Work for the day is complete now. You have closed your laptop but still your mind is working. Meetings, emails, and deadlines are shouting in your head. You really want to be free and relaxed but are still watching and scrolling down the social media that is making you more tired. There should be a good, creative, and easy path to restart your brain and make yourself fresh again.

You are most welcome to the meditation world of 5-minute watercolor. Using one stroke of the brush this time, it's all about finding relaxation and peace, not making a masterpiece.

Forgetting all the worries of the day and just concentrating on the good time you have now, it will motivate you to do something good. If you still have a belief that you are not an artist, this practice is very simple and easy, as the main aim is to celebrate and enjoy the relaxing time you paint by the smooth running of the brush.

Why 5 Minutes Break for Painting Matters? The Power of Micro-Breaks

Our lives are very busy now, and it is hard to find time for our own care. You cannot afford the precious time of an hour for a long walk or yoga every day. Yes, surely the five minutes are easy to spend. These five minutes are easy to spend checking notifications, stretching your back, or having a cup of tea.

With the help of watercolor, it is exactly a good time to have relaxation. These are the most amazing power-boosting “micro-breaks.” These breaks will stop creating the tensions by playing the role of brain palate cleaners and will also help you transform your workload routine by making you more relaxed and light.

It is good not to spoil your evenings by anxiety and tension during a long working day. It's easy for you to make a good decision to set a limit. 

By ordering your brain that “the work is over now,” 5-minute watercolor meditation will be a separation limit. Now is the time to be relaxed. These little breaks of carefulness will let the changes turn from small to big ones.

You will make your sleep much better than before with no more tension by aiming at the challenges with ease, calm, and more creativity. For your health and care, it is a much smaller investment with big returns. This technique has the delicacy of being simple, as you do not need a specific art studio or more fancy items to start your journey to the fast relief from stress and anxiety. 

Getting Started - Your Simple 5-Minute Setup for Your Watercolor

The best thing about watercolor meditation is that you just have to start a little. You do not need a variety of special paints and expensive canvases. This stress-killing activity has a key, and that is being simple. You will just need a small watercolor book or a pad. 

Just find a paper specially made for watercolor because it will be thick and will not curve. We already have made pre-sketched watercolor books for you that are the best, as they are made of the thicker paper and have a ready-to-paint design, eliminating the stress of drawing that is often a big tension for the beginners. You will need a small set of watercolors for this.

A good basic pan set of watercolors including primary colors (yellow, red, and blue), green, brown, and purple is also enough. One or two brushes are enough, and a medium round brush is good for using more. 

You need two jars of water, one for cleaning your paintbrush when it's dirty and another with clean water to use fresh paint and light colors. You also need a paper towel for cleaning your brush and to dry the extra water.

You will just need these items, and remember to keep them in a small box or a basket near your anti-stressing area. By doing this you are ready for your 5 minutes; everything is at your fingertips, and it will make the change smooth. There is a little hesitation in the start, and you will like it when you start doing it.

The Technique - Three Simple Steps to Mindful Painting 

5-minute watercolor practice has three very easy steps to be followed. You just have to think that the aim is a relaxed, calm mind, not a masterpiece or beautiful painting. Remember to do it as an experiment, not as a burden.

Step 1: The Setup and The Breath (1 Minute)

To start, you just have to sit comfortably at your table. Close your eyes for thirty seconds and take three deep breaths slowly. This is an easy way of aiming on your breath, as it helps to give signals to your body that it is the time to have a change in your activities.

Just think that you are breathing in relaxed cool air and inhale. Imagine leaving all the tensions, stress, and noises from your workday and exhale. Now open your eyes and look at your stuff. You just have to choose two or three colors that attract you at this time.

You do not have to think again and again about color choice but just have to select those you like. Having a few colors motivates you to focus on mixing colors and water control that will make it easy for you to experience enhanced expression of meditation.

Step 2: The Flow and The Focus (3 Minutes)

This is the body of meditation. Soak your brush in clean water, switch on the color you choose, and start painting. These are the two easy methods to follow.

Method A: The Color Wash

Make abstract and large shapes simply, or you can also first wet the paper and then drop the color on the wet surface. This technique is called wet-on-wet, and it is also the most relaxing method of using watercolor. See the colors shine and flow on the paper. 

