iPad Lettering with Karin Newport - Watercolor Doodles in Procreate

Youtube has quite honestly replaced TV in my life for the last 14+ years. If you dig around long enough here on the blog you’ll probably find at least one rant about why I hate being asked about how I find the time to create, which talks about priorities and the lack of vegging in front of a TV show. I digress, we’re here to talk about another great tutorial I’ve gleaned a lot of cool tips and tricks from.

Don’t let the name of the channel fool you.  While iPad Lettering with Karin Newport has plenty of great lettering tutorials, there are also some fab art tutorials as well.  I’ve watched Watercolor Doodles in Procreate more than once.  

Field of Blue

Field of Blue was my first creation after watching the tutorial, in July of 2025. Karin’s tutorial takes you thought a bright colorful piece, but I really loved how this looked as a monochromatic piece.  There is just something really striking about monochromatic work to me.  I used a variety of brushes from different artist to create this piece.

What did I learn in my first watch of this tutorial?

• Building the illusion of four separate pieces of art in one layout.
• How to use math to take the guess work out of positioning sections for a piece like this.
• New ways to add texture overlays.

Pale Florals

So why did I rewatch the tutorial?  What did I glean from a second watch?

• Using group and flatten to combined layers, rather than struggling with pinching layers together.
• How to apply a mask of one layer to several other layers in the layout.
• Using Alpha lock when filling shapes on a layer.

You can see in Pale Florals piece above, that it truly looks like for separate pieces of art.  The difference a year makes when revisiting a tutorial.  I missed the step of masking and removing the paper texture on the bottom layer of the layout in Field of Blue and the difference in the pieces is striking.  Proof that revisiting lessons and tutorials is always a good thing.  

Leaves of Green

I played a bit more with what I’d learned and created Leaves of Green which was a bit of an experiment in reverse watercolor, using some different stamp brushes.  I think all three of these could be fun to duplicate and crop each section and then have them printed on small 8x8 canvases to create a wall art collage.  

Tutorials are always great to revisit, especially after your skills and practice have grown over a period of time.