How To Draw Lion Acrylic Painting Tutorial

Acquire how to paint a cute lit fireplace at night with a Christmas tree, stockings and wreath. This beginner painting tutorial can exist customized with dissimilar names on the stockings and different colors.

The tutorial comes with a traceable, nevertheless, I will show you how to describe the fireplace blueprint.

You can also practise this on another sail size such as an viii ten 10.

Enjoy and happy painting!

Materials Needed

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Colour Palette

This painting was done with Liquitex BASICS acrylic paint. I recommend the 48 piece set that includes a broad variety of colors including the colors in this tutorial! I also recommend purchasing titanium white and mars black carve up since those colors get used up fast.

Using Craft Paints?

If you are using craft paints such every bit the Apple Butt Craft Paints, endeavour substituting with these colors:

White
Black
Yellow Flame
Nutmeg Brown
Jack-O-Lantern
Bright Blue
Flag Red
New Shamrock
Holly Branch

Brushes

I used Velvetouch Brushes by Princeton! Each of the brushes used in this tutorial can be found in this set!

Traceable

Directions At A Glance

Video

Pace By Step Directions

1. Depict the Fireplace

I recommend using a T-Square ruler for this footstep and then you can brand certain your lines are parallel and perpendicular with the sides of the canvas.

The dimensions beneath are provided to requite you measurements of how I drew my fireplace. They practice not have to be exact! In fact, you are welcome to draw this without measurements.

You are also welcome to use the traceable for this tutorial! Simply impress and transfer using a sheet of graphite paper.

First draw a horizontal line on the lesser of the canvas. This line is about a one-half inch to three-quarters inch from the bottom of the canvas (you can judge it). This will exist the floor in the painting.

The fireplace is offset to the left in this painting because the Christmas tree will be on the right.

Then describe ii vertical lines for the fireplace. Use your T-Foursquare to make both of the vertical lines and go upwards as far as you want. The width of this fireplace is 7″ wide so make certain to make little marks on the flooring line to go the accurate width of the two vertical lines.

Then measure 5″ from the floor line. Draw a horizontal line across. The fireplace is 7″ wide and 5″ high.

So draw the mantle on top of the fireplace. This is a rectangle that is hanging out about three/4″ on both sides of the vertical lines. The elevation of this mantle is about 1/2″.

To do the center opening of the fireplace, draw two vertical lines that are centered. The top of these lines are nearly 3″.

The distance from each side of the middle is about i.5″ and the opening is about 4″ wide. Then describe a horizontal line on the top. Draw the arc in a higher place the two vertical lines.

2. Pigment the wall (background)

Load your palette with the post-obit colors: mars black, titanium white, burnt Sienna and *carmine oxide. *Carmine oxide is optional because it is a very similar colour to burnt Sienna, you can do the same results without it. I chose red oxide to give the walls more than of a blood-red hue.

Load your 3/4″ flat launder brush in water and tap dry.

Triple load your 3/4″ flat wash brush in black with burnt Sienna and blood-red oxide on the corners.

You will be painting the entire groundwork this color combination. Kickoff by "cutting in" effectually the fireplace very advisedly.

Use the tip of your castor to paint the negative space around the fireplace going in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction higher up the drape.

The three colors on your brush will gently alloy to make a very dark ruby brown color.

After cutting in around the fireplace, continue to paint the background. Employ all up and downwards strokes in the entire groundwork. Introduce titanium white into the colors to make some parts of the wall lighter.

Continue to gently blend the colors but exercise not over alloy them. Yous volition have a mixture of dissimilar brownish tones all over the wall.

2. Pigment the floor

Use your 3/four″ flat wash brush. Paint the lesser part nether the wall and fireplace with mars black. And then, optional, paint a edge above the black surface area with a grayness. Mix white with blackness to make a medium gray.

3. Paint The Fireplace

Mix most 3 parts titanium white with one part blackness to make a low-cal to medium grey. Utilise your 3/four″ flat launder brush to pigment the confront of the fireplace.

Then make a slightly darker gray on your palette. Paint the mantle of the fireplace.

Next, paint the inside opening of the fireplace with mars black.

To paint the texture, use a #4 round castor. On your palette mix a darker gray (about the same grey equally the mantle). Paint little horizontal tick marks over the confront of the fireplace to start the texture.

As you reload your circular castor, load your brush in different amounts of black and white to create unlike shades of greyness. Go along to paint little horizontal tick marks all over the face of the fireplace. These marks can slightly overlap each other.

Then rinse your #4 circular castor and load it in merely titanium white. Outline the inner opening of the fireplace, under the drape, the flooring line under the fireplace and the left and right vertical lines. Past outlining your fireplace in white, it helps to create more contrast and to ascertain information technology.

4. Pigment the Fire

Start past painting the glow of the burn inside the fireplace. To do this you will use your 3/4″ flat wash brush and cadmium orangish hue. Note: this color orange is semi-transparent which means that when yous paint it, a lot of the black needs to show through. If you are using an opaque orange (such as arts and crafts paint orange) I recommend watering it down to a water color consistency so that information technology will be semi-transparent.

