Introduction All of us studied the subject of coloristics approximately in the same environment and based on the similar techniques. But if you still have questions after those lessons and you hold this book in your arms, it means that you are on the half way to the systematization of knowledge and your development as a colorist. Coloristics is one of the most interesting exciting and complicated applied disciplines. Visualizers of all kinds such as designers, stylists, make-up artists use the knowledge about the color in their professional activity. It is impossible to deny the influence of color in our everyday life, color surrounds us everywhere: in the morning when we think about our outfit, in the day time when the color in the office cheers us up, in the evening when we get into the cozy atmosphere created by a good housewife. Chromatics, the word that has become anachronic, is the knowledge of color. Meanwhile, what do we know about color today? Do we know it profoundly or just replace one title with another? We have developed some practical intuition coming from our practical experience which is some sort of system like a card index with cards and ready solutions kept in our brains where complicated natural colors, wooden and nude colors are placed in separate space and still somehow miraculously match the colors of the spectral circle.As if there exists the “official” coloristics and its backstage where the above mentioned complicated compound colors do not belong to. “I’m an artist, I see it this way” let’s leave this phrase behind and move forward towards professionalism in making our knowledge structured. I decided to present my method of work with color in this book and to give you, my reader, a logic and structured understanding of color, color matching system and harmonization schemes taking you out of the labyrinths of the subject of coloristics. Fifteen years of pedagogic experience while teaching fine arts at the Fine Arts academic school and then teaching “stylist - make-up artist” courses in the beauty industry as well as working with private clients and hairstyle studios allowed me to analyze and synthesize accumulated knowledge and to offer my own vision of methodology and techniques of teaching the coloristics to professional community. I have also set a goal to captivate experienced colorists with new harmonies and color solutions by introducing my author’s color model. Please find hereby… Color model based on tint filters method by Natali Yudina.

The description of color model by Natali Yudina Let’s have a look at the formation of a twelve-part spectral color circle of Johannes Itten. Three colors – red, yellow and blue – lie in its basis. Mixed in 50/50 proportion primary colors give a secondary range of colors – orange, green and violet. Primary and secondary colors mixed in the same proportion give tertiary colors. Thus, we have twelve encircled colors that flow harmoniously from one color to another. Color model No 1 by Natali Yudina consists of 6 lists based on twelve-part color circle. Each list has a tint filter of red, blue, yellow, green, orange and violet colors applied over.