Namaste friends! Today let’s create a Diwali Watercolor Painting together! This is such a colorful way to bring the festive season into your sketchbooks and celebrate!
If you want to start with a pencil sketch, start with this How To Draw A Diya Step By Step + Printable blog post. You might also enjoy these tutorials- How To Draw a Ganesha Step by Step, How to Make Clay Diya At Home Easily and How To Make Rangoli On Paper 4 Ways!
supplies you will need:
Grab your watercolor cakes, a paint brush and watercolor paper. I’m using Camlin Kokuyo Water Colour Cakes, a Round 5 paintbrush and a Canson XL Series Watercolor Pad today.
Diwali Watercolor Painting Step By Step:
Step 1: Begin painting an outline of the bottom of the diya. Then add the traditional lip to the diya.
Step 2: Flood color into the shape. Add enough water to get the color moving and drop color into it. You can create more interest by mixing two colors to create a gradient of color.
Step 3: Paint the back of the diya shape by connecting the two ends.
Step 4: Flood the diya center with color. Next paint a flame in the center using orange and yellow colors.
Step 5: To decorate the diya painting, quickly press a cotton swab into the wet paint to create white dots. You could instead use a white paint or white pen to draw this too.
And that is your finished Diwali Watercolor Painting!
Diwali Watercolor Painting VIDEO:
Paint along with me and create an Easy Watercolor Diya in my YouTube video here https://youtu.be/iG7CBpNa5dg
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial friends! Wishing your family a happy, prosperous Diwali filled with light and positivity!
Hi I’m Smitha! I live in Minnesota with my husband and two daughters. You’ll always find me painting florals in my sketchbook. And I love the sheer joy of making something with just my hands! But my bigger love is capturing it all on camera Read more.
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