Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days
Everyday Watercolor is a digital PDF guide to building practical watercolor skills through daily painting exercises. This digital format is available for instant download after purchase.
Jenna Rainey introduces watercolor through a gradual sequence of techniques, shapes, values, and finished landscape studies. The approach is intended for beginning and developing watercolorists.
Everyday Watercolor Overview
Written by artist, self-taught designer, and author Jenna Rainey, this art guide explores the foundations of watercolor painting. It begins with basic brush control and composition before progressing toward more complex forms, depth, light, and landscape applications.
The book encourages readers to build muscle memory, train their eyes to recognize simple shapes, work with unified color palettes, and develop patience through regular practice. Its final lessons focus on wide desert and jungle landscapes and multi-part finished pieces.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Basic strokes, curves, circles, straight lines, triangles, and compound strokes
- Layout, composition, complex curves, and the use of simple shapes
- Layering from light to dark, backgrounds and foregrounds, patterns, and shading
- Varied hue blending, cast shadows, complementary colors, and fine lines
- Highlights, mid-tones, shadows, movement, values, volume, and atmospheric perspective
- Desert and jungle landscape studies developed into final pieces
Why This Book Matters
Everyday Watercolor presents watercolor as a skill developed through consistent practice rather than immediate mastery. Rainey draws on her experience as a watercolor artist, calligrapher, designer, teacher, and self-taught creative.
Its staged progression gives readers a clear way to move from brush technique and basic forms toward more detailed subjects. The guide is relevant to beginners, developing watercolorists, and visual creatives seeking a structured painting practice.
Book Details
| Author | Jenna Rainey |
|---|---|
| Title | Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill |
| Imprint | Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC |
| Imprint Location | New York |
| Publication Date | October 10, 2017 |
| Trade paperback ISBN | 9780399579721 |
| Ebook ISBN | 9780399579738 |
| ISBN-10 | 0399579729 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0399579721 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 268 |
| Print length | 224 pages |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 40.8 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 42818791 |
| Source listing format | Spiral-bound |
| Rating | 4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Review count | 4,449 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) |
| Watercolor Painting rank | #4 in Watercolor Painting |
| Plant & Animal Art rank | #5 in Plant & Animal Art (Books) |
| Coloring Books for Grown-Ups rank | #82 in Coloring Books for Grown-Ups |
| Dimensions | 8.27 x 0.71 x 9.49 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.6 pounds |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download, so no physical copy will be shipped. Access is available after purchase.
The PDF works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps. Display results may vary by device and application.
FAQ
When can I access the book?
Access is available after purchase, with instant download for the digital PDF.
Will I receive a physical copy?
No. This product is a digital download and does not include physical shipping.
What devices support the file?
You can use appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, or compatible reading apps.
Download Everyday Watercolor and work through its structured watercolor exercises at your own pace.
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