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

1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists. This user-friendly spiral-bound book is tabbed for quick and easy reference and includes two removable color-mixing grids—one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations: Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Broccoli.” Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“81”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture. Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color. Mix the color. It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about color theory , color value mixing , graying color naturally , mixing flesh and portrait colors , and rendering skies and clouds . Also available from Walter Foster‘s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series : Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.