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Master mixes for an array of landscape colors in oil and acrylic, from skies and clouds to trees and mountains. No more guessing at colors only to end up with a muddy mess and wasted paint! Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes takes the mystery and stress out of color mixing with just the right formula for more than 400 color combinations, along with instruction on a variety of painting techniques. This comprehensive artist’s reference features a robust index of more than 1,500 landscape subjects that correspond to the featured color mixing swatches. Use the handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. Designed for use in the studio, this durable book features: A lay-flat spiral binding Easily wipeable glossy cardstock pages A removable plastic color-mixing grid Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 500 color combinations: Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Lilac, purplish.” Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“268”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture. Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color. Mix the color. It’s that easy! Learn how to create the colors of these and more subjects in oil and acrylic paint: Numerous varieties of flowers Mountains, including their bases, shadows, highlights, and hazes Sands, clays, and gravels Sea, ocean, surf, foam, and fog Skies and clouds at various times of day and night Trees, including foliage and trunk colors for numerous broadleaf and coniferous varieties Many species of wildlife, animals, and birds This useful book also discusses how color is influenced by the time of day, the angle of the sun, and changing seasons , making it a must-have in every oil and acrylic artist’s reference library. Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits , 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor , and Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic . These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units. Review: A good colour guide to avoid wasting paint during Covid lockdown - I wrote a more detailed review on the general colour mixing book which I also bought. I wanted to avoid wasting paint after several muddy experiments, as an amateur. I can buy materials on line but find this is is useful to get quicker to the result I want. I enjoy landscapes and so far have used this for mountain colours, sky recipes and some foliage. If you enjoy landscape I would recommend this. It is not complicated to use if you follow the instructions though I probably use if 50% by simply looking at the colour swatches for a match I like. I have for example looked up magnolia trees/flowers for specific recipes, when painting blossom. Review: Best book - Very helpful book 🙌👏👏
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 902 Reviews |
T**M
A good colour guide to avoid wasting paint during Covid lockdown
I wrote a more detailed review on the general colour mixing book which I also bought. I wanted to avoid wasting paint after several muddy experiments, as an amateur. I can buy materials on line but find this is is useful to get quicker to the result I want. I enjoy landscapes and so far have used this for mountain colours, sky recipes and some foliage. If you enjoy landscape I would recommend this. It is not complicated to use if you follow the instructions though I probably use if 50% by simply looking at the colour swatches for a match I like. I have for example looked up magnolia trees/flowers for specific recipes, when painting blossom.
T**O
Best book
Very helpful book 🙌👏👏
S**1
Great Value for money.
I have a few of these books now and find them very helpful for mixing my paints. They have a colour mixing grid in the back, which is useful. Great little spiral bound books for a great price. I would highly recommend them to all.
F**M
A working document
It is a reference book, a catalogue of colours mixes, explanations and tips which I shall use didactically for many years to come.
A**D
Helpful
A very easy to use book to take around with you that can save you some time(and paint). Only problem is you might not have some of the colours used in the book but an experienced artist will easily get around that using other colours.
B**N
Paint mixing
Useful for getting the best shade of hue
V**M
I had high hopes for this book and I love the quality (look and feel) of it and the ...
I had high hopes for this book and I love the quality (look and feel) of it and the spiral binding. I just feel that as I use a limited palette (2 reds, 2 yellows, 2 blues plus yellow ochre, burnt umber, black and white) and mix everything up from those, this book doesn't work as well as it might for me. I don't want to buy all the colours dictated by the writer (26 in total!) but I'm not sure how effective it will be without doing so.
J**E
useful book
very useful in creating the right greens, which is the trickiest part of landscape painting.
S**Z
Utile, pratique et indispensable 🥰
Bible à posséder pour tous les aquarellistes, même confirmes 😁
S**)
Dobra ksiazka
Bardzo przydatna w pracowni każdego artysty
A**N
Awesome book; awesome order experience
Once one reads through the instructions for how the book is set up, following the color recipes is easy. I love having the clear color-mixing grids to guide me as I create my colors. I also loved the color-theory pages for review (never hurts to review what one thinks she knows). I'd been wanting this book for a long time. I found a used "Like New" copy for a reasonable price, so I ordered it. I got it sooner than I was told to expect it; the condition was, in fact, like new and, except for the mildly dented top corners and top edge of the spine, could've been new for the next-to-none wear it shows. The book was wrapped before it was put into a bubble-wrap mailer, so the book arrived undamaged from shipping. Finally, there was a sweet note inside the envelope from the volunteers who work to sell and ship books from this seller, asking buyers to give them a positive review if our service was worthy of it. Mine was--and thank you to those who worked to get this book to me. Happy I purchased the book, and happy I purchased it from these sellers.
M**A
Very usefull
I can quickly find suitable color mixes for e.g. a certain tree, grass, sky, etc. Good index for different color sets. The structure of the book is durable and easy to keep clean.
A**N
Ineccepibile
Consegna perfetta. Il libro corrisponde alle aspettative . Guida perfetta per la scelta dei colori da miscelare per ottenere varie gradazioni.
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