The New Color Mixing Companion

The New Color Mixing Companion
Author: Josie Lewis
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1631595490

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

Colour Mixing Guide
Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: Search Press Limited
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781268096

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.

Colour Mixing Bible

Colour Mixing Bible
Author: Ian Sidaway
Publisher: Gardners Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780715318232

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.

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

1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor
Author: William F Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600582834

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.

Colour Mixing Guide

Colour Mixing Guide
Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: Search Press Limited
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1781268088

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.

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1994
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780958789196

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.

The Cookie Companion

The Cookie Companion
Author: Georganne Bell
Publisher: Front Table Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781462116959

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 Recipes for Watercolor

Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor
Author: William F. Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600588945

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.

The Colour Mixing Companion

The Colour Mixing Companion
Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 180092089X

Make great color choices and mixes in watercolor, oils and acrylics with master artists Julie Collins. Discover how to make successful color mixing choices in watercolour, acrylics and oils. This is a clear, comprehensive guide to colour mixing in the three most popular mediums: watercolour, oils and acrylics. The portable, pocket-sized companion introduces simple colour theory and a colour wheel, with a template provided so that readers can paint their own. The Colour Mixing Companion provides a vital step towards understanding the intricacies and workings of colour in the three mediums. There is vividly illustrated guidance on complementary, warm and cool colours, tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and factoring in local colour, followed by an array of essential colour mixes using widely available paints. The Colour Mixing Companion is a beautifully presented and practical guide to understanding and mixing colours; artists from beginners to more experienced painters will find this a handy, comprehensive guide.

Color Mixing Swatch Book

Color Mixing Swatch Book
Author: Michael Wilcox
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9780967962856

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.