Grass comes in a variety of shades and textures. It is an important part of many landscape paintings. Getting grass right in your painting is a matter of blending colors and adding subtle lines to create the various textures of individual grass types. Learn how you can blend paints and use stroke patterns to bring the grass in your paintings to life.
Instructions
1. Sketch the grass onto your canvass with a pencil using very light strokes. You don't need to worry about detail here. You want to fill the space your grass will occupy.
2. Paint brown across the bottom of the canvas, alternating with darker patches and washed out patterns. This will be the dirt beneath the grass, which will only be slightly visible once you begin layering various hues of green to create your grass blades.
3. Paint grass blades onto the canvas individually, using varied stroke patterns. Some of the strokes will be slightly curved and others straight. Cross the ends of each stroke over one another to create the cross patterns you see in grass. Keep your grass blades wider at the bottom and bring each to a pointed tip.
4. Apply the strokes of green paint to the brown while the brown is still wet, bringing some of the darker color up with each stroke of green. You can also add touches of very dark green over selected individual blades of grass across the canvas, which will help add depth and shading.
5. Use a thin brush and add short, curved strokes to paint lines within the grass to add definition to the individual blades. Add varying shades of the green at the base of your painting where you've done the earth in browns to fill in the texture.
