Your Watercolor Adventure

Your Watercolor Adventure
Author: Hebooks
Publisher: Hebooks
Total Pages: 134
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Your Watercolor Adventure: Navigating Watercolor Techniques for Your Vision" is your passport to the mesmerizing world of watercolor art. Dive into the pages of this book and embark on a creative journey like no other. Whether you're a curious beginner or a seasoned artist, you'll find a wealth of guidance, techniques, and inspiration to help you unleash your artistic potential with watercolors. From mastering fundamental skills to exploring advanced techniques, discovering your signature style to embracing the abstract, this book is your companion in the exploration of one of the most versatile and captivating artistic mediums. It's a celebration of your unique vision, a canvas for your creativity, and an invitation to let your imagination flow with the colors of your dreams. So, pick up your brush and let the adventure begin!

Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes

Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes
Author: Kolbie Blume
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 164567097X

Practice the Art of Watercolor with this Beginner’s Guide to Picturesque Mountains, Lakes, Sunrises and More From a striking Desert Sunset Silhouette to a majestic Icelandic Waterfall to an eye-catching Magical Snowy Forest, watercolor artist Kolbie Blume’s wilderness scenes are the perfect introduction to watercolor painting. Kolbie’s step-by-step instructions make it easy to paint stunning landscapes featuring all of the key elements of wilderness painting and teach you beginner-friendly techniques for colorful skies, mountains, trees, wildflowers, oceans, lakes, and more. Each chapter teaches progressively more advanced elements, allowing you to build upon your skills as you work through the projects. And the final chapter combines all of the elements in breathtaking scenes—like a Glassy Milky Way and an Aurora Glacier Lagoon—that you’ll be proud to hang on your wall or gift to a friend or family member. With all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to master the basics of watercolor painting and instructions on how to paint every element of nature, this collection of wilderness landscapes is the go-to guide for both beginner painters and more experienced artists looking for new subjects to paint.

Mastering Watercolors

Mastering Watercolors
Author: Joe Cartwright
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 241
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Watercolor is a magical and often challenging medium. Once mastered, it will reward you with the pleasure of creating striking works of art of infinite variety. This book is a culmination of many years of teaching. Through it, I set out to clear up widespread misconceptions about painting with watercolors. These common confusions hold watercolor artists back from achieving their full potential. Full of practical advice and techniques, my aim is to simplify watercolor painting to assist you in your personal watercolor adventure. Enjoy the journey!

Fearless Watercolor for Beginners

Fearless Watercolor for Beginners
Author: Sandrine Pelissier
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440337260

Finally! Artful watercolor painting for beginners! Yes, YOU can do it. YOU can create beautiful watercolor paintings--everything from florals to portraits to landscapes--even if you've never before worked with this exuberant, exciting medium. Fearless Watercolor for Beginners offers a unique, one-on-one workshop--with step-by-step demonstrations, exercises and bonus video content--that teaches you all the basics you need to get started (and then some)--and then promptly encourages you to break them! Inside you'll find: * 22 step-by-step demonstrations for basic techniques, techniques for adding texture, and mixed-media techniques for truly one-of-a-kind work * Dozens of easy-to-understand concepts, practical, meaningful tips and fun ideas you'll be eager to try * Links to exclusive demo videos, exercises and tools to round out and enhance your workshop experience Be bold! Be daring! Be FEARLESS!

Everyday Watercolor Flowers

Everyday Watercolor Flowers
Author: Jenna Rainey
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399582223

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles. Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that appeals to the next generation of watercolor artists and creatives, from beginners to hobbyists. With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolor depictions of more than 25 flowers, leaves, and plants, organized by form and shape, Everyday Watercolor Flowers is every nature-lover's answer to capturing that beauty on paper.

Everyday Watercolor

Everyday Watercolor
Author: Jenna Rainey
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399579737

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.

Line and Wash Painting

Line and Wash Painting
Author: Liz Chaderton
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785009923

Line and wash is an exciting combination. This practical book shows you how to exploit the strength of ink with the transparency of watercolour to produce powerful and dynamic paintings. With over 170 illustrations, it covers a wide range of styles and subjects, before exploring mixed media, new surfaces and other ways to take your line and wash work to another level. Includes advice on choosing materials; exercises to hone your drawing and painting skills; gives inspiration for new approaches to line and wash and, finally, step-by-step demonstrations of ideas and projects. This book is a visual treat and an essential guide for all artists who want to try this exciting technique.

Urban Watercolor Sketching

Urban Watercolor Sketching
Author: Felix Scheinberger
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0770435246

A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes, and luminous hues of watercolor . This lushly illustrated resource teaches artists on the go how to sketch with watercolor, rendering subjects efficiently and without inhibitions. Readers are guided through all aspects of the medium, from fundamental techniques including wet-on-wet, glazing, and washes; materials and supplies; and little known tips and tricks for getting the most out of watercolor (for example, just sprinkling a little salt on your painting creates a texture that's impossible to achieve with a brush.) A strong focus color theory provides a solid foundation for enhancing drawings with vibrant hues.

Color Choices

Color Choices
Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823006977

Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles. With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein.

Watercolor Success in Four Steps

Watercolor Success in Four Steps
Author: Marina Bakasova
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1607657910

No experience needed! With Watercolor Success in Four Steps, you’ll learn to paint 150 objects, from fruits and flowers to animals, household items, and more! Understand the basics of watercolor with tried-and-true techniques and create beautiful watercolor paintings in just four simple steps!