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Watercolor Your Way: Techniques, Palettes, and Projects to Fit Your Skill Level and Creative Goals

by Sarah Cray

A step-by-step path into watercolor

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A step-by-step path into watercolor

Sarah Cray organizes watercolor instruction into four stages, from foundational exercises with shape, wet-on-wet technique, and primary colors to developing a personal style. Along the way, the book covers value and form, detailed lines, backgrounds, and adjusting values by hue. Frequently asked questions, tips, and projects accompany the chapters, while the progression lets techniques and supplies build in smaller installments rather than arriving all at once. The structure gives the book a practical focus on learning through making, with room for beginners to start with a few basics and for more experienced painters to refine particular skills.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People beginning watercolor who want instruction centered on a few fundamentals at a time.
  • Watercolorists looking to build skills in value, form, line, backgrounds, or color.
  • Artists interested in using guided projects to explore a personal watercolor style.

Themes

Watercolor techniques and materialsProgressive skill-buildingColor and valueDeveloping an artistic style

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Book overview

Watercolor Your Way meets you right where you are with watercolor. Whether you're dipping your toe in, cannon-balling in, or honing your craft--this book is for you.

Written and illustrated by artist Sarah Cray, co-founder of the art education platform Let's Make Art, Watercolor Your Way is designed to inform and guide you at your current skill level.

Each of four chapters focuses on different techniques and supplies, building on each other so you can bring your watercolor art to the next level. Instead of presenting everything about paints, color mixing, and techniques all at once, it's offered in four small installments, with frequently asked questions, pro tips, and projects geared toward where you are on your artistic path, so you can get to the fun part--creating with watercolor--faster!
  • For Those Just Starting Out. Focuses on just three fundamental elements: shape, the wet-on-wet technique, and primary colors.
  • Building Confidence and Skill. Spotlights creating value and form with watercolor.
  • Finessing and Enhancing. Centers on adding detailed lines and backgrounds, and adjusting values by hue.
  • Finding Your Style. Presents a process of how to develop a style that's uniquely yours.

With Watercolor Your Way, you can explore watercolor the way you've always wanted to, with expert instruction on a wide range of exciting techniques, themes, and color palettes that fit your needs as an artist.
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