The New Color Mixing Companion

Author: Josie Lewis
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1631595490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
The New Color Mixing Companion is a modern, hands-on guide to working with color featuring approachable projects that each explore a different aspect of color mixing. In The New Color Mixing Companion, artist and popular Instagrammer Josie Lewis (@josielewisart) offers easy lessons and exercises on how to mix color and create exciting palettes. This comprehensive guide starts with a crash course in essential terminology and visual vocabulary, then shows you how to go beyond the wheel and basic theory with hands-on projects that illustrate and illuminate a variety of color elements and techniques. The materials used—including watercolor and acrylic paints, and found or purchased collage papers—are accessible, inexpensive, and readily available. Plus, this art guide includes easy-to-use templates featured in many of the projects; their modern geometric layouts yield stunning color arrangements. With The New Color Mixing Companion, artists, crafters, and designers of all skill levels will learn to take color in a whole new direction!

Colour Mixing Guide

Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781268096
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
A clear, comprehensive guide to colour mixing for the watercolour artist. It begins with simple colour theory and a colour wheel, with a template provided so that readers can paint their own; a vital step towards understanding colour. There is vividly illustrated guidance on complementary, warm and cool colours, colour tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and factoring in local colour. There follows an array of essential colour mixes using widely available Winsor & Newton colours. A beautifully presented and practical guide to understanding and mixing colours. Watercolour artists from beginners to more experienced painters will find this a handy, comprehensive guide.

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

Author: William F Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster
ISBN: 1600582834
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Just when you thought there was no hope of ever finding a comprehensive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists, along comes the 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor! This collection of Walter Foster's bestselling Color Mixing Recipes books, including Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, and the most recent addition, Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. This incredible collection comes in a user-friendly concealed spiral-bound format that is tabbed for quick and easy reference. Aspiring artists will also find two removable color mixing grids--one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor.

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958789196
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists primaries - give new colours when mised. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis. In this exciting new book, Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment of the principles underlying colour mixing. It is the first major break-away from the traditional and limited concepts that have caused painters and others who work with colour so many problems. Back Cover.

Colour Mixing Bible

Author: Ian Sidaway
Publisher: Gardners Books
ISBN: 9780715318232
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
This book helps artists understand how to mix colours in different mediums and how colour can help to develop their work. Artworks illustrate how to put theory into practice and it is suitable for beginners or professional artists.

The Cookie Companion

Author: Georganne Bell
Publisher: Front Table Books
ISBN: 9781462116959
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Craft the ultimate cookie creations for holidays and parties! In this comprehensive guide, master sugar artist and internationally popular blogger Georganne Bell shares all her insider tips and inspiring ideas. Learn how to create decadent designs and colorful cookies that look and taste amazing! With a wealth of resources you won't find elsewhere, this book is perfect for beginning decorators and seasoned pros alike.

Color Mixing in Acrylic

Author: David Lloyd Glover
Publisher: Walter Foster
ISBN: 1600583881
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Color Mixing inAcrylic features a range of techniques and valuable instruction for working with and mixing color in this classic medium.

Color Mixing Swatch Book

Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780967962856
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This pocket-sized guide to quick and accurate color mixing is an essential reference for artists of all media. Inside are 2,460 printed color mixes from 12 standard artist paints. Each page features the range you can get from any two of these colors. Artists can seek out the color they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They'll also find invaluable information about every color including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colors used to attain it. The book's compact and convenient design lets artists take it anywhere, capturing the color inspiration as it hits them.

Colour Mixing Guide

Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781268088
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
This pocket-sized, practical guide has everything the acrylic artist needs to know about colour mixing, from colour theory to complementary, warm and cool colours, colour tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and local colour. There follows an array of essential colour mixes using widely available Winsor & Newton colours. Clear, practical and beautifully presented advice.

Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor

Author: William F. Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster
ISBN: 9781600588945
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for watercolor artists. With a wide spectrum of paint recipes, each revealing the color proportions and dilution level needed to achieve the featured swatch, this user-friendly book also includes a color-mixing grid that makes measuring simple. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations: Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint--for example, "Eucalyptus Bark." Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number ("293") and an example 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, mixingvalues, graying color naturally, mixing portrait colors, and more. Also available from Walter Foster's best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series: 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor; Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic; Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits; and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.