I’ve been dabbling with watercolor painting lately.  I’ve always found watercolors fascinating, and this Easy Watercolor Painting Project was right up my alley.

I loved art in elementary school.  I had two little brothers growing up, so I didn’t get to paint at home.  Painting in art class was a real treat.

I remember the first time we did watercolor painting at school.  I had colored with watercolor paints before, but I had never had an instruction.  I had never really created anything “pretty” with watercolors.

The first thing the art teacher told us to do was to wet the paper with water.  I was like….What? Really?  No one had ever told me that very important part!  Then she told us to put water on the paint colors that we were going to use.  I didn’t know that either!  No wonder I always ended up with a less than stellar artwork with dull, pale colors.

She showed us how to create a simple scene with a sky and grass.  I was amazed watching the colors mixing and flowing.

Fast forward 35 years.  My mom is a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator, and she had ordered some watercolor paper.  She wanted me to play with it.  Two packs of paper later, and I’m completely smitten once again with watercolor paints.

I still can not create anything spectacular, but I am still fascinated with how the colors blend.

I bought this watercolor resist canvas for my niece, but I liked it so much I painted it myself.  I’ll have to buy some more.  I saw some new patterns that will be so pretty.

Supplies Needed for Easy Watercolor Painting

• Cosmo Cricket Watercolor Resist Block
• Watercolor paints
• Fairly fat paintbrush
• Water
• Old Rag

Instructions

1. LIGHTLY wet the block before adding watercolor paint.  I added a little too much at first, and the colors were very pale.
2. I made a horizontal pattern, but you can make an type of pattern you like.
3. Remember not to mix colors that are across from each other on the color wheel.  They won’t blend and will be an ugly brown.
4. You might want to experiment on plain paper before painting your block.
5. See the video below to see how I painted my project.

I told you this was an easy watercolor painting project.  I think I might add some shimmer or glitter to mine.  All things are better with GLITTER!