Painting texas bluebonnets on canvas with Indian paintbrush, text overlay, Paint Texas Bluebonnets with step by step video

Texas Bluebonnets cover Texas fields with a blanket of blue in Spring.  Learn to paint these beautiful flowers and create your own Bound anytime.

How to paint Texas Bluebonnets in acrylics was a special asking from a reader and I am then happy she asked.  This was then fun for me to practice and I hope you all enjoy it too!

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

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A supply listing is available at the stop of this post. The size of brushes can vary depending what size y'all are painting. I used a #6 or #8 filbert and a #12 apartment in this lesson.

Pigment Stems and Leaves

I am using watercolor paper for this demo and so sometimes my castor dragged.  Commencement with a flat brush double loaded with your greens on the chisel edge.

Commencement on the chisel border of the brush and pull up a line to create the main stem.

Make smaller chisel edge strokes for the side shoots.  No need to be perfect, you volition cover much of these with the bluebonnets.

(for a consummate tutorial on learn basic painting brush strokes and double loading click here)

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

Pigment Texas Bluebonnet Blossoms

Load your filbert brush with the Ink Spot dark blue pigment.  Using a reference photograph or drawing first adding your buds to the stems.  To create the bud shape you printing, twist and drag your bristles to a indicate towards the stem.  (see video at finish of postal service)

Fill in more buds as needed.  Remember, less is more than, so start with a few, pace back look at your flower and add together where needed.  Adding is easy, subtracting is more difficult.

Recall, no two flowers look the same so embrace multifariousness in your flower painting.

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

Keeping adding petals until you lot like it, but don't practice too many!

Calculation more than detail

Rinse your filbert brush clean.  Load it with Wicker White.

With the side of the castor add white strokes to your blueish buds and at the top.  Hither I had put a background of green so the white top would show upwards.  Make the white tip a bit more conical than I prove here, to get it truer to a bluebonnet.

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

Pigment Bluebonnet Leaves

Bluebonnet leaves are star shaped.  Using brush of selection (I used a flat brush but yous can certainly use your filbert if you like) double load with your greens, pull chisel strokes towards a dot you lot place on the end of the stem for a aiming point.

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

Y'all can thicken the strokes as you encounter fit in one case you take the basic chisel strokes done.

Paint Texas Bluebonnets, an easy painting tutorial for these fabulous flowers of Spring. Easy enough for beginners.

You can add more than leaves to the other side if you wish.

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Supplies:

Ink Spot Blue
Fresh Cut Grass
Thicket
Wicker White
Look at Me Blue
Filbert Brushes
Flat Brushes
Watercolor paper

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Painting texas bluebonnets on canvas with Indian paintbrush, text overlay, Paint Texas Bluebonnets with step by step video

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