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The Joy of Watercolor: 40 Happy Lessons for Painting the World Around You Hardcover – Illustrated, 25 September 2018

by Emma Block (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 1,779
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Enjoy the meditative art of watercolor with simple supplies, forty colorful illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions!

For a soothing boost of creativity and whimsy, try your hand at watercolor. With a few simple steps, anyone can discover their artistic side and achieve moments of peace and tranquility. Forty straightforward lessons promise fun and colorful results -- no pressure and no skill required. This simple painting medium produces colorful, modern paintings to adorn invitations, gifts, and walls.

The forty lessons cover useful topics like:

- Painting on vacation

- Painting your pets

- Layering colors

- Mixing colors

- Painting flowers and plants

The supplies are simple: a basic palette of watercolors, a selection of brushes, and nice thick paper will do the job. Your bright, whimsical art is guaranteed to bring color to any gray day. It's never too late to pick up a new hobby -- start painting your own beautiful cards and artwork today!
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    25 September 2018
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    19.94 x 2.79 x 19.81 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0762463295
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Experience the escape of watercolor painting! Forty straightforward lessons promise sweet and colorful results: no artistic skill required.

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Emma Block is a successful freelance illustrator who uses watercolors in a fresh and modern way and isn't afraid to break the rules. Her watercolor and gouache paintings have gained her 70,000 followers on Instagram (@emmablockillustration) and she has become a reliable source of online watercolor advice. As well as inspiring budding artists all over the world online she teaches regular sellout watercolor classes in London, where she also lives.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press Adult; 1st edition (25 September 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762463295
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762463299
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.94 x 2.79 x 19.81 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 1,779

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Emma Block is a multidisciplinary illustrator living in London, working across publishing, editorial illustration, licensing, packaging and branding. She has written several best selling painting books and has illustrated the children's series The Adventure of Miss Petitfour

Emma’s work is inspired by the people she meets in her everyday life, old photos, vintage clothes, old films, travel, 1950s illustration, 1930s jazz and sausage dogs.

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This could not have come at a better time! Being in lockdown in Melbourne, Australia I have plenty of projects to do, in this well written and beautifully illustrated images. I’d recommend purchase to gift family or friends!
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LUCY
5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction
Reviewed in Australia on 20 May 2023
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I bought this to give as a gift to a budding artist, ie a great neice. I had a quick look through and was impressed at the can do theme running through the book. It's a great introduction without over complicating the process and is designed to work at your own pace and to experiment. I wondered if it may have been pitched to an older person ie late teens, but I believe it is a proper grounding to everyday, objects and subjects which eventually everyone wants to capture. So I believe if the child has a passion and confident this will help in honning their techniques in this medium and it makes it fun and doable in my opinion ie not condescending and respect the reader has competencies. May even purchase one for myself. 👍
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Thom Coverly
5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely introduction to illustration using watercolour
Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2023
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This is a lovely book and the lessons are indeed "happy", but it should probably be called "The Joy of Watercolor Illustration".

The principles being taught are sound enough and are carefully taught with clear instructions, but the focus is very much on reproducing paintings in the author's own illustrative style – as opposed to mastering the watercolour medium in order to make paintings in any style. Now, so long as that style is what you're trying to master, then this is a great book to work through. It has been designed so that you could complete a lesson every day or so if you wanted, and thus, within the space of a couple of months, develop some practical skill. And the lessons are graded Beginner to Advanced to support that. Overall, a nicely conceived and designed book, with good production values, and I'd recommend it for exploring and practising this currently popular style of illustration using watercolour.
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Lesley Short
5.0 out of 5 stars My granddaughter love it
Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2023
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I bought it for my granddaughter who loves it and has already done some beautiful work from it.
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Jessica Porter
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice product
Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2021
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Nice product
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MARY
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Exactly what I was after!
Reviewed in Australia on 6 May 2022
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The book takes you though water colour exercises for beginners. And as a beginner, it's perfect.
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Diane Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guidance.
Reviewed in Australia on 29 December 2020
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Lovely book full of step by step information for beginner, intermediate and advanced stage watercolorists. As a beginner, I have found it very informative and easy to work with. Could be a lovely coffee-table book too. Love it.
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Claudia Rodriguez-Larrain
5.0 out of 5 stars step by step watercoloring! super cute too
Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2020
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I love this book, even if you are not trying to learn to paint with watercolors, it is very nice to look at.

The book presents simple exercises to get familiarised with watercolors, with clear explanations, how to start with this medium.

I recommend this to beginners :)
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C Cox
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I thought it would be
Reviewed in Australia on 17 January 2021
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I found the painting exercises a little too simplistic. I thought there would be more detail in the pictures. I haven’t actually done any of the exercises yet and probably won’t. I think there are better books for this level.
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Elisha Sheikhan
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun
Reviewed in the United States on 26 March 2024
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These lessons are great and easy to follow. I like that they give the color combos to guide you. I like the authors style of painting
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Blanche
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto para principiantes
Reviewed in Mexico on 12 July 2023
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 Muy buen libro para principiantes. Las explicaciones están claras y cada lección utiliza las técnicas. El estilo de la autora me encanta.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto para principiantes
Reviewed in Mexico on 12 July 2023
Muy buen libro para principiantes. Las explicaciones están claras y cada lección utiliza las técnicas. El estilo de la autora me encanta.
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Carolina Correa
5.0 out of 5 stars Un libro molto completo
Reviewed in Italy on 2 November 2023
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Lo consiglio molto per chi vuole essere autodidatta con la pittura di acquarelli
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Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for beginners!
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 2 March 2023
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As a true beginner I wanted an accessible book so that I wouldn't give up right away. And this book will not disappoint! Even if you can't draw, like me, this is actually very doable. Okay, it might take a bit longer (at least for me), but it's mostly fun to do. And the more you practice, the easier it will become.

I will definitely be buying the sequel!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for beginners!
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 2 March 2023
As a true beginner I wanted an accessible book so that I wouldn't give up right away. And this book will not disappoint! Even if you can't draw, like me, this is actually very doable. Okay, it might take a bit longer (at least for me), but it's mostly fun to do. And the more you practice, the easier it will become.

I will definitely be buying the sequel!
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Brewer K
5.0 out of 5 stars Great start to watercolour, also good for reviewing technique
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2022
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I bought this book for practice when I started watercolour classes and it is one of the best books on watercolour I have bought. In the introduction Emma Block explains the difference between cool and warm primary colours, which helped explain the strange sludgy purples I used to mix. All the techniques are covered and I found that the instructions were not hard to follow. Plus I love the way she paints trees as I am one of those people who believe that I should have every individual leaf on paper.
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