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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.

The Book

Search Press
October 2010
Paperback
1844486222 / 9781844486229
How-To Books/Painting
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2010
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