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Paint Hydrangea – Three Ways!

May 4, 2011 By Colleen Jorgenson 4 Comments

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I don’t like painting the same thing over and over again. Which may explain why I’ve never done a craft fair before and probably never will.

I get bored doing the same thing over and over again. Even if it’s painting.

But when I looked at this hydrangea painting again, I knew I couldn’t display it as a sample for the upcoming class in June. Which meant I had to paint it again. Which meant I was bored.

Which meant I thought I’d play around with some different ‘styles’ of painting hydrangea.

For this first one, you only need one paint color and a black Sharpie.

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Like the hydrangea tutorial above, you start by making a blue ‘cloud’. Or pink, lavender, white or whatever color you want to make your flower.

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Paint the outer edges first, trying not to make them symmetrical and ‘perfect’ looking.

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Then fill it in. This should take you . . . oh, about 5 minutes. If that.

But now you gotta let this guy dry. Completely. I’d suggest trying the hydrangea tutorial I posted below while this one dries.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Once dry, grab your Sharpie and make some ‘W’s. Or ‘M’s. Or ‘C’s.

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Ta-Da! A hydrangea!

If you wanna get a little fancier, add some more petals . . .

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Super easy, super fun.

Quick ‘n dirty. I like this kind of project.

But I had to try something a little different. So with the same colors I used on the first hydrangea tutorial – hydrangea blue, violet, white and medium green – and a black Sharpie, I attempted a watercolor-like style.

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Same colors, same pattern – completely different look. Wanna know how to do it?

Sure you do!

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First draw the outline of the hydrangea head, the stem and the leaf veins with a Sharpie.

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Add some more veins to the leaves and a few pointy edges.

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I drew one full blossom on the ‘top’ of the hydrangea. . .

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. . . then I filled in a few more petals.

So I wound up with this sketch –

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Now, since I have acrylic and not watercolor paint, and since this was on watercolor paper, I needed to really thin down the paint. I could’ve used water, but the paper absorbs watered-down paint really fast.

Instead, I used Folk Art Floating Medium. Big surprise, huh? Especially since I use that stuff nearly every day.

I loaded my brush fully with floating medium then picked up a tiny bit of paint. Then I stroked the brush back and forth on my palette (foam plate) until it was thoroughly mixed.

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Here’s the first layer of medium green. It’s the same paint as these leaves –

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So you get the idea how thinned down the paint was, right?

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I thinned down the hydrangea blue the same way.

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Then a little violet.

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A little more blue and a bit more green and that did it.

What do you think? Little different, especially for me, but I like it. I need to practice a lot more, but it was a nice break from my regular layering technique.

So, now you have 3 different ways to paint a hydrangea – super easy, easy, and layering (and that just happens to be easy too Winking smile!)

 

 


 


Filed Under: How To & PIY, Markers & Pencils, Paint Types, PIY, Watercolor

Comments

  1. CindyB says

    April 30, 2013 at 9:00 am

    These are cute, can’t wait to give it a try!

    Reply
  2. marianne says

    March 24, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    can’t wait to start; i use acrylic on slates, let’s see how it comes out!! light touch, light touch, i have to reform myself from doing primitive, full color painting for this one!!

    Reply

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