How Color Works demonstrates that interest in color is alive and well and shows students of all levels how to create and use color in a sophisticated fashion. This interactive book describes how color contributes to meaning in specific masterful artworks using large full-color illustrationsand encourages students to produce color variations of their own in response. Approaching the aesthetics of color in contemporary terms, this text shows how knowledge of color theory is important for both traditional and experimental approaches to art-making.