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Watercolor: Wild & Free

Learn how to paint adorable animals, flavorful fruits, lively plants, and more in this free-and-easy approach to watercolor.

Artist Natalia Skatula has a beautiful, whimsical style that will charm you through twelve simple step-by-step projects and over one hundred worked examples. Beginning with an overview of materials and equipment, Natalia then covers the general techniques needed to achieve the paintings, along with her top-ten personal tips for success.

Projects include:

A majestic whale An adorable sloth Elephants Pandas Dogs Llamas Bears Foxes Rabbits And more


Watercolor Wild and Free also includes a range of presentation ideas to inspire you to put your finished work on display or gift it. The gallery of examples that follows includes plants, cats, beetles, birds, sealife, jungle creatures and fruits, giving you a treasure-trove of references for your painting.

This book also makes the perfect gift for artists of all ages, especially plant and animal lovers.  

Find the inspiration and technique to start your watercoloring adventures with this beautiful guide!

Natalia Skatula

Natalia Skatula is a freelance illustrator and artist whose work is inspired by nature and the everyday. She studied Fine Art at Philipps University, Marlburg, where she gained insight into various painting techniques but fell in love with watercolor. Since graduation she has worked freelance while developing her own illustrated stationery range through her Etsy shop, Nataskalia. This is her first book.

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