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

by William F. Powell

Book Overview

Essential color-mixing recipes for oil and acrylic painting in a convenient lay-flat format. No more guessing at colors only to end up with a muddy mess and wasted paint Color Mixing Recipes for Oil &... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560108738
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book for mixing colors

If you've ever wanted to know how to mix colors or what colors to mix to get a color you want, this is the book for you. It's easy to follow and its spiral binding makes it very user-friendly. I'd recommend this book to any artist or wanta-be artist!

The infinit possibilities of color

This book does not teach how to mix, quantities and such but how color mixes. It shows the different possibilities in color mixing. The ratios of each color is up to the painter.

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Very useful book. Even though I majored in art in college, I didn't learn all that's in this book. It's changed the appearance of my paintings totally. I love it. I'm already ordering the one for portrait colors too. Very easy to use, with quick, exciting results. Someone mentioned that the colors were "out of date," referring to Hansa Yellow in particular. Hansa Yellow is a pretty standard color in the artist's palette, and not out of date. Colors may go out of date in fashion, but not on an artists palette.

Colour Mixing Recipes

This is an excellent book for painters just starting out, or painters in general. Mixing recipes for more than 450 colour combinations. This book is a Must.

Color Mixing Recipes

I do like spiral-bound books which feature either brushstrokes or in this case, recipes, as the pages lie flat (there is no spine to flatten or pages which keep flipping at a vital stage). The book starts with a general overview of color theory but doesn't get obsessive about it. Then come the recipes which are clear, easy to understand and there is a plastic color mixing grid at the back to help get the proportions accurate. The book deals with Oils but there is a conversion chart for Acryllics included. At 49 pages and with a hardcover, it is compact and easy to carry. I liked the over all format of the book which also includes a small section on Portrait Colors.