Nature Painting in Watercolor

A gorgeous and wonderful instructional book for nature painting in watercolor! This book gives a straightforward, but detailed overview from needed materials, techniques, and a variety of amazing projects. Stunning, colorful, step-by-step paintings accompany all of the projects. Each chapter focuses on a different element of nature including: flowers, trees, birds, etc. A perfect guide for watercolor artists looking to sharpen their skills!  

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

Lovely leaves, blossoms, trees and forest creatures are the main subject for this book.  The projects are easy and I think beginners would enjoy this book!  It’s amazing to watch watercolor blend and seep, and this artist uses that to her advantage with the simple floral and fauna included here.  I wish she had a few more examples of how she uses the individual items in her illustrations  as a whole, but maybe that will be saved for another book.

I’ve been wanting to get better at painting things from nature and this book provided the perfect advice. I liked how the author mentioned the importance of taking photos of your surroundings to use for your own painting inspiration. All little tutorials and ideas are great and will really help me improve my skills. Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for providing me with an advance copy in exchange for a review.

This is a nice guidebook. I gives broken down instructions on how to paint in watercolor specific items found in nature, usually in 3-5 steps. Like all similar books it includes a beginning section on tools and paint colors.  Some of the compositions shown with the elements you create were pretty great, and with the book made me feel like i could create something similar.

Beautiful, can't wait to put this into practice. Tons of info on different watercolour techniques that I hadn't even heard of before this book!

This is an absolutely fantastic resource and instructional book for nature painting in watercolor! The artwork is simply beautiful and the steps are straightforward, detailed and easy to understand. Each project includes an overview of needed materials, techniques, and a variety of tips to successfully complete the projects.

I can’t recommend this book enough for anyone who loves watercolor especially any artist wanting to enhance their skills. This would make the perfect gift for any aspiring artist.

I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

A great book for beginners with easy-to-follow steps for painting a variety of objects from nature, such as leaves, ferns, flowers, stones, and even a few animals. At the start of the book, the author explains the different techniques needed for various effects, and the materials required.

The narrative is simple and chatty, and each step is clearly explained so that anyone can follow, with some handy hints as well. I would recommend this for anyone who wants to learn the basics of how to use watercolours.

Easy to follow book for water colr painting of anture. Starts with simple things and moves onto birds and animals. The subjects chosen are engaging. The progress in the steps is not too intimidating. Enjoy painting.

I love art instruction books but many of them are just too technical for me. This one was exactly what I was looking for, with clear instructions and gorgeous step-by-step photos of how to use watercolors to paint all kinds of items from nature. As a homeschooling mom of 5, I've always sought out books that can be used by kids and adults alike. Now that our family has purchased a historic church that we're converting into an arts center for the community (that sounds fancier than it is -- the church cost us slightly more than a used car and it currently has no heat or running water), we have been stocking it with donated art supplies, musical instruments, sewing and quilting materials, etc. We've had lots of art and music books donated but this may be one that I'll purchase for the painting area. It's such a beautiful and helpful book.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Nature Painting in Watercolor is a tutorial and style guide for watercolor by Kristine A. Lombardi. Due out 23rd March 2021 from Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 128 pages and will be available in paperback format.

The author has an inviting, calm, and encouraging style of writing. She explains a bit of her own background and reasons for starting with nature sketchbooks and inspirations she has gathered on her walks, and invites the reader to find the methods and inspirations which work for them. The brief introduction includes an illustrated list of tools and supplies and some (very) basic techniques for getting paint onto paper, for sketching, for selecting subjects and other useful information for beginning painters. Especially salient tips and info is written into highlighted text boxes which are easy to find and remember. Chapters with specific tutorials are grouped thematically: ground cover (ferns mushrooms & rocks), flowers (buds stems & blooms), critters, seasonal bits (leaves pods & thistle), and trees. 

Each of the tutorials includes specific step by step color photos and process illustrations with instructions for color choice, brushes, and special techniques used. Most of the tutorials cover a couple of pages and are simple enough to give beginning watercolorists confidence by rendering them as illustrated. 

The author has also included a number of collage photos for inspiration and reference. 

This is a very pretty book with a lot of useful information and tips for rendering natural subjects with watercolor. 

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I really like this book, I paint, but watercolor is a bit of a battle for me (prefer oils). This book is the perfect beginners book to understand the concept of watercolor painting. Yes to a certain extent it is a step by step painting nature book, but unlike some this actually teachers and explains techniques. 
I particularly like the explanation on wet on wet, wet on dry and using of gum in creating various effects.As in all mediums, there are a lot of tricks of the trade to creating wonderful paintings, this book lets us into some of the secrets to produce some nice watercolor paintings depicting nature.

A joyful book that makes you want to paint immediately nature: mushrooms, ferns, rocks, flowers, trees and animals. Very easy, very sympathic, suitable to beginners in watercolor media.