Watercolor With Me in the Forest

Absolutely gorgeous! Extremely high quality and wonderful step by step instructions! By the end of the book, I feel that I’ll have a wonderful start to my watercoloring journey!

I have bought several different books for adults to watercolor NONE can match this book! It is beautiful, many pictures to paint with concise instructions. Beginners welcome. An awesome gift! You will want one for your self! Mind blowing!

This is well worth the money. I cut out squares of watercolor paper for my children and we have been going through each of the pages together. This is a great quality book! It is well thought-out, winsome and sweet themes. I enjoy painting alongside my kids- and I have a place to start and a prompt to follow.

I have only skimmed through this book so far, but what I have read and viewed look to be very well thought out. I think it will be great fun to learn from this book. This is a wonderful beginner book with 119 pages of lovely watercolor illustrations and instruction on nice thick paper. Dana also has a Youtube channel with tutorials of some of the illustrations. This is actually how I discovered her book. The introduction is one page with a short list of supplies included. You then jump right into learning. I love that. I plan to start painting from it in the next few days. I will sketch the drawings on a separate watercolor sheet though. I don't really want to paint in the book so I won't be able to comment on the paper. I can say that the paper is more of a hot press surface but not a super smooth hot press. The weight of the paper feels to be about 110lb. Each section is designed to teach a certain technique. Wet on dry, wet into wet, how to paint fur and ink & wash. Each section starts simple and progresses with each study to the most difficult of the studies at the end. As you progress to the next section she has you use the techniques you learned previously along with the technique she is teaching in the new section.

This book is lovely. The colors and quality of paper and sketches are great. I paid extra for the spiral bound because it would play flat. I was surprised it cost SO much more but didn’t anyway. Now I can see that the retail price printed on the back is $24.99 so my wondering about the significant price difference was justified, as I paid close to $35 and that was a lot more than the non spiral bound version of the same book. The only complaint about the book itself is the way the directions are on the right while the page you actually paint on is the left. I guess that will work great for the few lefties in the world but us righties will be disappointed that layout as well have to rest our hand on the spiral to paint the left page. It was almost enough to return it, but I like the simple pictures so I settled on keeping it. I feel like it got a little suckered and I shouldn’t have paid this much for this book but I do think it could have been worth the original $24.99 price.

I bought all three by this author. Great, easy tutorials to learn watercolor techniques. I highly recommend it.

This is a great product for someone needing a little boost to practice their watercolor painting. Excellent instructions and fun projects.

This book is so different than most books because it tells you the materials they used, steps of how to do it, and great paper & illustrations to work with. I planned not using the page they drew on for you so do in the book. I do not want to ruin the book. It is a guide for me to learn how to work with watercolors since I haven’t had any classes in it! I would highly recommend if you want to learn how to use watercolors. I looked at this book in person at a store first and I fell in love with it right away that I went to go find it cheaper here on Amazon…I knew the first moment I looked at the illustrations & steps that this book I would buy. You can’t go wrong with this book. I would even have bought this book at full price because it is that good!!! Check it out for yourself by getting yourself a copy today!!!

I am just a beginner in watercoloring and wanted to learn more about it. I decided to try this book as I am not into watching YouTube videos. The book is so beautiful! Very thick paper, so you can paint on the pages, but I decided to buy my own paper so I can reuse the book to practise as much as I can. She informs you what materials you need, how to blend the colours and how to layer. It is so much fun! I cannot draw but I am even getting better at drawing because of this book.

Love this book!!! I can’t remember the last time that I was so excited about a book. I have just done the first page and I can’t wait to master the entire book. I love that this book is made out of watercolour paper so that you can actually work on the opposite page with her instructions. I think the instructions could be a little bit more in detail for beginners, but I am already an artist so it was very easy for me to follow. I purchased this book as a daily journal to keep practising something. And it is also a great way to refresh some skills that you may not be using on a daily basis. Or maybe even learn a different technique to achieve a certain look. All in all, I love my new book! * I covered the instructions for copyright purposes.

While the book is gorgeous and full of exciting exercises, the paper is of poor quality and does not handle wet-on-wet washes at all. It pills and buckles badly on applying water. I'm really disappointed. I could try the exercises on my Watercolour paper but then what's the use of an expensive workbook? A wasted opportunity in a book of this kind.

Precioso libro con explicaciones sencillas para empezar a usar acuarelas. Lo que más me gustó fue que todas las ilustraciones usan una paleta de colores muy básica. Lo recomiendo ampliamente. Esta autora tiene un título nuevo similar pero ahora con tema de mar!

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