Walter Foster: Colour Mixing Recipes, General Mixing Recipes by William F. Powel

The definitive color-mixing resource for oil and acrylic artists, Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic includes color mixing charts that list each color needed to create a combination and painting instructions in a handy, portable size.

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, “Sunflower Yellow.”
Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“8”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture.
Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
Mix the color.
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