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Ana Victoria Calderon

A guide to painting beautiful watercolors and combining them with other user-friendly materials—plus projects to test out what you’ve learned.

In Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, popular watercolor artist, instructor, and author Ana Victoria Calderon shares her simple step-by-step techniques for painting exciting and colorful motifs by combining watercolor with a variety of other user-friendly materials. • Start with the essentials—paint, paper, and brushes—then learn about the featured mediums for mixing, including masking fluid, gold leaf, bleach, salt, and alcohol
 • Take a step-by-step look at fundamental watercolor techniques
 • Learn to paint a variety of striking organic motifs and surface effects, including stirring skies and clouds, sparkling galaxies, flowing oceans, and dazzling crystals
 • Find great project ideas for stylish gifts and stationery

Whether you’re new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolor practice, go grab a brush, paints, and some easy-to-use materials and take a beautiful creative journey with watercolor!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

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Art for Modern Makers

Creative Watercolor & Mixed Media: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Stunning Effects

A fun, modern, and practical approach with instructions on how to paint simple motifs, create elegant lettering, and embellish projects beautifully.

Popular watercolor artist and workshop instructor Ana Victoria Calderón shares her step-by-step techniques for painting modern designs in this classic medium. All the fundamentals needed to get started in watercolor are here, allowing you to quickly learn how to create beautiful watercolor paintings. Through a series of easy tutorials and projects, you will: • Discover basic materials and tools, plus options for embellishing your paintings
 • Master essential techniques, starting with easy warm-up activities. Then, learn to layer, and get into the flow with watercolor
 • Get an introduction to scanning and digital editing for making multiples
 • Paint a variety of simple, beautiful designs: flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and delightful lettering
 • Use what you’ve learned to create unique, stylish stationery, including beautiful invitations, place cards, menus, monograms, recipe gift cards, thank you notes—any project you can imagine, for any kind of event you can think of!

There’s never been a better time to dive into the world of watercolor, so why wait? Grab a brush and get painting!

Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Anna Sokolova

Discover a world filled with vibrant color and creative possibilities as you explore an array of painting, drawing, printing, and lettering techniques and styles using vivid colors of artist’s ink.

 In Brilliant Inks, artist, illustrator, and top Skillshare teacher Anna Sokolova shares her own unique methods that get the most out of this versatile medium. With her guidance, create beginner-friendly florals and foliage, animals, still lifes, figures and portraits, and hand lettering.

 Learn about the various types of inks and the best tools and surfaces to use with them. Then, try basic techniques such as color mixing, creating visual texture, negative painting, and splattering.

 Work with a variety of brushes, dip pens, and droppers to get different looks, and see how adding common household supplies such as salt and bleach can create the most amazing effects.

 Use these methods in lessons designed to improve skills and boost confidence. Be inspired to make projects such as a bracelet, paper art dolls, a tote bag, and a decorated book. Full instructions and templates make projects fun and stress free.

 This incredible material offers so much that’s waiting to be discovered: • Vivid monotypes made in minutes using a combination of painting and printmaking methods
 • Custom palettes created with unique blended colors
 • Watercolor-like translucent washes and opaque silhouettes
 • Techniques for creating beautiful motifs using simple brushstrokes and patterns.
 Begin your colorful journey today with Brilliant Inks and see how far your creativity can go!

 Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Brilliant Inks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating in Vivid Color - Draw, Paint, Print, and More!

Carla Co Chua

Discover how easy, satisfying, and fun it is to create with acrylic paints and mediums in Creative Acrylics. 

 Acrylics are one of the most versatile, affordable, and accessible art mediums, and you’ll learn all the tips, tricks, and techniques for blending colors and building texture, plus excellent instruction on how to paint a range of different subjects.

 Confused about which types of paints to use, and how to use them? Creative Acrylics cuts through the clutter and offers clear fundamentals for working with a variety of paints and mediums to produce beautiful results. Acrylic paint is water-soluble, dries quickly, and is forgiving, making it perfect for those starting out. Begin your acrylic painting journey with an expert who will guide you through enjoyable techniques and projects as you build confidence and ramp up your skills.

Step-by-step techniques, lessons, and projects cover a wide range of styles and genres, including color mixing, brushwork, glazing, and how to paint easy florals, still lifes, landscapes, and animals. Take your new skills even further and paint on different surfaces to create an apron, painted shells, a paintbrush rest, clay pot, and more.

 In Creative Acrylics you’ll find: • How to 
set up your workspace • to make painting more enjoyable
 • A guide to the 
different types of acrylic paintBasic techniques • such as 
understanding color and value • , and 
how to add texture • and other effects using paint and mediums
Lessons and projects that build skills • : creating still lifes, florals, landscapes and skies, and painting on fabric, wood, shells, clay, and more
 With all these ideas and inspiration, your acrylic painting journey can begin today!

 Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Creative Acrylics: A Step-by-Step Beginner's Guide to Creating with Paint & Mediums - Create Paintings Filled with Color, Texture, Unique Effects & More!

Ashley Mahlberg

Pour and paint your way to stunning fluid effects. In Creative Alcohol Inks, artist and Instagrammer Ashley Mahlberg of @inkreel shares step-by-step techniques for creating spontaneous, organic effects with this vibrant transparent medium. • Get an overview of 
essential materials, substrates, and finishes • .
 • Explore
 techniques for applying alcohol inks • , such as pouring, creating texture, lifting, masking, adding embellishments, and more.
 • Learn 
helpful troubleshooting tips and tricks • .
 • Use what you’ve learned to 
create one-of-a-kindartworks and stylish projects • . 
Find your creative flow with Creative Alcohol Inks!

 Perfect for creative beginners, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.