Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic: Mixing recipes for more than 450 color combinations

Ah, now it is rather hard to review this as I have never been good with paints or drawing! My talents lie in writing fiction and non-fiction and making stunning crystal jewellery. However, I recall a movie I saw when I was about 13 called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" which I saw in the 1950s! I never forgot that wonderful movie, and have always had a love for this character and her little friends, the 7 dwarves. I recall making little statues to help my mum out as she had 8 children and we was very poor. She bought the moulds and plaster and I made little holy statues from the moulds and we used to go round with an old pram and knock on the doors! And yes! They all sold well, so I decided to have another go all these years later and I bought Snow White and her 7 friends in latex rubber and she is 9 inches tall and the dwarves are 5 inches each so I was thrilled and have bought paints etc as I go along. I noticed with most of the paints including two boxes I bought from Amazon, they don't appear to have pastel shades at all??? Like for painting flesh colours etc! I ended up sending off for 16 pastel tubes, so yes I am on my way lol. The book? Well,for its price I thought it was BRILLIANT! Simply because the material was perfect, lovely thick laminated shiny boards on a spiral, the whole book from beginning to end was well made, a decent size. However, I did "get some of what the guy was talking about" but I was expecting a book that said for example "mix ……. and ……. to make the colour...…….. but it wasn't quite like that! ha ha. But yes, with reading it a bit more I am sure I will get the hang of it, and def a 5 star rating from me, for the simple way it was laid out and the perfection of the book itself, it's a shame a lot of books aren't made like this, because they are so easy to open and lay out flat instead of the pages "bouncing back and closing up!" Yes I highly recommend it, I did at least understand some of it, so I am satisfied.

Colourful and simple to understand

Was a present which was well received.

Gift

I bought this as well as the Landscape mixing guide in order to avoid wasting paint during this Covid lockdown with no easy access to art materials and it is very useful for that although I have needed to supplement my colour range a bit. I really found the Tonal range section useful and painted a good seascape just with Cerulean blue, black and white, as a result. I plan to scale up and do a couple of more projects using just this limited range. I bought some small pots so I can prepare the range as indicated. I would never have understood this was possible if I hadn't have bought this. I am an amateur but instruction is good!. It is well printed with spiral binding and thick pages to flip over. It is not complicated to use if you spend the time reading the instructions. I have used both the index as well as simply looking at a colour swatch.

I treated myself to this after accumulating a lot of oil paints over the years and still missing the colours I needed. I've only browsed through the book at the moment but can already see I should be able to use this in anger to mix the colours I need from what I already have instead of buying a mixed colour. One major problem however is that the colours given in the list as essential (at least over 20) do not directly map to Winsor & Newton or Daler Rowney by name with no information on possible substitutes (as I've seen for example for Bob Ross paints). I'm hoping I can match these up with colours I already have by comparison with the examples in the book - unless anyone can point me to an existing list.

This is a brilliant book. It gives you the recipes to create 390 colours! It even has a measuring pallet in the back of the book to get your quantities right. It also has a list of all kinds of objects you might want to paint and the formula to make the right colour eg walnut, asparagus, butter, smog! Wish I had bought it years ago.

Mixing up artist colours. Useful little book to learn about mixing colour.

Ever not be able to figure out what’s not right in your painting? Ever waste paints trying to get the right shade? Color? Hue?This book is a fantastic resource!!!

Useful book Thanks

Muy satisfecho. Llegar a la hora acordada.

Boken är allt jag behöver. Absolut ett bra val när man inte är så duktig att blanda färger.

Llegó antes de la fecha y lo imaginé más sencillo, El libro es de mejor calidad de lo esperado, con espiral y pasta blanda.. a demás viene muy bien explicado. Perfecto para llegar a esos tonos que quieres alcanzar.