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Green Mums, acrylic and mixed media flower painting tutorial

Green Mums, acrylic and mixed media flower painting tutorial
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Green Mums, acrylic and mixed media flower painting tutorial

Every year, in Spring, I feel like painting a few flowers. Here is my latest mixed media on canvas: Green chrysanthemums, acrylic and pastels, 24 x 24 inches.

Green Mums, acrylic and mixed media flower painting tutorial

drawing on canvas before painting

I started by making a pencil drawing on my canvas. I didn’t try to get all the details as my drawing won”t be visible after a few layers of acrylic anyway.

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I like to start with opposite colours as those will show and make interesting edges. So as my background will be on the cold side, I apply a hot red/brown for my first under-painting layer.

flower paintings , with layers of acrylic paint

I go on painting with opposite colours, here orange for light green and black for white.

learn to paint flowers with acrylic

I paint a layer of yellow on the background.

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flowers, paintings of nature

Then blue and 2 stripes of brown for variety and rhythm. I also paint some Turquoise blue on places where I see a hint of blue in the light on my reference picture.

painting darks with acrylic

I start to introduce white where the light is stronger. and a few darks on my flowers.

acrylic painting step by step

Now I will start applying layers with my local colours, mostly different shades of green and yellow.

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I like to mix layers of thick paint with layers of very watery diluted paint. Here for the background a layer a white acrylic, very diluted.

using acrylic paints to paint flowers

Adding different shades of green and yellow and blue.

scrubbing off acrylic paint

I found my background a bit too uniform so I scrub some paint off with a sponge and lots of water.

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Here is my “scrubbed” background.

adding pastels on acrylic paint

Next I am working with pastels to add details, outlines etc… I fix them with Krylon workable fixative.

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Krylon Workable Matte Fixatif

Gives lasting protection to pencil, charcoal and chalk, yet erases easily. Clear, matte fixative is easy to work with. Dries in seconds, doesn’t wrinkle, smudge or smear. Spray can.

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Comments (8)

  1. […] Green Mumsacrylic and mixed media on canvas step by step painting tutorial […]

  2. […] Click here to See a step by step demo for this painting. […]

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  4. As always, truly beautiful. I reblogged you tonight.

    1. Thanks Monique, and thanks for the reblog 🙂

  5. Reblogged this on Monique Egelhoff and commented:
    Sandra is a very talented artist who shows you the steps to creating her beautiful artwork. Oh to have such talent!

  6. thelittleleaf

    Beautiful paintings

    1. Thanks, I am glad you liked it 🙂

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