My daughter loves art, and has really gotten interested in colors - for interior design, for painting, and for drawing. So it was really fun to get to review several books that provide great color mixing recipes.
Walter Foster’s Color Mixing Recipe books are the excellent color-mixing resources for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists. These user-friendly compendiums are color coded for quick-and-easy reference and include removable color-mixing grids that make measuring simple. Available titles include 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 Watercolor, all authored by color expert and artist William F. Powell.
These books aren't for really inexperienced artists - but even relatively new artists will benefit from having ideas for mixing color based on what they're doing. I like that there were separate ones for portraits and watercolor - not that it isn't good to overlap but just because it can help narrow color choices down for certain applications.
Even though I'm not a painter, the books were fun to look at and it was neat to see how artists can end up with the colors that they do. My daughter wasted no time in trying out some of the recipes to find perfect new colors that we don't have in the paint we own!
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