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Make this Christmas a watercolour wonderland with this creative guide to painting through the festive season. Learn the materials and equipment you need for watercolour painting and how to create both traditional and contemporary colour palettes for Christmas, and then learn a range of watercolour techniques including washes, blending and gradation, plus experimental ideas to try such as using salt, bleach and masking fluid in your work. Twelve creative projects follow, with step-by-step tutorials so that even beginners to watercolour can jump right in. Learn how to paint your own Christmas cards, gift tags and gift boxes, create seasonal table settings, hand painted Christmas crackers and garlands. Using innovative but accessible watercolor primers, you can now prepare a wide variety of surfaces for watercolour. This inspirational book will also show you how to use these new products to paint baubles, 3D cardboard letters and more. Artist Ingrid Sanchez, aka @creativeingrid, shares her beautiful artwork and expert guidance in this unique book that will turn Christmas into the most artistic time of the year! AUTHOR: Ingrid Sanchez is a Mexican artist and designer based in West London. She illustrates – and paints every day using watercolours and mixed media, gaining inspiration from nature. She runs workshops from her home studio as well as around the world including Amsterdam and New York. She has over 70,000 Instagram followers. This is her first book.