Hello, Watercolor!: Creative Techniques and Inspiring Projects for the Beginning Artist

Hello, Watercolor! offers a fresh approach to painting watercolors with concise and accessible information. Aspiring artists will immediately be able to apply the techniques they learn on these pages to more than 15 exciting step-by-step projects, from painting origami animals, sparkling glass shards, and beautiful alphabets to producing luscious florals and fanciful unicorns. This inspirational handbook includes swatches for substitutions, popular color palettes and recipes for mixing, monthly challenges, templates, and ideas for sharing work.

• Projects include a list of techniques with cross-references
• Each project includes watercolors used with swatches so readers can make substitutions easily
• Popular color palettes and color "recipes" for foolproof mixing
• 12 monthly challenges with daily or weekly prompts to inspire painting all year long
• Templates to trace and paint for some projects
• Ideas to share work and connect with others (e.g., Instagram)