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Summary: Best Introduction to Color Mixing
Review: This book does not cover Color Theory, which is a specialized branch of color use. Instead, Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green addresses some of the basic issues of color mixing, in terms of both light and paint. It clearly explains the physical properties of each and how this knowledge can be used to best effect.Yet, the text is never dry or overly-scientific. It cuts right to the chase, giving the reader plenty of information about color mixing, along with many beautiful color illustrations. As an artist and teacher, I use Blue and Yellow both in the studio and in the classroom all the time. My hat is off to Michael Wilcox!
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Summary: Makes color mixing cristal clear
Review: This book is great. As a hobby, I started painting a little over a year ago. However, after investing hundreds of hours and dollars, I was on the verge of giving up painting all together because of the frustration resulting from failing to mix colors accurately, wasting time, money and going nowhere. In his book, Mr. Wilcox, starting from the color pigment level, clearly explains to us the entire color mixing process with thousands of examples backed by illustrated scientific information, and takes out the guess work, thus allowing the artist to concentrate on the composition. After reading this book, my colors are now a hundred percent accurate with colors ending up on canvas rather than in the trash. The only critisism I may have is his continuous repitition of the evils and shortcomings of traditional color-mixing theory. Other than that, thank you Mr. Wilcox for bringing back the joy of painting.
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Summary: Makes color mixing cristal clear
Review: This book is great. As a hobby, I started painting a little over a year ago. However, after investing hundreds of hours and dollars, I was on the verge of giving up painting all together because of the frustration resulting from failing to mix colors accurately, wasting time, money and going nowhere. In his book, Mr. Wilcox, starting from the color pigment level, clearly explains to us the entire color mixing process with thousands of examples backed by illustrated scientific information, and takes out the guess work, thus allowing the artist to concentrate on the composition. After reading this book, my colors are now a hundred percent accurate with colors ending up on canvas rather than in the trash. The only critisism I may have is his continuous repitition of the evils and shortcomings of traditional color-mixing theory. Other than that, thank you Mr. Wilcox for bringing back the joy of painting.
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Summary: THE Desert Island Art Book
Review: This book makes so much sense, works so well, and shows the conventional color wheel theory to be so much hogwash that it has changed my life as an artist.
Anyone who says this book is too difficult or covers old territory hasn't read it carefully. This is the most important art book you will every read. You will come away "empowered" rather that overpowered by color.
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Summary: Desert Island book for Artists
Review: This book makes so much sense, works so well, and shows the conventional color wheel theory to be so much hogwash that it has changed my life as an artist.
Anyone who says this book is too difficult or covers old territory hasn't read it carefully. This is the most important art book you will every read. You will come away "empowered" rather that overpowered by color.
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Summary: A color reference for the serious artist
Review: This book's central lesson is: "Color mixing should be a thinking process based on knowledge." This book discusses the physics of color and light. It has pages and pages devoted to the properties of various colors, and what will happen when you mix Color A and Color B. I just wish this were a lightweight paperback so I could throw it in my painting kit.
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Summary: Let's get something straight about this color theory book.
Review: This is a book that is good for several kinds of readers, in my opinion: 1) For readers who want to use it as color references, the book provides a considerable number of color charts. Readers can use them as a guide in the mixing of colors (oil, water colors, or others). 2) For readers who like "color formulas", color mixtures presented in the book are of big help and a good start. 3) For readers who like to get to the bottom of things, the author presents rather in-depth discussions on color theories. Briefly speaking, there is a major difference between the mixing of light of different colors (i.e. mixing of visible light of different wavelengths. Remember, visible light is simply a spectrum of electromagnetic signals, characteristic by their frequencies, hence, their wavelengths), and the mixing of color pigments. While the resultant color obtained as a result of the former obeys the "additive mixing rule", the resultant color obtained by mixing of the latter (color pigments) follows the "subtractive mixing rule". My rough analogy of these two rules is that "additive mixing rule" (the mixing of light) may be considered "What you see is what you get - a.k.a. WYSIWYG"; meanwhile, the "subtractive mixing rule" (the mixing of color pigments) may be considered "What you see is what you DON'T get" - a.k.a WYSIWYDG". Commonly, scientists such as physicists and chemists are more familiar with the additive mixing rule, since this is of common use in measurement techniques such as colorimetry or photometry. On the other hand, artists and painters who understand pigments and color mixing are usually more familiar with the "subtractive mixing rule". It is also worth mentioning that the "subtractive mixing rule" is sometimes referred to as the "subtractive system" of color mixing. This system is NOT at all new, nor is it presented solely in this book. Instead, readers may find it discussed in other color theory books as well. To sum it up, this is a good reference book for artists at any level; and speaking with a scientist within, I believe there are nothing wrong, nor are there any lies presented in this book, regarding the theory presented in it. In my opinion, it is a decent book in the mixing of color pigments. Therefore, it deserves an accurate review from both viewpoints, those of a scientist and an artist. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: This is a great book. No more wasted paint and confusion (or even depression) about colour mixing. Good colour mixing is a complex and confusing business but this book goes a very very long way to make it far less so and more logical and accurate. It's gives excellent results. Read it, buy it, learn it!
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Summary: A useful pack of lies
Review: This is a straight-talking, practical guide to color mixing that's likely to be helpful to artists working in all kinds of media. However, the book's explanation of basic color mixing theory is inaccurate -- or to be more charitable, it's a metaphorical interpretation. Wilcox rails and rails against the evils of the "erroneous" three-primary system; it is a delicious irony that the book's luscious color mixing examples were printed with just such a three-primary system (plus black). My only beef with this very interesting book is that it doesn't fess up to its own allegorical nature, of which Mr. Wilcox is mostly likely quite aware. Don't read this book and then think that you now understand how color mixing and color perception actually work; just use it to mix paints to get the color you want! If you want to really understand color perception, you'll have to unlearn much of what this book tells you.
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Summary: Confusing and Useless
Review: This is a terrible book. I got the video of it too and it was unwatchable. His ideas are mixed up, he thinks colors are warm or cool without realizing any color can be made to look warm or cool. This book does not help anyone learn to paint, or to understand what color is or how it relates to art. Complete waste of money. If I could get my money back I would.
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