ART BOOKS - Which one you would recommand ?

Opinion sharply divides on black - some never use it; the oil painter Malcolm Ludvigsen recently described it as &quot;the queen of colours&quot;.  In watercolour, Rowland Hilder used Lamp Black, Neutral Tint, and Payne's Grey.  Some prefer Mars Black.  The one black in watercolour which seems to arouse fairly universal caution is Ivory Black - which is indeed a colour I've had some trouble with across the media, for different reasons in each case - to generalize, it tends to display slightly greasy characteristics.<div> </div><div>I shall be interested to see your experiments with it - as a darkening agent, I've never got on with it; treat it as a colour, indeed as Spike argues, and it has numerous, risky possibilities.  </div>

Someone I used to know used Paynes gray and lemon yellow to produce what became known as Ronnies Green (lol)