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16 Lessons in Color Theory
# Lesson Name Description
o Why Color?
o Putting Color in the Brain
1 Introduction
o Learning About Color
o A Wheel of Color
o Ugly Corner in a
Cityscape
2 A Wheel of Color o Let's Expand a Bit
o Moving on to a Pastel
World
o Moving to a Pastel World
3 Colors with Pastels o Some Thoughts
o Earliest Use of Color
o Color in Ancient Egypt,
Mesopotamia, and the
Far East
o Color in Ancient Crete
o Color in Ancient Greece
o Color in Ancient Rome
o Color in Early
Christianity
4 The History of Color o Color in the
Renaissance
o Color in the 17th and
18th Centuries
o Color in the Classic
Revival Period
o Color in Impressionism
o Color in Post-
Impressionism
o Is color perspective
important?
o Distance affects all
colors
5 Color Perspective o Weather affects all
colors
o Studying color
perspective
o Exercise in color
perspective
o Color perspective in
houses/figures
o Color perspective in
foliage
o Avoid holes and
jumping-out colors
o Light and Shadow
o Studying Light and
Importance of Value in Shadow
6
Color o Color and Perception
o Optical Illusions
o Exercises in Optical
Illusion
o Effects of After-Images
o Colors and Memory
o The Meaning of Colors
7 The Meanings of Color o Symbolic Colors
o What do Colors Stand
For?
o Phsycological effects in
painting
o How to Judge your Color
Selection
o Characteristic Color
8 Phsycology of binations
o Color in Photography vs.
Painting
o Colors in Painting vs.
Colors in a Room
o Brief Survey of Painting
Media
Characteristics of o Pigments we use
9
Manufactured Colors o Opacity and
Transparency
o The Colors Yo