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Learn how to apply interesting and inspired surface techniques to your ceramic work through 20 step-by-step projects.Carve Your Clay takes youthrough creative techniques that produce amazing, dynamic results, including inlay, piercing, sgraffito, etching, relief carving, wire cutting, and more.Gain new skills as you complete 20 projects featuring author Hilda Carrssignature style, each with clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instruction to achieve beautiful results. This comprehensive book includes an easy guide on how to create basic forms, as well as glazing and firing techniques. Whether you are new to ceramics or are a more experienced potter looking to explore new surface design techniques,Carve Your Claywill educate and inspire you.

The Everyday Blacksmith empowers hobbyist blacksmiths to make simple, practical projects for everyday use.

Discover how to preserve your favorite foods in every season with the easy techniques and recipes in Real Food Fermentation: Preserving Whole Fresh Food with Live Cultures in Your Home Kitchen. Learn the process of fermentation from start to finish, and stock your pantry and refrigerator with delicious fruits, vegetables, dairy, and more. Fermenting is an art and a science, and Alex Lewin expertly takes you through every step, including an overview of food preserving and the fermentation process. Get to know the health benefits of fermented foods, and learn the best tools, supplies, and ingredients to use. Then start making wholesome preserved foods and beverages with step-by-step recipes for sauerkraut, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, preserved lemons, chutney,kimchi,and more, getting the best out of every season's bounty. The book is filled with beautiful photos and clear instructions help you build your skills with confidence. It's no wonder people are fascinated with fermentingthe process is user friendly, and the rewards are huge. Inside you'll find:an overview of the art and craft of home preservingwhy fermented foods are good for youhow to troubleshoot recipes, and how to modify them to suit your tastewhich vegetables and fruits are best for fermentationthe best seasonings to usehow to ferment dairy products to create yogurt, kefir, and buttermilkhow to create fermented beverages, including mead, wine, and ginger aleWith this book as your guide, you'll feel in control of your food and your health. See why so many people are discovering the joys of fermenting!

Turn a simple ball of yarn into kid-friendly knitting projects that don't require needles with the ideas in Finger Knitting Fun: 28 Cute, Clever, and Creative Projects for Kids.

Adapted from Melissa Leapman's Indispensable Stitch Collection for Crocheters, this beautiful, comprehensive, and easy-to-tote stitch pattern companion is a must-have for your crochet project bag! In a small, easy-to-tote format, Essential Crochet Next Level Stitches is a concise stitch dictionary featuring 100 stitch patterns for textures, colorwork, and fancy edgings. This rich library of crochet stitch designs covers a wide range of patterns, from a braided cable to a reversible brocade to a delicate edging. Each stitch pattern includes a photo of a finished swatch and both easy-to-read instructions and a stitch diagram using international symbols. Choose the format that makes you and your crochet hook happy. Most of the patterns are original and accessible to most skill levels. If you've mastered looping yarn over your hook to create a simple chain, you already possess all the skills you need to create an infinite number of stitch patterns. With information on how to read the patterns, shaping pieces, and designing from scratch, the stunning stitch patterns in Essential Crochet Next Level Stitches will serve as a launching pad for your own fun experimentation when creating unique designs for gorgeous hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, vests, and more! The Pocket Guides series from Quarry Books offer authoritative instruction and inspiration in a small-scale format that makes it easy to take with you on all your crafting adventures.

Adapted from Melissa Leapman's Indispensable Stitch Collection for Crocheters, this beautiful, comprehensive, and easy-to-tote stitch pattern companion is a must-have for your crochet project bag! In a small, easy-to-tote format, Essential Crochet Starter Stitches is a concise stitch dictionary featuring 100 stitch patterns for solids, shells and fans, openwork and lace, and simple edgings. This rich library of crochet stitch designs covers a wide range of patterns, from a thicket pattern to summertime shells to clover lace. Each stitch pattern includes a photo of a finished swatch and both easy-to-read instructions and a stitch diagram using international symbols. Choose the format that makes you and your crochet hook happy. Most of the patterns are original and are accessible to most skill levels. If you've mastered looping yarn over your hook to create a simple chain, you already possess all the skills you need to create an infinite number of stitch patterns. With information on how to read the patterns, shaping pieces, and designing from scratch, the stunning stitch patterns in Essential Crochet Starter Stitches will serve as a launching pad for your own fun experimentation and for creating unique designs for gorgeous hats, scarves, gloves, sweaters, vests, and more! The Pocket Guides series from Quarry Books offer authoritative instruction and inspiration in a small-scale format that makes it easy to take with you on all your crafting adventures.

