Easy Watercolor Flower Bouquet Tutorials for Beginners (Artist Review)

✅ Quick Overview
• 🌸 Learn 3 easy watercolor flower bouquet tutorials — perfect for beginners
• 🎨 Practice brush control, water ratios, and color harmony while painting
• ⏱️ Each project can be completed in under an hour
• 💐 Adapt colors, layouts, and details for endless bouquet variations
• ✨ Save these tutorials to track your progress and build confidence
🌸 Introduction
If you enjoy watercolor flower tutorials, this post is for you!
I’m a self-taught watercolor artist, and when I began learning in 2020, I didn’t consider myself artistic at all. What changed everything for me? Consistently painting. And what did I consistently paint? Easy tutorials — especially flowers, which quickly became my go-to projects!
Back then (and still to this day), I kept my eye out for simple, beginner-friendly watercolor projects . And when I came across one that was a keeper, I would bookmark it so I could paint it again. And to keep it fun and different when I would repeat a project, I would choose different colors or brushes, or vary the scale or layout, or change up some of the elements.
And as I compared the repeat project with the initial painting I had done, I would see visible improvement in water control, brushstroke technique, and overall watercolor skills in the new version.
In my experience, progress really is that simple, showing up regularly and putting brush to paper!
The 3 watercolor flower painting tutorials featured here are perfect to practice — they're beginner-friendly, fun, and so versatile. I’ve painted along with each video myself and share my notes on why they’re great for beginners, along with a few personal tips from my own experience. Each video tutorial covers practical watercolor techniques to help you build brush control, fluidity, and confidence — and each project ends with a charming painting perfect to gift or to keep!
📝 How I Review Watercolor Tutorials
Here’s the method I use to test and review each tutorial I share:
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✅ Watch the tutorial in full at least once
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🎨 Gather art supplies
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🖌️ Paint along with the video
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⏱️ Track brush sizes, paper, colors, and paint time
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👀 Let the piece dry and revisit it with fresh eyes
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📝 Check it against my review criteria:
◦ Under 35 minutes
◦ Beginner-appropriate
◦ Clearly presented and well-paced
◦ Materials listed or easily identifiable
◦ Effective camera angles
◦ Total paint time under 1 hour
◦ Enjoyable and useful -
✨ If it’s a yes — I write the review!
Now that you know my review process, let’s jump into the projects!
Featured Videos: 🎨 3 Easy Watercolor Flower Bouquet Tutorials for Beginners
Ever since my beginner days, loose watercolor flowers have been a go-to favorite for me — they're naturally pretty and imperfect, and painting them brings me joy. If you're like me, I think you'll really enjoy these 3 easy ways to paint watercolor flower bouquets!
Screenshot images from Andrea Nelson's Loose Watercolor & Ink Flower Bouquet Tutorial
1. 🌼 Andrea Nelson — Loose Watercolor & Ink Flower Bouquet
🕒 Duration: 32:55 | Watch on YouTube »
🖌️ Key Techniques & Processes Utilized:
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color-mixing and color harmony
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paint/water ratio
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brush control
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stem and leaf strokes
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outline & fine details with ink
🎯 Why It’s Great for Beginners:
This simple tutorial by Artist Andrea Nelson is ideal for beginners! Her discussion and practical demonstration of how to create a harmonious floral color palette is thorough and applicable to other projects too. I love the initial abstract blob shapes of the flowers — so easy and doable — and the way the inked center/petal details transforms the abstract shapes into beautiful flowers. And while you can mirror her pigment selection if you wish, the paint color choice is entirely up to you!
📝 My Take:
This is a new favorite project, and I have it bookmarked. Keep in mind, this project is shorter and easier if you choose to go with very simple floral and leaf details, and longer if you're doing more intricate flower/leaf detail-work. I've done this tutorial in less than 30 minutes, and in over an hour — and both versions turned out beautiful!
Screenshot images from Michelle Beaudrot's Mini Pumpkin Vase with Flowers Tutorial
2. 🎃 Michelle Beaudrot — Mini Pumpkin Vase with Flowers
🕒 Duration: 1:00 | Watch on YouTube »
🖌️ Key Techniques & Processes Utilized:
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color-mixing and color harmony
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paint/water ratio
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brush control
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petal-shaped strokes
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C-curve brushstrokes
🎯 Why It’s Great for Beginners:
While Michelle Beaudrot's mini pumpkin flower bouquet is perfect for autumn, this project (like the other 2) is beautifully simple and easily adaptable to other colors, shapes, patterns, and size. For example, you could have tiny flowers coming out of an apple, large flowers out of a tree stump, or dandelions coming out of a spiral seashell.
📝 My Take:
I only recently came across this tutorial this artist. I love painting watercolor pumpkins and watercolor flowers, so putting them together is brilliant! I really like Michelle's informative commentary style and the flow of her instruction on this super short video. The project itself was approachable, enjoyable, and so charming.
Screenshot images from Sarah Cray's Watercolor Flowers Blooming from a Book Tutorial
3. 📖 Sarah Cray — Watercolor Flowers Blooming from a Book
🕒 Duration: 31:00 | Watch on YouTube »
🖌️ Key Techniques & Processes Utilized:
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water control
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brush control
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paint/water ratio
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petal-strokes
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stem and leaf strokes
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fine details
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border (optional)
🎯 Why It’s Great for Beginners:
This project by Sarah Cray is so fresh and creative! She provides helpful guidance and encouragementthroughout this step-by-step tutorial, emphasizing this project is all about the process and following your own artistic path. The tutorial allows beginners of all levels the joy of creating a charming watercolor book of blooms as simple or elaborate as the artist chooses. You may find that the looser you are in doing this project, the more you get out of it!
📝 My Take:
This loose floral tutorial is a fun, versatile project. The juxtaposition of the blooms coming out of the open book is unexpected and yet so delightful. As you go through each step, you realize there is no single right way to do it. And, if you're like me, you start thinking of other versions you could paint based on this design — seasonal? holiday? monochrome? butterflies or stars in place of flowers?
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💬 Final Thoughts
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you bookmark or otherwise save to your library a pleasing variety of simple watercolor tutorials. Make sure they are projects you find enjoyable and/or challenging in ways that serve your creative journey.
Each of the watercolor flower bouquet tutorials in this post offer real value to watercolor beginners. The simple projects are accessible to all beginner levels, easily modifiable, and provide a rewarding way to buildyour watercolor skills — even if you only have 30 minutes a week.
🖌️ What to Do Next
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Bookmark this post
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Choose one of the projects for your next painting session
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Pencil out a thumbnail drawing in your watercolor sketchbook.
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✨ Remember, every brushstroke is progress — and flower bouquets are a beautiful way to enjoy the process while growing your skills.
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