Color Theory Made Easy: A New Approach to Color Theory and How to Apply It to Mixing Paints - Couverture souple

Ames, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823007545 ISBN 13 : 9780823007547

Editeur : Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

This work covers all the fundamentals for achieving pure, shaded, or tinted colour. It also contains proof that artists' primary colours are cyan, yellow and magenta - which form the basis of the 12-unit colour wheel that is the foundation of all colour.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Traditional color theory can be confusing to artists, especially when they try to use inaccurate color wheels as guides to mixing their colors. Now, Color Theory Made Easy presents an alternative approach that cuts through the tangle of established but contradictory concepts that gives artists a universal theory that really applies to their work. Most artists have been taught that red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors—hues that cannot be created from any combination of other colors. However, as a result of years of study, author and artist Jim Ames has concluded that the true primary colors are cyan (a greenish blue), magenta (a violet red), and a yellow that does not learn toward either cyan or magenta.

In Color Theory Made Easy, Ames explains the importance of these three colors as the basis for all our thinking about color. Using friendly, clear language and colorful diagrams, the author lays the foundation in Chapter 1 for applying his color theory in art. He shows that all colors in nature are composed of varying percentages of cyan, magenta, and yellow. Chapter 2 builds on this with a survey of the pigment colors artists actually use. Here the author offers an essential education concerning paint selection, and he lists currently available tube colors that are the most accurate in terms of the true primaries. The final chapter explores color mixing principles based on cyan, magenta, and yellow, and applies these principles through a series of watercolor demonstrations.

In this illuminating book, Jim Ames has broken new ground and given us a workable color theory that is both simple and indispensable.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jim Ames is a graphic designer, illustrator, and watercolorist. A member of the American Watercolor Society, he teaches watercolor at the Flint Institute of Arts. He lives in Flint, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823007545
• ISBN 13: 9780823007547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible