The Colour Mixing Companion by Julie Collins

The Colour Mixing Companion by Julie Collins is an essential, no-fuss colour mixing guide that covers watercolour, acrylics and oil paint. Clear and comprehensive, this pocket-sized companion is something no artist should be without!

This title explores all the essentials of colour mixing, including colour theory and colour wheels. Templates are even included so you can create your own! Step by step you’ll learn how to accurately mix colour across the three most popular mediums. Plenty of swatches are included throughout the book to help build an encyclopaedic knowledge of colours and colour relationships.

All Julie’s guidance includes illustrated examples - whether you’re learning about warm and cool colours, tone, complementary colours, limited palettes, dull or bright colours and more. Julie also includes an assortment of essential colour mixes using widely available paints.

Beautifully presented, this practical guide to mixing and understanding colour would be handy for beginners and professionals alike.

The contents of this book have been compiled and refreshed from the hugely popular Colour Mixing Guides series.

160 Page Hardback. 127 x 180mm.

LOOK INSIDE

• Introduction 6

• MIXING WATERCOLOURS 8 Materials 10, Colours used in this section 14, Colour 18, Colour tone 30, Using a limited palette 32, Dull and bright colours 38, Local colour 40, Colour mixes 42

• MIXING ACRYLICS 62 Materials 64, Colours used in this section 68, Colour 72, Colour tone 82,Using a limited palette 84, Dull and bright colours 88, Local colour 89, Colour mixes 90

• MIXING OILS 110 Materials 110, Colours used in this section 115, Colour 118, Colour tone 128, Using a limited palette 130, Dull and bright colours 134, Local colour 136, Colour mixes 138

• Glossary 158

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 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.

The three Colour Mixing Guides that comprise this book have sold over 37.5k copies overall.

This is definitely a no fuss guide, what an ease to wander through the pages. I love the size of the book, just longer than the length of my hand and just wider so it sits comfortably in my hands.The quality of the paper is really good and feel like they will withstand a lot of flicking through to where I want to look.

I like the inclusion of the colour wheel templates, they will come in useful. I like the exercise examples and the right and wrong explanations. Theres a nice section about oils, which Ive yet to try, solvents and mediums which will be my go to reference when I do get around to trying oil painting.

I absolutely love the colour swatch pages and I definitely want to create my own. This book will be a great colour reference guide for me in my painting journey. I’m not a complete beginner at watercolour and acrylic painting, theres still a lot for me to learn from this beautiful book.