Swati Singh Studio
Botanical tutorials
Step-by-step watercolor flower tutorials covering petals, leaves, glazing, color mixing and realistic botanical details.
Learn to paint expressive, realistic flowers in watercolor through complete studies of roses, hydrangeas, daisies, tulips and more. These lessons focus on transparent layers, soft wet-in-wet transitions, crisp wet-on-dry details and the color choices that give petals and leaves their form.
19 lessons
July 31, 2022
Hello, my lovely artists. Hope you all are enjoying painting in watercolors. If not, don’t worry I am here with such an amazing subject to paint this week, you simply won’t be able to resist painting- Purple hydrangeas! These are my favourite flowers. Sometime…
July 2, 2022
Hello, my lovely artists. How are you all doing? Monsoon has arrived here in India. And it is making my plants so happy! Nothing like a peaceful monsoon morning with drops of water on the flowers from all the drizzling. Today we are painting the leaves of the…
May 31, 2022
Hello, my lovely artists. How are you all doing? I am having a very good time busy gardening and enjoying beautiful summer blooms in my garden. Roses in particular are coming in plenty and adding fragrance to my mornings. Today we will be painting a golden shr…
May 8, 2022
Hello dear artists. Hope you all are doing great. I am here with Part 2 of the Rose series. Today we will be painting the leaves and stems of the roses. Although painting the leaves is a little complex and tedious task (especially in a busy subject like this)…
April 1, 2022
Hello, my lovely artists. Hope you all are safe and sound. I am in India and celebrated the festival of Holi a few days back, which is the festival of colours and marks the beginning of the spring season here. After two years of Corona and lockdown, the festiv…
August 2, 2020
Hello, my lovely artists! August is here already. The year 2020 is so unusual and chaotic all around the world. I pray that you all stay blessed for the rest of the year. Water lilies or lotus as you may say are such a beautiful looking flower. There are so ma…
October 3, 2019
Hi all, fall season is here but I can’t help and share a tutorial of this beautiful tulip I captured during our visit to a Tulip Garden in Virginia. What grabbed my attention about this tulip was the beautiful colours and patterns it showed on the body. I inst…
August 19, 2017
Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the daisy series. Today the series is finally coming to an end with some finishing touches. So are you ready to see the painting transform! I am not using any new colors in the tutorial today. To know about all the color mixing…
August 11, 2017
Hello, beautiful artists! How are you all doing with the Daisy series so far? I did get a chance to see some of the artworks in the past few days and I must say they all are turning out to be beautiful! I love looking at your work so do not hesitate to share i…
July 28, 2017
Hello, my lovely artists! How are you all doing? I am here with Part 3 of the series. Today we are going to tackle the background as well as the vase in the composition. If you are new to the series you are welcome! Below are the links to the previous parts in…
July 14, 2017
Hello, everyone ! Welcome to part 2 of the Daisy series. Today we are painting the yellow centers of the daisy flowers. We will focus on achieving two things: a . To make them look 3D and b . To get the right texture . THE COMPOSITION The WATERCOLORS used are…
June 10, 2017
Hello, my lovely artists, hope you all are doing great! Oh boy, does it feel amazing to type this blog post after so long? You bet it does! Firstly, I must thank you all for being so patient with me all this time amidst all the studies and exams. Well, I am ha…
May 14, 2016
Welcome, everyone! Today, I have a beautiful hyacinth tutorial in watercolor. So are you ready for the last challenge in the Spring series? Welcome, rain drops! Below is a photograph I took in a flower farm last week. The hyacinths are drenched in rain. The wa…
April 30, 2016
Today I am sharing a very quick and easy method of painting Salvia May Night in watercolors. Painting individual petals in a plant like this can become very daunting. So an easy method is to suggest these petals with different brush strokes. May Night is an ou…
April 16, 2016
Hello, lovely people! I am here with yet another painting in the spring series. Today I am showing you how to paint some realistic pansies or violas in watercolors. Pansies are among the most popular garden flowers today. Plant seeds in late winter for early s…
April 1, 2016
Did you know? Forsythia is named in honor of William Forsyth, one of the founders of the Royal Horticultural Society. Welcome back you all. Today we will be painting Forsythia flowers in watercolors. Forsythia is one of my favorite bush during the spring seaso…
March 26, 2016
Hello, lovely people. Wish you all a very happy Easter weekend! The weather around has changed a lot. New leaves can be seen everywhere. Just loving the fresh breeze. I hope you are enjoying the spring season too. Today I am sharing with you the step by step m…
March 12, 2016
DID YOU KNOW? Tulips started to become highly prized in Holland in the 1600s.This led to a period from 1634 to 1637 known as "Tulip mania" when enthusiasm for the new flower started an economic frenzy and one of the world's first 'speculative bubbles'. The val…
February 5, 2016
Hello, everyone. How are you all doing! Do you know the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love? The red rose, of course. The bud stands for strong romantic feelings, so it's no surprise they make up the most popular Valentine's Day bouquets . Rose…