The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals by Julie Collins

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.

'Why so happy? Because it’s so good. Where previous guides of this type (all of them) have gone for quantity, this very much goes for quality and relevance. I’d class this as pretty much a must-have for any flower painter.' Henry Malt, artbookreview.net

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.