![The Color Sheets of Brown and Grouse Drab from the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color.](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/grammar-color-sheets-brown-grouse-115x115.jpg)
A Grammar of Color – Part 15: The Color Sheets – Brown, Grouse Drab
There are many pages of Color Sheets in the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color. We continue with our excerpts from this book with Color Sheets 5 and 6: Millcraft Cover Paper in Brown, Antique Finish, and Bannockburn Cover in … Continue reading
![Color sheets from A Grammar of Color with Millcraft cover paper in Gray Antique Finish, and Rhododendron cover paper in Pyro Brown, Telanian Finish.](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/grammar-color-sheets-gray-pyro-brown-115x115.jpg)
A Grammar of Color – Part 14: The Color Sheets – Gray, Pyro Brown
Another excerpt from the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color. This is the second post on the section, The Color Sheets, which shows the images and descriptions for the Gray, Antique Finish Millcraft Cover Paper and Pyro Brown, Telanian Finish Rhododendron … Continue reading
![The title page for the Color Sheets section of the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color.](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/color-sheets-grammar-of-color-munsell-115x115.jpg)
A Grammar of Color – Part 13: The Color Sheets
In our series of blog posts with the contents of the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color, we have covered the introductory section by Albert Munsell, and a practical description of the Munsell Color System and how it can be … Continue reading
![A diagram of the Munsell hue circle showing principal and intermediate colors](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/munsell-hue-circle-poster-featured-115x115.jpg)
Munsell Hue Circle Poster
“Popular color names are incongruous, irrational, and often ludicrous.” – Albert Munsell Hue is the quality by which we distinguish one color from another, as a red from a yellow, a green from a blue. In science it can be … Continue reading
![The hue, value and chroma chart from the Munsell book of colors that show constants](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/munsell-book-of-color-1929-the-charts-115x115.jpg)
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: The Charts
This section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929 discusses the colors of constant hue (diagram of 10 vertical charts), value (diagram 6 radial charts) and chroma (diagram of 8 cylindrical charts). … Continue reading
![The Munsell color sphere diagram](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/balanced-color-sphere-115x115.jpg)
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: The Color Sphere
Since the three dimensions of color must be as readily understood as the three dimensions of a box, it is necessary to have in mind some simple, orderly arrangement of all colors, in which HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA are separately … Continue reading
![A detail of Veronica Winters painting My Mother](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/my-mother-detail-veronica-winters-115x115.jpg)
Color Theory in Drawing – How Value Plays An Important Role
Technically, drawing in colored pencil is simply layering semitransparent colors on paper to create vivid paintings. Every color has three qualities: temperature, intensity and value. The combination of these three qualities gives paintings an illusion of depth and form, but … Continue reading
![A diagram showing the relationship between hue, value and chroma](https://munsell.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/munsell-book-of-color-hue-value-chroma-relationship-diagram-115x115.jpg)
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Hue, Value & Chroma
This section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929 discusses the three dimensions of color: Hue, Value and Chroma. … Continue reading