Painting with Colour: Introduction

The  first three sections:

As anyone who has clicked on my “Post Page” will know, I have written four books: one on “drawing”, one on “painting”, one on “creativity” and one on “the science of how artists use their eyes”, which underpins much of the originality of the other parts. The volumes on drawing and painting are both divided into two books. The one on painting is divided into  “Painting with Light” and  “Painting with “Colour”. I have already Posted all the chapters of “Painting with Light”. I am now progressing to “Painting with Colour”. This Post provides an “Introduction” to this second book within a book. It starts with a list of the three subdivisions:

• Colour and feeling (Chapter 19).
• Local colour interactions (Chapters 20-24)
  
• Shadows, shading and highlights (Chapters 25 -28)

The final section of the book provides:

• Concluding syntheses based on both “Painting with Colour” and “Painting with Light”( Chapters 29-31)
  

INTRODUCTION TO BOOK 2 “PAINTING WITH COLOUR”

List of already Posted chapters from “Painting with Light”:

• Introduction: the little known Science behind the many innovative practical suggestions.
• Chapter 1 : The dogmas
• Chapter 2 : Doubts
• Chapter 3 : The nature of painting
• Chapter 4: Renaissance ideas
• Chapter 5 : New Science on offer
• Chapter 6 :  Early Modernist Painters
• Chapter 7 : The perception of surface
• Chapter 8 : Seurat and Painting with Light
• Chapter 9 : Seeing Light
• Chapter 10 : Illusory pictorial space and light
• Chapter 11 : Colour mixing – definitions and misconceptions
• Chapter 12: The colour circle: Misunderstandings
• Chapter 13 : Finding a maximum of colours
• Chapter 14 – Colour mixing made easy
• Chapter 15 – Colour mixing by layering
• Chapter 16 – Reviewing previous chapters (1)
• Chapter 17 – Reviewing previous chapters (2)
• Chapter 18 – “All you need to know about painting”-2

Other Posts on colour and light in painting:

• What are colourists? (1): Some of the many meanings of the word
• What are colourists? (2): Difference between meaning of the word for Venetian Colourists and for Modernist Colourists?
• What does the word “colour” mean?

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