Watercolor Challenge: Fading Flowers

November 13, 2026 / Diann Zimmerman

For this week, paint a flower that is fading, wilting, or forming seed pods. We often paint flowers at their most beautiful stage, but the story does not end when the petals begin to fade. After the bloom is gone, important work is still happening. The plant is preparing for new life and future flowers. What may look like an ending is actually the beginning of the next chapter in the flower’s journey.

Watercolor challenge:  Fading flowers

Here are the details:

  • Share a painting of a fading flower (wilted petals, remaining seed pod)
  • Sponsored by Marie Burke 
  • Prize for 1 random participant:   6-month subscription to Marie’s online art school, https://marieburke-art.com/
  • Entries must be posted in the Facebook group: Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond
  • Include topic hashtag in your Facebook post: #fadingflowers
  • You may enter as often as you want
  • Open to all countries
  • Winner is chosen randomly
  • Deadline November 20, 2026, 11:59 pm ET (New York time)
  • Winner announced November 22, 2026
  • Mediums accepted:  watercolor, watercolor pencils, gouache, water soluble graphite, water soluble inks, and mixed media as long as it includes watercolor

What is the prize?   

Our sponsor this week is Marie Burke Art. One random participant will receive a 6-month subscription to Marie’s online art school, with over 90 full-length step by step botanical tutorials (along with some birds, bugs and butterflies!)

In each tutorial, she walks you through every step of the painting process with real-time tutorials that are easy to follow.  This makes her tutorials suitable for beginners as well as more advanced painters looking to improve their skills.

 

Here are some of her amazing tutorials:
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