How to Mix and Use Color: The Artist's Guide to Achieving the Perfect ColorIn this easy-to-follow reference book, Tony Paul shows beginning and advanced painters how to make color work for them each and every time they pick up a brush. He walks readers through everything from color basics and popular palette choices to detailed mixing charts and simple color wheels.No matter what medium readers work in, they'll find comprehensive palette choices just for them. The book includes detailed instructions for:OilsWatercolorGouacheInkSoft PastelOil PastelAcrylicEgg TemperaThis comprehensive guide will help every artist get to the next level! |
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absolutely lightfast acrylic Alizarin Crimson artist ASTM D4302 Class Aureolin Blue Wool Scale brown Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red Cadmium Yellow Class I excellent Cobalt Blue Cobalt Green Cobalt Violet Coeruleum COLOR BIAS COLOR MIXING CHART color wheel considered hazardous dark darker diluted dull dusty egg tempera excellent lightfastness fairly flexible paint flexible paint film French Ultramarine Gamboge Hue gouache grainy granular gray hazard warning symbol Indian Red Indian Yellow landscape leanings Lemon Yellow Light Red Manganese Blue Mars Violet mixed color Naples Yellow opacity opaque orangey original pigment Oxide of Chromium pale pastel Permanent Magenta Permanent Mauve Dioxazine Permanent Rose Phthalo Blue Phthalo Green Phthalocyanine Blue Phthalocyanine Green PROPERTIES PERMANENCE purple range Raw Sienna Raw Umber Scale 8 absolutely shadow soft STAINING streaky subdued Terre Verte TINTING STRENGTH Titanium White tone TONY PAUL transparent TRANSPARENT/OPAQUE tube or pan undertone Viridian Green warm wash watercolor Yellow Ochre