Color Influencing Form (A Color Coursebook)

Book excerpt: 'Color Influencing Form' offers a compact, comprehensive and inexpensive coursebook for the study of color in art and design. In 35,000 words it methodically covers all basic color theory for visual artists and designers, including relationships between light sources, surfaces and vision, visual illusions, and symbolic and functional aspects of color. It further proposes how color can be examined creatively in relation to the perception of form, including figure-ground division, contour, tone and texture, opacity and transparency, spatial ambiguity, and perspective of color, detail, size, and shape. Roy Osborne is an artist and author of books on color. He has lectured at over 200 colleges worldwide. In 2003 he received the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain), and in 2019 received the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association.