Make learning fun and engaging with Nature School: Planet Earth: The Workbook, a hands-on, write-in companion activity book to Nature School: Planet Earth. Created for children ages 6 to 12, this workbook will get them thinking and keep them coming back for more! Your kids will love completing games, puzzles, and short nature lessons while creating a record of what they've learned. Over 100 FUN activities--Dive into art, science, reading, logic, geography, and more. Learn anytime, anywhere--Bring Nature School: Planet Earth: The Workbook with you to the great outdoors, in the car, to school, or while you're spending time at home. Let them show you what they know--This workbook gets children excited about learning and gives them the opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned. Explore the Earth's stunning structure, the foremost features that enable it to support life, and it's amazing variety of life as well as its place in the Universe. Complete activities about Earth's geographical characteristics, atmosphere, natural resources, and ecosystems. As kids make their way through the workbook--used alone or alongside the companion book, Nature School: Planet Earth--their appreciation for our planet will grow.

Inspire a child's love for our planet and its place in the universe through fascinating bite-size facts, captivating illustrations, and more than 30 hands-on activities. From the expansive universe to tiny micro-ecosystems, Nature School: Planet Earth explores the intricacies of the planet we call home. Discover details about Earth's stunning structure, its amazing atmosphere, and the foremost features that enable it to support life. Learning through both physical and life science lenses, you will come to truly appreciate planet Earth. Following the format of the award-winning Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild, each chapter of this book concludes with a series of suggested hands-on activities. Great for both home and school settings, it is the perfect guide for families and children ages 6-12 who are looking for an introduction to Earth science that includes the location, structure, atmosphere, and biosphere of our planet. The book explores: Earth's place in the Universe with a quick overview of what we know about our Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and our Solar System and a discussion of Earth's relationship with our moon, the Sun, and how Earth moves in space. The composition of Earth, covering topics such as the size and shape of Earth, gravity, Earth's magnetic field, and geographical characteristics. Earth's atmosphere, including its composition and physical properties, weather, and what we see in the night sky. All the elements and circumstances that make life on Earth possible: our natural resources, energy flow, life at different latitude and longitudes, and various life cycles. Earth as a community: interconnection, ecology, and biomes, the amazing variety of life--their connections through their communities and food webs, our ever-changing Earth, and viewing the Earth as part of the wider universe. Nature School: Planet Earth helps children and families relate to these topics in a meaningful way and ultimately understand the science behind what makes life on Earth possible.

Stitch 16 stunning quilts and patchwork projects based on four underlying "blueprints," while learning skills to create your own original designs. Uncover the mystery of quilt design with Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting. Celebrated fiber artist Anna Maria Parry demystifies her seemingly complex patterns and sumptuous color combinations as she breaks down her signature designs into accessible "blueprints," or underlying structures. This accessible, visually inspiring book features: A behind-the-scenes glimpse into a master quilt designer's process Four quilt blueprints and accessible projects for different skill levels Techniques for intensifying details, adjusting colors, and scaling designs for endless possibilities Insight into planning and executing quilting and appliqué techniques Clear illustrations and photography for an inspiring and informative experience QR codes linked to videos that further illuminate important techniques With easy-to-follow projects and insightful techniques for all levels of quilters, Anna Maria's Blueprint Quilting will empower your quilting journey as you infuse your creations with the beauty and inspiration found within Parry's extraordinary designs.

Nature School: The Workbook is an interactive, write-in companion to Nature School featuring dozens of fun activities and engaging prompts.

The Art and Craft of Tea takes you behind the scenes of the world of tea with full-color photos and insider information. There are also recipes to blend tea yourself.

Discover innovative painting and mixed-media art techniques the most inspired way possible: through rainbows of color!In Mixed Media Color Studio, you'll learn color and design ideas that will boost your creative intuition. Based on Kellee Wynne Conrad's popular former online True Colors Art Program, the lessons include color explorations designed to strengthen skills and confidence.You'll learn how to develop your own unique style using acrylic paint, pastels, graphite, ink, and more. See how to mix colors to make signature palettes and get inspired to try new, exciting combinations of colors, materials, and methods that will take your artwork and imagination further.The imaginative projects include expert information on how to work with colors to evoke moods, emotions, and energy for dynamic landscapes, calming seascapes, vibrant abstract florals, layered architectural pieces, and much more. Discover easy techniques that add texture, details, and interest to your artwork.As with the original True Colors program, guest artists contribute exciting artwork, creating an expanded artistic repertoire filled with fresh styles and ideas.Mixed Media Color Studio also includes:How to create texture with a variety of mediums and toolsIdeas for creating your own decorate collage papers using gel plate printing techniquesSimple techniques for mixing compelling color palettesTips for overcoming the fear of the blank pageHow to expand creativity and boost confidence by making art in an array of stylesEasy ways to create pleasing compositions Dive into this incredible world of color and allow your creativity to flow!

