Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes: 30 Eye-Catching Scenes Anyone Can Master

I ordered this on pre order and waited anxiously for it to be in my little old hands. I received it on my 71st birthday and it was the day before leaving for a 5 day camping trip ! Grabbed this gem & my art bag and off Iwe went. The instructions are clear, the practice is fun and most of all, the sweet author knows how to instruct. The book and my paints gave me many hours of fun and a feeling of accomplishment (while hubby fished but only caught ONE the whole trip !) I ended up with 3 lovely little paintings and a renewed sense of confidence. Best watercolor book I have purchased .. I can highly recommend this book !

I follow Kolbie on instagram.com/thiswritingdesk. Her watercolors are loose and colorful. When she said she was writing a book, I ordered immediately.So, totally disregarding the instructions, I jumped right in, to a full painting, as I wanted to see how that was going to fit my needs. I have attached my first try. I found her instructions to be very concise. What I really liked though, is that I live in an arid climate, and I have a huge issue trying to keep my paper wet, while trying to do a wet-in-wet wash. Kolbie's instruction is in bite size steps. What a difference it makes not getting frustrated over my paint drying too soon.I went back, and then started from the beginning, and her techniques give different options for painting a tree or a mountain - not just one size fits all. I plan on using these as drills, when I don't have time to do a full painting, and to get more practice with the different methods. Many of them can be little stand alone artworks too.This book will not tell you how to paint photo-realistic paintings, but it is not intended to. I paint for myself, and this book is helping me enjoy the process.

Okay, this book is amazing. First of all, the book itself is beautiful. Even the introductory chapters that discuss technique and color theory are illustrated by Kolbie herself (and not some computer generated color wheel — that part is in watercolor too!) Each section also has a fun little quote, this was one of my favorite little touches added in.There’s some really incredible info at the beginning and the rest of the book is filled to the brim with exercises. These exercises include extremely detailed step-by-step instructions. What usually loses me with art tutorial books is jumping too far between step A to step B and so forth. Not with this book!This is the perfect book to pick up as a beginner and create some really incredible paintings in just a few hours work. Especially since if you’re follow the recommendations, you really don’t need many supplies at all to get started!If you’re don’t already, definitely follow the author on Instagram, seeing her work her magic in video form is just as amazing. But being able to have a tangible version of her instructions where I can read over a step several times before moving on is WELL worth the price.Overall, incredible quality. Thorough, but not dull at all. Beautiful book. Extremely user friendly, easy to understand. Awesome value. Would make a perfect gift for anyone wanting to develop their creative side but might be a little intimidated to try.

Kolbie is a talented, self-taught artist with a gift for communicating concepts clearly and helpfully! As a new watercolor artist, I learned basic fundamentals of watercolor in her book (and via her online demos.) Her coaching techniques are solid, and she builds each lesson upon the previous... which makes it easy to learn the process and the fundamentals! I'm so glad to see her labor of love in book form!

This book really isn't my style but I think others may like it. Some of the paintings though are not that stellar. Some of her work is very nice - so it seems inconsistant. I'm no professional artist but I would not be showcasing anything that looked like some of the pictures. I know there's a fine line in art instruction books to show pretty but ACCESSABLE drawings. I've been put off by books where the art was ridiculously complex and no way a beginner could achieve. But sometimes the expectations are set a little too low. I did glean some knowledge from this book however so I'm not disappointed that I bought it.

I've been painting with watercolors for just over six months, using a couple of books, skillshare classes, and youtube tutorials. During this time I've identified that I like a loose watercolor painting style. I love the outdoors, but most landscapes seemed too hard. I've worked through about half of this book now, and am learning so much! It is my favorite of the resources I've used so far! I really like that it is broken down into different pieces of the landscape to focus on, so the first projects focus on the sky, then the mountains and so on. In each section the projects get more complex, but they also review skills from the previous sections and put them together in new combinations. For example, in the mountains photo I attached, there is a previous project in the sky section where you learn to do a similar color gradiant (which itself built on the monochrome gradient shown in the other photo). In a project after the mountain one, you do similar shapes. So I feel like I am actually learning skills in a somewhat systematic way instead of gleaning things from various youtube tutorials. I think by the end, I'll be much better at taking my own inspiration photo or scene and figuring out how to paint it. I wasn't an absolute beginner when I started using this book, and I think I would have needed a little bit more practice than just jumping into these projects at the beginning (but you never know, maybe it would have worked). If you want to learn to paint loose watercolor landscapes, I highly recommend this book!

I have been following Kolbie for years on Instagram and have always admired her style, particularly when it comes to painting landscapes. So when she announced that she was releasing a book I immediately preordered it! The book is absolutely gorgeous and comes with a ton of techniques and beautiful projects projects. The instructions are clear and concise and walk you through each of the projects very thoroughly.I would highly recommend this to people of all skill levels. I myself have been painting for a few years (though hardly an expert!) but I still found this book incredibly helpful and learned quite a few new tricks!

I love this book!! I'm 4 tutorials in and they are so easy to follow with plenty of illustrations and helps me create paintings I'm so proud of.

I’ve been wanting to get into water colours for a while now and I’m so glad I found this book. Kolbie describes everything so clearly and the projects are just so beautiful! I’d recommend this book to anyone looking to try watercolours or as inspiration for those already there.

This is a very useful book that 8very easy to use. A great start into watercolour.

Kolbie me gusta mucho, es muy didáctica. He seguido sus vídeos por Youtube, y no podía faltarme su libro.Está en inglés, pero se puede seguir muy bien con un poco de inglés.Las técnicas de sus ejercicios, las he usado para hacer otros ejercicios totalmente distintos, y me encanta!Síguela en sus redes sociales, y si el estilo te gusta, es una compra asegurada!