Learn Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Larissa: Perfeito para quem está começando agora. Tem inúmeras sugestões de exercícios para aprendizado de técnicas, bem como de pinturas simples. Super recomendo! Pena que a tradução pro português está esgotada em todo lugar.

Brazil on Mar 28, 2023

dusty1: Our daughter is starting to paint n found this book helpful.

United States on Mar 23, 2023

Amazon CustomerAmazon Customer: I found the info helpful and it gives step by step which helps beginners a lot

United States on Oct 09, 2022

L.M.: Je pensais que ce livre serait beaucoup plus inspirant. Les illustrations sont très belles mais je ne suis pas parvenue à être particulièrement inspirée par les exercices par rapport à d'autres livres.
Je le mets de côté pour plus tard, c'est tout de même un très bel ouvrage.
Mise à jour : j'ai réussi à m'y mettre et je ne plus aussi catégorique même si il y a beaucoup de pages qui ne m'inspirent toujours pas.

France on Jun 27, 2020

Kindle Customer: All steps to learning and then creating original work in watercolor are presented in this organized and comprehensive book. The language is simple and clear, therefore easy to understand and apply. Ms. Calderon starts with materials and techniques, and gradually increases the level of difficulty, but never beyond the reach of a beginner. The pictures are clear and precise, and the examples breathtaking, but not intimidating. What you see is what you could do. This is one of the best books of this type, and I 'd recommend it to anyone.

United States on May 18, 2020

Amazon KundeAmazon Kunde: Mir gefällt, dass Ana Victoria Calderón nicht doziert, sondern einfach erklärt und auch auf Schwierigkeiten hinweist. Ich mag die Übungen, da sie abwechslungsreich, bunt und fröhlich sind. Sie verleitet mit ihren Beispielen dazu, auszuprobieren. Das Niveau ist ganz klar so ausgelegt, dass man versteht, dass es ohne Übung ganz einfach nichts wird. Aber es ist nicht entmutigend. Befolgt man ihre Schritte, schaut sich alles immer wieder genau an, kann man Erfolge verzeichnen. Ich bin Anfängerin und hätte nie gedacht, dass ich jemals eine Zitrone malen könnte. Es ist kein Meisterwerk, aber eindeutig eine Zitrone. Und das ist schön. Ich werde jedenfalls weiter mit Farben und Pinsel experimentieren. Und üben, üben, üben...

Germany on Feb 25, 2020

Annel Vare: Si te gusta la acuarela y quieres perderle el miedo, éste es un buen libro.
Las técnicas y explicaciones del libro esta muy enfocado al estilo específico de la artista, lo cual a mime gusta por que admiro a la autora, pero creo que no es demasiado didáctico por que puede encasillarte.

Lo tengo en ingles, pero se entiende perfecto. En el libro hay recomendaciones y observaciones de marcas y materiales, lo cual se agradece mucho.

Nada con respecto a la combinación de colores ni tampoco a la composición.
Perfecto si lo que quieres es aprender a pintar objetos sueltos.

Lo recomiendo mucho.

Spain on Feb 25, 2019

Avantika Shrivastav: I have taken all of Ana's Skillshare classes and she always breaks down things into easy to follow exercises. In this book also you will see the same easy to follow style of teaching of hers. This book is excellent for beginners and experienced artists both. If you've been afraid to try watercolours or just started, this book will help you a lot and make it easy for you. If you want to try fun things like embellishing and create unique pieces, pick up this book. There are so many amazing project ideas packed into this book. You will have fun and learn a lot from this book. I love this book!

India on Dec 23, 2018

K. Bilowus: Ana does such a great job of breaking down the basics in simple excercises. Her writing style is very approachable, and her painting style is fun and bursting with color. I love that the book is so chock full of images.

For anyone who may be a little intimidated to try watercolor, I highly recommend this book. If you’re already on your way to learning (like me), I think you will find this to be a helpful reference. I can see myself coming back to this book often for both inspiration and practicing the basics.

I really love that Ana includes project ideas you can create for yourself and even use as gifts. I plan to do both!

Ana dedicated this book to her students, which is pretty special. She is a great teacher, and I think you will enjoy being her student!

United States on Dec 18, 2018

Monica Stadalski: This book is fantastic and not just for beginners!! If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at watercolor, been intimidated, or you’re a seasoned artist, this is THE book! Ana’s approach is not only creative but incredibly approachable making watercolor fun and easy to learn using her techniques. The book begins with a supply list that breaks down paints, paper and brushes in a simple, easy to understand way that allows even the novice to begin painting without spending a small fortune, but she also talks about higher end supplies as well and includes a section on craft items to embellish your projects with, which I loved!
The book moves into warm-ups and exercises designed to familiarize the reader with watercolors and how to best work with them, from creating transparencies, layering, painting backgrounds and fine line work. Her step by step approach, which includes how she moves her brush to paint/water ratio, along with the accompanying photos, makes it a breeze to follow along. There’s also a section on digitizing your artwork in Photoshop which is amazing and gives the work that you’ve created many different uses!
After the nuts and bolts of painting with...

United States on Dec 12, 2018