You don’t have to control the paint; just let it spread so that it can enjoy its own living. The aim is to concentrate deeply on the movement of water and the way the paints cheer and dance. This is a more affordable painting method for relaxation.

Method B: Following the Outline

So now when you are having one of our pre-sketched watercolor books, simply choose an area (like a small leaf, a petal, or a cloud) and aim to paint it with color. As the drawing has already been made, now you can focus entirely on the painting method as 100% good.

Your hands can smoothly run the brush, and your mind can take rest now. Focus on the sound of the brush that it makes on the paper and the fine texture of the paint when it dries. 

The beauty of the pre-sketched design is that it gives you so much to build that keeps your brain strong and stops it from going back to the tension of the all-day-long work stress.

As every time your mind tries to fall into the all-day-long work, now you have to aim again calmly on the brush, water, and paper for these three minutes. If you note that your thinking is leading you to an unread email, you can simply defend the thought and tell yourself that you will and you can read it later by smoothly focusing on the colors flowing on the paper.

Step 3: The Completion and The Pause (1 Minute)

Whenever you feel that you have to stop now or your time is off now, put down the brush quickly. Stop the thinking to change, fix, or complete the painting. Your aim is not completing it. Now watch your creation. 

Now you note the colors and the lines. You do not have to like it, but the effort is appreciable. One last time, close your eyes and take three more slow, deep breaths and note that now your body feels completely different than it was feeling five minutes earlier.

Your jaws are less tight, your shoulders a bit lower, and your brain a little quiet. This is a final break that goals the conversion of being calm in the evening from work tension.

Addressing the Common Beginner Worries

It is noticed that many people hesitate while starting a new hobby, especially painting, because of the fear of complications and failure. We call it “drawing anxiety,” as it is a big stop to relaxing from the stress quickly. This is the reason that watercolor meditation is so effective, and so the friendly tools for the beginners are important.

Worry 1: “It won’t look good.”

The whole aim of this practice is that it does not matter what the result is. If you are stressed, you need a break, not the criticism. The therapy is watching the process of water and color mixing.

If you like to use our pre-sketched books, the drawing is very beautiful and makes you aim naturally for the smoothness of the paint when it is applied. This reduces the fear of bad drawing and makes you free by just focusing on the relaxation and calming.

Worry 2: “I’ll make a mess.”

As water is the main ingredient in watercolor, it is easy to clean it quickly. A short palette and a small paper show the mess. Watercolor mistakes are often liked but not as much as oil paints or acrylics. They create textures and blend, and then you remember to accept the deficiency as a basic approach to a peaceful, healthy life.

If you add more water and the paper clasp, then simply take a deep breath and wait for it to dry. This is a lesson for lack of control.

Worry 3: “I don’t know any techniques.”

The only technique you need for the 5-minute meditation is the skill to soak a brush in water and then run it on paper. You have to aim on simple washes where you speculate a thin layer of color. 

This is often the smooth and simple technique in watercolor. If you want to know more you can search concepts like simple gradient blending and wet-on-wet, but those are for the longer coloring sessions. You have to keep it basic to enlarge the benefits of relaxation.

Extending the Benefits - Integrating Art for Relaxation

You can easily avail this “art for relaxation” in other parts of the day once you experience the rewards of 5 minutes of practice. You can take a 10-minute session on a Saturday morning while having your coffee, or you can also use it for a quick mind break during an hour of lunch.

Being consistent is the key for long-term success. Painting for just five minutes a day, you are training your brain to reset to a relaxed state while being stressed.

You are creating a very strong new habit that gives an appreciable and creative freedom from suppressed tensions. This little practice will make your ability strong to focus on improving your mood. 

You are investing in a future of greatness, creativity, and stress free self by investing in tools like a complete watercolor starter kit.

Possessing everything necessary, the high-quality material is ready to end the big excuse for not starting. Nontoxic and bright colors, warp-resistant paper, and quality brushes that hold their shape increase the enjoyment of the process.

Final Thoughts

Now is the right time to stop spoiling your evenings by the workday. You just have to close your laptop, take a deep breath, and pick up your brush. You don’t need long hours, and you also don’t need perfection and talent. But all you need is five minutes of mindful painting to enjoy the peace and relaxation by availing yourself of the benefits as a watercolor beginner. You just have to experience the simple way to relax after a long period of work with tension. So, start today.