beginner easy landscape painting for kids

#Beginner easy landscape painting for kids full#

To give that aqua a more green tone, I loaded my 12 bright in the deep green permanent (without rinsing it). Then use the 12 bright to fill it in solid with the aqua. I recommend using your 12 bright for this but if you feel more comfortable drawing it with the round, you can use that one. Fill that in solid with the bright aqua green. I used bright aqua green, titanium white and some deep green permanent.įirst draw out the base of the prickly pear with just bright aqua green. The prickly pear has different shades of green to make it stand out against the saguaro. You can make some of the arms look like they are overlapping the middle part of the cactus by simply adding rounded strokes of that lighter green so that it stands out. Your lighter green will blend with the darker green to create color variations. Then paint vertical lines and curved lines of “cactus texture” throughout the cactus. To do this, load your 4 round brush in the brilliant yellow green.

Then to add some highlight and color interest into the cactus, I blended in some “brilliant yellow green” before that deep green permanent dried. You may use the 12 bright brush or the 4 round brush for this. Then fill the saguaro in with deep green permanent. When you paint the arms, have them be kind of narrow at the base and a little thicker on the tips. This saguaro is very tall and goes up well into the darker pink area of the sky. If you are not feeling as confident in painting the outline, you can use chalk first to draw the outline of the saguaro. Paint the saguaroĮnsure everything is dry before continuing! To do the saquaro, I actually sketched the shape out with a #4 round brush and the deep green permanent color. There are a few smaller, more stretched out clouds below the larger ones. I am tapping the tip of my brush to create this effect (not painting in circles). You can also do this with the brush by wiping off the paint of your brush and using the dry brush to blend your clouds.įor these clouds, less paint is more! Be sure to wipe off excess white with a paper towel before you start painting the clouds. Then you can take your finger and sort of blend downwards so the base of your cloud fades away and gets much lighter. These clouds are not large and puffy, they are flat and sort of stretched out. Then sort of stamp the brush to form the top of the cloud. Load just a bit of white on the very tip of the 12 bright. To do the clouds, I used just the color titanium white and I used a 12 bright brush. I did this technique in my Jacaranda Tree Painting. Optional: to make it look like this mountain is way in the distance and part of the sunset, blend more white on the bottom of the mountain so the top is slightly darker than the base of it. Mine started out lower on the left and got slightly higher on the right. Then use the tip of your 3/4” flat wash brush to paint an uneven mountain line. I’d say about 1 part black to 4 parts white should work! Then on your palette mix white with a little bit of black so that you create a very light gray.

Next paint the mountain! Completely rinse and dry the 3/4” wash brush. Just keep in mind that this sky is a very pastel palette so the more titanium white you use the better! Keep blended but don’t over-blend or everything will turn to the same color. Your sky does not have to be a perfect gradient and will look different from mine because of the amount of yellows, pinks and whites applied to your canvas. To get the colors to blend well, add more titanium white into the mix.Īdd more white as you approach the bottom of your canvas but leave a gap on the bottom for the mountains. Load it in yellow and primary white (about equal amounts).īlend the yellow into the light pink so that it turns kind of light orange. Then wipe off the excess paint off your brush. Go a little over half way down the canvas with this very light pink. Then add a glop of white to your brush without rinsing off the pink.īlend the white into the pink so that it looks like the sky is getting much lighter as it approaches the bottom of your canvas. Go about a third of the way down your canvas.

#Beginner easy landscape painting for kids full#

Start at the top of your canvas and paint left and right full width horizontal strokes. Position your canvas in the vertical/ portrait mode.

Paint the sunset gradientįor this background, I used a 3/4” flat wash brush and the colors: titanium white, medium magenta and primary yellow.įirst mix about 2 parts magenta and one part white to soften the magenta up a bit. I advocate for using whatever acrylic paints you have on hand! If you would like to use craft paints, such as Apple Barrel Plaid or Craftsmart here are the colors I would suggest: Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Cactus/ Succulents Color Palette Craft Paint Suggestions