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Your Year in Art: Watercolor Kristin Van Leuven

Your Year in Art: Watercolor By Kristin Van Leuven

Your Year in Art: Watercolor by Kristin Van Leuven


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Your Year in Art: Watercolor features fun weekly art challenges, step-by-step painting lessons, and inspirational tips and techniques that will help beginning to intermediate artists overcome their artistic fears and get comfortable with paints, canvas, and creativity!

Your Year in Art: Watercolor Summary

Your Year in Art: Watercolor: A project for every week of the year to inspire creative exploration in watercolor painting by Kristin Van Leuven

Overcome your creative blocks and fears and start painting with confidence with Your Year in Art: Watercolor! Filled with weekly art challenges, step-by-step watercolor lessons, helpful tips and techniques, and gorgeous artwork, this follow-up to the drawing-focused Your Year in Art is a must-have for any watercolor artist.

Written and illustrated by Kristin Van Leuven, owner of the popular online art shop Hello Lovely People and author of Modern Watercolor (Walter Foster Publishing), Your Year in Art: Watercolor seeks to motivate and inspire. The book is divided into weekly art challenges and prompts that cover appealing themes like florals, birds, and portraits, as well as inspirational ideas for painting patterns, holiday decorations, scenery, and so much more.Lessons and prompts are guided but invite personalization so you can build your skills while celebrating your own unique style.

If you're a beginning artist, you might feel intimidated by watercolor, a medium that doesn't allow for many errors. However, Kristin Van Leuven makes watercolor fun and approachable with her easy-to-follow tips and free-flowing, expressive style. With her guidance, you'll learn to embrace imperfection and use the lessons as inspiration, rather than something to imitate exactly.

With Your Year in Art: Watercolor, develop your own painting style and express yourself using watercolor!

About Kristin Van Leuven

Kristin Van Leuven is a native Arizonan who loves to paint. What began as a hobby that served as a distraction from real life has become a career via Hello Lovely People, Kristin's online art shop that sells her prints, portraits, clothing, and more. Author of Modern Watercolor,Your Year in Art: Watercolor,and Art Made Easy: Easy Watercolor, all from Walter Foster Publishing, Kristin enjoys making art for people's homes and sees loveliness in all people. Learn more at lovelypeople.bigcartel.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction

Chapter 1: Basics
Week 1: Color Explorations
Week 2: Make Your Mark
Week 3: Shape Up
Week 4: Watercolor Washes
Week 5: Experiments in Blending
Week 6: Building Layers
Week 7: Building Saturation
Week 8: Paper Texture Practice
Week 9: Experiment with Resists
Week 10: Embrace the White Space
Week 11: Magic Monochrome
Week 12: Playing with Negative Space
Week 13: Pattern Play
Week 14: Black & White
Week 15: Luminous Lettering

Chapter 2: Jump-Starting Creativity
Week 16: Breaking Free of Creative Ruts
Week 17: Finding Inspiration in Unexpected Places
Week 18: A Bugs View
Week 19: A Birds View
Week 20: Intuitive Painting
Week 21: One Thing Twenty Ways
Week 22: Empowering Words
Week 23: Detailed to Abstract
Week 24: Abstract Storytelling
Week 25: Doodle It Out

Chapter 3: Getting Outside
Week 26: Go Green
Week 27: Nature Illustration
Week 28: Fun with Florals
Week 29: Build a Wreath
Week 30: Build a Cactus Garden
Week 31: Dreamy Greenhouse
Week 32: Cute Critters
Week 33: Illuminating Insects
Week 34: Painting a Landscape
Week 35: Expressive Architecture
Week 36: The Skys the Limit

Chapter 4: Making It Personal
Week 37: Beautiful Faces
Week 38: Tackle Your To-Do List
Week 39: The Room Youre In
Week 40: Your Least Favorite Color
Week 41: Happy Thoughts
Week 42: Illustrated Food Journal
Week 43: Paint Your Passion
Week 44: A Favorite Memory
Week 45: Your Favorite Book
Week 46: Make it Your Own
Week 47: Design a Greeting Card

Chapter 5: Keeping It Going
Week 48: Perfecting Perspective
Week 49: Capturing Movement
Week 50: Wade Into Water
Week 51: Four Colorways
Week 52: Paint a Still Life

Meet the Author

Additional information

GOR011003591
9781633228269
1633228266
Your Year in Art: Watercolor: A project for every week of the year to inspire creative exploration in watercolor painting by Kristin Van Leuven
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
2020-07-07
112
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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