Success Bundle 1 – The Artist’s Guide to Selecting Colours and the Colour Mixing Swatch Book

The Artists Guide to Selecting Colours is a book about artists’ paints: an essential guide to the selection of a suitable palette in watercolours, oil paints, acrylics, gouache or alkyds. It will enable you to identify the good, the indifferent, and the bad. The book also outlines the characteristics and temperaments of each colour and lists the suitable as well as the unsuitable pigments that you will come across.

Did you know that:

• Certain student quality colors are superior to their artist quality equivalent?

• Hooker’s Green, Sap Green and Olive Green usually contain cheap, inferior industrial pigments which will ruin your work?

• Quinacridone Violet is a superb, transparent, lightfast violet-red?

• Genuine Van Dyke Brown is known by all manufacturers to fade badly?

• Payne’s Gray is a mix of black and Ultramarine Blue which is easily duplicated without the use of black?

• Genuine Rose Madder fades badly as a watercolour?

• Whether selecting watercolours, oils, acrylics, gouache or alkyds, this book will guide you to paints that are superb and warn against those that fade or darken.

The Colour Mixing Swatch Book - Pocket Guide allows the artist to seek out the colour they desire, identify the hues they need to mix and then instantly reproduce the color on their palette. They’ll also find invaluable information about every colour including the strength, transparency and handling qualities of the colours used to attain it. Save time, money,  and the frustration of mixing pile after pile of mud. This guide provides the keys to hundreds of colour combinations, all attainable from the Wilcox limited palette of 12 colours.

The combination of these two titles give you the artist then much needed tools for successful selection and expert use of colour.