Complete Colour Mixing Guide
by John Barber
Whether
you work in acrylics, oils or watercolors here is a book that can
help will all your mixing problems. See how a palette of just 25
colors can expand to one of 2400 different shades for your paintings.
By mixing just two colors together from 25 basic ones a whole spectrum
of color appears in this useful little book. Earlier Search Press
has published several similar volumes for those who work with just
one of the above types of paint, but here is a new book that shows
what can be done with all three but in a different way as outlined
above. The book starts with a brief description of all three media,
and then shows different color wheels and how colors harmonize with
each other in a variety of different paintings. Seeing it this way
was helpful; color wheels on their own can be rather abstract things
that are not always easy to apply in this way to actual artwork.
Then follows three sections on each medium, showing and naming all
25 colors and also showing a restricted palette of just six colors
for beginners and talking too about brushes and what to paint onto.
After that the pages show each color, and what it looks like mixed
with a variety of other colors in varying quantities. As somebody
who has never been very good at mixing paint I can recommend this
book, which takes a lot of the guesswork and wastage out of the
mixing process.
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The
Book |
Search Press |
October 2010 |
Paperback |
1844486222 / 9781844486229 |
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The
Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2010 |
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