Discover a new approach to oil painting that takes the stuffiness out and puts the fun back in. Learn how to paint vibrant florals, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and more, and see your skills improve.Oil Painting Every Day shows you how to translate what you see into captivating paintings. Begin with a solid understanding of oil paint and essential supplies, then try easy exercises that will train your eye to see the world like an artist. From there, you'll learn how to capture beautiful details in landscapes and still lifes and create shadows and depth to make your work come alive. Refine those details to paint waves, clouds, and floral scenes, and get all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need for a doable portrait to get you started in figurative work. Get great ideas for creating engaging compositions while capturing the world around you, and discover how a variety of simple brushstrokes add energy and life to a piece. In this book you'll find: How drawings and underpaintings can give your paintings a boostHow to care for your tools and materialsTips and techniques for workingin sketchbooks and on canvasThe benefits of maintaining a consistent art practiceHow to paint from life and photographsWays to build cohesive compositions that tell a storyOil Painting Every Day is your all-access pass to oil painting.

Classic Calligraphy for Beginners introduces the fundamental techniques for mastering two classic calligraphic scripts, Copperplate and Spencerian, plus easy-to-follow exercises and fun, modern projects. Guided by instructions and illustrations by noted calligraphy artist and teacher Younghae Chung, you will: Get a detailed yet concise overview of tools, supplies, and terminology Try out your materials with basic warm-ups and nib exercisesLearn the essential principles or strokes and create the lowercase and uppercase letters of the featured scripts Take your letters to the next level and add flourishes with confidence Explore brush pens and non-flexible writing tools to emulate the look of calligraphy on large-scale and unusual surfacesReinforce core skills by applying the scripts to a variety of simple, modern projects on paper, wood, glass, fabric, and other surfaces, and get inspiring tips on how to add beautiful details that lend a modern touch Find sample guide sheets for Copperplate, Spencerian, and brush calligraphy Discover the timeless beauty of calligraphy with Classic Calligraphy for Beginners.

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of fantastic beasts and beings, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, illustrators, and animators for fantasy, gaming, and augmented or virtual realityanyone who's seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills and create compelling mythological marvels. This contemporary step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a full range of amazing life formsincluding unicorns, mermaids, dragons, vampires, and zombiesall shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Brynn Metheney's classic drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to:Establish basic shapes and symmetryArticulate lines for body shapes, forms, and shadingAdd defining detailsDraw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters is a library essential for any artist who's interested in learning how to draw these richly imagined and visually and culturally influential legendary beings. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

Learn to draw authentic anime and manga faces and expressions from a manga master. In thisfollow-up to Manga Drawing Deluxe,renowned Japanese manga artist and international instructor Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of drawing and painting anime and manga faces, from the basics of creating essential anime and manga characters to creating dynamic and authentic expressions to coloring and adding special touches. Manga Faces 101. Learn about must-have supplies, basic drawing techniques, and a summary of the process from rough sketches to finished drawings.Essential Guide to Expressive Characters. Explore how to draw key anime and manga characters as well as how to depict a range of emotions for each, from delight to sadness to terror.Inking, Coloring, and Special Effects. Take your drawings to the next level by adding striking definition, stunning color, and special finishing touches that will give your characters just the right note of authenticity.Drawing and Painting Anime and Manga Faces gives you the tools you need to create expressive characters that will make your anime and manga stories come alive.

With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemicalor human intervention.Today's bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadlyvarroa mitehave become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussedColony Collapse Disorder.Common Sense Natural Beekeeping offers beekeepers a different choice. Based on expert advice from Kim Flottom, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper, this book teachesholistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes:Lessons from the way bees live in the wildManagement strategies that respect the natural intelligence of the beeHive design elements that promote colony health and resilienceCase studies highlighting successful natural beekeepers from around the worldBeekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees' healthand productivity. From housing to nutrition, including pests and diseases,Common Sense Natural Beekeepingintroduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management.

