Mix Your Own Acrylics: An Artist's Guide to Successful Color Mixing (Artist's Library #28) - Softcover

Jill Mirza; Nick Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560102241 ISBN 13: 9781560102243

Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

Acrylic is a popular medium, and it's not hard to see whyùit is both versatile and user-friendly, and its vibrant colors have long-lasting intensity. Mix Your Own Acrylics provides a basic introduction to getting the most out of your acrylic colors, starting with explanations of color theory and topics including hue, value, and saturation. You will learn the exact ratios for mixing dozens of blues, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and purples. You will also learn about color complements and how to use them to mix a range of neutral browns and grays. Experimenting with acrylic can be a lot of fun, and this valuable resource is your definitive guide for mixing your own brilliant colors!

About this title

From the Publisher:

Serious Instruction for Serious Artists

That's what the Artist's Library series is all about! The books in this series will help you expand your creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each 64-page paperback focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tips, and plenty of encouragement.

The quality of instruction in this series is unsurpassed. Each book is written and illustrated by a professional artist who specializes in the particular medium and is uniquely qualified to guide the reader to a new level of expertise.

About the Author:

Nick Harris first visited Greece in 1967 and has been unable to resist returning regularly ever since. His work is exhibited at the Jill Yakas Gallery in Athens. It is hardly surprising that the gallery he opened, with his partner Jill Mirza, should be named The Alpha Gallery. The rich and vibrant light of Greece and the relaxed nature of its idiosyncratic buildings produces a quality of reflected light and living shadows that nick uses to create strikingly geometrically structured compositions.

Jill Mirza studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, and Goldsmiths College, London. After teaching art in London for some years, she left to spend more time painting and in 1988, with her partner Nick Harris, opened The Alpha Gallery in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Her work is permanently on show there when not on exhibition, and it has been purchased by private collectors in Britain, the Far East, and the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1560102241
• ISBN 13: 9781560102243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64