Day at the Museum

A while back I wrote a post about different styles of painting.  I thought I would follow up with a few more ideas. I spent all day yesterday painting which doesn't happen often, but the creativity was really flowing yesterday and these were the results!

Number 1: Painting with doilies 

I recently got some doilies for various art projects, so I thought it would be fun to paint with them.  They have such a pretty pattern. I started with a large blank canvas. I picked about 6 different colors I wanted to use for the background. I smeared them all over with a brush. I set it aside and let it dry. When it was dry I placed a doily down and painted with black paint then removed the doily to see the pattern underneath.

 Number 2: Credit card painting

Very similar to a technique I used in my last painting post, you start with a blank canvas and put little dots of paint all over. Since I was mimicking sky, I used mostly blue paint. Once all of your globs of paint are down, use the flat edge of a credit card or something else to smear the paint around. Since I was going for a really textured look I took a paint brush and dotted it against the paint to form little peaks in the paint. I was going off of a picture in my phone of a rainbow boat kite from the beach.

 Number 3: Nature painting

The key to painting nature scenes its getting the right amount of texture in your paint. My recommendation at least for a sunset is to start dark for the ground mixing brown and black. Use long brush strokes to make overlapping lines mixing colors of the previous lines with the next darker color so that everything blends nicely for example, the sun is yellow, the next line is yellow and orange mixed, then a little more orange mixed in and so on until the color is actually orange, then mix in a little red, then a little more, etc. To get the textured lines dab the brush against the paint it creates little peaks. Let it dry before you paint your nature scene.