bFrom iNew York Timesi best-selling author of the iDinotopiai series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book is the follow up to the acclaimed iImaginative Realism How to Paint What Doesn't Existi.b pJames Gurney, iNew York Timesi best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows iImaginative Realismi with his second art-instruction book, iColor and Light A Guide for the Realist Painteri. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, iColor and Lighti bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. A glossary, pigment index, an