Paint textured strokes with your 3/iv″ flat wash castor and the cad orange hue to create a "blob" expanse. This will be the fire glow in the background.

Then utilise your #4 round brush to paint the outer shape of the flame. Apply the round brush to sketch out your flame using the orangish pigment. Do this in the center part of the "glow".

And then load primary yellow and titanium white on your palette. Mix the ii colors together to make a bright yellow. Use your round castor to pigment piffling curved strokes on the inside of the flame. This yellow volition turn up bright.

The flame should be brightest in the center and bottom expanse. Go along to add more layers of the bright yellow in the center. Do little curved strokes forming the shape of the flame. You can also add just white in the center to make it much brighter.

v. Paint The Stockings

Use a white chalk pencil, color pencil or regular pencil to draw the shape of the stockings.

You can cull how many stockings to add. The height of the stockings are a bones rectangular shape with curved corners going in a diagonal direction. The bottom shape is like a backwards "L".

Then load your palette with pyrrole red and a round brush. Annotation: if you are not using pyrrole cherry, I recommend using a reddish that is opaque and has good coverage. Otherwise y'all may need to paint all the bottom parts of your stockings white first and then paint over it and so that you will accept good coverage. Most reds are semi-translucent so they volition not accept the greatest coverage.

Then paint the tops of your stockings titanium white. Paint a piddling vertical mark for the hanger of each of the stockings. If y'all desire, you lot can do a fiddling shading with grayness paint on the top and left part of the hangers and top role of the stockings.

You lot can likewise add a footling bit of white on the bottom cerise area of the stockings and blend that white back up. This highlights the bottom of the stocking where the light would be reflecting on the lesser from the fire.

6. Paint the Garland

To do the garland, use hooker's green hue permanent and brilliant yellow green. Use your #iv round castor. Pigment modest textured strokes along the mantle of the fireplace.

These modest textured strokes of the nighttime green and light green mixing together gives the effect of the Christmas tree garland. You can likewise add together a little fleck of titanium white into the green that gently blends together.

7. Paint The Christmas Tree

This technique involves using a #eight circular castor to paint a "circular brush" style Christmas tree. You tin see an unabridged tutorial about how to do this hither! If this is your first time, I recommend practicing it really quick on a piece of sketch newspaper.

Yous volition be using the same two greens you used in the garland: the hookers dark-green and the brilliant yellow green. Load your #8 circular brush in both of these colors.

Start at the lesser. Paint a row of branches by stroking each brush stroke down (from top to lesser). This forms the lesser base of operations of the Christmas tree.

Then load your brush in a petty more of the brilliant yellow dark-green colour. Make a second row above the bottom row. This second row slightly overlaps the lesser row.

Continue to pigment rows of branches. The tree needs to class a conical shape so each row is slightly less wider than the previous. Alter the amount of greens on your castor to brand each row stand out.

Need more than do on these trees? You can see my tutorial hither near how to practise this technique!

Then decide how tall your tree will exist. Brand a pointed tip for the tree.

Continue to paint downward strokes to fill the Christmas tree upward to its elevation.

Then get back over your strokes to make full the Christmas tree further. Each stroke is going from top to lesser and overlapping the previous row (working from bottom to top of the tree).

eight. Pigment The Wreath

Detect a modest circle to trace. I traced a pocket-size plastic cup with dimensions of virtually 3″ wide. Apply the white chalk pencil to trace.

Then use this circle as a guideline to painting the circle wreath. Use the #four round brush and hookers green hue permanent as well as vivid xanthous green. Paint in modest textured strokes blending the two greens together. Go along the circle to form the wreath shape. This is the aforementioned technique you used to pigment the garland on the mantle.

Y'all can also add together a small amount of titanium white on the wreath to brighten the dark-green up.

9. Paint The Candles

Employ your #4 circular brush and pyrrole crimson to paint four vertical lines for the candles (you can do more than or less candles if you desire).

And so paint a black circle on top of each of the four cherry-red lines. And so paint an orange circumvolve for the "glow" of the flames. These orange circles should exist semi-transparent.

And then paint a flame shape within of the orange circumvolve. Do this with master yellow mixed with titanium white (nigh equal amounts).

And so utilize titanium white to pigment the wick of each of the candles. Pigment some vertical strokes with the white to represent melting wax/highlights.

Shut up of candles below.

10. Paint Berries On Wreath and Garland

Next utilise your #4 round brush to paint minor red dots on the wreath and garland.

11. Paint Star On Tree

Utilize master yellow mixed with titanium white to paint the star topper on the tree. Paint a triangular base for the star and then the star higher up information technology.

Add extra white in the center of the star to make it appear brilliant. Then dry out brush sparse lines around the star to make it announced similar it is glowing.

12. Paint lights and ornaments on tree

To make glowing lights, I used my finger to press and form modest blurry circles with titanium white and primary yellow pigment. You merely want a modest corporeality of paint on your finger when yous do this so it appears very thin and translucent.