Paint soap bubbles with watercolours

Optional: Start by taping your watercolour paper to a cutting mat using decorative tape or painter’s tape. This step is not necessary, but it is a nice way to avoid the paper from bending while the paint dries.

Use small lids from milk cartons, or something similar from the home, as templates for your soap bubbles.

Find a plate that is even and flat in the middle. Make three separate concentrated mixtures of paint and water on the plate in different colours. In this example, the colours gold, pink and blue is used on black paper. If you instead use white paper, you can get a similar result using red, blue and yellow.

Brush the colours close to each other towards the middle of the plate. Dip the round lid in all of the colours and then directly onto the paper and rotate lightly to ensure that the colours are evenly distributed in a circle, as shown in the video. Now, you have a circle on the paper in three different colours.

Dip your paint brush in the water and drag your colours in the circle a bit around as shown in the video. Leave some of the circle without colour and add a bit more colour to the wet areas on the paper. Repeat the process until you have the number of bubbles you like. You can use different sizes of lids to make different sizes of bubbles. You can also add more colours throughout the process to further enhance the mirroring effect of the soap bubbles.