The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals

Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring botanicals including flowers, leaves, seedheads and bulbs with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru Julie Collins.

This colourful, 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 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.

Book Contents

Introduction 4

Tools and materials 6

Colours 8

Colour wheel and colour charts 12

Watercolour techniques 16

PROJECTS

Flowers 22
Geranium 23, Tulip 28, Bird of paradise 29, Hydrangea 31, Spray of flowers 36 Orchid 37

Leaves 38
Maple 39, Plantain lily 44, Feathery leaves 45

Seedheads 46
Love-in-a-mist 47, Cardoon 52, Hollyhock 53

Bulbs 54
Hyacinth 55, Allium 60, Fritillary 61

Glossary62