- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Good Design: Planning, Process
- Research
- Brainstorming
- Thumbnail Sketches
- Value Patterns
- Color Swatches (Your Palette)
- Color Thumbnails
- Voila!
- Chapter 2 How to Use Paint!
- Get Started
- General Must-Dos
- Troubleshooting
- Answering Your Questions
- Elements and Principles of Design
- Chapter 3 Two Mixing Systems, Color Qualities, and Design Fundamentals
- Part 1: Mixing Systems
- Part 2: Color Qualities or Properties
- Part 3: Design Fundamentals
- Chapter 4 Create the Color Wheel
- Parent Colors and Middle Mixtures
- Color Schemes
- "3/4" Mixtures
- Let's Start Mixing the Primary Colors
- Basic Formulas
- Questions
- Chapter 5 One Hue, Many Colors
- Color Chordings
- Gray Scale
- Tints and Shades of a Hue
- Tints and Shades Chording
- Tones Two Ways
- Creating One Hue, Many Colors
- Specifics about Depth and Atmospheric Perspective
- Temperature Chording
- Chapter 6 Starting the Magic: Translucency Illusion
- The Research
- The Translucency Exercises
- The Composition
- Chapter 7 Color Relativity, Color Identity, and the Bezold Effect
- What Influences Color Perception
- To Start the Exercises
- "One Color as Two"
- "Two Colors as One"
- Moving On, the Bezold Effect
- The Bezold Effect in Action
- In Your Process Book
- Chapter 8 Color Deconstruction (Optical Mixing)
- Introduction
- Color in Shadows
- How Do I Achieve Gestalt in My Color Deconstruction Designs?
- Chapter 9 Create Mood, Camouflage an Object
- To Get Started with the Process
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Art Credits
