Winter is still here but for some reason Spring is already in my heart.
I wanted to create a painting that shows love, young just started love.
Fresh beginning of a deep bond.
It was clear from the start, this was going to be a colorful painting! Lots of flowers and light!
For this painting I used a 30 x 50 normal canvas and acrylic paint.
Oh and a pencil to sketch the couple!
I made this painting while listening to some nice celtic tunes on youtube and I managed, again, to get more paint in than on the canvas! I swear I am a todler when my brushes are in the game!
I had a lot of fun while painting this and it made me happy to see the end result. Like I have said many times before, I am far from a detailed artist and doing this was a challenge. I like to try my hand at a challenge at times because I think that I can always learn by doing. I am not the best in painting humans, faces or portraits but I am getting better!
Not that I think I could paint someones face atm... They might end up looking like a half smurf/ half human.... But one day I shall master it! ( Give or take 35 years, 23 weeks and 4 days..)
Progress pictures.
I made the back ground first! I used white, blue and purple and a dash of pink. I started with the darker colors at the sides and worked towards more light in the middle. If you use darker colors at the sides you will pull the eye of the one watching the painting towards the middle because your eyes are pulled towards the light. You can always choose where you want to pull the attention to and in this case I wanted it down and in the middle.
After I waited about an hour for the back ground to dry I started to paint the trees. I used burned sienna ( brown ) Because it's still a bit abstract you don't have to make the perfect tree. You want to hint and most of the branches will be covered later anyways. For the flowers I used cotton ear tips... Yupp Not brushes... I just took a bunch of them in my hand, dipped them into the paint and started to push them against the canvas color for color. Starting with the darkest one and ending with the lightest. This way you create more depth in your painting!
When the trees and flowers dried up I used a pencil to make a light sketch of the couple on the painting. As you can see I changed a few things here and there when I used the paint. I also made an umbrella because I wanted to be HIP! LOL... I dunno, when I saw all those umbrella paintings online I always said I wanted to make one so.... I added un umbrella because why not! It can rain in spring! :D
All in all, this painting took me about 3 hours and around $5.00
I can keep the cost low because I buy cheap canvas in bulk and same with the paint! So, if you might try something like this the cost might be higher.
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~Hafiz
My name is @poeticsnake, a creative writer and dreaming poet!
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