Create over 100 vibrant watercolor mixes and paint a range of inspiring botanicals including flowers, leaves, seedheads and bulbs with award-winning artist and color-mixing guru Julie Collins.
This colorful, practical book features 15 vibrant and varied botanical subjects including a geranium, hydrangea, maple leaf, cardoon and allium bulb. All 15 subjects feature a complete list of colour mixes used with colour ratios and finished swatches for inspiration, and five of the subjects are painted step by step so that you can follow the process of selecting colors, mixing and painting from start to finish. Discover:
Comprehensive information about color, including a color wheel and a guide to pure and mixed pigments
Essential watercolor techniques such as painting wet into wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting off and more
15 inspirational paintings with color swatches, 5 shown step by step from start to finish
Useful tips and tricks scattered throughout
This book will inspire your love of color, provide you with color mixing inspiration and is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to confidently create your own colour mixes. - Mix the perfect colors for every painting with the inspiring and easy-to-use Color Mixing Guide series. Each book features over 100 key color mixes on a popular theme, showing you how to create exactly the colors you want, and building up your color knowledge at every stage. These handy, pocket-sized paperbacks make ideal gifts or on-the-go reference guides: each contains 64 pages bursting with colour and jam-packed with practical
Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written colour mixing guides and artists' problem-solving books and also writes for The Artist magazine. She works from her studio in Hampshire, UK, where she explores her passion for painting, drawing and crafts.
Julie has won numerous prestigious awards for her watercolour paintings, including, most recently, the award of first prize for Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition 2019. Julie was also elected an associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in August 2019. Julie is the author of the Colour Mixing Guides in Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour, published by Search Press.
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Create over 100 vibrant watercolor mixes and paint a range of inspiring botanicals including flowers, leaves, seedheads and bulbs with award-winning artist and color-mixing guru Julie Collins.
This colorful, practical book features 15 vibrant and varied botanical subjects including a geranium, hydrangea, maple leaf, cardoon and allium bulb. All 15 subjects feature a complete list of colour mixes used with colour ratios and finished swatches for inspiration, and five of the subjects are painted step by step so that you can follow the process of selecting colors, mixing and painting from start to finish. Discover:
Comprehensive information about color, including a color wheel and a guide to pure and mixed pigments
Essential watercolor techniques such as painting wet into wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting off and more
15 inspirational paintings with color swatches, 5 shown step by step from start to finish
Useful tips and tricks scattered throughout
This book will inspire your love of color, provide you with color mixing inspiration and is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to confidently create your own colour mixes. - Mix the perfect colors for every painting with the inspiring and easy-to-use Color Mixing Guide series. Each book features over 100 key color mixes on a popular theme, showing you how to create exactly the colors you want, and building up your color knowledge at every stage. These handy, pocket-sized paperbacks make ideal gifts or on-the-go reference guides: each contains 64 pages bursting with colour and jam-packed with practical
Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written colour mixing guides and artists' problem-solving books and also writes for The Artist magazine. She works from her studio in Hampshire, UK, where she explores her passion for painting, drawing and crafts.
Julie has won numerous prestigious awards for her watercolour paintings, including, most recently, the award of first prize for Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition 2019. Julie was also elected an associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in August 2019. Julie is the author of the Colour Mixing Guides in Acrylics, Oils and Watercolour, published by Search Press.
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