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Finding Your Colour Voice

A Mindful Guide to Watercolour

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Finding Your Colour Voice

A Mindful Guide to Watercolour

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A practical guide to developing a personal approach to colour through mindful watercolour practice.

In Finding Your Colour Voice, artist and educator Tansy Hargan explores how colour shapes the way we see, think, and create.

Drawing on her own daily practice, Tansy breaks down the subtle movements and thought processes behind her work into a series of simple, adaptable exercises. These include slow-looking studies, colour-layer scans and colour-mixing explorations, as well as the development of a personal colour diary – all designed to be repeated and reshaped over time. Together, they invite you to rediscover the wonder and joy of colour while building confidence and intuition.

Through a series of accessible exercises – including working with a core palette and understanding hue, value and intensity – this book invites you to look more closely and paint more freely. Part practical guide, part creative meditation, Finding Your Colour Voice helps artists of all levels cultivate a deeply distinctive way of seeing and using colour, while establishing a calm, sustaining creative practice.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: COLOUR IS PERSONAL
…to you
…to me
…to everyone

Chapter 1: COME ON IN
Materials
Other requirements
Take a seat
Why watercolour?
Foundations and philosophy

Chapter 2: TAKING NOTICE

Chapter 3: YOUR PAINTBOX
Watercolour paint
Dry shifting
A brief history of the colour wheel
Complementary colours
Pigment limitations
Colour mixing
Pigment numbers
The attributes of colour

Chapter 4: COLOUR DIARY
My colour diary story
Why keep a colour diary?
Tips for keeping a colour diary
Colour memories questionnaire
Colour in the present
Notes on reaching deeper

Chapter 5: MAGIC SQUARES
Seeking order
The grid as a tool
Resonance and flow
Grids are everywhere
Adaptability in action
Supporting mindful action
How to 'place' a grid on your page
Colour-mixing grids

Chapter 6: FORM

Chapter 7: NATURE
Connecting with nature
Structure and systems in nature
Climate stripes

Chapter 8: FOOD
Pause before eating

Parting Words
Supplies
Acknowledgements

Product details

Published Mar 25 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9781789944204
Imprint Herbert Press
Illustrations Hundreds of colour illustrations and photographs throughout
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Tansy Hargan

Tansy Hargan is a colour synesthete, artist and ed…

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