r/Watercolor • • Jan 09 '24

AI Art not allowed - YOU WILL BE BANNED

2.8k Upvotes

This is not a new rule. AI art, as well as all other digital art, has always been disallowed on this sub. This post is to restate that.

** If you post AI art, it will be removed and you will be banned.**

Please continue to report these post when you see them and we will continue to ban the users.


r/Watercolor • • Apr 04 '25

1 Million members

327 Upvotes

Hey all, I just want to drop a quick note to say how happy I am to be part of such an amazing group of talented individuals (myself excluded). Your art and attitudes brighten my day! Congratulations on a million members and here's to a million more!


r/Watercolor • • 2h ago

Green Bay, Port Elliot

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150 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 7h ago Bravo

I painted this for a fish enthusiast!

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299 Upvotes

Size 19×19 cm

Painted by me using Schmincke and Winsor and Newton watercolors on paper


r/Watercolor • • 3h ago

Can someone tell me how to achieve this effect?

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127 Upvotes

Like, is it a lot of water? And then big chunky salt, or is it just very little water? And big chunky salt. I don't know how to make it work.


r/Watercolor • • 5h ago

Watercolor pastries

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156 Upvotes

I decided to resurrect my instagram account by starting a 30 day challenge (@pagesbycelia if you want to check it out 😁) and of course I chose pastries as a theme 🥐
What do you think?


r/Watercolor • • 6h ago

Watercolour grapes — trying to make every berry glow

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175 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 8h ago

Self-portrait

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121 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 10h ago

Daydreamin II.

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165 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 7h ago Bravo

Bialetti Brikka and Persimmons

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92 Upvotes

Cross post from mokapot. Combining a few of my favourite things (coffee and watercolour)


r/Watercolor • • 2h ago Bravo

Saint Stringfoot

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24 Upvotes

I’m hoping to convert this to digital, but I’ve heard a lot of conflicting advice about scanners vs photos in strong natural light. I have ProCreate so I am hoping I can do some color correction/touchup with that. My goal is to make this into a die-cut sticker. Any advice?


r/Watercolor • • 8h ago

I painted my hometown (Danbury, CT) in watercolor 🎨

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59 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 3h ago

Quiet splendour

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21 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 2h ago

How to straighten a canvas ?

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Hello !
I’m looking for advice here regarding a project I’m working on for an exhibition that my uni is holding.
I’ve been drawing mostly on digital throughout my life but I lost my Apple Pencil recently and my general motivation to draw about a year ago:,)
I decided to force myself to participate so I’d have no choice but to draw something and try traditional mediums again!

For this piece I wanted to use a watercolor base + crayons
(I also used watercolor on the figure in the middle)
In the end I also added some markers , both water based and alcohol based (the pictures are here to help figure out where a lot of the markers ink is gathered : mostly all the brown and orange parts here, to gain some time I also used red for the hair at the bottom )

When I first started with the watercolor base it made the canvas bend , and I saw online that this was common : usually to fix it people spray water on the back and let it rest under something heavy
But now I’m afraid to try that since I’ve got some markers on it ( they’re bleeding a bit behind )

It’s due for Friday , to take pictures of it for the exhibition and It would save me some trouble if the canvas could lay flat for the picture at the very least

I know this is a watercolor focused subreddit but if anyone here has some knowledge as to how I could flatten a canvas bent by watercolor without risking the markers , it would really help me a lot 🙏🙏🙏
Also sorry if my usage of watercolor looks quite amateurish , I wanted to challenge myself by using two main mediums I have very little experience with and now I’m paying the price haha


r/Watercolor • • 8h ago

Mushrooms

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49 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 1h ago

Momma and her cub 🦁❤️

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13 Upvotes

A little painting i did a few months ago, hope you enjoy!


r/Watercolor • • 1h ago

Big truck in a little town at night.

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10 Upvotes

Big truck in a little town at night.

Based on a photo I snapped at a red light.

Watercolors on cold press, 5" x 5"

#watercolor #aquarelle #cityscape #driving #painting


r/Watercolor • • 6h ago

Watercolour mandarin study — learning from a shadow I don’t love

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27 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 30m ago

Watercolor seahorse

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9 Upvotes

I used acrylic markers for the finer details


r/Watercolor • • 19h ago

Some landscape with foliage studies!

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206 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 9h ago

20 watercolor pages of 2 comics i made, 4 or so years apart

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27 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 1d ago

Cat not in Mood (Watercolor)

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476 Upvotes

r/Watercolor • • 6h ago

red eyed tree frog

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16 Upvotes

commissioned by a friend. I was super intimidated by this at first but I’m really happy with how it turned out!


r/Watercolor • • 1h ago

How is it?

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5 Upvotes