Painting tulips

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This project is good for kids age 5-8. Younger kids can do only 0ne tulip.

Materials: paper, thick and thin brushes, acrylic paints,  watercolor paints (green and blue)

Project takes about 45-60 minutes

• give kids a choice of a still-life composition (vertical) or a landscape composition (horizontal)
• draw outlines:
  • draw a horizon/table edge line
  • draw tulips starting with a shape of a letter U and adding petals from its bottom, add the middle petal looking as a triangle
  • tulips may overlap each other, some tulips may be smaller and some bigger

  

• paint tulips with acrylic paints starting with the lightest colors (yellow and pink) and then painting with darker colors (orange, red and purple)
• paint stems and leaves
• using a large brush paint the sky with blue watercolor and the grass with light green watercolor (or use brown for the table)
• add some shadows:
  • add some brushstrokes with a thin brush using darker color (for example, use orange for a yellow tulip or red for a pink tulip)
  • add green brushstrokes for stems and leaves

Here how it turned: