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Below are some books and guides about color.

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By Michael Wilcox
Michael Wilcox School of Co Paperback (56 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Michael Wilcox is the specialist publishers of books, courses, workbooks, videos and CDs covering all aspects of colour mixing and use, artist's paints, pigments and painting techniques.This is the only book of its kind on the market. It is pocket-sized for convenient use, in or away from the studio. Only standard, easily obtainable colours are used. It provides a very wide range of colours to suit the needs of the artist and craft worker. It presents 2,400 mixes from just 12 colours. Find and quickly mix almost any green, violet, orange, red, yellow, blue, brown or grey. Mix the colours you want - without a moment's hesitation. |
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By Augustine Hope
Van Nostrand Reinhold Hardcover (360 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: 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 David Acton
W.W. Norton Paperback (304 pages)
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By Conni Gordon
C. Gordon Paperback (32 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: 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 Jennings
Harpercollins Reference Hbacks Paperback (192 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: 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 Arthur Stern
Watson-Guptill Released: 1988-07-01 Paperback (144 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This book aims to train artists 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 colour areas. A final section contains paintings of various subjects. Arthur Stern has taught painting and drawing at Hunter College in New York, and in his own studio. He has also taught art appreciation and history at a number of schools. |
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By Irving Kriesberg
Van Nostrand Reinhold Paperback (96 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: 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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By Jose Maria Parramon
Watson-Guptill Pubns Paperback (160 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: 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 Dianne Hofmeyr
Cambridge University Press Paperback (16 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This book is available separately or as part of the Little Library Maths Kit. The colourfully illustrated, indigenous story teaches mathematical logic and literacy to children aged 5 to 9. As one of the ten award-winning South African stories in the Little Library Maths Kit, Mama Mabena's Magic explores numbers and colour theory through the medium of a story. The full-colour illustrations and exciting, original narrative make each reading entertaining as well as educational. |
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By Jan Pienkowski
Simon & Schuster (Juv) Hardcover (32 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Illustrations of ten everyday objects introduce the basic colors. |
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