Watercolor Cat

For today’s daily create I decided to get out the ol’ watercolors.

I’ve been using this heavily textured cotton rag paper to do watercolor sketches for a few weeks now and I truly adore it! The paper immediately soaks in the paint and water, which is not ideal for blending, but really fun for simple geometric sketches like this.

I didn’t bother using a pencil to draw the cat first, I just started painting. Sometimes I like to just see what comes out.

Here are the super simple steps to make this cat:

1. Load up your brush with saturated full color and paint a rough outline of the cat’s body, a simple rectangle, and pointy ears.
2. Add a lot of water to the brush and start filling in the body with water, pulling the saturated paint away from the outline and into the center of the cat.
3. Make rough outlines for eyes and a nose
4. When the first layer of paint is completely dry, go in with other colors to fill in the eyes, nose, and ears.
5. Add stripey details on top of the base layer of paint
6. Use a pen to add pupils in the eyes.

I’m loving this little cutie, I think I’ll make a whole rainbow of cats this week!