Product Description: This hardcover guidebook with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for budding artists to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this collection of ticks or tricks, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers...read more

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Product Description: This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from the minimum number of paints...read more

Visually demonstrates oil painting techniques, advises on canvases and paint, and features works by well-known artists to illustrate different approaches to landscape, portrait, and still life painting

Product Description: With concise, clear instructions and easy-to-read color charts, Mix Your Own Oil Colors is a valuable reference tool that takes you through the fundamentals of color theory, teaching you terms such as hue, value, and saturation. In addition, it provides the exact proportions for mixing dozens of blues, yellows, reds, pinks, oranges, greens, and purples...read more

A practical guide answers all the common questions about how to best use color in all major painting media, including oil, watercolor, and acrylic, and helps artists attain desired shades with full-color instructions.

Teaches the techniques of creating a palette of colors in oils, watercolor, pastels, gouache, or acrylics