Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors

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. more

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1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-07-2009; Very little useful information; despite many great reviews, i found this book to be mostly useless. there's very little practical information, and the exercises are more "arts and crafts" than art. the section on copying your wallpaper samples are a good example of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-25-2009; ...from ArtsyFartsy News, May/June 2008; You already have a large library about color. We're painters and quite frankly, we're interested in our tools. Color is only one of our many tools we use to construct a painting. I've already recommended in an earlier ArtsyFartsy...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-28-2008; 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 Ittens 'The elements of color'. I use...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-23-2008; 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.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-25-2009; ...from ArtsyFartsy News, May/June 2008; You already have a large library about color. We're painters and quite frankly, we're interested in our tools. Color is only one of our many tools we use to construct a painting. I've already recommended in an earlier ArtsyFartsy...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-05-2005; Color; "Color" by Betty Edwards has been an excellent, easy read, introduction to the subject of color and its use in the visual arts. There is a "light" introduction to color theory accompanied by an ample beginner's level explanation of how...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-07-2009; Very little useful information; despite many great reviews, i found this book to be mostly useless. there's very little practical information, and the exercises are more "arts and crafts" than art. the section on copying your wallpaper samples are a good example of...; read full review | report as inappropriate