1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor

Perfect and so easy to follow and learn from.

Excellent condition. Prompt delivery

This is so useful and reduced the amount of errors when cour mixing. A real go to guide only wish I brought earlier. I do not buy many art books but this is a must have.

Great reference book, well presented

The one book that was missing from my art library that no-one - either amateur or professional should be without. From a list of roughly 20 colours it shows you how to mix any colour you can think of, and I do mean any colour, for either landscapes, portraits or just about any type of painting. The section on colour mixing for portraits is fantastic; think of a skin colour, eye colour, hair colour etc. and you are given the highlight, shade, tone, or anything else you may need either side of that colour to create lifelike portraits, how to paint hair to give it depth and realism, how to paint eyes to get that watery just cried look with a glint in it. The section on landscapes shows you any colour you can think of that you might see from a daybreak to a storm cloud laden, windswept seascape storm, to a rose and lilac evening glow in a peaceful lake side mountainous cabin. Colours for plants, trees, fur, scales, in fact any texture you want to create is also listed. I can only describe this book as absolutely fantastic - buy it. Its what every artist needs, even if they don't realise they do.

Although I've been painting with watercolours and acrylics for a couple of years I only know very basic colour theory. I bought this book on a recommendation, & although the sections are well laid out & it is an excellently comprehensive colour mixing book, starting with a detailed explanation of the colour wheel, discussing secondary , tertiary, chroma, hue, value, intensity etc etc, as a relative beginner I find it slightly overwhelming. You will need to learn all the terminology in order to progress through the book. The 'paint colours needed' in order to progress through the book are quite vast (eg: 7 types of yellow in one section). As a beginner I don't own or yet fully understand this many paint shades as it would be too confusing so I work with a relatively basic palette & having spoke to others I'm not alone in this. The book does provide 'colour recipes' for everything from skin tones, hair, eyes, to landscapes which is very useful, but again this is a little confusing as there are so many 'recipes' which require so many different colours, most of which I don't own. In summary, I would say this book will be a very useful over time, but right now it's a bit confusing.

Badly needed this for my oil painting class to help stop mixing mud. It’s invaluable and helped immensely! Highly recommend for any painter. Covers water, acrylic and oil paints.

What a fantastic book! I now have the confidence to start mixing colours myself. There are so much information it surely is a brilliant book to keep for all artists.

色彩の説明から、理論、カラーレシピ・ヴァリューレシピ、肖像画の制作の為の混色の割合、 白黒での顔面での、色の変化の違い、次に肌色での顔面の色の変化の説明。口・耳・肌・鼻 眼の色のトーンの説明がされている。そして、髪の色の混色の方法。風景画の空・雲・木・山 非常に複雑な自然の持つ色の説明と、混色の方法が、掲載されている。最後に色彩の混色のグリッドが掲載されていて どの様な比率で、混色すれば、モティーフの色彩を再現出来るかどうか、自然の持つ微妙な色彩読み込む事が 出来るかどうか、本人の勉強の度合いによるだろう。色彩に関してはいい本だと思う。 オイル・アクリル・水彩での使用法が掲載されている。

I absolutely LOVE this book, it is easy to follow, comprehensive & you will learn exactly how to master the art of creating your own ulimited color palette from a limited number of initial paints. The pages are thick, so I am not sure how the "comb spiral" binding will hold up, another reviewer mentioned fully taking off the hardcover (that maybe an option), but for now it is perfect. It covers acrylic, oil & watercolor, as well as some specific color collections like landscape & portraits. Included are the templates for measuring out the appropriate paints. I thoroughly recommend this book to any aspiring artist.

It is actually a book with "color recipes".

For a painter who did not go to art school this book is like a bible.

Muy completo el libro