Editor’s Note

For many years Arthur L. Guptill's Color in Sketching and Rendering has been a standard guide for the artist seeking to enlarge his knowledge of color and his ability to use it effec­tively. The volume has been out of print since 1955 after numerous re-printings. Continued interest in it impelled the publisher to plan this new book.

In the present volume, the material on color has been brought up-to-date and expanded to include the medium of oil as well as watercolor. Chap­ters on sketching and architectural rendering have been dropped so that throughout the book the focus is on color in painting.

Changes in format and new material have necessitated the use of addition­al illustrations, but the original drawings and charts have been used wherever feasible. Revisions and additions are, for the most part, drawn from Arthur Guptill's own work — his articles in American Artist magazine and his later books on oil painting and watercolor tech­nique. In the sections which are wholly new, such as those dealing with color as pigment and the most recent developments in color science, Mr. Guptill's over-all approach has been kept in mind. My close asso­ciation with Mr. Guptill over a number of years at Watson-Guptill Publi­cations and American Artist magazine has helped me in this undertaking. We have tried to make this book a useful up-to-date handbook on color, but in spirit not very different from Arthur Guptill's original. We hope — and believe — he would have approved.

Catherine Sullivan

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