Books and Media - Color and Color Theory

This revised edition of the original very popular book contains more than 80 pages of new information on the transparency and makeup of colors and includes many new color-mixing swatches.

This book details a series of projects, has ideas for color experiments and outlines techniques for creating special effects. This volume has advice on mixing and contrasting colors on paper or canvas to evoke special moods and atmospheres.

Find out what color is, how it works, and how to make it work for you in your paintings. From the Walter Foster "Artist Library Series" by William Powell.

This book is a valuable, practical color resource guide for any oil or acrylic artist. Follow four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations.

This book is a valuable, practical color resource guide for any oil or acrylic artist. It contains recipes for more than 500 color combinations, including master mixes for many skin, hair, eye, and lip variations. A plastic color mixing grid is included.

Color: Creative Painting is the second volume in Barron's new art instruction series that focuses on creating finished, professional-looking paintings.

Covers important color relationships, plus how to select and mix colors. Details include pigment numbers, labeling, and color terms. Pull-out Acrylic/Oil Mixing Guides and Charts. Paperback, 30 pages. (Liquitex).

This lively book explains how colors are related and which ones work well together. Hands-on projects help readers recognize appropriate color choices.

These helpful books provide an at-a-glance look at hues achieved by mixing popular Winsor & Newton oil, acrylic, and watercolors. These books are invaluable tools for amateurs and professionals alike!

This volume provides a handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades. It's a complete color reference based around a palette of 25 popular Artists' Acrylic Colours. This book is an invaluable resource for both amateur and professional artists.

A handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades, this complete color reference reveals the 25 colors of paint that compose the most useful range of color. Invaluable for amateurs and professionals alike!

This book takes the uncertainty out of color mixing for artists. Organized around the primary colors, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tints, this book provides a complete visual reference to mixing watercolor.

Specially designed for the classroom, the Crystal color wheel poster provides a unique reference to color concepts. The inner wheel rotates to identify and define major color schemes, such as analogous, complementary, and triadic schemes.

Stephen Quiller presents an introduction of color concepts and how different color combinations are used. This DVD features a painting demonstration that explores how these concepts are used in creating a finished painting. 19 minutes.

Art educator Peggy Flores examines the element of color and demonstrates how to create different styles of color wheels. Through a selection of student work, several color wheel schemes are explored using simple classroom materials. DVD. 20 minutes.

Famed painter and Gamblin Paint founder Robert Gamblin issues a detailed analysis of color defined by hue, value, and intensity taking the guesswork out of color study. He links art history, and how artists today can use a similar palette. 20 min.