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By Michael Wilcox
School of Color Publishing
Paperback (56 pages)
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An invaluable guide for the artist and craftworker. 2,460 mixed hues from just 12 colors. Mix the color you really want without any hesitation. Find and quickly mix almost any green, violet, orange, yellow, blue,brown or grey. This pocket book is ideal for location work, where instant color mixing guidance can be so useful |
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By Augustine Hope
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Hardcover (360 pages)
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The Color Compendium is the first comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia entirely devoted to color. This extraordinary reference covers the full range of color-related subjects, including their scientific, technical, artistic, and historical aspects. The Color Compendium features:
- An A to Z encyclopedia, extensively cross-referenced for easy access to all information
- A section of color systems, explaining their development and use
- Sections on color communication and symbolism
- Biographies of leading historical and contemporary color theorists, and commentaries on their ideas
- A fully illustrated section of historic and twentieth century palettes and their source artifacts
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By Conni Gordon
C. Gordon
Paperback (32 pages)
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For the Beginning Artist who wants to learn to Mix Color. Each Step-by-Step illustrated lesson emphasizes a different basic fine art principle. You learn to mix and use color with knowledge and skill -- not by accident. Color Charts for mixing, harmony, and special effects. Subjects include animals, birds, still life, landscapes, seascapes, sunset, clown, warm and cool effects. |
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By Simon Jennings
Collins
Paperback (192 pages)
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This award-winning manual has established itself as the artist's ultimate visual reference to the fascinating world of colour. Practical, informative and inspiring, it will appeal to designers, art students and educators alike. Collins Artist's Colour Manual brings the subject of colour alive and with over 1000 illustrations, colour swatches and works of art, this superbly designed book is a visual delight and an invaluable reference book for artists of all levels of experience. There are four sections in the book: the first giving information on paints and pigments, with a concise buyer's guide to materials. The reader is then taken on a tour around the paintbox to learn what colours are and how to use them to greatest effect. Then there are inspiring and creative ideas for colour usage, with first-hand tips and techniques from practising artists. And the final section is visual reference to over 450 colours in a variety of media from the world's leading manufacturers. |
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By David Acton
W.W. Norton
Paperback (304 pages)
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By Arthur Stern
Watson-Guptill
Released: 1988-07-01
Paperback (144 pages)
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Artists are trained to paint what they actually see, not what they think they see. Twenty-two painting projects show how to analyze every subject as a series of distinct color areas. A final section contains beautiful paintings of various subjects. |
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By Jose Maria Parramon
Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Everything artists need to know about an important and popular subject. Designed as a complete resource, this book considers every aspect of color: historical, physical, perceptual, aesthetic, and practical. With its numerous step-by-step sequences and illustrations of theory in practice, this guide has everything artists need to gain a mastery of the subject. 400 full-color illustrations. |
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By Jan Pienkowski
Simon & Schuster (Juv)
Hardcover (32 pages; 1)
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Illustrations of ten everyday objects introduce the basic colors. |
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By Dianne Hofmeyr
Cambridge University Press
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By Irving Kriesberg
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Paperback (108 pages)
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An accessible approach to using colour in art, Kriesberg offers a practical and direct aproach to using and understanding colour. As a basis for study, he discusses familiar, distinctive pieces of art by artists including Cezanne, Dufy, Frankenthaler, de Kooning, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso. Throughout unique exercises build and strengthen the reader's sense of colour. This book should be of interest to artists and designers. |
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