Paint an Abstract Spring Sky with EttaVee Zoom Video Replay

Art Materials

TIP: It’s a good idea to have a hair dryer on hand :) For quicker drying.

Setting up your painting area:

  • Clean and flat area to paint or on an easel

  • Water to clean brushes

  • Cloth or paper towels to dry brushes

  • Canvas - I’ll be painting on a small 9”x12”x1” canvas

  • Paint Brushes*

Acrylic Paints:

I’ll be using the paint brand Liquitex Basics to show that you can create bright and colorful artwork using inexpensive paints! You may use any brand of acrylics of your choosing for this paint session. Feel free to select any specific colors that you want in your piece.

Places to buy acrylic paints: Michaels (check site for coupons!), Blick Art & Amazon

Colors

  • Titanium White

  • Magenta Quinacridone

  • Fluorescent Pink

  • Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue

  • Turquoise Blue

  • Prussian Blue

  • Optional Colors: metallic paint - gold, silver or rose gold. I’ll use Pebeo Gedeo gilding wax, color Empire Gold.

Metallic Paint Pens

There are many many brands carrying metallic paint pens, the one below just happens to be my current favorite!

DecoColor Metallic Paint Pens

Paint Pens - Posca Pens

Choose whichever colors you like! I’ll be using white (size 0.9-1.3mm) along with other pastel spring-y colors (size 1.8-2.5mm)

 


  Spring Sky Inspiration

In 2017, I traveled to the Normandy region of France for the first time with my husband to visit his great-aunt. While there, we visited Utah Beach which is one of the five beaches from WW2’s D-Day. It was an erie and odd experience to see all of the old war machinery left behind on the beach - odd, but beautiful. As we drove along the coast, we were greeted with the most beautiful sunset shining over the ocean. The colors of the sunset were hard to capture on my phone camera, but the colors inspired me to start a collection called Sunset over Normandy as soon as I returned home.

We’re going to take the inspiration above and “spring” it up a bit, by using a more pastel color palette and adding spring fleurs dancing across the sky <3