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Learn the basics of watercolor in a fun, accessible way with step-by-step tutorials and an included watercolor pad with drawings you can paint over.

Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor features 20 gorgeous paintings paired with step-by-step instructions for replicating them at home. Paint directly on the watercolor pad with supplied outlines to create beautiful artwork of your own--no sketching required! The beginner-friendly projects teach you all the painting skills you need as you create frame-worthy art. From social media star Lacey Walker (@rebelunicorncrafts) comes this delightful, relaxing painting experience.

In Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor, find:

• Tutorials detailing each step so that you can paint the projects in the book
• Subjects to suit all tastes, from backyard birds to a whimsical whale, mountains to the moon
• Complete tools and materials section so you can ensure you have everything to paint the projects
• Outlines that can be painted over within the watercolor pad; there's no need to sketch or trace
• Watercolor painting techniques, including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, layering, blooms, and more
• Video tutorials linked via QR codes included within the book

If you are new to watercolor painting or looking for a fun, relaxing painting experience, Watercolor This Book: Learn to Watercolor provides your perfect companion by combining an innovative format with painting instruction and a watercolor paper pad with templates.

Whether you are new to watercolor or not, the Watercolor This Book series provides a fun watercolor painting experience with no sketching required. With information on all the basic skills you need to start watercoloring, step-by-step tutorials, and an included watercolor pad with templates, you have everything you need to create frame-worthy art!

Also in the series: Watercolor This Book: Beautiful Butterflies and Flowers.

Unleash your creativity with 50 no-sketch watercolor projects from the best beginner watercolor book on the market, complete with watercolor paper and gorgeous reference illustrations.

From a classic dogwood rose, to a sly fox, to feathers that take on a dreamy quality, you can create polished artwork in just a few easy steps―no sketching required. Dana Fox, creator of Wonder Forest, is known for her unique and whimsical sense of style, and her popular watercolor workshops have introduced thousands to the joys of painting.

In Watercolor With Me in the Forest, Dana provides light outlines of each project, and every page is printed on premium watercolor paper, so you can focus on different techniques―wet-on-dry, wet-on-wet, painting fur and ink and wash. Even if you've never picked up a paintbrush before, Dana's creative tricks will ensure that every piece of art is frame-worthy.

Whether you're looking to try a new style, learn the basics or find a new way to de-stress, this step-by- step guide makes it easier than ever to create stunning watercolor art.

Check out Watercolor With Me in the Ocean and Watercolor With Me in the Jungle for more great projects from Dana Fox!

Explore a Beautiful Woodland Realm with 30 Charming Projects
Illustrator Jane Carkill invites you into her storybook world with this collection of beginner-friendly art tutorials! With easy-to-follow directions to guide you through every swish of your brush, these cozy tutorials come to life on the page with each step. As enchanting as they are easy, these wonderful watercolor projects--with sketch templates included for added simplicity--are sure to bring joy and delight to every artist.

Go on an adventure with captivating creatures such as the Red Fox, Wood Mouse and the Wild Rabbit. Take flight through the forest with the Robin, Goldfinch or Peacock Butterfly. Discover the breathtaking blooms of the Dog Rose, Poppy and Primrose. Find fanciful flora and fungi with Hedgerow Strawberries and the Grooved Bonnet Toadstool. With so many lovely projects to choose from, every aspiring artist can learn to capture the beauty of a cottagecore world in watercolor.

Learn the Relaxing Art of Floral Watercolor

Discover the joys of painting in a loose and perfection-free style with this inspiring collection of 45 beginner-friendly tutorials. Your instructor, Bianca Rosen, is beloved for her encouraging step-by-step teaching and gorgeous, loose floral designs using common paint colors and simple shapes. Let your worries flow away as each brushstroke makes your paint and water dance together for every petal, leaf and stem.

With simple techniques for making your flowers pop, you will learn how to paint a cheerful Sunny California Poppy, a delicately layered Graceful Rose, a striking Bird of Paradise and more. Each new watercolor lesson invites you to enjoy this relaxing, free-spirited and expressive style of watercolor.

Improve your skills, explore new techniques, and immerse yourself in the joy of watercolor painting!

Watercolor painting is a popular and satisfying art form that offers vibrant, luminous results, encourages spontaneity, and rewards creativity. Though it may present challenges for beginners, these are valuable opportunities to enhance your skills and grow as an artist.

In 101 Watercolor Secrets, painter, illustrator, and teacher Anna Bucciarelli shares invaluable knowledge from years of experience. This book is packed with insights, techniques, and tips that will enhance your skills, no matter where you are on your watercolor journey. Each topic is accompanied by clear explanations, instructions, and visual examples of Anna's beautiful work.

You'll learn all about:

- Using Watercolor Tools: Gain a deeper understanding of papers, brushes, watercolor mediums, and other essential tools.

