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With a highly visual approach by an award-winning watercolor artist, give yourself the confidence to experiment with color mixing and use color with confidence!
Unravel the riddles of watercolour palettes and learn how to use colour with confidence!
Julie Collins helps you understand how color works in a highly visual way through the use of color charts accompanied by numerous examples, practical exercises and studies of watercolor paintings, both her own works and those of contemporary artists.
Topics such as granulation, iridescence, transparency and opacity are explained clearly and simply, to encourage you to experiment with colour and be bolder and more creative in your art.
Armed with a clearer understanding of color and how it looks and behaves on paper, you’ll be encouraged to be more bold and creative in the use of color in your art.
From the Publisher
This is a highly visual, practical guide to colour mixing, colour theory and colour relationships
Unravel the riddles of watercolour palettes and learn how to use colour with confidence!
Julie Collins helps you understand how colour works in a highly visual way through the use of colour charts accompanied by numerous examples, practical exercises and studies of watercolour paintings, both her own works and those of contemporary artists. Topics such as granulation, iridescence, transparency and opacity are explained clearly and simply, to encourage you to experiment with colour and be bolder and more creative in your art.
This book demystifies colour, and helps artists understand how colour works in a highly visual way through the use of colour charts accompanied by examples, practical exercises, and analyses of watercolour paintings.
Includes these step-by-step painting projects that address each part of your painting journey!
Tone and Value
To learn about tone and value, it can be a useful exercise to use just one colour to create a monochromatic painting. This means that you can concentrate on achieving variation in tone rather than colour mixing, and it will be easier to create the darkest darks to the lightest lights in your painting.
Palettes
This project uses a limited palette of yellows, blues and greens to demonstrate how even by using very few colours, you will still achieve a colourful painting through the mixes that you choose to make.
The Interaction of Colour
The Christmas Cactus is a perfect example of complementary colours found in nature. I decided to paint a pale pink background as I wanted the painting to appear warm. I could have chosen a pale blue or grey background, but this would have given a cooler feeling. Background colours must be considered carefully so as to achieve a successful colour combination in the painting.
Modifying your Colours
This is very bright and cheerful painting using a limited palette of only four colours. A lot of the colours used are pure colours in various tones, but the shadows and background area are created by using modified colours. The shadows are an important part of the painting, which create depth and link up different areas within the painting.
Glazing
This still-life project shows how glazing can be used in other subjects. A vase, a leaf and their background can be given more depth by the addition of another layer of paint. A glaze will enhance the colour of the flowers, with the underlayer shining through
Mineral Pigments and Luminescent Watercolours
Shells are a perfect subject for luminescent and mineral watercolours. Areas of subtle colour typically seen on the surface of the shell lend themselves to being painted wet into wet with a touch of iridescent sheen. The blooms created by the wet into wet technique are used to recreate the markings on the shells.
Meet 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 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 won numerous prestigious awards for her watercolour paintings, including, most recently, the award of first prize for Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition 2019. Julie was also elected an associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in August 2019.
Julie is the author of the Colour Mixing Guides in acrylics, oils and watercolour, published by Search Press.
Publisher : Search Press (September 7, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 160 pages
ISBN-10 : 1782217975
ISBN-13 : 978-1782217978
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.49 x 11.06 inches
