This book is amazing! I really love the way it is laid out week by week, allowing ample time for the artist who paints as a hobby amidst life responsibilities. The steps are thorough and descriptive enough that I feel I would be able to accomplish them without a video aide. I also love that after most steps, you write "let dry", as if giving oneself the power to take a break, walk away and come back tomorrow. This entire book is therapeutic and acts as a personal lesson in art therapy, allowing the painter to be themselves while exploring watercolor. Thank you so very much for allowing me to review this book!

I absolutely love this book. It takes you by the hand and ease you into more challenging projects. There is not a single example i would not want to make. They are all stunning! I can see myself sitting down with my kids and start at the beginning of the book and teach them to watercolor. I cannot wait to make something out of the book. Absolutely in love. We'll done Karin Elaine!

This book truly stands out from other watercolor guides. It offers a wide range of challenges suitable for everyone, from beginners to advanced painters. The projects are so engaging and inspire me to dive in. My personal favorite is Stacked Rocks, which really helped me with shading and dimension. I also loved Beach Rose, as the image brings back beautiful memories. Seagulls Beach View is next on my list to try.

Karen Elaine has done an amazing job creating an instructional watercolor book with fresh ideas and easy-to-follow guidance. I can’t wait to be one of the first to purchase it on release day.

I extend my gratitude to Zeitgeist and NetGalley for the electronic advance review copy. The opinions expressed herein are genuinely my own.

This book has great projects to teach you watercolor techniques from beginner to intermediate, and advanced. There are step by step instructions and the projects are skill building and feature lovely nature settings and wildlife.

Great watercolor projects from beginner to advanced. I especially liked the red fox and the jackrabbit. I can't wait to paint them!

Thank you to NetGalley and Zeitgeist for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I absolutely loved this book. It was delightful to read and to look at all the watercolour projects and to try them out on my own.

This book starts with watercolour techniques and has week-by-week projects to do that start from beginner and end with advanced. These projects were great. Not only were they beautiful, but there were great descriptions. The step-by-step instructions made this book accessible for all types of skill levels. Especially the fact that the instructions included step-by-step pictures, and the instructions were easy and clear to read.

I really enjoyed that each project had a little description of what you were painting that week, so you can learn a little more about them.

I've been doing watercolours for years, but this book still taught me things, and it was a great review of what I already knew.

I can tell this book is made by someone who loves the art of watercolour by the way they are describing everything.

This watercolor book is charming. It has basic to more advanced lessons. It begins with initiating the artist into proper use of materials including paints, brushes, and paper. It discusses various watercolor terms and techniques.

Because the book is divided into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced sections, you can self-determine where you would like to start based on your own experience in watercolor. The pictured instructions are easy to follow. The finished products are pretty. The projects include birds, small animals, flowers, and small landscapes.
They would make excellent greeting cards when finished.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book and give an honest review of it.

This is a great step-by-step guide to watercolor. I'm just getting started, but the instructions are easy to follow and replicate.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC!

I really liked this book, mainly because its divided by difficulty, it explains how to do watercolor in a simple and easy way, i think i noticed a few errors while i do some of the exercises (like mentioning a color and then not using it afterward).
The exercises are very beautiful and really easy to follow in almost every step.
I did the begginers ones and they aren very useful for getting started. I would have hope for more brush control exercises, but for someone who wants to start creating pieces right away, it is perfect.

4/5 stars.

Finally! A water coloring book with clear instructions!

I highly recommend this water color painting book for any classroom or novice water colorist. Many of the books I’ve seen previously skip informative instructions on how to paint the paper using various brushes and techniques, and this book explains in detail, with pictures how to do this correctly.

The picture guidelines, being in color, is so much more helpful than many other books that are similar. Other books sometimes show only a couple of steps, skipping essential in between - dry times- or even ‘how to remove color/paint.

I also appreciate how in each project, the entire book flows from beginner to novice/amateur watercolor painting with a variety of subjects from animals- plants.

