Are you looking for an easy holiday painting project that can be completed in ten minutes? Consider painting a cardinal on a small square of canvas board.
What you will need?
- A canvas board, prepainted light green. (A square four inches by four inches is a good size, but it can vary.
- Acrylic paint tubes: titanium white, bright red, blue and yellow.
- A small roller brush and a few other brushes for finer detail.
- a paper plate to use as a palette
How to Paint the Cardinal
- Mix white and blue and use the roller brush to create random patterns of the two colors to create an impression of depth through a blurry background implying shapes out of focus.
- Draw the silhouette of the cardinal in bright red paint, undiluted with other colors.
- Add red berries hanging in the air.
- Mix equal parts of red and blue and half as much yellow to create black. Add the black areas in the cardinal around the eye and also include the eye.
- Use some of the black for the branch the cardinal is perched upon and the vines from which the berries grow.
- Add white highlights to the branches and white snow on the berries,
- Add white and and yellow highlights to the cardinal, refining the texture of its plummage.
Now you are done. Here is how your painting will look.
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