Best Color Theory Books

This masterful work in twentieth-century art education explores unique and timeless ideas of color experimentation that are valuable to specialists and a wider audience. Originally limited to a silkscreen edition, this influential resource has expanded to include over thirty color studies and Albers's unabridged text that demonstrate principles of color relativity, intensity, temperature, and more. This expanded edition celebrates Albers's iconic study and brings it to a new generation of readers.

Learn the practical methods of working with color in this much-awaited new guide by Betty Edwards, the author of the bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. This guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and how to mix and combine hues. With over 125 color images and exercises, you can learn how to balance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting, understand the psychology of color, and harmonize color in your surroundings. Accessibly unweaving color's complexity, this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.