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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 | |