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| Color Theory Made Easy: A New Approach to Color Theory and How to Apply It to Mixing Paints | 
 enlarge | Author: Jim Ames
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 101328
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0823007545
Dewey Decimal Number: 752
EAN: 9780823007547
ASIN: 0823007545
Publication Date: April 1, 1996
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Product Description
Proof that artists' primaries -- which form the basis of the 12-unit color wheel that is the foundation of all color -- are cyan, yellow, and magenta.
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Color Theory made easy July 8, 2006
This is a good referance material for comprehensive study of colors. I find it very useful when I have to use complementary colors and choosing colors from different brands. The author did in deepth study on how to mixing different colors with various outcome. It helps me a great deal to choose the colors I want to use in my paintings.
 For Watercolor painters only ;( July 7, 2006
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Because watercolor colours name's aren't the same as acrylic and oil, it just doesn't make sense at all to me, and to say "made easy" I didn't think so, but i'm sure it's a great book for watercolorists!
An indispensable book on color theory May 25, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Combined with Michael Wilcox's book, "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green," this book will help make sense of the enormous number of colors available to the watercolor artist today. Many watercolor artists recommend specific colors just because they've been using them for years, or they confuse the issue by trying to talk about staining versus non-staining, opaque versus transparent, granulating versus non-granulating. Those are all important qualities to know about a paint, but even more basic to that is what color it is and how it will mix with other colors. If you understand the color theory presented in this book and in Michael Wilcox's book, then you will be quite capable of creating a wide range of quite satisfactory colors from just a few well-chosen basics. (Not that you have to stick with just a few basics.)
What I found particularly valuable in this book is that the ideas *work.* I am not so sure about his theory about *why* they work, but the fact is that they do. The information in this book both overlaps to some extent and is complementary to Mr. Wilcox's book, so I highly recommend that you get both books. Between the two, you will have enough grounding in sound, applicable color mixing procedures that you will be able to confidently mix any two colors you want and have a very good idea what you will get as a result.
 Great theory book!!! August 31, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just finish the book. i am not a painter but this book gave the basic, and more, theory on colors and how to use them.
I study graphics and design in computers and today I can select colors and understand why i was selected them.
this book belong to all of those that want to know how to understand colors and how, for instanse, to make a deap design or how to manipulate your color in the artwork.
use this book!
Excellent book August 8, 2003
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book teaches correct color theory and gives a great deal of useful information. The scientific explanation of cyan, magent, and yellow being the primary colors is very convincing and makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of practical information in this book. I don't know if there are any better color theory books, but at least this book is a good one and not a waste of money like Quiller's book, "Color Choices."
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