Let’s continue creating Christmas spirit
and paint holiday wreaths and holly 🎅🏻
These are easy peasy,
and no fancy art skills required!
You can use watercolor or markers
and make cards, tags or gift wrap
Supplies:
watercolor paint, colored markers
card stock, heavy watercolor paper
blank cards suitable for watercolor or marker
white bags or butcher paper {for gift wrapping}
Let’s start with holly
Load a large round brush with green watercolor
Paint some abstract loose leaf shapes
Add some red berries with small round shapes
When the paint is dry,
use a fine liner pen and loosely draw the leaf and berry outlines
and a few swirly lines~
that’s it!
Make a gift tag or a card
or paint a bag or piece of butcher paper
with scattered holly sprigs and use it to wrap a gift
You can also create a festive wreath with markers
Start with a word or message
Then make a circle around it with short green strokes
Curve the strokes in the same direction all around the message,
forming a circle
I used a dark green marker first,
then added more branches with a lighter shade of green
Then lime
Add red dots for berries and to decorate the center
You can outline “merry” with a black fine liner pen
for a final touch if desired
This is the same wreath in watercolor
With a red bow to finish
The next watercolor version uses abstract shapes and dots
I indicated leaves with dabs of my brush,
just randomly putting down different size shapes,
fast and loose, not over thinking it
I used what I call “scribble technique” for the final touch,
outlining some of the shapes with a black fine liner pen
and basically scribbling over the leaves
I made some collages of these tutorials
in case you want to pin them for reference
Holiday Wreath is also available in my Society 6 Shop
on many different items!
There are huge pre-Christmas sales going on right now
I just added children’s t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies to my shop too
and can’t wait to get some for my grands
Many styles and colors, you can see a sampling here
I hope you have fun trying these wreath and holly designs,
I would love to see photos of your creations!
Be Fearless!
I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs:
Sundays on Silverado/ Love Your Creativity
What’s for Dinner/ Between Naps on the Porch
All About Home/ Common Ground & Follow the Yellow Brick Home
Oh My Heartsie Girl / Turn About Tuesday / Our Tiny Nest
Karin’s Cottage Linky Party / Creative Crafts / Crafty Creators
Full Plate Thursday/ Creatively Crafty/ Thursday Favorite Things