Color Mixing Bible: All You'll Ever Need to Know About Mixing Pigments in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Soft Pastel, Pencil, and Ink

Good book. Great examples.

This is my second copy. My first one was lost. Cannot do without this boon. It has every medium and great mixed colors. Very easy to use. Perfectly organized!

I found this book to be very helpful in color mixing. The charts especially give a practical way of getting down to actual mixing. The separate categories of watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc are handy. The brief, but exact descriptions on light frame a useful addition to the actual mixing. The only thing I would have liked to see is knowdedge about how to mix the colors to create certain effects likek shading or muted colors.........

Good book....excellent...

I was pleasantly surprised by the Color Mixing Bible, it had more to it than I could have hoped for! I bought it to help ME make better choices in the acrylics I was about to invest in but, as a drawing and painting teacher, I have used it to help students in preliminary exercises with pastels, my advanced students have used it for setting up their pencil "palette" before starting assignments, my graphics students, who are into cartooning, have snatched it for the ink mixing section, the "subject mix" section has helped some of my Fundamentals students understand what to look for in making a formal analysis of artists' palettes, the book is new and already lovingly abused! Ian Sidaway has provided clear and consistent visual tables of results that have helped me and my students make better choices the first time with fewer of the unhappy accidents that occur in the haste of classrooms and deadlines. I particularly enjoy the "Watchpoints" that offer tips and caveats about certain pigments and their behaviors. I strongly recommend the Color Mixing Bible to artists that work in different media; sometimes we get stuck mixing in a medium that just doesn't respond as expected because we are less practiced in it. This book allows the opportunity to make visual comparisons between media as we work.

so far good the book is good, printed hd without any mistakes.

Use it every day Great historical background information. Worth the price. Great for referencing & planning my studies.

This is my go to book for color mixing. The book has color charts showing various color mixtures of oil paint colors - taking the guess work out of which color to use in creating the same or similar hues. I have a food eye of color but with all the various oil colors available on the market, it's easy to loose sight of how each will perform when a second color (or even a third) is added. The Masters usually used a very limited palette. This was due to many factors, cost, time in grinding their own, or having apprentices doing this, and availability of the raw compounds or their own previous training or preferences. Today, we have hundreds of oil colors to choose from. This book helps you get back to the basic colors to create endless possibilities of color.

Para quem não sabe nada sobre o assunto (como eu), o livro é excelente no que se refere à teoria das cores e suas misturas. Depois de algumas páginas iniciais sobre materiais, ciência e teoria das cores e pigmentos, ele mostra os resultados da mistura das diversas cores usando materiais diferentes (tinta a óleo, acrílica, aquarela, guache, lápis e pastel). Achei bem didático, abrangente e, porque não dizer, econômico, já que é possível obter praticamente qualquer cor usando uma paleta de cores bem reduzida.

Good book covers all type of paints, not only on oil Color, which was my intention to purchase

Parfait pour trouver le melange idéal pour la couleur exacte, quelle que soit la technique utilisée. Aquarelle, huile, crayon, gouache.... tout y est.

Il titolo di un libro non è stato mai così azzeccato, il testo in questione è un specie di ricettario per mischiare qualsiasi tipo di colore e ottenere centinaia di tonalità diverse. Il libro oltre a gli schemi per mischiare i pigmenti e la relativa spiegazione su come utilizzarli correttamente contiene anche un breve riassunto dei concetti basilari della teoria dei colori. Il testo prende in considerazione ogni medium di pittura : olio, acrilici, acquerelli etc.. e risulta davvero utile quando si ha un dubbio su come ottenere una determinata tinta è un manuale che si vorrà avere sempre a portata di mano quando si dipinge e che non smetterà mai di essere utile. Con il passare del tempo tramite questo libro migliorerete di molto il vostro modo di mischiare i colori risparmiando tempo e fatica, ma sopratutto colore che altrimenti avreste sprecato tra prove e tentativi , anche le tonalità dei vostri dipinti ne gioveranno acquistando precisione e coerenza. Il testo e davvero ben fatto e vi sarà sicuramente utilissimo qualsiasi sia il vostro livello di conoscenza, vi consiglio di comprare la versione in lingua inglese le traduzioni di manuali di questo tipo di solito sono molto carenti e come se non bastasse la versione originale costa meno di quella tradotta ed è spesso in offerta in fine Amazon nel mio caso come al solito è stato impeccabile sia con i tempi di spedizione che per quanto riguarda imballaggio. Consiglio vivamente questo libro a tutti gli appassionati di pittura.

Originally brought for oil painting.Suprise bonus includes all media colour mixing.