Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor

Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for watercolor artists. With a wide spectrum of paint recipes, each revealing the color proportions and dilution level needed to achieve the featured swatch, this user-friendly book also includes a color-mixing grid that makes measuring simple. Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations: * Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, 'Eucalyptus Bark.' * Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number ('293') and an example of the actual paint mixture. * Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color. * Mix the color. It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about color theory, mixingvalues, graying color naturally, mixing portrait colors, and more. Also available from Walter Foster's best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series: 1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor; Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic; Color Mixing