Paint pictures of peonies

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Lavishly blooming peonies in bright red, bright pink or elegant white invite you to paint. Feel free to try it out a little. Especially with pictures of peonies, it is not important to reproduce too accurately.

Magnificent peonies invite you to paint.
Magnificent peonies invite you to paint. © uschi_dreiucker / Pixelio

What you need:

  • Peonies
  • paper
  • pencil
  • Crayons
  • Colours
  • paint brush
  • Water cup

How to immortalize peonies with wax painters

There are several ways to make pictures of peonies. The easiest way to paint is with crayons or crayons. With this you achieve full Colours and beautiful lines.

  1. Arrange the peonies in a vase. Different color nuances in combination look particularly beautiful for your pictures.
  2. Now take a coloring sheet the size you want and use a pencil to sketch the peonies in delicate outlines. Whether you include the vase and table in the design is your decision.
  3. Now the wax painters are used. Paint the color nuances of the peonies with rich pressure. This works best in small semicircles. Alternate the red tones within a bloom too. This will give you a great 3-D effect on your pictures.
  4. Use your finger to smudge the transitions on the peony pictures. This makes the colors look even more natural.
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  6. Note that dark colors take a back seat and light colors come to the fore. If you are unsure, try the different effects on a smear sheet.
  7. In the same way, shade the stems and leaves of the peonies in different shades of green.

How to make beautiful pictures with opaque colors

  1. If you want to use opaque colors on your peony pictures, start similarly as described above. Rotate the peony arrangement into position as you would like to depict it.
  2. Then sketch gently in pencil. Then the colors come into play.
  3. Brush, mixing palette, water cup and opaque paint should be ready.
  4. Apply the colors really rich. Paint in slightly curved and short lines.
  5. If you are brave, do not mix the colors for your peony pictures beforehand, but combine them directly on your painting surface. Take the Expressionists as an example. Van Gogh's famous sunflowers, for example, were created in this way.
  6. Use this method to paint the foliage and possibly the background as well. This is how natural-looking peony pictures are created.

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