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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.
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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.
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 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
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 has now sold over 80k books. Julie also writes for Leisure Painter & 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. She was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.
In 2025 Julie was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and a member of the Painter-Stainer’s Art Society.
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