Beginning with the six houses on Color Street―red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple―and concluding with the introduction of the color wheel, in this follow-up to A Book About Design Mark Gonyea explains how artists visualize and choose colors. A Book about Color uses simple building blocks of color, shape, and design to introduce young artists to the world of color theory.
A Book About Color is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Mark Gonyea was born in upstate New York and spent the majority of his childhood consuming cartoons, video games, and monster movies. He lives in Vermont.