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Cute Valentine’s Day Cupcake Painting

May 5, 2023January 19, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial for beginners will demonstrate how to paint a cute Valentine’s Day cupcake on a square canvas. I did this painting on a 10″ x 10″ stretched canvas. The cupcake design drawing will be demonstrated in the video and the written tutorial. If you don’t want to …

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Categories Easy Level Painting, Food, Square Canvas, Valentine's Day 2 Comments

“Winter Friends” Acrylic Painting Tutorial

May 5, 2023January 5, 2022 by Tracie

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 …

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Categories Animals, Christmas, Landscape, Limited Color Palette, Medium Level Painting, Square Canvas, Winter 4 Comments

Thanksgiving Gnome Painting

May 5, 2023November 10, 2021 by Tracie

Learn how to paint an adorable gnome sitting down holding a slice of pumpkin pie! I did this painting on a 12″ x 12″ square canvas with acrylics. The tutorial includes a free traceable for the gnome, however, you can also draw the gnome. I will demonstrate in the video …

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Apple Picking Fall Truck Painting Tutorial

May 5, 2023October 13, 2021 by Tracie

Learn how to paint a blue truck (back side) with barrels of apples in a fall landscape on a square canvas. This tutorial is demonstrated on a 10″ x 10″ canvas but the design can be done on any size (even a rectangular) canvas. Enjoy and happy painting! Materials Color …

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Categories Autumn, Easy Level Painting, Fall, Farm/ Rustic, Square Canvas, Trucks Leave a comment

How To Paint A Simple Tropical Hibiscus

May 5, 2023June 30, 2021 by Tracie

Learn how to create a pretty pink tropical hibiscus painting with acrylics on canvas. This hibiscus painting is demonstrated on a square 10″ x 10″ canvas. You can also do this on a similar size or a rectangular canvas. A free template download is also in this tutorial! You have …

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Categories Beach, Flowers, Medium Level Painting, Square Canvas, Summer, Tropical, Year Round 4 Comments

Cupcake Painting Easy

May 5, 2023April 7, 2021 by Tracie

Learn to paint an easy cupcake painting on an 12″ x 12″ or any size square canvas! This is a very easy painting and a great one you can do with kids or as a birthday party! The colors of this painting can easily be customized. Change the background color, …

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Categories Easy Level Painting, Food, Kid Friendly, Limited Color Palette, Square Canvas 3 Comments

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My name is Tracie Kiernan, artist and creator of Step By Step Painting, LLC. I am a self taught painter, a certified Elementary Art Teacher and have taught visual arts to all ages for over ten years. I have a profound passion for the arts and art education and I LOVE designing all of these painting tutorials!!

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