Curvy Love tree

This adventure we're calling a curvy love tree. We all did things a little different than the video, but thats what made them unique.
Again, lacking photos of our progress, but isn't it the finish product that counts :)

**Btw we used dry brushes, we use a low-mid price range acrylic and water tends to make things sloppy and messy so I try to avoid it. (Like the .50-$1 bottles of standard craft acrylic)

Heres the original video we used:
How To Paint An Easy Acrylic Painting For Beginne…: http://youtu.be/ZvwuNuSdIXk

Gerbera daisy

For this daisy painting, the tutorial was for a little more then a quarter of a flower, aimed at the bottom corner of the cancas. My sister and I decided it would be fun to make 4 canvases that would piece together.
We used 4 8x10 canvases. And placed them down together on the floor (more open space then the table) and placed a small plate in the center of all four to trace our circle. Then we rough sketched the petals.
After that we filled in the background areas, then the center circles with the brown, then from there followed along with the tutorial. We jusnt didnt waste the extra paint painting the backgrounds prior to sketching the petals.
I went with a popart look, doing a skyish blue background for all 4 canvases and using 4 different color petals.
My sister chose to change her background color but keep her flowers the same.
Here are our pictures, individual and together.

My son decided to paint with us also, but i didnt get a final product of his.

CREDITS a big thanks to angela anderson for this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05DhGEYA0HI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Cherry blossom bridge

My sister and I decided to try something a bit more difficult today. While i like our finished products, I definately see what I could have done different.
As you will see, I have no bridge. My 5 year old bumped my arm, leaving me to try and fix what turned into a giant brown block, which i then covered over with yellow green and blue blending into my exhisting background, and since we ran out of black paint, and time... I opted to leave a stream with rocks.

Colors:white, yellow, green, 3 shades of brown, black, red, pink, golden pink, navy, other mismatched colors using these. Brushes: fan brush, #4flat brush, smaller flat and round brush, one inch brush, 000 brush.

CREDITS: thanks to shaeferart from www.brandon-schaefer.comfor this video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm_ytoCCbQE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And here is my sisters

Couple kissing in the rain.

Over the weekend we had a painting day at our house. We recreated the couple in the rain from the video below.
We printed different images we each liked, and traced the general torsos and added details like face features, hair, and shoes with our paint brushes after they were filled in.
Our only issue was that niether of us could get our rain to look right, we determined this was because our canvases were much smaller so the dropper method created drops that were too big.
Mine is the purple umbrella, my husbands is the green umbrella, my aunt did the upper right red umbrella, her husband the blue umbrella with green boots, and my cousin the the left red umbrella.
We had a great time, and even painted a second set of pictures your will see in my next post.

Colors: gray, blue, white, black, green, red, mix colors with white or black for darker or lighter shades. Brushes, one inch for entire background. Small round brush for couple and umbrella..eye dropper or nose sucker for water drops. We were working on an 11x14 canvas and found splats were better then drops. We held the sucker 6 to 8 inches away from the front of the canvase pointed at the canvas and squeezed to make it spray small dots.

CREDITS:
A big thanks to cate from http://seecatecreate.com/ for this video tutorial... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDtY1WZybY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Dandelions

7 of us, started out to recreate this dandelion canvas, on our own choice of background. 1 didnt make it til the end because of parenting duties, and 1 left before we could photograph.
I opted for the cheaper small bottle acrylics so the one problem we faced was getting our stems to show well on the dark backgrounds. A second coating seemed to do the trick. The red painting was done entirely with a sponge brush by my aunts husband. The blue one belongs to myself, the orange my husband, dark purple my aunt, and light purple landscape my cousins. She didnt realize she had hers in a different direction until after we started lol.
I will try and get a photo of my sister in laws, i believe hers was a pink background.

Brushes# 4 flat or smaller. One inch or larger for background. Stems are done in green and white or grwen and light green running #4flat sideways. Flowers are used with same size and style brush and white paint witg a combination on lines and side stamps.

CREDITS: a big thanks to amy pierce from facebook.com/HerArtfromtheAttic for this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqpocKDxhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sister in laws pink dandelion picture:

Swirly tree & love birds with my siblings,

Yesterday, I painted with my siblings.
(I also stopped and grabbed 4 $10 easels from acmoore, which were $6 each after the 40% of coupon)
From a list of tutorials, my autistic 16 year old brother, chose this swirly tree.
We sat together and painted while watching the laptop at the dining room table, not peaking at eachothers work until we were completed with our colors/before our tree, and when we were finished. I love how different they are.

Brushes: 1 inch, 1 inch sponge, #4round #4flat, #000, #2. Colors used:white red orange yellow blue green purple black.

A few things we did differently:
1. I made 5 birds on my tree, since we are a family of 5.
2. I added a clear glitter acrylic to my entire dried back ground prior to doing my tree.
3. We all decided we liked the idea of purple after the blue, so we added purple.

Here are the pictures of our progress and finished product...

CREDITS:

A big thanks to heathers hobby for The video tutorial we followed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ae0bgqdp6Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Her website: www.heathershobby.com

Magnolia Blossoms with the children.

For our second round of painting, we decided to try the magnolia blossom tree, with our children.
We all sat in the living room with youtube hooked up on the TV, followed along and paused when needed.
My 9 year old daughter is able and willing to try new things, but gets very discouraged when she sees that hers isn't "as good" as someone else. So it was a bit of both worlds for her, we just had to keep encouraging her and assuring her she was doing fine.
My son just turned 5 last week. He cannot write, and he has trouble forming pictures even when showing him shapes, he would rather just scribble around. I have to say, I was extremely surprised with the outcome of his painting, AND that he was able to follow along and was eager to do so. Homework like tasks are a big challenge for him, he's unable to focus. He kept asking for the next step, and couldn't wait to show us his work, which he kept secret until we were done. We all tried to keep ours private, but as I said I had to keep checking my daughters to brighten her mood, so hers was general knowledge to all of us.
In the photo you will see out finished work. My husband's is the big one on the left, my son bottom middle, daughter top middle, and the last big one on the right is mine.
All in all we had a great time, and I have four beautiful matching pieces for my living room.
the only thing we didn't do with the video, was I prepainted each canvas a different color that we picked, and let them dry prior to starting the tutorial.

 We used a 1inch brush for the background, and #4 flat brush for the trees and blossoms, only cleaning it off after the brown paint, and continuing to usd from white to red back to brown, for blending. Colors used: background, brown, white, red.

Credits:
A big thankyou to Amy Pierce for this video tutorial which can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDvdH1TROk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Additionally she has a blog and facebook:
www.herartfromtheattic.blogspot.com

facebook.com/HerArtfromtheAttic