Colorist : a practical handbook for personal and professional use
Entry/Object ID
NK1548.K63
Description
Examining the underlying colour schemes of Europe, this text seeks to apply those characteristic colour combinations to one's personal and professional life. What emerges is a sense of what colour in Europe is all about, how it is used and how it can be exploited for pleasure or display.
Lexicon
Search Terms
color guides, color in art, color--psychological aspects
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Shigenobu Kobayashi, Leza Lowitz
Publisher
Kodansha
Place Published
City
Tokyo
Country
Japan
Continent
Asia
Date Published
1998
Call No.
NK1548.K63
ISBN
4770023235, 9784770023230
Notes
Length: 160
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
1. You can be a colorist: Color research ; Becoming a colorist ; What makes a colorist: a check list --
2. Developing a sense of regional colors: Discover regional colors ; Color combination techniques ; The meanings of color ; A study in color and history ; History as a database of color sense --
3. Understanding and using natural colors: Seasonal change: images and color ; Nature's color on the image scale ; The colors of nature: a technique checklist ; Painters who learned from nature ; Combining artificial and natural colors --
4. Color-combination techniques: Color and the three psychological axes ; Color combination techniques & the image scale ; Color combinations from single colors ; The psychology of images --
5. Color for personal and business settings: Taste and lifestyle: 8 color types ; Color and daily life ; Color and image planning --
Hue and tone system: 130 color names --
Fashion image scale --
Interior image scale --
Major European sites visited for research.
