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Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media

A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Stunning Effects--Play with Gouache, Metallic Paints, Masking Fluid, Alcohol, and More!
By Ana Victoria Calderón
Series: Art for Modern Makers
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Creative Watercolour and Mixed Media by Ana Victoria Calderón offers a practical guide to combining watercolour with various user-friendly materials. Readers will learn about essential supplies such as paint, paper, and brushes, along with techniques involving masking fluid, gold leaf, bleach, salt, and alcohol. Step-by-step instructions cover fundamental watercolour skills and demonstrate how to create vivid organic motifs like skies, galaxies, oceans, and crystals. The book also provides inspiring project ideas for gifts and stationery, encouraging creativity through accessible mixed media techniques.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is perfect for both beginners and experienced artists who wish to expand their watercolour techniques by exploring mixed media. It suits anyone interested in practical, approachable art instruction and stylish handmade projects.

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A follow-up to Ana Victoria Calderon's Creative Watercolor, Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media combines watercolour with a whole new lineup of materials and depicts a variety of natural and mystical motifs.

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In Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, popular watercolour artist, instructor, and author Ana Victoria Calderón shares her simple step-by-step techniques for painting exciting and colourful motifs by combining watercolour with a variety of other user-friendly materials.

Start with the essentials — paint, paper, and brushes — then learn about the featured mediums for mixing, including masking fluid, gold leaf, bleach, salt, and alcohol.

Take a step-by-step look at fundamental watercolour techniques and learn to paint a variety of striking organic motifs and surface effects, including stirring skies and clouds, sparkling galaxies, flowing oceans, and dazzling crystals.

Find great project ideas for stylish gifts and stationery.

Whether you're new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolour practice, grab a brush, paints, and some easy-to-use materials and take a beautiful creative journey with watercolour!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631598807

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 200+ color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

The author of Creative Watercolor (Quarry Books, 2018), Ana Victoria Calderon is a Mexican/American watercolour artist and teacher with a bachelor's degree in Information Design and continued studies in Fine Arts. Her licensed artwork can be seen in retail outlets throughout the United States and Europe on a wide variety of products. Ana teaches in-person workshops and hosts creative retreats in Tulum, Mexico, as well as summer watercolour retreats throughout Europe. She has had more than 60,000 students on Skillshare, where she is a Top Teacher, and she also teaches thousands of Spanish-speaking students on Domestika. See more of Ana's work on Instagram (@anavictoriana), YouTube (Ana Victoria Calderon), and Facebook (Ana Victoria Calderon Illustration). She lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

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