 | | |
| Color Mixing for Artists: Minimum colors for maximum effect, using watercolors, acrylics, and oils | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Lidzey, Jill Mirza, Nick Harris, Jeremy Galton
Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
Buy New: $5.84
You Save: $11.11 (66%)
Buy New/Used from $5.84
Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 152188
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0764154478
Dewey Decimal Number: 752
EAN: 9780764154478
ASIN: 0764154478
Publication Date: February 28, 2002
Release Date: December 2, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from the minimum number of paints. The book starts with a comprehensive, illustrated explanation of color theory, demonstrated with reference to the color wheel of primary and secondary colors. In separate sections that follow, the authorseach an expert in different paint mediashow how to approach watercolors, acrylics, and oils. In addition to color charts, the book presents reproductions of gallery paintings in all three media to show how various hues are created and used. Still life illustrations, each with a detailed analysis of its color make-up, enable students to put theory into practice. Hundreds of color illustrations.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Looks nice - until you really sit down to learn something May 24, 2008
It looked great in the store. But It showed paint colors on the side that pointed to colors in real photos that occationally mismatched??? That's pretty much it! I did not learn anything? I exchanged the book.
 Simple and Easy February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps the bad review was because this book is simple, easy and uncomplicated, but that's why I like it. I have many books on color theory, color mixing, and color swatches, however I keep coming back to this little book with it's simple explanations for getting various color combinations. I don't have to read an encyclopedia on primary, secondary, tertiary colors or understand everything there is know about color theory to get what I want, I like the still life photos showing various color combinations described on the accompanying pages. I like the color names and the various colors I get if I mix color A and color B, simple and easy. The color may not be a perfect match but it's always close and makes it easy for me to adjust to achieve what I want. Perhaps it isn't a text for a college course on color theory, charts and wheels but when I'm looking for a particular color or family of colors, I always find it here. This book has saved me lots of time and paint. Hope I never lose my copy but I'd buy it again if I was so unfortunate to do so.
Color Mixing for Artists: Review. September 26, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not enough information given. Vary basic, needs more work. I got this book to help me teach a college basic painting course and found that I could hardly use any of it.
|
|
|
| | |
