The Colour Companion: The Complete Colour Mixing Handbook
Mix the colour you imagine, on purpose.
The Colour Companion is the complete colour mixing handbook from Blend & Reveal. It takes the colour charts from our page, redraws them for clarity, and expands them into one practical guide you can keep beside your palette.
Instead of memorising hundreds of recipes, you'll learn why colours mix the way they do. Then muddy mixes, chalky tints and dull darks stop being a mystery.
What's inside (64 pages, 10 chapters):
- Your palette: a small split-primary palette that mixes almost everything, plus how to read pigment codes and paint labels
- Colour theory that matters: hue, value and chroma, the colour wheel, colour bias, tints, tones and shades, undertones, and 10 colours people constantly confuse
- The recipe library: 150+ starting recipes with real paint names and ratios for greens, oranges, yellows, violets, pinks, reds, blues, turquoise, teal, browns and greys
- Skin tones: a base-mix method, warm, cool, olive and neutral undertones, and an observation study
- The Neutral Mixing Lab: chromatic neutrals, black vs chromatic darks, and common mistakes (with fixes)
- Colour + colour: 48 quick mixes, plus how to fix any mix (too dark, too dull, too vivid, too red)
- Harmony and reference: colour schemes, 10 colour pairings that look expensive, 16 colour reference cards and a 96-shade name library
- Technique: dry brush, glazing, impasto, composition, matching any colour, and estimating where a blend will land
- Practice studio: 6 exercises, 8 guided studies, a 7-day starter plan and 4 printable worksheets
- The Shade Collection: nine full-page colour families with mixing routes for each
Perfect for: beginner and intermediate painters, hobby artists, art students, crafters and anyone who wants to finally understand colour.
Format: Instant PDF download, US Letter size. Read on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the worksheets at home.
FAQ
Is this a physical book? No. It's an instant PDF download, sent to you right after purchase.
Which paints does it cover? It's written for acrylic, and nearly everything works the same for oil and gouache.
I'm a complete beginner. Is it for me? Yes. It starts from zero: which paints to buy, how to measure "parts", and what to do when a mix goes wrong.
Can I print it? Yes, for your own personal use. The worksheets are designed to be printed.
Can I share or resell it? Please don't. It's licensed for personal use only.
Swatches are digital approximations; real results vary with your paint brand, medium and surface.