Vinciane Lacroix

The Color of Royal Talens

The booklet “Colour, a guide to colour and color mixing” by Royal Talens

Overview

This 36 pages booklet edited by Royal Talens, very practical, gives the rudiments of color theory and explains how to use them in painting. The book is divided into 4 chapters: (I) the formation of color, (II) the color properties, (III) the mixing of colors, and (IV) the use of color in painting. The illustrations, simple and numerous, are very educational. The booklet is partially available in English here and in several languages there.

Please find below a detailed summary followed by my own opinion. Note that I do not have any financial interest in promoting this guide.

Call for participation

Are you teaching colors?

Would you be interested in participating in a series of articles on “teaching color” that will appear regularly on this blog which is an adaptation of the French blog: https://www.vincianelacroix.net/ ?

The purpose of this series is to show the variety of teachings of color, whether academic or non-academic, and the number of fields of application of this subject.

The very existence of such a series thus gives each author a visibility for the general public, in a collective framework; it allows him to express his difference, his pedagogy and the points he finds essential in his context.

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