What a roller-coaster ride it has been!

This delightful book is the high point of my entire long life, and I am so proud of it.

Here’s what you can expect:

Stats: This Second Edition  is twice the length of the original version, a rich 140 pages,  with over fifty full-color  illustrations. If you already own the first edition, this updated and expanded version is well worth adding to your art instruction goldmine.

Look at That! Second Edition will be offered as an eBook and a paperback, just like the first edition. And now, the Second Edition will also be available in hardcover, so exciting!

Here’s the back-cover description:

“The first edition of Look at That! Discover the Joy of Seeing by Sketching soon became an international bestseller.

What’s new in the Expanded Second Edition?

Motivation and Technique are Both Important  “How do I get started?” and “How do I keep going?” are great questions that are answered here. “What pen do I use?” and “How do I use this brush?” are explained in a clear, friendly manner.

The Eight Secrets of Effortless Watercolor Success Never again will you mistakenly think “Watercolor is so hard!” These 8 simple secrets, used together, solve the mystery.

Simple Plein-Air Watercolor Set-Up: No more juggling! Never again struggle with balancing sketchbook, palette, and a full cup of paint water while sketching outdoors! These inexpensive additions to your traveling art kit work equally well for sketching while sitting or standing, making spontaneous “Look at That!” a-ha moments readily accessible. The whole world becomes your sketching venue with this compact and affordable set-up kit.

Readers will learn how five minutes of “Look-at-That” practice has the power to relax and reinvigorate you at a moment’s notice. Best of all, when your sketchbook is filled, you will also have a travelogue of your recent adventures in seeing your world for the very first time.”

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Would you like to join our success story?

I will need your help marketing this book to the world. I will be selling this book through Amazon as well as bookstores, and the initial impact will, of course, be via immediate sales on Amazon. I will be offering the eBook for the first week at a discounted rate so that you can purchase it, read it, and hopefully post an honest review on Amazon as soon as possible. This initial flurry of activity on Amazon is the secret to getting the attention of Amazon’s own marketing algorithms.

If you prefer to pre-order a hard copy and wait until your paperback or hardcover is delivered, that’s great, and I still need your honest review! If you are one of those delightful people who also write reviews on Goodreads or other book review lists, your help there is priceless. If you have a blog and would be willing to review it there, I would appreciate it so much!

You might think this sounds like a lot of profit-seeking capitalism, and I am hoping to recoup some of my expenses in producing this book. But honestly, the entire time I have been tapping away on the draft of this book at my café, I have been thinking of the Worldwide Joy Ripple Effect that might be possible thanks to this humble life-lessons-disguised-as-art-instruction book. As I typed away, I saw the faces of each of my students who have had an “a-ha” moment. I pictured the future grins when a beginner discovers how to pause long enough to watch the pigment explode and drift in a tiny sea of wet-in-wet watercolor glory. The brush-work self-restraint that was so difficult before becomes simple, once you realize you don’t have to “drive” the paint everywhere with your brush. That may be true with oils and acrylics, but this is WATERcolor! It has a life of its own once you learn how to cooperate with its fluidity.

Watercolor is a thoroughbred racehorse, so don’t treat it like a plow mule!

Okay, time to get back to self-publishing admin work. The next blog post will have the link so you can pre-order your copy. Get ready to smile, you will love it.

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