The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Seashore

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. 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

The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Seashore 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.