Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes

<p><b>Master mixes for an array of landscape colors in oil and acrylic from skies and clouds to trees and mountains. <p/></b>No more guessing at colors only to end up with a muddy mess and wasted paint! <i>Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes </i>takes the mystery and stress out of color mixing with just the right formula for more than 400 color combinations along with instruction on a variety of painting techniques. This comprehensive artist's reference features a robust index of <b>more than 1500 landscape subjects</b> that correspond to the featured color mixing swatches. Use the handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. <p/>Designed for use in the studio <b>this durable book features: <p/></b></p><ul><li>A lay-flat spiral binding</li><li>Easily wipeable glossy cardstock pages</li><li>A removable plastic color-mixing grid</li></ul><p><b><br>Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 500 color combinations: <p/></b></p><ol><li>Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint--for example Lilac purplish.</li><li>Find the Color Recipe with the subject's recipe number (268) and a photo of the actual paint mixture.</li><li>Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.</li><li>Mix the color. It's that easy!</li></ol><p><b><br>Learn how to create the colors of these and more subjects in oil and acrylic paint: <p/></b></p><ul><li>Numerous varieties of flowers</li><li>Mountains including their bases shadows highlights and hazes</li><li>Sands clays and gravels</li><li>Sea ocean surf foam and fog</li><li>Skies and clouds at various times of day and night</li><li>Trees including foliage and trunk colors for numerous broadleaf and coniferous varieties</li><li>Many species of wildlife animals and birds</li></ul><p><br>This useful book also discusses <b>how color is influenced by the time of day the angle of the sun and changing seasons</b> making it a must-have in every oil and acrylic artist's reference library. <p/></p><p>Walter Foster's best-selling <b>Color Mixing Recipes series</b> also includes <i>Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits</i> <i>1500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil Acrylic & Watercolor</i> and <i>Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic</i>. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.</p>