Fearless Watercolor For Beginners

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!

Take your lettering to the next level with beautiful, stylish flourishes. You’ve mastered every letter, from capital A to lowercase z. Now you want your hand-drawn projects to have the ornate and extravagant look that is only achieved through flourishing. Whether you go for a delicate, stately, whimsical, bold, funky, or elegant look, flourishing is a wonderful way to develop a personal style and make your hand-lettering stand out. From basic theories and helpful practices to beautiful examples and complex compositions, this step-by-step workbook provides all the tools you need to flourish with confidence! • Elegant Letter Embellishments • Fanciful Flourishes & Filigree • Decorative Borders & Frames • Stylish Artistic Elements

This book shows how to make everyday a celebration with art, beautiful tables and fabulous, yet easy food

Discover a fresh, fun approach to painting unique flowers! Forgo reference photos and discover a more organic and joyful way of painting! With its friendly step-by-step format, Painting Imaginary Flowers features a simple, three-stage approach to creating flowers only you can make... 1. Drop in color (ink, watercolor or fluid acrylics) to create abstract backgrounds full of beautiful textures and "blooms." 2. Just like spotting shapes in the clouds, search for shapes in your background that suggest blossoms and leaves. Paint around them and watch the flowers emerge! 3. Add patterns in pen to create a lovely, faux collage effect. With plenty of mixed-media techniques throughout for building up luscious texture and color, even beginners can achieve happy results. Ten demonstrations show the versatility of this approach--from large-format pieces, to work in a series, and even Zen doodle landscapes. Never again will you be stuck for ideas or dependent on a photo. Every flower you paint will be unique, personal, and fresh from your imagination! Let your imagination blossom!

'This comprehensive Walter Foster Publishing and Reeves book is the perfect introductory guide for anyone who wants to learn the captivating art of watercolor painting. It covers important information about the selection and use of art tools and materials as well as basic watercolor techniques. Best of all, it includes five step-by-step, full-color watercolor lessons to follow and learn, assisting you in practicing techniques while providing ideas and inspiring creativity. There’s no better way for beginning artists to learn essential information about watercolor painting techniques and mixing!

Forget about any negative experience you may have had with watercolor painting. You are about to paint in watercolors, with joy and satisfaction! Discover your own watercolor painting style as you combine Colors, Brushwork, Textures, Line, Shape, and Design. Create colorful, delightful paintings, and gain confidence with each experience. Explore watercolor painting techniques with demonstrations, examples, tips, and encouragement. All ages find fun and creativity in these easy lessons. Find your own expression and individual creativity. You're not trying to duplicate anyone else's painting or idea. You will showcase your personal artistic style and find many uses for these free-flowing watercolor techniques in all your paintings. In addition, demonstration DVDs showing these step by step lessons can be ordered from www.sunrisedistrib.com to accompany this book. Either way, you will have your very own private watercolor lessons at a relaxed, enjoyable pace in your own home with the encouraging guidance of Marilee Donivan.

Fearless Drawing is a fun and beautiful book exploring how to rediscover the joy of drawing. There is a terrific fear attached to drawing, a frozen panic, a cry of “I can’t draw!” Embark on 22 adventures to re-ignite the profound joy and artistic passion of drawing for every reader. Author Kerry Lemon uses a wide range of exercises and encouraging guidance to allow the reader to fall in love with the process of physically creating marks and shapes across a page. Only by enjoying the process will you begin to draw regularly, and of course, lots of drawing leads to lots of improvement! DIV /divDIVAs young children, we all draw naturally and confidently, but in time many of us start to doubt their ability and fear the blank white page. Fearless Drawing offers a chance to be inspired to experiment, to discover or recover your own drawing voice. These simple and helpful exercises are designed to create a new relationship with your drawing, a chance to reconnect and appreciate your personal drawn line and find the unique marks that only your hand makes. /divDIV /divFearless Drawing helps you find happiness through the new way you view the world and observe surroundings. Enjoy the freedom and power to create, escape, relax, indulge and explore!