If you’re looking for watercolor animal painting ideas and inspiration, I’ve got you covered. You’ll love these gorgeous watercolor animals.
Below, you’ll find an inspiring variety of animal watercolor paintings. From beginner-friendly to advanced, you’re sure to find a painting for your skill level.
I’m sharing rabbit references, chicken painting references, bird paintings, and more.
If you’re looking for even more inspiration, consider painting the animals you see around you. You can paint your family pet, the birds outside, and so much more.
Worksheets I Use to Practice Watercolor
- Watercolor Success in 4 Steps: This book features 150 easy watercolor painting projects including flowers, fruits and veggies, animals, and more.
- How to Draw Flowers: Learn how to easily draw flowers with these printable worksheets.
1. Snake on a Hand
This creative painting features a hand with a snake wrapped around it. The color palette was a great choice for this art piece.
2. Rabbit
I love the art style used for this watercolor rabbit painting. The paint splatters help make this painting stand out.
3. Farm Animals
Practice your skills by drawing and painting small doodles like these. The more you practice, the better you will get.
4. Rabbit Faces and Flowers
This painting shows a rabbit’s head drawn from different angles. This is a great way to improve your skills when painting realistic animals.
5. Watercolor Fox in Snow
If you’re looking for gift ideas, a handmade painting like this would make a great gift for friends and family.
6. Watercolor Chicken
I love the watercolor style that was used to paint this chicken. Check out the artist to see more art pieces like this one.
7. Cute Finch
Here’s a simple and realistic painting of a bird. The texture of the birds feathers was done so well here.
8. Owl with Flowers
I love this cute owl painting. A design look this would look great on a handmade greeting card.
9. Watercolor Hare
This painting uses the loose painting technique. A loose painting communicates visually with suggestions rather than trying to describe everything in precise detail.
10. Chicken Doodles
If you’re looking for a reference you can paint while relaxing and not worrying too much about the details, these chicken doodles make a great reference.
11. Mom and Baby Giraffe
This cute mother and baby giraffe painting would make a great gift for Mother’s Day when painted on canvas.
12. Flower Power
Be inspired by these four animal paintings featuring a bunny rabbit, a duck, a mouse, and a cute cat wearing a floral crown.
13. Monarch Butterfly
I love paintings that feature flowers and butterflies. If you do as well, I know you’ll love this painting.
14. Watercolor Whales
If you love watercolor art inspired by nature, make sure you check out more of Lauren’s work using the link below.
15. Fox Painting
This fox painting makes a great reference for those who are new to watercolor. You can swap out the pink for your favorite color.
16. Cute Sailor Bear
If you love this bear painting, I highly recommend checking out the artist to see more. They have a fun and unique art style.
17. Rainforest Animals
This painting has a gorgeous rainforest theme. Not only is the drawing great, but the colors go perfectly together.
18. Floral Hedgehog
This hedgehog is really strutting its stuff in this painting. I love how the artist used flowers for the body.
19. Mouse with Flower Crown
This cute mouse painting looks amazing. I love the detail that was used here. Unfortunately, the artist’s Instagram account is no longer active, so I’m unable to share their page.
20. Woodland Animals
Aren’t these woodland forest animals the cutest? Check out
BTL Art Studio to purchase stickers from the artist.
21. How to Draw a Cat
The artist has created a four-step visual of how they went about painting this cute little kitty. They really did a great job with this.
22. Orange and Blue Snake
Seeing this painting up close shows you how simple it can be to paint snakes. The artist behind this painting has an Etsy shop I recommend checking out.
23. How to Paint an Owl
Learn how to paint an owl with this simple step-by-step tutorial. Once you’ve learned how to paint the owl, you can add additional elements to your painting like flowers.
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