Then fill the shape in with your #4 round brush and titanium white. It may be helpful to use a white chalk pencil to draw the crescent moon. The Pentagon kite was done with red mixed with a little yellow to make a dark orange. The top delta kite was done with red and I blended a little white on the bottom. When you paint the tails, put a little extra pressure on your round brush at first then release the pressure so the paint stroke fades out. Sometimes it’s fun to mix new colors on your palette! Then I blended some white on the bottom.įor the butterfly, I used phthalo blue and then did white in the middle.įor the tail of the butterfly kite, I did phthalo blue and titanium white. Continue to paint each of the kits… For the green one, I mixed the hooker’s green hue with titanium white to make a lighter green. You can outline areas of the designs and draw the cross beam with the black pen. Use a black POSCA paint pen for details on your kites. Then I did yellow and red in the kite as well. I also made a pink by mixing a little red into titanium white. Paint the rest of the kites using a variety of colors and designs. (Tip: this white line should be very thin! If you have a white paint pen, it could help with this step) Have it go to the right and off the canvas. You can have the string start from the bottom of the kite or more towards the center. Then use just titanium white to paint the string. I mixed orange by mixing red and yellow together. Use the round brush and various colors to do the tails of the kited. I started with the bottom kite and painted a rainbow design on it starting with red. I loaded my palette with: cadmium red medium hue, cadmium yellow light, hooker’s green hue, phthalo blue and prism violet. Load your palette with a variety of colors! Kites are very colorful with rainbow patterns/ bright cheerful designs! You can look on google images for inspiration. You can make them simple or more elaborate! Kites come in all shapes including diamonds, delta shaped kites, pentagons and even butterflies! Also, the bottom parts of the trees are darker and more shadowy. This will give your trees some highlights. They don’t have to look realistic.Īdd a little titanium white to your green and add some lighter greens on the tops and edges of the trees. The trees may be “blurry” and out of focus. Keep in mind that this tree line is in the distance. You can use your round brush to create some different types of textures on the edges of the trees and create more defined strokes for pine trees. Leave some small openings that show the sky through the trees. “Stipple” the brush by tapping just the tip of the bristles to fill in the tree line area. Also, load your palette with mars black and hooker’s green hue permanent. It is a great brush to use for tree/shrubbery texture. The bristle brush is a brush that has natural hair bristles (not the soft, synthetic bristles). These can be very abstract and do not need to look realistic.įor the tree tops, I used a round “bristle brush” and a #4 round brush. Do this only a few inches from the bottom of the canvas. You can splatter the stars everywhere but they will show up mostly in the dark blue area of the sky. Test another surface area first to make sure the stars splatter fine little dots of paint that is not too thick and not too thin. Next splatter stars on the very top of the canvas Use a toothbrush and load it into a little bit of titanium white paint that has been slightly watered down. You will have a gradient of dark blue to a light pink sunset color on the bottom of the canvas. Then paint the very light pink on the bottom of the canvas and blend it up into the white/light blue area. Mix about equal parts titanium white and light pink on your palette. Then completely rinse your brush and dry it. At this point, your sky should be almost white with barely any blue in it. Paint more white further down the canvas and go almost all the way down. Continue to paint more white down the canvas. Blend the titanium white up into the light blue so that it blends and transitions to a lighter blue down the canvas. Then load your brush in titanium white (wipe it if too much paint is on your brush). Go down about 5″ with the light blue permanent. Apply the light blue permanent below the darker blue and blend it up. Then wipe your brush off (but do not rinse it).

Make sure your strokes are going all the way across the canvas. Paint a thin layer of this blue and go down about 5″ from the top of your canvas. Paint left and right strokes going across the canvas. Load your palette with the four colors: titanium white, light pink, phthalo blue and light blue permanent.

Use a 3/4″ flat wash to paint a gradient of dark blue, light blue to very light pink from the top of your canvas to the bottom.

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