Chroma Sutra: The Holland Lectures on Color Theory for Artists

Above all, this book answers questions that are not easy to even formulate until you've absorbed and processed a lot of information and misinformation about colors and color theory. It clarifies errors, inaccuracies and ambiguities about color wheels and presents a new and improved one for art students, artists, instructors and color theorists.This book will demystify the specialized vocabulary of the art world, clarifying terms such as hue, saturation and value, or tints, tones and shades, explaining the differences and distinctions. It is a bridge between science and art. It presents leading-edge science and some new or updated laws for color theory. It also includes an indispensable new and improved color wheel that art students, artists, and instructors should use to simplify their lives and work. It may seem technical at times, but the plan is definitely not to turn you into a physicist or biologist. The goal is to make you a more informed, more effective and less frustrated artist.This may be the most important book on color theory for artists in the last 300 years.

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