Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes features master mixes for an
array of landscape colors in oil and acrylic, from skies and clouds to
trees and mountains.
This comprehensive artist's reference features a robust index of more
than 1,500 landscape subjects that correspond to the featured color
mixing swatches. Also included are a plastic color-mixing grid for
measuring out paints and a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic
equivalents of oil paints and vice versa.
Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 500 color
combinations:
- Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to
paint--for example, "Lilac, purplish."
- Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number ("268") and a
photo of the actual paint mixture.
- Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
- Mix the color. It's that easy!
Learn how to create the colors of these and more subjects in oil and
acrylic paint:
- Numerous varieties of flowers
- Mountains, including their bases, shadows, highlights, and hazes
- Sands, clays, and gravels
- Sea, ocean, surf, foam, and fog
- Skies and clouds at various times of day and night
- Trees, including foliage and trunk colors for numerous broadleaf and
coniferous varieties
- Many species of wildlife, animals, and birds
This useful book also discusses how color is influenced by the time of
day, the angle of the sun, and changing seasons, making it a must-have
in every oil and acrylic artist's reference library.
Walter Foster's best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also
includes Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, Color Mixing Recipes
for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic. These
books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for
realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.
