Twelve favourite flowers — blue hydrangea, a jug of daisies, a sunflower, a lemon-yellow posy — each pre-outlined with its palette printed alongside and a finished example to follow. 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. This is the one people buy first and come back for. Florals are the fastest way into watercolour because a loose petal still reads as a petal, so beginners get something frame-worthy on the first afternoon. Paint sold separately.