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: