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Watercolor Workbook: 30-Minute Beginner Botanical Projects on Premium Watercolor Paper (Watercolor Workbook Series)
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Build your watercolor skills with confidence with these 25 beautiful and beginner-friendly new projects on premium watercolor paper!
This easy-to-use watercolor workbook is filled with unique and beautiful flower and nature sketches that are ready for you to watercolor–no drawing skills required! Each page is specially designed with simple step-by-step instructions so you can easily and confidently paint each project and create artwork that matches the quality of the author’s example.
Watercolor Workbook features:
- An introduction to fundamental watercolor techniques
- 25 projects on thick, 200 gsm premium watercolor art paper—no color bleed-through!
- Easy-to-follow instructions that can be completed in 30 minutes or less
- Beautiful floral and plant artwork, including: wild roses, poppies, sunflowers, buttercups, dandelions, and more
- Easy-to-follow instructions, including suggested paint and paintbrush materials, so you can start painting today
Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to paint with watercolor. Her first book Modern Watercolor Botanicals provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and, now in this new workbook, Simon offers 25 watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today!
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Watercolor Workbook: 30-Minute Beginner Botanical Projects on Premium Watercolor Paper (Watercolor Workbook Series)
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Original price was: $24.95.$15.49Current price is: $15.49.
Carolyn –
This lovely botanically-themed watercolor workbook by Sarah Simon and printed on watercolor paper has almost everything you could wish for. The instructions are excellent and the color mixing guides are flawless. Each sketch to paint is adjacent to the palette and a small version of the drawing executed in full color. Honestly, the graphic design of the book is just stunning. Unfortunately, readability is compromised in the execution of this high design concept. The elegant type face is artistic, thin and too small a type size to be easy to read. This issue is further complicated by printing the words in an otherwise gorgeous dark grey color. It honestly requires repeatedly putting down the paintbrush and picking up a magnifying glass. The color recipes with each sketch are an even smaller point size. Taking the point size up in favor of readability would solve the issue. It is also somewhat awkward that the instruction page for each new sketch is located on the back side of the wet watercolor you just finished. Is it gorgeous and well-written? Yes. Perhaps the paint-on watercolor pages on watercolor paper could be one section with a second, longer section to allow larger, legible type with tear out instructions on less expensive paper.
Ale –
Uses actual watercolor paper. Instructions are clear and precise.
CP –
Very good quality, contains watercolor pages to practice. Step by step instructions easy to follow, really helpful tips. I am a beginner and it was easy to complete the exercises. Of course, it takes a lot of practice to get the best results, just enjoy the process. The book is carefully written, with lots of tips and encouragements to continue practicing. I will buy the other books too, great learning.
Mountain Mama –
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!👍
Mrs. Jones –
I can’t create a picture worth a damn but I enjoy making pretty things. This was an absolutely perfect introduction for watercoloring for me. I have enjoyed the entire process, reading the instructions to outlining the pictures to the actual painting. The author gives easy to follow instructions and a relatively simple and forgiving list of supplies to get started.
Her recommended supplies for the entire book:
#1 round brush
#4 round brush
01 or 02 Micron Pigma waterproof pen
Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolor tube paints in:
Lemon Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Alizeran Crimson
Burnt Sienna
Cobalt Blue
White (any)
Ivory Black
Oxide of Chromium (professional)
Payne’s Gray (professional)
Optional extras – Perylene Maroon and Perylene Violet.
There are some good discount art supply stores online to get the paints at halfish price so it’s not a bad investment if you try to stick with the recommendations.
The paper quality feels hefty and easy to work with and the designs are aesthetically pleasing without being too complex or too boring. She walks you through every step with clear instructions and provides examples. The painting pieces themselves are big and one-sided so you could cut them out, crop and frame. She encourages experimentation and having fun, and her writing feels like you’re painting with a friend.
I think this is a good buy for any creative type, professional or novice. My mother has a disability affecting her grip and dexterity, and I think she could use this book to paint. She’s creative but as her issues have progressed is easily discouraged to try new art hobbies. This is relatively easy and still sophisticated. I might outline some of the sketches for her, show her a couple tricks and let her have at it. You DONT HAVE TO PAINT IN THE LINES to be pretty.
