Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor is the definitive colour-mixing resource for watercolour artists. With a wide spectrum of paint recipes, each revealing the colour proportions and dilution level needed to achieve the featured swatch, this user-friendly book also includes a colour-mixing grid that makes measuring simple.Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 colour combinations:
• Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint-for example, "Eucalyptus Bark."
• Find the Color Recipe with the subjects 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 colour theory, mixing values, greying colour naturally, mixing portrait colours, and more. Also available from Walter Fosters best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series: 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic oWatercolor; Color Mixing Recipes for Oil eAcrylic; Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits; and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.