This indispensable beekeeping referencepacked with helpful diagrams, color photos, and easy-to-follow yet thorough instructiongently guides you through setting up and caring for your first colonies. Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to keeping bees? With First Time Beekeeping, help is at hand. Featuring the sage advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper Kim Flottum, this is your step-by-step guide to healthy, happy, and productive hives. This complete resource features expert beginner advice for: Setting up and caring for your own coloniesSelecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yoursThe most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your beesHarvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honeyBee problems and treatments By following this advice, your colony or two of honey bees can pollinate the vegetables in your garden; produce wonderful honey and other beneficial products; and help your local ecosystem thrive. What could be sweeter? Each book in the First Time series distills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful winged forms, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, fantasy and scientific illustrators, urban sketchers—anyone who's seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This contemporary, step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a full range of winged creatures, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn's clear and elegant drawing stylewill make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to:Establish basic shapes and symmetryArticulate lines for body shapes, wing forms, and shadingAdd defining detailsDraw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects is a library essential for any artist interested in learning how to draw the fascinating forms of birds and winged insects. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

Help kids build confidence and find their own creative voice through this collection of 25+ invitations for drawing. In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the highly praised family-centered art studio Purple Twig, shares drawing activities that support the development of creative, confident children ages 7 and up. All kids need to begin engaging in the pleasure of these simple yet inspiring drawing projects area pencil and paper. Along the way,new materials are introduced, giving kids the opportunity to experiment with new techniques. Each of the three main chaptersdrawing from life, drawing from images, and inventive drawingfocuses on techniques to explore, such as observation, mark making, shadow, line, composition, detail, contour, and perspective. Drawing Workshop for Kidsstrives to inspire children to investigate drawing and develop their own approach to art, building creativity and confidence.

Take your art in a bold new directiongo gouache! In Creative Gouache, artist Ruth Wilshaw shares her step-by-step techniques for creating brilliantly vibrant effects with this easy-to-master medium, a perfect companion for transparent watercolor. In this comprehensive guide to gouache, you'll:Get an overview of essential materials and surfaces.Learn basic handling and coloring-mixing techniques, including layering, creating blends, and adjusting opacity, plus troubleshooting tips for common challenges, such as dealing with shifts in color and value from wet to dry.Explore how to paint fun, simple motifs,flowers, butterflies,landscapes, and lettering.Discover fun gouache techniques, such as adding texture and painting gradients and blends.Learn how to incorporate other mediums with gouache, including paint pens, colored pencil, and watercolor.Use what you learn to create inspiring projects such as dimensional artwork, clay decor pieces, and cheerful banners.See what you can create with gorgeous, wall-to-wall color with Creative Gouache! Perfect for creative beginners, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

The Beginner's Guide to Mushroomsis your ultimate guide to mycology. Whether you've never picked a mushroom before in your life or you've been cultivating mushrooms at home for ages, the expert advice in this comprehensive mushroom manual will transform your practice. Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their health benefits and medicinal properties, as well as a new understanding of their crucial role in a healthy environment and ability to regenerate damaged ones. If you are a newcomer, mycology, or the study of mushrooms and other fungi, can seem daunting. While other field guides are geared toward experts with advanced knowledge or regional in scope and aimed at only a few easy-to-recognize mushrooms, The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms by veteran mycologists Britt A. Bunyard and Tavis Lynch is a complete reference and guidebook to get you started identifying, cultivating, cooking, and preserving mushrooms. The Beginner's Guide to Mushroomsopens with important basics about wild mushrooming and how to use the book. Information about what fungi are and their role in the environment and around the home is provided in brief and very understandable terms. Basic wild mushroom anatomy is discussed along with how to identify mushrooms and various characteristics to look forof great importance if you are interested in learning how to recognize edible wild speciesas well as dangerous look-alikes. The guide then covers: All the major groups of wild mushrooms, pointing out habitat, region, and notable characteristicslarge photographs with easy-to-view characteristics facilitate correct identification. Mushroom cultivationwith easy-to-follow illustrated instructions, learn how to grow mushrooms at home, including how to collect wild specimens and domesticate them. Culinary uses and how to preserve wild mushrooms to be enjoyed in the kitchen all year round. Begin your wonderful exploration of wild mushrooms with this accessible yet thorough beginners guide.

