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How to paint a moth For beginners
Materials used: Oil pastels
Pencil Acrylic paint Flat brushes and small round brushes Water to wash your brushes Tissue paper to wipe your brushes
Trace your image onto your canvas Optional If you feel comfortable enough to draw, I highly encourage you to do this instead of tracing. But here is a tracing method which I nd very handy. To trace your image onto your canvas, print out an image of a moth to the exact size you want to paint it.
Colour the back of the page Colour the entire back of your printout with oil paste. The harder you press, the more clear your image will transfer onto your canvas. It is good to use a dark pastel, because this is more visible.
Transfer your image onto your canvas Once you’re done colouring the back of the paper in, place the image facing up on the exact spot you want it to appear on your canvas. Use a pencil to draw over all the lines and details.
Your image should look something like this
Start painting your moth with the darkest colours An easy way to start any painting is to add all the dark areas rst. Try using a dry brush effect (no water and little paint) to paint your moth. This will make the moth look more “dusty�. A great way of mixing dark brown, is to mix medium brown with a bit of ultramarine blue (the dark blue on my palette here). This makes your brown look much more alive than to mix black and brown for a dark brown.
Use short and straight brush strokes
Have a look at the direction of the brush strokes on the different wings. We paint it this way, because it is the same direction as the lines of the moth’s wing structure goes.
Add the medium tones Next you need to focus on lling in the blank spaces on your moth. Try to avoid the white areas as much as possible. Here you’ll start adding orange, different browns and light grey.
Paint your background Since your moth will be pretty textured when using the dry brush method, a good idea is to make your background as smooth as possible. This will make your moth pop out more. If you want to achieve the affect shown here, make sure that you only paint small areas at a time. You would then use different kinds of greens and white paint. Once you’ve painted one small patch dark green, for instance, immediately paint another colour right next to it. In order to blend them, your rst patch of paint must still be wet. Work some of your second colour of paint on the edge of the rst patch, going slightly over the rst colour, until it transitions evenly from one colour to another.
Paint details on your moth You can now go back and add details to your moth. Add the antenna and some more black on the darkest areas of the moth. It is also in this step where you will start looking for the lightest areas in the moth. A couple of white brush strokes will make your moth stand out more.
Try this out When painting the details on an area where there is wet paint, you cant always comfortably put your hand down on the canvas to paint. Try resting your hand on your pinky next to the wet paint, instead of trying to paint with your entire hand in the air. This helps to create cleaner lines since you’ll have way more control.
Add a oral design in a bright colour I decided on red, since red is the complimentary colour of green, so it stands out much more. If you don’t like these colours, have a look at the
colour wheel and pick two colours that are right opposite each other on the colour wheel.
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