Elementary Color

About this eBook

Author

Bradley, Milton, 1836-1911

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Color -- Study and teaching

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40896

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40896

Release Date

September 29, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ELEMENTARY COLOR — BY
2. 2.CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION. — PREFACE. — The Theory of Color. — Why Artists and Scientists Have Disagreed. — The Speculations of the Past. — What the Primary Teacher Needs to Consider. — Concerning the Solar Spectrum.
3. 3.Fig.1 — Six Spectrum Standards of Color. — The Color Wheel and Maxwell Disks. — The Bradley System of Color Instruction. — Color Definitions. — Practical Experiments — Illustrating the Theory of Color. — The Color Wheel. — The Color Top. — Use of the Disks. — How to Begin the Experiments. — The Old Theories Tested by Mixture of Three Pigments. — Old Theories Tested by the Color Wheel or Color Top. — Concerning the Complementary Colors. — Citrines. — Russets. — Olives. — Vermilion. — Burnt Sienna. — Raw Sienna. — Indian Red. — Classification of Harmonies. — The Work of Chevreul Reviewed. — Simultaneous Contrast. — Successive Contrast. — Mixed Contrast. — Contrasted Harmony. — Color with White. — Black with White. — Color with Black. — Colors with Gray. — Contrast of Colors. — Dominant Harmonies. — Complementary Harmonies. — Analogous Harmonies. — Perfected Harmonies. — Field's Chromatic Equivalents. — Colored Papers. — Color Teaching in The Schoolroom. — The Glass Prism. — How the Bradley Color Standards Were Chosen. — Paper Color Tablets. — Color Wheel or Top. — The Study of Tones. — Neutral Grays. — Explanation of Broken Colors. — An Exercise in Broken Colors. — Formulas for a Chart of Broken Spectrum Scales. — Certain "Color Puzzles." — Chart of Pure Spectrum Scales Completed. — The Work of Cutting and Pasting. — A Variety of Designs. — Analysis of Color Materials. — The Bradley Colored Papers. — Engine Colored Papers. — Water Colors. — Color Blindness. — Outline of a Course in Color Instruction. — The Solar Spectrum. — Pigmentary Spectrum Colors. — Study of Tones. — Broken Colors. — Complete Chart of Pure Spectrum Scales in Five Tones. — Advanced Study of Harmonies. — Water Colors. — MATERIAL FOR COLOR INSTRUCTION. — ACCESSORIES — APPARATUS — BOOKS ON COLOR. — MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL. — MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY, — Springfield, Mass.
4. 4.Footnotes:

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