The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Seashore - Paperback

by Julie Collins (Author)

Create over 100 vibrant watercolor mixes and paint a range of inspiring seashore subjects including shells, seaweed, plants and fish with award-winning artist and color-mixing guru Julie Collins.

This colorful, 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 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.

Author Biography

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' 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 received numerous prestigious awards for her painting, including from the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal West of England Academy and ING Discerning Eye; she was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.
Julie is a popular author, whose books have now sold in excess of 50k copies.