Color Mixing in Acrylic

Color Mixing in Acrylic

Author: David Lloyd Glover

Publisher: Walter Foster

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1600583881

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Color Mixing inAcrylic features a range of techniques and valuable instruction for working with and mixing color in this classic medium.


3000 Color Mixing Recipes: Watercolor

3000 Color Mixing Recipes: Watercolor

Author: Julie Collins

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-29

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781446308196

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A practical and inspirational manual that shows you a huge range of color mixes in watercolor. The aim of the book is to encourage you to get to know colors well and be motivated to explore and experiment with color. Use the book as a handy reference when you want to know how to mix a specific color, or as a catalog of inspiration when seeking ideas to try in your work. The handy color viewing card included can be used to view each color swatch in isolation. This will help sharpen your perception of the color or allow you to pinpoint a specific shade to use in your own work.


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

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1600582834

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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.


Acrylic Color Explorations

Acrylic Color Explorations

Author: Chris Cozen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-11-11

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1440340870

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Discover your true color voice! Acrylic Color Explorations will have you seeing the world around you in a new way as color theory becomes engaging, easy-to-understand and fun. Not only will you achieve a basic understanding of color and pigments, but author Chris Cozen will also guide you through a personal exploration of color in 30 exercises using acrylic paint. Go beyond the red-yellow-blue understanding of the color wheel by exploring the work of several artists who work with color in unique ways. Determining when to introduce a calming color or when to turn the color volume up is a skill that can be developed through practice and intention, and with Acrylic Color Explorations you will learn how to do both! • Learn 33 techniques for incorporating and developing color in your paintings. • Explore practical color basics with exercises and color challenges that will help you determine your color "voice." • Discover secrets to mastering any creative color situation with 9 contributing artists! Embrace your true color voice today!


Color Choices

Color Choices

Author: Stephen Quiller

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2002-02-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780823006977

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Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles. With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein.


Creating Exceptional Color with Acrylics

Creating Exceptional Color with Acrylics

Author: Lexi Sundell

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781438000961

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(back cover) Want to create lively shadows, luminous brights, or subtle grays? This book shows you how. Acrylic artists at all levels of ability will discover how to make the best choices for their color palette and raise the quality of their art to an exciting new level. This easy-to-use book brings a welcome clarity to the myriad choices of acrylic color and paint varieties available today. You will find out how to choose a powerful and balanced palette of exceptional color that suits your working style and puts a stamp of individuality on your paintings. Discover how to use organic and inorganic pigments, semi-transparent and opaque paint colors, and iridescent, interference, and duochrome acrylics, along with gels, mediums, and other products you can add to modify color. Explore ways to bring out extraordinary color in specific genres, such as landscapes, animals, florals, still lifes, portraits, and more. All genres are illustrated with paintings that demonstrate the author's instructive points. See for yourself how to choose and apply a wide variety of creative color schemes, as author Lexi Sundell explains each color's qualities, tells you how to mix colors, and presents step-by-step demonstrations for each color scheme. Lexi Sundell is an internationally known acrylic artist and teacher who lives and works in Montana. Her award-winning works appear in collections around the world--many of them exhibited in museums and at major art shows. Her paintings, which are known especially for the luminosity of their colors, often feature flowers from her extensive gardens.


Colour Mixing Bible

Colour Mixing Bible

Author: Ian Sidaway

Publisher: Gardners Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780715318232

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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.


Color Mixing Swatch Book

Color Mixing Swatch Book

Author: Michael Wilcox

Publisher: Northlight

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780967962856

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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.


Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Author: Michael Wilcox

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780958789196

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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.