Cup and Cookie – Simple Shapes for Success

Written by Deb Watson in cards,Easy Tutorials,Still Life
thumbnail image of finished watercolor painting for cup and cookie

Simple shapes make this follow along watercolor tutorial great for beginning painters with a fun cup and cookie still life. Learn easy secrets to professional results like painting the shading first and using mostly 2 colors for the entire picture.

Downloads for Cup and Cookie

(Downloads are in pdf form for easy printing. If you have trouble downloading, the same images are include below in jpg form. You can click on the image to copy and print.)

https://youtu.be/Pc1dWIbDBjw

Fun and Creative Background Technique

Watercolor painting Spool of thread by Deb Watson
Watercolor tutorial Spool background with fun saran wrap technique
Student watercolor painting of spool of thread online tutorial

You can make a background more fun by pressing wrinkled plastic wrap into the wet wash and leaving it to dry for approximately 15 minutes or so. Here’s a link to a tutorial that demonstrates how to do that. Fun Backgrounds

watercolor painting of cup and cookie
Outline page for cup and cookie watercolor tutorial
Outline page for use with free online watercolor tutorial cup and cookie simple shapes for success by watercolor teacher Deb Watson on Watson Watercolor
Student Watercolor Painting of Cup and Cookie
In this student painting, we sprayed blue watercolor paint over a doily for the lace effect (after covering all the other parts of the painting).
Student Painting of cup and cookies
To finish this painting, the student continued painting the blue at the bottom up and around to create a round table that matched the round shapes in everything else – brilliant job.

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