A couple of days ago I asked my followers if they wanted to see a Winter painting or a Word of the Year painting. Everyone wanted to see a Winter painting! This is a painting I’ve done in the past, we are just going to change it up a bit. It’s still a bit warm here in Texas so I picked some fun bright pinks and purples.
We aren’t just going to paint today, we are also going talk all about picking a Word of the Year. I don’t do New Year’s resolutions but I do pick a word of the year and write a letter. I do this with Pixie every year. We write a letter to ourselves that includes our hopes, dreams and things we want to have happen. Then we open the letter from the previous year to see what happened and didn’t. It is sooo much fun!
What is a Word of The Year?
It’s just a word that you are going to focus on for the whole year. I used to do resolutions but never stuck to them. My word of the year? FOCUS! As an artist and paint party business person I can go in 100 different directions. But what I have learned is if you take just one or two things, and really, really focuse on those, you can make magic happen. Choose your word of the year, paint it, write in sharpie, put it somewhere you can see it every day.
Focus
I’ve been reading a lot lately and right now I’m reading a book called “The One Thing”. It is about focusing on one thing. As you start 2023, remember if you have too many things going on, it could stall your progress for paint parties and your business. Planning what you want to happen is so important. Get those plans on your calendar, don’t fall in to the rate race that I fell in to years ago. I let life always happen to me. I have plans all the way through December!
Part of my plans for this year is to make Paint Party Headquarters even better. This birch tree painting that I’m teaching you today is available to members of Paint Party Headquarters to use for their businesses. Now let’s learn how to paint!
Fun Birch Tree Painting
I grabbed some bright DecoArt paints in Dragonfruit, Fuschia Pop and Perfect Peri. These colors are going make a fun ombre background for this painting. Start with the Dragonfruit at the top, Fuschia Pop in the center and little Perfect Perri at the bottom. Take a chip brush to start covering your canvas with the paint, then just dry brush at an angle to blend the colors and create an ombre effect.
Painting Birch Trees
If you don’t have time to let your canvas dry you grab a heat gun or blow dryer to speed it up then quickly move to the birch trees. These birch trees are soooo easy to paint! Grab a 1 inch brush, white paint and black paint. With your white paint and 1 inch brush I’m just going to start painting some different sized lines up and down the canvas. They don’t have to be perfect!
Add The Details
Keeping with the white paint just add some small branches to your birch tree trunks. Now it’s time add some black lines to make these look more like birch trees. With the same 1 inch brush get a little bit of black paint and do just a little outlining. Next you can just paint from the edge and in to the trunk. Make sure you don’t have too much paint on your brush and just lightly dab. Once the painting was done, I added an awesome window pane on top of it.
There are so many things you can do with this painting, you could add the silhouette of a deer or birds. You can add a window pane or no window pane.
Remember, this painting is supposed to be whimsical and fun! This is fun art, not fine art. I teach people how to make money teaching paint parties. Paint party paintings need to be easy and fun. If you are wanting to start a paint party business or are a paint party business owner, we have a ton of resources inside Paint Party Headquarters.
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