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How To Paint A Blue Jay – With Blossom Background – Beginner Tutorial In Acrylics

July 23, 2022July 20, 2022 by Tracie

Learn how to paint a cherry blossom tree background with a blue jay on a branch! This tutorial will guide you through the steps in two parts! Part one is the background with the swirly tree and leaves/ blossoms. This painting can also be done without the bird if you …

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How To Paint A Forest – Acrylic Painting Tutorial For Beginners

July 16, 2022July 13, 2022 by Tracie

This tutorial of a forest painting will show you how to create your own forest on an 11 x 14 canvas! The design can also work on other canvas sizes and surfaces. Learn how to layer colors to create depth! Trees that are further away are smaller and lighter. Trees …

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Categories Landscape, No Traceable Required, Path, Spring, Summer, Trees, Year Round Leave a comment

How To Paint A “Patriotic Gnome” – Step By Step Tutorial

January 24, 2023June 22, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a patriotic theme gnome! I will be demonstrating how to do this painting on an 11 x 14 canvas that I painted with a layer of “Payne’s Grey”. If you don’t have that particular grey, you can paint your canvas any …

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Categories Black Canvas Background, Gnomes, Patriotic, Summer Leave a comment

How To Paint “Let’s Go Camping” Acrylic Painting Tutorial

June 18, 2022June 15, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a camping theme painting on canvas! I just love the glowing stars through the trees and the string lights in this “glamping” scene! The contrast of the dark galaxy sky with the bright tent bring that warm fuzzy feeling to anyone …

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Summer Birdhouse Acrylic Painting Tutorial For Beginners

July 25, 2022June 8, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a summer rustic, patriotic themed birdhouse with bluebonnets and red bonnets! There is also a cute chickadee perched on top of the roof! This is a great tutorial to compliment your red, white and blue decor for the summer or as …

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Categories Birds, Patriotic, Rustic, Spring, Summer, Year Round 2 Comments

Watermelon – Acrylic Painting Tutorial

June 7, 2022June 1, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a watermelon with acrylics. Learn how to paint a juicy dark red watermelon on a wood table with a pretty watermelon blossom flower and fun green bubbly background. This is a great “still life” painting you can do as a summer …

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How To Paint “Palm Tree Bay” – Acrylic Painting Tutorial For Beginners

June 20, 2022May 25, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint palm trees! Paint palm trees in front of a bay with sparkly turquoise waters! I love the combination of light turquoise blues against the dark greens in this painting! It is definitely a happy and cheerful place! I used an angle …

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Categories Beach, Summer, Trees, Tropical 1 Comment

How To Paint A Tropical Toucan – Acrylic Painting Tutorial

May 21, 2022May 18, 2022 by Tracie

Learn how to create a beautiful, vibrant toucan painting with acrylics! This is a beginner painting tutorial that includes a free traceable template download for the toucan. This particular painting is a little more advanced than my first how to paint a toucan painting! You can see an easy version …

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Categories Animals, Birds, Summer, Tropical, Year Round Leave a comment

How To Paint A Seahorse – Beginner Acrylic Painting Tutorial

May 8, 2022May 4, 2022 by Tracie

Learn how to paint a colorful seahorse under water with seaweed and bubbles! I love the colors in this painting! It is such a fun and easy summer design and one that you can do with the kids! This painting also goes well with my other under the sea designs. …

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Sunset Sky Mountain Landscape – Acrylic Painting Tutorial

July 25, 2022April 20, 2022 by Tracie

This acrylic painting tutorial will demonstrate how to paint a vibrant orange and yellow sunset sky reflecting over a lake with purple mountains in the distance and trees! I love the unique color scheme in this painting! I’ve bene using a lot of dominantly blue painting designs lately and decided …

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How To Paint A Beach – Acrylic Painting Tutorial

July 25, 2022April 13, 2022 by Tracie

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 …

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Categories Beach, No Traceable Required, Ocean, Summer, Year Round 1 Comment

Walk In The Rain – Acrylic Painting Tutorial

July 25, 2022April 6, 2022 by Tracie

  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 …

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Categories Intermediate Level Painting, Landscape, Path, Rain, Spring, Storm, Summer, Trees, Year Round Leave a comment
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