This book has thirty-four demonstrations to help open your heart to hands-on explorations using intuitive and spontaneous approaches to watercolor and mixed media. Use these ideas as a catalyst to help you develop your own authentic style. All you need is an open mind, a sense of adventure and trust in yourself. As a novice or an experienced artist, you will be inspired and challenged to push the boundaries or your definition of watercolor. 160 pages. See below for the Companion DVD!All copies are signed by Karlyn.

An inspirational visual guide to help you with your on-going search for new techniques and artistic identity. This book features the unique perspectives of thirty accomplished artists as they share their sources of inspiration and techniques. Includes thirty-six innovative visual demonstrations. 184 pages. All copies are signed by Karlyn.

A visual approach to color and design with seventeen demonstrations and many watercolor techniques designed to help you loosen up your painting style and find your own personal expression. Reading this book is like taking one of Karlyn’s workshops. In a series of beautifully illustrated, hands-on demonstrations, Karlyn shows you how to experience the excitement and satisfaction of creating a successful watercolor painting. 160 pages. All copies are signed by Karlyn.

Expand your watercolor abilities with six hours of in-depth instruction from Karlyn’s book, Watercolor Without Boundaries. Each of these sixteen thoughtfully chosen, full demonstrations shows numerous easy to follow steps designed to ensure you’ll create successful paintings. Easy going and humorous, this beginner to advanced classroom experience will have you painting "outside the lines" in no time at all! 6 hours. Widescreen. Beginner-Advanced.

This companion DVD to the book Watercolor-The Spirit Of Spontaneity has fourteen demonstrations and techniques that will introduce you to spontaneous approaches to begin your paintings. Join Karlyn in this fun-filled visual exploration of watercolor and mixed media. 140 min. Widescreen. Beginner-Advanced.

Balancing spontaneity with control. Select some common "ditch flowers" and make them sparkle with freshness. Carefully design your composition, then paint each petal and leaf with control. You can then freely splash in the background with spontaneity. Three seperate lesson: sunflowers, ditch flowers and petunias. 180 min. Intermediate-Advanced.

Enjoy two complete lessons and five idea sessions that will propel you to find your own exciting path to abstraction. Remember, abstraction is nothing more than good design using shape, color, value, texture and line. Both lessons start with a wet-into-wet underpainting and build up design with collage papers, mixed media and texture making tools. Remember, there are no mistakes in abstract expression, only opportunities! 90 min. Beginner-Advanced.

A three hour video featuring four Fun & Free lessons. "Rock and Reflections" discover the expressiveness of landform without adding unnecessary detail. Find that less in more. "Snow and Reflections" layer color over color, capture the mood of the day, portray cast shadows, and interpret reflections of the winter landscape. "Deep Woods" be spontanious and experimental with representing patterns of autumn foliage. 180 min. Beginner-Advanced.

Butterflies, flowers and rocks, Oh My! Join us for this three hour spontaneous painting adventure that spans the vast spectrum of semi-abstraction from butterflies to landscape to poppies. "Butterflies" interpret color, shape, and collage into semi-abstract butterflies. "Landforms" capture the feeling of a landscape without the realism. Start with a spontaneous wet-into-wet wast and finish with controlled shape making. 180 min. Beginner-Advanced.

Karlyn demonstrates painting turtles and grapes with plenty of fun! This DVD might just become a favorite of yours. 90 min. Beginner-Advanced.

This delightful book will have your child singing, counting and reading along with you until after the last snowflake melts. Set to the musical theme of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Marsha Bonicatto’s north-woods song and her playful facts introduce children to the intricate community of critters who live in the north country’s winter landscape. Karlyn Holman’s stunning watercolors stimulate the imagination. All copies are signed by Karlyn.

Lured by the sights, smells, and sounds of civilization, little brother moose ventures far from home and gets lost in urban adventures. How he finds his way home again-by listening with his whole being to the promptings of the earth-is an inspiring example of nature at work. James Kasperson’s sensitive story and Karlyn Holman’s beautiful illustrations will help parents, teachers, and children alike appreciate the inner workings of nature and of themselves. Recommended ages 4-10.

On Saturdays Grandpa and grandchild work side by side in Grandpa’s garden. Among the radishes and lettuce they share their deepest feelings and wishes. They harvest love and wisdom along with peas and turnips. First hand they learn of life and death, growth and change. The garden’s lessons give the grandchild strength when illness strikes Grandpa, and special joy when he can return for their Saturdays together. By Shea Darian. Illustrated by Karlyn Holman. Recommended ages 4-10.

What do witches do after halloween? Well, they don’t just sit around! They are hanging out in the ditches and the edge of your town, stirring up trouble all year. It is the winter witches who call the blizzard down, just when you think winter is over. Why do they do it? Find out in this delightful book that will have even the youngest of children memorizing the poem from the first reading. Soon they’ll be reading to you, turning the pages of Karlyn Holman’s vibrant illustrations in time to rhyme. Recommended for ages 2-8.