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Color Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Understanding Color
 
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Color Right from the Start: Progressive Lessons in Seeing and Understanding Color (Hardcover)
by Hilary Page (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. (April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0823007510
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823007516
  • Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 21.8 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,487,194 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Through practical and easy-to-follow lessons, this book teaches how to use colour correctly and portray the colours of nature realistically.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the most valuable book on colour, 19 Sep 2004
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After reading Hilary Page's book, it occurred to me how painting classes should maybe start with lessons on colour rather than charcoal drawing. Her detailed explanation of colour is grouped according to three main aspects: objective colour (measured by instruments), optical colour (perceived by eye) and practical colour (working with pigments). The theoretical aspects are then proved in practical examples which are also used for demonstrating her watercolour techniques, producing some very pleasing artwork.

Details on pigments are particularly valuable. Pigment properties like clarity, tinting strength, purity, value range, degree of opacity, consistency related to the degree of sediment, wet-on-wet behavior, staining when rewetted etc. will be new to many. Knowing such details will help you prevent some strange "accidents" that can spoil your work.

Rare books on colour point out the difference between the pigment-colour contrasts and the light-colour contrast. Hilary Page is very specific regarding these contrasts: she shows two types of colour wheels and two sets of primary and complementary colours. She also explains "spectral reflectance curves" that give us an insight to understanding why printers use "balanced" primary colours.

A book on colour naturally requires high quality print without any colour distortion and this one doesn't fail here either.

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