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Go with the Flow Painting: Step-By-Step Techniques for Spontaneous Effects in Watercolor - Create Expressive Flowers, Animals, Food, and More

by Ohn Mar Win

Watercolor built around looseness and suggestion

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Watercolor built around looseness and suggestion

Ohn Mar Win’s guide pairs foundational watercolor practice with step-by-step projects spanning flowers, animals, food, and everyday objects. It introduces techniques such as wet-on-wet painting, gradients, layering, and shaping, then brings in pen and ink for added linework. The approach emphasizes suggesting a subject with color, edges, and selected details rather than rendering every feature precisely. Alongside project lessons, the book covers supplies, brush use, color mixing and values, plus warm-up exercises. Its examples include tiger lilies, macarons, a chameleon, and hot air balloons, with ideas for applying the finished work to cards and invitations.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Beginners seeking guided watercolor techniques and projects.
  • Artists interested in expressive, less detail-focused watercolor with pen-and-ink accents.
  • Crafters looking for artwork ideas for cards and invitations.

Themes

Loose watercolor techniquesColor and lineExpressive subject paintingCreative projects

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Book overview

Learn how to create beautiful loose and expressive florals, still lifes, motifs, animals, modes of transport, and fruits and vegetables in vibrant watercolor with touches of pen and ink.

In Go with the Flow Painting, author Ohn Mar Win (Instagram: @ohn_mar_win) offers beginner-friendly techniques, tips, and step-by-step lessons that show how to get the most out of these mediums and paint confidently in this captivating style.

Discover a new visual language that renders subjects with soft edges and luminous color. Capture just enough detail to suggest familiar flowers, animals, and objects and allow your unique expression and style to flourish.

Begin with essential supplies and learn the key characteristics of loose watercolor. Practice basic techniques that lay the foundation for this style, such as working wet-on-wet, creating color gradients, layering, and creating shapes. Learn the best way to use brushes, and explore easy methods of working with pen and ink to add striking linework and details.

Step-by-step lessons show how to capture the essence of a subject without worrying about perfectly executing every detail. Learn how to paint captivating hot air balloons, tiger lilies, French macarons, a colorful chameleon, and more. Embracing this flowing approach to watercolor allows you to develop a freer style and create artwork that's alive and exciting, instead of overworked.

Go with the Flow Painting also features:

  • How to mix colors directly on paper to get unique and beautiful effects
  • Warm-up exercises to help get into a flow state of mind
  • Information on colors and color values, and how best to use them
  • Ideas and inspiration for creating cards, invitations, and more

Explore watercolor in a new way that will open up a new world of creativity.
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