Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition: With New Exercises, Lessons and Demonstrations

This book teaches you colour. I have no idea of putting colour or colours together either in watercolours or everyday life/ This book teaches you the basics but so much more well worth the price,

This is a beautiful book with lots of exercises and information. Great to play around with paints with this as your guide, would recommend to beginner.

Superb! Clear, concise and introduces ways of working with colour that is exciting and illuminating. There’s the doer theory for those that want it, but some excellent ideas for understanding and importantly, using, colour mixing.
I can’t recommend this book highly enough. I use it for teaching Colour on our private Foundation course.
Read it, and do the exercises. It works!

Fantastic book . Must buy for watercolour artist

Explains colour theory and a number of classic and modern palettes. Exercises to familiarise the user with theory. Very helpful and enjoyable. I found this book easier to follow that some books on colour theory. Recommend.

You can watch my video review on Youtube (Kate Amedeo Art channel).

First of all, before I go into any detail, I want to say this is is a must-have book for any artist in any medium if you are serious about your art.

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the book, it’s a paperback in a glossy cover and I got mine off Amazon for just over 13£. This is the second edition of the book, the first one was published in 1998 and had only 144 pages whereas this one has 176.

It is a very beautiful book with lots of beautiful images in it, so it’s kind of an eye candy for any artist as it is. But what’s most important about it is that it is a hands on book for any artist out there, be you a beginner or an established painter, this is a book you must have in your library.

Mrs. Leland managed to deliver clear, concise and at the same time very organized book in which every page is as invaluable as the next. It is a technical art manual aimed at teaching you everything you need to know about colour regardless the medium.

The whole book is divided into nine chapters and each chapter is divided into parts, each part taking a separate page or spread.

You do not need to read it from the beginning until the end, you can open the chapter that interests you the most at a given moment and read it but to get the most out of it I suggest you read it once from cover to cover and then can jump around or follow the exercises in order.

This brings us to the next awesome thing about this book. Not only does the author provide the theory she also gives you clear instructions on exercises. You will find 90 exercises in total, each an important lesson to learn about colour. I strongly suggest you do them all, because only by doing will you truly learn the theory.

Furthermore, you will also find eight step-by-step demonstrations on how to apply what you’ve learned.

You do not need to be in art school to understand this book, every aspect is elaborated and explained so that anyone who is a complete beginner will understand it. Another cool feature is the glossary of art terms, you will learn what’s a fugitive pigment or what reflected light is, what’s a simultaneous contrast and what are split primaries and so on.

At the end of the book you will find an index which is really handy when you are trying to look up a particular thing like saturation or opacity, or anything else, as well as an index of color exercises.

And you will also find a color index guide, giving you a list colors in all it’s hues together with pigment names and pigments they usually consist of.

Not only is this a very beautiful book, it is a wonderful reference material and a guide, to which you will be coming back again and again. If you are looking for a book that will help you learn colour theory this is the one.
First of all, before I go into any detail, I want to say this is is a must-have book for any artist in any medium if you are serious about your art.

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the book, it’s a paperback in a glossy cover and I got mine off Amazon for just over 13£. This is the second edition of the book, the first one was published in 1998 and had only 144 pages whereas this one has 176.

It is a very beautiful book with lots of beautiful images in it, so it’s kind of an eye candy for any artist as it is. But what’s most important about it is that it is a hands on book for any artist out there, be you a beginner or an established painter, this is a book you must have in your library.

Mrs. Leland managed to deliver clear, concise and at the same time very organized book in which every page is as invaluable as the next. It is a technical art manual aimed at teaching you everything you need to know about colour regardless the medium.

The whole book is divided into nine chapters and each chapter is divided into parts, each part taking a separate page or spread.

You do not need to read it from the beginning until the end, you can open the chapter that interests you the most at a given moment and read it but to get the most out of it I suggest you read it once from cover to cover and then can jump around or follow the exercises in order.

This brings us to the next awesome thing about this book. Not only does the author provide the theory she also gives you clear instructions on exercises. You will find 90 exercises in total, each an important lesson to learn about colour. I strongly suggest you do them all, because only by doing will you truly learn the theory.

Furthermore, you will also find eight step-by-step demonstrations on how to apply what you’ve learned.

You do not need to be in art school to understand this book, every aspect is elaborated and explained so that anyone who is a complete beginner will understand it. Another cool feature is the glossary of art terms, you will learn what’s a fugitive pigment or what reflected light is, what’s a simultaneous contrast and what are split primaries and so on.

At the end of the book you will find an index which is really handy when you are trying to look up a particular thing like saturation or opacity, or anything else, as well as an index of color exercises.

And you will also find a color index guide, giving you a list colors in all it’s hues together with pigment names and pigments they usually consist of.

Not only is this a very beautiful book, it is a wonderful reference material and a guide, to which you will be coming back again and again. If you are looking for a book that will help you learn colour theory this is the one.
First of all, before I go into any detail, I want to say this is is a must-have book for any artist in any medium if you are serious about your art.

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the book, it’s a paperback in a glossy cover and I got mine off Amazon for just over 13£. This is the second edition of the book, the first one was published in 1998 and had only 144 pages whereas this one has 176.

It is a very beautiful book with lots of beautiful images in it, so it’s kind of an eye candy for any artist as it is. But what’s most important about it is that it is a hands on book for any artist out there, be you a beginner or an established painter, this is a book you must have in your library.

Mrs. Leland managed to deliver clear, concise and at the same time very organized book in which every page is as invaluable as the next. It is a technical art manual aimed at teaching you everything you need to know about colour regardless the medium.

The whole book is divided into nine chapters and each chapter is divided into parts, each part taking a separate page or spread.

You do not need to read it from the beginning until the end, you can open the chapter that interests you the most at a given moment and read it but to get the most out of it I suggest you read it once from cover to cover and then can jump around or follow the exercises in order.

This brings us to the next awesome thing about this book. Not only does the author provide the theory she also gives you clear instructions on exercises. You will find 90 exercises in total, each an important lesson to learn about colour. I strongly suggest you do them all, because only by doing will you truly learn the theory.

Furthermore, you will also find eight step-by-step demonstrations on how to apply what you’ve learned.

You do not need to be in art school to understand this book, every aspect is elaborated and explained so that anyone who is a complete beginner will understand it. Another cool feature is the glossary of art terms, you will learn what’s a fugitive pigment or what reflected light is, what’s a simultaneous contrast and what are split primaries and so on.

At the end of the book you will find an index which is really handy when you are trying to look up a particular thing like saturation or opacity, or anything else, as well as an index of color exercises.

And you will also find a color index guide, giving you a list colors in all it’s hues together with pigment names and pigments they usually consist of.

Not only is this a very beautiful book, it is a wonderful reference material and a guide, to which you will be coming back again and again. If you are looking for a book that will help you learn colour theory this is the one.