Color and light : a guide for the realist painter /
Overview: James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridge...
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Kansas City, MO :
Andrews McMeel ;
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Tradition:
- Old masters' color
- Academic tradition
- Open-air painting in Britain
- Hudson River School
- Plein-air movements
- Symbolist dreams
- Magazine illustration
- Sources Of Light:
- Direct sunlight
- Overcast light
- Window light
- Candlelight and firelight
- Indoor electric light
- Streetlights and night conditions
- Luminescence
- Hidden light sources
- Light And Form:
- Form principle
- Separation of light and shadow
- Cast shadows
- Half shadow
- Occlusion shadows
- Three-quarter lighting
- Frontal lighting
- Edge lighting
- Contre jour
- Light from below
- nd1500 Reflected light
- Spotlighting
- Limitations of the form principle
- Elements Of Color:
- Rethinking the color wheel
- Chroma and value
- Local color
- Grays and neutrals
- Green problem
- Gradation
- Tints
- Paint And Pigments:
- Search for pigments
- Charting pigments
- Lightfastness
- Warm underpainting
- Sky panels
- Transparency and glazing
- Palette arrangements
- Limited palettes
- Mud debate
- Color Relationships:
- Monochromatic schemes
- Warm and cool
- Colored light interactions
- Triads
- Color accent
- Premixing:
- Mixing color strings
- Gamut mapping
- Creating gamut masks
- Shapes of color schemes
- Mixing a controlled gamut
- Color scripting
- Visual Perception:
- World without color
- Is moonlight blue?
- Edges and depth
- Color oppositions
- Color constancy
- Adaptation and contrast
- Appetizing and healing colors
- Surfaces And Effects:
- Transmitted light
- Subsurface scattering
- Color zones of the face
- Hair secret
- Caustics
- Specular reflections
- Highlights
- Color corona
- Motion blur
- Photo vs observation
- Atmospheric Effects:
- Sky blue
- Atmospheric perspective
- Reverse atmospheric perspective
- Golden hour lighting
- Sunsets
- Fog, mist, smoke, dust
- Rainbows
- Skyholes and foliage
- Sunbeams and shadowbeams
- Dappled light
- Cloud shadows
- Illuminated foreground
- Snow and ice
- Water: reflection and transparency
- Mountain streams
- Color underwater
- Light's Changing Show:
- Serial painting
- At the end of the day
- Resources:
- Glossary
- Pigment information
- Recommended reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index.