How to Paint Watercolor Tom Turkey for Beginners With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to watercolor paint Tom Turkey! Today in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to watercolor paint this turkey even if you are the newest beginner. This is one of those projects that looks complicated but is really fun and easy! You might also enjoy the Acorn Watercolor Tutorial found HERE. Watercolor is such a ...
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How to Watercolor Paint Acorns – Easy Tutorial for Beginners and Kids
How to Paint Watercolor Acorns for Beginners Has learning to paint what you see in nature been on your list for a while? Today I'm going to show you how to watercolor paint some cute little watercolor acorns even if you are the newest beginner. This is one of those projects that looks complicated but is really fun and easy! You might also enjoy the how-to tutorial for Watercolor Mushrooms, HERE Watercolor is such a great medium ...
How to Trace or Transfer to Watercolor Paper – Four Ways!
Here at Lily and Thistle, we have so many fun projects designed to help you gain confidence in watercolor and have a fun and relaxing experience in the process. Today I thought I'd show you four ways you can transfer (or trace) the templates we have made available to you onto your choice of watercolor paper. You can use this technique for your own drawings as well. Because watercolor is not an opaque medium, it's easy to see the lines you ...
How to Watercolor Paint a Snail – For Beginners and Kids
How to Paint a Watercolor Snail Has learning to paint what you see in nature been on your list for a while? Today I'm going to show you how to watercolor paint a cute little snail even if you are the newest beginner. This is one of those projects that looks so hard but is really fun and easy! You might also enjoy our Watercolor Butterfly Tutorial found HERE. Watercolor is such a great medium because it's so versatile and dries ...
Free Watercolor Color Mixing Guide
Do you get stumped trying to put together color combinations in your Watercolor Art? I made this little guide for myself a while ago just to have handly for watercolor projects. I thought you might find it helpful too. It's just a bunch of my favorite color combinations with mixing recipe notes to the side. You can find it along with a bunch of other fun watercolor projects and resources for your creative life in the Lily and Thistle Resource ...
How to Paint Watercolor – Easy Fall Trees – For Beginners and Kids
How to Paint Watercolor Fall Trees for Beginners Are you loving all of the beauty of Autumn? Today I'm going to show you how to watercolor paint some simple fall trees. This is a really fun and easy tutorial even if you are the newest beginner. And you can have so much fun experimenting with COLOR! You might also enjoy the mushroom tutorial HERE. Watercolor is such a great medium because it's so versatile and dries quickly making it easy to ...
Watercolor Flower Heart Tutorial for Beginners
This is one of those projects that looks so hard but is really easy! Seriously. Easy. Watercolor is such a great medium because it's so versatile and dries quickly making it easy to get a whole stack of gifts done in less than an hour. This is one of four tutorials/patterns I've made this year for YOU this February. If you'd like to see the rest just go here, here, and here. All of the patterns are available in the Resource Library. If you ...
DIY Hand Painted Valentine Watercolor Donut Card
Oh my goodness! I'm so excited about this one. You can't believe how fun and easy it is to paint a doughnut! Nothing says "I love you" like a hand-painted card. And it is so easy to make something special that can be ready in just a few minutes. Seriously. Watercolor is such a great medium because it's so versatile and dries quickly making it easy to get a whole stack of gifts done in less than an hour. This is one of four ...
Easy Watercolor Valentine Art
Nothing says "I love you" like a piece of hand painted artwork. And it is so easy to make something special that can be ready in just a few minutes. Seriously. Watercolor is such a great medium because it's so versatile and dries quickly making it easy to get a whole stack of gifts done in less than an hour. This is one of four tutorials/patterns I've made this year for YOU so stay tuned! All of the patterns are available in the Resource ...
Phenology Wheel – Nature Journaling Prompt for Beginners – Bullet Journal or Art Journal
How to Make Your Own Phenology Wheel for Your Nature Journal, Bullet Journal or Art Journal I'm always looking for easy but effective ways to get myself and my children out in nature, recording what we are experiencing together. So when I saw these posts from Lynn Seddon at Raising Little Shoots I was pretty excited to start a phenology wheel in 2019! The word Phenology according to the Merriam Webster dictionary means the study of cyclic and ...
2019 Watercolor Bird Printable Calendar with Free Patterns to Paint
I've had so much fun over here creating a new calendar to brighten your day and I hope your year! This time, I thought it would be fun to focus on birds. Birds are so fun to paint (and surprisingly easy) to draw. All of the patterns are available in the Resource Library. If you don't already have a password, you can sign up HERE to get yours and then get started right away! If you don't have time to do a watercolor project right now (I get it) ...
Eight Christmas Cards for You To Watercolor! Free Printable Patterns and Step-by-Step Instructions Video Included
We have been busy over here creating Christmas cards for friends and loved ones. It's been so fun to bring in one of my favorite mediums: watercolor. It is such a fun medium to work with. I love that it dries quickly and that I can achieve beautiful results with just a little effort. I thought you might enjoy doing some too. So, I'm sharing eight with you! I did a post for each one (and even some videos) so I will just link to them below ...