Acrylic Artist's Colour Mixing Bible

Description

A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Each is shown as a pure mixture straight from the palette as well as with added white to produce a vast number of tint variations. The special colours are also demonstrated as glazes over the 18 standard palette colours, giving another 1000 options. Provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.

Ian Sidaway is an established artist who trained as a designer and started painting in 1970, since when he has been exhibited widely both in Europe and the United States. He has illustrated books on a range of subjects and is the author of several books on art technique.

Mar 06 Acrylic paint is possibly the most versatile of all paints. Relatively modern, it comes a variety of different consistencies and can be mixed with water, or other media. Use it like a watercolor, or like an oil paint. I use it for decorating textiles, but this particular area is not covered in this book although much of the information in here is just as useful for the creator of wearable art than for the more traditional artist. Although this is predominantly a book about mixing paint, there is a lot more in here than just that. Learn about mediums, varnishes and tools for applying the paint. Ways of applying it, using the different thicknesses and choosing palettes and surfaces to paint on. The color wheel is featured of course, along with five different versions of each primary color and you can find out about warm and cool primaries. With a palette of these 12 basic colors plus white, you can really get mixing. The colors are described as to their lightfastness, color index codes and whether transparent, translucent or opaque. Swatches are shown mixed with water, and used as a glaze as well as on their own. The tops of the pages are even color-coded for easy reference, although there is also an index and a useful glossary. Another useful primer from Search Press. * Myshelf.com * Feb 06 As the title suggests this is a bible for artists, a reference book that any artist should not be without! I always have trouble getting colours just right but this book has helped no end! This is a visual guide to more than 2500 mixes and glaze effects, which is neatly sub-divided into all the various colours. The colour mixing directory is very easy to use as it is listed by colour sections for example you will have a whole section devoted to cadmium orange, you can then see the ratio of other colours you will need to add to get to a specific shade. Often when painting it is a question of chance whether I get a colour right as colours can behave so differently when interacting with other colours. The lovely thing about this book is it takes the guesswork out of mixing colours and puts an end to wasted paint. With 52 readily available colours mixed with a basic palette of 12 colours in order to show the marriage of the colours, this is going to be a popular book in my bookshelf from now on! In fact I think I will be using it to make my latest fairy pictures as I always have trouble getting the colours just right with such mystical scenes. This will be a most treasured book from now on! * minigallery.co.uk *