50 Most Beautiful Watercolor Blogs
This is a showcase of the top 50 blogs from artists or people who admire watercolor painting. They display a wide spectrum of styles and techniques that, if you are a fan of watercolor painting, you will find fascinating. These 50 carefully selected portfolios have paintings of landscapes, profiles, abstract designs, and more. Each of the them is unique in terms of the painting techniques, effects, and styles. No matter who you are – a beginner in watercoloring or an artist of great fame – you will learn a great deal from these blogs.
Top Five
- Woody's Watercolor Blog: Woody Hansen is an experienced artist who has given numerous workshops on watercolor paintings. His work is mostly about landscapes with simple outlines and bold strokes and colors. He draws with unique techniques that differentiate his works from other landscape watercolor drawings.
- Why We Love It: Artist Woody Hansen's posts are updated constantly, and the posts are all about his demos in creating his watercolor drawings. By studying them, readers can learn why he created the drawing, and how. They can also find out about past and upcoming workshops.
- Favorite Post: Secondary Header
- David Peterson: California has many beautiful and breathtaking views that attract photographers and artists to go there. Award-winning artist David Peterson of Sacramento, California, has created this portfolio that displays the California landmarks in a humorous and energetic manner. He strives to use his brushes to show readers the spectecular landscapes of California.
- Why We Love It: This website is like a gallery of California, with drawings of Sacramento and Mendocino presented in an unique manner. The artist also has a monthly newsletter that allows people to learn about his workshops, his new drawings, and his gallery exhibitions.
- Favorite Post: Town & Country
- Al Setton: Artist Al Setton is well known for his watercolor techniques, which he uses in his drawings of California. His blog shares his artistic journey and his latest drawings. Al Setton has received awards at local, national, and international shows.
- Why We Love It: We love this blog because it offers watercolor paintings with high-contrast, energetic images.
- Favorite Post: Topanga Cantina
- Tim Goss Watercolors: Tim Goss' portfolio offers a broad overview of his watercolor works. The website is easy to navigate, with different categories such as boats, buildings, florals, and landscapes. What is interesting is that we get to see the artist's daily artistic entries in the sketchbook that he keeps as a diary.
- Why We Love It: Artist Tim's paintings are like a snapshot of our daily lives. They capture things that might look ordinary to others in great details, turning them into something special.
- Favorite Post: Family Portrait
- David Kreinberg: Dave Kreinberg’s blog shows his passion in painting. His works depict a lively and vibrant vision of our surroundings. Rich in colors, Kreinberg’s paintings let viewers wonder in imagination.
- Why We Love It: What is particularly great about this blog is that rather than making realistic copies of scenes, Dave Kreinberg likes to draw with an abstract vision -- a creative way of looking at the world.
- Favorite Post: Happy Holidays 2008!
The Rest of the Best
- Aaron Lifferth's Painting A Day: Painter Aaron Lifferth draws with passion. The blogger's enthusiasm for the arts can be seen from his lovely oil paintings posted in this blog. Though these are oil paintings, the painter uses watercolor brushes. You can learn the magic created by this combination.
- An open [sketch] book: Watercolor is not just about drawing flowers or landscapes. This blog offers a new way of looking at watercolor drawings. The author blogs about her everyday elements, no matter how tiny or trivial, and turns them into funny sketches. This blog is like a creative journey with amazing imagination.
- Andy Virgil: Anita Virgil created this blog to celebrate the life of Andy Virgil, an American illustrator of the mid-20th century. Andy Virgil passed away in 1980, but his work lives on. His illustrations show us how wonderful the old days were.
- Art Blog Instruction: If you would like to find out about a variety of watercolor painting techniques, then this blog is for you. It offers entries from different watercolor artists from all over the world. Entries include portrait painting demos, watercolor landscape painting demos, a watercolor lesson on how to stretch watercolor paper, and soft-focus watercolor painting technique.
- Art Contrarian: The topic of modernism in art always fascinates people. It marked a new era for the arts. In this blog, you can view drawings and illustrations that mark its uniqueness and boldness. The paintings can also reveal the culture and fashion from the time when the work was done.
- Art Inconnu: Art Inconnu offers a great opportunity of exposure for little known or new artists. This is a great resource if you want to broaden your knowledge in drawings from not just the well-known artists, but the less-famous ones, too. In this blog you will find some startling works on watercolors.
- Blog of The Back Run: Jeff Suntala is an illustrator and watercolorist who is also a fan of historic ballparks. His drawings are all about blossoms and flowers. What is particular about his paintings is that they all have a tendency toward wetness. Others might try to avoid putting too much water on the paper, but to Suntala, this is what makes his paintings special.
