Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books and 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.Julie 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 authored a number of different titles, including Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, and has now sold over 80k books.

This series expands Julie’s previous guides, applying them to specific subjects for greater depth and detail. Here, you get not just trees, but also fungi, birds and insects, something you might think are worth the purchase price on their own.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSTrees 22Sargent's cherry 23Oak 28Beech 29Silver birch 30Silver birches 36Olive 37Fungi 38Wood blewit 39Penny bun 44Fly agaric 45Insects 46Rose chafer 47Blue morpho 52Tiger moth 53Birds 54Barn owl 55Green woodpecker 60Robin 61Glossary 62

Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books and 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.Julie 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 authored a number of different titles, including Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, and has now sold over 80k books.

This series expands Julie’s previous guides, applying them to specific subjects for greater depth and detail. Here, you get not just trees, but also fungi, birds and insects, something you might think are worth the purchase price on their own.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSTrees 22Sargent's cherry 23Oak 28Beech 29Silver birch 30Silver birches 36Olive 37Fungi 38Wood blewit 39Penny bun 44Fly agaric 45Insects 46Rose chafer 47Blue morpho 52Tiger moth 53Birds 54Barn owl 55Green woodpecker 60Robin 61Glossary 62

Julie Collins studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and has been an artist, writer and teacher since then. She has written a number of colour mixing guides and artists’ problem‑solving books and 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.Julie 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 authored a number of different titles, including Colour Demystified, published by Search Press in 2021, and has now sold over 80k books.

This series expands Julie’s previous guides, applying them to specific subjects for greater depth and detail. Here, you get not just trees, but also fungi, birds and insects, something you might think are worth the purchase price on their own.

• Introduction 4Tools and materials 6Colours 8Colour wheel and colour charts 12Watercolour techniques 16PROJECTSTrees 22Sargent's cherry 23Oak 28Beech 29Silver birch 30Silver birches 36Olive 37Fungi 38Wood blewit 39Penny bun 44Fly agaric 45Insects 46Rose chafer 47Blue morpho 52Tiger moth 53Birds 54Barn owl 55Green woodpecker 60Robin 61Glossary 62