How To Draw A Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree

Cerise Blossom Tree Painting : An Easy Beginner Painting Idea

Painting this cherry bloom tree is a fun & easy painting idea (beginner friendly) and perfect starter canvas project that will add to your confidence with acrylics.

In the tutorial below I will guide you, step-by-step, how to pigment a simple blood-red blossom tree using Q-tips to paint the beautiful pinkish colored blossoms.

If you're looking for an ad-gratis, easy-to-read format for this tutorial check out this crimson blossom tree tutorial workbook with bonus steps (how to paint a tree trunk) /tips and extra-detailed steps non found in this tutorial.

Or if you're looking for a fun paint and sip idea, I re-recorded this whole tutorial in a Paint and Sip video packet with pedagogy and a full guided walkthrough (which is not on the YouTube channel). Information technology's a full length 47 minute tutorial that y'all tin can sit back relax and pigment (in a group or solo setting).

Cherry Blossom Tree Painting with Q-tips

Painting with tools other than paintbrushes tin be quite fun and yield some pretty amazing results.

One such tool I accept discovered is Q-tips (or cotton swabs)!

Yup, those common trivial swabs non simply work wonders with your hygiene routine, but they also make not bad painting tools!

I start discovered the magic of painting with Q-tips in i of my kickoff painting tutorials on how to paint lavender flowers. It was so much fun, and hearing my readers' feedback that they as well enjoyed it, inspired me to create some other Q-tip inspired painting tutorial.

The only deviation in this tutorial is that you will packet up 4-v Q-tips and wrap them together with an elastic ring. You tin then dip the group of swabs in paint and dab away at your blossoms.

The method works well considering there are many ruby blossoms on the tree- and then the group of Q-tips lets you lot terminate the blossoms faster. You can as well use a single Q-tip, it will just take longer.

And you tin can't make a mistake here.

Don't overthink it, and only savor dabbing away. This was my most favorite part of the painting- I totally lost rail of time and was absorbed into the creative period of the crimson blossoms.

Enjoyable and meditative.

Cherry Blossom Pigment Colors

The blossoms on the cerise flower tree apply only 3 colors: cherry, white and dark-brown.

In the tutorial below yous will learn how to create various shades and tints of cerise/pinkish that will help give your blossoms more dimension.

Getting used to and learning to mix your paints will also assistance y'all gain more conviction with your paints.

Many beginners cull to buy the premixed tubes of colors, because they don't call up they tin paint mix. In reality, it'due south non difficult to learn, especially when you lot start with simple colour mixes like cherry+white = pinkish, etc..

Some other tip you'll learn is how to deepen a cherry-red color.

Naturally, you'd recall to mix a tiny amount of blackness paint with your red, to make a deeper carmine hue. Which is technically right. Notwithstanding, the black volition kill the brightness of the red tone and volition brand your carmine look more than muddy and brown.

Instead, if y'all mix a tiny corporeality of brown with your cherry-red, you volition darken your red (dulling it downward) without removing its brightness. This will make your red look richer and not muddy.

Cherry Blossom Tree Tutorial on YouTube

If you lot're a visual learning and prefer video instructions, yous can sentry the full Scarlet Tree Tutorial on YouTube clicking below. The written pace-by-step instructions (with detailed pictures) are at the end of this postal service, if y'all adopt those.

More than Q-tip Painting Projects

If you enjoyed painting with Q-tips and want another reason to shop your stash in your craft drawer and not your bathroom drawer, cheque out my other ii Q-tip painting tutorials:

How to paint hearts iii easy ways
How to paint lavender flowers
How to paint hydrangeas

It's amazing what these little cotton fiber swabs can practice!

Paint Quality and Brand

The paints I used for this cherry blossom tree come from this Liquitex starter fix paint set. Information technology contains 36 different colored paint samples, which is groovy if yous want to play effectually with paint colour, mixing, etc. I also similar the consistency and paint in Liquitex basics paints.

