Color : a course in mastering the art of mixing colors /
You will learn 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...
| Основен автор: | Edwards, Betty, 1926- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
c2004.
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Color. |
Съдържание:
- Drawing, color, painting, and brain processes
- Seeing colors as values
- Why values are important
- The role of language in color and painting
- The constancies: seeing and believing
- Seeing how light changes colors
- Seeing how colors affect each other
- Understanding and applying color theory
- Theories about color
- Applying color theory in art
- Learning the vocabulary of color
- The three primary colors
- The three secondary colors
- The six tertiary colors
- Analogous colors
- Complementary colors
- Naming colors: the L-mode role in mixing colors
- The three attributes of color: hue, value, and intensity
- From naming to mixing
- Moving from theory to practice
- Buying and using paints and brushes
- Buying supplies
- Beginning to paint
- Mixing a color
- Exercise 1. Subjective color
- Cleaning up
- Using the color wheel to understand hue
- Exercise 2. Making a color wheel template
- Exercise 3. Painting the color wheel
- Exercise 4. Practice in identifying hues
- Mixing colors
- Creating colors: how four pigments can become hundreds of colors
- Using the color wheel to understand value
- Value
- Exercise 5. Shades of gray: constructing a value wheel/hue scanner
- How to use your value wheel/hue scanner
- How to lighten and darken colors
- Exercise 6. Two color value wheels: from white to a pure hue, from a pure hue to black
- Other ways of lightening and darkening colors
- Another way to darken a color
- Summing up
- Using the color wheel to understand intensity
- Exercise 7. The power of the primaries to cancel color
- Exercise 8. Creating an intensity wheel: from a pure hue to no color and back again
- Exercise 9. Practice in naming hue, value, and intensity
- Others ways to dull colors
- What constitutes harmony in color?
- The aesthetic response to harmonious color
- The phenomenon of after-images
- After-images and the attributes of color
- Albert Munsell's theory of harmony based on balancing color
- A definition of balanced color
- Creating harmony in color
- Exercise 10. Transforming color using complements and the three attributes: hue, value, and intensity
- Seeing the effects of light, color constancy, and simultaneous contrast
- The next step: seeing how light affects the colors of three-dimensional shapes
- Why it is difficult to see the effects of light
- How to accurately perceive colors affected by light
- Three different methods of scanning a hue
- The next step: estimating the intensity level
- The three-part process of painting
- Exercise 11. Painting a still life
- Seeing the beauty of color in nature
- Color harmony in flowers
- Floral painting in art
- Colors in nature differ from colors of human-made objects
- Exercise 12. Painting a floral still life
- Nature as a teacher of color
- The meaning and symbolism of colors
- Attaching names to colors
- Using colors to express menaing
- Exercise 13. The color of human emotions
- Your preferred colors and what they mean
- Knowing your color preferences and your color expressions
- The symbolic meanings of colors
- Practicing your understanding of the meaning of color
- Using your color knowledge.