Sit comfortably at a table with all the equipment provided within the kit. First, squeeze a small amount of each colour onto a piece of paper or an artist’s palette. Then, use the pre-printed template provided to help create your painting. In this demonstration, we will produce countryside flower paintings with a flower design using Simply Acrylic Paints.

GOOD TO KNOW: Your Colour Mixing Guide is here to help you mix your colours!

Put a small amount of the unmixed magenta and pale pink paint onto the paper and take a small dab of each colour using the knife. Then apply the paint to the flowers, pulling the knife towards you. Be sure to follow the shape of the petals to create stripes of colour.

Repeat the same action with the palette knife and paint the rest of the pink flowers in the template.

Still using the palette knife, take a small amount of the two different blues in the range to create gradations on the petals. Add some brown to the petals to give the flowers more detail.

Paint the base of the flowers using a small amount of yellow and light brown.

The stems and leaves of flowers are often in shades from green to gold. Feel free to mix greens with yellows or browns to give a more natural look to the whole painting.

Wildflowers need sunlight to grow in the fields. To create this, add a few touches of yellow paint in the background to give more light to the flowers.

With the green and blue colours paint all the stems and leaves of the flowers.

By using browns or mixing red and blue, create darker colours in the lower part of the painting. This will give a sense of depth to the whole artwork. Shadows add volume!