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Color Mixing for Artists: Minimum colors for maximum effect, using watercolors, acrylics, and oils

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Perhaps the bad review was because this book is simple, easy and uncomplicated, but that's why I like it. I have many books on color theory, color mixing, and color swatches, however I keep coming back to this little book with it's simple explanations for getting various color combinations. I don't have to read an encyclopedia on primary, secondary, tertiary colors or understand everything there is know about color theory to get what I want, I like the still life photos showing various color combinations described on the accompanying pages. I like the color names and the various colors I get if I mix color A and color B, simple and easy. The color may not be a perfect match but it's always close and makes it easy for me to adjust to achieve what I want. Perhaps it isn't a text for a college course on color theory, charts and wheels but when I'm looking for a particular color or family of colors, I always find it here. This book has saved me lots of time and paint. Hope I never lose my copy but I'd buy it again if I was so unfortunate to do so.

This is the best color mixing book I have come across. I have purchased several and this one is far superior. The inromation is clear and the examples are very helpful.

I've purchased four different books to help with color mixing oil paints and this is my favorite. It gives multiple recipes to achieve the colors and tones needed for painting, is easy to read and understand, and also shows examples of colors in still lifes and actual paintings. I keep this close by for reference as I'm painting. It's a very useful book.

Great book. Easy to understand. Will say you a lot of time and paint. Definitely worth it.

Not enough information given. Vary basic, needs more work. I got this book to help me teach a college basic painting course and found that I could hardly use any of it.

At first glance this book looks very promising. I got this to help me teach my adult art students multiple ways to mix colors. I do like how the exact measurement of each color is shown. The art examples are nice and the book is layed out in an attractive way with oil, acrylic and watercolor shown. What makes the book not useful is, the odd color choices of paints. It seems dated, and not current with the newest and best light-fast (permanent) materials. For example, color manufacturers make permanent alizarin crimson, why buy the old one when it will fade in a short time? Also, the newer quinacridone reds, mauves or yellows are not mentioned. They are great colors and won't fade like colors such as Carmine. Cadmium colors are featured and they are expensive, there are better alternatives for students on a budget (new gamboge, and winsor yellow in watercolor for example). Similarly, I would never encourage student to mix with black or paynes gray. That seems like cheating. Isn't this a book about mixing color? It seems pretty obvious that black will dull a bright color to make it more neutral. Learn to mix neutrals of your own grays through complimentary colors. I'm not sure I'd even recommend this for beginners, as it gets you to buy the wrong colors from the start.

This is a really useful book on mixing color. It has a section for acrylics, oil and watercolor. Only the oil section is of interest to me but those few pages are packed with enough on mixing 2 colors to get a 3rd that it's fine.

It looked great in the store. But It showed paint colors on the side that pointed to colors in real photos that occationally mismatched??? That's pretty much it! I did not learn anything? I exchanged the book.