Playing with Color is a highly accessible, fun approach to learning color application and principles. This hands-on book begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. It then leads to a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on color, providing the reader with a “toolkit� of ideas and skills. The awareness and sensitivity to form, color, material and craft gained through these visual experiments will increase the designer’s confidence in their personal and professional design work. This book can be used in the classroom or independently, and readers can go directly to exercises that appeal to them.

New and improved! The essential guide to the art of color Color. It has the power to set a mood, make a statement, bring a design vividly to life. Now Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it easier than ever to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional meanings of colors, their physical effects on people, and much more - all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of beautiful quilts. • A feast for the eyes - over 100 new quilt photos show how to use color effectively • A must-have reference; includes swatches of tints, shades, and tones for all 24 colors in the Ives Color Wheel • A spark for your imagination: Try out five different color schemes for each of the 24 colors

Experience the wonder of color and learn through discovery how colors mix and change.

Activity meets creativity! Striking and stylish, sporting a uniquely sophisticated die-cut, flexi-plastic binding, Play and Color in Black and White is an activity book with a difference. The bold minimalist palette almost begs kids to decorate the 96 pages with bright color and whimsical imagination, using not only their crayons but also the more than 100 fluorescent neon stickers included with the book.

Romero Britto brings the farm to life in an engaging and highly interactive new format! Children will love "coloring in" the unfinished scenes with vibrantly patterned pieces featuring Britto's bright palette. This bold, beautiful pop art book allows the reader to interact with each vibrant scene by completing Britto's art with their own choice of patterned piece. The 12 double-sided pieces are safely housed in the book's back cover and covered with a sturdy paper bellyband.

A TWIRLwind of creative activities! Comics, quizzes, and crafts—oh wow! Kid-powered creativity will be firing on all cylinders as they jump into over 100 HUNDRED imagination-sparking activities. There are... Fingerprint honeybees, monkey masks and tiger puppets, designs and décor, stories galore, things with strings, games that can be played anywhere! Scenes and characters await kids own ideas about how to color, fill-in, or finish what's on the pages.. With both clear instructions and plenty of options, kids can put their own unique stamp on everything they make. Conceived and designed with flair and imagination to spare, it's stylish, inventive and packed to the very last fun-tastic page!

The energy, bold accents, and contrasts speak for themselves in these 24 projects. In the friendly, you-can-do-it tone that is her trademark, German quilt designer Bernadette Mayr offers you new ways to think about freestyle color piecing. These new designs offer you very colorful, playful, wild, and geometric quilts to make, or to make your own by experimenting with color. A few smaller projects, like pillows and a silk evening bag, focus color play into a smaller piece. This guide also serves as a complete resource for new quilters, offering 14 lessons on the important basic quilting skills like cutting shapes, freehand machine embroidery, and quilt assembly.