Wandering Butterfly
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I made a butterfly painting and it has a flower in the bottom left corner. It took 2 days to make because I had to wait for the blue background paint to fully dry before I could use a pencil for and outline and then I painted over it and the next day I just painted the flower and grass on.
Supplies
- Paint (acrylic)
- Thick paper
- Pencil
- Paint brushes
- Cardboard for paint
Starting Piece
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For the First step you just need a blank piece of white paper (preferably thicker than normal paper).
Background
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For this step you are going to need two shades of blue sky blue and Dark blue you are going to need more sky blue than dark blue. Grab a clean paint brush and dip it into your light blue you are going to paint a little more than half the page then go in with your dark blue (do not wash brush in between) and paint the rest of the paper.
Butterfly
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Next paint on a simple little butterfly.
Steps for butterfly:
- Paint white line on angle
- Paint two orange wings and done
Coming Together
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Make green lines at the bottom until they take up the whole bottom next make 1 green line then an orange dot at the top.
All Done (WOW)
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Next we are going to finger paint the flower petals you are going to put paint on on of you fingers and start going around the dot ta dah.