colour mixing guide watercolour botanicals

Author: Julie Collins
64 pages

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 color mixes used with color 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 color 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 color and jam-packed with practical