How To Paint A Christmas Gnome

This gratis online acrylic painting tutorial volition evidence you how to paint a winter gnome.

This is a function of a seasonal series of gnomes! Y'all can encounter my Fall Gnome Painting Tutorial Here.

This was done on an 11 10 14 Canvas With Acrylics!

I too added some Snowfall-Tex past DecoArt in the snow at the bottom of the painting (and a little frost on the berries). This is a fun medium to utilise if you want to add together snowfall texture to y'all winter paintings.

In the video of the tutorial, I volition evidence you how I drew the gnome. If, even so, yous want to apply a traceable, I have that also!

Bask and happy painting!

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Materials

Active Time 2 hours

Total Fourth dimension 2 hours

Difficulty Like shooting fish in a barrel

Instructions

Paint the groundwork using a large mop blender brush (or makeup castor). Use cobalt bluish and titanium white.
Wait for background to dry out.
Draw the gnome on the canvas (or use traceable).
Pigment the lid (dark dark-green), nose (unbleached titanium), beard (white and gray), robe (dark red), mittens (nighttime green) and shoes (black).
Paint the lantern blackness with yellowish light.
Paint the snowfall on the ground.
Paint the holly using green and white paint.
Paint the holly berries.
Paint snowflakes in the heaven.
Add together designs to the hat.
Add optional snowfall-tex onto the snow for added fun texture.

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Color Palette

Traceable

In the video I will show you how to describe this gnome! If you want to use my traceable, print this on two sheets to tape together. Or employ the 8×10 version for a smaller size canvass painting.

Directions At A Glance

Video

Step By Step Directions

1. Paint the background

For this groundwork I used a round mop makeup brush! You can use one as well or an acrylic paint mop brush.

You can also utilize a sponge or a 3/4 Wash Brush for this technique.

Kickoff at the meridian with cobalt blue mixed with a footling bit of white. Pigment circular strokes.

As you lot piece of work your style downwards the canvass, add together in more and more white so the heaven background gets lighter and lighter.

Blend the blue and white together. You lot can accept shine strokes or do more than round strokes.

two. Look for the background to dry

Before drawing the gnome with pencil or using the traceable, you will demand to let the background dry.

three. Draw or transfer the gnome to the canvas.

If you are using the traceable, place a canvass of graphite transfer newspaper below it and trace to transfer the design to the canvas.

To draw…

Employ a pencil to lightly describe the gnome. I started my cartoon with the nose which is relatively in the middle of the sheet.

Then draw the hat so it goes almost all the way to the tiptop of the canvas and dips downwards.

Then depict the bristles and feet.

Next depict the robe.

Then draw the arms. One of the arms is elevated because he will be holding a lantern.

Draw the mittens.

Then draw the lantern.

Finally, describe the snowy ground he volition be standing on.

4. Paint the gnome starting with the hat & mittens.

To make the light light-green color on the lesser of his chapeau, I mixed 3 parts hookers green hue, 1 tiny part cadmium red medium and 4 parts white. It should be a light green. The tiny bit of crimson gives it more than of a warm green color.

Paint the lesser of his lid. I used my #8 circular brush for this office, however, you lot may choose to apply a smaller castor.

Next mix on your palette that hookers green with a tiny flake of red. That tiny flake of red will make your green slightly darker and warmer. Paint the entire hat using a #8 round brush.

For that tip of the hat, you may want to h2o the paint down slightly so that it forms a tip/ flows better.

Paint the gloves of the gnome the aforementioned color. (You can always alter the colors of this too!)

5. Adjacent paint the nose.

For the nose, I used the color unbleached titanium and my #4 circular brush.

half dozen. Pigment the bristles and beard texture.

And so use any of your round brushes to pigment the beard. First paint it solid titanium white. Have your strokes curve and go in the direction of the beard.

To add texture, mix a tiny scrap of black into the titanium white to make a low-cal gray. Pigment curved lines going in the direction of the beard to create the texture.

7. And so paint the robe

To make the deep cerise in the robe, mix a niggling fleck of hookers green into the red to arrive darker.

8. Paint the snowy ground, ornament base of operations and white edging on robe

And then utilise titanium white to pigment the snowfall on the ground, the edging on the robe and the ornament base of operations color.

Then add some gray on the very bottom of the snowfall and blend it up. You can likewise add some greyness under the shoes to make shadowing.

nine. Paint the pine branches

Utilize a #4 circular brush to paint the branches of the pino needles. I used mars blackness (slightly watered downward for period).

10. Paint the lantern

Paint the outer shape of the lantern with mars black. Use a modest castor for this (I used a #4 round). Yous can also use a black paint pen for amend command.

For the light in the middle of the lantern, I used my finger to postage stamp on a master yellow "smudge". Then I painted a white circle in the middle of it.

11. Paint the ornament Red

When the white on the decoration is dry, paint it ruby-red (or other color if you want).

12. Paint the pine needles, berries & ornament hook

To do the pine needles, I used my iii/eight″ angle castor. You tin can too do this with a minor round brush. Use hookers dark-green and paint the angled pine needle lines pointing downwards.

Start at the tip of the branch and piece of work your mode upwards.

And so practise a second layer over the night dark-green layer. Mix on your palette a lighter green (virtually two parts white, 3 parts green). Apply the bending brush and paint more pine needles starting from the cease of the branch and going up.

Then practise a tertiary layer of pine needles with only titanium white.

Use a round castor to pigment the berries.

thirteen. Paint snowflakes, frost & ornament highlight

Paint a white highlight on the right of the ornament. Add a few dots of frost on the berries. And then paint snowflakes.

You tin can practice different kinds of snowflakes all over the sky. Some larger, some smaller. You lot can too paint merely dots all over the sky for snow.

I used generally my 10/0 spotter castor for this step. If you have a white paint pen, information technology tin can be useful hither besides!

14. Pigment details on lantern

Paint a few white highlights on the lantern. So "dry brush" some yellowish/white lines on the sides of the lantern to make it look like it is glowing.

fifteen. Pigment designs on lid

These designs are optional but I call up information technology gives his chapeau a fun festive Christmas Sweater expect! I used a #4 round castor and titanium white to paint designs.

Lastly, I threw in a few last infinitesimal highlights on his nose, robe and shoes.

sixteen. Add optional Snow-Tex!

Snow-tex is a texture medium that gives your painting 3D snow consequence. I experimented with it a flake and constitute it useful to apply a palette knife to use the texture.