Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic

Mixing recipes for more than 450 color combinations

By: William F. Powell

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Paperback | 2 March 2021

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48 Pages

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0.5 x 15.6 x 30.9

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Learn to accurately mix oil as well as acrylic paints and create your favourite colours using Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic.

The definitive colour-mixing resource for oil and acrylic artists, Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acryli includes colour mixing charts that list each colour needed to create a combination and painting instructions in a handy, portable size. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 colour combinations:

Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint-for example, "Sunflower Yellow."
Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number ("8") and a photo of the actual paint mixture
Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint colour
Mix the colour

It's that easy! You'll also learn about colour theory, colour value mixing, complementary colours, greying colour naturally, and mixing portrait colours. Walter Fosters best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise colour mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as two acetate grids for measuring paint units.

About the Author

William F. Powell studied at the Art Students Career School in New York and the Louvre Free School of Art in Paris, France. His work has been represented in major galleries and reproduced in the form of illustrations, prints, and limited edition collectors plates. He has been professionally involved in fine art, commercial art, and illustration for more than 45 years. He holds awards for the technical side of his art, which has been used in major space and environmental programs.

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