Give free rein to your creativity: use everyday items to create an amazing painting
How many times do we admire a painting in a museum or a shop and think of how nice it would be to have at home. But who knows how much something like that would cost, and where could we ever find such a piece for sale? And considering creating our own art pieces can be so daunting a thought, that we give up immediately.
Certainly, to mimic the great masters is unrealistic, but it is relatively easy to create passable artistic pieces. And in addition to this, we almost certainly have everything we need - or almost everything - at home already. Check out some art-creating suggestions and techniques below:
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Think about, for example, of a picture of a vast field, with blue sky, green grass and a myriad of small flowers that fill the field of vision with splendid colours. Creating an impressionist version of this image is not as difficult as you think, and to do this, you will need (in addition to a canvas, of course):
- a fork
- a sponge
- aluminium foil
- cotton earbuds
- a cotton swab
- a wooden clothes peg
As for paint brushes, you will need a flat one that is not too large - the kind used for DIY jobs. Then, you will need a thinner one with fairly long bristles for touch-ups and painting smaller details.
Then, you need some acrylic paints: blue and light blue for the sky, purple for the flowers, two shades of green for the grass and light blue and emerald green for the details at the bottom of the field. Yellow, black and white will also be needed. For more information, check out the video at the end of this article.
The trick is to start with doing the background:
Start by placing generous stripes of paint directly from the tubes: two stripes of blue, then two of blue (and these two will occupy the upper half of the canvas). Just below the dab on small amounts of purple paint. Three green stripes will follow this in a downwards direction. Then, follow this with one stripe of light blue and, finally, a line of (very generously applied) emerald green dots.
Now, with the larger paintbrush, mix the colors together, passing over them with horizontal strokes. Only once you have reached the lower part of the field should you start with the vertical brushstrokes.
To work with the fork (and other items)!
Dab the entire surface of the painting with the sponge. Then, at the bottom, use the tines of the fork to scrape off the excess paint: this will become the flower stalks and blades of grass.
A small ball of aluminum foil can be used to dab light green onto the stems, while a handfull of cotton earbuds, dipped in yellow, will create the flowers.
Your little masterpiece is now taking shape, and you can see how easy it is do this (and finish it) in the video posted below:
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