Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.
The Cherry Blossom Trees are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.
This are difficult times for all of us, we have to stay home with the Coronavirus. Go outside, take your family and draw the beautiful flowers of Spring!
Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing
Instructions of this drawing:
- Go outside, in this painting is the back yard of my house. Select the flowers that you would like to paint. Do a pencil sketch.
- You can start by drawing in the canvas with a pencil using the Square Grid Drawing Technic. Start by dividing your sketch or photo in proportional squares, then you divide your canvas in with the same Technic in proportional squares. It doesn’t matter how big is your canvas or if it is a mural, the proportions will always be perfect.
- Use your acrylics with lots of water because they flow better, impregnating your canvas, don’t leave spots without paint. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you finish your final painting with oils or acrylics in the top, they look brighter.
- Apply a coat of washed Titanium White and Cerulean Blue over the area of the sky and a coat of washed Sap Green over the grass.
- Start drawing with Acrylics: Ivory Black: trunk of trees, house (including inside of windows) and details of landscape.
- With Titanium White and Yellow Ochre paint over house. Magenta for the flowers of the cherry blossom trees and Sap Green over the dogwood tree.
Cherry Blossom Trees-Square Grid Drawing Technic
Canvas: 16″x 16″ or any size you like.
Acrylic colors for drawing:
- Titanium White
- Cerulean Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Sap Green
- Magenta
- Ivory Black
There are many affordable brushes in the market:
Walmart: FolkArt, Gold Taklon, fine details and shading.
Michael’s: 10pc “Artist’s Loft” white synthetic brushes.
Jerry’s Arterama: Pro Stroke-Power Creative, fine and medium brushes.
Pencil, ruler and rubber.
Ultra fine black Sharpie pen.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Plate to mix colors or a paper/plastic Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.
The next class will be about finishing your painting with acrylics or oil. Cheer up in this difficult times 🙂
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
The Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing and instructions are © of Clina Polloni.
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