Crafts: Watercolors

  • Watercolor Fern Paintings For Shavuot!

    Watercolor Fern Paintings For Shavuot!

    I am taking this one out of the archives, as we could all use a simple yet great looking craft project right about now, right?There is something so accessible and wonderful about watercolors, so give them a try! Shavuot the Jewish holiday that celebrates the receiving of the Torah starts in 2 weeks on the…

  • Simple Watercolor Feathers To Paint Today, For Lag B’Omer!

    Simple Watercolor Feathers To Paint Today, For Lag B’Omer!

    Tonight we welcome the festive holiday of Lag B’Omer, so why not carve out a tiny window of time to paint some simple watercolor feathers? It is true Lag B’Omer generally brings to mind images of bonfires and bows and arrows, but I’d say feathers, which are used to write the Torah, and certainly the…

  • A Peek In My Sketchbook: Simple Glass Bottles With Flowers

    A Peek In My Sketchbook: Simple Glass Bottles With Flowers

    Sometimes a super simple waterproof ink pen sketch filled in with some watercolor paint can look fresh and fun. After all of the floral sketches I did in various sketchbooks this summer, the time came to introduce some color, and this is the result……not a work of art, but a sweet illustration that one can…

  • Sketch Flowers Over The Abstract Watercolor Landscape To Improve It!

    Sketch Flowers Over The Abstract Watercolor Landscape To Improve It!

    In the last 5 or so months as I’ve upped my sketchbook game considerably, I’ve also been slowly mastering the art of fixing mistakes, as pages in a sketchbook should depict a journey, but in my case not the stumbles, I prefer to forget about those! So, while my other fixes have been via paper…

  • Abstract Watercolor Landscape Sketches With Pen

    Abstract Watercolor Landscape Sketches With Pen

    Last week I shared with you some very simple abstract watercolor sketches, check it out here, which are really lovely, and now I’m want to show you what to do when those sketches are not so successful! It is true you could just leave them alone, or paint over them entirely, but first, try defining…

  • Watercolor Landscape Sketches Tiny And Abstract

    Watercolor Landscape Sketches Tiny And Abstract

    I am dreaming of painting landscapes in my sketchbook, or not, on a regular basis, and yet something always seems to get in the way. It took me all summer long, but at long last I grabbed some watercolors and got to work on what should be some very quick and quite abstract landscape watercolor…

  • Simple Watercolor Poppy Wall Art

    Simple Watercolor Poppy Wall Art

    After sharing a few posts last week showing the watercolor poppies I used to make holiday decorations I decided to hold off and publish this watercolor poppy wall art separately so that it wouldn’t get lost in all the gorgeousness of the watercolor poppy cut outs and the watercolor poppies centerpiece! After making those watercolor…

  • Blooming Watercolor Poppies Centerpiece Is Festive And Very Budget Friendly!

    Blooming Watercolor Poppies Centerpiece Is Festive And Very Budget Friendly!

    I am totally in love with the watercolor poppies in a pot centerpiece, well one-sided centerpiece really, and I have already made two more! This idea, is something that you can play around with depending on your own needs, and there are so many ways to go! I actually made a small one using a…

  • Watercolor Poppy Cutouts To Make NOW!

    Watercolor Poppy Cutouts To Make NOW!

    Please take my word for it, these watercolor poppy cutouts are one of the best things I’ve made in a long time, as there is just something about them that looks AMAZING! And that is even though my illustrations and the paint job were a bit lacking…….So get out the biggest watercolor paper you can…

  • White Gouache Illustration On Watercolor Wash

    White Gouache Illustration On Watercolor Wash

    As you can see, I am just loving the idea of illustrating with gouache, and so I have one more simple technique that produces great results. Ready? One of the benefits of gouache, as opposed to watercolor paint, is that is is opaque, meaning you can layer one color over another, yes indeed! So, one…

  • Rosh HaShana Symbols Mobile Or Wall Hanging Craft

    Rosh HaShana starts on Sunday night yet there is still time to whip up a few fun decorations to add extra meaning to your holiday. Or maybe you are celebrating at someone else’s home and would love a fun way to add a special holiday touch to a bottle of wine or wrapped gift? Here…

  • Paint The Kotel In Rainbow Colors For The 17th Of Tammuz !

    Paint The Kotel In Rainbow Colors For The 17th Of Tammuz !

    I have pulled this post from the archives, as it is truly a perfect one. Today is the 17th of Tammuz, a solemn fast day on the Jewish calender which marks the beginning of a three week period of mourning for the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, (The Holy Temple/King Soloman’s Temple.) So with the…