hand painted pink hydrangeas with text overlay, Paint Hydrangeas fast and easy, pamela groppe art

Learn to Paint Hydrangeas in acrylics. Stride by step painting tutorial for easy pink hydrangeas.

Acquire to paint hydrangeas in acrylics fast and easy. Easy step by footstep painting tutorial, ane stroke at a time, and with a few tips and tricks you can be successful in curt lodge. Create a DIY hand painted sign for yourself or as a gift for friends or family.

Simply FYI, this was just moved from my one-time site.  It is one of the get-go lessons I always did and was posted in 2013.  My video quality shows how far I have come but this tutorial is even so i of my most visited.  I don't know if that is good or bad. The lesson taught is even so good then I finally got it switched over to this site.

hand painted pink hydrangeas with text overlay, Paint Hydrangeas fast and easy, pamela groppe art

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Draw in placement to paint hydrangeas in acrylics.

I start with cartoon on some loose circles with the chisel edge of my pigment castor. No demand for them to exist perfect circles, hydrangeas can be oval shaped too.
I keep working them until I feel they are the correct size to fit the scale of my sign or design.

based in lines to paint hydrangeas, pamela groppe art

Painting hydrangea Leaves

Paint in some leaves to sit down behind the flowers (link at bottom of this post to How to Pigment Leaves).  This is a version of my scallop leaf.

Leaves added to hydrangea painting on wood

Under painting of hydrangeas

Paint in some color, darker at the bottom and lighter at the top for shadowing and highlighting.

Base painting of hydrangeas

Painting Hydrangea Petals

Paint a simple five petal flower. In this case I used a #half-dozen filbert brush but you can apply what size fits your design. I prefer larger petals so I would get with a larger castor for this.

A v petal blossom is simple.  Imagine a stick figure man. Get-go stroke is the head. Then two arms on each side of the head.

Next pigment in the legs. And y'all have a 5 petal bloom.

3 steps for 5 petal flower how to paint hydrangeas

Starting with the darker color I paint in some hydrangea petals forth the bottom and some on outside edges.

Dark petals being painting on pink hydrangeas

Once satisfied with the amount of dark hydrangea flowers or petals start working in the lighter ones.

Painting on the lighter petals of the pink hydrangeas

I volition piece of work in a tad of dark-green hither and there. Keep adding flowers or petals until the under painting is more often than not covered.

Painting of pink hydrangeas on board, petals all added

Paint Pink Hydrangea Centers

Last just not least add some fiddling dots for the blossom centers with a liner brush.

painting centers on pink hydrangeas one easy stroke at a time

Stand up dorsum and see if you need to add together or change anything.  Sometimes y'all demand to just footstep away for a bit and come dorsum.

Many times walking abroad and coming back reveals you are really done.

Painted pink hydrangeas on a crackled background

Lettering

If you are making this into a sign so add the lettering once you flowers have dried.  Hither is a postal service on lettering.

You get the idea in this video below.  Just remember this is i of the very first videos I ever created and it is pretty rough.

Paint Hydrangeas video

Here is a amend video

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More painting lessons for you to enjoy.
Paint an easy Daisy
How to paint Leaves
My basic Supplies, helpful in getting started

Leaves
FolkArt Thicket  or DecoArt EverGreen
Ceramcoat Wedgewood, or DecoArt Celery
Hydrangea blooms
FolkArt Magenta,
FolkArt Baby Pink or DecoArt Chimera Glue Pink
Wicker White or DecoArt Titanium White
Brushes
Royal Purple Filbert set.
Donna Dewberry Castor set