This may just be one of the easiest and most fun watercolor flower painting projects, because you don’t even have to “paint”! Love blowing bubbles? Love to paint Hydrangea flowers? Read on.
When I first stumbled upon an image of bubble paint hydrangeas on Discount School Supplies website, I just knew I HAVE to try it! I had so much fun and made the paintings in 2 ways because I don’t want to stop!
First, the bubble paint recipes- use paint and dish soap that are labeled Non Toxic !!
You can buy bubble paint, but it’s very easy to make your own! I tested a few mixes, and the one I am really happy with is 1 part (by volume) acrylic paint, 1 part dish soap, and 2 parts water. Mix them up, that’s it! ( Some of the helpful resources are affiliate links. Full disclosure here. )
Find a dish to mix the paint. Mine are about 6″x9″, and 2″ deep.
The paper I use here are these card stock, which hold up great! Now let the fun begin!
When you get a clump of fat bubbles ( I don’t need to explain how to do that right?) take a piece of paper and press it onto the bubbles. You can repeat a couple of times to get the desired shapes and colors!
A shallow dish works well because the bubbles can come up easily, and when we press the paper onto the bubbles, the paper won’t touch the rim of the dish and cause smudging.
I used 2 colors here, one dish has rose pink, the other purple.
Now our Hydrangea flowers are starting to take shape!
For one of the paintings, I painted some watercolor leaves in various shades of green, cut them out and glued them around the blossoms.
The other painting was completed by adding stems and painting a few leaves with water color.
These brushes are great for all kinds of painting . I like using those with a nice pointed tip for watercolors, they are great for washes, and for finer details.
I felt the leaves need to pop a bit more, so I used a pen and added some rich details in both paintings, super easy though, just draw some lines!
These are my favorite art pens to use! Sakura 6-Piece Pigma Micron Ink Pens. I used #01 here.
Now a little gift / craft project- make your own sets flower greeting cards with these free printable cards!
Make your own sets flower greeting cards with free printable cards!
If you love the idea of painting with unconventional and fun techniques, here are a couple of tutorials you will enjoy –
Paint a Watercolor Fall tree in 10 minutes!
Paint easy watercolor flowers!
Hope you enjoyed today’s little project!
Wish everyone a bubbly weekend! =)
Beautiful!
My grandson wants to try it!
his will be gorgeous! xo
You are amazing. I have wanted to try painting and you are the spark that will get me started.
happy painting Liz!! =)
oh noooooooooooooo another lovely idea for me to try. I need more hours in the day
thank you cherie! i need 48hr/day too! =)
How beautiful! What a great idea! My girls would be super thrilled to do this!
Ahh this is SO cute!!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
xoxo
Lee Anne
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Okay, so I have to do this IMMEDIATELY! How cute is this?! I can’t wait to try this. I only hope mine come out as beautiful as this <3
yay have fun angelic! xx
That is such a cool method and the results are gorgeous!
I have done bubble painting with my daughter, but nothing this lovely came of it! Maybe mom needs to do some bubble painting of her own! These are great! 🙂
yes mom needs to play more! xx
LOVE how it turned out – VERY 3D! Super cute! I definitely want to try this with my kiddo! <3
awesome! have fun! xx
This is way too nifty! I must give this a try! <3
Wow!! What a lovely and super fun craft! I will definitely be trying this with the kids over the weekend. Thanks so much for sharing 😉
have fun sabrina and thank you for visiting! =)
Oh my gosh, I’m totally pinning this – GORGEOUS! And they actually *look* pretty easy too!
This is so beautiful and looks like a lot of fun to do.
OMG this is so cool looking. I love how creative it is, and it is super gorgeous on the outcome. Thanks for sharing this!!
Oh my gosh. This is seriously amazing, I am blown away. You always do such amazing things. I wish I had a tenth of your talent.
I love how this turned out! You are SO talented!
oh wow! these turned out great!! who knew you could do that with bubbles.
Fun, fun, fun!
My son got to do something like at school last year. It looks like fun.
These are so pretty! What a fun project. Thanks for sharing!
This is SUCH a cute method! I’m not exactly artistically inclined (my students used to make fun of me when I tried to draw stuff on the board back when I was teaching!!), but I love arts and craft. Definitely trying this!
have fun natalie! =)
Ananda, I hope you are ready for company, because I’m totally coming over! You do the funnest projects – and you even seem to make it do-able for the rest of us! I would never attempt anything like this, but with the tutorial, I just might give it a try. So pretty!
awesome! we will have soap bubbles for lunch and spiced shrimp for dinner! xo
This is beautiful! What stunning and creative art!
All of these are so pretty!! I really need to have more art around my home!
You are so clever, I love this x
“Unconventional and fun techniques” – well said. And they are rekindling my hopes 🙂 This would also be great to do with kids, though my “eldest” (she’s three) might be tempted to swallow the bubbles rather than blowing them… hem…
i was tempted to swallow the bubbles too! =)
This is so pretty and does not seem hard to do either.. Thanks for sharing ;o)
Wow! These look simply incredible!
I love your creativity and that you share all your ideas and discoveries. 🙂
hi there,
I just tried this out, because it looked so good and nice how you did it.
But it didn’t work out for me ;(.
I don’t get how to make the bubbles grow big. By me they only stayed small 🙁 and tried it many times.
I also don’t get how you put it on a paper?
Could you please help me out wiht this?
Really want to understand this…
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jiska
hi jiska, paints are different in consistency, if the bubbles are too small, try equal part paint, soap, and water. when the mixture is thicker, the bubbles can get bigger =)
just press the paper gently on top of the bubbles and lift off, that should work!
Thank you so much for the tutorial, I’ve been trying to do this for many times now and I failed, my mistake is that I only put a little bit of dish soap.
thanks camille! thickness is the key! hope it works now =)
This is beautiful and cannot wait to try with my daughter. She loves art!! Thank you for sharing
thank you melissa!! enjoy!!
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This is great 🙂 So fun and effective :-).. Thinking of adapting this sightly as an art activity for my child (when he can be trusted to not slurp up the bubbles) I am sure he would love it 🙂
I have featured this tutorial in a floral craft inspiration list on my blog to share with my readers 🙂 http://www.jennamichellepink.co.uk/2015/06/11/12-fabulous-floral-craft-ideas/
thank you so much jenna!! xx
HI. My colors are not coming out nearly as dark as the ones in the picture are. Any suggestions? Thanks!
i would use darker colors, and repeat with more layers =)
I just discovered your page and I am so in love! You have Talent – thank you so much for sharing! There are so many ideas here I’d like to try! This one my kids will definitely adore. Thank you for the inspiration
hi gwen, thank you so much for your kind words! thrilled to have you here! 🙂
I’ve been looking for an art project to do with my daughter’s 1st grade class, this looks perfect! Do you know of the bubble/paint mixtures can be made in advance? Thanks!
Hi sharon, if you cover the mixture it will still work the next day. Just stir it up. I would not store it for too long 🙂
Hi! I am thinking about doing this as a 1 day project in my VBS. How long does it take for the bubbles to dry on the paper? I am planning on painting leaves on white paper before hand and have them cut out the leaves themselves.
they dry within an hour 🙂 happy painting!
Ok great! This will be on my art program this year! So excited! Thank you!