1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is a tutorial guide with recipes for palette mixing by William F. Powell. Originally released in 2012 this reformat and re-release is due out 15th June 2021 from Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint. It's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This is a no-nonsense bare bones mixing guide for oil, acrylic, and watercolor media.
The mixing diagrams are specific and useful. The charts are arranged
according to medium and color and contain specific values and ranges for 1500 colors
from the base colors for each medium (Burnt sienna, Burnt umber, Cadmium orange, Cadmium
red light, Cadmium yellow, etc). They are grouped together in their own chapters and aren't confusing to keep separate. The color blends are -not- specified by brand of pigment.
The author has also
included an overall tutorial on watercolor mixing specifically for
portraiture with a good overview over values and tones for skin colors
across a wide range of skins.There is also a tutorial on color theory, an appendix. with a legend/index for typical mixes for things such as trees, sunset sky, stormy sky, etc.
This is a very useful book. It
would make a good reference for maker's spaces, studios, library
acquisition, or the home studio. It's worth noting however that the content for the -other- re-releases in the same series from the same publisher contains a large overlap with the content here. If only one volume is to be purchased, it should be this one.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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