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Creative Watercolor

A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners--Create with Paints, Inks, Markers, Glitter, and More!
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Creative Watercolor offers beginners a fun and practical introduction to watercolor painting. It includes easy tutorials to learn basic techniques, layer colours, and create simple motifs like flowers, butterflies, and lettering. The book also covers embellishing projects and digital editing for multiples, guiding readers to craft stylish stationery such as invitations and thank you notes.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for beginners and hobbyists interested in learning watercolor painting with a modern approach, especially those who want to create personalised stationery and artistic projects.

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Through the step-by-step projects and tutorials of Creative Watercolor, you will learn to create simple, modern motifs and embellishments in this classic medium.

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Creative Watercolor offers beginners a fun, modern, and practical approach to a timeless medium with instructions on how to paint simple motifs and lettering and embellish projects beautifully.

Through a series of easy tutorials and projects, you will:

  • Get an overview of basic materials and tools, plus options for embellishing your paintings.
  • Master essential techniques, starting with easy warm-up activities, learning to layer, and getting into the flow with watercolour, plus an introduction to scanning and digital editing for making multiples.
  • Learn to paint a variety of simple, beautiful motifs: flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and delightful lettering.
  • Use what you've learned to create unique, stylish stationery, including beautiful invitations, place cards, menus, monograms, recipe gift cards, thank you notes—any project you can imagine, for any kind of event you can think of!

There's never been a better time to dive into the world of watercolour, so why wait? Grab a brush and get painting!

Series: Art for Modern Makers

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781589239692

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 136

About the Author

Ana Victoria Calderon is a Mexican/American watercolor artist and teacher with a bachelors 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, and she also sells prints of her artwork on Etsy. Ana teaches in-person workshops and hosts creative retreats in Mexico, as well as more than 30,000 students on Skillshare, where she is a Top Teacher. 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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