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Friday Finds: Color by Overprinting

By Ryan Gerald Nelson

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Some simple color inspiration for you. (All you need are these 11 basic inks.)

Color by Overprinting by Donald E. Cooke

“A complete guidebook in the art and printing techniques employing transparent inks in multiple combinations. Illustrated with 495 three- and four-color groupings of eleven basic inks, plus 44 pages of pictorial application of the medium.”

—Published in Philadelphia in 1955.

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