Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for watercolor artists. With a wide spectrum of paint recipes, each revealing the color proportions and dilution level needed to achieve the featured swatch, this user-friendly book also includes a color-mixing grid that makes measuring simple.Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations:- Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, "Eucalyptus Bark."
- Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number ("293") and an example of the actual paint mixture.
- Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
- Mix the color.
It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about
color theory,
mixingvalues,
graying color naturally,
mixing portrait colors, and more.
Also available from Walter Foster's best-selling
Color Mixing Recipes series:
1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor;
Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic;
Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits; and
Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.