A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.
This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book’s fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.
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Amazon Customer –
I bought this book for myself when I first started painting in watercolour – it’s easy to follow and makes so much sense. I bought this copy as a gift for a friend who is just starting out. Highly recommended
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R. Bobby –
Jenna is a great teacher with easy to follow lessons. Unlike other books I was able to recreate most of the lessons.
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Lyn –
Great instructions and illustrations! Fun to learn the water color techniques.
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Lirinem –
O livro é ótimo, instruções bem claras muito boas as imagens, ensina todas as técnicas desde o básico e vai evoluindo até conseguirmos fazer um trabalho de nível intermediário. Gostei.
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MikeB –
Great book if you are a self learner or cannot find a local water color class. The companion online class reinforces everything in the book series. This is so valuable, I bought the kindle version, too, and refer to it or one of Rainey’s other three books every day.
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pam59 –
This is described as a spiral bound book, it is not! I want it to lay flat while I paint and it is not possible with it being a normal bound book. Very disappointing.
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Carole West –
Good book, author is very good at explaining her techniques and is a nice companion to her online course. If you are new to watercolor this is a helpful resource to learn certain strokes but found some of her brush strokes to be a bit tight and controlled. I just like more of a loose approach and not a fan of layering. Overall, a good choice because she covers a variety of topics.
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E. Gil –
Jenna Rainey has created a beautiful book with 30 lessons to be done in 30 days supposedly aimed at beginners. I am a true beginner, with only minor art experience. The lessons become increasingly complex and require more drawing expertise than I expected. Reading the text to complete each lesson requires a lot of concentration, patience, and re-reading. Here are my pluses and minuses. I am learning a lot and getting a lot of gratification from finished pieces from each lesson, but I also have many frustrations and have had to seek out other resources to fill in the blanks. I decided to move on to another teacher, stopping at Day 23. Only 1 of the remaining 7 lessons teaches something new. The rest have complex, time-consuming drawings with many layers that need to dry. They felt like busy work to me. Pros: The book is beautifully laid out with good instructions and great illustrations. The book teaches many of the basic techniques. She does a fairly decent job of breaking down the tasks to complete each painting. I really like having a lesson to do every day and the way that the skills build on each other.
Cons: The author does not give enough information about how to mix colors. Sometimes she will simply say to mix up the following color pallette without saying how much of one color to use or what kind of ratio of water with paint. She is often asking a newbie to complete a very complex task without much guidance. She does not tell you enough about the color names she is using. The author has a rather “feminine” style of mostly plants and flowers and her color preferences also feminine with pinks and pastels. I had to search for other peoples’ videos to learn how much water to put on my brush and how much water to mix with my paints. When the author wrote this book, she was using one brand of paints (Windsor Newton), but in the last year or two, she has changed to a different brand with which she obviously has some kind of financial deal. This means that her videos on making a color wheel and using colors will be useless if, like me, you took her advice from the book and bought Windsor Newton paints. In the beginning of the book she has you make a light to dark value swatch. This is way beyond the skill level of somebody who has never used watercolors before. I was really annoyed at this instruction at this early point. It seems to me that she should have beta tested her lessons on true beginners. In conclusion, I am enjoying the book, learning a lot from it, but it can be frustrating and is not sufficient as my only resource to learn basic watercolor strategies and skills.
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MJacobs –
Jenna Rainey is a top notch watercolor artist. Self taught, her contemporary designs and instructions are easy to follow and this book is great tool for any beginner or a seasoned artist alike These thick, sturdy pages are easy to follow and go in depth, creating next steps to use doing with his to hold your brushes, along with how to mix colors
Thanks for such a great product at an amazing price. I can’t wait to delve into it full steam ahead!
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Didi –
Bellissimo, carta lucida, con fotografie e spiegazioni chiare. Bello replicare gli esercizi proposti che sono molto stimolanti e creativi e sinceramente facili da fare anche per chi non è professionista.
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Bra bok med bra instruktioner –
Superbra bok med bra instruktioner som är lätta att följa
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Eva Watzl –
Gutes Buch
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Not a Happy Dog Owner –
very nice book. just finished the first lesson. love Jenna. there is another book I would like to order but going to find a different vendor. this one sent a paperback instead of the spiral bound one that I ordered. needed it today so I did not send it back.
