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Color Mixing Bible: All You'll Ever Need to Know About Mixing Pigments in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Soft Pastel, Pencil, and Ink Paperback – April 1, 2002

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Mixing colors accurately may be an art unto itself. In fact, many artists are discouraged by the time and expense it takes to mix and match colors, and achieve the right results. Even more frustrating is the vast range of colors available. Now there’s a ready-to-use visual directory that takes all the guesswork out of mixing and matching colors . . . making every artist an expert! Color Mixing Bible provides a basic color palette for each art medium, demonstrating an array of two-, three-, and four-color mixes, as well as offering full explanations of various paints and pigments.

This invaluable guide features scores of tips and techniques for color mixing with oils, acrylics, watercolors, inks, pastels, and virtually every other art medium. It also includes in-depth information on how to determine the opacity and strength of a color, choose a color palette, mix whites, arrange and organize colors prior to mixing, use optical and physical mixing techniques, and much more! Plus, hundreds of color illustrations make everything simple. Whether one is an aspiring artist or working professional, Color Mixing Bible is an essential addition to every bookshelf.
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  6. ISBN-10
    0823007235
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0823007233
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This fine book covers color theory for beginners. Sidaway (The Instant Artist) offers brief sections on the science of color, theory, and pigments, plus numerous color-mixing charts in oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, soft pastels, pencils, and inks. Stephen Quiller's book Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory, originally published in cloth in 1989 and now out in paperback, is for the advanced artist who wants to experiment with glazing methods or study the color theory of Rembrandt, Turner, Vermeer, Hopper, O'Keeffe, and John Henry Twachtman. This inspiring, creative approach to color could well be supplemented by David Pyle's What Every Artist Needs To Know About Paints & Colors, which covers vital health and safety issues and the use of color in computer graphics.
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Ian Sidaway has written and contributed to many books and magazines specializing in watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastel, and drawing techniques. He is the author of the best-selling Watercolor Pocket Studio kit. He lives in London, England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watson-Guptill; First Edition (April 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0823007235
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0823007233
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.73 x 0.46 x 8.7 inches
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Great historical background information. Worth the price. Great for referencing & planning my studies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Getting back to the basics - Color Mixing
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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.
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Maria Britzman
4.0 out of 5 stars Color Mixing Bible:...
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I think this book covers most of what you need to know about color. I like the color charts for each medium. I still think you need to make your own charts, because colors vary. But the color charts in the book are good for reference. I think it could be stronger in the area of color theory, but as a reference book it is good.
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Anita Hunt
5.0 out of 5 stars New Best Friend!
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Color my world!
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Really great book. This was a referral from my older brother. It is written in terms that a beginning artist like myself could understand. Not bad for finding out that I can paint at 62 years of age. Great book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive & handy
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This book makes a handy & quick reference for my painting studio. It’s easy to look something up quickly when your hands are covered with paint, but you still need to get an answer on the spot!
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 This is a really great guide for beginners or those who are curious on how to mix colors probably to get a certain shade. For me specifically, I have trouble mixing for skin tones with basic colors, and this gives it all and really helps!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
This is a really great guide for beginners or those who are curious on how to mix colors probably to get a certain shade. For me specifically, I have trouble mixing for skin tones with basic colors, and this gives it all and really helps!
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Sandra
5.0 out of 5 stars just gave me the organization i needed. Thankyou
Reviewed in Canada on July 7, 2023
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Now i can do this right wonderful book. Also great service from start to finish. Thank you.
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Márcia Ferreira
5.0 out of 5 stars Domine as misturas de cores
Reviewed in Brazil on March 31, 2022
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Fabuloso para quem quer entender e dominar a mistura das cores em diferentes materiais: tinta óleo, acrílica, aquarela, guache, pastel seco e lápis de cor.
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Em Felis
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2021
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This book has grown on me - I like the fact that there are pages of colour charts for different mediums. I usually paint in oils but i have recent started to use acrylics and I appreciate that I have colour charts for acrylic too. The introduction on pigments and colour and the different mediums is interesting and useful too. Ultimately. it is best to divise and paint your own colour charts but these are an excellent starting point.
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Reviewed in India on December 16, 2017
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Good book covers all type of paints, not only on oil Color, which was my intention to purchase
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Lee de
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for all colour mixing
Reviewed in Australia on January 8, 2021
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Originally brought for oil painting.Suprise bonus includes all media colour mixing.
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