Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

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.

In Creative Watercolor, popular watercolor artist and instructor Ana Victoria Calderon shares her simple step-by-step techniques for painting modern motifs in this classic medium. Through this series of 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 watercolor

• Explore how to ** paint a variety of simple, beautiful motifs**: flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and simple lettering

• ** Create stylishgifts and stationery**: a family recipe, a sweet mobile, a wedding memento, and more. Use what you’ve learned to decorate all your DIY projects.

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