Forming a realistic acrylic picture of a decorated Christmas tree requires an eye for fact.
Acrylic paints are a all-purpose Craft medium that can be used for realistic delineation on paper, canvas, wood or yet an interior wall or other comparable surface. This plastic byproduct too dries quickly, which is a certain plus for many painters. With a microscopic investment in paints, brushes and paper or canvas, plus a hardly any generation, it is imaginable to render a Christmas tree covered with electric lights.
Instructions
1. Knowledge represantation a Christmas tree with a pencil on the pages of the delineation pad. For most, portraying the tree might hurting for extra knowledge than rendering the folder of lights and bulbs that is wrapped encompassing the evergreen. On your sketch, be firm to add an outline for Everyone bulb, besides as the dusk cord running between Everyone glassy. End a pencil to author illumination and dim portions of the needles. Close not be concerned provided you brew a wrong. Apply your eraser to remove it and crack again.
2. Trail the Ending outline of the tree, electric cord, glassy bulbs and any other ornaments that you coextensive on on the watercolour paper. Operate a pencil, moulding definite your pencil marks are bare glassy.
3. Assemble your paints, brushes, damp and color-mixing palette.
4. On the palette, compound a spotlight colour for the evergreen needles of the tree. Permanent developing mixed with a petite size of sneaking ocher or chromium leafy mixed with cadmium low are ace starting points. For painting on paper, acrylic paints can be thinned with water.
5. Practice creating evergreen needles by applying the paint, using short, quick strokes, on a practice piece of dry paper using the flat brush.
6. Create a darker green for the shadow areas of the evergreen needles. This can be done by mixing one of your green paints with ultramarine or cobalt blue. When you have achieved the desired color, apply the paint to the practice sheet in the same manner as you did the highlight color, using your brushstrokes to create the appearance of needles.
7. Apply the light and dark green paints to the tree area on the watercolor paper.
8. Mix the cadmium yellow with a small amount of water on the palette to create a thin yellow color. The hue of the mixed paint should be close, but not the same as, a bright primary yellow.
9. Practice painting the yellow bulbs on a scrap of watercolor paper. With a clean, pointed round brush, add a dot of water to the center of the first bulb that you wish to paint yellow. Dry the brush, and then add the thin yellow paint to the edge of the centered wet spot; spread the paint outward on the bulb, until the pigment fills the outline of the bulb. Before the water has a chance to dry, darken the perimeter of the bulb with a wet mixture of some yellow ochre. When done correctly, the center area of the bulb should be lighter than the outer edges, making the bulb appear as if it is glowing. There should be a gradual change of color, with the washed-out yellow in the center moving to a midrange cadmium yellow and then to a darker yellow ochre at the perimeter of the bulb.
10. Paint the bulbs on your tree when you are finished practicing.
11.13. Take your wash water and apply it to the area outside the tree to create a nondescript background.
Repeat this process for each yellow bulb, and then move on to bulbs that are a different color, using the same technique.12. Render any other tree ornament to the best of your ability.
