How to Paint Flowers in Acrylic on Canvas
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These flowers are cropped to appear as if they're coming into the frame.Roses for the princess. Artistic painting. Isolated on grey. image by diter from Fotolia.com
Create a still-life flower arrangement. The arrangement can be either a mass of color or a few individual blooms. Consider how the shapes of the flowers coordinate with your vase. - 2
Lightly sketch your flowers first.flower ornament draft image by Alexander Potapov from Fotolia.com
Lightly sketch a composition of your arrangement on the canvas. You don't need to draw in detail, just general shapes. You will later paint over the pencil marks. - 3
This painting's dominate color is red and values of reds.painting image by Dmitri MIkitenko from Fotolia.com
Set up the palette with a drop of paint from each tube. Beginning with your chosen dominate color, paint the first flower using the flat bristle brush. Move about painting the flowers with this color. It is important to maintain a consistent style of brush stroke. Using different brushstrokes from one area of the painting to another will fragment your work. Implement a cross-hatched stroke: Paint a stroke in one direction, then turn the brush to cross back over the first stroke. Continue loosely rendering the flowers. - 4
The single red flower creates a focal point.painting image by Dmitri MIkitenko from Fotolia.com
Mix titanium white to the dominate color on your brush. The color will lighten depending on how much white you mix into it. Paint light areas to the flowers, creating contrast. The orchestration of color is the primary concern here. - 5
A flat bristle brush lends itself to the painting strokes you will use.a brush for painting image by timur1970 from Fotolia.com
Incorporate your complementary color into the painting. Either one flower or grouping of flowers can be painted with this color. Use this element as a focal point--where the eye looks first. - 6). Work with the blue paints for the vase, adding white to lighten and soften them. Cross-hatch the vase as well. Create an imaginary light source. If the light is coming in from the left, the right side of the vase will be darker. Sparingly add green for the leaves.
