Colour Mixing Guide: Acrylics - Softcover

Collins, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782210555 ISBN 13: 9781782210559

Publisher: Search Press, 2015

Synopsis

This pocket-sized, practical guide has everything the acrylic artist needs to know about colour mixing, from colour theory to complementary, warm and cool colours, colour tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and local colour. There follows an array of essential colour mixes using widely available Winsor & Newton colours. Clear, practical and beautifully presented advice.

About this title

About 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 a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books and has now sold over 80k books. Julie also writes for Leisure Painter & 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.

In 2025 Julie was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and a member of the Painter-Stainer’s Art Society.

From the Back Cover

Do you search for the perfect colours for your acrylic painting? Julie Collins' guide has everything you need to know, from colour theory to complementaries, warm and cool colours, using a limited palette and local colour. She has created a huge array of essential colour mixes using widely available colours. Mix beautiful, spot-on colours for your artwork with this practical, pocket-sized guide.

• Clear, at-a-glance guide to mixing 13 popular colours
• Achievable colour results with quick and easy tips
• Template provided for your own vital colour wheel

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• Clear, practical comprehensive guide
• Achievable colour results with quick and easy tips
• Uses readily available Winsor & Newton colours, easily subtituted by other ranges
• Pocket-sized and practical for the artist
• Colour wheel and template provided so readers can paint their own
• Very little competition available

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782210555
• ISBN 13: 9781782210559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48