1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is a comprehensive colour-mixing resource for painters of all skill levels.

1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive colour-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolour artists. This user-friendly compendium is colour coded for quick-and-easy reference and includes two removable colour-mixing grids-one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolour. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 colour combinations:

• Look in the Colo Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint-for example, "Broccoli." 
• Find the Colo Recipe with the subjects recipe number ("81") and a photo of the actual paint mixture. 
• Use the Colo Mixing Grid to measure each paint colour. 
• Mix the colour. Its that easy!

You'll also learn about colour theory, mixing values, complementary colours, greying colour naturally, mixing portrait colours, rendering skies and clouds, and more. Also available from Walter Foster's best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series: Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.