How to Make Art for Joy's Sake: Free-Spirited Watercolor

By Kristy Rice

Book Overview

Kristy Rice's joy-focused approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans worldwide. Here she teaches the basics of painting, infusing the learning process with wit, wisdom, and laughter. Rice shows all levels of painters how to make "art for joy's sake." Rice offers her quirky, joy-focused guidance on preparation, including the materials you really need (and don't need), and walks you through "Basics and Details." "Five Exercises" enhances your ways of brush handling, muscle memory, color mixing, and texture, and "20 Leaves" helps you put them all together. "Five Techniques" lets you experience flowers, fruits, veggies, landscapes, and patterns. And the projects--or as Kristy calls it, the "Ready to Fly" list--include Leaves and Greens; Take a Walk Pattern; Textile Pattern; Gem and Rock Pattern; Imaginary Landscape; Bouquet; and Watercolor Fragments.

A great duo: use this book with the Art for Joy's Sake Journal

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764361511
• ISBN13: 9780764361517
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

A lovely watercolor guide to help you peacefully paint your hours away...

Kristy Rice (the author of this book) is my favorite watercolor teacher. I found her on YouTube last year. (Paintcrush with Kristy Rice. If you just look up her name, she'll be there.) I can't tell you how much she has helped me re-begin my watercolor journey! She has taught me to let go of perfectionism and just enjoy the experience, and to be proud of yourself, whether your art is ugly or perfect. This book is not so much a how-to, so if that's what you're looking for, I would suggest buying Watercolor Workshop by Gylnis Barnes-Mellish. But please buy this one, too! It is a beautiful book that helps you to learn watercolor in a different, more fun way, I would tell you to definitely get it! It is a lovely book and Kristy obviously took time and effort to create it. Love, love, love it!