35+ Best Watercolor Textures
Add a handcrafted feel to your designs with our watercolor textures. These tools provide a range of fluid, colorful designs that can enhance your projects with their organic and artistic feel.
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Watercolor Textures & Brushes for Affinity
In this bundle, you get a big collection of textures and brushes that are all based on watercolor designs. It includes over 140 unique watercolor text...
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Black Dark Watercolor Texture
If you’re a fan of watercolor-themed backgrounds, this pack of backgrounds is perfect for you. It includes 24 original background textures with ...
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Colorful Watercolor Backgrounds
If you’re a fan of watercolor designs, this pack comes with 10 unique and colorful backgrounds featuring different watercolor textures. The back...
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Vibrant Watercolor Textures
You’ll get to experiment with 16 unique backgrounds when you download this bundle. It includes lots of colorful backgrounds featuring natural wa...
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11 Duotone Watercolor Backgrounds
A rare pack of watercolor backgrounds featuring a duotone effect. These backgrounds are perfect for creating advertisements, billboards, and other pri...
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Grunge Watercolor Backgrounds
The unique grunge effect featured in these backgrounds certainly makes them one of a kind. It’s hard to tell if these are actually watercolor pa...
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48 Watercolor Backgrounds
This is a big bundle of watercolor backgrounds that includes 48 different backgrounds made from watercolor paintings. These backgrounds have been desi...
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12 Watercolor Backgrounds
A pack of 12 unique watercolor backgrounds featuring an unusual design and color. These backgrounds are best for creating backgrounds for presentation...
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Watercolor Green Texture
The watercolor textures in this pack feature a natural color scheme. They are perfect for creating greeting cards, ads, backgrounds, and more. It incl...
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8 Colorful Watercolor Backgrounds
Featuring 8 different backgrounds with creative and colorful watercolor textures, this bundle will allow you to give a more authentic look to your des...
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Crystallized Watercolor Background Set
Wanting something totally out of the world? Take a leap of faith in this set of 40 crystallized watercolor backgrounds that are perfectly suited for p...
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Marmoreal Painted Canvas Backgrounds
This bundle includes 10 uncommon watercolor painted canvas backgrounds. The unusual design of these backgrounds make them perfect for designing websit...
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64 Watercolor Textures
This is a big bundle of watercolor textures that include two types of textures: A pack of 32 watercolor textures and 32 neon watercolor textures. All ...
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11 Watercolor Backgrounds
If you’re not a fan of textures, you can use this pack of watercolor backgrounds instead. This pack includes 11 beautiful backgrounds that are r...
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Abstract Watercolor Textures
A unique collection of watercolor textures that have been created with a mix of watercolor paintings and bold inking techniques. This pack comes with ...
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50 Watercolor Galaxy Backgrounds
Create mind-mending space visuals with this extensive collection of 50 watercolor backgrounds, and blow your audience away. These backgrounds are avai...
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Watercolor Textures Pack
The use of light and calming colors in these watercolor textures makes them more suitable for creating backgrounds with a natural energetic feel. The ...
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Minimalistic Watercolor Texture Backgrounds
If you’re looking for a minimalist watercolor texture background, then this bundle will give you not one, not two, but 6 backgrounds to choose f...
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Winter Watercolor Backgrounds
This is a pack of Winter themed watercolor backgrounds. If you’re working on a website design, card design, or a promotional campaign design rel...
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Winter Watercolor Backgrounds
A collection of winter-themed watercolor backgrounds. This pack features a set of 12 unique backgrounds featuring mild and cool colors that give out a...
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Space Watercolor Backgrounds
You will have a hard time deciding whether these backgrounds are real pictures taken by Hubble telescope or created with watercolor paintings. They ar...
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Matte Watercolor Textures
The uncommon matte colored watercolor textures in this pack are perfect for creating backgrounds for retro and vintage-themed designs. It includes 10 ...
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Handmade Watercolor Backgrounds
Another collection of professional watercolor backgrounds with handmade paintings. This bundle features 10 unique backgrounds in 6000 x 4000 resolutio...
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Golden Ink Watercolor Backgrounds 10
You can design everything from website backgrounds to app backgrounds, wallpapers, social media covers, and more using this pack of watercolor backgro...
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8 Beach Watercolor Textures
These beach watercolor backgrounds create an artistic and moody look that’s perfect for wallpapers, social media graphics, print designs, and an...
