Watercolor abstract painting ideas with simple shapes, dots, modern marks, and layered blue green mixed media texture.

2 Bold Abstracts with Ocean’s Paper Watercolors & Blick Matte Magic

In this mixed media art tutorial, I create two bold and expressive paintings inspired by a recent 12-piece grid project.

Using the same Color Cube palette and Ocean’s Paper handmade watercolors, I build layered backgrounds and then add striking contrast with stencil work and Blick Purple Madder Matte acrylic paint.

You’ll see how mark making, gold accents, and deep tones come together to create rich visual texture. If you love abstract mixed media, handmade watercolor techniques, and layering with stencils, you’ll feel right at home in this creative process video.

Looking for the supplies I used? I’ve listed all my favorite and most-used materials on one easy-to-update page here: https://2lilowls.com/favorite-supplies-for-mixed-media-abstract-art/

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Note: I don’t list individual supply links on every post any longer, simply because keeping up with that for each video or project took more time than I have. Instead, I’ve created one easy-to-browse page where I’ve listed all my favorite and most-used art supplies. It’s always up to date, and a great place to find what I’m working with most often.

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I arranged two finished abstract watercolor and mixed media paintings featuring peach, blue, gold, and deep purple botanical patterns on watercolor paper.

I layered deep purple leaf shapes with metallic gold outlines over peach and blue watercolor washes in this abstract mixed media painting.

I combined dark purple organic shapes, blue watercolor, gold stencil texture, pink marks, and hand-drawn patterns in this abstract mixed media artwork.

I displayed two abstract mixed media watercolor paintings beside brushes, watercolor pans, and markers on my art table.

I layered metallic gold spiral stencil patterns over blue and peach watercolor with dark linear marks in an abstract mixed media painting.

I painted dark purple botanical leaves over blue and peach watercolor washes with pink marks and metallic gold line details.

I layered deep purple curved shapes, metallic gold texture, blue marks, pink patterns, and watercolor washes in this bold abstract painting.

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2 Bold Abstracts with Ocean’s Paper Watercolors & Blick Matte Magic

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