If you can only buy one book about COLOUR

#1

Which would you recommend?

#2

Save your money and check out this website instead: http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html

Apparently the Stephen Quiller books are very good, but I haven’t read them.

#3

Johannes Itten, The Art of Color:

http://www.dezignare.com/newsletter/Johannes_Itten.html

#4

Thanks sebrushworth and rebeccak, I’ve read the website before and I also have the book by Itten. I guess I need more like a comprehensive one, rather than 1000 pages, with less explanation straight to the point. More to the “Meaning” of colour.

Cheers

#5

This is a great one:

Colour and culture: Practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction, by John Gage. Beautiful book, which I have.

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#6

I really enjoyed this book about color theory, titled “Color Theory Made Simple”

Here’s a link from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823007545/103-9421474-0654265?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

It’s really a practical approach to color for the traditional painter, but it can also be applied to digital art as well.

I can rant on, but it’s just easier to read the reviews at Amazon.

Good luck!

#7

try this one:
http://www.williampowell-artist.com/books.html

actually, i only have “Color and How To Use It” but it really works for me. it’s not one
of the most advanced books on color theory out there. very basic actually but it’s
good. (for me, i guess, considering i’m color blind, hehehe…)

hope it helps. :slight_smile:

#8

Owen Demer’s ‘[DIGITAL] Texturing and Painting’ contains a good section on Colour Theory. I have found this book to be very useful and not just for the digital side of things. I’m not sure about books that deal specifically with the subject, as most of the books I have contain a section devoted to colour theory.

#9

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