Product Description: 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 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - basic, easy to understand, beginning artists' instruction
I found Betty Edwards book on colors helpful and useful.
For me it it unraveled the essential codes of finding/establishing colors harmony in a painting. It represented a the next step after Johannes ... Read More
Rating: - great information for all painters
I used some of the exercises for my students and had great results, learning the language of paint and getting to the results we wanted quicker.
Rating: - colour mixing
Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
Very good book for a beginner and quite useful to the more serious.
Arrived within 8 days of placing my order and i used standard ... Read More
Rating: - wallpaper paintings and recycled color theory
this is a disappointing book, for three reasons. first, edwards simply recycles the mummified "color theory" dogma inherited from the 19th century (primary colors, complementary color contrast, and the "mud" definition ... Read More
Rating: - ALL ABOUT COLOUR
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This book explains everything about colour. Most important thing is it teaches you to identify and match colour with value.
Entire colour wheel is simplified so one can easily remember it.
This is ... Read More
- basic, easy to understand, beginning artists' instruction
- great information for all painters
- wallpaper paintings and recycled color theory