- Carey Waterworth Multi-Media Painter: Painting is artist Carey Waterworth's daily ritual. She enjoys painting landscapes and enjoys the four seasons that cover the landscapes in different characteristics. She paints in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and soft pastel. All of her paintings have their own personality.
- Create or Explode: This is not just a blog about watercolor painting. The blogger puts anything that related to art into the blog. There are entries about sewing, decorating, and other types of paintings. The blogger constantly puts her watercolor paintings up for sale for charity purposes, such as fundraising for the Avon Breast Cancer Walk.
- Creative Catalyst Productions Blog: This is a great resource if you would like to learn more about different artists and watercolor societies. This blog has entries written by a variety of watercolor painters, offering a glimpse of their works as well as commenting on their lives as artists.
- Danny Gregory: When you click on the homepage of Danny Gregory, you will be captivated by his large, bright portraits and sketches that fill up your entire screen. Much of his inspiration comes from his traveling around the world.
- David Lloyd: This is a showcase of David Lloyd's artwork, from landscape to still life. His blog offers videos of showing how he paints and draws. Apart from painting automotives, cityscapes, and people, Lloyd also enjoys get inspiration from still lifes and abstract forms.
- David Lobenberg: Art professor David Lobenberg is an expert in watercolor and acrylic painting. His works focus on portraits and landscapes, and he has been commissioned to draw former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and professional baseball players Barry Zito and Nick Swisher. In his blog, he shows how to draw a portrait, step by step.
- David McEown: Artist David McEown has traveled to many places, from Antarctica to the North Pole. He is fascinated by the nature and wilderness. All his passion can be seen in his creative paintings, which capture the stunning views of four seasons.
- Debi Watson Watercolor: Debi Watson is both an artist and a teacher. In 1999, she became determined to quit nursing and become a full-time watercolor artist. She paints wildlife and landscapes with a realism vision. Her blog shares how she experiments with different techniques.
- Elizabeth McCrindle's Art from Scotland: This is the diary of a Scottish artist, whose paintings reveal the tranquility of Scotland. Elizabeth McCrindle loves horses and other animals, and this can be found in her drawings.
- Gary L. Everest Paintings: Gary Everest's blog offers a new sight of beautiful, fascinating, and dynamic artwork. Apart from painting portraits and landscapes, Everest records every encounter relating to the arts in this journal.
- Jim's Watercolor Gallery: Jim's blog offers everything about watercolor you could ever need to know. As a watercolor artist and instructor, Jim tells offers tips and techniques about watercoloring. His blog also has demonstrations of a tulip painted in watercolor, tips on how to paint trees using watercolor, and the painting supples with which you should equip yourself.
- John Salmon Watercolors: North London watercolor painter John Salmon enjoys painting landscapes and scenic views. His painting styles, surreal and abstract, are a fusion of traditional, classic, and modern. Most of the landscapes in his drawings are based on the areas in Enfield and Edmonton.
- Kelly Eddington: As an award-winning Illinois art educator for 17 years, Kelly Eddington from Holland has been continuing to capture the beauty of her surroundings through watercolor painting. Most viewers are marveled by her works in that they resemble oil paintings rather than watercolor paintings.
- Laketrees: Visual artist Kim Barker’s blog has a collection of her artwork, which includes portraits in black and white or colorful forms, photography, nature, animals, abstract, as well as self portraits. You can also learn from her drawing techniques through her art lessons and tutoring.
- Laura's Watercolors: Ever thought that poetry and watercolor paintings could go well together? This blog shows the harmony of the two together. Each of Laura's paintings is accompanied by a poem, and the imagery and scenes described in the poems significantly enrich the flowers and landscapes in the drawings.
- Lines and Colors: The creator of this blog is Charley Parker. He is best known for his comic work Argon Zark! As an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and website designer, Parker is sensitive to colors, lines, and details. His blog shares a great deal of his favorite artists’ works from around the world that he has come across in his research.
- Liz + Borromini: This blog is created by Liz and Borromini, an architect and world traveler. The combination is interesting because an architect knows about drawing and is very observant, while a traveler can get to see many fascinating landscapes and architecture around the world. Together the two artists have sketches that are full of detailed elements and full of adventures.
- Paintblog: If you love visiting galleries of contemporary arts, this blog will be your favorite. Paintblog is where all the great art from various contemporary artists meets. From here, you get to enjoy viewing the wide spectrum of drawings with fascinating techniques.
