Color Guides

Color Matching Guide Color Wheel Co.

A full palette of paint colors, tints and shades in a handy little guide. This color guide helps artists identify, match and select the colors they need for their paintings. It includes 36 pure artists' tube colors printed on individual cards with 144 tints and shades. Each color card shows one original tube color with a value range from light tint to dark shade. The unique viewing windows allow the artist or anyone working with color to preview thousands of possible new color combinations and to mix and match colors for their palette. The windows permit easy color and value identification. The color cards can be overlaid to view hundreds of exciting new color combinations. The guide is ideal for use in the classroom, studio or on location, and is also very helpful in identifying colors and values when working from photos and magazines.

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Color Wheels Color Wheel Co.

A visual guide to color mixing that illustrates color relationships through a series of windows and color tones on a moveable wheel. This wheel provides the user with information such as harmony within color relationships, complementary colors, variation of tones and the triadic approach to colors. The front of the wheel shows the result of mixing primary the primary, secondary and tertiary colors with the primaries plus black and white. The back of the wheel shows color relationships, tints, tones and shades. The wheel includes a gray scale and definitions of common terms. The wheel is 9-1/4" in diameter.

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Creative Color Wheel Color Wheel Co.

A tool for designers in a variety of artistic mediums to help create color combinations and to understand color relationships. This color wheel helps organize colors to make choices and combinations easier. It defines common terms and helps the artist to understand color uses and interactions. The two-sided rotating wheel shows color relationships. Convenient and portable, it is UV-coated to minimize fading and protect it from moisture. Great for a variety of artists including painters, quilters, knitters, crafters and floral, interior, graphic, garden and landscape designers.

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Gray Scale and Value Finder Color Wheel Co.

An invaluable tool for artists, teachers and students, the Gray Scale and Value Finder allows users to identify the value of blacks, whites and colors in all media. Ten swatches, from 10% black to 100% black, are each accompanied by a cut-out shape for value and intensity comparisons. The Finder can also be used as a guide to making colors lighter and darker with varying values of neutral gray. It includes simple explanations and instructions for immediate and effective use.

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Pocket Color Wheels Color Wheel Co.

The same tool as the Color Wheel but in a compact, convenient size. The smaller diameter is 5-1/8".

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Color Swatch Cards COPIC

COPIC Color Swatch Cards consists of 14 sheets of blank charts designed to be used with 358 colors. Charts are printed on COPIC Premium Bond paper and come with instructions on how to use the color swatches. This product is an ideal color guide tool for artists and crafters to use on their projects. Cards measure 4.3" x 8.1" (110mm x 205mm) and come in a plastic card case.

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Montana Gold True Color Swatch Book Montana Cans

This swatch book has true-tone colors for the Montana Gold Spray can line. Although every effort has been made to check, mix and print colors as close to the original as possible, printing and paper limitations may create slight variations from the actual color. It is always recommended to test spray and compare colors in advance. Montana GOLD has a semi-matte to satin finish that may vary from color to color depending on pigment contents. Montana GOLD is an independent color system without any relation to other color systems like RAL or PANTONE.

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Color Mixing Recipes Walter Foster

This cookbook of color provides more than 450 color combinations. It's packaged in a concealed wire-o-binding that lies flat and maintains the order of the cards. The volume also features a clear acetate Color Mixing Grid - a perfect guide for accurately measuring paints. Use is illustrated with instruction in a variety of painting techniques, such as painting flesh and facial features.

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CMY Primary Mixing Wheel Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

The CMY Primary Mixing Wheel shows how to form secondary and tertiary colors from primary pigments (cyan, magenta and yellow). It also illustrates tints, tones, and shades of the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colors on the wheel. Useful for learning and understanding color theory, it illustrates color relationships and harmonies. It also gives a scientifically accurate description of colors based on cyan, magenta and yellow pigments.

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Create-A-Color Wheel Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

This uncolored color wheel is ready for you to paint with your own favorite colors. A practical, hands-on tool for teaching painting, mixing colors and color relationships. Use your favorite medium-oil colors, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, etc. The wheel measures 9-1/4" in diameter.

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Interior Design Color Wheel Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

This handy color wheel helps homeowners and amateur interior decorators select colors that work well together. A wide range of color combinations is instantly available with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations. The wheel can also be used by novices to communicate color ideas to professional interior designers, and can be a helpful tool for purchasing home décor items.

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Magic Palette Color Mixing Guides Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

Mixing the right color just got easier! The Magic Palette Mixing Guides take the guesswork out of mixing beautiful, luminous colors. Each guide features a comprehensive easy-to-read grid that shows the resulting color when 2 colors are combined. An indispensable tool for artists and designers of every experience level, they are ideal for studios, the classroom and plein air painting. The 11-1/2" x 11-1/2" Personal Mixing Guide presents 324 colors created from 18 paint colors that are essential to most artists. The guides are printed in high quality for color accuracy and include detailed instructions.
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Pocket Guide to Mixing Color Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

This folding version of the color wheel illustrates the result of mixing colors, tints, tones, and shades. Small enough for a pocket or an artist's workbox, this unique color chart gives a quick guide to colors produced by mixing two colors in varying proportions. The reverse side is uncoated to allow you to paint your own personal palette. It features a gray scale, many definitions, and folds to 3" x 5". Guide discusses primary color mixtures, color harmonies, tints, tones, warm and cool colors, and clearly defines color terms like hue and value.

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Watercolor Wheel Color Wheel Co. Warehouse Only

This indispensable watercolorist's tool shows 144 combinations of the most common colors to aid in selecting and mixing. It also provides visual examples of graduated washes from mass to undertones created from the actual watercolors. The reverse side of this 10" diameter circle gives helpful definitions and information about color characteristics and transparent techniques.

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B-420 Color Computer Grumbacher Warehouse Only

This rotating paper disk shows results of mixing twelve colors with degrees of black, blue, red, white and yellow. Includes color mixing chart.

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1,500 Color Mixing Recipes Walter Foster Warehouse Only

This comprehensive color-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolor artists is a collection of Walter Foster's best-selling Color Mixing Recipes books, including Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. This collection comes in a user-friendly, concealed, spiral-bound format that is tabbed for quick and easy reference. It includes two removable color mixing grids, one for oil or acrylic, and one for watercolor. 176 pages.

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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Walter Foster Warehouse Only

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits is the perfect guide for any aspiring portrait artist. This book includes recipes for more than 500 skin tones using either acrylic or oil paints. Each page features a master mix for a particular skin color, plus recipes for all of its variations, such as highlights or shadows. The book covers a wide range of skin tones from Caucasian to Latino and East Indian hues, and artists will also find recipes for a variety of hair, eye and lip colors. Exact paint formulas for achieving a variety of skin tones helps artists with the complexities of skin colors. A clear acetate color-mixing grid offers the perfect guide for accurately measuring paints according to the recipes. There is also a special section on creating portrait colors with watercolors.

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