Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors

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Penguin, Sep 23, 2004 - Art - 224 pages
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.
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    Contents

    PART II
    35
    Chapter 6
    60
    Practice in Naming Hue Value
    79
    Albert Munsells Theory of Harmony Based
    92
    Hue Value and Intensity
    96
    112 Seeing the Effects of Light Color Constancy and Simultaneous Contrast
    112
    Seeing How Light Affects the Colors of ThreeDimensional Shapes
    113
    Why It Is Difficult to See the Effects of Light
    115
    Exercise 12 Painting a Floral Still Life
    140
    Nature as a Teacher of Color
    155
    156 The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors 157 Attaching Names to Colors
    157
    Using Colors to Express Meaning
    158
    Exercise 13 The Color of Human Emotions
    161
    Your Preferred Colors and What They Mean
    168
    Knowing Your Color Preferences and Your Color Expressions
    171
    The Symbolic Meanings of Colors
    172

    How to Accurately Perceive Colors Affected by Light 116 Three Different Methods of Scanning a
    116
    Estimating the Intensity Level
    118
    The ThreePart Process of Painting
    119
    Exercise 11 Painting a Still Life
    121
    134 Seeing the Beauty of Color in Nature 135 Color Harmony in Flowers
    135
    Floral Painting in
    136
    Colors in Nature Differ from Colors of HumanMade Objects
    139
    Practicing Your Understanding of the Meaning of Color
    188
    Using Your Color Knowledge
    190
    Glossary
    193
    Bibliography
    197
    Index
    199
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    About the author (2004)

    Betty Edwards is professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, California. She is the author of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the, the world's most widely used drawing instructional, which has been translated into thirteen foreign languages with U.S. sales of almost three million copies. She speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies, including the Walt Disney Corporation and the Apple Corporation.

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