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This beautifully illustrated instructional watercolor book will be perfect for beginning watercolor
artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Emma’s story
Pep Talk
Chapter 1: Supply Guide
- Everything you need to start
- Caring for your supplies
Chapter 2: How to Use Watercolor -How Do they work?
- Activating your watercolors
- Loading your brush
- Water to paint ratio
Chapter 3: Techniques
- terms and techniques
- Practice techniques
- Value Scale
- Light Wash
- Blending and mixing
- Color Bleed
- Wet on Wet
- Wet on dry
- Blotting and Lifting
- Fun Techniques to add texture
- Mistakes and how to fix them
- How to work with inexpensive materials Water Control
- Light and Shadow
- Using White Space
Chapter 4: Color Theory
- How To make a color wheel - Primary colors
- Secondary colors
- Tertiary colors
- Analogous colors
- Complementary colors
- Warm and Cool Colors
Chapter 5: Color Mixing
- Working with a limited palette - Color Chart
- Value Scale
- Mixing Contrasting colors
- Mixing Muted tones
- Favorite color mixing combos
Chapter 6: Lets Get painting
- Loose Florals
- Detailed Florals
- Trees
- Plants/Cactus
- Landscape 1
- Landscape 2
- Animals
- Food
- Water
About the author
Emma Lefebvre has been dabbling in art since she began doodling in her binder at grade school. She attended an arts high school for 3 years, where her love for visual arts started to dwindle. Then came a time where she lost her love for it. It wasn’t until she began struggling with depression and anxiety that the only thing that seemed to get her out of the house was the idea of walking through an art store. She came home one day with a cheap set of watercolours and started to paint.
It wasn’t long until Emma found an amazing art community on Instagram that was equal parts inspiring and encouraging. Shortly after, she decided to use her background in teaching to spread the therapeutic effects of watercolour. What started as quick YouTube video turned into a successful YouTube channel of creativity, calm, and inspiration. You can follow Emma’s watercolour adventures on YouTube’s EmJ Watercolour Studio channel.
Summary
This beautifully illustrated instructional watercolor book will be perfect for beginning watercolorartists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives.
Foreword
Emma has high engagement on her youtube channel (228K subscribers) and Instagram (38.5K followers) where she’ll be able to talk up the book. In addition, her friends/Instagram influencers will promote her book on their channels and feeds.
Here’s a list of those she’s already reached out to:
- @wonderforest You Tube (152K subscribers) and Instagrammer (107K followers)
- @Nellecreations (She’s a DIY/lifestyle blogger and who also has a good following on Instagram and TikTok 25K.)
- @StephanieFehrenbach 28K Instagram followers (she’s a painter)
