Create a Painting From a Drawing

How To Create a Painting From a Drawing

Once you have your drawing completed,

now you have to create a painting from it.

How does that happen?

There's a number of ways to transfer a drawing to a support, but I once read somewhere,

anyway you can

is the rule.  

So don't stress over how do I get my drawing on my support.  there's lots of ways and in the end, it doesn't really matter.

Now we need to paint it.

This is just a fun painting you can 

really let your creativity loose on.

Use your own colors, your own facial markings,

 your own idea for a background.  

The process is the same regardless of the end game.

You can draw your subject right on the support.

You can use transfer paper to get subject on support.

You can use a light box to get your subject on the support.

(I don't have one)

Hope you learned a lot from this post about getting the drawing ready to paint and actually painting it.  

Kentucky Scenery Painting Finished!!!

WhoooHOOOO!

I love finishing something - don't you?

I've been working on this triptych for a while,

longer than I normally spend on a painting,

but it's really 3 paintings in one.

(That's my story and I'm stickin to it)

We will be selling our farm next year and after painting the walls in our combination, living room, dining room, kitchen,

I took down all the family photos and realized,

I had nothing left.

So I set on a quest to create a triptych that depicted

Kentucky scenery.

You can see a scene just like this 

just about anywhere in Kentucky.

This is a closeup of the front and center area 

of the center panel.

Here's a time-lapse video as I was finishing this bad boy up.

I love time lapse videos, so I hope you do to.

I live on the top of a hill, and there are about 5 ways for me to get to town, and I can see this type of scenery anyway I choose to go.

Our area is very hilly and on those hills Kentucky farmers grow corn, soybeans, tobacco, hay, 

and cows, sheep and horses.

If you were to fly over my area of Kentucky, you'd see ponds and lakes all over the place.  Nearly every farm, regardless how small, have a pond or a lake.

We do and our family loves fishing in it.

I have a YouTube channel and I post a lot of instructional videos for drawing and painting on there.  

Click HERE to check out my channel for some fun art videos.

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Because I love teaching beginning artists in drawing and painting, I've put together an easy peezy drawing shopping list for you so you can easily get started drawing today.

Click HERE to get that Shopping List.

I am hosting a FREE Homeschool Facebook group where you and your kiddos can learn art concepts, drawing and painting lessons, hints tips and tricks, and even some art history lessons.  If you're a homeschool family who would like to add art to your curriculum, please join our group and share with any homeschool family you think might enjoy.  

Click HERE to go to the 

Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club.

Have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Why Join A Facebook Group

So Why Should You Join A Facebook Group?

I'm not going to sell you on the merits of Facebook

cause we all know they have their bag of problems.

But - 

A Facebook group is a horse of a different color.

There are groups out there for all sorts of interests.

I'm an artist who loves to paint and

teach beginners to paint.

When I was creating my courses and classes and membership site my homeschooling daughter asked me to remember the homeschool market because they are very under served in the art world.

So I did.

Then when Facebook came up with groups, 

I didn't catch on right away, but I've got it now

and you can be the beneficiary.

A Facebook group, or my Facebook group,

Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club

was created for homeschool families who would like to add art to their curriculum,

but aren't themselves artists and don't really know where to begin.  

I can help with all that and a bag of chips.

Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club

will teach your kiddos beginning painting and drawing concepts

as we draw and paint fun things.

We drew a ship for Columbus Day

and we even had a 5 year-old draw one and her mom posted it.

We drew this super fun giant witches hat and 

we'll be painting it soon.

Concepts we've learned in these two drawings are:

 perspective - the shape of the sails and bars, and seeing that small back part of the deck of the ship

creating form - making the hat look round, 

getting the brim to go around to the back,

where the light is - you can see where the light comes from on the hat by where the shadows are.

I've posted two different tutorials on how to use greens and red.

Click Here for video

Click HERE for video on using red.

I've posted a tutorial on how to use different shades of red to create a flower.

Click HERE for free tutorial

I've posted several different articles I've written about famous artists for art history.  (There will be more).

So you can see, there's lots to do and learn in this Facebook group.

Another great thing about Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club,

is these are families who know what your homeschool life is like.  They know the struggles you face and can encourage you and you can encourage them.  

I promise not to spam you with offers till the cows come home.

Because it is connected to my business, I will from time to time tell you about something that is available on my website, 

but I truly want the Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club to be a community where we can all learn together and support each other in adding art to homeschools everywhere. 

Even on my website I have a FREE blog.

I will offer you free guides, tips and sometimes even a free class in exchange for your email but it won't be often and you never have to sign up.  

It's pretty obvious I'm not all about money,

cause there aren't even any adds on this blog.

I give away tons of information and I really would love it if you would join us and let's learn to paint and draw together.

Whew!

I'm done.

Just in case you're wondering, I do have a YouTube channel.

Click HERE to visit my YouTube channel.  While you're there why not subscribe and click that little bell near the subscribe button and you'll be notified every time I upload a. new video. 

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter @kypaintster.

OK, I thought I was done, but are artists ever really done?

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Art Concepts AND a Fun Drawing

Who Says You Can't Have Fun 

AND Learn At The Same Time

This fun drawing is just one of the many drawing and painting lessons I'm unleashing on my FREE Facebook group

the Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club.

This FREE Facebook group is specifically for homeschool families who want to add art to their curriculum but aren't artists and feel like they don't have an artistic bone in their body.

(I'd argue with you about that, but I won't)

This video will tell you about this drawing

and if you join my FREE Facebook group 

Painter Nation Homeschool Art Club you can get this and many other FREE lessons today.

Hope to see you in my Facebook group real soon.

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Every artist needs to understand how color works.
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