Color mixes to make your head explode, or, green + red = purple?

[MonkeySloth]

 

There's a great book for color theory study also called: Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter, by James Gurney, very helpful. One of the books I keep on the close shelf near the paint table. A linkie if you like:

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372283618&sr=1-1&keywords=color+and+light

As in the Dinotopia guy?

 

 

Yep. He's got two books on painting and they're both great reads.

[CashWiley]

That image is from the linked book?

It's from: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yellow-Dont-Make-Green/dp/0967962870

 

Gurney's other book: http://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Realism-Paint-Doesnt-Exist/dp/0740785508/

 

And I've been trying to track down a reasonable copy of his book on sketching: http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Guide-Sketching-James-Gurney/dp/0823003329/

Edited June 26, 2013 by CashWiley