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Acknowledgments |
xi |
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Introduction: The Importance of Color |
xiii |
Part I |
Chapter 1 |
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Drawing, Color, Painting, and Brain Processes |
2 |
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Seeing Colors as Values |
3 |
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Why Values Are Important |
4 |
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The Role of Language in Color and Painting |
6 |
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The Constancies: Seeing and Believing |
8 |
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Seeing How Light Changes Colors |
10 |
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Seeing How Colors Affect Each Other |
12 |
Chapter 2 |
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Understanding and Applying Color Theory |
14 |
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Theories about Color |
15 |
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Applying Color Theory in Art |
17 |
Chapter 3 |
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Learning the Vocabulary of Color |
20 |
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The Three Primary Colors |
21 |
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The Three Secondary Colors |
23 |
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The Six Tertiary Colors |
23 |
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Analogous Colors |
23 |
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Complementary Colors |
25 |
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Naming Colors: The L-Mode Role in Mixing Colors |
26 |
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The Three Attributes of Color: Hue, Value, and Intensity |
28 |
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From Naming to Mixing |
31 |
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Moving from Theory to Practice |
33 |
Part II |
Chapter 4 |
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Buying and Using Paints and Brushes |
36 |
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Buying Supplies |
37 |
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Beginning to Paint |
41 |
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Mixing a Color |
44 |
Exercise 1 |
Subjective Color |
45 |
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Cleaning Up |
47 |
Chapter 5 |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Hue |
48 |
Exercise 2 |
Making a Color Wheel Template |
49 |
Exercise 3 |
Painting the Color Wheel |
51 |
Exercise 4 |
Practice in Identifying Hues |
56 |
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Mixing Colors |
57 |
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Creating Colors: How Four Pigments Can Become Hundreds of Colors |
57 |
Chapter 6 |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Value |
60 |
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Value |
61 |
Exercise 5 |
Shades of Gray-Constructing a Value Wheel/Hue Scanner |
61 |
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How to Use Your Value Wheel/Hue Scanner |
63 |
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How to Lighten and Darken Colors |
64 |
Exercise 6 |
Two Color Value Wheels-From White to a Pure Hue, From a Pure Hue to Black |
65 |
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Other Ways of Lightening and Darkening Colors |
68 |
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Another Way to Darken a Color |
70 |
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Summing Up |
70 |
Chapter 7 |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Intensity |
72 |
Exercise 7 |
The Power of the Primaries to Cancel Color |
73 |
Exercise 8 |
Creating an Intensity Wheel-From a Pure Hue to No Color and Back Again |
77 |
Exercise 9 |
Practice in Naming Hue, Value, and Intensity |
79 |
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Other Ways to Dull Colors |
80 |
Part III |
Chapter 8 |
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What Constitutes Harmony in Color? |
84 |
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The Aesthetic Response to Harmonious Color |
85 |
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The Phenomenon of After-images |
86 |
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After-images and the Attributes of Color |
90 |
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Albert Munsell's Theory of Harmony Based on Balancing Color |
92 |
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A Definition of Balanced Color |
93 |
Chapter 9 |
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Creating Harmony in Color |
96 |
Exercise 10 |
Transforming Color Using Complements and the Three Attributes: Hue, Value, and Intensity |
96 |
Chapter 10 |
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Seeing the Effects of Light, Color Constancy, and Simultaneous Contrast |
112 |
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The Next Step: Seeing How Light Affects the Colors of Three-Dimensional Shapes |
113 |
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Why It Is Difficult to See the Effects of Light |
115 |
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How to Accurately Perceive Colors Affected by Light |
116 |
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Three Different Methods of Scanning a Hue |
116 |
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The Next Step: Estimating the Intensity Level |
118 |
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The Three-Part Process of Painting |
119 |
Exercise 11 |
Painting a Still Life |
121 |
Chapter 11 |
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Seeing the Beauty of Color in Nature |
134 |
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Color Harmony in Flowers |
135 |
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Floral Painting in Art |
136 |
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Colors in Nature Differ from Colors of Human-Made Objects |
139 |
Exercise 12 |
Painting a Floral Still Life |
140 |
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Nature as a Teacher of Color |
155 |
Chapter 12 |
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The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors |
156 |
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Attaching Names to Colors |
157 |
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Using Colors to Express Meaning |
158 |
Exercise 13 |
The Color of Human Emotions |
161 |
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Your Preferred Colors and What They Mean |
168 |
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Knowing Your Color Preferences and Your Color Expressions |
171 |
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The Symbolic Meanings of Colors |
172 |
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Practicing Your Understanding of the Meaning of Color |
188 |
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Using Your Color Knowledge |
190 |
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Glossary |
193 |
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Bibliography |
197 |
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Index |
199 |