Intuitively Paint Big Flowers With Acrylic Paints

Welcome!

In this class you'll create big, vibrant flowers using acrylic paints and acrylic pens. There are 3 projects:

1. For the beginner painter. You'll create 3 big flowers on a small canvas with acrylic paints and optional acrylic pens.

2. For those interested in using professional paints on watercolor paper, this project shows a layered painting of 3 big flowers with acrylic paints & acrylic pens.

3. For those ready to create 3 big flowers on a larger canvas with professional acrylic paints and optional acrylic pens.

The supplies are below and in the Resources on the right of this page.

To share your projects here in Skillshare:

Post your cover image (it's cropped to 6"wide x 4"tall).

Post your project image (under 2MB). Simply take a screenshot of your project and crop it in your photo editor.

Here are examples of the projects:

Project 1: Big Flowers with acrylic paints and optional acrylic pens

Project 2: Big Flowers with acrylic paints & acrylic pens on watercolor paper

Project 3: Big Flowers with acrylic paints & optional acrylic pens on 24" x 24" canvas.

Inspiration: Example of a little different approach to making 3 big flowers on larger canvas.

Bonus: Combines acrylic flowers on watercolor with illustration in Procreate on the iPad.

Supplies: Please watch supplies videos for each project and hardware video for supplies for finishing artwork

Project 1 - 14" x 14"x 1/2" inch canvas, 4 - 6 acrylic paints + black & white, 1/2 inch flat brush, optional #10 round brush for details, optional Posca acrylic pens (I used black & white), paper towels (I used craft paints: teal, pumpkin, chocolate, natural buff, neon pink, neon orange, ivory black & titanium white).

Project 2 - 140 lb. watercolor paper, 3-5 acrylic paints + black & white, 1'2 inch flat brush, Posca acrylic pens (I used black & white (fine and medium tips), pink, gold, fluorescent red & orange), acrylic paints ( I used Holbein Luminous Opera, Golden Medium Magenta, Golden Sap Green Hue & Golden Van Dyke Brown Hue).

Project 3 - 24" x 24"x 1.5" canvas, 4- 6 acrylic paints + black & white (I used Golden Burnt Umber, Golden Cobalt Teal, Golden Cobalt Titanate, Grumbacher Cadmium Red Light, Blick Series 3 Cadmium Yellow Light, neon orange & green, Blick Ivory black & titanium white); 1 inch flat brush & #8 or #10 round brush for details, optional Posca acrylic pens (I used black, and fluorescent red).