Colour: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (2nd Edition)
Colour: A Workshop for Artists and Designers is a practical guide for color application, available as a digital PDF and available for instant download.
In this edition by David Hornung, you work through guided topics on how color is perceived and organized, including digital color considerations.
After purchase, access is available immediately through supported Kindle apps and reading software.
Book Overview
Colour: A Workshop for Artists and Designers is organized into parts that move from seeing color to first principles, then into workshop-style studies and assignments.
The contents include sections on how we perceive color, the structure of color, color schemes and proportion, and color interaction, along with later sections on color research and interpretation.
Third-party credits listed in the front matter include a foreword by Jennifer Maloney and videos referenced as accessible from icons in the book.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Seeing color topics such as the visible light spectrum, color perception, and color constancy.
- First principles including hue, value, saturation, and color wheels, plus notes on color on the computer screen.
- The color workshop with paint, computer-based color studies, and an illustrated glossary.
- Beginning color studies such as chromatic darks, mixing through intermixing, and swatch-based exercises.
- Color schemes and proportion, including color proportion and color harmony.
- Color interaction topics such as afterimages, Josef Albers, and separating colors with line.
Why This Book Matters
This workshop-style approach ties color theory to studio practice and to structured experimentation.
The table of contents includes both handmade and digital assignments, reflecting color study across different working contexts.
Later sections address meaning and describing color, supporting both visual work and written analysis.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 83.2 MB (87285008 bytes) |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 316 |
| Title | Colour |
| Author | David Hornung |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Imprint | An imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd |
| Publisher | Laurence King Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Address | 4th Floor, 361–373 City Road, London EC1V 1LR |
| Publication date | 2021 (This edition published in 2021.) |
| First published | 2004 |
| Second edition published | 2012 |
| Third edition note | There is a newer edition of this item: Color Third Edition: A workshop for artists and designers |
| ISBN-13 | 978 1 52942 452 2 |
| ISBN-10 | 1856698785 |
| ISBN-13 (alternate listing) | 978-1856698788 |
| Commissioning Editor | Kara Hattersley-Smith |
| Senior Editor | Andrew Roff |
| Copy Editor | Alison Effeny |
| Picture Researcher | Peter Kent |
| Design | Lozana Rossenova |
| Cover design | Lozana Rossenova |
| Cover image | Deborah Zlotsky, Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight, oil on canvas, 2012 (Detail) |
| Printed in | China |
| Foreword | Jennifer Maloney |
| Videos note | Videos can be accessed by clicking the icon next to ‘See here for video demonstration’ |
| Illustrated Glossary note | Color terms that can be found in the Illustrated Glossary appear in capital letters |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download. There is no physical shipping.
Access is available after purchase, and the PDF works with appropriate Kindle apps and reading apps on tablets, desktop, and mobile devices.
No printing is promised.
FAQ
How do I access my book?
After purchase, you can download the digital PDF and open it with compatible reading software.
Is there a printed copy?
No. This listing provides a digital download only.
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It should work with supported Kindle apps and other reading apps on common devices.
Please review the included format and details above, then download the PDF at your convenience.
Verified Bibliographic Details
| PDF title (metadata) | Colour |
|---|---|
| PDF author (metadata) | David Hornung |
| Native text pages (local analysis) | 6 |
| Locally OCR-read pages (local analysis) | 3 |
| Unreadable pages (local analysis) | 1 |
| Page count | 316 |
| File type | |
| Edition | Third Edition (front matter), with this edition published in 2021 and second edition published in 2012 |
| Imprint website | www.laurenceking.com/student/ |
| ISBN-13 (front matter) | 978 1 52942 452 2 |
| ISBN-10 (web listing) | 1856698785 |
| ISBN-13 (web listing) | 978-1856698788 |
| Cover image credit | Deborah Zlotsky, Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight, oil on canvas, 2012 (Detail) |
| Contents structure | PART ONE: SEEING COLOR; PART TWO: FIRST PRINCIPLES; PART THREE: THE COLOR WORKSHOP; PART FOUR: BEGINNING COLOR STUDIES; PART FIVE: COLOR SCHEMES & COLOR PROPORTION; PART SIX: COLOR INTERACTION; PART SEVEN: COLOR HARMONY; PART EIGHT: APPLYING COLOR PRINCIPLES; PART NINE: COLOR RESEARCH; PART TEN: COLOR EXPERIENCE & INTERPRETATION; PART ELEVEN: FREE STUDIES |
| Videos note (front matter) | Videos can be accessed by clicking the icon next to ‘See here for video demonstration’ |
| Illustrated Glossary note (front matter) | Color terms that can be found in the Illustrated Glossary appear in capital letters |
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