This book really opened my eyes to painting. I love the artwork and details of this book. Will reread and makes a great coffee table book. Love it.

This book introduces colour mixing, colour combination and, of course, gives an introduction in colour theory.

I especially liked the information on which colours work well together and how to mix the colours od one family to make them appear warmer or colder. Futher, the introduction to painting colourful clouds was very interesting.

A beautiful book that gives some great tips on how to mix colour, paint and organise your work space. Some great tips that are really useful.

Kimberly shares her professionals techniques and tips by using step by step illustrated instructions. This book should be in any arts library. Wonderful!

Beginning of Color Mixing has got to be one of the most vibrant and beautiful art guides I’ve read in quite some time, which I feel like is saying something. The artist, Kimberly Adams, certainly has full right to be teaching others about color theory and mixing colors, based on the artwork shown in this book. Half the time I found myself distracted by her beautiful work, only to remember I was supposed to be reading the book…
This guide is wonderfully comprehensive, from cover the basics (like setting up a workspace and how to understand a color wheel), to color placement and individual tips on the use of many different colors. I want to say there are about three to four pages for the most common colors used, and the artwork that goes along with each guide is both beautiful and supportive.
Also included are some tips and tricks for painting from life, with some really fantastic step by step images showing the progression of a few different pieces of her work. I particularly loved these images – seeing how Kimberly Adams layered the paintings was both fascinating and informative.
I really enjoyed reading this guide by Kimberly Adams, and I would love to see more of her work. I’ll be honest and say that I hadn’t heard of her before this, but can now safely say she’s gained a new fan.

I loved this book so much! I am a mixed media artist also doing tutorials on YouTube. I mainly use all types of acrylics in my projects. I love them. It was a nice surprise this book focused mainly on acrylics and oil paint users. It starts with basics and tells all techniques step by step also supported with good quality, vibrant pictures. It focuses on mostly nature in its demonstrations, which I loved too.
First it goes over different colours while talking about getting other colours over the main ones. Hues, values, all of them are explained. Lighting, different angles, etc. Then, the book goes through lots of nature elements like clouds, waves, trees, autumn, etc to show how to mix colours to get the intended look.
I really enjoyed it, I will be using it as a guide for sure and I would recommend it.
My only criticism is to be clear about the dominance on acrylics, and oil paints, also the scope of examples. For example, there are no portraits, buildings, etc. Other than that, if you love acrylics, and nature executions, this book is for you.

Thanks a lot to NetGalley and the publisher for granting a copy in exchange for an honest review.

A really nice and well designed book to understand the colours and how to use them, it identifies and explains Colour palette and charts, opposite colours, how to use different colours together as well as how to use same colour in different tones.
It starts the introduction from how to set your studio / organise your materials and covers what you will need then goes into well explained colouring methods and information on colours. There is lots of terminology and methods to learn.
I would recommend this book to people who want a kick start to oil / acrylic painting.
Also, It would have been nice to see some watercolour advice.