Art Lab Episode 57

Posted on by Amie Posted in DIY and Decor

Hello, guys!  I recently became an author at The Art Lab.  If you haven’t heard of that blog, check it out and subscribe!  Now, on to the art!

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Okay, before we get started, I need to make a confession.  I’m a terrible artist.  I love art, and I love painting, sketching, or painting with pastels, but I’m not good at it.  So, bear with me, and hopefully we’ll learn together.

Today, I got my inspiration from this on Pinterest.

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So, these are the things you’ll need.

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— Yellow Oxide Acrylic paint

— Hooker’s Green Acrylic paint

— Cadmium Red medium hue acrylic

— Neutral grey acrylic

–Settler’s Blue acrylic

— Mars Black acrylic

— Titanium white acrylic.

(I purchase most my paint from Dick Blick.  All of the above are purchased from there with the exception of Settler’s Blue, which is Folkart, and the tube of gold, which I ended up not using.)

— A pencil

— A glass of water

— A mixing knife

— Palate

— a wide flat brush

— A small, pointed brush

— A medium flat brush

— A medium round brush

— Canvas paper.

All right!  Once you have all that, or stuff similar to that, you can get started!  I took one sheet of canvas paper and my pencil.

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I started by sketching my pumpkins.  My little sister told me to make them like this, and so, I did.  I find it easy to think of them as different sections as I draw, so that might help you.  Just remember to do the one farthest back first, and to draw lightly.

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So, next draw the little berries and cotton.  (I found this one of the most enjoyable parts of the whole art project. 😂)

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Continue drawing all over the page.  I decided to put a leaf at the very bottom.  I will admit, I now wish I didn’t…But I guess it’s too late now, isn’t it?  I stuck with little leaves, berries, and cotton, but this is where you can make the picture your very own.  What if you did Indian corn?  Or gum balls?  Or lavender sprigs?

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Now, you can take your Hooker’s Green, and start filling in the leaves with your smallest brush.  Make sure you put a liberal amount in each leaf so that you can mix in some other colors later on.

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Now, take the brown, and make a stem, but make sure it’s not a continued line.  Also, mix some of the brown with half of the green on the leaves, making the colors blend slightly.

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Now, do that to all of the leaves you’ve drawn.

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Lastly, mix some yellow in those leaves, making the yellow more distinct than the brown.

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Now, move on to the berries.  With the same brush, grab a generous amount of red, and fill in those little circles.

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Now, grab some more yellow, and put a little line on the undersides of the berries.  Don’t mix it in very much.

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Now, I think I forgot to take a picture of the next thing. 😐  But, I will tell you!  Make the stems of the berries the same way as you did the leaves.  Then, mix a good amount of the red with the yellow to make a very strange orange.  DO NOT do the leaf first.  That was my mistake.  (Hehe.)

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Next, add some white in a few places, a dab of black in the middle, and lots and lots of brown.  Once you’re happy with the results, add more paint and give the pumpkin a textured look.

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Now, work a bit on the stem.  Make a big blob of brown, and mix white with it at the top. Then, traced a bit of black around it, and voila!  The orange pumpkin is done.

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Now, ignore what I did with the leaf, and pay attention to the small pumpkin.  Grab a bunch of settler’s blue, and slather it on there.

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Now, grab some white, and accentuate what you want to accentuate. I had fun doing that.  And then grab some brown to make the ridges.

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Now, mess around with the yellow, brown, white, and grey coloring for a LONG time. XD At least, it took me a long time to get it where I was sorta happy with it.

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Now, grab the white and make it nice a FLUFFY.  And grab the grey, and give it a swirl, but only on one half of the cotton.

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Now, for the stem make the little three point flower of brown, and mix in some white.

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And then add little white dots, and the cotton is done!

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Now, just grab some of the yellow, and paint the leave before doing brown for the stem.  Don’t do too much, because the eye isn’t supposed to be attracted to the leaf.

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Now, sign you’re name, and you are done!

Do you enjoy art?  What is your favorite “fallish” thing?  Have you ever seen a field of cotton?

~~Amie~~

30 thoughts on “Art Lab Episode 57”

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    Allison says:

    Ooh, this is LOVELY, Amie! You did a great job, and I love all the texture of the paint and how you mixed it on the canvas! I’m so happy you joined Art Lab. 🙂 ❤ For your questions… heh heh, probably anyone who knows me knows I like art, so, YES. XD My favorite fall thing is the gorgeous light and photography opportunities. Also apple cider is pretty nice. 😉 I'm not sure if I've seen a field of cotton, but at our old farm we had a barn room full of cotton seeds for the cows to eat that we had tons of fun playing in!

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      Amie says:

      I’m so glad you like it, Allison! Ooh, apple cider is one of my family’s favorite. We have a special way of doctoring it up to make it into a dessert. XD And it’s also delicious just plain. That’s neat! Seeds sound like a lot of fun to play in, if you have enough of them. 😉

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