#BOOK PALETTE COLOR PDF#
#BOOK PALETTE COLOR PLUS#

You will not gain all the secrets to the various colours of the rainbow in this book, but you will gain an appreciation for how much knowledge has been lost or corrupted over the centuries and how hard it was to develop simple things like colours that we take for granted today.This book is recommended for anyone who has ever painted or dyed - you'll get a new appreciation for those people in the past whose skills we probably really don't truly appreciate today. One thing this book does is show the unreliability of mythic stories on the source of various colours and the secrecy and economic strength these dyes and paints held for various people throughout the centuries.

#BOOK PALETTE COLOR PLUS#

Through numerous anecdotes and stories we go hunting for things like the source of Indian Yellow, the lapis lazuli mines of Afghanistan, and the delicate green of the celadon porcelains of China. 1-48 of over 1,000 results for 'color palette book' RESULTS The Pocket Complete Color Harmony: 1,500 Plus Color Palettes for Designers, Artists, Architects, Makers, and Educators by Tina Sutton 138 Paperback -14137915. If you've ever painted or dyed fabrics have you ever wondered where your colours originated? This book takes you on a journey through a painting and dye rainbow. This is, I think, especially true of artists who may not know much about the colors they use in their work.

#BOOK PALETTE COLOR PDF#

The reader will find enough local 'color' and interesting tidbits to make the hours very pleasant indeed. Explore more than 10 million color schemes perfect for any project Collect, manage and export your palettes with ease from your new dashboard Pro Profile, a new beautiful page to present yourself and showcase your palettes, projects and collections Get advanced PDF export options like shades, hues, color blindness, etc. 'Color: A Natural History of the Palette' is a good book to curl up with at night or to read on an airplane. This handy fan deck takes the guesswork out of using color in bold and innovative new ways. I found these to be fascinating and to add interest to a book that might have been a dry compendium of facts about chemicals. The book is (as noted) also a personal travel narrative with lots of side trips. From cochineal (I might note here that as an entomologist I was somewhat discouraged by her apparent inability to decide whether to call the source a beetle or a bug- it is a BUG! - the one clinker in an otherwise well done book), through madder as a source of orange, saffron for yellow, and on to lapis lazuli for blue, etc. In the process she introduces the reader to all manner of exotic and little-known, but delightful facts, peoples and places. Victoria Finlay has taken a subject that is very important, but seldom discussed - namely how did we get the colors used by artists for painting - and wove it into a personal account of her travels to find their sources.

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