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12 Pastel Watercolor Textures
These watercolor pastel textures are carefully handcrafted with the best quality and dedication that make them stand out when creating your next desig...
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8 Sky Watercolor Textures
This collection of beautiful hand-painted blue sky watercolor backgrounds with natural tones is ideal for creating invitations, scrapbooking, website ...
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Ombre Watercolor Textures
These vibrant backgrounds were created by hand-painting watercolors and editing with blur effects and grungy overlays. The final effect is a highly te...
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Pale Watercolor Textures
These watercolor backgrounds in muted tones look great behind light or dark text and are perfect for creating graphics with a vintage, handmade feel.
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Water Paint & Watercolor Backgrounds
This collection of watercolor backgrounds feature a unique water ripple-like effect. It includes 10 multicolored backgrounds featuring unique styles. ...
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Abstract Watercolor Backgrounds
Another collection of abstract watercolor backgrounds. The use of color and design of these backgrounds make them look like the textures are on fire. ...
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30 Contemporary Watercolor Backgrounds
The backgrounds in this pack feature a mix of unusual contemporary colors that makes them an ideal choice to use with luxury and high-end design proje...
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55 Minimalistic Watercolor Backgrounds
A massive collection of 55 different watercolor backgrounds. This bundle includes various styles of watercolor textures with minimalist designs. They ...
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Hand-Painted Abstract Watercolor Backgrounds
This bundle features a set of unique watercolor backgrounds featuring hand-painted textures that are unlike any other texture on our list. It features...
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Art of Flower Watercolor Backgrounds
This background theme featuring watercolored leaves is a great option for a range of print and digital projects. It’s a stunning design that wil...
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Plummy Watercolor Background Collection
Check out this gorgeous pack containing 10 watercolor backgrounds and 8 strokes. A soft color palette of plums and purples makes them ideal for adding...
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Blush Watercolor Texture Background Pack
Next up we have Blush, a stunning watercolor texture background and splotch collection. Containing subtle and elegant hand-painted watercolor illustra...
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Blue Watercolor Backgrounds
This bundle comes with 30 unique watercolor background textures featuring creative watercolor designs mixed with a natural blue color. They are ideal ...
FAQs About Watercolor Textures
What are Watercolor Textures?
Watercolor textures refer to the unique, organic patterns and effects created when painting with watercolors. These can range from smooth washes of color to more complex and textured effects such as those created by salt, layering, dry brushing, or splattering, to name a few.
Watercolor textures provide a visually appealing and organic feel to the art. They are commonly used in making digital art, website backgrounds, graphic designs, or simply applied in traditional watercolor painting.
How can I create my own Watercolor Textures?
Creating your own watercolor texture involves using watercolor paints on a medium, typically watercolor paper, and leveraging different techniques to achieve various effects. You can experiment with the amount of water used, layering or combining different colors, dabbing with a sponge, using salt for a burst effect, and more.
After you have created the texture, you can digitize it (for digital art) by scanning or photographing your painted texture in high resolution and then enhancing it further using a graphics editing program, if desired.
How can I use Watercolor Textures in digital art?
In digital art, watercolor textures are often used to add a natural and organic feel to digitally created artworks. First, the watercolor texture must be digitized, either through scanning or photography. The digitized texture can then be imported into a graphics editing program like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.
Once in the graphics program, the texture can be superimposed over an image or used as a backdrop. The opacity, blending mode, and many other settings can be adjusted to achieve the desired effect using the texture.
Can I buy premade Watercolor Textures?
Yes, premade watercolor textures are available for purchase from a wide variety of sources. They are typically sold as digital files and are offered in high-resolution formats. Some artists and designers specialize in creating and selling unique watercolor textures, which can be found on various websites or marketplaces for digital resources.
When buying a watercolor texture, make sure to consider the license agreement. Some textures are sold with a license that allows them to be used on private projects, while others may require a commercial license for business-related use.
What's the difference between Watercolor Textures and Watercolor Backgrounds?
Watercolor textures and backgrounds are often confused with each other, but they serve different functions. A watercolor texture is essentially a pattern or an effect generated from watercolor paints, and is often semi-transparent, so it can overlay onto other design elements or images to create a watercolor effect.
On the other hand, a watercolor background is typically a full-page design element with a more uniform application of watercolor, serving as the backdrop or base layer of a design project or artwork. While a watercolor background can certainly have texture, it’s not specifically designed to impart a texture to other elements of a design as a watercolor texture is.