The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Seashore by Julie Collins

The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Seashore by Julie Collins includes 15 seaside themed painting projects suitable for beginners. Julie¡¯s exercises are simple, effective and straightforward – and will introduce you to over 100 different colour mixes that perfectly capture seashore subjects.
Colourful and practical, the painting projects in this book include mussel shells, coral weed, sea grass, sardines, blue jellyfish and more. Each project comes with a complete list of colour mixes – complete with mixing ratios – and a painted swatch of the final result. Five of the fifteen projects include a fully illustrated step-by-step painting process, you can match Julie¡¯s techniques stroke by stroke. The remaining ten projects include an illustration of the finished pieces alongside detailed colour mixes.
Not only does this book include fifteen painting projects, it also includes loads of colour mixing theory straight from the guru herself. The book begins with a comprehensive chapter about colour, including a colour wheel and a guide to pure and mixed pigments. Julie also touches on essential watercolour techniques such as wet on wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting off and more. There are plenty of handy tips and tricks scattered throughout the book that will inspire your love of colour and equip you with the knowledge needed to make your own mixes.
64 page paperback. 155 x 215mm
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