The New Color Mixing Companion by Josie Lewis
The New Color Mixing Companion combines practical information with user-friendly projects for hands-on learning about mixing color and creating palettes. In addition, it includes over a dozen geometric and meditative templates for you to continue your color mixing practice.
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This comprehensive guide starts with a crash course in essential terminology and visual vocabulary from artist and popular Instagrammer Josie Lewis. It then shows you how to go beyond the wheel and basic theory with hands-on projects that illustrate and illuminate a variety of color elements and techniques. The materials used—including watercolor and acrylic paints, and found or purchased collage papers—are accessible, inexpensive, and readily available. Plus, this art guide includes easy-to-use tear-out templates featured in many of the projects; their modern geometric layouts yield stunning color arrangements.
With The New Color Mixing Companion, artists, crafters, and designers of all skill levels will learn to take color in a whole new direction!
Title: The New Color Mixing Companion
Author: Josie Lewis
ISBN: 9781631595493
Publisher: Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
My Thoughts: I’m a big-time crafter and dabble in all kinds of different crafting mediums. I enjoy putting together my own color combinations and sometimes they look beautiful and sometimes not-so-much. Thanks to this book I’ve been learning a lot about color mixing and can apply what I’ve been learning to painting, collage, mixed media and more. Heck, I can take some of what I learned and apply it to home decorating too!
The author Josie Lewis did a really nice job of breaking down color mixing into a language that anyone can understand, including beginners like me. The book is jam-packed with helpful information and how-to’s from cover to cover. One of the things that I really like is that she includes FREE templates in the back of the book that you can use right away to get started. You can use those templates for painting your own color patterns. Not into painting? Don’t worry, you can use those templates with colored pencils, watercolor pencils and glitter gel ink pens too!
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