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Kathleen Gevaux

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I can't believe that the Colour Mixing Guide is not included free with the magazine if you are a subscriber, but if you buy the magazines in store it is complimentary. Seems rather weird to me!!

Peter Davison

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What Colour Mixing guide?

Alan Bickley

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Yes... I'm lost on this one also Peter, perhaps it was a free gift with the purchase of either TA or LP from the newsagents.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Maybe they'll put it on the website - indeed, maybe they have, I've not looked. I remember another series of colour mixing guides from another magazine, not one of 'ours'; it produced an anguished cry from a well-known artist and contributor to that magazine - 'are we to have no regard to cost?': the suggestions included mixing colour with cadmiums and cobalts, which even back then would have got fiendishly expensive, especially in oil. I trust this guide doesn't fall into that trap....

Adele Elgood

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Welcome to the forum Kathy. I have found over the years that if you buy from a retailer a magazine you will sometimes get a free gift which is not included in a subscription copy. My theory - and I am probably wrong - is that we get the price of the mags cheaper on subscription so we are already receiving a good deal. But I think we should receive something like this type of guide free with the mag, sub. or not.