How to Use Drips to Paint Trees and Tulips
This past week, I stumbled upon the YouTube channel of Robert Burridge, and only six minutes into this video, I had to try the drip technique myself! Bob demonstrates with trees, but I made a video dripping green in the opposite direction to do leaves on tulips.
A demonstration of an acrylic drip technique to make abstract colorful tulips: slightly over an hour long, you can watch me make THREE drip tulips with acrylic paint.
In the demo, I work on two smaller versions while I learn and warm up to do a larger version using what I learned, all with surprising results!
Watch an almost real-time video where I drip paint down (and up, kinda) on gessoed paper. A great way how to use abstract methods to create texture and exercise your creativity! I'll go over materials and show you how I prepped my paper for liquid acrylic painting.
Quick step reference:
Gessoed paper
Tone the surface
Drip and spray
Repeat
add toothbrush spatter or alcohol spray if desired!
.Drip leaves at bottom and tilt back
Paint over what’s not a tulip, and touch up.
Materials list:
Acrylic paints used Liquitex basics
Titanium white
Phalto blue
Quinaquadone Magenta
Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
Liquitex Gesso
Canson XL 140 lb watercolor paper
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