Modern Watercolor Botanicals: A Creative Workshop in Watercolor, Gouache, & Ink *(eBook)
Unwind and get creative as you learn all about watercolor painting--one of the fastest-growing activities for everyday adults who are looking for a hobby to easily relax and relieve stress! Modern Watercolor Botanicals is a comprehensive guide for all skill levels--beginner to advanced--that teaches everything you need to know about watercolor using easy-to-follow diagrams, pictures, and instructions. Learn how to paint and advance your skills using pieces of beautiful, traceable artwork, including detailed wildflowers, shade tropical leaves, eucalyptus wreaths, and more. Lessons in Modern Watercolor Botanicals include: • Instructions for every skill level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced • Easy-to-follow diagrams, pictures, and instructions • Each lesson builds upon skills learned in the previous lessons • 15 pieces of traceable artwork to paint, no drawing experience required! • Lessons that promote focus and mindfulness and help you reduce stress through the enjoyment of the artistic process • All you need to know to create frame-worthy masterpieces and thoughtful gifts • Prompts, challenges, and ideas to take your creativity to the next level Author Sarah Simon (@themintgardener), a Seattle-based artist who leads sold-out watercolor workshops across the U.S., shares everything she teaches her students in this book. She also answers some of the most common questions from watercolor artists at all levels: • What tools do I need? • How do I mix interesting colors? • How do I create shape, movement, and definition in my piece? • How do I find my own creative style? Delve into Modern Watercolor Botanicals to develop your skills and form your own unique artistic approach to the world of modern watercolor! Read more
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Why Must Read Modern Watercolor Botanicals: A Creative Workshop in Watercolor, Gouache, & Ink?
This is a workshop billed as "modern botanicals in watercolor" but it's not very modern and it's not much of a workshop. In fact, I don't recommend this book to either beginners, to whom it's targeted or anyone else doing watercolor of flowers and plants. 1. The few paintings are utterly uninspiring (see image) 2. the paint names are "twee" things like "raspberry." What is raspberry? Do you mean "quinacridone magenta"? Which is a color I can go buy from Daniel Smith or Winsor Newton? If so SAY SO. 3. Lots of beginner stuff like photos of paint smears on palettes. 4. Some very blah drawings in the back to trace but not much on draftmanship. 5.The drawing of plants and the illustrations are small and really boring. I went through this book and it was the biggest let-down. Totally skip this book.
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