Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic: Mixing recipes for more than 450 color combinations

Haven’t gotten around to using this yet. Great book. Well made, great variety of color mixes, at a glance. I’ve oil painted for 40 years. Was looking to be able to mix for different colors without buying dozens of them. Satisfied it will definitely help with that.

When I started painting, I didn't realize I needed this book. Someone recommended it. Now I can create the exact color I want, and if I decide to make more of that color later, I can just look up the recipe again. This book has been indispensable for me. I highly recommend it.

So well laid out. It's jam-packed with information in a logical manner. The spiral cover was an unexpected bonus. And the pages are thick and sturdy.

This author has done a series of small inexpensive books on color mixing related subjects; I suggest they be combined into one large book of medium cost, which is simpler than carrying around a number of small books. On the downside, the author wants you to have several dozen relatively rare colors which are going to cost you a couple of hundred dollars to use his system (unless you already have all these colors). I suggest in a rewrite he simplify it to say 40 different colors to be used as the starting point, not the current 60-70 colors. One book in many recipes calls for "permanent blue" which apparently doesn't exist and is an obsolete term for ultramarine, if I understand it correctly; the book never says. Overall I found the books useful and they will save you a lot of time after you acquire the 70 or so paint colors he uses. I use them alot.

Not exactly on my game with mixing colors to get what I want. This book is very good, and using it has upped may paint mixing game. The only trouble for me, is I didn't have a lot of the specific colors needed for some of the color mixes I needed, so I had to buy more. Not at all the fault of the book, but more about my lack of paint inventory to work with.

No complaints about the price. Easy directions for mixing are included.

This book is not just a book but a "tool" to learn to mix paints. We bought this for my daughter for Christmas along with a paint set and canvases, and she has already put it to good use. While most how-to books have a lot of fluff, this gets right to the point with recipes. The best part is the guide in the back, that shows you exactly how much a "Part" is, when called for in a recipe. It is really fool-proof and easy for a beginner to use.

Not at all what I needed or expected.

Offre mix utili per creare i colori giusti

Eine umfangreiche Sammlung wie man bestimmte Farben und Töne anmischt. Sehr ausführlich und einfach zu befolgen.

Sí me ha gustado. Para modelismo.

Niet geschikt voor me

Ah, now it is rather hard to review this as I have never been good with paints or drawing! My talents lie in writing fiction and non-fiction and making stunning crystal jewellery. However, I recall a movie I saw when I was about 13 called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" which I saw in the 1950s! I never forgot that wonderful movie, and have always had a love for this character and her little friends, the 7 dwarves. I recall making little statues to help my mum out as she had 8 children and we was very poor. She bought the moulds and plaster and I made little holy statues from the moulds and we used to go round with an old pram and knock on the doors! And yes! They all sold well, so I decided to have another go all these years later and I bought Snow White and her 7 friends in latex rubber and she is 9 inches tall and the dwarves are 5 inches each so I was thrilled and have bought paints etc as I go along. I noticed with most of the paints including two boxes I bought from Amazon, they don't appear to have pastel shades at all??? Like for painting flesh colours etc! I ended up sending off for 16 pastel tubes, so yes I am on my way lol. The book? Well,for its price I thought it was BRILLIANT! Simply because the material was perfect, lovely thick laminated shiny boards on a spiral, the whole book from beginning to end was well made, a decent size. However, I did "get some of what the guy was talking about" but I was expecting a book that said for example "mix ……. and ……. to make the colour...…….. but it wasn't quite like that! ha ha. But yes, with reading it a bit more I am sure I will get the hang of it, and def a 5 star rating from me, for the simple way it was laid out and the perfection of the book itself, it's a shame a lot of books aren't made like this, because they are so easy to open and lay out flat instead of the pages "bouncing back and closing up!" Yes I highly recommend it, I did at least understand some of it, so I am satisfied.