Whether you are eight or eighteen, starting a painting journey is very intimidating and enjoyable. Painting by numbers is one of the most beginner-friendly hobbies. I remember when I started painting, I was seven, and the very first thing I painted was an apple and a pear. Paint-by-number kits are not only for kids but also for adults. Hence, you don’t need any kind of expert-level training to hold the brushes at first.
It’s easier than freehand painting. You need a painting brush and the colors: acrylic, watercolors, or gouache, whatever you like. And then there is canvas to turn your simple artistic ideas into inspiring and calming artwork. Let’s talk about 30+ Paint-by-Numbers Kits for beginners. These are small and easy projects that can help you master your brush strokes.
Here we have enlisted novice painting ideas such as simple abstract art kits, natural landscape painting kits, and minimal floral paint-by-numbers kits. So, next time when you sit and think,” what to paint today”, you can start willingly with these simple things to paint.
Nature Painting Ideas for Beginners
As a beginner, nature and landscape are one of the easiest and most relaxing painting themes to start with. Nature ideas are simply based on basic shapes and lights. So, it’s perfect for your first painting session.
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Moon and the Stars
It’s an ideal and calming first project that looks fantastic when completed. The moon and star paint-by-numbers kit contains a luminous full moon accompanied by a sparkling starry sky. It is extremely simple with large areas and colors like cobalt blue, phthalo blue, yellow ochre, zinc yellow, and cadmium yellow. It will create an aesthetic, dreamy look.
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Bird Nest with Blue Eggs
A wirling brown nest with three eggs. But the most important thing is to outline those swirls with a light brown shade to create a bit of a realistic effect. It contains basic shapes and needs earthy tone colors. Color oval eggs with blue pastel color. This is the easiest-to-paint bird’s nest and egg idea. It also gives a homey and rustic vibe.
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Sunset Srenity
A classic orange-pink sunset with the silhouette of birds. It will create a beautiful sunset gradient effect. While in the sky, add floppy wings to pretend as birds. It contains large spaces and 24 colors overall. It always looks like a postcard.
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Snow-Capped Mountains
A beginner-level paint-by-numbers kit usually contains purple-blue mountains with white snowy tops. It’s a layered design that teaches distance with almost no effort. It looks really good on any wall.
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Clouds and Ocean’s Whisper
It contains fluffy White Clouds in a Bright Blue Sky. Those fluffy white clouds are floating in a clear summer sky. And a chair at the beach board. You need basic skills to color across the numbers and borders for a perfect ocean’s whisper painting.
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Blossom SunFlowers
Blossom sunflowers depict the instant happy feeling on completion. Bright yellow sunflowers front front-focused on the canvas. It contains remarkably big yellow leaves and a brown dotted centre. It’s the ideal and easiest way to create a sunflower.
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Cherry Blossom Branch and Nest
Delicate pink flowers of cherry blossom with the blue birds. A heavenly placed nest for birds. You will apply pink tiny dots for the flowers. That will be so simple and sophisticated design.
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Lavender Fields
It contains rows of swaying lavender under the blue sky. Add simple diagonal strokes with the help of the brush. These will create a floral look of lavender rows in a field. Add florals, purple blush to the diagonal lines for lavender tiny branches.
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Paint the Sky
In sky painting, you can try different ideas. You can paint the daytime mild orange and yellow gradient. For the night starry sky, you can go with Prussian blue for the coolest appeal. If you wanna try something more exciting in the sky, then create an evening gradient. It will also help you to learn color blending
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Palm Trees on Beach
Palm trees on the beach are one of the fun and easy things to paint. Add strokes with the help of brown color. Green arcs on the stem end. And add a blue background with a shiny sun. It will give tropical beach vibes.
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Northern Lights
For northern lights, use blue, teal, and green colors. Create wide vertical bands of each color. And then blend them at the line edges. It’s one of the most awesome things to paint as starter art.
Minimalistic Cute Painting Ideas As a Beginner
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Cute Eggs in Bloom
Painting eggs in bloom is the cutest art thing to paint. Paint a red-colored umbrella over a white oval and diagonal strokes for branches. Add multi-color dots on the blooming flowers.
