Overview
Create over 100 vibrant watercolor mixes and paint a range of inspiring seashore subjects including shells, seaweed, plants and fish with award-winning artist and colour-mixing guru Julie Collins. This colorful, practical book features 15 vibrant and varied coastal subjects including mussel shells, coral weed, sea grass, sardines and a blue jellyfish. All 15 subjects feature a complete list of color mixes used with color 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 colors, mixing and painting from start to finish. Discover: Comprehensive information about color, including a color wheel and a guide to pure and mixed pigments Essential watercolor techniques such as painting wet into wet, wet on dry, washes, lifting off and more 15 inspirational paintings with color swatches, 5 shown step by step from start to finish Useful tips and tricks scattered throughout This book will inspire your love of color, provide you with colour mixing inspiration and is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to confidently create your own color mixes.
Full Product Details
Author: Julie Collins
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.162kg
ISBN: 9781800922457
ISBN 10: 1800922450
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 11 July 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This promising new series continues to delight (my general remarks can be found here). In this volume, Julie Collins provides mixing guides for the colours of fish, shells, pebbles and vegetation – everything, in fact, that you’re likely to find on a beach walk. This is a slim volume that benefits from Julie’s light touch and provides everything you need with no complication added simply for the purpose of taking up space. -- Henry Malt * artbookreview.net *
Author Information
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 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. Julie is a popular author, whose books have now sold in excess of 50k copies.
