I love to watercolour florals, and the new Altenew Watercolor Colouring book has reminded me just how much! This book has a stunning collection of florals that you love and know from Altenew in both black and grey outlines. So if you like to no-line watercolour, you’re covered as well! This relaxing floral watercoloring was a great way to pass time whilst catching up on my tv series. I’ve also used the new Altenew Watercolour brushes, so check out the video for my look at these brushes.
I chose a beautiful bloom from the Altenew Watercolor Colouring book, and went for the black outline as I wasn’t going for the no-line colouring look though the light option is there for you if you do!
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Relaxing floral watercoloring: painting the bloom
To paint the floral in, I used my Altenew Watercolour 36 pan set along with the new Detailed Watercolour Brushes. For the flower, I painted with the Midnight Violet shade of purple, adding the paint to the base of the petal and drawing the colour out with clean colour water.
To create a clean look, ensure you allow the petal to dry before you paint the next petal adjacent to it. Whilst it is drying, paint another petal further away. The detailed brushes are perfect for painting this flower as they can get in the nooks and crannies to add depth!
Relaxing floral watercoloring: turning it into a card!
For the leaves, I used two shades of green in Evergreen and Forest Green to add variation, using the darker shade where shadows fall. Once the painting was dry, I used my white gel pen to add some detail to the middle of the flower and then fussy cut it out with scissors.
To assemble this into a card, I add some Altenew Embossing paste through the Altenew Sphere stencil onto yellow cardstock. The floral was foam mounted on top and then a layered black die-cut using the Altenew Fancy Hello was added as a sentiment. Lastly, I finished the card off with a few white drops to embellish the card.
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Relaxing floral watercoloring
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This post was produced as part of my Guest Design work for Altenew I have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Altenew to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
71 thoughts on “Relaxing floral watercoloring with new Altenew Watercolour Brushes – Altenew Ultimate Watercolor Lovers Blog Hop + Giveaway”
Lovely cards. Thanks for sharing and giving us inspiration.
Beautiful cards. I love your color combo
Beautiful watercolor and great finished project! Love the color combination and texture too.
Absolutely gorgeous! I love the card design and the pretty purple and yellow together!
Verity, you have a wonderful water coloring style! Gorgeous! and I can hardly believe you ‘fussy cut’ this!!
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Wow!!! I could watch you paint all day!!! Gorgeous!!!
You do such a beautiful job!! Gorgeous!
Gorgeous card Verity! Love the coloring… so, so pretty! The textured background looks awesome too! Thanks for the inspiration! Be safe!
Your purple flower looks really pretty. I like how you used both dark and light, which I am working on 🙂
Beautiful purple colors on the flower. And your card is so pretty as well. Thanks for the video!
Absolutely stunning, I love the coloring & will pin the tutorial so I can review again!
The floral images are so gorgeous! And the inspiration is just fantastic. Thanks of sharing!
I like the lines you drag down into the petals and how it ends up looking like ridges and rises. So pretty. Thank you for the video.
Great card design and colors. I must go watch the video to see how you painted the purple flower so beautifully.
Beautiful floral. Love the purple floral with the yellow background
All I can say is that I am in love! The purple flower of yours has captured my heart, and is just beautiful 🙂
Thanks for not only sharing your gorgeous flower but sharing the process as well. Very helpful and inspirational. These images are absolutely beautiful.
Fabulous card, love your painting, the contrast and depth you created are fantastic. Thanks for the inspiration Verity!
Your watercoloring is fabulous, and the card design is wonderful!
Nice color combinations and layering. Great finishing touches.
Absolutely Beautiful Tfs x
Beautiful card! Love the water coloring you did- thanks for the tips. The background is perfect.
I love your card especially the shading on the flower!
Beautiful! The coloring is superb!
Love this – beautiful!
You had me at purple! ???
What a stunning card, Verity! I love your gorgeous watercoloured flower and adding it to the yellow background certainly makes the whole design to pop!! Love it! Thanks so much for the inspiration and the great video showing the details of your colouring! Stay safe! 🙂
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Absolutely gorgeous, Verity! Your shading of the floral is absolutely incredible!! I LOVE your card design…so creatively inspiring!!
This card is just exceptional. The depth you got on your flower is amazing.
Mesmerizing watching you watercolor the card. Those brushes are awesome. I do mainly colored pencil and I will use your techniques with that. But I am definitely going to try watercoloring. Thanks so much. KathyM who has a 3 yr old grand daughter named Verity.
Thanks, and she has a great name!
Beautiful. Love seeing everyone’s style come out!
I enjoyed watching you watercolor on your video! Your card is gorgeous- I love the color combination! I like the lines when coloring.
Beautiful gallery of this floral and the video showing your watercoloring is so helpful. This is such a great set for beginners with professional gear.
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I’m somewhat obsessed with purple and that is absolutely gorgeous!
Absolutely beautiful. Love how you turned it into a card. Your video was very helpful to me. Thanks for the instruction and the inspiration.
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Loving all the inspiration on this blog hop!
Gorgeous cards!
Love your card, the water coloring is beautiful.
So beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Love, love, love this. Watched the video and you make it easy for someone that is beginning to watercolour to follow. Thanks.
The video was very helpful and love the colours on this image.
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Beautiful! I loved watching your process from beginning to end! Thank you for sharing!
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Beautifully designed card. Outstanding shading of the floral.
Gorgeous colouring in my favourite colour purple, perfect with the soft yellow! Thanks for sharing the fun process video.
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Your card is stunning! I love the colors and the design too!
your coloring rocks – awesome card
Your video is super helpful. Such a beautiful painting.
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What a magnificent and spectacular release! You did a spectacular job to showcased creative ways to use everything. YOU SO ROCK!!
Simply stunning!
Just love the purple flower!
Love the pretty purple on yellow!
I’m just trying watercolor and love it. It’s so relaxing and enjoyable to slowly paint your way to being stress free! I think the coloring book is a great idea and can’t wait to try it.
Have fun!
Incredible watercoloring! Your flower is lovely. I love the rich purple color. So beautiful!
Gorgeous card! Love the textured background for this beautiful bloom!
Love your card, the purple and yellow color combination is great!
Love your card and the bloom is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
The dimension is lovely and so realistic! True true, just like anything I guess the right equipment really does make an incredible difference. Beautiful beautiful nooks and crannies.
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It looks so real. I hope soon I can do beautiful flowers like you.