Easy Valentine's Day Watercolor Painting Idea - Crafty Art Ideas (2024)

Hearts are the perfect shape to practice your watercolor painting skills in. Use our simple painting tutorial to make a fun Valentine’s watercolor painting.

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Hearts are the perfect subject matter to use for creating this easy Valentine’s Day painting. Have fun making this painting in less than 15 minutes!

Recommended Supplies

• Card stock orwatercolor paperwill really make these watercolor techniques stand out.
• Premade Watercolor Blank Cards–these are a great option if you are making Valentine’s Day cards from your watercolor paintings.
• Liquid Watercolors or Watercolor Palette
• Paintbrush-this is ourfavorite economical brushto use with kids.
• Post-it or extra paper to make a small heart template
• Pencil
• Optional: Painter’s Tape & Piece of Cardboard

Regularheavier-weight white paper can work for watercolor paintings (especially with children) but you will have better success with true watercolor paper.

Choosing Watercolor Paint Color Combinations

Each heart will get two colors mixed together. We chose to use colors next to each other on the color wheel to create an ombré effect in our watercolor hearts.

If you look at our painting you can see that the top hearts are violet to violet blue to then blue.

The middle and bottom hearts are red-violet, red, red-orange, orange and yellow-orange.

How To Make An Easy Watercolor Heart Painting

Optional: Tape Your Watercolor Paper

For best results, tape your watercolor paper to a piece of cardboard or a flat surface. This will stop it from bubbling up while painting.

You can use regular painter’s tape or masking tape. Just be careful when you pull up the tape once your painting is dry.

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Step 1: Make A Heart Template

Cut out a small heart from a folded piece of paper.

Step 2: Trace Multiple Hearts On The Paper

Lightly use your pencil to trace around the hearts. Start in the middle of the paper and try to evenly space them out. You could measure if you want, but we simply eyeballed it.

You can trace them diagonally or straight across. Either pattern will work.

Step 3: Start To Paint Hearts

Each heart will get two colors or be diluted with water.

To start paint one side of the heart with red using a small brush. Add water to your brush and pull the paint to the other side.

Repeat this process, but use two different colors that are next to each other. This diagram can help you see what colors we mixed together. You can change this idea to fit your own color scheme.

Step 4: Let The Painting Completely Dry

Optional: Add Highlights and Shadows

Adding Highlights

You could use a white oil pastel or pen marker to add a little crescent shape on the lighter side of the paint.

Adding the Shadows

If you want your hearts to look more 3-dimensional you could add a cool colored wash to the same side of each heart.

Just be careful if adding shadows. We think we just liked the simple Valentine’s watercolor painting before adding shadows. With watercolor paint, sometimes less is more!

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Have fun gifting that special someone this awesome watercolor card. You could even make this easy flower craft to go along with it.

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