This text focuses on nine major media: oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, pastel, coloured pencil, pencil, marker and charcoal. Each chapter shows the base medium mixed with a variety of secondary media (including sand, sawdust and collage) on a variety of bases (canvas, watercolour paper, board) and in three degrees of application (thick, medium and thin). Each page charts the results of these applications, providing an at-a-glance guide to the effects of over 600 possible combinations.