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If you’re here, it means you love watercolour galaxies as much as I do. If you’re on Instagram you’ve probably seen how popular watercolour galaxies and night skies are and wanted to try it yourself.

While there are lots of quick videos on Instagram where artists share their painting process, I wanted to find more in-depth watercolour galaxy tutorials and classes that explain what paper, paint and techniques to use.

How to create a watercolour galaxy

In this roundup you’ll find 7 free watercolour galaxy, nebula and night sky tutorials, and 3 Skillshare classes. Click the links below to learn more.

You can use your finished artwork as wall art, greeting cards and more!

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how to paint watercolor night skies
Image by Tillith on YouTube

Watercolour supplies needed for galaxy painting

Do you have your supplies ready yet? If you don’t, here are some of my recommendations:

Alright! Got your supplies and a clean desk to work on? Let’s watch some tutorials!


Aurora watercolour painting tutorial (by Tillith on YouTube)


How to paint tiny galaxies in watercolour (By Shayda Campbell on YouTube)


Starry night sky tutorial (by W.J.H Art on YouTube)


Starry night watercolour tutorial (by Inkstruck Studio)

starry night watercolour tutorial

Watercolour galaxy cityscape tutorial (by Fox & Hazel)

watercolour galaxy cityscape tutorial

How to paint a galaxy effect with watercolors (on The Postman’s Knock)

watercolour galaxy effect tutorial

Modern Watercolor Techniques (by Ana Victoria on Skillshare)

This class comes from Skillshare. As a member of Skillshare I can highly recommend them and this class specifically which I took myself.

Not only will you learn how to paint this watercolour galaxy, but you’ll also learn lots of other techniques. It’s a fantastic class. Take the class here.

modern watercolor techniques class
Image by Ana Victoria

Painting galaxies and starscapes in watercolor (by Erin Kate Archer on Skillshare)

Erin takes you through four levels of painting galaxies and starscapes. You can get started even with cheap supplies. I highly recommend this class too. Take the class here.

galaxies and starscapes in watercolour
Image by Kate Archer

Watercolor and Mixed Media Techniques (by Ana Victoria on Skillshare)

Another fantastic class by Ana Victoria. Like her other class you’ll learn lots of other techniques in this class including how to paint this cloudy night sky. Take the class here.

starry sky tutorial in watercolor
Image by Ana Victoria
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