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Watercolor sunset painting for day 15
We have reached half way to our 31 days of mini watercolor painting challenge. I am learning a lot of things and improving my skills. I am also trying to help other fellow artists as much as I can. I am planning to have a free watercolor landscape painting session where I will guide other artists on how to paint a landscape. If you are a watercolor enthusiast and want to learn, I invite you to join this event. I will provide you the details soon. So please stay tuned. I took

Heli Naik
Dec 17, 20211 min read


Watercolor sunset painting for day 14
This watercolor sunset painting is the most beautiful sunset I have ever painted. I simply love it. I love the color combination and I how to Yellow color is popping from behind the trees. Just look at this sunset, I want to be there when I look at this painting. How about you? This watercolor sunset painting is a reference from @poetsphere again. I love teaching how to paint watercolor sunsets like this. If you are interested, you can message me or comment below so that I ca

Heli Naik
Dec 16, 20211 min read


Watercolor candy sky painting day 13
For day 13 to paint this watercolor candy sky painting, I took a reference from Instagram account - poetspere. It‘s a beautiful account, you should check it out. Have you ever painted watercolor sky? If you have, you must know that it is very satisfying. When I painted this beautiful candy sky painting, I enjoyed the colors mixing with each other. When you are painting using a reference picture, don’t afraid to tweak it, depending on what you want to paint. You can add a tree

Heli Naik
Dec 15, 20211 min read


Watercolor light house landscape painting day 12
I have painted this watercolor light house landscape painting on a big canvas few months back and when I started watercolor challenge.

Heli Naik
Dec 14, 20211 min read


Watercolor flower meadow landscape painting day 11
It is day 11 of 31 days of mini watercolor painting challenge. For these watercolor painting challenge I am painting original watercolor paintings, taking references from free image providers and taking skillshare class as well. So far so good. Watercolor flower meadow landscape painting day 11 As I told you in the previous blog, for the day 11, I decided to continue the Skillshare class from Zaneena Nabeel. Now you must have noticed that she is one of my favourite watercolor

Heli Naik
Dec 13, 20211 min read


Watercolor landscape painting with flower meadow
This watercolor landscape with flower meadow is from Zaneena Nabeel’s Skillshare class.

Heli Naik
Dec 12, 20211 min read


Watercolor landscape painting day 9
Watercolor landscape is my favourite subject to paint. For the day 9 of the 31 days of mini watercolor painting challenge I recreated one of my painting I did few time back. I enjoyed using gold watercolor on the torn edges of the paper and on the Sun and Water, too. Watercolor landscape painting reference For the reference for this watercolor landscape painting, I used Pixabay. You will find amazing references there. Things you will need 300 gsm cold pressed watercolor paper

Heli Naik
Dec 11, 20211 min read


Watercolor landscape painting for day 8
I am unconsciously choosing watercolor landscape for my 31 days of mini watercolor painting challenge and also including pine trees.

Heli Naik
Dec 10, 20212 min read


Snowy night watercolor landscape
It is the day 7, guys! The first week of 31 days of mini watercolor paintings is officially over.

Heli Naik
Dec 9, 20211 min read


Snowy winter watercolor landscape
The first week of the 31 days of mini watercolor paintings is about to finish. In the beginning I haven’t decided a theme.

Heli Naik
Dec 8, 20211 min read


Watercolor sky painting
Hello there! I hope you are doing fine. I love painting watercolor sky. I love painting clouds and birds flying in the sky. For this watercolor sky painting, I did torn edges again! I added electricity poles in the painting. The color combination of yellow ochre and Indigo is my favourite. When I first tried this color combination, I was not so sure about it but when I painted it the right way, I fell in love. The first time I got to know about this watercolor sky color combi

Heli Naik
Dec 7, 20211 min read


Watercolor night sky painting
Have you ever painted a night sky and splattered white gouache or white watercolor on it to paint stars? I

Heli Naik
Dec 6, 20211 min read


Watercolor sunset painting
Day 3 is here already! For the day 3 of 31 days of mini watercolor paintings, I decided to paint a sunset sky with Yellow and Orange colors

Heli Naik
Dec 5, 20211 min read


Winter watercolor landscape painting
Welcome to the day 2 of 31 days of mini watercolor paintings challenge. For the day 2 I decided to join Zaneena Nabeel’s Skillshare class.

Heli Naik
Dec 4, 20212 min read


31 days of mini watercolor paintings
I am starting a new watercolor painting challenge - 31 days of mini watercolor paintings. Yay! I am so excited.

Heli Naik
Dec 3, 20213 min read


The Indigo Watercolor Story: From Ancient Dye to Modern Art
I love to know how the colors we use in our paintings invented and how they are made. I am starting a new series called “The color of the month” where I will post about a color each month, about its history, how it was invented, the famous paintings made using the color, etc. Of course the Indigo has to be the first because it is one of my personal favourite color. I love Indigo. So, let’s get to know this beautiful color. How Indigo Watercolor was invented? Marco Polo (thir

Heli Naik
Nov 26, 20213 min read


Watercolor sunset bookmark painting tutorial
In this tutorial, we will learn to paint a sunset bookmark. We will paint a sky, palm trees and birds. This tutorial is beginner friendly. If you try this, do not forget to share with me. If you have any question regarding this, comment down so I can guide you. I hope you will enjoy this tutorial. If you try this, please share with me. Thank you for visiting! See you in the next tutorial.

Heli Naik
Sep 27, 20211 min read


Sap green and new tutorial video : 27 September 2021
In this blog - comparing Winsor and Newton Sap Green and Sennelier Sap Green. Uploaded a new painting tutorial on my YouTube channel.

Heli Naik
Sep 27, 20212 min read


I welcome you to my art diary
Hello! I welcome you to my art diary And let me tell you more about it. But first, let me introduce myself. My name is Heli and I am a self-taught watercolor artist. I paint watercolor landscapes, flowers and animals. Basically, nature is my inspiration. Besides of art, taking care of my plants is my hobby. I was working as a programmer for 3 years before I decided to become a full-time artist. While I was working for my 9-5 job, I used to paint whenever I got time and sell t

Heli Naik
Sep 24, 20212 min read
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