Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner (Art for the Absolute Beginner)

A great book for discovering your inner creativity. Willembrick’s Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner offers easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations to guide you through the lessons. I painted a Gatehouse Castle (see image) in under thirty minutes using three primary colors, (cad yellow, alizarin crimson, Prussian blue) and four brushes (round 2, 6, 10, and a large hake brush), just one of the many takeaways and a terrific example of what you can accomplish with a limited palette and budget. I highly recommend this book if you're just getting started or any of the art books in their series.

I just finished my first watercolor class. I wanted to continue honing my skills and learning some new ones during the summer break. This book is keeping me motivated. The author teaches a skill and immediately guides you through an excercise that makes use of what you just learned. As I practice the exercises I continue to learn and improve. I look forward to becoming an accomplished watercolorist by the end of the summer!

This book helped me to paint in watercolor for the first time ever. Though I have studied Color Theory before and knew some drawing basics such as perspective, values, lines and proportion, its painting that I ultimately want to learn. I have never ever held a brush and dipped it into a water to paint, except for color theory, until barely two months ago after i bought this book by Mark Willenbrink.I have posted samples of my work after reading and doing exercises from this book on my own. One of the painting with a lighthouse, I copied from Mr. Willenbrink's example of a house--I replaced the brick fence with white and placed a light house. The Amsterdam and Santorini is from my own sketches after combining buildings into one.The only important thing left for me to learn is to paint realistic sea, waves, current, rivers and clouds. I hope that Mr. Willenbrink will include samples and exercises on these on his next book update.I didn't read the book from page 1 to end and start practicing. I stop and copy the samples or do exercises before reading on to the next chapter.My paintings are a beginner's work but I wanted to show it to you to see how far you can go from following Mr. Willenbrink. I still have to learn a lot but this book helped me to develop confidence. Pair Mr. Willenbrink's book with Arches block, Da Vinci Cosmotop Mix-F kolinsky sable blend No 16/10/8 brushes, and some transparent tubes from Sennelier and Da Vinci and you will be off to a good start. I initially used cheap art supply and I nearly gave up.He doesn't seem to have a lot of workshops to attend to. I would like to attend some of his workshops if I could.P.S. - I draw a lot and so some of the shapes and structural drawings I skipped reading. I have also taken classes in Color Theory and working with just three paint tubes prior reading this book and start actual watercolor painting.

I just received this book and read it immediately, I love this book very much, it is very suitable for absolute beginners like me, it is very useful to me

The book is adequate and in one way I am glad I have it. But too much devoted to setting up supplies, descriptions of items, paper, etc. Not enough bare bones discussion of exactly how to watercolor. That I think is a problem since the title indicates Absolute Beginner.

I used it for reading and learning about art. It is a great book. I teach art and it's a textbook for me.

Excellent book for the beginner. I'm just starting out and I've been helped in so many ways to begin to paint with water color. Excellent resource of pictures and step by step instructions.

As a beginner, I like this book for the great information but the lessons are a little to advanced for me yet. I am working on drawing with the information and looking forward to getting a little more along before I try some of the paintings.

I paint occasionally with watercolours. Thought this book gives a comprehensive review on techniques, something a beginner/ intermediate can start with. Wrong. Lovely glossy paper, lovely illustrations, yet one cannot learn from it, at least I don’t think so.I don’t know for whom it is designed. A skilled painter, a teacher, can use it IN ADDITION to other materials as an example of certain techniques used, yet Google gives a way broader scope of illustrations that are equally relevant. If it would have been a hardcover edition I think it would serve perfectly as a coffee table book.

Ya había comprado algunos otros libros de estos autores, y son todos muy didácticos, aunque hecho en falta algunos paso a paso más detallados.

Clear and concise lessons which beginners like me should like. The many step by step examples are very encouraging. Truly a practical and valuable book for beginners to get started on watercolour

Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner. Wonderful, covers every detail of what you need to know to paint in watercolours. What supplies you need, how to start out, and the colours to use to get the results you what, Perfect!!

A brilliant introduction to watercolour painting presented in a simple way. Just what I was looking for as I am a beginner (Age 73!)