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Tiny Planets
Paint the tiny circles in the glasses of the universe girl. And then put golden stripes or rings around them. Use different colors; it will help you learn different color combinations. The planet painting theme is a cute thing to paint on canvas
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Jar of Fireflies
A jar of flies is a kind of easy and interesting thing to paint. Paint the jar with the help of gray color and blend it towards the inside, which will give it a glassy effect. Then add yellow dots for the depiction of fireflies according to the numbers.
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Paper Airplane and Trail
Add a sky blue color background. Then paint a white paper airplane with a black outline. And for the trails, add black color dashes. It looks very adorable to paint on the canvas.
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Cactus in a Pot
Create three cute ovals in green color and outline them with the back color. Add black dots on them as thorns. Create a pot of sky blue color. While for the landscape, you can paint cactuses of different types in a tropical background of yellow.
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Hot Air Balloons
For hot air balloons, you need an aesthetic sunset background. You can either paint a blue sky background or an orange and yellow gradient for the sunset background. Then add a striped multi color balloon with little baskets at the ends, floating in the sky.
Abstract Art Ideas for Beginners
Abstract art is always a favorite of beginners because it doesn’t have any rules. If you have just started painting, it’s best for you because you are free to experiment with any color, shape, or pattern.
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Abstract Color Blocks
Minimal color blocks of Monster Crew Alphabets, either square or rectangular. It’s perfect for kids learning the alphabet. You can help them fill the whole crew canvas alphabet. It will give an aesthetic wall art effect with a childhood memory.
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Geometrical Shapes
You can paint geometrical shapes. Such as you can try a paint-by-number kit of a garden mandala or sunfire mandala. It’s a good practice to paint within small hexagons or triangles, which will help you to hone your skills..
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Gradient Painting
Gradient is the most crucial and easiest paint idea for adults. Gradient painting can help you in various other painting aspects, such as painting evenings, sunsets, or northern lights. Select three or four colors and blend them smoothly. It will be a great blending practice.
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Minimal Silhouette
Minimal silhouette is meant to paint a contour of a lady, child, tree, or animal in one color on a plain canvas.
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Kaleido-Glow Mandala
Kaleido-Glow Mandala is a professional geometric art. The whole canvas is divided into different sections, and then paint each section with a different color. The tiny numbered sections create perfect kaleidoscope patterns.
Watercolor Painting Ideas for a Beginner
Watercolor painting is the best choice to go with as a beginner. Besides, if you love Pinterest painting ideas and aesthetic minimal paintings, you can try watercolors for dreamy paintings.
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Rainy Embrace
Paint soft yellow and blue strokes that will act as a rainy embrace. And then submerge those strokes with the help of cotton or tissues. It will create an effect of droplets dripping down along the painting.
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Coffee Mug and the Beans
Paint a cute little mug and add oval-shaped small coffee beans around it. Add white swirls in the cup for a latte creamy effect.
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Blue Whale
Blue whales are signs of peace and emotions. Partition the canvas into two sections. Color the upper section with a lighter sky blue color. And the lower section will be one tone darker blue, depicting oceans. Paint the whale flukes, the two lobes of the whale tail, in dark blue.
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Majestic Feathers
Paint by numbers according to the feather shapes on the majestic feather canvas. Paint a plain blue background. Then outline the feather in a dark color and blend inward with the lighter shade.
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Mountains in Layers
Mountains in layers are the easiest thing to paint with the help of watercolors. Paint by number kit contains a first layer in a dark blue shade, and a little above, you have to paint a second layer in a lighter shade. And above that layer, paint another one in the lightest shade.
Final Words
No one starts with perfection. Every expert was once a beginner. Perfection in painting by numbers comes with curiosity, passion, and a passion to play with the colors. So, we have crafted 30+ easy paint-by-number kits for beginners to help you explore different painting styles and techniques. You can try natural landscape painting, abstract art, or watercoloring; it will help you build artistic confidence.
So, next time, if you are wondering about “what to paint today?”Keep this list in mind to create simple, fun, and easy things to paint. You’ll absolutely love the whole creativity process.
