You can make the picture look even more interesting if you use different materials.

Put some paint on wet paper and add salt. Wait for the paper to dry and blow the salt away. If you use big salt crystals, the stains will look like winter frost on windows.
Rice absorbs water leaving oval-shaped outlines on the paper. Put some watercolor on wet paper, and then place the rice. After the paper dries, remove the rice.
Dissolve a few drops of bleach in a bit of water and then put the water on the paper with watercolor.
Soak the brush in alcohol, touch the wet paper with watercolor to make spots with a white edge and a colorful center.
Use an ordinary sponge for drawing: put some paint on it and then touch dry paper with it. It will look like vegetation.
Paint the page with different colors and before the paper dries, put a piece of folded food film or a plastic bag on top. Wait a few seconds and remove the film to get unusual imprints. If needed, repeat to make the texture deeper. Use less water and more paint to get clearer lines and shapes.
Use a dry paper towel to touch barely wet paper with watercolor to create light spots of different sizes and shapes.
Mix some water and liquid soap or dish soap and add watercolor. Take a drinking straw, put the end into the liquid, and start blowing on the other side to get bubbles on the surface. You can carefully move them to a dry sheet of paper.
Put watercolor on an old toothbrush and then quickly flick your thumb on the brush so that drops get on the dry sheet of paper you’re using. The more drops that get on the brush, the bigger the spots will be. This way, you can quickly create starry skin on a dark background. You can use an ordinary brush instead of a toothbrush.

These techniques help amateur artists create great pictures in a matter of minutes.

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