The practical handbook of color for artists

Exploring color : perception, schemes, and synthesis

Diagrams and scales

The color wheel

Shades of color

Monochromatic schemes

Grisaille

Two analogous colors

Creating form with color

Opposites : complementary colors

Complementary color effects

Experimenting with backgrounds of different colors

Chromatic scales

Study in solid colors

Harmony and chromatic ranges

Importance of color ranges

Warm color ranges

Harmonizing a still life with warm colors

Cool color ranges

A rural scene in a cool color range

Chromatic range of neutral colors

Harmonic still life with neutral colors

Contrasting ranges

Harmonic triads

Pigments and paint : particles of color

Introducing the colors: the starting point

Pigment forms

Coloring power

Blue, the color of depth

A passion for red

Yellow, the color of light

Study of an alley in yellows

An array of greens

Orange and violet

The earth tones

Seascape with earth tones

Black, the deep dark

White is light

Still life with earth tones, black, and white

Special colors : golds and iridescents

Fluorescent colors

Boats with fluorescent paint

Mixing colors on the palette

What colors do we begin with?

First mixtures

Mixtures of two and three colors

Mixtures of three colors

How to lighten colors

How to darken colors

High-key and low-key colors

Vase of flowers with high-key colors

Mixing colors on the painting

The first brushstrokes

Painting with short brushstrokes

Rural scene with superimposed brushstrokes

Painting Alla Prima

Mixing watercolors on wet paper

Mixing with dots

Overlaying glazes

Blending with pastels.

Constructing an image with colors

Colors in the composition

Creative composition with colors

Chromatic patterns

Cloisonné as a chromatic pattern

Chromatic tension

Strength of complementary colors

Nude with subdued complementary colors

Color and space

Near and far colors in a landscape

The color of shadows

The collage: a number of approaches

A colorist composition with collage

The plasticity of relief

A seascape with gesso and spatula

Interpreting real colors

Color of vegetation

Painting water

A pond with color pencils

Flesh tones

The color of light

Painting reflections on the water

A variety of skies

An explosion of colors in a sunset

Painting grass : overcoming the monotony

Flowers : the best colors

Nocturnes : darkness and artificial light

An illuminated alley on a colored background

Being creative with colors

Color communicates

Color sketches

Deformation and color

Chromatic lyricism

Backgrounds with contrasting colors

Techniques on a color background

Washed color

Multicolor approach

Scraping and bands of color

Rocky landscape with dragging

Creative impasto

Adding texture to a landscape

A foray into abstraction

Color fields

Dripping

Gestural abstraction

Experiments and comparisons

Several versions of the same model

Trying different views

Glossary of color applications.