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The Colour Mixing Guide: Watercolour Botanicals

Julie Collins

Description

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.

This colourful, 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 colours, mixing and painting from start to finish.

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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