Go with the Flow Painting: Step-by-Step Techniques for Spontaneous Effects in Watercolor - Create Expressive Flowers, Animals, Food, and More

Go with the Flow Painting: Step-by-Step Techniques for Spontaneous Effects in Watercolor - Create Expressive Flowers, Animals, Food, and More

by Ohn Mar Win
Go with the Flow Painting: Step-by-Step Techniques for Spontaneous Effects in Watercolor - Create Expressive Flowers, Animals, Food, and More

Go with the Flow Painting: Step-by-Step Techniques for Spontaneous Effects in Watercolor - Create Expressive Flowers, Animals, Food, and More

by Ohn Mar Win

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Overview

Learn how to create beautiful loose and expressive florals, still lifes, motifs, animals, modes of transport, and fruits and vegetables in vibrant watercolor with touches of pen and ink.

In Go with the Flow Painting, author Ohn Mar Win (Instagram: @ohn_mar_win) offers beginner-friendly techniques, tips, and step-by-step lessons that show how to get the most out of these mediums and paint confidently in this captivating style.

Discover a new visual language that renders subjects with soft edges and luminous color. Capture just enough detail to suggest familiar flowers, animals, and objects and allow your unique expression and style to flourish.

Begin with essential supplies and learn the key characteristics of loose watercolor. Practice basic techniques that lay the foundation for this style, such as working wet-on-wet, creating color gradients, layering, and creating shapes. Learn the best way to use brushes, and explore easy methods of working with pen and ink to add striking linework and details.

Step-by-step lessons show how to capture the essence of a subject without worrying about perfectly executing every detail. Learn how to paint captivating hot air balloons, tiger lilies, French macarons, a colorful chameleon, and more. Embracing this flowing approach to watercolor allows you to develop a freer style and create artwork that’s alive and exciting, instead of overworked.

Go with the Flow Painting also features:

  • How to mix colors directly on paper to get unique and beautiful effects
  • Warm-up exercises to help get into a flow state of mind
  • Information on colors and color values, and how best to use them
  • Ideas and inspiration for creating cards, invitations, and more

Explore watercolor in a new way that will open up a new world of creativity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760377727
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 10/11/2022
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 96,771
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Ohn Mar Win is an artist, illustrator, designer, and teacher whose career spans more than 20 years. She’s known for her expressive watercolors, and she regularly shares her vibrant sketchbook work with her followers on Instagram. She is a top teacher on the online education platform Skillshare, where she has more than 25 watercolor and illustration classes and over 140,000 students. Ohn Mar has done work for such companies as Unilever, BBC Worldwide, and Cost Plus World Market. She also worked on a UNICEF project to combat childhood malnutrition in Myanmar, where she was born. Ohn Mar lives in Hertfordshire, England.

Instagram: @ohn_mar_win
Website: ohnmarwin.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Art Supplies

Watercolor Paints 10

Brushes 12

Dip Pens & Nibs 13

Paper & Sketchbooks 14

2 The Flow State

What do I Mean by Flow State 18

Characteristics of Loose Watercolor 20

Loading Your Brush 22

Color Mixing on Paper 24

Wet-on-wet 27

Wet-on-dry 35

3 Warm-up Techniques & Exercies

Working Fast 38

Practicing Brush Control 39

Practicing Shapes & Water Ratio 44

Warm-Up Projects 48

Introducing Expressive Ink 52

4 Food & Drink

Macarons 56

Ice Cream 58

Bell Peppers 62

Milkshakes 66

5 Animals

Flamingos 72

Snails 76

Turtle 80

Chameleon 84

6 Travel

Hot Air Balloon 90

Sailboat 94

Submarine 98

Globe 102

7 Florals

Douglas Aster 108

Stargazer Lily 112

Coral Peonies 116

Cherry Blossom Tree 120

Acknowledgments 124

About the Author 125

Index 126

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