This is probably one of the best books on watercolors for beginners that I've encountered so far. It's actually more than a guide to watercolors, because it has such a therapeutic vibe, encouraging and meditative effect only from the use of the tools. It explains the steps for each project and also gives examples of students' work, so the reader and pupil in this case can work along and check their progress. On the other hand, the evolution is always seen in comparison to yesterday's self.
I'm in love with this book, how the practice is presented and I believe it can help anyone trying to learn how to paint with watercolors. I wholeheartedly recommend it!

Watercolor is for Everyone is a fun book, especially in lieu of the stressful events happening around the world. This book offers a daily reprieve of the stress through small projects of watercolor creativity. This book doesn't judge, and this book doesn't ask for more than you can give as a creator. Less about technique and more about the meditative qualities of art, this book requests that you find meaning in the ritual of setting up an art space and placing intention into every brush stroke. This is a book perfect for me specifically who sees art as a way to relax and enjoy creativity in its own right rather than overtly focusing on my skill as an artist.

This was a beautifully written and wildly inspiring book about intuitive painting. It was written for people who want a creative outlet that holds no expectations resulting in spontaneous play. As a professional artist myself, this book wasn’t necessarily written for me but I did really appreciate the messsge and plan to implement some of the authors ideals to different areas of my everyday life.

A good instructional book for those interested in learning water colors. The lessons are basic and easy to follow with handy tips integrated in the lessons.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is such a relaxing and meditative book combining watercolour painting with mindfulness in bite sized lessons. Each of the 21 lessons is easy to follow relaxing and reflects onto your creative side too.

The idea of this book is to start with lesson one and go through it lesson by lesson, but it can be used in any way you want so you can start wherever you want to.

This is a beautiful book and fantastic for mindfulness.

A must-needed inspirational book that inspired me in many other ways besides watercolor! I’ve always loved crafts and creativity, but always felt I wasn’t good enough. This book is amazing. I love her beginner’s mind standpoint! Really love the true-life raw photos because they didn’t look perfectly studio based but looked like real art should look. Very detailed instructions. Step by step, with tools to gather and many photos, but she urges you to make it your own. Really love this book. I kept re-reading the beginning because it fit with so much of life and had so much inspiration that can evolve into everything we do. Highly recommended for anyone interested in watercolor, whether beginner or advanced, and anyone who wants to learn a new art. She gives a daily “lesson” with some really good pointers and made it super fun and much less intimidating to learn watercolor. Now maybe I will finally use those watercolors that I've been storing for so long!

I wasn't inspired after reading this book to use watercolour, to paint or to create. I found the photos and the designs very old fashioned and lacked excitement, novelty or inspiration.

eARC provided by NetGalley , thank you to NetGalley and Quarry Books. All opinions are my own.

A watercolour guide for anyone; spiritual, beginners, someone that wants to paint intuitively – or not! Such a welcoming introduction for those new to watercolour or for those that want to reignite their creativity.

Watercolor Is for Everyone
Standalone
Publish Date: August 18th 2020
Cover Rating: 7/10
Non Fiction – Art

The best part of this is that Kateri tackles all the people that say “I cannot draw” by giving them very basic tools to create something quite beautiful, I feel that this is what people lack, confidence and practice mostly.

I have been felt very depressed about my own creative talents and I have to say that this really lifted my spirits, I could only afford the very cheapest tools (which I also think is a part of the problem in the art world ) but I really enjoyed playing around with this medium.

I did not practice all of the lessons but they were very well explained and very easy and uplifting. I think an experienced artist might like this too as Kateri tries to unlock your creativity in a different way. So it would depend on the artist.

Also it has a real sense of mindfulness as there is mention to give thanks to your tools and things like that but you don’t have to do that.

Overall ,I loved how easy to follow and easy to use the entire book is. Such a wonderful and beautiful guide perfect for yourself and perfect as a gift.

Rating: 4

I really enjoyed this book. If you are new, and just like to take up painting as your passion project - I highly recommend this book. It has a nice layout, and step by step process. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. I have yet to follow the advice and start painting but nevertheless I am excited to start my amateur painter journey.

This book teaches watercolour painting as more of a meditative practise than a practical one. The lessons are practical and straight forward but the focus is more on using this skill for mindfulness. The lessons are quite basic so if you're a complete beginner and interested more in being creative then you will find this useful.

*Review will be posted to blog www.elainehowlin.com on release date

Super pretty book.

It goes over different techniques for achieving several different styles of paintings. It encourages you to know what you want do do and be present in the moment. It is not specifically technical with how to hold your brush or things like that.

I think it is for the intermediate or more advanced watercolor artist in that it doesn't really go over basics. If you're looking to expand your technique and find some new ways of perceiving what you can do with your art, this is for you.

I received a free ARC as a reviewer for NetGalley.

I really love this book! The artwork is stunning and full of inspiration. I thought it would be more tutorial based but the directions are basic and easy to understand but more along the line of inspiring creativity with guidelines on how to get going. I think it is an excellent learning tool for anyone new to watercolors because it gives you the freedom to sit down with a few colors follow the directions and see what happens.

I highly recommend it.

I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for provide me with a digital copy in exchange for my honest review.
Al alcance de cualquiera. Muy entretenido para explorar la creatividad, mas en estos tiempos de pandemia. Recomendado, para los que buscan una actividad creativa de este tipo para relajarse en estos tiempos de estrés y locura. Cada vez disfruto mas de estos libros. Los recomiendo para cualquiera.

This is an excellent book for those just starting out with water colors. I especially LOVE the step-by-step instructions on several paintings, that make it so helpful. I have taught art students grades K-12, and I think this would be a welcome resource in any environment.

Did book provides a different way of introducing watercolor to someone. Many books discuss the multiple techniques of painting with watercolor, such as wet on wet, wet on dry, layering, etc but this book just jumps into lessons and there are a couple where you are not given a "step-by-step" lesson. Even the lessons that are "step-by-step, it's not the traditional method where the artist is informing you which technique you are going to use for each step and if you need to move quickly or not. There is also no talk on color theory, which many books touch on. The lack of techniques and color theory do not keep this from being a great book to have in your watercolor library. Prior to giving this review, I did a few of the lessons and I did enjoy them. I felt like my own creativity was in my artwork and not just duplicating what the artist already created down to line stroke and exact colors. Great book to add to my collection.

This was a very nice book if you are looking for some relaxing and pressure free ideas to help get your started in watercolour painting. Full of great pictures and easy to follow technique, this book shows that anyone can watercolour and have fun.

This is such a unique book! It combines watercolour and mindfulness all in bite sized lessons anyone can take. I really liked that this book wasn't art focus and reduced anxiety of the reader. I breaks the bounds of traditional art books and focused more on cultivating your creativity. But like this book says, you know need to be creative to make good art. The type of projects in this book allegedly take 15 minutes and are meant to do 1 a day. I thought this was great. It takes away any excuse you make have.
While doing some of the exercises, I really felt so peaceful and creative.

This is going to be a great way to learn how to more properly use my watercolours properly. This looks better than paying for a course. This way I can go through myself at my own pace.

A lovely little guide with a very small number of tutorials that are more inspiration than step-by-step lesson. There are paintings of angels here so possibly offensive to those that are staunchly anti-religion.

What a beautiful book, intuitive, with well explained lessons, mindfully written and with appreciation to all creative aspects.

Watercolor is indeed for everyone! Give it a try, be patient and don't be so critical to yourself. Just stick to your creativity and paint.