Watercolor With Me in the Forest

Absolutely gorgeous! Extremely high quality and wonderful step by step instructions! By the end of the book, I feel that I’ll have a wonderful start to my watercoloring journey!

I have bought several different books for adults to watercolor NONE can match this book! It is beautiful, many pictures to paint with concise instructions. Beginners welcome. An awesome gift! You will want one for your self! Mind blowing!

This is well worth the money. I cut out squares of watercolor paper for my children and we have been going through each of the pages together. This is a great quality book! It is well thought-out, winsome and sweet themes. I enjoy painting alongside my kids- and I have a place to start and a prompt to follow.

This book is so different than most books because it tells you the materials they used, steps of how to do it, and great paper & illustrations to work with. I planned not using the page they drew on for you so do in the book. I do not want to ruin the book. It is a guide for me to learn how to work with watercolors since I haven’t had any classes in it! I would highly recommend if you want to learn how to use watercolors. I looked at this book in person at a store first and I fell in love with it right away that I went to go find it cheaper here on Amazon…I knew the first moment I looked at the illustrations & steps that this book I would buy. You can’t go wrong with this book. I would even have bought this book at full price because it is that good!!! Check it out for yourself by getting yourself a copy today!!!

Cute way to learn watercolor. This book is full of cottage core watercolor tutorials. It is printed on a nice feeling paper but I wouldn’t want to paint directly on it, instead I transfer the outlines to watercolor paper so I can use the outline again in the future. It would be nice if the finished paintings in the book were bigger.

I have only skimmed through this book so far, but what I have read and viewed look to be very well thought out. I think it will be great fun to learn from this book. This is a wonderful beginner book with 119 pages of lovely watercolor illustrations and instruction on nice thick paper. Dana also has a Youtube channel with tutorials of some of the illustrations. This is actually how I discovered her book. The introduction is one page with a short list of supplies included. You then jump right into learning. I love that. I plan to start painting from it in the next few days. I will sketch the drawings on a separate watercolor sheet though. I don't really want to paint in the book so I won't be able to comment on the paper. I can say that the paper is more of a hot press surface but not a super smooth hot press. The weight of the paper feels to be about 110lb. Each section is designed to teach a certain technique. Wet on dry, wet into wet, how to paint fur and ink & wash. Each section starts simple and progresses with each study to the most difficult of the studies at the end. As you progress to the next section she has you use the techniques you learned previously along with the technique she is teaching in the new section.

wonderful illustrations and explanations! just beginning new hobby 61 years young

This is a great product for someone needing a little boost to practice their watercolor painting. Excellent instructions and fun projects.