My Painting Adventures: tree

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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

Thursday, February 27, 2014

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...