Watercolor Is for Everyone: Simple Lessons to Make Your Creative Practice a Daily Habit

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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. Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS 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 Ens? 19 Change of Perspective 20 Free Flow 21 Less Can Be More Final Thoughts Resources for the Creative Practice Acknowledgments About the Author Index A B C D E F I M P R S T W