Watercolor Is for Everyone: Simple Lessons to Make Your Creative Practice a Daily Habit - 3 Simple Tools, 21 Lessons, Infinite Creative Possibilities (Art is for Everyone)

A CREATIVE PRACTICE FOR EVERYONE

WHAT IS INTUITIVE, PROCESS-BASED ART?

Intuitive, process-based watercolor means that we create from a place of no expectations of how our finished artwork will look. Instead of planning out our work which can increase our perception of failure if it doesn’t turn out as we expected—we operate from a safe place of simply appreciating a moment in time by playing with colorful paints, a beautiful brush, and a lovely textured paper. We might have a point of inspiration, but when we pick up the brush to paint there are no rules or references to copy. This kind of color-play is a safe way to pay more attention to the elements of chance, the way a fluid medium like watercolor flows, mixes, and mingles on the paper, creating such beautiful and surprising results that it often feels like the painting created itself.

The lessons in this book provide a method to attend to the more intuitive, no-expectation side of creativity that leads to spontaneous play, instead of a more step-by-step approach to art making.

I have created these lessons especially for the many people who crave some kind of art practice in their lives, but do not want to spend the time to really dive deeply into traditional drawing and painting methods.

I have also created these lessons for those who feel afraid to try a new art practice, because they fear they won’t be good enough. With my lessons, there is no such thing as being good enough. We all sit down to paint with a humble and clumsy heart that is open to the remarkable possibilities of simply letting our paints dance together on the page.

THE FOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF OUR CREATIVE PRACTICE