Learn to Paint Relaxing Watercolours

Cosy Little Landscapes in Watercolour is a beginner book,  to teach how to landscapes in a cosy style, capturing the heart warming feeling of a crisp day in the forest, or the first snowfall of the year.

Keep paints away from pets (some contain toxic zinc oxide). Wash your hands after use, and before touching or stroking animal friends.

And with each project being small and simple enough to paint on scrap paper laying around, you can complete a mini masterpiece in an afternoon!

Wander through the woods in projects like ‘dreaming in the forest’ or ‘melody among the trees’. Curl up in delightful villages with the ‘little stone house in the woods’ or camp out by painting a ‘starry night in the desert’, or explore the soft colours of spring with ‘blooming peaks’ and ‘lake of dreams’.

You’ll also learn how to add final details for a beautiful ink and wash look, and find reference photos to guide each brushstroke. To produce paintings to hang on your wall, or shared with loved ones.

Maryorith Moreno is a watercolour artist and teacher, who lives in Chicago, USA.

Vegan Watercolour Paints (and brushes)

Some paints are made from animal ingredients (like ox or shellac). These handmade vegan watercolours are sold in a pretty tin that you can send back for refills, using the discount coupon. The paints are mixed with a homemade binding agent made from dried resin. Use with vegan watercolour brushes.

Planet Friendly Paint is a company founded by an artist, and sells vegan watercolour paints (some made from upcycled make-up) and vegan watercolour brushes.

Jackson’s offers a vegan watercolour set wrapped in eco-friendly packaging, for serious artists. The set includes 12 colours, a porcelain mixing palette and synthetic paintbrushes. Use with recycled art paper. 

Learn to Paint Woodland Watercolours

Painting Woodland Watercolours is a book designed for beginner to intermediate artists, to help you capture the delicate beauty of forest flora and faun in watercolour. Through easy instructions, traceable templates and QR codes for video tutorials.

Did you know that acorns are toxic to horses and conkers to dogs?

In 20 lessons, learn how to paint leaves, woodland critters, insects, plants, acorns and mushrooms. Along with other forest treasures.

The traceable templates can be printed or downloaded to help you get started, and there are QR codes for video tutorials, if you need them. The author’s detailed instructions and love for nature, shine through on each page.

Rita Gould is an accomplished artist and illustrator, with a deep love for the natural world, and watercolours. Known for her enchanting forest scenes. Originally from Russia, she now lives in England.

Learn to Watercolour Adorable Animals!

Learn to Watercolour Adorable Animals includes 20 beginner-friendly projects, focusing on a different subject, from a curious pigeon to a fun-loving octopus. You’ll find painting tutorials and cartoon-like images, plus outlines printed, so no tracing or sketching is necessary.

You’ll also learn watercolour techniques like wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, layering and booms.

Interviews with Van Gogh (and other astonishing artists!)

Interview with Van Gogh is a wonderful creative and funny book, to teach young readers all about astonishingly talented artists of yesteryear. How did we go from Van Gogh to Trump?

Andy seed has adapted his popular ‘interview with animals’ books into a time machine, to go back and talk to all kinds of figures from history! Get to know 10 famous artists, who briefly pause their creative flow to answer all kinds of (very nosy) questions!

Discover each artist’s truths about their lives.

The book features engaging illustrations and question-answer formats to interview, and includes

• Van Gogh (who only painted from 27 until his death at 37, selling just a few paintings)
• William Blake
• Michelangelo
• Rembrandt
• Renoir
• Monet