Color Theory: An Essential Guide to Color-from Basic Principles to Practical ApplicationsIn this essential guide, accomplished artist Patti Mollica walks you through the most important aspects of color theory as they relate to oil and acrylic painting. From pigment characteristics and color mixing to color psychology, you'll find all the information you need to make dynamic, harmonious, and meaningful color choices in your own works of art.
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Contents
Table of Contents | 4 |
The Color Wheel | 12 |
Value | 18 |
Color Schemes | 24 |
Pigment Properties | 30 |
Communicating with Color | 42 |
Closing Words | 64 |
Common terms and phrases
acrylic painting Alizarin crimson analogous artist’s tip artists blue-green bright brushwork burnt sienna Burnt umber cadmium lemon yellow Cadmium red light Cadmium red medium Cadmium yellow medium canvas chart choose chroma color adjacent color choices color contrast color mixing color organization color palette color psychology color scheme color theory color wheel colorful gray colors appear complement complementary colors Complementary Scheme cool red cooler dominant color example Fauvism flesh tones focal point glazing hansa yellow inorganic leans blue leans red light and shadow light hits light source light value light waves lightened mineral mix colors Mixed green mixtures modern pigments monochromatic mood object oil and acrylic opacity painting style palette knife Phthalo green Piermont primary colors Quinacridone magenta red-orange result saturated color scene shadow color squinting strokes teal temperature tertiary colors Titanium white translucent tube Ultramarine blue viewer violet visual warm light white paint yellow ochre yellow-green