Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring seashore subjects including shells, seaweed, plants and fish with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru Julie Collins.
Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring seashore subjects including shells, seaweed, plants and fish with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru Julie Collins.
This colourful, practical book features 15 vibrant and varied coastal subjects including mussel shells, coral weed, sea grass, sardines and a blue jellyfish. 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 colours, mixing and painting from start to finish.
Discover:
- Comprehensive information about colour, including a colour wheel and a guide to pure and mixed pigments;
- Essential watercolour techniques such as painting wet into wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting off and more;
- 15 inspirational paintings with colour swatches, 5 shown step by step from start to finish;
- Useful tips and tricks scattered throughout.
This book will inspire your love of colour, provide you with colour mixing inspiration and is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to confidently create your own colour mixes.
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Mix the perfect colours for every painting with the inspiring and easy-to-use Colour Mixing Guide series. Each book features over 100 key colour mixes on a popular theme, showing you how to create exactly the colours you want, and building up your colour 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 information.
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Tools and materials 6
Colours 8
Colour wheel and colour charts 12
Watercolour techniques 16
PROJECTS
Shells, stones and feathers 22
Mussel shells 23
Stones 28
Feathers 29
Seaweed30
Bladderwrack 31
Coral weed 36
Sea lettuce 37
Plants and grasses 38
Sea kale 39
Yellow horned poppy 44
Sea grass 45
Fish, shellfish and jellyfish 46
Sardines 47
Red sea bream 52
Snapper 53
Blue swimmer crab 54
Prawns 60
Blue jellyfish 61
Glossary62
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About Julie Collins
Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problemsolving 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 received numerous prestigious awards for her painting, including from the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal West of England Academy and ING Discerning Eye. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.
Julie is also the author of Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, which has sold over 9,000 copies to date.
