Exploring Watercolor: Creative Exercises and Techniques for Watercolor and Mixed Media Book

What if... instead of waiting for the big idea," you begin a painting by dropping beautiful color onto your paper and seeing where it takes you?
What if... you paint with a leaf (or a sponge, or a string) instead of a brush?
What if... you start painting not on a blank sheet, but overtop an abstract acrylic background?

Exploring Watercolor is a book full of fresh perspectives, open doors, and creativity-expanding "what-ifs" to help take your work to the next level. Discover new ways to get expressive with color, ideas for using nature's patterns and motifs to inspire enticing designs, how to expand your repertoire and unleash your creativity by experimenting with freeform collages, found imagery and other innovative techniques.

Inside you'll find:

• 22 open-ended, step-by-step demonstrations designed so you can do them over and over again, using various combinations of colors, papers and techniques for a different result every time.
• 9 exercises illustrating expressive ways to put paint to paper
• A fun and inspiring sampler of texture-making techniques&#151including printing methods, resists, sprinkling, spattering, stencils and "paper torture"&#151for paintings that sing with vitality.