Art 260 / Greg Clayton
Recommended Books
These books are not required for this course, but are particularly worthwhile for various reasons.
They are categorized according to areas of interest.
Color: A course in mastering the art of mixing colors
Betty Edwards
The book actually aims for more then the title suggests. Edwards breaks color use down into very doable exercises. (She's also wrote the classic drawing text: (The New) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.)
Color Manual for Artists
Arthur L. Guptill
An older standard that introduces all of the basics of color. Aimed primarily at painters. (Amazon)
Color: A Workshop Approach
David Hornung
Color Studies
Edith Anderson Feisner
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers
This is a class text by a premier theorist, educator and artist. Published versions are compromises — fewer illustration, often less content, and always cheaper printing (and thus poorer quality color examples). Alber's hand-screen-printed editions offer the best color — the Arkansas Arts Center, in Little Rock, has one of these rare copies
The Organization of Color
Richard Gordon Ellinger
Long out of print, but a very useful scheme planning strategy. (Amazon)
Dimensional Color
Lois Swirnoff
Interior Color By Design: A design tool for architects, interior designers, and homeowners
Jonathan Poore
Explores all of the standard hue schemes, includes ample photos and many color proportion studies of palettes.
('94 original edition...cheap on Amazon) ('05 Volume 1) ('05 Volume 2)Color in Interior Design
John Pile
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (Amazon)
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Amazon)
John Gage
Gage is a current master of the history of color, color culture and psychology. If you want to know where we've been in our use of, ideas about and response to color, start digesting Gage's works.
(Color and Meaning) (Color and Culture)Dynasty of Light
Alan Shijo McManus Burner
An extensive introduction to many varied aspects of color.
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