One Watercolor a Day helps you keep your artistic skills sharp and your imagination fertile. This book encourages you to explore the medium of watercolor through 46 daily exercises.
Spark new ideas and increase your creativity with One Watercolor a Day. This enchanting art book contains six weeks’ worth of daily watercolor paintings and exercises to help you cultivate your imagination and develop your style. Each day will bring you a new painting by one of eight professional illustrators and includes a description of the work, helpful comments by the artist, and a companion exercise that encourages you to put brush to paper to create your own works of art.
Uncover new techniques and solutions, and get valuable advice on how to approach and execute your own artwork. Professional tips throughout the book will broaden your knowledge on watercolor painting. One Watercolor a Day brings the world of watercolor painting to your paintbrush and is sure to become a motivational and inspirational book in your personal library.
| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Materials and Techniques |
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10 | (18) |
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Chapter 2 Still Life and Nature Studies |
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28 | (12) |
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40 | (14) |
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54 | (14) |
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Chapter 5 Patterns and Digital Work |
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68 | (14) |
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Chapter 6 Travel and Cityscapes |
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82 | (14) |
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Chapter 7 Stories and Ideas |
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96 | (16) |
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112 | (14) |
| About the Author |
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126 | (2) |
| Acknowledgments |
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Veronica Lawlor is an instructor at Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and her own Dalvero Academy. She is an illustrator and the president of Studio 1482, the illustration collective that contributed illustrations to One Drawing A Day and One Watercolor A Day. Lawlor is also a correspondent with Urban Sketchers, and her work was featured in the Quarry book: The Art of Urban Sketching, as well as in the first two issues of the Urban Sketching Handbook series.
