Colorways: Watercolor Animals: Tips, techniques, and step-by-step lessons for learning to paint whimsical artwork in vibrant watercolor [Paperback]

Discover how to create vibrant, colorful watercolor paintings of a wide range of animals.

WithColorways: Watercolor Animals,learn to paint all your favorite animals, from an elephant and a whale to a dog, cat, fish, and more. Eachstep-by-step demonstrationshows not only how to capture the animal’s likeness, but also how touse color to create magical, otherworldly, and whimsical paintings.

In these tutorials, you will also learn how to use watercolor paint to suggest texture and fur on your animal subjects. Along the way, you will findtechnique instruction and tipsfor using different types of strokes, working with various brush shapes and sizes and using washes and underpaintings. Geared toward advanced beginners and more experienced watercolorists looking to play with color, this book offers fun subject matter and eye candy for all art lovers.

TheColorways seriesteaches artists how to employ color across a variety of media in unique and imaginary ways to create innovative and inspired artwork. Focusing less on realistic artistic representations and more on creating expressive art, this series invites you to break the standard rules of color and let your imagination and artwork soar to new heights in order to create unconventional, whimsical, and fanciful works of art.

Learn the customary rules of color, and then bypass them, with the help ofColorways: Watercolor Animals, a book that encourages you to use color for personal expression while painting your favorite animals.

Shaunna Russellis a watercolor artist near Buffalo, New York. She paints animals using her signature style consisting of seemingly chaotic drips and splashes of bright colors on brilliant white backgrounds. Best known for her animal portraits, Shaunna is commissioned by pet owners around the world and also sells her artwork online. Learn more at shaunnarussell.com.

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