Watercolor Is for Everyone

"An intuitive, meditative practice to inspire original creations."

Autorentext

The author of *Look Closer, Draw Better,*Watercolor Is for Everyone, and Drawing Is for Everyone, Kateri Ewing is an artist in residence and teacher at the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, New York. For her artistic and writing endeavors, she was honored with the 2012 Mary and Gil Stott Award at Roycroft. Her artwork has also won numerous awards in both local and national exhibitions. She uses her Patreon virtual classroom to interact with her students, worldwide, daily. She lives in Western New York. Her website is kateriewing.com.

Klappentext

Watercolor Is for Everyone guides you through 21 intuitive, process-based painting lessons that help you discover your own unique artist-within while creating works of beauty you will joyfully send out into the world to share.

In this beautiful book, artist Kateri Ewing, author of Look Closer, Draw Better, guides you through a series of simple creative projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you're picking up a paint brush for the first time or are an experienced artist, you'll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art. Each project results in two art pieces: one to keep for yourself, and then another one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share with someone else or send out into the world, to spread their color, creativity, and joy in new places. 

With Watercolor Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources, from tarot and oracle cards to rocks and feathers. You'll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your artistic skills, confidence, and creativity.

Zusammenfassung
Watercolor Is for Everyone helps aspiring artists discover their creative potential through soulful, meditative painting exercises.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION
A CREATIVE PRACTICE FOR EVERYONE: WHAT IS INTUITIVE, PROCESS-BASED ART?
 
THE FOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVE PRACTICE
One: Honor and Appreciate this Moment in Time and Your Tools and Materials
Two: Show Up Every Day
Three: Setting Your Intentions, Inspiration, and Two-Fold Joy
Four: Scatter Your Joy Far and Wide
 
THE LESSONS
1 Our Sacred Tools and the Monogram
2 Beginner’s Mind, Beginner’s Heart
3 The Watercolor Meditation Practice
4 Without a Plan
5 Many Voices, One Song
6 Indigo and Rust
7 Angels Among Us
8 Two-Color Pondscape
9 Ancient Song
10 Three-Color Landscape
11 Mythical Color Magic
12 Dreamfeathers
13 Tiny Beings of Light
14 Etegami
15 Dance by the Light of the Moon
16 Expressive Flowers
17 Perseverance
18 Ensō
19 Change of Perspective
20 Free Flow
21 Less Can Be More
 
Final Thoughts
Resources for the Creative Practice
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index