1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor: Achieve precise color when painting landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more - Softcover

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, a 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.

Follow these 4 simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations:

STEP ONE Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Broccoli.”

STEP TWO Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“81”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture.

STEP THREE Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.

STEP FOUR Mix the color. It’s that easy!

Also Includes Instruction in Color Theory, Color Value Mixing, Graying Color Naturally, Mixing Flesh and Portrait Colors, Rendering Skies and Clouds.

The plastic Color Mixing Grids (included) ensure accurate paint measurements!