Watercolor Valentine's Day Cookies

Celebrate love with some watercolor Valentine’s Day cookies! Grab your favorite watercolors, colored pencils, and even metallic colors and a white gel pen depending on how you want to decorate your cookies.

Supplies:

Paint: Ho lbein Artists’ Watercolor
Brush(es): Creative Mark’s Mimik Synthetic, round size 6 and 3
Colored Pencil: Caran D’Ache Pablo
Paper: Canson XL Watercolor Paper (5″x7″)
White gel pen
Jars of water
Pencil and eraser
Paper towel or cotton rag
All of my favorite supplies here

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Step 1: Sketch cookie shapes with colored pencils

I started out by sketching the shapes of the watercolor valentine’s day cookies. I decided to do six cookies and alternate the circle and heart shapes. If you have cookie cutters, use them to trace! Or feel free to do any shapes that you please.

Step 2: Choose cookie frosting flavors

In this step, you can really make it your own. I chose red, brown, and pink to make my frosting. When you paint larger areas, make sure to show different values. Add a bit more water than paint to make lighter value colors.

In the last heart cookie, I made one half pink and the other plain.

Step 3: Add frosting details

Wait for everything to dry before you add frosting details. For the red heart cookie, I’m adding gold metallic sprinkles with a round size 3 brush. Because why not! I love metallic touches.

For the second row, round cookie, I’m adding heart shaped sprinkles with a red colored pencil.

For the chocolate heart cookie, I’m using my white gel pen to add a white frosting drizzle. Yum!

The last two cookies got some more sprinkle and drizzle details with colored pencils.

Step 4: Add shadows

The final step is to add shadows. For this step, you can glaze a thin layer of watercolor or use the colored pencil to outline and shade. Don’t be picky about how the shadow happens, but let yourself experiment and play and see what feels right for you!