Painting: Cats and moon

PAINTING: CATS AND MOON

Materials:

Acrylic Paint (I use the Liquitex Basics brand or Apple Barrel Craft Paint. For this tutorial, I used Apple Barrel craft paint because the set has that turquoise color! If you’re using Liquitex Brand, a similar color is “Bright Aqua Green”)

Paint Colors:

Red (Flag Red or Cad Red)

Orange (Jack O’ Lantern or Cad Orange)

Yellow (Cad Yellow)

Blue (Bright Blue or a Primary Blue)

Turquoise (Bimini Blue or Bright Aqua Green)

White (Titanium White)

Black (Mars Black)

16″ x 20″ Canvas or 8″ x 10″ canvas or whatever size you want!

Various Brush Sizes

9″ Paper plate to trace the moon

Water

Palette or paper plate for palette

Covered work space

Table top easel (I recommend using an easel for best perspective!)

Traceable (Optional):

If you’re doing the version with the two cats, there is no traceable but they are really very simple to paint! Use chalk to draw the outline of the heads and bodies first and also the tails. Then paint your chalk drawing in with black paint.

Trace an 9″ paper plate with a pencil. This circle represents the moon. 

Mix equal parts turquoise and white paint together. Then paint a turquoise-white ring around the moon. Use a 1″ flat brush to paint this ring. The ring is about 1″ thick

Paint a turquoise (not mixed with anything) ring around the first ring. Blend the two colors together using a wet brush.

Paint another ring with primary blue. Use a wet brush to blend the colors together.

Fill the rest of the canvas in (the corners) with primary blue. Keep the strokes going in a circle.

Use a 1/4″ flat brush to paint arc lines around the moon, with white paint. To make the white more translucent, dip it in the water more.

Paint the tree with black paint. To do this, use a 1″ angle brush. Practice your tree first on a separate paper until you feel comfortable painting it on the canvas.

Use a small round brush to paint the fall leaves. Use the tip of the brush to dot in red, yellow and orange leaves. You don’t have to clean your brush off between colors.

Draw the cat with pencil

Paint the cat in black using a small round brush. 

You can also choose to paint two cats

Using a small round brush and some light turquoise paint color, paint some swirls in the sky. Also, to paint stars, flick your paintbrush with white paint to create a splatter paint effect. 

Source: Step By Step Painting