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Color: Theory, Terminology, Science, and Symbolism: Guides & Handbooks

A resource guide exploring the many facets of color

Materials & Techniques

Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques

Artists' Pigments: a handbook of their history and characteristics

Natural Dyes: sources, tradition, technology and science

Pigment Compendium: a dictionary of historical pigments

RISD faculty recommended books

	Color: a workshop approach recommended by William Miller, Painting also: Color a workshop for artists and designers (ebook)
	Enjoyment and Use of Color recommended by John Beerman, EFS
	How to use your eyes in particular chapter 27- How to look at color recommended by Leslie Hirst, EFS
	Color Theory: a guide to information sources recommended by William Miller, Painting Books on color donated by William Miller
	Color ordered: a survey of color order systems from antiquity to the present recommended by Ellen Petraits, Fleet Library

Topic exploration

Camouflage (Biology)

Color - computer graphics

Color photography

Color forecasting

Glazes-handbooks, manuals

Grisaille painting

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Subjects: Color, Common Themes, Painting

Tags: color, color theory, guides, handbooks, materials, science, symbolism