Amazon Customer –
I bought this book for myself when I first started painting in watercolour – it’s easy to follow and makes so much sense. I bought this copy as a gift for a friend who is just starting out. Highly recommended
R. Bobby –
Jenna is a great teacher with easy to follow lessons. Unlike other books I was able to recreate most of the lessons.
Lyn –
Great instructions and illustrations! Fun to learn the water color techniques.
Lirinem –
O livro é ótimo, instruções bem claras muito boas as imagens, ensina todas as técnicas desde o básico e vai evoluindo até conseguirmos fazer um trabalho de nível intermediário. Gostei.
MikeB –
Great book if you are a self learner or cannot find a local water color class. The companion online class reinforces everything in the book series. This is so valuable, I bought the kindle version, too, and refer to it or one of Rainey’s other three books every day.
pam59 –
This is described as a spiral bound book, it is not! I want it to lay flat while I paint and it is not possible with it being a normal bound book. Very disappointing.
Carole West –
Good book, author is very good at explaining her techniques and is a nice companion to her online course. If you are new to watercolor this is a helpful resource to learn certain strokes but found some of her brush strokes to be a bit tight and controlled. I just like more of a loose approach and not a fan of layering. Overall, a good choice because she covers a variety of topics.
E. Gil –
Jenna Rainey has created a beautiful book with 30 lessons to be done in 30 days supposedly aimed at beginners. I am a true beginner, with only minor art experience. The lessons become increasingly complex and require more drawing expertise than I expected. Reading the text to complete each lesson requires a lot of concentration, patience, and re-reading. Here are my pluses and minuses. I am learning a lot and getting a lot of gratification from finished pieces from each lesson, but I also have many frustrations and have had to seek out other resources to fill in the blanks. I decided to move on to another teacher, stopping at Day 23. Only 1 of the remaining 7 lessons teaches something new. The rest have complex, time-consuming drawings with many layers that need to dry. They felt like busy work to me.
Pros:
The book is beautifully laid out with good instructions and great illustrations.
The book teaches many of the basic techniques.
She does a fairly decent job of breaking down the tasks to complete each painting.
I really like having a lesson to do every day and the way that the skills build on each other.
Cons:
The author does not give enough information about how to mix colors. Sometimes she will simply say to mix up the following color pallette without saying how much of one color to use or what kind of ratio of water with paint. She is often asking a newbie to complete a very complex task without much guidance.
She does not tell you enough about the color names she is using.
The author has a rather “feminine” style of mostly plants and flowers and her color preferences also feminine with pinks and pastels.
I had to search for other peoples’ videos to learn how much water to put on my brush and how much water to mix with my paints.
When the author wrote this book, she was using one brand of paints (Windsor Newton), but in the last year or two, she has changed to a different brand with which she obviously has some kind of financial deal. This means that her videos on making a color wheel and using colors will be useless if, like me, you took her advice from the book and bought Windsor Newton paints.
In the beginning of the book she has you make a light to dark value swatch. This is way beyond the skill level of somebody who has never used watercolors before. I was really annoyed at this instruction at this early point. It seems to me that she should have beta tested her lessons on true beginners.
In conclusion, I am enjoying the book, learning a lot from it, but it can be frustrating and is not sufficient as my only resource to learn basic watercolor strategies and skills.
MJacobs –
Jenna Rainey is a top notch watercolor artist. Self taught, her contemporary designs and instructions are easy to follow and this book is great tool for any beginner or a seasoned artist alike These thick, sturdy pages are easy to follow and go in depth,
creating next steps to use doing with his to hold your brushes, along with how to mix colors
Thanks for such a great product at an amazing price. I can’t wait to delve into it full steam ahead!
Didi –
Bellissimo, carta lucida, con fotografie e spiegazioni chiare. Bello replicare gli esercizi proposti che sono molto stimolanti e creativi e sinceramente facili da fare anche per chi non è professionista.
Bra bok med bra instruktioner –
Superbra bok med bra instruktioner som är lätta att följa
Eva Watzl –
Gutes Buch
Not a Happy Dog Owner –
very nice book. just finished the first lesson. love Jenna. there is another book I would like to order but going to find a different vendor. this one sent a paperback instead of the spiral bound one that I ordered. needed it today so I did not send it back.