Book Alert: By Josie Lewis

The New Color Mixing Companion

The New Color Mixing Companion is a modern, hands-on guide to working with color featuring approachable projects that each explore a different aspect of color mixing.

In The New Color Mixing Companion, artist and popular Instagrammer Josie Lewis (@josielewisart) offers easy lessons and exercises on how to mix color and create exciting palettes.

This comprehensive guide starts with a crash course in essential terminology and visual vocabulary, then shows you how to go beyond the wheel and basic theory with hands-on projects that illustrate and illuminate a variety of color elements and techniques. The materials used—including watercolor and acrylic paints, and found or purchased collage papers—are accessible, inexpensive, and readily available. Plus, this art guide includes easy-to-use templates featured in many of the projects; their modern geometric layouts yield stunning color arrangements.

Download free
pattern templates here!

To print on a home printer do the following:

  • File is designed to print on 8.5 X 11 paper

  • Print one page at a time

  • Thicker paper may jam. To avoid this, feed one page into the printer at a time

  • If 140 lb watercolor paper jams, try 90 lb paper

What Readers Are Saying

With The New Color Mixing Companion, artists, crafters, and designers of all skill levels will learn to take color in a whole new direction!

  • Instructions and Insights Are Communicated with Wit and in a Conversational Style

    I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience the capacity of art to stimulate personal and artistic growth, relaxation and/or healing.

    — Dr. Mark L. Joyce

  • I love this artist!!!!

    Ms. Lewis is a watercolorist by trade but she does branch out to other mediums both inside this book and in her life, which was both challenging and fun for me to try for myself. She has a unique grasp of color theory and I highly recommend her book to everyone.

    — Cheryl

  • Must have for any lover of color!

    I LOVE IT! It's a gorgeous, gorgeous book. Quality paper and printing, the images and color pops so beautifully. Your commentary displays so much information as well as your sparkling personality. […] Thank you for sharing your process and knowledge!

    — Misty Cherie

  • Gorgeous, Informative and Fun

    The New Color Mixing Companion is the perfect book for those of us who want to learn how to mix and use colors in ways that are fresh, exciting and challenging. This may mean throwing away some of your preconceived notions about how to mix colors, or how to look at color or learn a new technique or skill. As a beginner I was able to lose most of my hesitancy after a few exercises and found it liberating and enjoyable.

    — Karen Rachel

  • Josie Lewis is an art voice to listen to

    I am in awe of creatives. This book is full of thoughtful bits that could turn me, a non-artistic type, into a maybe-I-can-try-one type. For each of her dozen beginner projects she walks you through it, and helps you choose where to begin by listing skill level, skills learned, materials, mess level, and time to complete. The book is copiously adorned with lovely photographs, and intermingled with Josie's authentic heart and can-do attitude.

    — K. Burke