Includes bibliographic references and index.

Overview : the history of color -- Colors, palettes & materials.The story of pigment -- Select palettes -- Basic palette colors and arrangement -- The effect of mediums and varnish on color -- Color permanence -- Color and brushes -- Transparency, translucency, and opacity -- Tinting strength -- White -- Vehicles for pigment -- Paint life expectancy -- Basic concepts : organizing the experience of color. Open vs. closed form -- Color and grounds -- Underpainting for color -- Subtractive vs. additive color -- Fat over lean and the development of layers -- Identifying observed color -- Color and atmospheric perspective -- Color temperature and spatial relationships -- Conceptual vs. observational color -- Color and composition -- Color harmony -- Aesthetic approaches to color. Tonal color -- Monochrome color -- Polychrome color -- Impressionism -- Postimpressionism -- Pointillism : color as an abstract process -- Expressionism -- Abstraction -- Modern color as psychological expression -- Color exercises : identifying & understanding color. Color identity test -- Color wheels -- Mixing neutrals -- Mixing tints and shades -- Color contrast -- Copying color -- Color and disability -- The evolution of teaching color -- Painting demonstrations : major methods & practices. Northern Renaissance (sixteenth century) -- Seventeenth-century tonal painting -- Impressionism -- Pointillism -- Expressionism and abstraction -- Grisaille and glazing methods -- Direct sketch method.