Color

The New Munsell® Student Color Set, 3rd Edition

  • ©2011
  • 205 Pages
  • Three-ring binder | 8 x 10 | full color | Hue Value/Chroma Chart | 11 Munsell Color Charts | 15 Interactive Charts | 14 Packets of Color Chips
  • 978-1-60901-156-7
$75.00
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Adaptable to both studio and lecture courses and appropriate for all student levels from beginner to advanced, The New Munsell Student Color Set, 3rd Edition is a genuine learning aid that offers opportunities for experimenting with color effects using paint, paper and computers. A full-color interactive and experimental guidebook for understanding color in all its dimensions, it includes 11 Munsell color charts, 15 interactive charts, 14 packets of color chips and a textbook, all designed to facilitate hands-on learning of color's aspects and effects. The text provides a complete study of color use and color science, including extended discussion of visual perception, optical effects, and practical application of color phenomena in fine and applied art practices.
  • Interactive and experiential charts and chips are presented in an easy-to-use binder format
  • Chapter elements include a list of key terms, objectives, summaries, and assignments and exercises
  • Text is flexible and adaptable to all kinds of art and design courses, as well as individual study

New to This Edition
  • Discussions of the application of theory in works of art and design
  • Expanded full-color art program
  • Interactive charts with additional color chips for demonstrating complex color effects
  • New information about color symbolism, associations, and trends
  • Reorganization of the text into two parts: Color Use and Color Science
  • All chapters are independent and cross-referenced
  • Expanded discussion of additive color and exercises demonstrating manipulation of color on the computer
  • Added demonstrations and exercises using paint, paper, and computers

Instructors Resources
  • Instructor's Guide
  • PowerPoint® Presentation
Color Use
  • The Vocabulary
  • Color Anomalies, Emotional Response, Symbolism, and Trends
  • Relationships Among Colors
  • Combining Colors
  • Color in Designed Products, Installations, and Printing

  • Color Science
    • Science, Color, and Art
    • Light and Color
    • Vision and Color
    • Additive Color Mixture: Mixing Light
    • Subtractive Color Mixture: Mixing Paints

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    Jim Thomas Long is President of the color design firm JimLongConsulting. He is an architect, artist, lighting designer, state board certified interior designer, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Photography and Film and Interior Design, and retired Chair of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University. His many design projects have been installed across the USA, and his photographs, paintings, and experimental videos have been exhibited in galleries and museums, and published, internationally. Also, he is the recipient of several grants and awards.

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