Simply Color Therapy


Book Description

Provides information on the practical and spiritual applications of color, covering such topics as improving health with colored light, interpreting personalities through the colors they wear, and decorating with color to create moods.




Simply...color


Book Description

Simply Color is one of those books that comes along once in a great while. It is a deceptively simple examination of how color works on our bodies, minds and souls, and offers several methods of accessing the power of color from color breathing to color cards, to color sprays and everything in between. The Color Chart is a wonderful and quick way to see how to use color daily for support and change, while the chapter on Feng Shui and Healing with Color is direct, simple, and effective. This book deserves to be in the library of anyone who loves color, wants to change their life, or who simply wants to learn about the nature and language of color. Beautiful color photos, simple but profound descriptions of the character of each color, and several practical exercises are included in this book along with a great resource section and reading list. Don't miss this one it is a gem.




Simply Color - Purple


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Who wouldn't want a rainbow on their shelf? This yummy series is all about design and meant to build into a sweet complete collection for any crafter's sewing room. The tactile 8 x 8 hardcover format is irresistible and the books are packed with beautiful, minimal photography that combine the thrill of a new box of crayons with practical color theory and instructions for six patchwork projects. Combine great packaging, fabulous projects and a best-selling pattern and fabric designer as an author and you have a winning combination. At is simplest, each book is an exploration of color. By understanding the fundamentals of colorwork and successful color combinations, the first part of these books will celebrate a single color. The second part of the book features 6 patchwork projects (4 quilts and 2 small projects) that showcase that single color through a series of one or two colored projects. Simple piecing appeals to a broad range of quilters, from those looking for a quick project through to an intermediate of adventurous beginner.




Color Therapy Plain & Simple


Book Description

This book provides a full spectrum of information from the practical to the spiritual. Find out how to decorate with color to create specific moods. Learn how to dress for success and interpret others' personalities by the colors they wear. Improve your health by using colored lights and color-based meditations and visualizations and eating foods of certain color.




Color on Color


Book Description

Bringing together simple techniques and beautiful natural fabrics with elegant but easy-to-work designs, this workbook offers first-time stitchers and experienced embroiderers alike a hands-on guide for injecting garments and accessories with a marvelous palette of color. Simple hand-worked embroidery, exquisite natural fabrics, and several cross-craft techniques combine to create 12 striking projects with 20 elegant and contemporary designs. The embroidery projects, each presented with step-by-step instructions and color illustrations, include a floral motif on a pair of Mexican-style espadrilles, a bull's-eye pillow created in multicolored wool applique, a beaded evening bag, a crazy patchwork cover for books and pillows, a heart applique quilt for a children's bed, traditional floral motifs for a shirt or pair of jeans, and a flame-stitch canvas pillow.




52 Words


Book Description

52 WORDS is a beautifully illustrated Inspirational Coloring Book that includes a selection of words that have the power and potential to transform your life. Each word is illuminated with a floral motif either as a border or woven through the word itself and includes a corresponding scripture to ponder. So whether you are looking to choose your ONE WORD to focus on for the year, to focus on ONE WORD a week throughout the year, or just simply wanting to color the words randomly for a time of rest and reflection... you will love this coloring book!Also included is a journal page after every coloring page to give you space to... * understand what that word means to you * focus on how this word might transform your life * and discover if this word reflects what God wants to do in you and through youSo if you love spending creative time with God, you will enjoy the different levels of detail included in each of the 52 Words and the opportunity it gives you to focus on life-giving words to feed your soul and spirit! Perfect for small groups and women's ministries as well as individual alone time!




Color


Book Description

Approaches color from a photographer's perspective with a mix of practical theory, technical information, and solid advice on how to apply these details in all genres of photography--landscapes, portraits, lifestyle, sports, or wildlife. You will learn about: color in the frame, including guiding the eye and composing with color; manipulating color with white balance, artificial lighting, and exposure; creating visual depth with complementary colors, dominant/recessive colors, and contrast; the meaning of color and how red, blue, green or purple can push emotions; conditions for shooting color and the best times of day, and best practices for handling color in post processing.







The Keys to Color


Book Description

This book is for decorators. inspired amateurs, working painters and artisans who seek to enhance their knowledge of color as it is used over large areas like walls and ceilings. Discover a different approach to color than that written for artists. Although the rules of color stay the same, the lighting and scale of interior design needs creative methods. Learn how to make your own colors, match existing colors and fix them if they are wrong. Begin by learning how to see colors and how to understand why they act the way they do. Delve into advanced topics like pigment qualities, options and choices to the way pigments react with each other and why. This is the first time in eighty years that practical color theory has been addressed for architecture. Many of the materials used for interior design like paint, plasters, glazes and stains are explained in detail. Develop an understanding of advanced color topics like constructing complex and full-spectrum colors, working with metallic and mica paints, and using color in interior design.




Contemporary Color in the Landscape


Book Description

Color is the first and most important design choice a garden designer makes. Over the past decade, landscape architects and garden designers have moved away from the more sedate shades commonly found in traditional gardens and have used plants and hardscape to experiment with explosions of color. From the layered and textural colors of Piet Oudolf to the high contrast colors of Tom Stuart Smith, this increased focus on color is a trademark of today's leading designers. Contemporary Color in the Landscape explores the whole spectrum of color: how we perceive and respond to color, how to design with color, how to manipulate contrast and create intensity with saturation, how to maximize impact by minimizing color, how to find your own personal color combinations, and how color is viewed in nature. In gorgeous, color-drenched photos Andrew Wilson showcases the work of leading garden designers as inspiring examples of the way color is used. Innovative gardens from all over the world help the reader visualize the core color lessons throughout the book. Supported by more than 300 stunning photographs, Contemporary Color in the Landscape integrates cutting-edge designers, their landscapes, color theory, new design ideas, and gorgeous photography into one inspirational, instructional, and must-have guide for design professionals.