{"id":34961,"date":"2019-03-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=34961"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:21:29","slug":"watercolor-rainbow-process-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/watercolor-rainbow-process-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are always themes we do for spring and that is rainbows! I think the one sign of spring for me has always been rainbows. <\/p>\n<p>I love to look for them everywhere! This past summer we saw a wonderful double rainbow while we drove cross country. It was amazing to see how wonderful they look in the sky.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The Watercolor Rainbow Process Art is a great addition to the <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/rainbow-printables-activities\/\">rainbow crafts<\/a> and <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/st-patricks-day-printables-activities-on-3-dinosaurs\/\">St Patrick&#8217;s Day crafts<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n<h2>Watercolor Rainbow Process Art<\/h2>\n<p>This is a fun watercolor rainbow that has the watercolor spread into the rainbow with water. A fun way to paint with oil pastels lines between the colors.<\/p>\n<h2>Book to read with the Watercolor Rainbow Process Art<\/h2>\n<p>We always have fun reading books with our art projects. Yup, ever now that they are old, we still pick a book. It might be that we all take turns reading now. It makes the art time loads of fun.<\/p>\n<p>One book we love is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/There-Was-Lady-Swallowed-Clover\/dp\/0545352223\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=old+lady+swallowed+a+clover&#038;qid=1551282819&#038;s=gateway&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=f1ae09ffb2e0316dd8ef2b2c8d5bb4dc&#038;language=en_US\">There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover<\/a> and the rainbow at the end of the book. These books are a favorite of ours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/There-Was-Lady-Swallowed-Clover\/dp\/0545352223\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=old+lady+swallowed+a+clover&#038;qid=1551282819&#038;s=gateway&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=f1ae09ffb2e0316dd8ef2b2c8d5bb4dc&#038;language=en_US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover!\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book-814x1024.jpg 814w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book-768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book-640x805.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/old-lady-swallowed-clover-book.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What you need for this Watercolor Rainbow Process Art<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004M59O4C\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004M59O4C&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=bffee6ead8c82caefd7a8117d49d376d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watercolor paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B013S1A4Q2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B013S1A4Q2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=391851d249d5e2c14e0972e9527aa03a\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watercolors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IEFP\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006IEFP&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=bee46df503bd2a8b87893c028816fbbb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oil pastels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>pencil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow1.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>How we did the Watercolor Rainbow Painting<\/h2>\n<p>You will see the steps we did to make the watercolor rainbow painting.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Drew the Lines of the Rainbow<\/h3>\n<p>First, we drew the rainbows in pencil. This made sure we had our colors and where we wanted to put them on the page. Plus you can always redraw your lines with a pencil first.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow2.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/div>\n<h3>Step 2: Trace the Lines of the Rainbow<\/h3>\n<p>Next, we colored each of the lines with one color from the rainbow. We used <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IEFP\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006IEFP&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=bee46df503bd2a8b87893c028816fbbb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oil pastels<\/a> for the colors. This helped the colors not to blend into each other as much. Plus helped us keep trace of what color we were painting. For the red we did two red lines for the top.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow3.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/div>\n<h3>Step 3: Paint the Water on the Rainbow<\/h3>\n<p>We started in on the watercolor painting. We did this similar to how we did our <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/watercolor-heart-process-art\/\">heart painting<\/a>. We filled the whole arch of the rainbow with water first. We always keep one brush and bowl just with water for these paintings<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow4.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/div>\n<h3>Step 4: Paint the Colors of the Rainbow<\/h3>\n<p>Then we start painting. Each time we do this we get loads of paint on the brush and dip it into the water. The effects as it spreads are really neat to see. One drop of color spreads really fast through the water. This is fun to see how to works. There are many wants to do this painting and makes each painting unique to the person who made it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow5.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/div>\n<p>If your paper curls up some and it might put something on it to hold it flat. We used some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000URKZJY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000URKZJY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=934eb6e5947628ee95844cb030a67763\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pet counters<\/a> we had close by. You can use just about anything.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow6.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/div>\n<h2>Final look at our Watercolor Rainbow Painting<\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow7.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow8.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow9.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/3-2019\/watercolorrainbow10.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor Rainbow Process Art - kids can great creative and explore how water spreads things out with this craft for St. Patricks Day or springtime  - 3Dinosaurs.com\">\n<\/div>\n<h2>Check out these other Rainbow Activities<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/free-romping-roaring-r-pack\/\">Romping &#038; Roaring R Pack<\/a> is a pack about R is for Rainbow. This is great for letter R or just doing a rainbow theme. It has loads of rainbow themes for working on the letter R.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/rainbow-clover-number-dot-marker-counting\/\">Rainbow &#038; Clover Number Dot Marker &#038; Counting<\/a> are fun dot marker printables with numbers 0 to 20 for kids to work on dotting and counting. You have dot marker numbers and counting of dots on the picture in black and white and color. These are great St, Patrick&#8217;s days printables for kindergarten and prek.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/free-rainbow-fine-motor-mat-printables\/\">Rainbow Fine Motor Mats<\/a> have 6 rainbow fine motor mats with tracing, coloring, q-tip and dot marker. All with a rainbow theme to help kids work on fine motor skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/yarn-rainbow-craft\/\">Yarn Rainbow Craft<\/a> is a fun craft to do with yarn and super easy to make. You can make big or small rainbows and have fun crafting with yarn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/tissue-paper-rainbow-spring-blog-hop\/\">Tissue Paper Rainbow<\/a> is a perfect way to cheer up any window in spring. You can make this craft and then hang it in the window.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the fun <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/st-patricks-day-printables-activities-on-3-dinosaurs\/\">St Patrick\u2019s Day Activities &#038; Printables <\/a> on 3 Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/st-patricks-day-printables-activities-on-3-dinosaurs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2026\/stpatricks-day-printables-activities-2026.jpg\" alt=\"St Patrick\u2019s Day Activities &#038; Printables - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Cassie &#8211; 3Dinosaurs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are always themes we do for spring and that is rainbows! 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