Paint the circle parts of the logs first with that same light brown you mixed on your palette. Make sure you paint the part of the stick that is going through the marshmallows. If you want to get color variation, you can add different amounts of the brown into some of the stems. Since burnt umber is dark and won’t show up against the black, I recommend mixing white with brown (about equal parts). The main part of the marshmallows are white and the sides (oval parts) are gray. Then use your round brush to paint the marshmallows. If a little bit of the background is still showing through, that is fine too. You don’t have to fill the flame with multiple coats. I recommend that you have the direction of your strokes contour in the direction of the flame. Next use a 12 bright brush to paint the fire white. This creates a whimsical effect on the moon. Simply take your finger and drag the paint outwards a little onto the blue sky. Optional: blur the inner part of the moon by smearing the paint with your finger. Next paint the moon using a round brush and titanium white. Position the traceable so that the moon is in the upper left corner of the canvas. The white graphite paper helps the design show up against the dark colors. Next you will need to draw the design on the canvas with chalk or use my traceable and white graphite paper. It should be only a few shades lighter than that mars black. Make sure your gray is dark enough to not look like there is snow on the tree. Then take your round brush and paint strokes on the trees starting at the bottom of the tree and going up. To do this, mix a medium shade of gray on your palette. Next, you can add some subtle highlight to your trees. There really is no right or wrong brush to use for silhouette trees! Or you may find that the larger trees are easier to do with the bright brush but the smaller trees are easier to do with the round brush. You may find that you prefer doing them with the round brush. The form the tree, stroking each stroke downwards.įorm the shape of the tree so that it gets wider as you go to the bottom (where the curved horizon line is). Start at the top and form a point with the brush and the black. There are several ways to do trees and I demonstrate that further in this post! You may also find that you prefer doing them with the fan brush. You can have the direction of your strokes go curved as well but eventually, on the bottom, they should go left and right.įor the trees I used a 12 bright and a round. Next use mars black and a 3/4 flat wash brush to paint everything below the horizon line a solid black. Paint the tail of the star as the stroke appears dry and see through. Then wipe the brush off so only a little bit of paint is left on the brush. Then use a 4 round brush to paint the shooting stars. Practice off the canvas until you get the desired splatter. I recommend sticking your finger in water and then applying it to the brush and then loading the white. If it is too thin, it will create watery splatters that drip. If the paint is too thick you will get clumps. The trick with creating the right splatter is to have the consistency of the paint to be somewhat thin but not watery. Load it in some titanium white and then flick the brush so they splatter. The idea is to get the blue to be a gradient of dark to light with the lightest on the horizon line. Blend the titanium white up into the blue. Next load your brush in titanium white but don’t rinse the phthalo blue off. That curve was drawn at 1/3 up the canvas. Note the pencil line towards the bottom where the horizon line is. Paint in a curved direction and work your way to about a quarter down the canvas. Start at the top of the canvas and paint phthalo blue. You will also be using a 3/4” Wash Flat Brush. Load your palette in phthalo blue and titanium white. To download the PDF for this traceable, you can go to my Traceable Library. You can also lightly draw this on your canvas using chalk. Here are suggestions on what to use for the popular Apple Barrel Craft Paints. I get so many questions about how to convert to craft paint colors if that is what you are using. Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Summer Color Palette
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