Hi everyone! I know you have been asking for another no art skills required painting tutorial, so I thought how to paint a nest would be perfect for spring! I did this one on a branch for the tutorial,
but you could just do one giant nest on a canvas with the same technique.
Supplies
Acrylic Paint
in brown,grey,blue,green,white,light blue,and cream
Paint Brushes
I used a round brush and a flat brush.
After base coating your canvas in light blue, use a flat brush with brown paint to paint a branch shape.
If you pull the brush from right to left pushing down hard at the start and lifting up near the end, it will look more natural.
Ad some little side branches.
Then you can use yout round brush and a bit of green to draw leaves. Draw the outsides first with a reverse tear drop shape, and then fill in the middle.
Make a smaller tear drop for another leaf at the end of the branches.
Once you get all of your leaves and branches done, in the crook of the branch paint a banana in brown paint.
Then paint another banana on top of that in grey.
Dip your round brush in brown and grey and make cross-hatches across the banana.
Once you have all of your cross-hatches, let it dry a bit.
Paint your first egg by taking some blue and making a half-egg shape at the top of the grey banana.
Add two more so they overlap.
Take white paint and paint out lines around each of the eggs to define them.
Take some more white and fill in the back of the eggs to shade them a little lighter at the backside.
Once your eggs are shaded,go back with dark brown and start making more cross hatches covering over the base of the eggs, making them seem like they are inside the nest.
Then go over the top of that with a bit of cream paint.
Take a bit of brown paint and lightly dab speckles on the tops of the eggs.
And then let dry! You can go back and darken your tree limb, or add more leaves and branches like I did.
Once you have your whole pictures painted and it’s dry you can seal it with a acrylic sealer.
It brings a nice touch of Spring!Have fun with this how to paint a nest tutorial for spring!
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XO Joanne
Wow, you’re so talented Jen! I’d love to try some of your tutorials with painting. You make it look so easy!
Hugs,
Jamie
You are a great teacher…..making it look so easy! And cute! Thanks.
You certainly make me think I could do this, but in reality there is NO artistic talent here – love your work!!
Thank you!
I love this painting! The white pumpkin painting I did from your fall tutorial was fantastic. (It was my first attempt to paint on canvas.) Better get my next canvas ready for the spring project! I might try an even LARGER canvas this time. It would be great for the mantel with my bird collection & framed prints. Thanks for the inspiration…
Victoria
I have now done your pumpkin tutorial and the egg nest tutorial and I so appreciate your instructions. For someone who has never painted before it is so great to feel like I can really accomplish something! Thank you so so much! I have one question I’d love some input on. I love how the nest painting turned out but now that it’s all done I’m wishing I would have done something to make it look aged. Is there anything I can do after the fact to give it a bit of an aged, distressed look? I’d love some input. Thank you!
Brooke
You can go over with with either brown paste wax or a mixture of 50% brown paint and water and give it a wash.
Thank you so much! I will give it a try. Keep the tutorials coming!