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"Create the very best mixed media with 52 inspiring exercises!Strenthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more. In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the...
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256 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
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The Designer's Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at 30 colors key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in color-by-color sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing colour range and palette variations.
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xxii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze"--
Our world practically vibrates with colors, but the human-made versions haven't always matched nature's kaleidoscopic array. Rogers traces an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future. From cave paintings to modern corporate espionage, he explores the...
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Vibrant photos, simple text, and Crayola ® colors introduce readers to the different ways cultures around the world use color in their clothing, buildings, and holidays. From Holi and Russian dolls to Chinese New Year and woven baskets, readers will celebrate color and culture as they begin to see how the colors we see and use every day have meaning and symbolism. Now available in Spanish!
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319 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Color ... guides us with subconscious visual clues throughout our lives. Get it right in your design or art, and you can enhance mood and atmosphere, and create a desired psychological or even physiological effect. The Color Bible is a contemporary handbook for navigating the fascinating world of color." --back cover.
13) Shades of people
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
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Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.
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131 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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This landmark book presents fifty majestic images by America's greatest landscape photographer - the first time that an important body of Ansel Adams' color work has ever been published. Ansel Adams began to photograph in color soon after Kodachrome was invented in the mid-1930s, and shot more than 3,000 color images during the course of his lifetime. Very few of these photographs, however, were published or exhibited. As Adams remarked late in his...
18) On color
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xi, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives. Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of...
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