Color: A practical guide to color and its uses in art

Description

Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects. Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction Meet the Artists Chapter 1: Color Basics & Painting Concepts What Is Color? Color Terms & Properties Color, Light & Shadow Color Relativity Color Psychology Color & Mood Color Schemes Color & Composition Infusing Color Chapter 2: Pigments Pigment Properties Pigment Safety A History of Paint Pigment Chart Chapter 3: Color Mixing Basic Painting Materials Mixing Oil & Acrylic Mixing Watercolor Color Mixes for Watercolor Color Mixes for Oil & Acrylic Chapter 4: Painting Demonstrations Project 1: Northern Lights Watercolor with Maury Aaseng Project 2: Gold?nch & Thistle Watercolor with Maury Aaseng Project 3: Tudor Hydrangea Garden Acrylic with David Glover Project 4: Apples & Plums Acrylic with David Glover Project 5: Watery Landscape Oil with Jan Murphy Project Project 6: Foothills Oil with Jan Murphy