Enjoy painting flowers with acrylic paintings.
An online session for teaching who like to paint about acrylic paintings and how to draw some kind of flowers using acrylic paintings. This post today is reflection on the session.
As a leader for the Art and Crafts Club in my work, I like
to give students and employees some kind of art, painting training.
People at work intend to be attracted to these kind of
sessions as it take them away from work tasks and make them feel more
comfortable, happy and stress free. Especially who join to paint live, feels
more free and happier I guess.
I started the online session by introducing the audience to
art tools to use, like acrylic brushes, paint, canvases, and other useful tools
such as the palette knife. Honestly, I must do a little search before giving
such information about tools to use as I know there would be updates and new
tools in the market that I might not know or use before.
After this little introduction, I talked about the color
wheel and how mix acrylic colors. This part was very interesting for some
people who are new to this topic as I sense from the session.
I don’t know why I choose certain flowers to paint, thinking
that I will be a professional in drawing and painting these kinds only…Anyway,
I started with a tulip, which didn’t go very well, I never draw it before, it
was all new for me. But I got it right eventually, structuring the flower was a
bit hard, but with color layers it turned to be a beauty in abstract painting,
I guess. This is the advantage of using acrylic colors, you can paint over and
try again. I kept telling my audience this, in my mind, so they don’t think I
don’t know what I am doing. It is also an abstract so, there is no right or
wrong. You can draw a small dote stating that this is a flower in my mind.
The second flower type I taught in the session was the rose,
which I do draw and paint very professionally in abstract of course. I showed
them 3 abstract styles to draw and paint a rose. The first two styles were
using the brush, but in 2 different ways. The third style was using the palette
knife which my students liked so much and told me that it is really like a real
flower. I am so proud of my roses paintings as I have many, I like to draw them
so much with different textures and techniques.
The third flower type I drew was a daisy. The daisy needs
some sketching first for me, to make it rounded with all the petals. I had to
watch a video or how to draw a daisy to present it again to my audience.. maybe
I feel not very confident, but I know learning never stop and I will always
needs to learn more. The daisy turned out to be amazing as my students
mentioned, which also made me very proud.
At the end of the session, some of my students asked me how
I know that I have the talent to draw and paint. I told them I love drawing and
sketching since 7th grade. Thanks to my father who always pushed me
to learn over the summer in the Cultural Foundation, where Al Marsam, a very
nice space for artists to learn. I did lots of sketches work there but stopped
after. I never tried to use paint till college where I began using oil painting
and then I transferred to acrylic paint which I found more convenient for me.
One of my students asked if being an artist is a genuine
thing or it can be learned. Is a person born with artistic skills or a person
can learn these skills. In my opinion, any person can learn how to draw and
sketch, learn the basic skills, so what do you think?
