Colour Mixing Guide: Acrylics

by Julie Collins

This pocket-sized, practical guide has everything the acrylic artist needs to know about colour mixing, from colour theory to complementary, warm and cool colours, colour tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and local colour. There follows an array of essential colour mixes using widely available Winsor & Newton colours. Clear, practical and beautifully presented advice.

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 9, 2016

Reviews

[Nicole D'Souza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple guide that aims to correct misconceptions about mixing colour and deepens one's understanding of colour relationships. I liked learning that raw sienna is one of the oldest existing colours! 💛

It would have been nice to see more examples of final paintings instead of just swatches to paint the bigger picture as it were.

[Frank Rice · Rating 5 out of 5]

many shades

I like how it tells you in what to mix to get the colours you want and easy to follow for amateur painter👍

[Flo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good guide

This guide works if one is serious and wants to really learn about the most common acrylic colors. It could have shown HOW to mix one color with 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% of another. Where it doesn't work is as an ebook. I tries to read it with my Kindle for pc app and when that didn't work, on my Kindle Fire 8 in landscape one page at a time. That doesn't work very well. Amazon should not be selling it in such a format. I figured if I pay for it, I am getting a perfect product. Not so.