In this new, expanded edition of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktailsissued for the 100th Anniversary of National Prohibitionhistorian, expert, and drink aficionado Ted Haigh, aka Dr. Cocktail vastly widens his examination of 19201933, the thirteen-year period when women got the Vote, child labor was abolished and, ironically, saw the cocktail elevated, prolonged, and expanded, spreading this signature American drink form in tasty ripples around the world. All this, plus more drink recipes!Nothing is so desired as the thing denied. Prohibition made people want cocktails very, very badly. Because synthetic liquor was the easiest to make, it was also the easiest to get. Problematically, it tasted awful and wasnt exactly good for you either. Cocktails with their melange of flavors were a made-to-order method for disguising the bad hooch. Along with 100+ rare and delicious authentic recipes gathered from old cocktail manuals and scraps of paper never published, this illustrated trip down mixology lane tells the fascinating origins of the cocktail and how it evolved over time, including its rising popularity during Prohibition. Vintage illustrations and advertisements, photos of old bottles and cocktail artifacts, and fascinating Prohibition-era photographs bring the tippling past back to vivid life. Recipes for rare treasures like The Fogcutter, Knickerbocker la Monsieur, The Moscow Mule, and Satan's Whiskers are each presented with: Historical background on its origin and cultural contextDrink Notes that provide additional information on ingredients and tips for substitutions and variationsFascinating historical ephemera from Dr. Cocktails personal collection This homage to the great bartenders of the past and the beverages they created also profiles some of the most influential cocktail pioneers of today. For anyone who enjoys an icy drink and an unforgettable tale, this is a must-have volume.

In Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, popular watercolor artist, instructor, and author Ana Victoria Calderon shares her simple step-by-step techniques for painting exciting and colorful motifs by combining watercolor with a variety of other user-friendly materials.Start with the essentialspaint, paper, and brushesthen learn about the featured mediums for mixing, including masking fluid, gold leaf, bleach, salt, and alcoholTake a step-by-step look at fundamental watercolor techniquesLearn to paint a variety of striking organic motifs and surface effects, including stirring skies and clouds, sparkling galaxies, flowing oceans, and dazzling crystalsFind great project ideas for stylish gifts and stationery Whether youre new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolor practice, go grab a brush, paints, and some easy-to-use materials and take a beautiful creative journey with watercolor! Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Best-selling cookbook New World Sourdough offers an inviting, nontraditional approach to baking delicious, inventive sourdough breads at home. Learn how to make a sourdough starter, basic breads, as well as other innovative baked goods from start to finish with Bryan Ford, Instagram star (@artisanbryan) and host of The Artisan's Kitchen on Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network. With less emphasis on perfecting crumb structure or obsessive temperature monitoring, Bryan focuses on the tips and techniques he's developed in his own practice, inspired by his Honduran roots and New Orleans upbringing, to ensure your success and a good return on your time and effort. Bryan's recipes include step-by-step instructions and photographs of all of the mixing, shaping, and baking techniques you'll need to know, with special attention paid to developing flavor as well as your own instincts. New World Sourdough offers practical, accessible techniques and enticing, creative recipes you'll want to return to again and again, like:Pan de CocoCiabattaPretzel BunsChallahFocacciaPizza doughCuban MuffinsPita BreadFlour TortillasQueen CakeStraightforward and unintimidating, New World Sourdough will get you started with your starter and then inspire you to keep experimenting and expanding your repertoire.

Nature Play Workshopfor Familiesreveals the benefits of nature connection for young children and describes how caring adults can nurture it through outdoor play in all seasons.

In Drawing and PaintingExpressive Little Faces, artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarilys Henderson shares her practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting faces with style and personality.Gathering supplies. Consider the creative possibilities of watercolor, ink, and markers, and create a mobile sketch pack so you can capture faces and expressions on the go.Simplifying the face and identifying proportions. Use photos to simplify the face's key elements, learn about facial proportions and factors and variables for placing facial features, and apply these concepts through a simple warm up using a single color to paint a face in multiple values.Facial shapes and features. Learn about the five basic facial shapes and how to modify the chin line, ears, and hairline, and how to draw and paint mouths, eyes, and noses and make alterations to show pose and personality.Mixing color. The pigments and brushes you'll need to achieve a wide range of realistic skin tones, shadows, and expressions.Bringing faces to life. Navigate the process from start to finish, learn to adjust line quality to suggest different genders and ethnicities, and change up artistic styling to put a unique spin on your creations.Project ideas. Get inspired by some cool ways to apply your new skills: party invitations, repeat patterns, comic books, and more!Don't be intimidated by the challenge of drawing and painting faces. Improve your face game with Drawing and PaintingExpressive Little Faces!

Watercolor Is for Everyoneguides 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 projectsusing a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether youre picking up a paint brush for the first time or are an experienced artist, youll 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 anotherone, such as a postcard or mini painting, toshare 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. Youll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your artistic skills, confidence, and creativity.