Color : a course in mastering the art of mixing colors

Böcker. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and index.
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.