The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Woodland

Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring woodland subjects including trees, fungi, insects and birds with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru, Julie Collins.

Praise for fellow series title, The Colour Mixing Guide, Watercolour Botanicals:
'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.' Henry Malt, artbookreview.net

This colourful, practical book features 15 vibrant and varied woodland subjects including a cherry blossom tree, tiger moth, olive tree, silver birches and a barn owl. 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.

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.

Book Contents

Introduction 4

Tools and materials 6

Colours 8

Colour wheel and colour charts 12

Watercolour techniques16

PROJECTS

Trees 22
Sargent's cherry 23
Oak 28
Beech 29
Silver birch 30
Silver birches 36
Olive 37

Fungi38
Wood blewit 39
Penny bun 44
Fly agaric 45

Insects 46
Rose chafer 47
Blue morpho 52
Tiger moth 53

Birds 54
Barn owl 55
Green woodpecker 60
Robin 61

Glossary 62