Book Review: Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors

Color by Betty Edwards is a educational hands-on book on learning and mixing colours. The book has numerous lessons that are aimed at getting beginners familiar with different colour concepts.

You get to learn about the different properties of colours, namely the hue, value and intensity. Those are the important bits and the tutorials included build on what's taught in the text.

There's also coverage for the colour wheel, it talks about different colour schemes but not as much compared to other books, and other chapters talk about other things like observation, symbolism and more.

The material suggested in the book is acrylics. You can also use other medium such as watercolour, or even digital painting, but you need to know the differences between each medium and mix appropriately. E.g. To reduce value for watercolour, you just add more water as compared to acrylic where you add white paint.

There's quite a bit of text to read, just like Betty Edward's other book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and it's always informative. There are occasional references and commentary about examples by other established painters which are quite insightful.

If you're the hands-on type of person, someone who learns faster by doing, this is a great book to check out. Getting your hands dirty is a quick way to getting to learn more about colour and mixing.

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