You can do it!
Sometimes you look at a painting and think, "wow, I wish I could do that as well. BUT, it looks so hard to do!"
When you know how its done, when you find out the tricks and secrets behind it, you will see that you can do this as well.
I shared this tutorial 2 years ago as well but it was such a nice project that I am going to share it again. After all, it has been over two years and when it comes to being creative, tutorials like these never die! I hope you will give it a try! And please, if you do, post one of your pictures down below or even better make a post and tag us! I would love to see it!
For this painting you will need:
- canvas ( I used a 20cm x 20cm )
- Acrylic paint in the colors you like
- Acrylic paint black
- Brushes
- Water
- palet for your paint
- Kitchen towel
LET'S GET STARTED!!!
I started with the light yellow and will work all the way up to the darkest color on my palet.
I did not use any water to make the paint thinner. I prefer for these kind of paintings, the paint as thick as possible.
To make sure the colors blend on your canvas you keep going over them! To help the paint blend you can wet your brush just a little bit with water.
After adding all colors to the canvas, I drizzled a few specks of colors over the whole canvas to add some more details in a fun way!
You can now take a break and let it dry, or follow the next step as well.
To add some more details/texture I dipped my brush into clean water and let the drups fall down on the canvas. I wated 30 seconds before pushing down the paper towel! With this you lift/clean the paint from the canvas and it leaves nice color shapes.
When the whole painting was dry, I started to draw the shapes of the pebbles onto the canvas.
Now you are going to use your black paint to create all the colorful pebbles on your painting! I did not mix my black paint with water. I wanted the paint as thick as possible to make sure I did not have to paint it three times.
Acrylic paint can be rather see through if you mix it up too much.
Just keep adding the black and make sure, if you have a thick canvas, to also cover the sides with some black paint! This will make your painting really look better!
I used two layers of black paint. Between the layers I stepped back to let the paint dry.
And there you have it! A nice and colorful pebble painting!
You can do this with all kinds of colors and shapes!
Its fast, easy and really fun to do!
Thank you for taking the time to read my post!
Feel free to ask questions or leave a reply!!
lots of love
