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Dark Skies Silo Watercolor

Dark Sky Silos

My brain doesn’t like doing things “loose” so painting clouds are challenging to me. When I first painted this a few days ago I hated it. I wish I had taken a before shot, but there was nothing puffy or...

cats face watercolor

Painting a Cat Face with Watercolors.

My first attempt at painting an animals face with watercolors. Getting myself past the fear of painting an eye was the hardest part. My whiskers and stripes might be too dark or heavy for some but I don’t care. I...

Blue Door Watercolor

Painting the bricks was the least challenging part of doing this. In fact, it was relaxing. However I struggled with everything else. I couldn’t get anything else to go right. I didn’t leave enough white areas in the green leaves...

Hydrangeas watercolor

Hydrangeas Watercolors

This painting was so simple yet satisfying to do. Using blues and purples, you paint little flowers and bunch them together to make big puff balls. Add some leaves and stems and they become hydrangeas. Painting Hydrangeas I fell in...

Seahorse Set watercolors

Seahorse Watercolors

This watercolor of a pink and orange seahorse is one of my favorites. I loved painting the pink and orange seahorse so much that I did another in blue and green. Don’t they make a cute couple? I named them...

Birds on a wire watercolor painting

Birds on a Wire Watercolor Painting

This time the focus was learning how to create a divided gradient wash background and improving fine lines. I wasn’t thrilled with how my gradient background turned out with the cheap brush I had on hand. Talk about weak pinks!...

Learning Negative Space Painting with Watercolors

In watercolors, painting negative space means to paint everything around your subject to create it’s form instead of painting the subject. The white pedals of the flowers are unpainted areas of the white paper. The green and purple areas around...

surreal landscapes in watercolor

Practicing Surreal Landscapes in Watercolors

These were fun colorful landscapes tutorials I tried. I love how my trees turned out! Here’s the Let’s Make Art with Sarah Cray video I followed. I also have a link to their website in the left sidebar. I’m signed up for...