Introduction 4
Materials 6
Colours used in this book 8
Colour 10
Colour wheel 10
Primary colours 12
Secondary colours 14
Tertiary colours 15
Complementary colours 16
Warm and cool colors 18
Colour tone 20
Using a limited palette 22
Dull and bright colours 26
Local colour 27
Colour mixes 28
Yellows and oranges 28
Reds and pinks 32
Violets and blues 36
Greens 40
Browns 44
Blacks and greys 46
Glossary 48
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 and artist's problem solving books and writes for The Artist magazine. She works from her studio in Farnham, Surrey, where she explores her passion for painting, drawing and crafts.
Jan 2017 Colour mixing guides tend to fall into the category of
either very simple or exhaustingly complicated. This is one of the
former. At only 48 pages, there's no room for every possible
combination of colours and nuance of tint, but the trade-off is
that you won't have to search through pages of almost identical
blotches to find what you want. Julie Collins also condenses the
apparatus of theory and practice into what we might call
packed-lunch size sections. Her look at primary, secondary,
tertiary colours is easy to understand and she also deals with warm
and cool colours and the importance of tone. The final and main
section is a straightforward catalogue of mixes organised by the
predominant colour and showing effect of tinting white.
*The Artist*
Like for any discipline, knowledge and mastery of the tools and
materials differentiates the master and novice. This book by Julie
Collins can aptly be stated as covering the ABCs of Color Mixing.
The first part of the book addresses to a new self starter in oil
painting and covers quickly and in simple terms, the concepts of
the Color Wheel and prompts the reader to explore the vast
combinations of color mixes. The later part of the book ( a good
portion of 20 Pages) provides the color pallette for various mixes.
This part of the book makes it a quick reference material for
people who take to painting now and then, saving them time in
recollecting the color mixes needed for arriving at their desired
choice. Would recommend this book for its simplicity and for its
usage as a good reference material for color mixes.
*Thiagarajan PK*
I found this colour mixing guide by Julie Collins simple but
very informative and explanatory. In the first few chapters she
covers all the materials needed. A good thing I found was she only
uses 13 colours, which is good for those who would love to paint
but are on a budget. In the latter chapters Julie includes a lot of
photos of her mixes for reference which I found very useful.
Overall a very informative book for the price
*Kerry Clifton*
Summer 2016 Search Press has added a new title to its colour mixing
guides to acoompany Julie Collins' books on acrylics and
watercolours. This one focuses on oils. Opening with simple colour
theory and colour wheels, the book moves on to look complementary,
warm and cool colours, before describing an array of essential
colour mixes achievable using Winsor and Newton colours. A book
you'll want to keep close to hand and refer to often.
*The Leisure Painter*
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