The Color Coursebook

The Color Coursebook offers a complete manual for the study of color in art and design. In 35000 words it reviews the most relevant information needed by artists and designers including relationships between light sources surfaces and vision color measurement and mixing and illusory functional and symbolic aspects of color. In this teaching edition of Color Influencing Form the theoretical text is supplemented by a 15000-word appendix of practical assignments offering a complete color module for universities colleges and schools. As a whole the book creatively explores the interaction of color and form to include figure-ground division contour texture light-and-shade opacity and transparency of form and perspective of color detail and shape.