FREE Daisy Painting Class
This FREE daisy painting class was created specifically for beginners to be able to complete a finished painting.
You will be learning:
- How to paint an impressionistic background
- How to paint stems and leaves
- How to paint the daisies in 3 orientations
- How to paint curly q’s
When learning to paint anything for the first time, it is a good idea to plan on painting it more than once. You’ll be learning in the first go round and practicing in the next several. Your best work will not come out the first time you pick up a brush, but this class was designed to teach the beginner easy ways to accomplish this painting.
Supplies For This Class:
- 140 lb water color paper taped to a board that is larger than the paper.
- or a stretched canvas or canvas covered panel 11″ x 14″ or bigger. I use a 12″ x 12″ square stretched canvas in this video.
- palette, (I use a disposable paper palette in the video).
- All paints are acrylic: zinc white, cadmium yellow light, cad orange medium, cad red light, hooker’s green, burnt sienna, burnt umber, ultramarine blue, dioxazine purple, turquoise blue deep, lime green and alizarin crimson. You can buy small tubes if you don’t have them. But don’t buy craft paint. It will not give you the results you desire.
- Brushes: 2, 4, 6, 10 in synthetic flat and 2,4,6,10 in bristle brushes. You’ll also need a fine round brush or a script liner to do the curly que’s. Don’t go crazy on brushes. Buy the best you can afford, but if this is your first foray into painting with acrylics, you can buy a pretty good package of brushes at Hobby Lobby that has an assortment of synthetic flat brushes for around $15. I’ve never found a pack of bristle brushes that were very good. You’d do better to buy on natural bristle brush, size 10 or 12. You don’t need every brush in the store. Learn some techniques and get comfortable and then spend more on brushes, later, much later.
If you’ll wash your brushes in soap and water, rinse them well, and then reshape the bristles after each session, your brushes will last a long time. I’m still using some of the brushes I bought 20 years ago.
Also, don’t leave your brushes sitting in the water or in the paint and don’t get paint on the ferrule, that’s the metal part that holds the bristles. If you do, wipe off the paint and rinse off the brush and then dry off. Acrylic paint dries very fast and if you get it in the ferrule, it dries and splays the bristles out and your brush will likely be ruined. (I never throw those away though. I will always find a use for them).
A complete list of supplies I regularly use can be found HERE.
When you’re finished with the class, hop on over to this playlist for more free lessons.
Video #1
Painting an Impressionistic Background
In this video you will learn how and why I tone a canvas. Toning a canvas is covering the entire canvas with paint to cover the white of the canvas. I do this so if when the paint dries no little white spots can show up. When painting if you don’t push the paint down into the the threads of the canvas, little pieces of it can show through. Your eye goes straight to those dots. If you tone the canvas and the tone color shows through, no one will see it.
We begin painting the white daisies by using a light gray color so we can create depth in the flower.
Video #2 Painting The Daisies
Video #2 of this series shows you how to paint daisies. You will learn how to create depth by using values of color.
Anytime you paint something white you don’t just open up a tube of titanium white and use it right out of the tube, It will look chalky and there is no way to create values using only one color. If you con’t create values your painting will look flat.
Begin by mixing ultramarine blue and cad orange light or medium. They are opposites on the color wheel so they will naturally gray each other. Blue and orange mixed with titanium white is how I make gray. I don’t even own a tube of gray paint. It’s really important to learn to mix paint and creating values is just one of them.
Watch the video to see how it works.
Video #3 Painting Stems, Leaves and Curly’cues
In video #3 you will learn how to paint stems, leaves and curly’cues. You will also learn how to flip the edges of leaves to make them look more 3 D. Let’s get started in that video.
Resources
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I hope you’ve enjoyed this class as much as I have making it for you. I know you can learn to paint and I’m here to help in any way I can. If you’re hungry for it, then I’m ready to be your server. You have unlimited access to this class, so I hope you watch and practice multiple times. You don’t get good at anything by only doing it once and then thinking you’ve got it. It takes lots of practice for that brush to become part of your hand. Don’t just watch, paint. Over and over and over, until it is second nature. That’s when you’ll see the most improvement.
So paint them in a field, in a vase and anywhere else you want. Just paint!
Get The FREE Printable
Beginner’s Painting Bundle
This bundle of information has a plan for you to improve your art, an ebook of 5 Secrets Beginning Artists Should Know and an even bigger ebook on Understanding Perspective.
Print them out and keep with your art supplies or information. You will refer to them often.
I wish I could have gotten my hands on this information 22 years ago when my art journey began.
What’s Next?
If you gained value from this free course then I have 2 options we can work together for a deeper dive in learning how to paint.
The Painting With Acrylics Academy is a comprehensive course created specifically for beginning artists. In the academy you will learn the fundamentals of art like learning about the tools of the trade, understanding color, values, perspective, composition, and much more. Then you will have two complete step by step painting classes. I also provide you with fabulous bonuses of a list of supplies you’ll want in your art kit as well as classes on how to paint rocks and trees.
The Beginner’s Painting Club is a monthly membership where every month you receive new art instruction designed to teach fundamentals of art, elements of art and a step by step painting.
Thanks so much for joining me in this free painting class and I hope we paint together again real soon.
Sharon