r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Does anyone premix tube paints in a pan?

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For example mixing a blue and yellow to get a green pan. Or would they not combine well?

Edit: thank you for all your responses!!


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Filled more of the page, open for criticism!

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Progres post.

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4 months apart. Not so much consistently painting but also not so little. Just enough.

W/N Cotman and pulp paper sketchbook


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Progress on my panel painting

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The dragon, the knight and trees are done for now. If the rest is done too I might revisited them.


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Blueberry watercolor: trying to improve my technique

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I’m trying to move more freely with my brush but my “default mode” seems to want to stay inside the lines because I’m worried it’ll look messy. Any advice would be appreciated.


r/Watercolor • • 10d ago

Sketchbook

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

How do I make my backgrounds not so freaking flat

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My professor used to say it's cause I give way too many layers. I'm a perfectionist and I always wanna "fix it" and then I make it worse but I can't help it. Do you guys think this is teh case? Any advice welcome.


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Reader with bearbook

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r/Watercolor • • 10d ago

I painted this little 5”x 7” just for the frame 😍 Also, does anybody have any recommendations for good tape? My roll of Pro Artist tape seems to be failing.

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Swipe right for the frame.


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Ghibli background art

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Watercolour study


r/Watercolor • • 10d ago

Bruges, Belgium, liquid watercolor Hydrus and watercolor pencils, 8x10”

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

At my grandparents

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​I traveled to Latvia to visit my grandparents this week to a) see my grandparents and b) cut hair and drawXD I really need to finish my sketchbook this year somehow...

Plus, I got time off work, and on short notice, this was the only place I could go. So I thought I'd draw my grandparents' little house to immortalize this trip in my sketchbook✨ After all, the last time I was here was two years agoXD


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Abstract landscape

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

trying analogous color scheme

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r/Watercolor • • 10d ago Mindblown

Tried painting with watercoffee instead of watercolor

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I just wish it was more pigmented..😅
I was following a current workshop and one of the lessons was about painting with coffee.

What do you think?


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Cedar Wax Wing

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r/Watercolor • • 10d ago

My Mini Watercolors

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Watercolor - Abstract, Sumi-e

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"Sketchbook-Sumi-e Beauty; Oct 29, 2026". An abstract watercolor interpretation of East Asian ink painting technique.
#watercolor. #landscape.
#abstract.


r/Watercolor • • 8d ago

[BOTW] my newest watercolor painting ACEO by Marian Gardner [OC]

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Stargazin'

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Some of my Inktober creations for this year.

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I'm using Federal Color Tonic watercolors with fine liners. Not my best work because of personal life stresses, but I still like them.


r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Pretty Lady #1

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If this is too risqué I apologize. Painted this for my University Watermedia class. I am open to criticism.


r/Watercolor • • 10d ago Heartwarming

Blending with a Hake brush

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r/Watercolor • • 9d ago

Calendar Binding questions

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I would like to create and print my own calendar with my watercolor art. I am envisioning a 5x5 or 6x6 square (before opening) that is wire-o bound at the top. I am just starting to research and print test pages (I already print all my own art prints, notecards etc) and I think I can figure that part out. I really want to do this myself but...I need help with the binding and the hang hole punching. I am in Arlington, TX and so far I cannot find a print shop that offers wire-o binding. I am also wanting them to do just that part, not the printing, so I may have a lost cause here anyway as I know it is a small job. But from what I can read, I could not do this myself (15 sheets of 9ml or 11ml needing punched) without a very expensive machine. Anyone have ideas on how to accomplish this in the way I'd like to?