Watercolor Flower Mixed Art Painting
We have been loving playing with watercolors and oil pastels. They are fun to mix in how you paint and coloring with them. The theme of flowers has always been one that I have loved. A year does not go by that we don’t do something with flowers.
Today’s watercolor flower process art is a great activity for kids to work on tracing and fine motor skills while having fun with a craft.
The Watercolor Flower Painting is a great addition to the flower activities on the site.
Watercolor Flower Painting
I love flowers and flower petals. We are always looking for flowers in the spring and this is a great spring painting to do.
This is a mixed art project with drawing, tracing with oil pastels and then coloring with watercolors. And the flowers turn out amazing!
Book We Read with the Watercolor Flower Painting
We read the book Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden. Which is about flower and we have always loved this book. It has some great flowers and big petals on those flowers. We read that book before we did our watercolor flowers.
What we used to make the Watercolor Flower Mixed Art Painting
How we made the Flower Painting
You will see the steps below we use to make this fun flower project. And check out this flower kindness craft you can also do.
Step 1: Draw the Flower
First, we drew our flowers on the watercolor paper. We used a can to make the circle in the center and then we drew out petals on the flower. Plus with a pencil, you can always redraw your lines. You can free hand draw the circle if you want.
Step 2: We Traced the Lines of the Flower with Oil Pastels
We then traced the pencil lines with the oil pastels. We use the colors for color were going to paint the petals. We even made sure to outline the edges of the paper. We used different colors of each of the petals. But you could do this with the same color for all the petals.
Step 3: Painted the Flower with Water
Then we did the painting part of the project.
We painted the area with just water. You fill in the whole area that you want to paint. You want it to be raised up a little bit and bubble in that area. We use a brush that is only used for water and keep that water and brush clean.
You can also try this spring blooming paper flowers, another fun flower and water craft iea.
Step 4: Paint the Flower with Watercolors
Then you add color. You can do the area, draw lines or any way you want. It is fun to watch the color spread.
Step 5: Repeat Steps 3 and 4 Until Done
You repeat the steps above for each area. It is fun to see how the color spreads through the water as you progress around the flower.
If your paper starts to curve you can always add weight somewhere on the paper to help keep it flat. We used the can we had for tracing. You can use weights on the corners while it dries also to keep the paper from curling.
Here is a look at our Watercolor Flower Art
Check out these other Flower Crafts for Kids
Paper Plate Flower Wreaths is a fun wreath with craft flowers and torn paper.
Flower Paper Plate Wreath is a great craft with oil pastels. Super simple and easy to make. You can color the flowers, punch out the flower and decorate the wreath.
Flower Scrapbook Paper Wreath Craft has flower made from scrapbook paper and is super cute and fun for kids to make for spring.
Fingerprint Daisies is a great fingerprint art for kids to do. It is one that many different ages can do.
Watercolor Flower Painting using three flower cookie cutters to make a mix of bright and colorful flowers on the paper.
Paper Roll Flowers was a blast and makes great wrapping paper for Mothers Days! Plus is super fun to make.
Check out all the fun Flower Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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