The Colour Mixing Guide Watercolour Botanicals Book

The Colour Mixing Guide Watercolour Botanicals Book is a practical, colour-filled guide to mixing beautiful watercolour shades for painting flowers, leaves, seedheads, bulbs and other botanical subjects. Created by award-winning artist and colour-mixing expert Julie Collins, the book features more than 100 watercolour mixes to help artists develop a greater understanding of colour and confidently create their own combinations.

Explore 15 varied botanical subjects including geraniums, hydrangeas, maple leaves, cardoons and allium bulbs. Each subject in The Colour Mixing Guide Watercolour Botanicals Book includes a complete selection of the colour mixes used, with helpful mixing ratios and finished colour swatches that make it easier to recreate each shade.

Five botanical subjects are demonstrated step by step, guiding you through the complete process of selecting colours, mixing pigments and developing the finished watercolour painting. Along the way, discover essential techniques including wet into wet, wet on dry, washes and lifting colour, alongside practical tips for achieving different effects.

The Colour Mixing Guide Watercolour Botanicals Book also explores essential colour theory, including the colour wheel and the differences between pure and mixed pigments. Its compact, pocket-sized format makes it a useful reference to keep alongside your watercolour paints, brushes and palette at home, in the studio or while painting on the go.

Key Features:

• More than 100 inspiring watercolour mixes
• Focused on flowers, leaves, seedheads, bulbs and botanical subjects
• Features 15 completed botanical paintings
• Includes colour ratios and finished swatches for each subject
• 5 projects demonstrated step by step from start to finish
• Covers essential colour theory and the colour wheel
• Explores pure and mixed pigments
• Covers wet into wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting and other watercolour techniques
• Includes practical colour mixing tips and techniques throughout
• Written by award-winning artist Julie Collins
• Compact format ideal as a studio or on-the-go reference
• Suitable for artists looking to build confidence in watercolour and colour mixing
• 64 pages
• ISBN 9781800922440