color in art

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color in art

Are you blue dog's friend?

2009
Presents a picture book with call-and-response questions for young readers that introduces the funny, strange, and unique traits that quality friendships consist of.

Using color in your art!

choosing colors for impact & pizzazz
2005
Teaches children how to combine colors for harmony and for contrast, how to use color in drawings and paintings to convey mood, and how to create three-dimensional effects through shading, presenting step-by-step instructions for thirty-six projects.

Color in art

2006
Presents famous works of art in order to better illustrate the importance of color, and describes its history by focusing on artists such as Kandinsky, van Gogh, and Kapoor.

Color

2003
Simple text and "Loopi the Fantastic Line" describe the concept of color in art and architecture.

M.C. Escher

visions of symmetry
2004
Describes the artwork of M. C. Escher, and especially the mathematics behind his interlocking natural forms and continuous patterns, analyzes his notebooks, and includes 438 illustrations.

Exploring color

creating color wheels and using color schemes
2007
Peggy Flores introduces artists to the element of color and explains how to create different types of color wheels that can help students improve their style and artistic skills.

Color index

over 1,100 color combinations, CMYK and RGB formulas, for print and Web media
2002
Contains over one thousand color combinations and formulas for design development and graphic arts and includes basic color fundamentals and logo ideas.

How artists use color

2001
Discusses what primary, secondary and complementary colors are and how they are related. Explains how choices of colors and different combinations of colors affect the mood and meaning of an artwork.

Vincent's colors

words and pictures by Vincent van Gogh
2005
The paintings and words of Vincent Van Gogh, arranged as a poem, introduce all the colors of the rainbow.

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