Product Description
Learn how to paint lovely watercolor flowers, animals, and still lifes the easy way!
Special features:
- Perfect for Beginners: Covers all the basic techniques, including wet on wet, dry brush, transparent colors, glazing, charging, and more. With more than 325 step-by-step photos, learning is easy!
- A Beautiful Gift: Printed on quality paper in full color, with a premium paperback with flaps cover, and a sewn binding that stays open, making it easy to follow along.
- An Expert Author: Author/artist Jeannie Dickson is known for the beautiful watercolors and how-to videos she posts to her popular Instagram page (@jeanniedicksondesigns)
Have you always wanted to learn to watercolor but didn’t know where to start? Hello, Watercolor! will take you on a delightful journey of creative discovery and learning, teaching you the basics of watercolor step by easy step. Artist/author Jeannie Dixon provides you with all the building blocks and basic skills you will need, including:
- A primer on color theory
- A guide to basic brushstrokes and water control
- Washes (wet on wet, gradated, flat, blending)
- Special techniques like glazing, charging, lifting, masking
- Creating textures (water blooms, salt texture, spattering, dry brush, scumbling)
- Brush lettering 101, including the basic strokes, a practice alphabet, and how to make ombre letters
Then move on to 15 watercolor projects that celebrate the natural world, including a rainbow unicorn, transparent blue hydrangeas, and a still life of pomegranates with their blossoms. Each project lists:
- the techniques that are used, so you can easily refer back for a refresher
- the full color palette
- brushes and other supplies
Dickson then takes you through creating the artwork step by step.
Give yourself or someone you love the gift of creativity with Hello, Watercolor!
