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How to Paint a Cherry Blossom
If you’ve always wanted to learn to paint, this super easy, fun and free painting tutorial is a perfect place to start!
This video tutorial will walk you through step by step how to paint a Cherry Blossom. Perfect for beginners and new artists and anyone wanting to build their creative confidence.
You’ll learn some basic painting techniques, enjoy a relaxing creative session and you’ll finish with a bright cheerful painting that will look great hanging on your wall!
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- at least one small to medium bristle brush and a small liner brush.
- paint: magenta, blue, light green, dark green, red, yellow, brown, black and white
- something to paint on!
- a small jar or cup of water (to wash your brush)
- paper towels or an old rag (to dry your brush)
- (optional) hairdryer to speed up the drying process
Don’t worry if you don’t have the exact supplies, you can use anything you like. In fact this is a great one to try in different colours! Try oranges, reds and yellow for an autumn painting, or greens and yellows. You can get as creative as you like.
Once you have all your supplies click the video image below to watch, paint, learn and have fun!
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EP56- ‘Mt Fuji & Cherry Blossoms’
Spring will soon be here, so let’s welcome it this week with an easy and fun cherry blossom painting tutorial featuring Mt. Fuji. This step-by-step painting tutorial is easy for beginners to follow along, and a great romantic activity to do for a Valentine’s Day paint party, or any time of year!
The colors that we will need for this painting are:
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- Crimson red: https://amzn.to/33EiFtA
- Black: https://amzn.to/2XHCGfk
- White: https://amzn.to/3a6ZTfC
And you will need three standard types of brushes that I use in most classes:
- A 1-inch wash brush: https://amzn.to/3aa5D8z
- A medium-sized, round brush: https://amzn.to/39z51bh
- A tiny round brush too, like this: https://amzn.to/2VRkCPC
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Materials You Will Need to Paint a Cherry Blossom Painting with Acrylic Pouring
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Paints:
- Artist’s Loft Copper
- Liquitex Basics Quinacridone Magenta
- Master’s Touch Crimson
- Master’s Touch Titanium White
- Artist’s Loft Metallic Bronze
- Ultra Pure White Base Behr Interior Matte /Exterior Flat Stain-blocking Paint & Primer Marquee Color Sample – Teal color*
- Artist’s Loft Light Blue
All of my colors were mixed from the paints above. If you want to learn how to mix colors, be sure to grab your free color wheel printables and snag the helpful printable pack as well.
*I don’t know the exact color of this because I purchased them in the “oops” section of Home Depot as well as from the HabiStore, but I noted as much identifying info as I have. I also have listed some similar acrylic paint colors below these.
Pouring Medium:
Tools:
Canvas:
- 8in x 10in canvas
How to Paint a Cherry Blossom Painting Video Tutorial
As I said above, I wanted to make a beautiful spring sky for the background of my cherry blossom painting. So I did a dirty pour with a light blue/teal color and white to evoke the look of clouds.
- Pour your background colors into your pouring cup as you would for a dirty-cup pour.
- Pour the paint out in horizontal bands across the canvas, covering as much of the canvas as possible.
- Tilt the canvas until the entire canvas is covered and you are happy with the look of the background.
Branches
- Sketch out the branches with umber paint using a popsicle stick.
- Fill in your branches by pouring the paint along the lines that you sketched out.
- Pull out some thinner branches from your thicker branches.
- I pulled some of my background colors into the branches for texture, totally optional.
- Add some highlights into the branches to give them dimension, pattern, and texture. I used metallic bronze.
Flowers
Now it’s time to have some fun and paint some cherry blossoms on your tree! I used four colors total for my blossoms: light pink made from crimson and white, white, copper, darker pink made from magenta and white.
- Using one color at a time, use a popsicle stick (or if you’re having trouble getting the paint where you want it, you can use a pipette) to drop circles of paint onto your branches. I suggest using one color at a time so you can get a feel for color balance so that you don’t have a bunch of flowers of one color in one part and none of that color in another area.
- Continue layering your colors onto your flowers. I used two colors for each flower and white in the center of each one.
- Create the cherry blossom shape by using your skewer to pull your background paint from the edge of your circle into the center. Do this five times around each circle. I think the center looked nicest when I did a tiny spiral motion with the skewer on the last line in. Do this for each flower.
Extra Petals
I wanted to add some petals that were blowing in the wind. So I dotted the petal colors only to the right of the flowers and in an elongated way to give the feeling of them being carried by the wind.
Go Forth and Pour!
That’s how I created a simple acrylic pouring cherry blossom painting. If you like painting landscapes, you might also be interested in my ocean sunset, sunset painting, mountain painting, and beach painting projects.
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