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Winsor & Newton Colour Mixing Guide: Oils: A Visual Reference to Mixing Oil Colour (Winsor & Newton Color Mixing Guides)

Winsor & Newton Colour Mixing Guide: Oils: A Visual Reference to Mixing Oil Colour (Winsor & Newton Color Mixing Guides)
By John Barber

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Providing a handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades, this complete color reference reveals the 25 colors of paint that compose the most useful range of color. The time-saving guide takes the uncertainty out of mixing colors and enables artists to quickly and precisely match any tint they’d like to reproduce with only two colors in the mix. Intended for both amateur and professional artists, this guide will prove invaluable in the studio and when painting on location.
 
 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #474841 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Spiral-bound
  • 64 pages

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About the Author

John Barber is a professional artist and designer. He is the author of Acrylics Color Wheel Book, Color Pencil Wheel Book, Oil Paint Color Wheel Book, Pastel Color Wheel Book, and The Watercolor Wheel Book.

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Excellent color mixing guide5
I was a painting major in college, working in oils at least 6 hours a day, every day. I couldn't afford very many tubes of W&N back then, but they were, and still are, superior oils. Years later, I don't paint near enough anymore and I get too rusty on color mixing. Pigments have changed in 40 years too. So when I went looking for a new mixing guide (I used to make my own in college), I saw this one. It was backordered for months but Amazon came through in the end and found me a copy. There are color wheels for 25 of W&N popular colors that show the base color mixed in graduated percentages with other colors. When I start a painting project, rusty as hell, my palette is usually crazy with too many colors, the wrong colors and I end up with a lot of mud. This book helped me take my palette from 12 colors to 5 and the results are rich and vibrant. The short "how to use this book" and other narratives are well-written and actually interesting -- not so long and dull that you don't read them. Highly recommended for anyone who uses W&N oils, or any oils for that matter. It will help your juices flow.

poor1
This book has a minimal amount of info. Colors don't look true, and there is no information on permanance or transparency.

Winsor & Newton Colour Mixing Guide2
While there ae a few pieces of good information, the main thrust of the book is many pages showing the colors produced under various mixing conditions. This would be excellent if the color plates were done well and were accurate. However, the same color in two different places may be quite different. It does give you an idea of what will happen when two colors are mixed, but you really will have to do it yourself to determine if the resultant color is what you want.