Creative Color
Creative Color by Faber Birren, published by Schiffer on January 7, 1997, is a 128-page exploration of color perception and its application in art. The author presents a thesis that understanding perception can lead to more innovative uses of color, encouraging readers to engage with the material through practical experiments designed to produce unique color effects.
In this edition, readers will find a series of experiments at the end of each chapter that guide them in achieving effects typically reached only through intuition or trial-and-error. The illustrations serve as practical demonstrations rather than traditional art, showcasing how color can be manipulated based on established principles of perception. Additionally, the book includes a list of Numsell-coded palettes, allowing readers to replicate the striking color effects discussed throughout the text.
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The author demonstrates in Creative Color his exciting thesis: A knowledge of perception is the springboard to a far more inventive use of color in art today. By following Creative Color and performing the interesting experiments at the end of every chapter, you learn how to produce–consistently–effects that artists have rarely achieved, and then only by intuition, accident or painful trial-and-error. The illustrations are not meant to be art. They are experiments in producing color effects according to known principles of perception. If such striking effects can be achieved without the slightest attempt of art, think how much more the artist can do with the same knowledge! The author has usefully included a list of Numsell-coded palettes by which his extraordinary color effects may be precisely duplicated.
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