Create over 100 vibrant watercolour mixes and paint a range of inspiring botanicals including flowers, leaves, seedheads and bulbs with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru, Julie Collins.
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.
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.
Publisher: Search Press
ISBN 13/EAN: 9781800922440
Size: 155x215 mm
Pages: 64
Language: English
Ireland (EUR)