Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days
A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From
Maybe not for a complete beginner or those who don’t like the runaway tendancies of watercolor “Everyday Watercolor” is a how-to for those who want to learn Rainey’s bleed-painting watercolor style. In this technique, you paint in the darkest part, then use clean water to wet the lighter areas, and a final stroke joins the two to create a bleed of the dark into the wet areas. She claims you can control the process, but I found her hints about this so vague it was just a matter of trying different things until I liked what I was getting.Each lesson lasted between 30-90…
This guide is misguiding If you don’t want to read the stuff below, the summary: if you bought this book, disregard the supplies recommendation. You will waste money for no good reason.I guess the reason why this book gained a lot of popularity is that #everydaywatercolor hashtag on instagram. This is how I got there, too. I also guess for most readers it is the first guide for watercolors, hence positive reviews. The author I self-taught, I get it, but some of the things she writes do not stand even a…
I am in love with this book I am in love with this book!!!!! I havenât finished it yet, but I know Iâll go through it multiple times.I have been interested in learning how to watercolor for several years now. I had some time on my hands so I ordered the Everyday Watercolor book because it seemed easy to follow and understand. Iâm so glad I did! The exercises are simple, but for beginners itâs perfect, it breaks down technique in the most conventional way. I attached some photos from one of the first exercises,…