"In Color Harmony in Your Paintings, artist and teacher Margaret Kessler takes a friendly approach to help you understand and apply the principles of color to greatly improve your artwork." "Through clear, instructive illustrations and painting examples, you'll learn how to use color to create expressive moods, unity, rhythm and eye-catching designs as well as heighten the impact of your paintings. No matter what your skill level, you'll find encouraging...

"With just 25 common paint colors, you can make 2,400 different hues, and they are all illustrated in this comprehensive guide. Better yet, each color mix uses only two paint colors, so matching results are easy to obtain"--

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body" - the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological - or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary,...

"In this updated edition of best-selling Intuitive Color & Design, Jean's workshop assignments get your creative juices flowing, giving you challenges to expand your quilting horizons. Start by learning to see line and colour; study the nuts and bolts of design; develop your colour work and composition; and when you get stuck, there's expert advice on problem solving. Design and piece spectacular, free-form quilts you'd never have guessed you could...

"Introduces students of all the visual arts to color theory, the physiology and psychology of color perception, and the physics of color. Four dimensions of color - hue, value, intensity, and temperature - are discussed in detail. Based on the author's many years of teaching the subject to students from all the major concentrations of the visual arts, the text presents concepts in a logical order, with each chapter building on the previous one. The...

"Create the very best mixed media with 52 inspiring exercises!Strenthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more.In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the...

This volume compares and analyzes the basic color palettes used by various art movements and at different times throughout history. The authors explain what period the palette is from and provides cultural information from that period. The book shows groups of colors that go together and covers the "eras" such as deco and the 50's as well as palettes for various cultures. From architecture and apparel to paintings and pottery, this work draws on a...