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Ideas for Mini Canvas Painting for Beginners
Here are some ideas for mini canvas painting for beginners using acrylic paint. What’s great about mini canvas boards is how tiny and cute they are and that you can easily fill in with your creative ideas. You won’t consume a lot of paint in order to produce a painting.
As a beginner in painting myself, it is always good to have an image reference of what you’re painting in order to have a guide on your painting process.
Materials you will need:
- Mini Canvas
- Acrylic Paints
- Paint Brush
- A Cloth and Water to clean brushes
- Image reference of what you want to paint
Painting Cartoon Characters
One great idea for mini canvas painting for newbie is to pick your all time favorite cartoon character as your subject is a great introductory in acrylic painting. It will be easy for you to paint it because you’re already familiar with the elements and colors of the characters.
Additionally most cartoon characters have solid blocks of colors and outlines so there’s not a lot of color blending to be done.
I made a playlist of my cartoon character painting time lapse videos. These were my very first paintings using acrylic paint.
Painting a lot will help you learn how to use acrylic paint. So it wouldn’t hurt to try out all your favorite cartoon characters.
Silhouette Scenery Painting
If you like a beginner friendly painting ideas to do are silhouette sceneries. Where you paint a gradient background and make a silhouette or shadow of the subject you want to paint.
These are some of the art paintings that I did for silhouette painting:
Beautiful Mini Canvas Painting Ideas For Beginners
If there is a doodler’s heaven on Earth, then there cannot be anything better than a mandala painting on a canvas. Among the mini canvas painting ideas that are available, it is one of the easiest ones. Especially if you were never the art geek kind, the mandala painting is a suitable option to go for. It only includes circular designs and patterns and includes a hue of colors. If you have a dull background, then painting some mandala designs and keeping them against it, can uplift it as a whole. Besides the fact that it is quite easy and colorful, the procedure to make it is extremely therapeutic, and can release all your stress.
Geometric Canvas Painting
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Ever painted any such painting that looks extremely creative, but just takes a couple of hours to finish? That’s the geometric canvas painting! All you need to do is find some shapes, like circles, triangles, squares, hexagons, and Pentagon and make an impression, to finally fill them with a flat color. Once the flat color is laid on the canvas, you can further use darker shades to enhance the shapes, and it’s done! You can also use different color tones to show the contrasts. It brings out the depth from the picture and gives a certain definition of space.
Mini Canvas Fruit Painting Ideas
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Among all the mini canvas painting ideas, painting fruits on canvas are by far, is one of the most common art ideas for beginners. As mini canvas are quite smaller in size, you do not need to take the stress to fit in the whole structure of each fruit, and you can just get done with it by creating an overlap, that is, one fruit on top of the other. Arranging it in such a way, also open ample scopes to incorporate a hue of bright colors, and enhance the canvas painting with impetuous details. You can hang it near the kitchen, or in the dining area if you are too particular about the themes.
Very Easy Things To Paint On Canvas (For Beginners)
Abstract Flowers Painting
You don’t need to paint the elaborate and intricate details of flowers in an abstract painting. That makes it many times easier. Just blend the different colors of flowers on the canvas and your abstract flowers painting will be ready to go up on the wall.
Quote Canvas Art
This kind of project gives you the flexibility to do with the canvas as you please. Pick a nice quote for your canvas and then give the background a nice ombre or rainbow effect. Make sure you blend the colors so that there is no sharp line visible between them.
Leaves Painting
Like I said, we have easy things for you to paint as a beginner! Get a branch from your yard full of leaves and place it on the canvas. Next is your job to paint the canvas. Once the paint is dry, remove the leaves and you have a beautiful art work ready.
Starry Night
Capture the beautiful sight of the night in your canvas by painting a beautiful starry night. Turn your canvas black and then add the perfect touch of twinkling tiny stars and a dreamy moon. You can make this painting more amazing with a nice message painted on it. Maybe try your luck in calligraphy as well!
Dot Painting
As the name suggests you can make a whole new painting with nothing but dots. It is easy to make and really takes not much effort. Also, it makes one great décor item. So start making dots in different sizes with the colors of your choice.
Geometric Patterns
Painting is all about using different patterns and shapes and making one picture with depth as deep as the ocean. As a beginner, don’t worry about that depth and just focus on using different geometric patterns. Once you are sure of your patterns, start filling them with paint in different shades that will complement each other.
Duct Tape Painting
Use duct tape to create a chic and lovely art piece. Place this duct tape on the canvas in a pattern which you like and start painting the canvas. Once you are done splashing color on the canvas, peel off the duct tape with utmost care.
Abstract Heart
With abstract, there is this advantage of not worrying about perfection. So go for an abstract heart while you are trying to come up with something to paint. Play with a variety of color and you will learn a lot about painting while doing it.
Pixel Painting
Once you are done with your pixel painting, no one would believe it was made by a rookie. Start by drawing equal-sized squares across the surface of your canvas and then paint the squares with a slightly different tone of the same hue. The end result will be simply mesmerizing.
Striped Canvas Art
When nothing comes to mind, let your paintbrush go straight and paint some colorful stripes. It will make a chic and modern art. Not to mention a perfect item to grace the walls of your home provided that you chose to use the colors matching your home décor.
Don’t lose your mind if you don’t get it right in one attempt. Think of it as a relaxing activity and let the movement of your paintbrush on the canvas soothe you.
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