Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series, focuses on expressive on-location use of color.

Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color Author: Shari Blaukopf  Keys Key I — BasicsTools Brushes, pens, pencils, ink, palette, paper, paintsTerms Vocabulary of color: value, hue, saturation, complementary, analogous, triad Illustration: color wheel  Key II — Pigments and Color mixingAn urban sketchers paletteChoosing colorsColor mixingUnderstanding your pigments: Transparency and opacity  Key III — Color and ValueThe importance of whiteThe power of darksHigh key sketchesLow key sketchesAtmospheric Perspective  Key IV  — Limited Color PalettesMonochrome (Practice using only one color)Triads (Limit yourself to the primaries)Black plus one color (Choose a dark pigment and add an accent color)Pure color  Key V — Color SchemesComplementaryAnalogousSplit ComplementaryUnity through color  Key VI — Neutral ColorMixing greysMixing browns  Galleries   Gallery I — Mood and atmosphere Gallery II  — Expressive color Gallery III — Light and shadow Gallery IV — Using a variety of media