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Modern Watercolor: A playful and contemporary exploration of watercolor painting Paperback – Illustrated, 19 September 2017

by Kristin Van Leuven (Author)

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Modern Watercolor provides a colorful and fun approach to working with watercolor! Use the easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful, colorful artwork featured throughout the book to create dynamic leaves, flowers, trees, and simple geometric shapes and patterns.

This dynamic and inspirational guide from professional artist Kristin Van Leuven, owner of the online shop Hello Lovely People, will set you down a path of exploration as you learn to play with watercolors. Learn to use basic watercolor techniques and principles to create beautiful, expressive works of art. With Modern Watercolor, discover how to paint in watercolor by harnessing the medium's unique transparent qualities to create stunning works of art, stationery, gifts, and more. From selecting your first watercolor paints to learning to blend colors into a unique palette, this book will guide you as you begin your artistic journey and create cohesive, rich works of watercolor art.

The easy-to-follow lessons explore using watercolor on different surfaces, how to create basic shapes using fun techniques, and how to create myriad gorgeous effects that can be achieved with different brushes and strokes. You can even learn how to add layers of dimension and texture, as well as how to work with resist techniques to create pretty patterns and gorgeous backgrounds.

Whether you're an experienced artist seeking a playful escape or a beginner who has never held a paintbrush, there's something for everyone in Modern Watercolor, part of Walter Foster Publishing's Modern series, which also includes Modern Drawing, Modern Acrylic, and Modern Colored Pencil.

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Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1633223566
ISBN-13 : 978-1633223561

Best Sellers Rank: 22,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 18 in Mixed Media Art
- 30 in Watercolour Painting Techniques

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About the Author

Kristin Van Leuven is a native Arizonan who loves to paint. What began as a hobby that served as a distraction from real life has become a career via Hello Lovely People, Kristin's online art shop that sells her prints, portraits, clothing, and more. Author of Modern Watercolor and Your Year in Art: Watercolor, both from Walter Foster Publishing, Kristin enjoys making art for people's homes and sees loveliness in all people. Learn more at lovelypeople.bigcartel.com.

Modern Watercolor

Color mixing, mark-making, brushstrokes, resist techniques, and more. This exploration of watercolor painting has it all for artists who want to learn to work in watercolor in new and exciting ways!

Color Chart Mixing

It’s important to not only know how to mix other colors from primary colors, but also to know how to mix the specific paint colors on your palette. Most watercolor artists have a wide variety of colors on their palette. It’s helpful to make a color chart of all the different hue combinations your paints can create!

Helpful instruction on:

Tools, materials, and supplies
Color theory
Mark-making
Brushstrokes
Shapes and patterns
Resist techniques
Painting botanicals
Painting animals
Painting landscapes
Much more!


Greenery Although not as obviously varied as the vast array of colorful flowers, greenery can be just as beautiful and comes in many shapes, sizes, and shades of green. There are several easy ways to paint lovely greenery to add to your botanical paintings.	Allover Patterns Triangles and diamonds are easier to paint if you draw the outline of the shape first and then fill it in. Use a round brush to paint triangles and diamonds. Then try creating some allover patterns combining the same shape in different sizes and orientations.	Animal Art Animals, especially your canine companions, make great subject matter for watercolor painting. You don’t need to add a lot of detail to paint your favorite critters, either. Just start with a quick pencil sketch, and then use simple strokes and a few fine details. The human eye fills in the rest!	Hand-lettered Watercolor The basic brushstroke principles also apply to watercolor lettering. You can use the body of the brush, as well as the tip, and will utilize pressure in the brushstrokes. Combining letters or phrases with watercolor art makes for a lovely painting or gift.

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Holly P

Great book for a beginner with limited talent who likes the loose style, particularly for florals

30 April 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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As context for this review, I am an absolute beginner and not very creative. This is one of my favorite watercolor books so far, it has a ton of full color illustrations, almost the same amount of space as the text. It also isnt overly technical and features loose style painting. In addition to the standard review of supplies and tools (which is only 6 pages, just the right amount of depth given how ubiquitous this information is), the Getting Started section includes a 8 pages on technique. These cover the right amount of water and paint which I haven’t seen discussed in this basic way before, washes, lifting paint, blending, hard and soft edges and more. Then there is a 10 page section on color including the color wheel, color mixing charts and black and white painting. The 8 page Mark-Making and Brushstrokes section covers the various brushes and the types of marks they can make and includes 4 pages of watercolor lettering information. There are 6 pages on shapes and patterns and 12 pages on resist techniques. The painting botanicals section is my favorite with 32 pages on flowers, greenery, wreaths and all-over patterns. It has step by step instructions for a variety of flowers including roses, tulips and peonies. The painting animals, landscapes and more section is 24 pages and as the title describes covers animals and landscapes as well as faces and interior paintings. This is my least favorite section as the animals, faces and interiors seem like they require more talent than I have but they do seem basic, like someone with just a bit of talent could handle them. The 6 page landscape portion is more my speed, back to the suggestion of things rather than detailed images.

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K. Robinson

4.5 stars but very close to 5

10 September 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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I'll be the first "uncompensated" reviewer of this book. Overall, it's excellent. Lots of fun, colorful ideas with "can do" projects. My only complaint, and the reason I don't give it 5 stars, is there isn't enough information on how to do each project. Could use a little more info like if you are working wet-in-wet, dry, or glazing, etc. Also, for anyone without any drawing experience, it will be a bit difficult to complete some of the projects. I feel I have just enough skill to pull it off. Overall, well written, colorful and fun! Also, makes a good reference for fundamental watercolor basics.

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Well Hello

Fun, good gift!

23 October 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is fun and easy! Makes painting a possibility for non-artist types. I went off-book and ended up painting a pumpkin using their techniques.

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Qchick

For the Beginner!

3 July 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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IF and only IF you are a true beginner, then this is the book for you. However, if you have tried watercolors for only 6 months, you may find this too simplistic. I would return it, however, the return policy wants me to pay $5.99 minimum to return it using UPS. So, the refund for the book would be $8.55 - had I known this, (I am a prime member) or had I caught it in the description I would not have ordered it.
The information is basic, the pictures are great tho so if you are new to painting the pictures will help you. The "building a color chart" will help you as well. Basic brush strokes, and brush pressure advice and step by step photos.
I've been painting in watercolor for almost a year, and its the same thing we learned in our beginning art classes - washes, throwing salt, etc etc.
The book is made well though, and the paper it is printed on is excellent quality.

24 people found this helpful

R. Peacock

Basically Perfect

13 October 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a beautiful and well laid out book, full of gorgeous examples and how-to's. I am so pleased with this book, and all of the tutorials. It's easy to follow and perfect for beginners as well as more experienced artists. I am a novice painter and have learned so much already from this great book. Definitely recommend it to anyone who loves watercolor painting or is just starting.

23 people found this helpful

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