★What color is your life?-It can be watercolor.
★The author created and edited this book with the original intention of making the life carefully taken care of more meaningful.
★The book with watercolor paintings shows the details of life. Form gardening to interesting daily life, there is a beautiful memory behind each group of painting themes. It is better to define it as a small theater of life than a watercolor tutorial.
★The author is a freelance illustrator, who has worked with many commercial brands and news outlets, and her works have also been printed by China Post as stamped postcards for public distribution.

The idea of making a well-cared life more meaningful inspired the author to create the book.

The book consists of four chapters:
The first chapter introduces the basic knowledge of painting, and puts up simple cases in order to allow readers to practice.
The second chapter takes gardening as the theme and provides readers with ten “green collections”, including ornamental flowers and practical fruits and vegetables.
In the third chapter, the author wants to share with readers 8 “moments full of love” found in life, such as the longicorn beetles who suddenly visit while painting at night, some cats that come to her house for free meals, and the frogs that are rescued from the vegetable market to kill pests… These little animals light up our lives.
In the fourth chapter, the author, as a traveler, records her leisure time in England for half a year, and wants to tell readers that if they know painting, they should know more about life.

Wooden Shell (as her pen name), a freelance illustrator, who has collaborated with commercial brands such as Herborist, L’Oreal and other media such as Youku, Yilin and Southern Metropolis Daily on illustration. Her illustration work The Twenty-Four Solar Terms has been printed by China Post as stamped postcards for public distribution.

Preface
"My life is in my drawing"

Chapter One Basics
1.1 Tool
1.1.1 Paper
1.1.2 Pigment
1.1.3 The brush
1.1.4 Other tools
1.2 Color
1.2.1Three primary colors
1.2.2Three elements of color
1.2.3Hue contrast
1.2.4Warm and cool colors
1.3 Skill
1.3.1 Dry drawing
1.3.2 Wet painting
1.3.3 Special techniques
1.3.4 Small tips

Chapter Two Enjoy the Garden in Private
2.1 Wild cotton
2.2 Fake forsythia fruit
2.3 Blue snow
2.4 Lonza gems
2.5 Son with China
2.6 A ball
2.7 Ficus carica
2.8 Rosemary
2.9 Potatoes
2.10 The mushroom

Chapter Three The Home of Love
3.1 Sericulture diary
3.2 Moss landscaping
3.3 Cicada
3.4 Potherb pancakes
3.5 Longox family of three
3.6 Snow meow meow
3.7 The song of the birds
3.8 Frogs rescued from a wet market

Chapter Four English Garden
4.1 English garden
4.1.1Interesting House
4.1.2Country garden
4.2 Kew travels
4.2.1 The palm house
4.2.2 Water lily house
4.2.3 Davis Alpine Plant House
4.2.4 Princess of Wales Greenhouse
4.2.5 Canopy trails
4.2.6 The royal garden
Afterword