Discusses color relationships and the color wheel, tells how to develop color schemes, and shows a variety of painting Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal colour sense in this book. With the help of his own Quiller Wheel, a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colours, he shows artists how they can develop their own unique colour blends. Introduction 8(2) The Color Wheel 10(16) What Is a Color Wheel? 12(1) My Color Wheel Specifically 13(5) Colors on the Quiller Wheel Table of Colors and Paint Manufacturers Locating Colors on the Outside of the Quiller Wheel 18(2) Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Complements Other Pure Complementary Colors That Create Beautiful Semineutrals Locating Colors on the Inside of the Quiller Wheel 20(2) Earth Colors and Their Complements How to Find Colors Not on the Wheel Using This Color Information for Other Media Mixing Fresh, Vibrant Color 22(1) Organizing a Workable Palette 23(1) Paintings Based on a Pure Color Palette 24(2) Monochromatic and Complementary Color Schemes 26(26) The Monochromatic Color Scheme 28(10) Value and Color Relationships The Range of the Monochromatic Scheme Black White Organizing Values in a Monochromatic Color Scheme Six Studies Paintings Using the Monochromatic Color Scheme Workshop: Monochromatic Color Schemes The Complementary Color Scheme 38(14) Complements in Nature Warm and Cool Complements Creating Balance Through Warm and Cool Colors Ways to Mix a Neutral Applying Color to Create Semineutrals Semineutrals Make Pure Color Sing Dominant and Subordinate Color Six Studies Three Paintings Workshop: Complementary Color Schemes Analogous and Split Complementary Color Schemes 52(26) The Analogous Color Scheme 54(12) Using Analogous Colors in a Study Selecting Analogous Colors Analogous Color Schemes Create Harmonious Color The Full Range of the Analogous Scheme Using Dominant and Subordinate Color An Analogous Scheme in a High-Key Relationship One Pure Accent, with Two Semineutrals Analogous Semineutrals Analogous Colors of Full Intensity Six Studies Three Paintings Workshop: Analogous Color Schemes The Split-Complementary Color Scheme 66(12) Selecting Colors for the Split-Complementary Color Scheme Color Relationships in the Split-Complementary Color Scheme Mixing Semi-neutrals with the Split Complement Mixing Semineutrals with Direct Complements Color Proportions in the Split-Complementary Color Scheme Applying Split-Complementary Color in a Transparent-Opaque Manner Interaction of Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque Glazing with Split-Complementary Color Six Studies Three Paintings Workshop: Split-Complementary Color Schemes Triadic Color Schemes 78(17) Choosing Colors for a Triadic Color Scheme 80(15) Dominant, Subordinate, and Intermediate Color The Primary Triad-Yellow, Blue, and Red Secondary Triadic Color Schemes Tertiary Triadic Color Schemes Other Possibilities of Pure Hue Triads Triads Using Pure Hue and Semineutral Tube Colors Semineutral Triadic Color Schemes Three Paintings Workshop: Triadic Color Schemes Going Beyond Structured Color 95(29) Working on Location 96(8) Using the Quiller Wheel to Set Up a Palette My Painting Approach on Location Altering the Traveling Palette Other Palette Arrangements Developing Studio Paintings from On-Location Color Studies 104(6) Four Paintings Paint Applications 110(8) Glazing Methods for Transparent and Translucent Color A Controversial Combination: Transparent and Opaque Color Tips for Combining Transparent and Opaque Color Interaction of Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque Color Energizing the Painting Surface Inner Vision 118(6) Workshop: Going Beyond Structured Color Schemes Master Colorists 124(18) Dutch Painters 126(1) Rembrandt van Rijn Jan Vermeer English Painters 127(1) J. M. W. Turner William Blake Samuel Palmer Impressionists 128(2) Claude Monet Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt Postimpressionists 130(2) Paul Cezanne Vincent van Gogh Paul Gauguin Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Pierre Bonnard Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Painters 132(3) Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Winslow Homer John Singer Sargent John Henry Twachtman Arthur Melville The Eight and Its School 135(1) Robert Henri John Sloan The Taos School 136(1) More American Painters 137(4) Newell Convers Wyeth Edward Hopper George Bellows Georgia O'Keeffe Andrew Wyeth Wayne Thiebaud Wolf Kahn Historical Perspective on Color Theory 141(1) Epilogue 142(1) Bibliography 143(1) Index 144