Color Workbook

Color Workbook presents a wide-ranging overview of color theory and design combined with student activities that reinforce color concepts through hands-on experience. The formal and content-oriented approach to color covered in the workbooks allows students to use color both technically and as an expressive tool. As an artist and an art educator, Becky Koenig teaches color theory and applies these color concepts in her painting practice. This text conveys the history, theoretical concepts and use of color in art and design, through a variety of color systems, rather than a singular viewpoint. The workbook covers the expanding field of electronic color and discusses color in terms of art history and contemporary art. It includes a variety of student activities that have proved successful in the classroom.

Color Workbook is both a color theory reference and a workbook of hands-on color and design theoretical studies. The first part of the book emphasizes Color Study, a thorough exploration of the understanding of color as an art element. Topics include the attributes of color (hue, value, and saturation), the elements of design, the principles of design, designing with color, and color in art. For artists and designers, who can use the book as a reference and a self guided studio course in color theory.