Color in 40 Pages - art community version

 For the first time in weeks I woke up with nothing to add to my color notes. 

If you have suggestions, please share. If this version is solid, I'll break it into sections with running heads and turn it into a PDF. 2023 January 10: polished community version with improvements to Design Notes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12McGqItmmbJE_uP-uIC-jcPhk8xCZoiT/view?usp=share_link

Color illustration by Lichtenberg from Tobias Mayer, who proposed a three dimensional model of color over two hundred years ago. 



Old link to previous file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e4L7lI4ssqhhQU6LzlABg4h2GTQawVaj/view?usp=share_link




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