For artists interested in using colour in a new way, this two-part book offers a fresh, comprehensive approach to understanding colour in painting. Part one starts with the basics and teaches, rung by rung, many concepts including colour, value, and the use of red, yellow, and blue to build three-dimensional form. Tools given in part one form the foundation for part two's lessons in "temperature painting", an original method created by the author using warm and cool colours. The instructions are easy to follow, step by step, and fully illustrated with beautiful finished pieces by various artists and the author, an accomplished artist who teaches workshops nationally and whose commissioned portraits and paintings are in many private collections.