- Color Mixing: Master hues and color mixing for greenery, skin tones, and beyond.

- Building Your Palette: Curate a palette that reflects your unique style and artistic vision.

- Mastering Core Techniques: Learn wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, lifting, glazing, underpainting, and more.

- Overcoming Common Challenges: Learn how to avoid overpainting, control water flow, achieve crisp edges, and balance tonal values with confidence.

- Painting Popular Subjects: Discover the secrets to painting flowers, birds, fur, skin tones, and white subjects like snow.

- Crafting Beautiful Compositions: Explore rhythm, movement, color harmony, and other key principles to create intricate and visually stunning watercolor compositions.

Whether you're a novice or a seasoned artist, 101 Watercolor Secrets is an indispensable resource that offers practical guidance, artistic inspiration, and a wealth of knowledge to elevate your craft.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Decoding Pigment Labels

Chapter 2: Exploring Color Families

Chapter 3: Building Your Signature Palette

Chapter 4: Tools that Matter

Chapter 5: Essential Techniques

Chapter 6: Favorite Subjects

Chapter 7: Dealing with Challenges and Common Frustrations

Chapter 8: Composition Secrets

Chapter 9: My Favorite Tips & Tricks

Chapter 10: Unveiling Your Potential: Strategies for Growth in Watercolor Painting

A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.

This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.

Let Your Creativity Blossom with 30 Beautiful Watercolor Projects

Immerse yourself in the world of watercolor with Sushma Hegde's array of stunning botanicals. Wildflower Watercolor, an instant bestseller, is the essential comprehensive guide for beginner painters to learn how to create perfect floral masterpieces. With easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step illustrations, it's never been easier to master the art of watercolor painting.

Inside, you will find everything you need to get started, including how to mix colors and create striking new shades, how to make various types of brushstrokes and more. Choose from over 30 projects, including beautiful creations such as:

- Lavender
- Cornflower
- Dandelion
- St. John's Wort
- Poppy
- Foxglove
- Buttercup
- Forget-Me-Not

Complete with whimsical reference illustrations, Sushma's guide allows anyone to bring the world's floral beauty to life on the page with just a brush, some paint and a little bit of water!

Fast-track your watercolor journey with the biggest watercolor book on the market, including 75 beginner-friendly tutorials, tips and tricks from renowned artist Mallery Jane.

Get ready to create with this approachable watercolor masterclass. From sprawling mountain ranges to the smallest houseplants, beloved art educator Mallery Jane walks you through 75 painting tutorials that help you learn transferable techniques and hone your skills in no time.
Perfect for beginners, every project includes sketch templates with perforated edges for easy tearing and tracing! Plus, the 20 paint-along projects with QR codes let you practice your craft alongside Mallery in her video tutorials.

Dive right in with engaging projects like:

- Eucalyptus
- Lily Pad
- London Phone Booth
- Northern Lights
- Ripe Fig
- Syrupy Pancakes
- Quirky Starfish
- Beach Time
- Sunlit Forest
- Maple Leaf

Food still-lifes, animal portraits and worldly landscapes alike are now at your fingertips―just grab a brush, and you're ready to paint beautiful masterpieces.

Learn how to create dynamic, original abstract art using easy techniques and nothing more than watercolor paints and a few pens.

Let your creativity loose and start making art, without getting bogged down in detail or accuracy - just allow yourself to experiment, have fun, be present and play with colour, shape and texture to your heart's content.

In this unique step-by-step book, you'll discover watercolor techniques, tips and tricks to create your own vibrant art, letting the natural watercolor flow to help form your composition and inspire further mixed media embellishment.

Author Kate Rebecca Leach of Essoldo Design has amassed a huge following online for her beautiful abstract artworks. In her debut book, she generously shares her techniques so that even complete beginners will be able to pick up a brush and create stunning works of art.

Through a variety of projects, including simple shapes, abstract botanicals, and expressive landscapes, you'll learn easy techniques to combine color, texture, and contrast in exciting ways, and how to add gorgeous embellishments using gel pens and metallics to make your abstract pieces shine.

Using this book, you'll be able to create art that you'll be proud to display in your home, gift to friends and family and develop your own portfolio, while having a lot of creative fun in the process.

If you've always wished you could paint but have no idea where to begin, get a head start with more than 50 progressive art activities that develop skill and confidence as you go.

Start Here: Paint gives you exciting prompts for kick-starting an artistic practice centered on painting. By exploring how simple brushstrokes and splashes can be repeated to create more intricate images and patterns, Start Here: Paint builds up your understanding of shape, color, and technique without intimidating jargon or theory.

