Twelve farmyard subjects — a red barn, a holstein cow, a green tractor, a rolling farm landscape, hens and a horse — each pre-outlined with its own printed palette. It is a colouring book for grown-ups and children alike, except you finish with watercolour instead of crayon, and the result is good enough to tear out and frame.

Every spread pairs a finished painting with numbered step-by-step instructions and a lightly printed sketch you paint straight onto, so you are never staring at a blank page. Printed on custom 120 lb cold-press watercolour paper from one of the last remaining paper mills in the United States, with lay-flat spiral binding and clean tear-out pages, at a travel-ready 6.5 x 9 in. Original artwork by Emily Lex, designed and printed in the USA. The workbook for the child who wants to be a farmer and the adult who wants a farmhouse. It paints up in warm ochres and barn reds, so a finished page looks good taped to a kitchen cupboard. Paint sold separately.