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

Sooo yeah, this book makes it so easy to mix beautiful colors. The mixing grid is awesome for beginners and advanced. I appreciate the thought and design that went into this book. I've already recommended it to several artist I've included my first attempt to follow a recipe and wow it worked well. The image is a bit hard to get because of lighting...but it really is close for a first attempt I'm very happy!

A must have for artist. An essential part of your art tool kit.

Great book for mixing colors. Their are color recipes for a varity of colors.

This is a great resource for mixing paints with consistent results especially as a beginner. This book includes portrait and landscape colors as in other books by this author. Some color theory, but not expansive. More for oils and acrylics but has about 40 pages specific to watercolors using a specific palette of colors. This is also not brand specific. As a general resource, this is nice to have but will also depend on my own swatches and color mixing tests to color match. If this was watercolor forward, I would rate at 5 star.

I absolutely LOVE this book, it is easy to follow, comprehensive & you will learn exactly how to master the art of creating your own ulimited color palette from a limited number of initial paints. The pages are thick, so I am not sure how the "comb spiral" binding will hold up, another reviewer mentioned fully taking off the hardcover (that maybe an option), but for now it is perfect. It covers acrylic, oil & watercolor, as well as some specific color collections like landscape & portraits. Included are the templates for measuring out the appropriate paints. I thoroughly recommend this book to any aspiring artist.

Very comprehensive and useful for all skill levels

Fantastic reference book! I use this mix watercolors

This book has been helpful in my quest to learn watercolor painting. Mixing colors can be difficult but having a guide to help makes it so much easier.

色彩の説明から、理論、カラーレシピ・ヴァリューレシピ、肖像画の制作の為の混色の割合、 白黒での顔面での、色の変化の違い、次に肌色での顔面の色の変化の説明。口・耳・肌・鼻 眼の色のトーンの説明がされている。そして、髪の色の混色の方法。風景画の空・雲・木・山 非常に複雑な自然の持つ色の説明と、混色の方法が、掲載されている。最後に色彩の混色のグリッドが掲載されていて どの様な比率で、混色すれば、モティーフの色彩を再現出来るかどうか、自然の持つ微妙な色彩読み込む事が 出来るかどうか、本人の勉強の度合いによるだろう。色彩に関してはいい本だと思う。 オイル・アクリル・水彩での使用法が掲載されている。

I love this book. It is like an encyclopedia and the quality is something to behold. The pages feel like they could be wiped with a damp cloth, and the book itself is strong and well bound. Well worth the price tag. It covers colour for painting, but I got it to use the information to apply to oil pastels. There are numbers applied to each recipe, and each number represents a colour name in paint. I'm going to use it to try and apply it to similar colours of oil pastel. Maybe, sometime down the road, I will take up actual painting. Aside from that, there is valuable information about colour in general.

It is actually a book with "color recipes".

Great reference book, well presented

For a painter who did not go to art school this book is like a bible.