• Paint Play. Experiment with fearless mark-making ideas that can be achieved in a few minutes to an hour or so using a variety of mediums, including watercolor, gouache, and acrylic.
• Colorworks. Understand and master choosing and using colors, from putting together a palette to mixing the colors you want.
• Shapes and Shadows. Learn how to observe these important visual elements, then translate them into paint using ideas that will help you hone your skills.
• Make It Your Own. Building on the techniques learned in the first three chapters, develop your own creative path by exploring a range of styles, from painting patterns with simple motifs to trying a more realistic approach. In addition to creating original wall art, apply your newfound skills to the many Takeaway ideas offered throughout for gifts and home décor items.

With Start Here: Paint as your fresh, fun creative companion, you'll learn how to paint and never want to stop.

Start Here: Paint is a companion title to Start Here: Draw, which guides you through the basics of drawing and sketching through 50 fun and inspiring exercises.

A 30-day masterclass in the art of using watercolor to tell your own stories.

Unlike most watercolor instruction books based on rote copying of classic watercolor subjects, Thinking in Watercolor encourages readers to use art as a means of self-expression. Author and in-demand illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner encourages readers through foundational watercolor techniques and shows how to adapt them to share their personal experiences over the course of several days. On Day 10 they'll illustrate a family recipe; on Day 14 they'll go on a scavenger hunt through a local museum--and so forth.

As both a commercial illustrator and professional art instructor, Jessie is uniquely poised to offer readers insider tips and clever visualizations of the creative process--and she brings each lesson to life with her vivid illustrations and stories from her life as an ex-pat in Paris. It all adds up to a volume that's at once inspiring, charming, and informative--the perfect gift for anyone looking to begin or reignite a personal art practice.

Bring the magic of the natural world to the page through dazzling works of art.

Nature illustrator Rosalie Haizlett has hiked through countless forests with her sketchbook and watercolors, documenting the plants, animals and landscapes that she encounters. She has also taught tens of thousands of students to paint and appreciate nature's beauty through her popular online classes and in-person workshops.

In this book, Rosalie provides step-by-step instruction on how to paint 20 realistic insects, fungi, birds, botanicals and mammals in her vibrant wet- on-dry watercolor style. Pick up the skills you need to become a better observer in the outdoors, take your own reference photos and paint a wide variety of subjects so that you can continue to draw inspiration from nature long after you finish the projects in this book. You'll also learn some fun nature facts along the way!

Pick up your brush and begin the adventure with projects like:

- Fiddlehead Ferns
- Daisy
- Imperial Moth
- Moose Antler
- Leaf Sprig
- Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly
- Cottontail Rabbit
- Wild Blueberries

Whether you're a total beginner or ready to take your skills to the next level, Rosalie is here to walk you through every step of the process.

Build your watercolor skills with confidence with these 25 beautiful and beginner-friendly new projects on premium watercolor paper!

This easy-to-use watercolor workbook is filled with unique and beautiful flower and nature sketches that are ready for you to watercolor--no drawing skills required! Each page is specially designed with simple step-by-step instructions so you can easily and confidently paint each project and create artwork that matches the quality of the author's example.

Watercolor Workbook features:

An introduction to fundamental watercolor techniques

25 projects on thick, 200 gsm premium watercolor art paper--no color bleed-through!

Easy-to-follow instructions that can be completed in 30 minutes or less

Beautiful floral and plant artwork, including: wild roses, poppies, sunflowers, buttercups, dandelions, and more

Easy-to-follow instructions, including suggested paint and paintbrush materials, so you can start painting today

Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to paint with watercolor. Her first book Modern Watercolor Botanicals provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and, now in this new workbook, Simon offers 25 watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today!

5O No-Sketch Projects That Bring the Ocean to Life

Dana Fox, author of Watercolor with Me: In the Forest and founder of Wonder Forest, provides fifty new marine-themed projects in this beginner-friendly watercolor guide. Known for her whimsical art style and straightforward instruction, Dana leads you through three major watercolor techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and ink-and-wash. Best of all, there's no sketching required, so you can focus on each painting method.

Bring adorable sea creatures like octopuses and otters to life on high-quality art paper. Start simple with shading in a monochromatic orca, experiment with adding depth to color with a bright bobbing seahorse and practice stylizing your subject in a charming lighthouse scene. With inspired art and step-by-step instruction, it's easy to pick up a paintbrush, break out your palette, and create something beautiful.

Check out Watercolor with Me in the Forest for more great projects

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Forest Feast series, Erin Gleeson, a beginner-friendly watercolor book with techniques, ways to get creative, and watercolor paper at the back of the book to practice on

Bestselling author Erin Gleeson's vibrantly designed cookbooks have transported readers to her beautiful cabin in the woods of Northern California for years, and now she reveals how to re-create her signature watercolor illustrations.

Even artists new to watercolor painting can follow the simple step-by-step instructions in the book's 40 fun, easy, and beautiful tutorials.

