A Field Guide To Color

Play with paint, get creative with color, and discover your personal palette--a joyful, interactive workbook for creativity, self-expression, and deepening your understanding of how color works. Color is one of the most profound ways we have to express ourselves. In this lively workbook for artists, graphic designers, hobbyists, and creators of all types, you will journal your way through fresh and enriching ways to develop a more personal connection to color in your art and life. Using watercolors, gouache, or any other water-based medium, dive into color theory and explore your personal style while playing with a balanced blend of experiments and color meditations. Discover a personal color wheel while exploring tints and shades. Experiment with color mixing while you make as many of one color as you can - and then name them all (honeydew green, avocado green, mint ice cream...). Through playful prompts and inspiring examples, and with lots of room for painting, this book will guide you to a new or expanded relationship with color and deepen your understanding of what color can do for you.

Forget the dry color theory! This guide is fun, conversational, practical, and beautifully inspiring. The one-of-a-kind resource for modern quilters includes hands-on exercises with a true workbook approach to help evaluate color choices. A 150-color swatch card is included.

Maureen Stone's field guide to digital color presents a survey of digital color with special emphasis on those fields important for computer graphics. The book provides the foundation for understanding color and its applications, discusses color media and color management and the use of color in computer graphics, including color design and selecti

Dotting the countryside with brilliant color and shape, wildflowers add beauty to any habitat, from the deepest woods to the edge of the sea. Knowing the names of each one you pass adds to the pleasure, and there's no quicker way to identify blooms than with this easy-to-use guide. First, turn to the colored band on the edge of each page to find flowers of that same shade. Then, go by the number of petals, or select trees and shrubs. Each flower appears in a striking color photo.

"This Field Guide provides a basic understanding of how we measure, identify, communicate, specify, and render color. It addresses color order systems, color spaces, color measurement, color difference, additive and subtractive color, and color modeling"--

When it comes to form and structure, insects are among the world's most exotic creatures. This book provides a unique way to study them, featuring 220 of the most common and colorful insects found in America, from the harlequin bug to the bumblebee. Four-color wrap shows actual colors.

Annotation This users guide summarizes several color fields, with chapters on color vision, color appearance, RGB and brightness, color in nature, color reproduction, color image capture, additive systems, subtractive systems, management systems, computer graphics, color selection and design, and information displays. The tools, technologies, and strategies related to the creation and management of digital color are all covered. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

"My primary color text, Color and Its Reproduction, deals much more extensively with the topics in this book and should be considered as the supportive documentation to the statements, recommendations, and theories that are presented in this guide."--PREFACE.

This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of California and the Pacific Northwest. With 53 color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, and other insects.

This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. It includes 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, beetles, and other insects.