Color Harmony Pastels: A Guidebook for Creating Great Color Combinations [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Martha Gill (Author)
Key Phrases: pastel palette, color wheel

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Product Description
Pastel Colors create a world of soft elegance, fun and innocence. This wonderful new tool is created for designers, artists, and anyone presented with the challenge of selecting the perfect color scheme for a project. Focusing on the pastel-tone color palette, each chapter presents a range of 72 pastel color schemes, each unique and reflective of a pastel mood. Whether your color scheme needs to be Romantic, Warm, Calm, or Magical, this is the book that will provide you with the color inspiration you need.

--More than 700 pastel color schemes.

--Color schemes matched to specific moods provide creative inspiration for any range of color projects.

--Evocative four-color photographs Illustrate moods and color schemes.

--A color conversion chart Is Included to provide easy and accurate color matching.

From the Publisher
Pastel color schemes are invasive in today's design and decorative arts; this handy reference book provides an in-depth range of color combinations reflecting a diversity of moods and styles.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers; illustrated edition edition (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564967204
• ISBN-13: 978-1564967206
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,578,250 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great color theory for those how like pastels, September 26, 2001

By	Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is one of the best books on color theory I have found. I like pastel colors best and I am glad to have found a book specifically focused on them. The color themes really help you set the right mood and with such a variety of color combinations for each one anyone can find something to suit their taste. It has been an invaluable reference tool in helping me decorate my home.

The book starts out with a brief explanation of the color wheel and a color chart. It is then divided into several color themes. These include blush, ripe, ambrosial, sweet, appealing, fresh, calm, refreshing, charming, old-fashioned, ethereal, vivacious, iridescent and subtle. Each theme focuses on a color or group of colors such as yellow-green for fresh, violet for ethereal and blue-violet for old-fashioned. Monochromatic, analogous, complementary, clash, split-complementary, and neutral color schemes are shown in color swatches for each theme. A process color conversion chart is included in the back.

This book is set up like the Color Harmony Workbook, but has a few less color schemes for each color theme, although there are many color themes here that are not contained in Home Color Workbook. This is a great addition to those volumes or a less expensive substitute for those who just like pastels color schemes. In the back there is a process color conversion chart and 152 cut-out color swatches with CMYK information on the backs.