DIY Watercolor Christmas

Make this Christmas a watercolour wonderland with this creative guide to painting through the festive season. Learn the materials and equipment you need for watercolour painting and how to create both traditional and contemporary colour palettes for Christmas. Then, delve into a range of watercolour techniques including washes, blending, and gradation, and explore experimental ideas using salt, bleach, and masking fluid in your work.

Twelve creative projects follow, complete with step-by-step tutorials, enabling even beginners to watercolour to jump right in. Discover how to paint your own Christmas cards, gift tags, and gift boxes. Create seasonal table settings, hand-painted Christmas crackers, and garlands. With innovative yet accessible watercolour primers, you can now prepare a wide variety of surfaces for watercolour.

This inspirational book will also show you how to use new products to paint baubles, 3D cardboard letters, and more. Artist Ingrid Sanchez, aka @creativeingrid, shares her beautiful artwork and expert guidance in this unique book that will turn Christmas into the most artistic time of the year!

DIY Watercolor Christmas is authored by Ingrid Sanchez, a Mexican artist and designer based in West London. She illustrates and paints every day using watercolours and mixed media, drawing inspiration from nature. Ingrid runs workshops from her home studio as well as around the world, including in Amsterdam and New York. She boasts over 70,000 Instagram followers. This is her first book.