Color problems

The relation of color to light is much the same as that of music to sound. Color has its many hues, its long scales of tints and shades, its true and its false chords. Mere soun...

A full review of the theories held about color is not necessary in a work of this nature, and those who have more time for and further interest in the subject will find mentione...

Colors have three principal qualities, called scientifically “constants of color,” which should be studied as a preparation for the study of the harmony of colors. These qualiti...

Given a certain amount of any color, say normal or spectral red, and wishing to make it look as bright as it can, what color shall we put with it, and how much of that color, to...

It is said that the use of agreeable and harmonious colors tends to the sanity of the whole body by strengthening the nerves; so much so, that part of the treatment of insane pa...

To continue our color study we must next ask what has been done with it in the past and how it has been used and combined. Our knowledge would be incomplete without the experien...

“And you, painter, who are desirous of great practice, understand that if you do not rest it on the good foundation of Nature, you will labor with little honor and less profit;...

Students of painting and design will find Rood’s many experiments with colors in his _Modern Chromatics_ minute and valuable, especially those on the effects of mixing paints an...