Learn To Paint Wildlife With Watercolor

Yes, learning to paint wildlife with watercolor is a worthwhile pursuit.  Learning to paint vibrantly colored, dynamic paintings depicting wildlife is even better!  If you are going to invest your time, I suggest also investing in this book by Peggy Macnamara and Marlene Donnelly to learn to use color creatively.

Watch a video review of an art demonstration from inside this book, here, to get an idea of just how creative these authors get with color and yet how none of the form is lost.  This book gets a 5-stars for beginning to intermediate watercolorists or for any artist adding watercolor to the list of mediums they use to create art.

Watch the Video Review from inside the book, here:

Paint Wildlife in Watercolor - Demonstration

Or see inside buy the book at Amazon, here:
Painting Wildlife in Watercolor.

Dreamscapes and Dragon Remains

This book has been a favorite of mine for a very long time.  It is nice to be able to include it in my recommended books about art.  Although I had reviewed the information in the book, I had not done a step-by-step, review of one of the art exercises, until now.  In this video review, I take on the challenge of the demonstration: Remains of Ancients, a dragon bone ship seemingly traversing the yard through the trees.  Awesome.  Pui-Mun Law's imagination is as exciting as her fantasy art textures.  The thing about her book, too, is that she doesn't assume the artist-reader can keep up with her, so her break-down of steps is very logical and easily attainable - except for the drawings.  I think it is a skill best already possessed before working through this book.  So what then will this book teach you?  Creating the textures, dynamic and fantastical in her artwork; adding imaginative fantasy details, and how far to take both in a fantasy work of art.

Watch a video review of the step-by-step art exercise: Remains of Ancients, from Dreamscapes Fantasy Worlds, here!

Dreamscapes Fantasy Worlds: Create Engaging Scenes and Landscapes in Watercolor

 This book is published by North Light - which almost made me think it didn't need a review, by me, but then I took a second look - and I was already a fan of Sandrine's from her Youtube videos on Artist's Network.  This, for a few of you will be the defining moment when you find a book that unlocks the secrets of a medium you have explored but not held on to the keys for yourself.  The author-artist uses Yupo paper.  She zen doodles.  She also keeps up with old masters proving she's owned a sketchbook and used it before.  The skin tones are luminous.  The step-by-step demos reveal the new updates your watercolor art needs to succeed in this world of Modern Art.

If you are looking for a guidebook to watercolor - this is a 5-stars for all levels.  I sort of want to say not for beginners, but what I've seen from beginners lately just disproves the words not for beginners.

Watch the Video Review, here, Painting Skin Tones By Layering Color

Fearless Watercolor for Beginners: Adventurous Painting Techniques to Get You Started