Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her painting, including from the Royal Watercolour Society, The Royal West of England Academy and ING Discerning Eye. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.Julie has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books, with total sales of nearly 80k copies; she 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.

This promising new series continues to delight (my general remarks can be found here).In this volume, Julie Collins provides mixing guides for the colours of fish, shells, pebbles and vegetation – everything, in fact, that you’re likely to find on a beach walk. This is a slim volume that benefits from Julie’s light touch and provides everything you need with no complication added simply for the purpose of taking up space.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSShells, stones and feathers 22Mussel shells 23Stones 28Feathers 29Seaweed 30Bladderwrack 31Coral weed 36Sea lettuce 37Plants and grasses 38Sea kale 39Yellow horned poppy 44Sea grass 45Fish, shellfish and jellyfish 46Sardines 47Red sea bream 52Snapper 53Blue swimmer crab 54Prawns 60Blue jellyfish 61Glossary 62

Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her painting, including from the Royal Watercolour Society, The Royal West of England Academy and ING Discerning Eye. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.Julie has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books, with total sales of nearly 80k copies; she 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.

This promising new series continues to delight (my general remarks can be found here).In this volume, Julie Collins provides mixing guides for the colours of fish, shells, pebbles and vegetation – everything, in fact, that you’re likely to find on a beach walk. This is a slim volume that benefits from Julie’s light touch and provides everything you need with no complication added simply for the purpose of taking up space.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSShells, stones and feathers 22Mussel shells 23Stones 28Feathers 29Seaweed 30Bladderwrack 31Coral weed 36Sea lettuce 37Plants and grasses 38Sea kale 39Yellow horned poppy 44Sea grass 45Fish, shellfish and jellyfish 46Sardines 47Red sea bream 52Snapper 53Blue swimmer crab 54Prawns 60Blue jellyfish 61Glossary 62

Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her painting, including from the Royal Watercolour Society, The Royal West of England Academy and ING Discerning Eye. Julie was elected a Member of the Society of Women Artists and on to the SWA Council in 2022.Julie has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books, with total sales of nearly 80k copies; she 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.

This promising new series continues to delight (my general remarks can be found here).In this volume, Julie Collins provides mixing guides for the colours of fish, shells, pebbles and vegetation – everything, in fact, that you’re likely to find on a beach walk. This is a slim volume that benefits from Julie’s light touch and provides everything you need with no complication added simply for the purpose of taking up space.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSShells, stones and feathers 22Mussel shells 23Stones 28Feathers 29Seaweed 30Bladderwrack 31Coral weed 36Sea lettuce 37Plants and grasses 38Sea kale 39Yellow horned poppy 44Sea grass 45Fish, shellfish and jellyfish 46Sardines 47Red sea bream 52Snapper 53Blue swimmer crab 54Prawns 60Blue jellyfish 61Glossary 62