Book Review: Watercolor With Me (In the Ocean) - Dana Fox
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2022
- We love books! We take a deep-dive (no pun intended) into the ocean-themed tutorial book by Dana Fox to see what fun we can have with this beautiful step-by-step guide to painting a myriad of sea creatures (and other things too!)
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I love when you do reviews because you are very thorough! I have almost bought this book or the forest version bunches of times but was unsure about it. Thank you for taking it out for a spin. I suspect that someone didn't do color matching after printing to ensure that all of the colors looked the same in the book as they do in real life. Pretty common but kinda careless. Especially for a book for beginners!
Great video Gem! I like seeing new things. Your little guy came out cute. I do have to admit I was worried in the beginning. But you saved this little cutie! Thank you💖😍
Thank you for doing a book review. Have been interested in this book.
Book reviews open my eyes to books I don't know about in the same way product reviews do.
Great review :D
I have all the books in this serie, and I love them. I have learned SO much from them. I dont paint in the book, but on watercolor paper on the side. Then I can do it as many times, as I need too.
I think the first one, In the Forest, is best for left handed persons, because in that book the instructions are in the right side and the image on the left.
Thank you for the review :D
Definitely more of this Gem ☺️!!
Love to learn watercolor tutorials 💕
Yes a video series about art tutorial books would be great. Have looked at this book on amazon but was unsure. So thanks!
I love these books and these type of reviews/videos
I had never considered this type of book, so found your review really interesting. Thank you.
I'e actually bought all of the books in this series from the time they started coming out because I was completely new to watercolor. I found it was a GREAT way to get my feet wet! So much so that I kept buying them. I've only recently gotten confident enough with my painting skills to actually paint in the books. I was just tracing them onto watercolor paper so I could have more than one try at them, lol!
Love your book reviews! I so appreciate being able to get a feel for a book before I purchase it.
This was great! There are so many drawing books that comically skip all of the important steps and go from really rough sketch to masterpiece. Id love to see more book reviews 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! I have another book review coming up soon :)
Great video! Loved the book review format and thoroughness.
I enjoy your reviews, as you provide a realistic expectation of the book/product!
I have the forest version but I did get the online version and printed the text and transferred the images to better quality watercolour paper to prevent “bleed through“ to other pages
After your review I will definitely take them from my booklist and give them a go.
I enjoyed this and would like to see more reviews of tutorial books
I loved this review and indeed hope you do more like it in the future!
thank you for the review of this book. i have been very interested in this book series.
Great video. I have all three books but haven’t dived into them yet. The review and sample are very helpful.
I loved this video. The book appears to be something I would use and enjoy! Thanks Gem.
Yes please do more reviews… you do a fantastic job!! Thanks
I have the first one of these books and the outlines are very pale not like those. It's great to be able to see the content and get tips from you along with your honesty on the products you're using 🙂
Loved the review super helpful for someone like me who does most (all) their shopping online so can’t assess something until I’ve bought it. Also I probably don’t have enough experience in watercolour yet to asses the paper once it arrived anyway. So yes please more review like this would be great.
Yes, I like this book and would love to see more lessons done. Thanks for sharing.
I have loved this video and can’t wait to see more would love for you to do a review on books like create this book etc! I am so glad you choose the otter he is so cute !!! I have bookmarked these books on my Amazon wishlist
Love that you did this review! Book reviews like this are super helpful. And bonus - you reminded me that I have this book! I got it in 2019, when I was just starting watercolor. It is fantastic paper for this sort of practice, and for the price. You get a really good value for the money, and your video has prompted me to get it back out. There are good techniques in it, that a relaxing to practice.
Beautiful book 😍
I really enjoy your reviews, it's part of the reason I enjoy the subscription box videos.
Ha ha, when you were trying to convert to inches I was thinking it was closer to ten... Guess I'm the optimist 😉🤣
Thank you for the review. Love to see more of these. I have got the forest one. It does not have a colourchart, so I just went through the book and wrote down the colours. The pictures are also on the left hand page instead of the right.
I have this book. It's really informative. I also really appreciate the review because now I'm re inspired
Re-inspired sounds good to me!
Really enjoyed the review. Will probably get at least one of these books. Yes, please more.
I love this idea. I actually have had this book and the other two in this series in my wishlist for a while now.
I really enjoyed your video. I like learning from books and hadnt seen this before. Thank you
Loved the video and your views on the book. I was given this book for Christmas and was too wary to do any of the projects. I had been stuck on transferring paint to a palette. So showing one of the exercises has made me want to get my paints out.
