Just Add Watercolor Happy Thoughts: Easy Techniques and Beautiful Patterns for True Beginners

Fall in love with watercolours and create beautiful paintings that you can be proud of! Positive, inspiring messages and quotations are the perfect subject for expressive watercolour lettering. This skill-building portfolio book for absolute beginners will teach you everything you need to know to get started with watercolour art. Talented artist Robin Pickens introduces you to all the basics of paint, brushes, palette and water, with easy-to-follow advice on opacity, blending, shading and mixing colours. She then guides you step-by-step through eight complete inspirational watercolour calligraphy projects. Each project features soft, muted patterns printed on real 90# thick and tactile watercolour paper. The pages are perforated so you can easily remove your art for gifting or display. Just Add Watercolor Happy Thoughts also provides gorgeous fully coloured finished examples to inspire your work on each design. See more