Mixing Color: How to Select the Right Paints to Get the Colors You Want

by Jeremy Galton

If you've ever mixed red with blue in search of a vibrant purple and ended up with a muddy mess instead, this book is for you. In his lively, easy-to-understand style, Jeremy Galton shows you how to select the right paints - whether you use oil, acrylic, watercolor, or pastel - to get the colors you want. You'll learn to:

* Sort out pigments by name, medium, and manufacturer

* Select a basic palette for every medium that will give you the results you want

* Mix without muddying, and rescue colors which have gone wrong

* Mix colors for such problem subjects as snow, water, skin tones, skies, reflections, and foliage

* Glaze, scumble, or drybrush colors to enhance their brilliance

Packed with practical techniques, step-by-step demonstrations, and hundreds of illustrations, this book will give you the ability to capture any color in your painting: the subtle pink of a faded rose, glistening red berries, the warmth of polished copper...

Genres: Art

144 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1988