Succulents are trending quickly in watercoloring these days. They come in such cute shapes and sizes and are so easy to add to your sketchbook! I’ll show you How To Paint a Succulent Watercolor today in a few easy steps and under 15 mins.
You can also learn How To Paint A Pond In Watercolor Video, How To Paint Colorful and Easy Watercolor Leaves or How to Paint a Colorful Watercolor Tree. All of these are easy tutorials that you can follow along and recreate!
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Supplies You Will Need
- Watercolor or Mixed media paper– Read this previous post if you are wondering what papers to use with your pens.
- A green and purple marker. Learn How to Use Watercolor Markers
- Round Paintbrush 6 or a Water Brush
- Pencil for sketching
How to paint a Succulent Watercolor
START HERE: HOW TO DRAW A SUCCULENT WITH STEP BY STEP FREE PRINTABLE
Step 1: With your pencil guideline in place, apply the green color using the brush tip of the pen in the center of one of the leaves. Work one or two leaves at a time, to begin with.
Step 2: Working quickly, add touches of purple around the tips and bottom of the leaf.
Step 3: With a damp paintbrush or water brush, paint over the green area first. Then slowly drag the moistness into the purple and let the purple bleed into the green and blend naturally.
Step 4: Do not over mix the colors, just blend enough to get the colors damp and moving.
Step 5: Repeat these steps, working two or three leaves at a time till you finish painting the entire succulent. Try varying the leaves by adding a little more water or a little less water to different leaves. Add more purple to a few and more green to others. These slight variations will add more interest to your final watercolor piece.
TIP: While painting succulent watercolor make sure to add little water, barely keeping your paintbrush damp for this to work. More water will only create runny colors that will mix to become soupy with no color variation at all. So try to use very little water, just enough to blend the colors. If you add too much water, you will have to wait for each leaf to dry individually before painting an adjacent leaf making this succulent watercolor a work of patience
how to paint a succulent video!
Enjoy this how to paint a succulent watercolor video! Make sure to follow me on instagram @smithakatti and tag #smilingcolors.
So there you have it! A few easy steps to painting a succulent watercolor! I love how this turned out and that green and purple blend so beautifully together!
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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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