A studio service
An hour, a brush, a result.
Adult beginners are not children who are bigger. They have less time, more impatience with busywork, and they want the thing on the table at the end to be worth keeping. These exercises run longer, use grown-up subject matter, and are paced so a single evening produces a finished painting rather than half of one.
N° 01Paced for a real evening
One sitting, one finished piece.
Each exercise is scoped to roughly an hour, including drying time — so you stop at a natural end rather than abandoning something half-painted.
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Real subjects
Landscape, still life, botanical and architectural studies. Nothing simplified into a cartoon to make it easier.
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Restrained palettes
Most exercises use three or four colours. Limiting the palette is what makes an amateur painting suddenly look deliberate.
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Framing-worthy
Every exercise is composed to stand on its own at A4 — not a practice swatch, a small finished painting.
N° 02How a workbook works
Not a coloring book. A lesson you paint.
Every adult exercise arrives in three parts, so you are never staring at a blank page wondering where to start.
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The finished painting
You see where you are going before you start — the completed piece, printed at full size, so you can match value and edge as you work.
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The washes, in order
The same painting broken into its stages: first wash, second wash, detail. You paint one layer, let it dry, and turn the page.
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A base to paint on
A light printed guide on the facing page. Paint straight onto it, or use it as a drawing reference on your own paper.
N° 03Made to be painted on
Laid out for wet media.
Every page is single-sided, so water never buckles the exercise on the back. Margins are wide enough to tape down, the printed guide lines are pale enough to vanish under a wash, and the whole file is 300 DPI so a home printer gives you a usable surface. Print on any 200gsm+ cold-press and it behaves like a proper block.
N° 04Investment
Pick your pack
Starter
$9.99
10 exercises — enough to learn the technique and decide if the series suits you.
- 10 painting exercises
- Finished reference painting for each
- Printable line base to paint over
- 300 DPI PDF · A4 + US Letter
- Instant download
Workbook
$19.99
30 exercises — the full progression, from first wash to finished piece. The usual choice.
- 30 painting exercises
- Finished reference painting for each
- Printable line base to paint over
- Colour-mixing chart for the palette used
- 300 DPI PDF · A4 + US Letter
- Personal use licence
Complete
$39.99
60+ exercises — every subject in the series, plus the licence to sell what you make from it.
- 60+ painting exercises
- Every reference painting and line base
- Colour-mixing charts for all palettes
- 300 DPI PDF · A4 + US Letter
- Commercial licence for KDP & Etsy
N° 05Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Is this for beginners or improvers?
- Both, but it assumes an adult's patience rather than an adult's skill. If you have never painted, the exercises still start from a flat wash — they simply move faster and use real subject matter from the beginning.
- How long does one exercise take?
- About an hour including drying time between layers. They are deliberately scoped so an evening produces something finished rather than something abandoned.
- Can I frame what I make?
- That is what they are composed for. Every exercise works as a standalone A4 painting. The Complete set also carries a commercial licence if you want to sell the results.
- What do the packs cost?
- $9.99 for the 10-exercise Starter, $19.99 for the 30-exercise Workbook, and $39.99 for the Complete set with 60+ exercises and a commercial licence for KDP and Etsy.
N° 06Other watercolor workbooks
Start your book
Take the evening back.
Download a pack and print it tonight — 300 DPI, single-sided, one finished painting per sitting.