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

I love love love this book. Mixing paint recipes for water colour, oil and acrylic. Add in guidance for landscapes, portraits, still life and I find it invaluable and inspiring. Was not sure what I was going to get and glad I purchased this wonderful book!! Also include are two colour mixing grids.!

Being fairly new to acrylics I shopped around for a good guide to colour mixing and I have to say that I am not disappointed with this book. It is a fairly comprehensive book which also includes sections on colour mixing for skin, hair, eyes and lips which is very useful for portrait painting.The book is spiral bound and the pages are wipe clean in case of spillage (always handy).I took to show my local art group and they are considering buying one for the club.

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.

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.

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.

Very good with good ideas

Very useful if you are not familiar with colour mixing.