This was an excellent book on color theory for artists. This book covers all the usual color concepts you would find in an artist's color book and more. What was different about this color book was the step by step instructions to paint four landscapes and still life. By painting the demonstrations yourself you really learn the concepts.

I highly recommend this book to an aspiring artist of any medium.

Another book in this series is “Painting Tools & Materials”. I have written a detailed review of this book as well. If you only plan to purchase one I would purchase the book on color. It has much more valuable information.

I would be curious to know how this book differs from "Artist Toolbox:Color: A Fine artist's guide to understanding basic color theory".

I received this galley from NetGalley.

Beautiful reference title every artist should have on their shelf. I love the step by step descriptions of various media.

I feel like this book was made because of people like me. Those who struggle with color combinations. Working as a graphic designer we have palettes the work in certainty in terms of color combinations appealing for the web and digital work that I kind of slacked off in terms of color experimentation. Whenever I feel like one color doesn’t work with the rest, it was so easy to change it. Hence the slacking.

You can’t exactly do that with painting especially when you work with watercolors. Glazing can only do so much to help make your pieces look like you meant them to appear as such when in truth you used the wrong color.
This book has been very helpful. I often play it safe and use the colors I already know work well with each other, so having another insight towards colors allowed me to take on color mixing more valiantly.

Much like the other Artist’s Toolbox book that I reviewed, this book also includes an activity section where you can adapt all that you read and learned from the previous chapters. The painting I created here is the first project (contributed by Maury Aaseng) you can follow through and create your own version.

This book is like a handy reference for beginners who want to learn the basics step by step, I have to admit that it is useful for beginners like me ------ but the page design and formatting really, really need some changes and improvements. It's a book about art, so I was expecting a book comfortable to read and perhaps fun and easy to understand. However, the current formatting makes it look like a textbook with way-too-small font sizes. I do like the cover, though. It's the reason why I requested for this book. I'm not disappointed overall, but I just think there are much to be improved.
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Overall: 3/5
Cover: 5/5
Formatting: 1/5
Writing: 4/5
Page design: 2/5
Appealing: 3/5

This is the sort of handy reference book that is ideal for total beginners stepping into the realm of art for the first time. More advanced artists may pick up a titbit here and there, but it will be of limited use to them.

Though I didn't learn much from this having studied art theory and illustration at degree level, this would be a really useful to anyone interested in colour and art theory. It is written in a simple way with a lot of images to demonstrate the theories.

This book, along with its sibling (Artist’s Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials) are great textbook style books for those just starting traditional art. If you are new to painting and wanting to learn the basics for a bunch of media and not just one particular style of painting so you can experiment and find what kind of paint works best for you, then giving this book a read is a good idea. It includes useful information about color blending, color theory, and how various paints behave as well as also includes painting demonstration.

This book is very basic, if you have any experience at all with painting it will seem like a rehash and not present anything new, but if you have never picked up a paintbrush then the information is a good beginner, however you will eventually need to hunt down more advanced and specialized books/tutorials, so I would honestly advise going after a book that is a little more inclusive if you are serious about learning to paint. Though if you are just curious if painting is something you are actually interested in then this book is a good choice.

Interesting galley to look at, but I am certain that this cannot be the final formatting for the book. Text was extremely small and there was not a lot of it. The photographs of the color hues and mixes were interesting. Overall, the publication seemed like a basic text book for beginning painters.

This is a really good book with very detailed explanations of color uses in multiple types of mediums.  I also like the step by step instructions on different paintings some of which I have already used to practice.