The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals

About The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals

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

This colorful, 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 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