diff --git a/engine/core/painting/Color.dart b/engine/core/painting/Color.dart
index 65ed9be1db6..266145ec18e 100644
--- a/engine/core/painting/Color.dart
+++ b/engine/core/painting/Color.dart
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 part of dart.sky;
 
 class Color {
-  const Color(this._value);
+  const Color(int value) : _value = (value & 0xFFFFFFFF);
   const Color.fromARGB(int a, int r, int g, int b) :
-    _value = (((a & 0xff) << 24) |
-              ((r & 0xff) << 16) |
-              ((g & 0xff) << 8) |
-              ((b & 0xff) << 0));
+    _value = ((((a & 0xff) << 24) |
+                ((r & 0xff) << 16) |
+                ((g & 0xff) << 8) |
+                ((b & 0xff) << 0)) & 0xFFFFFFFF);
 
   final int _value;
   int get value => _value;
diff --git a/tests/raw/color_bounds-expected.txt b/tests/raw/color_bounds-expected.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..833a2ab4c8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/raw/color_bounds-expected.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+CONSOLE: unittest-suite-wait-for-done
+CONSOLE: PASS: paint set to black
+CONSOLE: PASS: color created with out of bounds value
+CONSOLE: PASS: color created with wildly out of bounds value
+CONSOLE: 
+CONSOLE: All 3 tests passed.
+CONSOLE: unittest-suite-success
+DONE
diff --git a/tests/raw/color_bounds.dart b/tests/raw/color_bounds.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..aa63d2b6c3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/raw/color_bounds.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import 'dart:sky' as sky;
+
+import '../resources/third_party/unittest/unittest.dart';
+import '../resources/unit.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  initUnit();
+
+  test("paint set to black", () {
+    sky.Color c = new sky.Color(0x00000000);
+    sky.Paint p = new sky.Paint();
+    p.color = c;
+    expect(c.toString(), equals('Color(0x00000000)'));
+  });
+
+  test("color created with out of bounds value", () {
+    try {
+      sky.Color c = new sky.Color(0x100 << 24);
+      sky.Paint p = new sky.Paint();
+      p.color = c;
+    } catch (e) {
+      expect(e != null, equals(true));
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("color created with wildly out of bounds value", () {
+    try {
+      sky.Color c = new sky.Color(1 << 1000000);
+      sky.Paint p = new sky.Paint();
+      p.color = c;
+    } catch (e) {
+      expect(e != null, equals(true));
+    }
+  });
+}