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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: The Importance of Color | |
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Drawing, Color, Painting, and Brain Processes | |
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Seeing Colors as Values | |
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Why Values Are Important | |
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The Role of Language in Color and Painting | |
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The Constancies: Seeing and Believing | |
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Seeing How Light Changes Colors | |
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Seeing How Colors Affect Each Other | |
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Understanding and Applying Color Theory | |
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Theories about Color | |
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Applying Color Theory in Art | |
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Learning the Vocabulary of Color | |
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The Three Primary Colors | |
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The Three Secondary Colors | |
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The Six Tertiary Colors | |
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Analogous Colors | |
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Complementary Colors | |
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Naming Colors: The L-Mode Role in Mixing Colors | |
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The Three Attributes of Color: Hue, Value, and Intensity | |
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From Naming to Mixing | |
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Moving from Theory to Practice | |
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Buying and Using Paints and Brushes | |
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Buying Supplies | |
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Beginning to Paint | |
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Mixing a Color | |
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Subjective Color | |
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Cleaning Up | |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Hue | |
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Making a Color Wheel Template | |
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Painting the Color Wheel | |
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Practice in Identifying Hues | |
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Mixing Colors | |
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Creating Colors: How Four Pigments Can Become Hundreds of Colors | |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Value | |
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Value | |
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Shades of Gray-Constructing a Value Wheel/Hue Scanner | |
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How to Use Your Value Wheel/Hue Scanner | |
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How to Lighten and Darken Colors | |
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Two Color Value Wheels-From White to a Pure Hue, From a Pure Hue to Black | |
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Other Ways of Lightening and Darkening Colors | |
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Another Way to Darken a Color | |
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Summing Up | |
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Using the Color Wheel to Understand Intensity | |
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The Power of the Primaries to Cancel Color | |
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Creating an Intensity Wheel-From a Pure Hue to No Color and Back Again | |
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Practice in Naming Hue, Value, and Intensity | |
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Other Ways to Dull Colors | |
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What Constitutes Harmony in Color? | |
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The Aesthetic Response to Harmonious Color | |
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The Phenomenon of After-images | |
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After-images and the Attributes of Color | |
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Albert Munsell's Theory of Harmony Based on Balancing Color | |
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A Definition of Balanced Color | |
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Creating Harmony in Color | |
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Transforming Color Using Complements and the Three Attributes: Hue, Value, and Intensity | |
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Seeing the Effects of Light, Color Constancy, and Simultaneous Contrast | |
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The Next Step: Seeing How Light Affects the Colors of Three-Dimensional Shapes | |
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Why It Is Difficult to See the Effects of Light | |
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How to Accurately Perceive Colors Affected by Light | |
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Three Different Methods of Scanning a Hue | |
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The Next Step: Estimating the Intensity Level | |
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The Three-Part Process of Painting | |
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Painting a Still Life | |
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Seeing the Beauty of Color in Nature | |
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Color Harmony in Flowers | |
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Floral Painting in Art | |
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Colors in Nature Differ from Colors of Human-Made Objects | |
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Painting a Floral Still Life | |
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Nature as a Teacher of Color | |
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The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors | |
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Attaching Names to Colors | |
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Using Colors to Express Meaning | |
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The Color of Human Emotions | |
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Your Preferred Colors and What They Mean | |
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Knowing Your Color Preferences and Your Color Expressions | |
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The Symbolic Meanings of Colors | |
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Practicing Your Understanding of the Meaning of Color | |
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Using Your Color Knowledge | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |