bauhaus, as well as visual examples and descriptions of the refinements made by Itten in later course in Berlin and Zurich.

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