Watercolour Mixing Charts.
I love colour, and find the process of colour mixing fascinating. I have created many watercolour mixing charts over a number of years that are very useful in my teaching and enabled me to be thoroughly familiar with my colours. I will share them here. Some are full charts with tints created by adding water, others are simply mixing the colours in a line. They were painted using Daniel Smith watercolours unless stated otherwise. Click on any card to see a larger version.
While it is obviously most useful to do these charts yourself with your own paints and chosen colours, it takes a lot of time. I hope you will find them a helpful resource, if only to decide which charts your wish to paint for yourself.
The charts were painted on cards designed by Michael Wilcox, author of 'Blue and Yellow don't make Green' and the incredibly informative 'The Wilcox Guide to the Finest Watercolour Paints'. I found a large number of them, slightly water-damaged, and bought the lot :-)
While it is obviously most useful to do these charts yourself with your own paints and chosen colours, it takes a lot of time. I hope you will find them a helpful resource, if only to decide which charts your wish to paint for yourself.
The charts were painted on cards designed by Michael Wilcox, author of 'Blue and Yellow don't make Green' and the incredibly informative 'The Wilcox Guide to the Finest Watercolour Paints'. I found a large number of them, slightly water-damaged, and bought the lot :-)
If you are interested, you can buy a book of these charts in a 100 page 'medium landscape' format (25cm wide x 21cm high) from Blurb.com. It is available in either hard cover or soft cover with standard paper. It is called Watercolour Mixing Charts. The hard cover is shown on the left, the soft in the middle and the expensive but very cute small Apple spiral version on the right.
Click here to see the Blurb book preview, which shows the whole book.
If you would like a smaller 15cm x 20cm 100 page spiral bound book with each of these charts please contact me and I can order it for you through the Apple store, but it is expensive at $75 or more depending on taxes and exchange rates. Both book versions contain all my original annotations, with room for your own notes, as shown below.
2015 update - I have re-edited all the charts and cleaned them up further using Photoshop. I also added chart numbers to make it a little easier to navigate the book :-) The second edition is now listed in Blurb.com as follows -
The follow-up book is The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours, which can be seen here.
Click here to see the Blurb book preview, which shows the whole book.
If you would like a smaller 15cm x 20cm 100 page spiral bound book with each of these charts please contact me and I can order it for you through the Apple store, but it is expensive at $75 or more depending on taxes and exchange rates. Both book versions contain all my original annotations, with room for your own notes, as shown below.
2015 update - I have re-edited all the charts and cleaned them up further using Photoshop. I also added chart numbers to make it a little easier to navigate the book :-) The second edition is now listed in Blurb.com as follows -
- eBook version, suitable for Mac computers, iPad and iPhone with iBooks can be found here http://www.blurb.com/ebooks/473089-watercolour-mixing-charts
- Printed book version can be found here - choose hard or softcover http://www.blurb.com/b/3736881-watercolour-mixing-charts
- PDF version can be found here - http://www.blurb.com/b/3736881-watercolour-mixing-charts - choose PDF version, suitable for any platform.
The follow-up book is The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours, which can be seen here.
Please note - for only $7.99 you can download an eBook of these charts. They have been carefully cleaned up further for the second edition.
Here you can see the original scans of my charts. (I won't be re-loading the cleaned up versions here.)
Here you can see the original scans of my charts. (I won't be re-loading the cleaned up versions here.)
