Color Mixing II

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau
Created in 1692 by A. Boogert in the Netherlands
containing nearly 800 hand-painted and hand-written pages.

We recently wrote about a few of our favorite books on color and color mixing and asked our readers to share theirs as well.

Here are some of the responses we received - all great recommendations:

James Gurney’s Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter has been called the best contemporary color reference book available. We had the opportunity to work with James at the 2014 SKB Foundation Workshop in Wyoming. His knowledge of color and light effects is phenomenal.

Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory by Stephen Quiller was put forward as an essential color reference and color theory course with exercises. Quiller also authored Painter’s Guide to Color among several other books.

Gruppe on Color: Using Expressive Color to Paint Nature by Emil…