When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

"1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists. This user-friendly compendium is color coded for quick-and-easy reference and includes two removable color-mixing grids--one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations: 1) Look in the Color Index for the subject you want to paint--for example,...

When her pets turn pink, a young girl has a hard time finding them in her pink bedroom.

"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--

Painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic colour theory. Topics include the colour wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, colour relationships, and colour mixing. Artists will learn how colour captures mood and helps communicate meaning as well as how to use colour to create personal, expressive works of art.

Twelve poems reflect the author's feelings about various colors.

Vincent's animal friends disagree on how he should paint his house, so Vincent comes up with a colorful solution.

"Capture all the hues of the garden with a few simple brushtrokes and Lorene Edwards Forkner’s inspirational advice on observing color in nature, painting with watercolor, and gardening with joy and intention. If you love flowers and the rich colors of the garden, Color In and Out of the Garden is for you. Artist and garden expert Lorene Edwards Forkner shares her simple watercolor techniques for capturing every lovely hue in a miniature artwork....

A rabbit assists a little girl in creating a beautiful and bountiful gift basket. "La protagonista de este libro tiene un problema. Al principio, no parece que el Sr. Conejo pueda ayudarla demasiado, porque todos sabemos que no puedes regalarle a tu madre por su cumpleaños un tejado rojo, ni un taxi amarillo, ni un gusano verde, ni un lago azul. Pero lo que había dicho la niña era que a su madre le gustaba el rojo, el amarillo, el verde y el azul,...