These paintings have 5 or less colors!
Learn how to paint a manatee! This is an intermediate level acrylic painting. I will be showing you how to draw and paint a manatee with acrylics on an 11 x 14 canvas. This one is a little bit of a challenge because of all the shading and highlighting in …
Materials Color Palette I used Liquitex BASICS acrylics for this. If you are using a different brand, you can look at the color chart below to help you match colors. Want to change the background color? Sub out “Prism Violet” for another color such as “Cerulean Blue” or “Turquoise Blue”! …
As we transition into the New Year, I wanted to do at least one more winter painting design! This week we have a simple and relaxing painting. “Mittens Love” is an easy and quick winter themed painting of two red mittens holding a heart shaped snowball. In the background there …
Learn how to paint a “Christmas Car” with acrylics on canvas. This painting has a simplified color palette and it is a relatively easy design. There is also traceable template to go with this painting, which is optional. Enjoy and happy painting! Materials Colors Brushes Color Palette Optional Traceable Directions …
This is an easy level painting of a desert sunset scene with silhouette Joshua Trees! Joshua trees are beautiful and unique desert trees that can be found in the Southwest United States. They have arms that curve and twist different directions with a spiky ball of leaves at the end …
Paint a blue whale with acrylics on canvas. This tutorial shows you how to paint an underwater scene with dark blues and turquoise. We will also be painting a starry night sky above the ocean. Enjoy and happy painting! Materials Colors Brushes Color Palette Using Craft Paints? If you are …
This acrylic painting tutorial demonstrates basic landscape painting techniques. You will learn how to paint a snowy mountain over a lake and two different kinds of trees. I only used 4 colors for this tutorial! You can also omit one of the blues to make it a 3 color painting. …
Learn how to paint a winter landscape with red fox. This acrylic painting tutorial utilizes a minimal color palette of only 4 colors. We will be blending different shades of gray to create the wintery scene. As an alternative, you can leave the painting blank without the fox for a …
Learn how to paint a vibrant, whimsical fall maple leaf on water with ripples. This acrylic painting tutorial is demonstrated on a 9 x 12 canvas using 6 different paint colors. In this lesson, I am providing a traceable template for the leaf that you can use to transfer to …
It’s beach day! This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a beach with acrylics on canvas. I love painting ocean and beach scenes! The pretty blues and turquoise colors against the white waves and sand are so relaxing. In this particular painting, I played around with some …
This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a path in a park with trees and lampposts with a mother and child holding an umbrella. This is a unique painting in the sense that the outer parts of the path are gray and white while the inner part is …
This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint “Winter Friends”. This is a cute “stylized” painting of a deer looking up at a cardinal in a pretty winter scene. The design was done on a 12″ x 12″ square canvas but it can also be done on a rectangular …