I’ve pre-ordered Sarah’s next book and want her to make a dozen more please. If the author reads this I have some ideas for a version of your workbook that is even more accessible for folks with impaired vision or dexterity.
Have the drawings already outlined black, perhaps ever so slightly bold for better contrast.
Keep an even simpler color palette with less need to mix.
Include more examples of loose and undefined boundaries. Show how going outside the lines can be pretty.
Keep the boho, soft floral aesthetic that lean slightly simpler in shapes. (the illustrations are gorgeous)
Perforate the pages to make it easy to detach. Maybe a spiral binding for even easier use.
Increase the text size and contrast.
Include a larger avatar/finished example.
Recommend brushes that are more ergonomic, maybe a round brush with a fatter handle.
I’ve gone down the Amazon rabbithole and so far there hasn’t been a workbook quite like this. I am a fan!
Kat –
I have many watercolor books, but this one was my first, and is one of my favorites. I love the lessons in the beginning! The pictures are clear, the text is helpful, and I love the swatch area. Her mixing instructions are great. Except the color seashell. It’s probably a me problem. You can see the demonstration of my attempts. Seashell and I do not get along. Her book has introduced me to colors I never would have thought to use, oxide of Chromium is a beautiful color!
Ale –
I ordered this on a whim in an attempt to learn some basic techniques.
Instructions and exercises walk you through various techniques where you copy an example. Line drawings are already there, so you can just focus on the painting.
The quality of the paper is nice and I find it very enjoyable to work through the exercises. I meant to spend an hour when I started and found myself still sitting there 3 hours later.
The only possible change I world makes it to have spiral bound so the pages lay flat. Otherwise, very happy with this.
Starwoman33 –
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This workbook is perfection. So well made and explained for beginners in the water color world. So entertaining yet challenging for more advanced water color enthusiasts.
I ordered this book as well as some new water colors to practice with, and from the moment I opened it I was obsessed.
I absolutely love Sarah’s designs, I find them so aesthetically well balanced, modern, classy, original and inclusive. Love them all!
As someone who hasn’t painted in years and has not much experience, I found this book to be so helpful. It was so easy for me to start painting again and remember how much joy I feel while I am doing so. It’s instructions, tips and stunning color combinations definitely helped awakening my creativity a little more each day.
10 out of 10! 🎨🫶🏼
Kat –
I thought this book would be something to color by number in or use water color pencils on. She really gives good water color lessons in this book. So much fun and good lessons. I love it.
erin –
Her palette is absolutely not what I would ever choose, so I am learning so much about new color combos. I copied her drawings to watercolor paper so I can’t judge the quality of that.
N M Limones –
Sara Simon’s Watercolor Workbook is packed full of information, color mixing and watercolor technique. She guides you each step of the way to complete the paintings right in the book. However, you can also trace the pictures and transfer them on to your own watercolor paper for a finished painting. I love her color mixing recipes that help you create so many different tones from nine colors.
erin –
Questo libro è molto curato dal punto di vista tecnico e la carta su cui dipingere è ottima, una delle migliori che abbia mai utilizzato. Dal punto di vista dei contenuti è didattico nella prima parte, con spiegazioni abbastanza chiare su come utilizzare i colori e le tecniche dell’acquerello. È adatto ad un principiante. La cosa che non mi piace è l’approccio dell’autrice al disegno, che contorna con inchiostro nero e, ancora peggio secondo me, l’ utilizzo del bianco nella creazione della maggior parte dei colori. Infatti il bianco li opacizza rendendoli gessosi. Non è sicuramente uno stile per tutti, nel senso che non piace a molti, come a me.
Liliana –
Ich war so positiv überrascht. Das Cover sagte mir nicht so viel zu aber als das Workbook kam, wow.
Du kannst direkt loslegen! Fast zu schade zum benutzen. Die Seiten sind hochwertig aus Aquarellpapier.
Links ist das Originalbild mit den dazugehörigen Farben. Rechts die Zeichnung mit der du direkt loslegen kannst. Klar und strukturiert. Ich liebe es!