OMg so happy to see the painting area is on the right side…I love her Forest book but the pictures to paint are on the left and it was a bit challenging. The paper quality for watercolor is great and I even did some with gouache!
So cool!
I enjoy these videos. It's super difficult for me to try to learn from a computer/ screen. I enjoy being able to flip pages and mark stuff easily. It's actually a huge problem for my son with schooling and I can see why. I have this book and her first 1 ( I can't remember the name of it right now but it's a forest or something like that. I tried the first one when I just started watercoloring. I immediately got frustrated and put the books away and haven't touched them since. This made me want to pull them out agian now that I know more about watercolor and some techniques. Have a great day
Yes please do more art instruction book reviews. This was wonderful.
Thanks. Just received this book and am anxious to start since I have never painted with watercolors.
Awww...Love the video! That is a -very- concerned otter. Guess it's too aware of 2020 to today. :P I've looked at these books a lot, but hadn't seen a review. THANK YOU! Might have to give them a try. :D Please more book tutorial videos if you can find the time (and feel like it). :D
I think these type of reviews are a very good idea! Also your otter came out adorable
Love this content and really interested in this.. put this in my Amazon list now lol. The otter drawing is probably different cus she had to redraw it after doing the original painting. But you did great!! Guessing the editor colour shifted the book slightly. Do more on this!!
That book looks great and he did turn out very cute! I'd like to see more
Hullo Gem! Wonderful video! I have purchased a few books to learn from over the years. Sakuems has a UA-cam channel and Etsy store! She sells the best watercolor paper books! She has drawing surfaces too! I learned most of my Art basics from books. My Gran did get me started with watercolor painting, but I wanted to add color to my own drawings and books were my only resource! At 10 years old not many classes available to me! No the computer was a sci-fi prop in stories or movies, so the internet was not even a dream when I was starting! Realizing printed books use different colors for mass printing runs so no instruction set will match real world colors or paints. I never worked inside the books, to get the best results I have found transferring the line work to another sheet of paper a must! It does seem like this book may be different supplying watercolor paper in the book? But finished works can be altered by editors! I liked your otter! I hope you do continue this as a teaching series for the Cave! Great for beginners! I have never understood how people are scared or afraid of watercolors! I still love it even after 50 years and I love finding new ways to paint with watercolors! You young lady are a true Gem, Gem! (Yep I started at 10 years old and I turned 60 last year! You never stop learning if you desire to do something better.)
Thanks for doing this review, I was looking at it and a few similar ones yesterday but the reviews were mixed (pretty much all about the paper quality) so it's really helpful to actually see the paper being painted on.
Love review of art books too! I have her first book.
What a cutie! I suspect the colour difference will be down to printing, it's really hard to match switching from the RYB colour palette to the CYMK print one imho. Otherwise, I think it seemed like an easy to follow tutorial and I'd love to see you do more review style videos.
I love that there’s a Kindle version of these books!!! Not sure my Kindle would love it though! Great review as always - thankyou
This made me laugh.
I have all of these books and absolutely love them.
Loved this review. I have this book and the sea otter is the first I tried as well. Yes would love to see more of this type of video. 😊
Love Dana Fox!!! Have all three that are out. Excellent self directed beginner learning tool as well as just good practice. Page does some good watercolor style books.
I have that book on my wishlist, but wasn't sure if I should get it. I'm very excited for the rest of the video!
Thank you for the great video, Gem. This was absolutely helpful and I'd love to see more reviews on books like this one :)
This was an awesome video, thank you. Can you also perhaps do a video where you recommend colouring books? I got a couple from amazon the other day and im quite disappointed in the image quality of some.
This video is really interesting to me! I'm sure I've had at least one of her books on my wishlist for a while, before I decided to scratch them off and just learn by doing xD but I might still get one of her books at some point, just to improve on my watercolour skills :)
I think the swatches in the book might have been done on 100% cotton paper. I noticed that using cotton paper actually does change the intensity of the colours compared to regular Cold Press watercolour paper. That would explain the difference in colours between her swatches and yours.
Also, U.S. Amazon price for this book is currently $16.29, so even here, it's a really good value. And head's up folks, about her 3rd book in this series: Read the reviews before buying. They are really mixed.
Thank you so much.....so helpful!!! I actually like your otter better...... Perhaps she used tube colors, I wonder....
im all for people reviewing art books 😀 def a good idea to use better paper tho