Spiced Apple Cider is a SD 1.5 model created with a sort of oil painting style in mind. It can be coaxed to do watercolor as well as other styles without LoRAs, but it might take a bit of testing and tweaking prompt concepts and their weights. LoRAs that add detail will greatly change the result as well.

CFG and steps have a large impact on results too, for which I have provided a grid below using the same prompt and seed while varying the steps and CFG scale.

Most VAEs work depending on what the project calls for. 840k and 560k work well and I've had good success with Matrix, clearVAE, liquid111, kl-f8-anime2, and neurogen_vae. I'm guessing many other VAEs work with it as well.