Learn how to hand-letter in watercolor; paint an array of specific fruits, vegetables, and flowers; and create beautiful menus, place settings, and other designs to display in your home or at your next dinner party. Erin also introduces us to three of her favorite watercolor artists, with distinct and lovely styles for further inspiration.

The book concludes with eight pages of watercolor paper so that you can test your new skills. For anyone who is looking for an easy way to make a little time in your life for creativity, Watercolor Feast is a charming introductory guide to painting that celebrates the beauty of food and the natural world.

Simple, Beautiful Projects to Fit Into Your Day

Escape to a meditative, relaxing world with this comprehensive beginner's guide to watercolor, specially designed for your busy life. Even when you only have a few minutes to spare, artist and illustrator Garima Srivastava shows you how to paint the little wonders of the world around you.

Discover the secrets to quickly and confidently painting gorgeous pastoral and woodland watercolor scenes you'll want to hang on your wall. With step-by-step tutorials for projects like Snowy Cabin, Poppies in a Vase, Strawberry Twigs, Bird's Nest, Party Dress and A Bag of Baguettes, every lesson is bound to leave you impressed with yourself and excited for the next day's project. Garima even includes a detailed chapter for beginners on fundamental techniques and exercises to set you up for success in your watercolor journey.

Watch your paper come alive with this easy-to-follow guide for anyone interested in developing a daily watercolor practice for a calmer, happier, more creative life.

More than 50,000 copies sold!

Create Breathtaking Watercolor Paintings in No Time

With this collection of easy, step-by-step instructions, unlocking your creativity with watercolor has never been easier. Follow along as Anna Koliadych, founder of DearAnnArt, guides you through painting your own watercolor masterpieces in just 15 minutes.

These 50 projects have something for everyone, from underwater landscapes to galaxies, from fashion sketches to tasty sweets. Learn to paint a meadow of poppies, a cosmic tea cup, a set of high heels or a tabby cat all in one quick evening. Whether you're new to watercolor or have been practicing for years, these colorful designs are perfect for a relaxing afternoon alone or as an activity for the whole family.

In each lesson, Anna highlights efficient techniques, like sketching your design with simple shapes, or adding small, beautiful details, so you can create the most charming artwork in the shortest amount of time--even if you've never painted before!

Learn to create your own gorgeous watercolor artwork--in just 30 minutes at a time!

Master watercolor basics while creating your own frame-worthy art following the fun and simple lessons in this watercolor book for adults. Beautifully presented instructions and illustrations show you the fundamentals of watercolor for beginners, so you can develop your skills in a series of projects, from a dramatic landscape to an abstract art piece. Best of all, each lesson is designed to take 30 minutes or less, so it's easy to make time for art and learning a new skill!

No experience required--Learn how to choose and assemble your supplies, and how to paint using color theory and composition techniques.

Practice watercolor techniques--Mix colors and try various brushstrokes and washes over the course of 5 different lessons.

Paint! --Produce your own artwork with 15 painting projects with step-by-step instructions on how to watercolor flowers, animals, and more.

Start painting today with 30-Minute Watercolor Painting for Beginners!

Discover more than 30 new step-by-step watercolor projects from best-selling author and artist Harriet de Winton, centered around observations of nature through spring, summer, autumn and winter.

A Year of Watercolour walks readers through the creation of beautiful and evocative watercolor scenes including seasonal plants emerging, animal hibernation and migration, speckled eggs in a bird's nest, home-grown vegetables and much more. With a wide array of subjects, Harriet explores the idea of seasonality around the world, whether that's cherry blossoms signalling spring in Japan, the red and brown leaves of autumnal New England, or the summer strawberries of the UK.

Alongside the seasonal tutorials, Harriet includes advice on how to observe and depict nature at close hand - including creating a travel kit for 'painting walks' out in nature, and charting the growth of a plant over the course of a single season.

Whether you are just starting out with watercolor painting or want to expand your skills and raise your art to the next level, this book has all the inspiration and practical know-how you'll need.

Starting from the very basics, such as choosing the right brushes and practicing color mixes, this book proceeds to tackle every conceivable watercolor technique--from applying a flat wash to experimenting with texture. Techniques and inspiration are then combined in a wide-ranging section on subject matter--from landscapes to botanical illustration, urban scenes, portraiture, and abstraction--which examines the practical considerations of each topic and showcases numerous different approaches to try, with tutorials on achieving particular effects.

Each technique and stylistic approach is demonstrated by a professional artist working on an original painting, which is photographed at different stages of development to give rare insights into the artistic process.

Also featuring content dedicated to the use of watercolor in graphic illustration, as well as how to combine it with other painting and drawing media, Artist's Watercolor Techniques will help you challenge yourself, try new things, and grow as an artist.