600 Watercolor Mixes: Washes, Color Recipes, and Techniques

Learn from an expert the keys to mixing beautiful watercolors. 600 Watercolor Mixes shares all the tips and tricks to expert color mixing while showing you how to enhance your paintings with vivacious shades and tints.

Beginning with comprehensive charts demonstrating the nuances of each color pairing, 600 Watercolor Mixes includes thorough color swatches to use as references so there are no surprises, just beautifully blended hues. Different color mixing techniques are also shown such as palette mixing, wet -into-wet, and overlaying with accompanying finished examples to help you decide which techniques to use where. Plus, Sharon Finmark goes over the basics of color theory and concepts to help you understand when elements like saturation and value will be important for you to consider. With Sharon's expert advice, you'll discover the techniques to achieving the exact colors and effects you want.

600 Watercolor Mixes also illustrates how colors can be used to enhance a painting by creating special effects, adding contrast, and making shadows.  Sharon shows you what a difference using her color mixing methods can make in bringing out the best in a painting. Filled with beautiful watercolor illustrations and examples, this manual provides all the mixing fundamentals in the delicate world of watercolor making it useful for watercolorists of all levels. 


Table of Contents

Introduction 
1 Your basic palette 
2 The colour wheel 
3 Colour properties 
4 Colour Mixing 
5 Neutrals 
6 Colour, light and shade 
7 Subject matter
Index