Colour Mixing Guide: Acrylics by Julie Collins

Colour Mixing Guide: Acrylics by Julie Collins

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.

December 2016

Julie Collins’ previous book on colour mixing with watercolours was reviewed in our December 2015 issueThe latest book on Acrylics is a good addition to the series. It follows the same structure as the Watercolours book, using a limited palette (this time thirteen colours plus white) from primary and secondary colours but as a different medium, producing different colours and results.

The book explores the colour wheel, tone and dulling colours before moving onto the colour mixing catalogue. This book is a handy reference tool for planning a colour scheme and would be useful for creating a many layered piece for mixed media work.

Julie Collins makes the point at the beginning that you need to spend time mixing your colours in order to make the right choices for a piece of work. She likens it to an athlete warming up before a race rather than rushing into a 100m sprint. It’s a great metaphor to consider when approaching colour.

* Workshop on the Web *

January 2016

Julie Collins’ handy pocket sized guide to mixing acrylic colours contains 48 pages packed full of advice on mixing acrylic colours for all possible uses. There’s information on colour theory, complementary colours, warm and cool colours, colour tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colours and using local colour. Julie uses readily available Winsor & Newton colours and presents the information in a clear practical way. A colour wheel and template are included so that readers can paint their own colour wheel.

* The Leisure Painter *

Colour mixing guides take the mystery and chemistry out of the process to provide you with easy mixes giving you the colours you want. Colour theory is included. It uses widely available colours. When you need spot-on, repeatable colours, you’ll find this book essential. It’s easy to use with very clear instructions

* Karen Platt- yarnsandfabrics.co.uk *

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781782210559
ISBN 10	1782210555
Title	Colour Mixing Guide: Acrylics
Author	Julie Collins
Series	Colour Mixing Guides
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Search Press Ltd
Year published	2016-01-18
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.