Watercolor Workbook: 30-minute Beginner Botanical Projects on Premium Watercolor

Super fun

Come da foto, è un libro (di 3) molto utile per fare pratica. Attenzione che è scritto in lingua inglese però. Utile, carino, escono bei disegni

I have bought several of these Sarah Simon watercolor workbooks. I think that they are great! I do have watercolor experience. This workbook is very well done. It’s very thorough. I don’t have any problems reading the text. Her introduction to watercolors is very helpful and easy to understand. The paper quality is excellent. My only cons with this particular workbook is that she has included graphics with people in them. The heads are all covered by gigantic flowers and plant leaves. One of the people looks like she has a big flower growing out of her neck. Bizarre. There are several graphics to paint like this. I like to use watercolor colored pencils with these workbooks. They work great with the graphics and you can really control the water well. Great for practicing some watercolor techniques.

This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. If you are new or newish to watercolours, and have been following a few YouTube videos on painting flowers etc, and if you had bought a set of colours and really wanted to try and develop your ability further, then I can't tell you how great this book is for the task!! I bought it due to the great comments and I'm not disappointed. It is very clear and easy to read, so it's easy to read thru BEFORE starting the projects, and there are clear step by step instructions that take you thru each one. You only need the bare basics to get on with this. She also has some really very helpful stuff on colour mixing, and it's so well explained that u start doing it and learning before u know u are! All the projects can be coloured from a small group of colours which can be mixed to get u a huge range, a selection of which is used in the book. It really motivates u to mix up and experiment with mixing. And, because it takes u step by step thru the process, u learn about how to use , wet on wet say, when painting a flower or petal. Breaks it down at your pace which has really been the missing link for me. Going from that flat look to gaining proper blending looks, without lines. The paper is great, I can paint with no worries and she encourages u to paint and mark throught every page. It's so useful that I've been painting constantly! I love this book and can't recommend it enough, she has a second book (it was her first one I think) which is out there so that's next! Thank u Sarah for all the work that went into making the perfect watercolour learning book!👍

A really nice workbook to get started into watercolour if you're like me who's mind is blank as a sheet of paper in front of her. It takes out the struggle of figuring out what to paint. The workbook is not a complete tutorial but it does gets you up to speed on the basic techniques. I still find it useful to have some blank watercolour paper to do a lot of practice of the wet-in-wet, wet-on-dry, water control, etc. before trying it on the workbook pages. I also traced out several versions of the projects so I can practice them several times, try different colour combinations, playing with shadows/values, etc. Good thing to know before hand that these are the colours (reference Winsor and Newton paints) that you will need for the mixing: lemon yellow, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, oxide of chromium, cobalt blue hue (ultramarine was an OK substitute with a little bit of white), Payne's grey, ivory black, white.