How to Paint Blossom Over the Bridge 🌸 | Easy Acrylic Painting Tutorial for Beginners | Step by Step

Hi everyone, thanks for joining me today. We're going to be painting this really pretty blossom over the bridge landscape. It's an easy painting for beginners to try. I'll show you the brushes and colours that I use and we'll go through each section step by step so you can paint along with me. Today I'm using an 8 by 10 inch canvas and the colours that I'm using today are titanium white, some Payne's grey, some ultramarine, some cadmium yellow light and some quinacridone magenta but you can use any blue and yellow that you like that you think will make a nice green. If you don't have Payne's grey you can use black and if you don't have the quinacridone magenta you could use any other magenta or pink, whatever colour that you think will look nice for the blossoms. I've got just a medium flat brush and it's slightly damp. The first thing I'm going to do is make a really nice grey colour. So I've got my Payne's grey, a little white, I'm going to add some ultramarine just to make it a little more blue. A little darker, make it lighter as we come up to the top part of the canvas. So probably just below the halfway mark we'll start about there, sweep it up. I'm going to make it, like I said, a little bit darker along the bottom. It doesn't matter if it goes further down, we'll cover all this bit later. So I'm just going to dampen my brush again, just streaks if I just want to work those out a little bit. Brush up, brush in and rinse. The next thing I'm going to do is come in with a firm bristle brush. You can either have sort of a filbert style brush like this or this one. The other brush I'll probably use is the softer filbert brush because I want to put in some willow trees in the distance as well. But we'll start off with maybe this round one. I'm going to add a little bit of pink into the grey. Start giving the indication of a few little trees and bushes in the distance. It's got pink on the very end of the brush and I'm really just dabbing it on the shape of a shrub or tree or something like that. This as well and then I'm going to just say dampen my brush. I'm going to make a really nice grey-green colour. So I'll pick up a little bit of that grey again. I've got my ultramarine, cadmium yellow white, grey. I'll just use the curve of that brush on the side of the brush, just along the side. You can take your time and play around with the shape to get it right the first time. So I'll just I think I'll just come back as well and add a little more detail later. The next section is to mark out roughly where the branches are going to be, so now we can actually just mix a lot of this together because we want quite a dark colour to begin with, a dark purple colour, so we've got little pins, a little green, some magenta, then I've got my flat brush again, I've got some of this dark colour, and again we just below the halfway mark, we'll cover some of these, that's absolutely fine, maybe just a bit here in the middle, straight across, sweep it down, just straight out, do the same to this side, start just going from side to side, again it can all be tidied up later, so don't worry, just putting that in, so you can try and, as you're going, make a little bit like wooden boards that are across the bridge, but don't worry if you can't, I'll come back and brush in a little more detail later on, it's just to give us a little bit of idea. Then we'll put a few shrubs a little bit closer to us, a little dry the pin under the light, so I've just added a little water to it, and if you need to, she's on the side, stop it, let's do this side, the darker colour here, and the shadow of the side, I'm going to give it another quarter here as well, I'm going to use my medium round brush, this one is a size 8, any medium round brush will do, and I'm going to start just putting, I've chopped up my colour, some of it to the side, okay, so let's drop back here, another one, start, so down, when you disappear the edge, do come in with a smaller round brush if you need to, don't really have to stick to it, three times, get just a little bigger, so I'm making the space between just a little bit further away, space again, we'll make it a little bit further away again, still a little way underneath, could always let it dry, probably what I'll do is I'll try and come back here, I'm going to blossom tree the side, do, leave it like that for now, we'll do the smaller branches with a smaller brush, while all of this is drying we'll start working on the blossom, I'm going to do is a small foam bristle brush, anything like that that you have, do a little white to begin with and just a little bit of blue, because we'll start with our darkest red colour, I think I'm going to make this a slight little pom-pom, colours don't have to come together exactly, you can lots of different colours together on the canvas, I'll just blend a little bit, okay, take some green, a little green, okay, it's time to just the pink, a slight little bit of ginger colour, just dabbing that on, just to start building up the blossom, it's bright pink here, do, oh my gosh, just putting those highlights right on the top, I'm trying to keep them all sort of roughly on the same side, on the right hand side, so it looks like the lightest colour brush really does all of the work for you, and if there's a part you don't like you can always come back over with a different colour and cover it up once it's dry, just a little bit of fun, it does take a little bit of time, this part is mostly dry so we'll let that dry before we come back and do some more work on that, start building up the bridge and the bushes on the side, but I'm going to come in with a smaller brush, just dampen it a little, start putting in detail, start putting in the side parts, just going to go like that, you can make these a little bit more thinner there, and make them gradually wider and wider, and also just fill up the white, picked up a little bit of pink there in that white, looks quite nice, so I'll leave that, I'm also going to do some petals on the ground as well, so that will look really nice with the pink, I'm just doing with the white, this is dry now, I'll let that dry and start adding branches on the tree, this is where you need to be careful you don't put your hand on the board, you're not working on it easily, it does a little more difficult in that respect, the paint a little bit thinner, if you have a brush that would also work really well, top, lean, brush again, come back in with this little ground, if you use the side of the brush it gets smaller, we seem to accumulate in the corners, just stop the edges, some white, I think now that the brush is dry at the top, I'm going to come in with just white, here and there, so I hope you've enjoyed today's video, if you have, please consider hitting that like button for me and helping me grow my channel.