How to get creative with water colours

How to get creative with water colours

Are you one of those creative souls always looking for the next idea to paint, colour, sketch or craft? Then you are in for luck! We will be discussing how to get creative using water colours in this article.

But first we will discuss why makes you indulging in your creativity regular in you is good for you. There are many reasons that keeping the creativity in you alive helps you. The number one reason is that being creative makes your life interesting and fulfilling. Creativity is a way of life that operates majorly on being unique and indulging in originality.

Through art, you can actually make connections between seemingly not so connected ideas. Creativity is about living a life as a journey, into seeing and realizing the extraordinariness of the most ordinary things in life. It is about how even the simplest of acts in everyday life can look poetic when painted across a canvas!

Be it monsoons, summers or winter, every season has it’s own amazing shades of colours naturally available in the atmosphere, if you look outside.

Here are some types of art that you can try using water colours: 1. Pulled string art: You will need a brush, sheets of paper, a bowl, water colours and thick string or wool. Mix some paint in the bowl to a medium thick consistency and coat the string with it. Now simply drag this paint dipped string across one half side of the paper and have fun with it!

You will end up having a very unique design by the end of it. Fold the other side of the paper on this and your pulled string design is ready!

2. Art with leaves You will need leaves, a paintbrush, water colours and a sheet of paper. Using the brush paint the leaves with different colours and press them against the sheet of paper. Allow this to dry and your art with leaves is ready!

3. Veggie and art You will need a cut vegetable. You can begin with a cut piece of a cauliflower because of the interesting shape you will get at the end. You will also need water colours and a sheet of paper. Simply dip the cut piece of cauliflower into the water colour of your choice and press it

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against your paper. Repeat this as many times as you want the design.

Once done, allow it to dry and your art is ready!

Did you know that the root meaning of ‘creativity’ was ‘to grow’? It holds such magic that while being creativity, the whole world begins to feel like it is vibrantly alive! The exuberant sensation that an artist feels after creating, the feeling of elation can be a great mood lifter. It helps bring meaning and purpose to life. It is no wonder that artists will do art, whether or not they get paid enough for it. For many artists, making art is not all about making the money, it is about expression, liberty of being who they are, telling stories and leaving all judgment behind.

There are many different colouring mediums that an artist can use in today’s day and age. You can use water colours, oil paint, oil pastels, charcoal, colour pensils, just pencils. Make your pick and let yourself go on! There are many different types of art forms that you can try. If DIY (Do it yourself) is your thing, then there are many tutorials that teach you how to create different types of art that can also be used as home décor, available across the world wide web. Whether you prefer the video format to learn or blogs – you will find it on the internet. There are many brands for mechanical pencils today that are all best mechanical pencils. If you are looking to be ecofriendly you can use them because using these help in saving trees.

Author’s note: In this article, author Mia describes how one can have fun with water colours.

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