Are you ready to create a beautiful floral masterpiece? Painting flowers in acrylic is a perfect way to add a color splash to your home or office. But, if you’re new to painting or just looking for fresh ideas, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve got you covered! In this article, we’ve curated the best free guides and informative tips on how to paint flowers in acrylic that we could find. So, grab your brushes, and let’s get started!
Most of these guides assume you know at least the basics of acrylic painting. So, if you’ve never attempted the medium before, you may want to check out these beginner acrylic painting lessons first.
With that said, we’ll start with more basic lessons, then move on to increasingly advanced ones as we go. Alright, then, let’s get into the tutorials!
Beginner lessons
Painting acrylic flowers with bubble wrap
Who says brushes need to be made out of, you know, brush stuff? In this video, Serena demonstrates a super easy way of making acrylic flowers using only circular pieces of bubble wrap and some cotton swabs. While she paints the final details with a traditional brush, the idea that you can use a wide variety of materials to create a desired effect is a fantastic lesson for beginning painters.
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Painting simple flowers
Onto more traditional styles, in this brief but informative video, artist Katie Jobling guides you through painting an easy but visually-pleasing bouquet. Everything about the lesson is simple enough for beginners to try — from the paints and brush used to her painting technique. The finished flowers are impressionistic and believable.
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Using a balloon to create a flower
… And we’re back to painting with everyday household objects, because, hey, they work! Designer Gemma77 has taken it upon herself to scour her home for unorthodox brushes and has landed on something wild — a balloon that creates flowers. While I don’t understand the point of turning the balloon inside out from the start, the result is an easy floral painting anyone can do.
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How to paint roses in acrylic
Here, floral artist Renjitha Anoop demonstrates a simple method for creating roses with acrylics. She uses a popular beginner’s technique — using a single brush stroke to create the highlights and shadows. The trick is that she loads the darks first, then puts the lighter value on the tip of the paintbrush. Anoop teaches a similar technique for creating leaves. Best of all, you can apply this method to paint other flowers, not only roses!
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Intermediate lessons
Mastered the basics? Great! Advancing from a beginner to an intermediate acrylic painter is an exciting journey involving building on your foundation of basic skills, experimenting with different styles and subject matter, learning new techniques, and developing your artistic individuality. One thing’s certain, though, that even as an intermediate painter (or advanced, for that matter), you can always learn something new. With that said, enjoy these intermediate-level floral lessons.
Modern floral in acrylics
Follow along with artist Ashley Krieger as she teaches, in a simple, step-by-step way, how to create a vibrant floral scene with a modern look and impasto feel. Krieger does a great job of describing, in detail, each step as she demonstrates it, allowing you to follow along and recreate her results.
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How to paint a magnolia flower with a bokeh background
I’m a sucker for magnolias. Besides being a memorable PTA film, they’re just lovely. The one knock on magnolias I’ll give them, and Nature better answer for this or I’ll stop making listicles, is that they just don’t last very long. Thankfully, EasyPeasyArt shows us how to enshrine those petals on canvas, at least for the foreseeable future.
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Acrylic pour flowers … a floural?
Acrylic pours were once (and in some circles, still are) a popular technique. And it’s easy to understand why — it’s versatile, creates unique shapes, and is easy to learn. On the other hand, because everyone can make them, they can lose a bit of their charm if not done with intention. In this lesson, ABCreative teaches you one way to regain that allure, using the technique as a starting point and building off the basic method to achieve something more interesting.
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Flowers and butterflies
In this real-time acrylic tutorial, Feliks teaches you how to paint some unique flowers and, as a bonus, a pair of monarchs. It’s really helpful to see exactly how he mixes paint and applies it at every step.
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Advanced lessons
The transition from intermediate-level acrylic painting to an advanced level is an exciting and nuanced journey that requires a combination of technical skill, artistic vision, and dedication to the craft. At the intermediate level, an acrylic painter has a solid foundation in basic painting techniques, including color theory, composition, and brushwork. To become an advanced-level acrylic painter, the artist must continue to refine their technical skills and develop their artistic vision, which may include using more complex color schemes and compositions, experimenting with different textures and techniques, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the medium. The transition also involves learning to paint more confidently and expressively and developing a strong sense of critical thinking and self-evaluation.
This journey can be challenging but rewarding, leading to a more complex understanding of painting and an ability to express their artistic vision with greater clarity and depth.
Peonies in acrylic
In this narrated timelapse painting, artist Marianne Vander Dussen delves into color theory and more advanced acrylic techniques. The result is a floral painting with incredible nuance and depth.
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Acrylic peonies using the alla-prima technique
Here is a fantastic and thoroughly educational real-time painting tutorial that will have your peonies popping off the canvas. Thanks to artist David Jansen for this informative video.
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Garden landscape painting in acrylics
Kevin Hill paints primarily in oils but sure knows his way around acrylics. In this tutorial, he uses flowers as a key subject within an idyllic garden setting.
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I hope you found these lessons helpful, regardless of your current painting skills. While the road to mastery may be challenging, the satisfaction of creating work that truly resonates with an audience and expresses the artist’s vision can be thoroughly rewarding.
If you want to share a lesson we may have missed, just leave it in the comment section, below.
