Making Color Sing more books like this

by Jeanne Dobie

Through easy-to-follow exercises, this manual seeks to stimulate new ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allowing artists to express themselves with paint as never before. Readers are shown how the interplay of complementary hues can trigger vibrations; how the push and pull of warm and cool colours ...

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Confident Color: An Artist's Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity more books like this

by Nita Leland

This approach to color theory makes selecting colors easy and efficient. Readers will understand the importance of color schemes and color contrasts, and how learning to use them effectively can be advantageous when painting. Color Schemes unite paintings by creating harmony and dominance to achieve an expressive use of color. Color Contrasts ...

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The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques more books like this

by Margaret Radcliffe

Knitting teacher and author Radcliffe presents a world of color techniques in a single comprehensive reference that knitters can consult every time two or more yarn colors are in play. Stitchers of every ability can benefit from the book's color-combining methods and handy tips and secrets.

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Helen Van Wyk's Favorite Color Recipes more books like this

by Helen Van Wyk

Written in a clear style this detailed guide to mixing colour is full of recipes for getting just the right shade for all kinds of painting styles in oil based or acrylic media.'

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Color Index more books like this

by Jim Krause

The bestselling author of "Idea Index" and "Layout Index" returns with a guide that provides more than 1,000 color combinations and formulas guaranteed to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas. 530 illustrations.

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette more books like this

by Victoria Finlay

COLOR examines the social significance of the known colors, as expressed though the sciences, art history, theology, and the painters themselves.

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Color more books like this

by Paul Zelanski

The sixth edition of Color is an invaluable introduction to the art and the science of color and its uses. It provides a solid and thorough foundation in the aesthetic and practical basics of this all-pervasive subject, with many quotations from artists past and present on the subtleties of their techniques. The material on new technologies has ...

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The Elements of Color more books like this

by Johannes Itten

This useful simplification and condensed version of The Art of Color presents Itten's essential theories on color, and includes practical exercises. Illustrated.

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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light: In Oil, Pastel and Watercolor more books like this

by Chris Saper

Color-mixing recipes and step-by-step demos in oil, watercolor and pastel teach artists how to effectively capture the realistic, glowing skin tones of various ethnic groups.

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Color Index 2 more books like this

by Jim Krause

The sequel to the popular Color Index is here! Color is an ever popular subject for designers who are always looking for new ways to explore color combinations to create the perfect image. Designed to work hand in hand with the original Color Index and offer even more exciting ways to combine color, Color Index 2 introduces Jims new color combo ...

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Color Workbook more books like this

by Becky Koenig

For any foundation design, design theory, composition, or color theory course. Color Workbook presents a wide-ranging overview of color theory and design combined with student activities that reinforce color concepts through hands-on experience. The formal and content-oriented approach to color covered in the workbooks allows students to use ...

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Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory more books like this

by Stephen Quiller

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTIST and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "colour sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own colour styles. With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colours, the ...

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The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten, Based on His Book the Art of Color more books like this

by Johannes Itten, Faber Birren (Editor)

This useful simplification and condensed version of The Art of Color presents Itten's essential theories on color, and includes practical exercises. Illustrated.

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Exploring Color Exploring Color more books like this

by Nita Leland

This text illustrates the principles of using colour with numerous paintings and exercises designed to demonstrate how to use colour to plan stronger designs, develop better compositions, and convey moods and emotions.

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The Simple Secret to Better Painting Simple Secret to Better Painting more books like this

by Greg Albert

A painting is only as good as its composition. No matter how well the colours match, how realistically the subject matter is drawn, or how accurate the perspective is, if the composition is weak, a painting will not be as impactful or as interesting as it could be. One of the most important elements to any painting, composition can also be one of ...

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Zoltan Szabo's Color-By-Color Guide to Watercolor more books like this

by Zoltan Szabo, okl

Aims to teach painters the best way to use colour on the palette, regardless of their skill levels. Szabo's reference system provides listings of the properties of each colour; notes of oddities and inconsistencies; and three-step demonstrations showing the potential uses for individual colours.

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Why Is Blue Dog Blue?: A Tale of Colors more books like this

by George Rodrigue, Bruce Goldstone (Designer)

Paintings of Blue Dog in many different colors, including salmon, cherry, and moss green, explain why Blue Dog had to be blue.

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50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship more books like this

by Salvador Dali

Sensible artistic advice and lively personal anecdotes in rare important work by famed Surrealist. Filled with Dali's outrageous egotism and unconventional humor, insights into modern art and his own drawings in the margins.

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The Painter's Guide to Color more books like this

by Stephen Quiller

This guide to paint formulations explores value and intensity, complementary and analogous colours, and the ways in which colour can be used to evoke moods and express atmospheric conditions. It includes a removable colour wheel.

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Capturing Radiant Light & Color in Oils and Soft Pastels more books like this

by Susan Sarback

Oil and pastel painters will learn new ways of seeing and painting light and colour. Readers will expand their colour perception and learn to bring this new awareness into their paintings. The author uses the full-colour seeing method, a way to see and paint colour as affected by the surrounding light. The book contains examples and demonstrations ...

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Watercolor basics. Color more books like this

by Jan Kunz

Watercolour can yield brilliant, gem-like colours - or it can make mud. The difference is knowing how colour works and how different pigments behave. In this text, beginners will find the key to great colour.'

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Color Studies more books like this

by Edith Anderson Feisner

This expanded new edition introduces students in all the visual arts to colour theory, the physiology and psychology of colour perception, and the physics of colour. It also offers tips for putting that knowledge into practice in a variety of media, from painting and other fine arts to interior design, architecture, fashion design, ceramics, ...

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Ed Emberley's Big Orange Drawing Book more books like this

by Edward R Emberley (Illustrator)

Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

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Color Works: The Crafter's Guide to Color more books like this

by Deb Menz

Thanks to Deb Menz, master teacher and author of the highly respected book Color in Spinning (Interweave Press, 1998), you can now explore colors with confidence in whatever craft medium you call your favorite. This is the first book to bring the principles of color theory down to a practical level and apply them to knitting, spinning, weaving, ...

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The Designeras Guide to Color Combinations more books like this

by Leslie Cabarga

This resource for today's designer contains 100 years of colour combinations.

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