Artist's Toolbox · Color

**Discover the key concepts of color theory for beginning artists.**

The Artist's Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to simply replicate a piece of art, the *Artist's Toolbox* series breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve desired effects.

In *Artist's Toolbox: Color,* painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, and value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. Artists will learn how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library.