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Sneak peek! 💕✨ I’m so excited to share a little preview of my February watercolor tutorial, and I’d love your input!

This tutorial is all about 10 hearts, painted with 10 different watercolor techniques—a perfect way to explore new skills while creating something fun and festive! If you enjoyed my Leaves or Christmas Ornaments tutorials, you’ll love this one! We’ll be playing with wet-on-wet blends, glazing, negative painting, masking fluid, metallics, and more.

This is also a great beginner-friendly way to get comfortable with watercolor techniques before we dive back into more complex compositions! 🎨✨

I have 9 hearts ready to go, but I’ve saved space for one last special heart—and I want your ideas! What technique or material should I feature? Something extra decorative? Another take on negative painting? A dreamy pigment combo? Let me know in the comments, and I might include your idea in the final tutorial—just in time for Valentine’s Day! ❤️🎨✨

Bonus: I’ll also be sharing some of my favorite reds for watercolor, including a rare mineral red I’ve never shown you before! We’ll talk about their unique effects and how they can be used for botanicals, skin tones, and more. Can’t wait to hear your ideas! ❤️

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Elaine Bruckman

All very cute. Maybe a heart with a little message. Like those candy hearts in a little box. be mine, luvu, kiss, hug ....

Sheryl Hill

Maybe a heat with flowers!

Diane

Intricate folk art maybe?

Joanne Winters

I would love to see a heart with some flowers as well! The folk art idea sounds neat too

Carol Brantner

Heart bouquet with metallic colors and ribbon.

Angela

A chocolate or candy heart would be cute too.

Wendy Champness

A red, red heart ❤️ surrounded by a frilly heart in pink. (Sort of like the blue frilly heart.) And some design on the central red heart, but nothing like the eye, rather a frilly or swirly design. I love the blue ribbon- wrapped heart!

Grazyna N

A heart surrounded by flowers?

Angela

a dark coquette heart, dark reds and purples?

Nicki

Something with gouache?

Yvette

The heart with the ribbon and bow

eli

Came here to say the same! ☺️

Carmen Alma

A heart with Cupids arrow going through it

Maria Overlay

I love the idea a folk art style heart!

Lynn Muster

I’d like something a little more advanced for the final heart! I found an inspiration photo I’ll see you in messages 💝

Linda O'Neill

I wonder if a 3D transparent glass heart were possible.

Martine Leblanc

All of these are beautiful for a study ,

Monica

I love the geometric one it is different 💕

Lynn Muster

Well, can’t post a photo. Bummer! Anyways, it is a heart with a beautiful wet in wet sky at the top and then a flower field at the bottom of the heart…..

Emmy Tafoya Mullennix

• An anatomical heart would be awesome. • Mylar Balloon (super shiny) • candy heart on a stick

Sammie Bryant

I love the one with the bow or the geometric one.

Judith Light

I love the heart with the eye and the flame, why not do a flaming heart? Love your work..or what about a different coloured heart, like cerulian blue with yellow and orange flames! Good Luck Anna ♥

Rizzo76

Rusty metal?

Perga Fey

Simply Fabulous. I love them all.

Cindy Price

Maybe a flower coming out of the center or leaves vining around the perimeter?

Cindy Price

Like a heart paperweight maybe?

CynthiaJQ

Maybe a chocolate cake or candy heart?

Kari

Heart with a flower and a butterfly?

Martine Leblanc

Anna , I am so glad , I receive your Book ! I am in Québec and I love and share your beautiful work

trillBird

I think you should do a nod to an anatomical heart. :)

Rebecca W Guinn

Extra decorative line and wash technique. "Hearts and flowers" with flourishes...

Melanie Potter

Love the idea of the Tin Man's heart!

D lonergan

All these ideas sound really interesting and fun…..but whatever the design, I’d really like to see it done in iridescent/metallic paints. I love anything that glitters!!!

SrLovina Pammit

I would love to learn a Victorian style heart design with perhaps a vintage style rose within the heart or outside it, using the typical more muted rose vintage colors.

Melissa

How about a crazy quilt valentine?

Mal Mosely

Hi there.. your hearts are delightful ...perhaps a heart that is a leaf...a leaf shaped heart... so a combination of natural and your own style of patterning...

Lynn

I love the idea of a hearts tutorial maybe with a flower or a butterfly for something different. I have a question about brushes. I bought one larger size Escoda Perla and fell in love with the brushes. What smaller sizes would you recommend? I paint realistic birds and botanicals usually wet on dry, hot press, so lots of detail. Thank you!

Anna Bucciarelli

Hi Lynn, For smaller brushes I recommend more stiff variations, either sable or better yet sable / synthetics. I love my Escoda Chonos for sizes 00 and 2 - they have more spring which I find helpful at this size. Thank you!