Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much-awaited new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.
Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and-for those involved in art, painting, or design-how to mix and combine hues. Including more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging, this volume explains how 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 still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting understand the psychology of color harmonize color in your surroundings
While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of color, reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly unweaving color's complexity, this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.
| Introduction : the importance of color | ||
| Ch. 1 | Drawing, color, painting, and brain processes | 2 |
| Ch. 2 | Understanding and applying color theory | 14 |
| Ch. 3 | Learning the vocabulary of color | 20 |
| Ch. 4 | Buying and using paints and brushes | 36 |
| Ch. 5 | Using the color wheel to understand hue | 48 |
| Ch. 6 | Using the color wheel to understand value | 60 |
| Ch. 7 | Using the color wheel to understand intensity | 72 |
| Ch. 8 | What constitutes harmony in color? | 84 |
| Ch. 9 | Creating harmony in color | 96 |
| Ch. 10 | Seeing the effects of light, color constancy, and simultaneous contrast | 112 |
| Ch. 11 | Seeing the beauty of color in nature | 134 |
| Ch. 12 | The meaning and symbolism of colors | 156 |
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Posted February 15, 2006
What a beautiful book! Easy to follow easy to learn from it. The basic and the complex about color in a short volume full of examples and very practical exercises. Excellent!!!
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Overview
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much-awaited new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.
Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color ...