I think I would suggest. In the book or also show an image on ways to dry the painting.

Karen's friend Linda (who the book is dedicated too) would be proud of this introduction to watercolors and the skills it helps you build (from beginners skills to advanced.)

Wild Watercolor starts with something I feel a decent amount of art books skip out on, recommending specific paint colors in a limited amount. The author tells you the specific colors and why you should invest in those 3. She also goes over paper and brush selections and the additional items you may benefit from having. I liked this too. The extras aren't always covered and sometimes I'll be following along just to realize, I don't have the tool they have.

Going over the differences between wet on wet painting vs wet on dry, as well as different brush strokes is nice as well. The book is teaching you a lot, just within the first pages, without it feeling like a text book or too much information to take in. I like the way the projects are laid out. It almost reminds me of a recipe book. It shows the specific colors, techniques, and the supplies needed. The fact that each project is a week long is cool too. It teaches you the patience and practice that creating takes.

The projects are really nice because each one is focusing on building a skill, but in an interesting way. The skill of blending, brush strokes, color layering, ect. in a very easy to comprehend way. The pacing of the projects when it comes to what skills have been built flows well. You don't go from easy to hard immediate, each project brings in a few more skills that carry on to the next and so on. The paintings towards the end of the book become more realistic, with much more vibrant colors. However, if you'd stayed and followed the process, the advanced projects don't feel quite as intimidating or difficult. You aren't jumping into this sea of a new medium without a life vest.

I think the Poppy Field was my favorite project out of all of them, which it was a hard choice because all of them are beautiful.

This book would make an amazing gift, with a set of watercolors, brushes, and paper. I will absolutely buy a psychical copy of this book once it is released.

This was a fun read! I really enjoyed learning from this book and trying something new. The author wrote this book in a way that was easy to digest and take away the information to incorporate in my life. Great book!

This watercolor book was very helpful. The directions were easy to follow. The illustrations were really good. I was able to follow it very well.

This book has from beginner with skies and flowers, intermediate with seascapes, rocks and butterflies to advanced with birds, animals and scenery. There are more subjects too. Each are detailed in illustrations. I really like that the beginning tells everything you need as tools and shows different brush strokes. This would be a nice book for anyone interested in starting to watercolor.

This book is divided into three main sections. There are beginner, intermediate, and advanced watercolor projects. The beginner projects can be easily completed by my nine year old child independently. The intermediate and advanced projects could also be completed by my nine year old but only with my guidance as someone who went to school to become an art teacher. I think this book would be great for a teenager or adult who is just beginning to learn how to paint with watercolors. The projects in this book are beautiful and inspire nature study.

I’m in the process of working my way through WILD WATERCOLOR & it’s been so easy to follow & so helpful! There are 36 projects separated into beginner, intermediate & advanced categories. It’s recommended to do the projects in order as they build off each other to grow you watercolor skill set. I definitely recommend this to beginners!

Wonderful book with clear instructions and beautiful designs to learn to watercolor. I am fairly new to the process, about 2 years studying. The book is perfect for me. Some paintings were easy and some will be challenging. A perfect balance to my needs and future journey in this hobby.

Thank you to Zeitgeist and NetGalley for giving me the pleasure of reading the advance reader copy, with no obligation to write a review. My review is written freely as a hobby, and is totally my own opinion, not influenced by receiving the ARC.

Very informative and beautiful illustrations. The steps are clear and concise. Easy to understand and follow. The projects go from beginner to advanced and build your skills gradually. This book would make a great gift or a good pick for anyone looking for a new hobby.

What a great book! The projects are interesting, the division by weeks and skills is fabulous. I love how the skills build upon each other. Great references for beginners and experts alike.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

This book is set up so well as a watercolor for beginners book.

I rather enjoyed it and I like that it has a small narrative within it. I even pulled some new techniques from this.

Recommend for a great starting point if you want to get into watercolor. For intermediate, not so much.