1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor: Achieve precise color when painting landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more Spiral-bound – August 1, 2012

I LOVE this book. The pages are heavy duty. It is easy to turn the pages and lay it open flat. The descriptions include color pictures. I am using this book a lot. Thanks to the author and publisher!!!

How I wish I had this book as a teenager when I did a lot of drawing and painting. Beautiful layout, substantial, good paper, attractive, comprehensive. Must have for a would be artist. A good learning tool, too. It's like music theory to painting.

This book comes with a lot of paint "recipes" I bought it for a gift - I would have loved to keep it for myself. Great value, filled with a lot of knowledge.

It gives you an idea of where to start in mixing a color. I was doing a portrait of a dark skin individual for the first time and found it helpful. The book shows examples of different shades that might be found in skin and what basic colors might be in the mix. After that initial start, I had to finalize the color mixtures myself, using the paint colors I had. I didn’t use the exact recipes given which are quite complex.

A great refetence book that helps a lot for mixing paints when you are painting pictures.

Unfortunately, as an artist, I am slightly color blind. I find that this helps quite a bit. I’m not guessing.

So excited about this book - a must-have for any studio

Anything to help me with color mixing is a plus. I like that the pages are laminated considering the topic of the book, it was intuitive they took into account that things could get messy.