- Pen and Inc.: Jamie Stroud is an illustrator, designer, and professor. His blog offers a collection of his works, many of them are illustration created in a funny manner. His works include cartoon portraits, seasonal illustrations, and still lifes.
- Pete Scully: Artist and writer Pete Scully keeps a sketchbook and sketches whatever and wherever he finds interesting. He has sketches of the President talking in front of the camera as well as the royal wedding. He draws with a humorous manner, and sometimes with little descriptions written beside his sketches.
- Postalguarelas: The paintings in this blog are all small size -- as small as a postcard. And this is how its name “Postalguarelas” comes from. It is a mix of two Portuguese words, postal (postcard) and aguarelas (watercolors). The postcards depict beautiful landscapes and architecture in Portugal.
- Right Some Good: Right Some Good is an art blog that has many interesting imageries, illustrations, sketches, and paintings. Many of them are inspiring. Artitists running dry of ideas can visit this blog for more inspirational suggestions.
- Rusart: Russia is a country with a longtime relationship with art history. If you love Russian arts, this is a place you should visit. It offers distinctive paintings ranging from watercolor drawings to oil paintings and sketches.
- Silver Fortress: Silver Fortress is a painting blog from France. It is created by artists Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully; both are the faculty of Studio Escalier in France. The blog has many contemporary-classical artworks.
- Sketch of The Day: New Yorker Stephen Gardner's blog shows many sketches he has drawn through his everyday life. There are sketches of portraits, vehicles, streets, or some tiny elements he finds interesting. Apart from them, there are drawings that he created with a humorous manner.
- Splashing Through Life: Canadian artist Patricia Henderson’s blog is full of creativity. She shows you the fun of painting in various innovative ways, such as recycle painting. You can use things around to create texture in watercolor, making your painting more vibrant and unique.
- Terry's Ink and Watercolor: Terry Banderas draws whenever he travels around and sees something captivating. His watercolor paintings are like scenic pictures, with white mountains behind and little cottages in the front. He also has a collection of church paintings.
- The Art of the Landscape: Just as its title says, this blog allows you to learn about the development of landscape drawing. Not only drawings, but painting and photography, as well. Here, you can meet artists from all over the globe, including Britain, Europe, North America, and Asia.
- The Hidden Place: The Hidden Place is a blog solely about drawings. The blog is simple, and all the focus is put on various drawings and paintings about portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes.
- The Tools Artists Use: All painters need a specific set of tools that allow them to create their artwork. Different kinds of drawings require different tools. It is therefore important to learn the appropriate brushes, pencils, or papers if you want to draw. Find out more from this blog.
- The Water Color Blog: Beginners who are picking up the skills of watercolor painting will fall in love with this blog. All entries in this blog offer basic knowledge, skills, and exercises in watercolor painting for those who are interested in this art. While you can learn a variety of techniques such as aquarelle technique and wash technique, you also have an opportunity to read about the history of watercolors.
- Today's Inspiration: There are different eras of arts, and they all tell a story of the time in which the art was created. Leif Peng's blog focuses on paintings of the '40s and '50s. You will find many interesting and remarkable illustrations and drawings of that period, and many of them were published in magazines and journals.
- Underpaintings: Matthew Innis created this forum to share the excellence in representational arts. In this blog, there are watercolor paintings as well as oil paintings. Many of them capture the nature so realistically that the colors have made the drawings come alive.
- Urban Sketchers: Sketches and colors are what bring a drawing to life. Urban Sketchers depicts a great range of sketches from 100 artists. These artists – some are architects, illustrators, and graphic designers – are from all over the world, including Asia, Europe, and Africa. Through their works, we can discover their passion for drawing on location.
- Victorian/Edwardian Paintings: Hermes Westbury is a fan of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. This is a blog that gives you a glimpse of a collection of more than 70,000 drawings of the period. Most of the painters were born in the late 19th century.
- Watercolor Muse: Californian Sheila Estep's passion in watercolor painting can be easily seen in her blog. In each of her works, she shares her painting experience and artistic journey. Her works include animals, flowers, and some abstract arts.
- Watercolors by Mimi Torchia Boothby: This is a gallery of paintings by Mimi, who specializes in portraits of people and animals. In her blog, you will be fascinated by her watercolor portraits, all with different postures -- some smiling, some standing, some strolling on the streets. Mimi also has many paintings of Italy, Japan, and flowers.
- What is Krista Painting Now?: Artist Krista Hasson loves using strong, rich colors for her drawings. Apart from painting in watercolor, she also uses soft pastel, oil, and mixed media. Her blog records her journey as an artist from the east coast of Canada.
