30-Minute Watercolor Painting for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons and Techniques

by Rockridge Press

15 step-by-step projects to create in 30 minutes or less

Learn the fundamentals of watercolor while creating your own frame-worthy paintings, from a dramatic landscape to an abstract piece. This accessible book offers beginner-friendly projects with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to help you explore new techniques. Plus, each project takes 30 minutes or less to complete!

Gather your supplies—Getting started is easy with an overview of the tools and materials you'll need for watercolor success.Create 15 beautiful paintings—Hone your skills as you try projects that increase in skill and complexity.Discover essential techniques—Learn how to mix colors, create the illusion of depth, and more.

Make watercolor painting fun and easy—no matter how hectic your schedule—with this beginner’s guide.

Genres: Art, Drawing

239 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2022

Reviews

[Mysticpaul]

Amazing and easy to follow

This book has many easy to follow ,step by step procedures for painting something beautiful. Infact,very lucid, concise and precise it is. Good for beginners, intermediates can brush up their skills well.

[barbara laurain]

simple but excellent pairing tips

This does exactly what it says: hies through all the basics of water color painting in a very clear concise way. The pictures make the steps easy to see. The lessons build on each other from simple compositions to more complex.

[Jch]

The colors used are garish and unappealing. Maybe it's the printing of the book? The portraits of the people and the dog were much better than the rest of the book. I'm glad I didn't purchase this book--got it at the library.

[Sally Kuperman]

Disappointed

Following instructions will not give anything like they show step by step. Extras are always added to the illustrations that are not ever shown in any printing in the book.

[Becky Guinn]

Tried and True Basics

Clear instruction for the beginner. Always a good idea to revisit the basics when artist block shows up. Excellent value.

[Joan Eaton]

Outstanding

Just started watercolors and this is so helpful. For all art lovers!! So easy to follow along with this book.

[Helen]

Excellent Book

An Informative and useful book for beginners and intermediates wishing to brush up on their skills. Clear, concise lessons from easy to more intricate projects.

[Vinod Tadvai]

Very good for beginners

It's a perfect book for beginners. Very easy to follow steps and the projects given are also very interesting. I wish there were more lessons included.

[Janis]

Some good basic points, but don’t care for the colors in almost any of the paintings

[Nyxie]

Water color basics

There is a lot of good basic techniques and information in this book, as well as some really great projects that I can not wait to paint!

[Rachel Darling Lewis]

Loved it

Nicely detailed book for watercolor. I'm more interested in acrylics, but this gave me something to think about in getting better.

[Ash]

good beginner+ book

Starts simple and gives very approachable instructions. Eventually climbs into more advanced teaching. . Great job . . . .

[Donna Mallery]

Lots of step by step projects

While at first, I thought the projects would be simple skies and landscapes. But as we progress, there are some nice pets and even a human. While not the most beginner friendly I’ve read, these projects are still simply laid out so anyone would be tempted to try. A nice book!