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Although slightly damaged, all hurt copies are perfectly usable. Books may have bent or scratched covers and/or dented spines. All interior pages are 100% clean. Please note these books are only available from our website whilst stocks last!
by Julie Collins
Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring seashore subjects including shells, seaweed, plants and fish with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru Julie Collins.
This colourful, 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 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.
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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.
Introduction 4 Tools and materials 6 Colours 8 Colour wheel and colour charts 12 Watercolour techniques 16
PROJECTS
Shells, stones and feathers 22 Mussel shells 23 Stones 28 Feathers 29
Seaweed30 Bladderwrack 31 Coral weed 36 Sea lettuce 37
Plants and grasses 38 Sea kale 39 Yellow horned poppy 44 Sea grass 45
Fish, shellfish and jellyfish 46 Sardines 47 Red sea bream 52 Snapper 53 Blue swimmer crab 54 Prawns 60 Blue jellyfish 61
Glossary62
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’ problemsolving 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. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.
Julie is also the author of Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, which has sold over 9,000 copies to date.
The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals
By Julie Collins
The Colour Mixing Companion
Colour Demystified
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