Elephant outline painting full#
Elephant outline painting download#

Then paint smaller sub-branches branching out from those main branches. Start at the bottom where the trunk is and have the trunk be wider at first and then get narrow as it goes up.īranch your tree outwards to two or three main branches. Use the #8 round brush to paint the acacia trees. Tip: if your round brush doesn’t have a fine tip to it, you may want to switch to a smaller detail brush. I recommend slightly watering down the black paint so it flows easily. Then use a #8 round brush and mars black to paint the elephant silhouettes in. Place a sheet of graphite paper under the elephants and trace.

Elephant outline painting download#

You can use and download the traceable I provide for your for this tutorial! Simply print it on an 8.5″ x 11″ printer paper and cut the elephants out so you can easily position them on the land. Draw/ Transfer The Elephant Silhouette Outlines Paint yellow lines in the water just under the sun. Paint the water area so the white and pink blend together but not all the way.Īdd a little orange and yellow in your water area because the sunset would be reflecting its colors into the water. Paint The Waterĭouble load your 3/4″ flat wash brush in both titanium white and quinacridone magenta. Note: your black land area may need to go over your gray mountain area so you have room for water. Paint black downwards about an inch and leave a gap below for the water area. The middle part of the gray mountain under the sun dips down lower. Go down about an inch and fill it in solid with the gray. Paint your wavy line all the way across, cutting the sun in half. This area is about five fingers from the bottom of the canvas. Use the #8 round brush to paint the hilly area along the horizon line. Gradually add the black into your white until you get the gray shade you want. Do this by mixing about 4 parts white to 1 part black. Then add some more cadmium yellow medium (without white) in the middle of the sun and blend outwards so the outer edge of the sun is slightly lighter. Paint a circle that dips below the horizon line. Mix white and yellow on your palette to make a very light yellow color. Splatter your stars all over the sky area. To achieve this effect, you will need to slightly water down the white so that it is a smooth consistency. I used a toothbrush for this step! You can also use any brush to “flick” your stars. Paint this area so that it goes flat instead of curved. The brightest part of the sky is along the “horizon line”. The horizon line is about 2.5 inches from the bottom of the canvas. Paint this bright yellow to the horizon line. Then mix white into your yellow so that the yellow becomes very bright. Blend the yellow in the sky under the orange. Wipe off your brush and load it into yellow. Then blend the orange down so the magenta transitions to orange. To do this, mix about 3 parts yellow to 1 part magenta. Then mix yellow with quinacridone magenta so that it becomes an orange. Go to almost the halfway point of the canvas with this magenta. Blend that magenta into that lighter purple so the sky transitions to a magenta color. Load the tip of your brush with quinacridone magenta. Next wipe off your brush but do not rinse. Work the paint so that the dark purple blends to that lighter purple but keep the very top of the sky very dark. Work your way down the canvas with this lighter purple.

Blend the white under the dioxazine purple so that it becomes a lighter purple. Next load the tip of your brush in titanium white. Tip: it may be helpful to draw your horizon line at 2.5″ from the bottom of the canvas so you know how far your sky will go down.

Elephant outline painting full#

Do curved strokes going the full width of the canvas. Paint the top three inches of your canvas with this purple. Use your 3/4″ Flat Wash Brush loaded in the color Dioxazine Purple.