Even though they are a level ane (student grade), I discover these paints excellent in quality.

Although I use the Liquitex nuts paints, it doesn't mean other brands aren't worthwhile. I similar to experiment with different brands- I also utilize Golden paints, Artist Loft, and even inexpensive Dollar store brands!

It depends on what yous are comfy spending and investing in paints and what you accept admission to.

I idea/tip is to invest is ane tube of different quality paint at a fourth dimension, and slowly add to your collection. That way you won't be breaking the bank, and yet able to experiment with different brands/qualities pigment.

Your Painting Journey…

And merely similar those lovely pinkish blossoms, I hope your painting journey is filled with plenty of cute blooming experiences and moments- that you truly bask existence in.

Enjoy the tutorial, exist gentle with yourself and don't be afraid to add together your ain twist and graphic symbol to this painting.

If you arroyo painting like a series of mini-experiments, each building on 1 some other- you lot'll create something as unique and interesting equally YOU!

And you lot'll bask the process that much more.

Cherry Blossom Tree Finished Painting

Fun for Kids besides!

This was a fun painting to brand- and its for all painting levels. From beginners, and beyond – even kids can exercise this (and they'll LOVE the cotton swab part).

My kids and I painted together and it was both fun and enlightening (kids are natural artists and its astonishing to watch what they create). They concluded upwardly creating their ain version of the cotton fiber swab tree – check out their creations below.

Painting is a Process…

I hope you enjoy painting this simple ruddy blossom tree and take fun experimenting with the paint mixing.

And e'er call back: painting (and learning a new skill) is a process. With each new affair you lot learn and each new painting you lot make, y'all are on your way to condign a better painter.

Be proud that y'all are here, painting and learning away- you are doing amazing things- my creative person friend 🙂

Active Time one hour

Full Fourth dimension one hour

Difficulty Like shooting fish in a barrel

Estimated Cost $ten

Materials

Primary Red Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
Black Acrylic Paint
Burnt Umber Acrylic Paint (or dark-brown)
Optional: quinacridone magenta acrylic pigment
Q-tips (cotton swabs)
rubber bands

Tools

medium size paint brush (flat)
h2o container
paint palette

Instructions

To watch the full length step by step video tutorial, you can scout on YouTube hither.
Paint your background using your black and white paints. Use straight horizontal brush strokes to move the paint across the canvass. Discover the lesser and top edges of the canvas are darker. Add more than black if you demand to get the edges darker.

Once your groundwork is dried, take a pencil, chalk or charcoal to trace your tree on the canvas
Take some black paint and h2o information technology down a scrap, so its very fluid and flows easily off your paint brush. I notice a modest round castor works all-time hither. Fill in your tree with the thinned black pigment.
Once your tree is dried to the touch- time for the ruby blossoms! Take iv-5 Q-tips, bundle them together using an rubberband band. To mix your outset tint of pink: apply half white, half primary ruby-red (if you want a brighter pink, add together a touch on of quinacradone magenta to the mix, if yous have it). Once mixed, use your bundles q-tips and dab the pink onto the branches of your tree.
Now we are going to mix a dark shade of crimson. Have your principal blood-red, and add in some burnt umber (or dark-brown) (iii parts red to 1 part burnt umber). Using the aforementioned technique as above, dab this colour onto the branches using your Q-tip bundle.
Now for a highlight color: mix a very tiny amount of red with some white. This volition expect similar a very pale pinkish. Employ the q-tip bundle to dab this stake pink on your tree.
Repeat steps 4,five and 6 until your tree fills out to your liking. For fun, try to create different tones, shades of pink by adding more or less white/brownish to your ruby-red. The more variations of pink/scarlet the meliorate! Enjoy, have fun and experiment away- you can't become wrong hither - the dazzler of abstract art!
To finish things off, add some pure white highlights. Accept a unmarried Q-tip (non the bundle), add single dabs of white paint all over your tree. Do this sparingly at get-go, and see how y'all like it. Add together more than highlights as needed.