Watercolor Is for Everyone guides you through 21 intuitive, process-based painting lessons that help you discover your own unique artist-within while creating works of beauty you will joyfully send out into the world to share.
In this beautiful book, artist Kateri Ewing, author of Look Closer, Draw Better, guides you through a series of simple creative projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you are picking up a paint brush for the first time or are an experienced artist, you will discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art. Each project results in two art pieces, one to keep for yourself, and then another one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share with someone else or send out into the world, to spread their colour, creativity, and joy in new places.
With Watercolor Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you just have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources, from tarot and oracle cards to rocks and feathers. You will pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your artistic skills, confidence, and creativity.
By:
Kateri Ewing
Imprint: Quarry Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 279mm,
Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781631598593
ISBN 10: 1631598597
Series: Art is for Everyone
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 04 August 2020
Recommended Age: From 0 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction What is Intuitive, Processed Based Art? SECTION ONE: The Four Guiding Principles Honor & Appreciate the Moment in Time and Your Tools and Materials: Paper, Brush, Paint. Simplicity: Quality over Quantity (for every budget) 1. Paper 2. Brush 3. Paint Show Up Every Day Creating a Time & Space for our Practice 1. Showing Up Every Day: The Ten Minute Miracle 2. A Space of Our Own 3. 21 Lessons, 28 Days Setting Your Intentions, Inspiration, and Two-Fold Joy Setting Intentions 1. Creating Two-Fold Joy 2. Guided Meditation Our Fountain of Inspiration 1. Poetry 2. Inspiration Literature 3. Tarot & Oracle Art Cards 4. Music 5. A Community of Well-Curated Social Media 6. Artists We Admire 7. The Beauty of the Natural World 8. Other optional tools: Aromas, Rocks, Crystals & Minerals to bring beauty and energy to your practice Scatter Your Joy Far and Wide How to share your practice with others SECTION TWO: The Lessons Our Sacred Tools & The Monogram Beginner's Mind, Beginner's Heart The Watercolor Meditation Practice Loaves & Fishes Intentions Reverence Many Facets Without a Plan Angels Among Us Many Voices, One Song Indigo & Rust Two-Colour Pondscape An Ancient Song Three-Color Tiny Landscape Dreamfeathers Intuitive Dreamscape Tiny Beings of Light Dancing Under the Light of the Moon Etegami We Are All Red Yellow Blue Alchemy Section Three: Final Thoughts and A Gallery of Lessons Beautiful examples of these projects from students around the world Resources A selection of resources for further reading and sources for supplies and online community.
Kateri Ewing is an artist in residence and teacher at the Roycroft Art Center in East Aurora, New York. Through her studio teaching and online Craftsy classes, she has introduced thousands of students to drawing in her realistic, nature-centered style. Kateri created three of the top art classes for craftsy.com-Luminous Watercolor Mixing; See Better, Draw Better; and Start-up Library: Watercolors-which have been among the top performers since their launch dates in 2016 and 2017. Craftsy has released all three of Kateris classes on DVD and her latest watercolor class through The Great Courses. Her class on The Great Courses has become a bestseller. Kateri is the author of Look Closer, Draw Better and writes a regular feature on the craftsy.com art blog. For her artistic and writing endeavours, she was honoured with the 2012 Mary and Gil Stott Award at Roycroft. Her artwork has also won numerous awards in both local and national exhibitions. She uses her blog posts and her three class platforms on craftsy.com to interact with her students, daily. She lives in western New York. Her website is kateriewing.com.
Reviews for Watercolor Is for Everyone: Simple Lessons to Make Your Creative Practice a Daily Habit - 3 Simple Tools, 21 Lessons, Infinite Creative Possibilities
""An intuitive, meditative practice to inspire original creations."" * ForeWord Reviews *
