Capture the beauty of petunias with acrylic paints.
Petunias are annual flowering plants that bloom red, pink, purple and white. They are popular subjects for acrylic paintings because of their simple shapes and bright colors. You can learn to paint a petunia at home with a few simple painting techniques.
Instructions
1. Paint the background with a flat paintbrush. Saturate the canvas with a lighter color, because it's difficult to paint light colors on a dark background.
2. Lightly sketch out the petunia or petunia plant you'd like to paint. These guidelines will help you focus the composition.
3. Paint the stems with dark green paint, adding yellow and white for highlights. To make the stems look realistic, paint a curve rather than a straight line, especially since petunia stems appear like trailing vines.
4. Paint a thin outline of the flower with a fine-tipped brush. Fill in the petals with the same color paint, and add a layer of a different color paint with a different paintbrush. Blend the overlapping colors by mixing the two colors and painting the hybrid color in between.
5. Fill in the details with the smallest brush. Petunias have dark grooves between petals, so paint a few thin, curved lines from the center of the flower. Add leaves and flowerbuds if so desired.
