Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors - Cover May Vary - Softcover

Betty Edwards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585422193 ISBN 13: 9781585422197

Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher, 2004

Synopsis

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 colour. Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive colour workshops Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see colour how to use it and - for those involved in art painting or design - how to mix and combine hues. Including more than 125 colour 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 coloured objects

· perceive how light affects colour and how colours affect one another

· manipulate hue value and intensity of colour and transform colours into their opposites

· balance colour in still-life landscape figure and portrait painting

· understand the psychology of colour

· harmonize colour in your surroundings

While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of colour reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly un-weaving colour's complexity this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.

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About the Author

Betty Edwards is professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, California. She is the author of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the, the world's most widely used drawing instructional, which has been translated into thirteen foreign languages with U.S. sales of almost three million copies. She speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies, including the Walt Disney Corporation and the Apple Corporation.<br /><br />Betty Edwards is professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, California. She is the author ofThe New Drawing on the Right Side of the, the world's most widely used drawing instructional, which has been translated into thirteen foreign languages with U.S. sales of almost three million copies. She speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies, including the Walt Disney Corporation and the Apple Corporation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585422193
• ISBN 13: 9781585422197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224