A Beginner's Journey into Watercolor Painting

Welcome to a new instalment in my Beginner's Journey into Watercolor Painting series! Today, I have 10 new watercolors to share with you.

A cat watching the moon. I used the painting in this post as inspiration. Not bad for a first try, eh?

A lighthouse near the ocean. If you have ever watched my video on Prince Edward Island, you know how much I love lighthouses. Unfortunately for me, they are very difficult to draw. I think I did a very decent job with this one, especially with the sky and the wave lapping over the shore. (Yes, I am aware of the fact that the sun looks a little distorted. 🤣)

Flying over the moon. I cannot find the painting I used for inspiration anymore, but I impressed myself with the way I was able to draw the bird! It actually looks like one. The wings are nice!

The moon and its reflection. A fun little experiment that I will try again. You can see the (much better looking) original here.

A candle. This is not a very good painting, especially when you compare it to the one that I inspired myself from. 🤪 But I kept it so I can can see the improvement when I paint more versions of the same scene.

My attempt at painting an aurora borealis (a.k.a. northern lights). The halo is a fluke experiment that worked. 😅

A tranquil scene with dragonflies flying over a bridge. I will be sure to revisit that type of paintings once I have better paper to work on. The Artist's Loft brand is really subpar.

Meeting a deer. I wanted to experiment with silhouettes, which are another challenging subject to draw and paint for me. (My perfectionist brain continues telling my hand to give it up.) The deer looks weird, but it's ok. I did a good job with the layers in the sky, the water, and the boats. I also figured that adding a dog would be be a nice touch. 😊

In the mountains. The goal here was to try and depict the fog, but I rubbed the paper a little too hard and damaged parts of the painting. So, the result is not very good. With that said, I like the trees!

A little boat in the ocean. This is my favorite painting of this batch! I knew I had something nice from the get-go. (I wish I could find the original to show you, though. It is beautiful.)

I painted today’s watercolors in February-March 2023.

That's it for today. See you next time for more paintings from yours truly.

Want to see more of my work? Check out my other posts below:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

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I hope you enjoyed this post. What is your favorite watercolor in the list? Do you paint? If so, show me some of your work.

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.