Watercolor Art

This round of ArtHelper Selects is dedicated to watercolor in all its forms: loose and expressive, tight and technical, abstract washes, botanical detail, cityscapes that bleed at the edges. If it was made with watercolor, it belongs here!

📌 HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ART

Leave a comment on this thread with an image of your best piece for the category!

One image per person. If you submit more than one, the extras will be removed. Choose your best! 🙂

📌 HOW VOTING WORKS

Anyone can vote! Just hit the upvote button on the entries you love most. The image with the most votes when the contest closes wins.

End Date: April 15, 2026

📌 WHAT THE WINNER GETS

👑 A crown badge displayed next to their name in ArtHelper to show off the win!

🌟 The winning image shared on the ArtHelper Instagram! (22k+ followers)

Fun perks for the winner aside, ArtHelper Selects is really just about celebrating all the amazing work coming from our community. Let’s make this thread uplifting and supportive for everyone participating! 

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These are two watercolor paintings I did for mine and my daughters book project. Through ups and downs, we managed to make a beautiful trilogy together based on the Indian epic Ramayana. It took us some years but both of us grew together, learned, healed and were able to see this project to its completion. I have also published 2 artbooks with the artwork I did for this trilogy (about 350 watercolor paintings, pencil and ink drawings and vignettes).

Watercolor painting of spring flowers to celebrate that the cold winter is gone!

This is a small but really fun piece I did about a year ago. It is fun to explore different color combinations. It can be very helpful. Colors create moods and expressions. Do you have a favorite color harmony?

What's more your style?

Hi, glad to be here. I haven’t been painting long, but I always knew I wanted to paint watercolour. I’m self-taught through the wonders of YouTube, but never felt good at it. The thing I love most is pushing colours, watching them flow, crash, and mingle. Two years ago I played around with putting botanicals into wet paint and for the first time, truly felt like I was an artist, because it felt like me. This is one of my firsts and it’s

still my favourite.

Hi. Here is a new watercolor painting. I saw a simple dandelion image on Facebook and thought I could do a little better.  Using first ChatGPT and then Playground AI, I generated an abstract image of a dandelion that had reached its puffball stage where its pappuses were being carried away by the wind. I followed my normal procedure where I sketched my generated image onto watercolor paper and then painted it.  It is 8 x 10 inches in size and prepared on Arches cold pressed paper using Grumbacher Academy paints and Utrecht permanent white gouache. 

I was working on a 780,000 acre sheep station on the Nullabor. The car I was driving solo in broke down. I decided to walk home rather than wait 10-12 hrs for someone to realise I wasn't home and come looking for me.

2.5 hours, 9.75 kilometres later I made it home