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🌿 A 5-minute colour hunt in your garden (No painting experience needed!)

Published about 22 hours ago • 1 min read

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hi Reader,

When we think about practicing our art, we often imagine sitting down at a pristine desk with all our paints laid out. But one of my absolute favourite ways to sharpen my artist’s eye doesn’t require setting up a full studio at all.

It starts simply by stepping outside into the garden or taking a slow walk down your street.

In our Watercolour Colour Theory Workshop, we do a wonderful exercise where we take a little isolated viewing card outside to isolate tiny swatches of color from nature. It’s amazing what happens when you stop looking at a leaf as just "green" and start seeing the subtle golden undertones, the deep shadows, or the tiny pops of unexpected reddish-brown along the edges!

Welcome to all the new subscribers, if you are on this list you attended one of my workshops or signed up on my website and we are now art friends - stick around we are going to have so much fun together!

🔍 Your 5-Minute Creative Challenge This Week:

You don't need a full afternoon—just five quiet minutes today:

  1. Step Outside: Walk into your garden, porch, or nearby park with your morning tea.
  2. Isolate a Palette: Look closely at a flower, a piece of bark, or an autumn-tipped leaf. Try to spot 3 distinct colors living together in that single object.
  3. Paint a Quick Bookmark: Grab a scrap piece of watercolour paper and dab just a few dots or stripes of those three colours next to each other.

Suddenly, without overthinking a complex scene, you’ve created a custom, nature-inspired colour palette bookmark that feels completely harmonious and unique!

🎁 Need a Little Palette Help? Grab My Freebie Starter Pack!

If you haven't taken the Colour Theory workshop yet—or if you’re not sure how to get started with mixing—I’ve got a gift for you!

I’ve recently updated my Free Watercolour Starter Pack! It’s packed with gentle beginner guides, essential technique breakdowns, and helpful tips to get you playing with pigment with total confidence.

Take a quiet moment for yourself today, step outside, and see what gorgeous colour stories nature has hidden right in plain sight for you.

Warmly,

T (Simply T)

P.S. Have a friend that you want to get creative with? Creativity is always more fun together! Feel free to forward this email to her and invite her on a fun colour hunting walk in the park.

Trinket Treasure

Mixed Media Artist & Educator - Creativity Enabler

Here we do arts and crafts the easy way. Art does not have to be labor intensive, messy or take hours to complete. Simplified techniques using basic supplies so that the projects are quick and easy to complete in a short amount of time, relatively mess free yet satisfying enough for passionate creatives. Subscribe to my community to get tips, techniques and creative inspiration delivered to your inbox.

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