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A hundred different greens.
A garden is the hardest easy subject there is, and it always fails the same way: every leaf painted with the same green straight from the pan. This workbook is really a colour-mixing course disguised as a garden — warm greens, cool greens, greens with a little red in them, and where each one belongs in a border.
N° 01Mixing first
Green is a mixed colour.
Nothing in the garden set uses green from the pan. Every exercise starts at the palette, not the paper.
01
Borders & beds
Mixed planting where depth comes from temperature — warm greens forward, cool greens back.
02
Pots & greenhouses
Terracotta and glass. Two surfaces that teach reflected colour better than any other subject.
03
Garden wildlife
Bees, butterflies and a robin on a fork handle — small, quick exercises between the larger scenes.
N° 02How a workbook works
Not a coloring book. A lesson you paint.
Every garden exercise arrives in three parts, so you are never staring at a blank page wondering where to start.
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
- Why does my foliage always look flat?
- Because it is one green. Depth in a planted border comes from temperature, not tone — warm greens advance, cool greens recede. Every exercise here starts with a mixing chart before any paint touches paper.
- Is there a colour-mixing chart included?
- Yes, in the Workbook and Complete packs. Each exercise names the mixes used, so you can rebuild the palette with whatever pans you own.
- Does it cover greenhouses and glass?
- Yes — glass and terracotta are their own exercises, because reflected colour is easier to learn on a pot than on a leaf.
- 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
Mix the green first.
Download the garden workbook and print it — 300 DPI, single-sided, with the mixing chart for every palette.