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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. 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 4 Tools and materials 6 Colours 8 Colour wheel and colour charts 12 Watercolour techniques 16 PROJECTS Trees 22 Sargent's cherry 23 Oak 28 Beech 29 Silver birch 30 Silver birches 36 Olive 37 Fungi 38 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

About the Author :
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' problem-solving books and 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. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022. Julie has authored a number of different titles, including Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, and has now sold over 80k books.

Review :
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781800922464
  • Publisher: Search Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Search Press Ltd
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1800922469
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: The Colour Mixing Guide
  • Weight: 750 gr


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