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Here are my luscious watercolor lips! Well, they are not my lips but I did enjoy painting them. After I drew some graphite lips for the TADD art prompt of “Lips” this week, I was lip-crazy so I thought I’d try to paint some.
My List of Art Lessons on YouTube
On my YouTube channel Rain Frances Art, I offer drawing and painting lessons. Some are time-lapsed and there are shorts there, but the majority now are real-time. Click on this link and it will bring you to my index page where you can browse through over one hundred drawing and painting lessons!
The Supplies I Used To Paint “My” Lips
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I love these Visual Journals! I have a bunch of them. This time I pulled out the watercolor paper. I only used one brush, a #2 round. And I used my pan watercolor paints.
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The brand of paints I have is called “Pretty Excellent”. I love them! I found them on Amazon years ago and I use them very often – they seem to last forever. The colors are very vibrant!
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I used three hues of red to paint my watercolor lips. I wanted to show you a closeup of the paints because we don’t always have the same colors. I used Rose Red, Madder Red and Scarlet Red. I think if you have a red that is on the pink side, that would substitute for the Rose Red. The Madder Red is a darker red and the Scarlet Red has an orange hue to it.
My Painting Process
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The first thing I did was draw a very rough pair of lips onto my watercolor paper. I took a photo of this stencil and made it into a downloadable PDF if you’d like to use it! Then, I used my kneaded eraser to gently press down on the outline and lift excess graphite off the paper. I don’t like seeing graphite under watercolor, but that’s just me. I started with the Rose Red, wet on wet, to add color to the top lip. I used Madder Red to draw some contour lines on the upper lip. Where the lips meet, I used Scarlet Red. I was careful not to paint any color in the areas where I outlined for the highlights.
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I continued by painting contour lines on the upper lip and shading the top of the lower lip. Then, I painted the lower lip with Scarlet Red, avoiding those areas I outlined for the highlights.
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I painted the lips around the sides of the mouth to darken them, blending with water. I added more dark shading under the lower lip then added white to the highlighted areas.
![How to paint lips with watercolors step 4](https://www.rainfrancescreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/How-To-Paint-Lips-Step-4-1024x352.jpg)
The final touches were to darken the line where the lips meet, add contour lines on the lower lip, and then make the highlights a little brighter using white paint.
![how to paint lips with watercolors this image shows my painting of watercolor drawn lips](https://www.rainfrancescreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/watercolor-lips-art-1024x647.jpg)
And my lips are all puckered up, ready for a kiss! ☺
Real-Time Art Lesson and Supply List
If you’d like to try painting my lips, I have the real-time art lesson on my YouTube channel Rain Frances Art. The video is about half an hour long. Here are the supplies you’ll need:
- Watercolor paper, I used Visual Journal 90 lb watercolor paper, 5.5” x 8”
- Watercolor paints: pinkish-red, dark red, orange-red, I used Rose Red, Madder Red and Scarlet Red
- #2 round brush
- My printable stencil and a kneaded eraser (optional)
Let me know in the comments if you tried my Watercolor Lips painting tutorial!
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