Easy Intuitive Watercolor: Creative Self-Care Art

Does life feel too over-full for art-making? Join me to discover how even just five to ten minutes with a paintbrush can calm your mind and uplift your spirit. In this week’s video, I’ll share some basic watercolor techniques and demonstrate how to embrace the unpredictability of watercolors, enjoy the process, and find value in your unique creations. BETTER WITH ART creative self-care art prompts are perfect for creative women seeking mindfulness, mental health benefits, and joy through simple art-making.

Materials

If you need an inexpensive set of watercolors, the Prang set of eight I use in my videos is available on Amazon.

Although not all BETTER WITH ART therapeutic art activities on this new channel will be done in art art journal, quite a few will be. If you’re interested in the best for my wet, dry, and layered applications, here are more details I keep updating, as the journal I always recommended is not longer available.

I’ve had a two-pack of my favorite scissors since I was teaching at a nursery school and had a lot of cutting prep work, A LOT of cutting prep work. They still work great, and I’m not sure which was the school pair and which home because there’s no difference in performance.

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My BETTER WITH ART channel is the home of my simple, low-cost, creative self-care art-making inspiration prompts. If you’re interested in watching other art I make, you can check it out on my Melinda VanRy Art channel.