Watercolor With Me in the Forest

Absolutely gorgeous! Extremely high quality and wonderful step by step instructions! By the end of the book, I feel that I’ll have a wonderful start to my watercoloring journey!

I have only skimmed through this book so far, but what I have read and viewed look to be very well thought out. I think it will be great fun to learn from this book. This is a wonderful beginner book with 119 pages of lovely watercolor illustrations and instruction on nice thick paper. Dana also has a Youtube channel with tutorials of some of the illustrations. This is actually how I discovered her book. The introduction is one page with a short list of supplies included. You then jump right into learning. I love that. I plan to start painting from it in the next few days. I will sketch the drawings on a separate watercolor sheet though. I don't really want to paint in the book so I won't be able to comment on the paper. I can say that the paper is more of a hot press surface but not a super smooth hot press. The weight of the paper feels to be about 110lb. Each section is designed to teach a certain technique. Wet on dry, wet into wet, how to paint fur and ink & wash. Each section starts simple and progresses with each study to the most difficult of the studies at the end. As you progress to the next section she has you use the techniques you learned previously along with the technique she is teaching in the new section.

The most adorable water color book! Great quality

Just exactly what I needed to practice learning to watercolor. The book was used but in next to perfect condition. None of the pages were colored and it was packaged well to keep it clean and nice.

Beautiful illustrations and clear instructions. My only dislike is that the instructions and reference photo are on the right and the area to paint is on the left, so as a right handed person my arm covers the instructions and picture as I paint. It also causes the painting side to not lie flat. It’s not a deal breaker tho as thing is a masterfully created instructional workbook.

I have bought several different books for adults to watercolor NONE can match this book! It is beautiful, many pictures to paint with concise instructions. Beginners welcome. An awesome gift! You will want one for your self! Mind blowing!

This is well worth the money. I cut out squares of watercolor paper for my children and we have been going through each of the pages together. This is a great quality book! It is well thought-out, winsome and sweet themes. I enjoy painting alongside my kids- and I have a place to start and a prompt to follow.

I originally bought this book as a surprise for my cousin who started to learn watercolor. After hearing how much she was enjoying it, I decided to let go of my intimidation of the medium, and try for myself as well. It was the best decision. The book is laid out with easy to follow, simple short instructions. The pages are good quality and the pre-sketches are incredibly helpful. I’d been interested in watercolor since my college days and I’m glad to say, those 20 years of intimidation have since turned into fascinated delight. I couldn’t love this book more, or be more grateful I took the risk to try a new thing. Furthermore, my delight inspired a long distance friend to try too! We are now doing book 2: Into the Ocean together over zoom/facetime. Dana.. make more books! I don’t know what I’ll do when we finish these. Sketching is our shared weakness.. make some pre-sketched workbooks for us! Or, more in the Into series! Into the holidays: with various fun year round scenes. Into the garden with plenty of flowers, critters, and mix garden plot scenes. Into the Skies with sunsets, sunrises, auroras, thunder clouds, rainbows. Into the Mountains: how to do snowy landscapes, glacier passes, sunrise reflections on snowy scenes, animal prints through snow mountain meadows. Into landscapes: how to do shading on hills or under trees, how to do ocean waves, or waterfalls, or quiet rivers with fish inside? Just some thoughts! We want more!

As someone pretty new to painting I just love this book so much. It's so much easier to have pictures drawn on watercolour paper right in the book with the instructions. The drawings are so nice too. It's a great way to teach yourself how to paint. I'm shocked how quickly I'm Learning.

I am just a beginner in watercoloring and wanted to learn more about it. I decided to try this book as I am not into watching YouTube videos. The book is so beautiful! Very thick paper, so you can paint on the pages, but I decided to buy my own paper so I can reuse the book to practise as much as I can. She informs you what materials you need, how to blend the colours and how to layer. It is so much fun! I cannot draw but I am even getting better at drawing because of this book.

Love this book!!! I can’t remember the last time that I was so excited about a book. I have just done the first page and I can’t wait to master the entire book. I love that this book is made out of watercolour paper so that you can actually work on the opposite page with her instructions. I think the instructions could be a little bit more in detail for beginners, but I am already an artist so it was very easy for me to follow. I purchased this book as a daily journal to keep practising something. And it is also a great way to refresh some skills that you may not be using on a daily basis. Or maybe even learn a different technique to achieve a certain look. All in all, I love my new book! * I covered the instructions for copyright purposes.

While the book is gorgeous and full of exciting exercises, the paper is of poor quality and does not handle wet-on-wet washes at all. It pills and buckles badly on applying water. I'm really disappointed. I could try the exercises on my Watercolour paper but then what's the use of an expensive workbook? A wasted opportunity in a book of this kind.

Precioso libro con explicaciones sencillas para empezar a usar acuarelas. Lo que más me gustó fue que todas las ilustraciones usan una paleta de colores muy básica. Lo recomiendo ampliamente. Esta autora tiene un título nuevo similar pero ahora con tema de mar!