I am delighted to share with you this is a how-to-paint a picture of a gazebo worksheet is an art lesson for the young artist.
Here is a printable worksheet that is for a fun project that any young artist will like to try. The garden gazebo is a beautiful popular subject. It will give the young artist a sense of accomplishment and confidence when it is done.
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| How To Paint A Picture of a Gazebo |
It takes me days to design and create a worksheet like this, but I am glad to do it for you.
If clicking the image above doesn't work for you, the PDF below will work better.
This worksheet is one I use to give my art students to practice painting on their own. I have a companion lesson on how to draw the garden gazebo at my how to draw blog. SEE IT HERE.
You can see a finished version of this project at my artist blog: SEE IT HERE.
ART SUPPLY LIST
You can use any watercolor paint. I prefer my small Windsor Newton paint set; it has a nice selection of colors. I also use Grumbacher Paints in the tubes. You can easily find these at any craft store like Lobby Hobby or Michaels. (Look for coupons online.) You can collect lots of paintbrushes, but it is better at the start to keep it simple with a few small, medium, and medium-large brushes and a combination of flats as well as rounded paintbrushes. For these art lessons, I use Strathmore series 300 Watercolor paper. It is economical and available at Michaels and Hobby Lobby and online.
PRINTABLE PROJECT NOTES
TRACING
Start by tracing the design onto 140 lb watercolor paper. If the paper is too heavy to see through, just hold it against a window with the light shining through, and you should be able to trace it.
FIRST WASH
Do the sky first by wetting the paper and with a medium brush drop in blue in a random pattern leaving white areas like clouds. Wet the distant background and drop in watery pale green in random places, then drop in watery pale brown and blue in different places, then let the colors run together.
NOW LET THIS STEP DRY
SECOND WASH
With a small brush lay watery blue and paint in the shadows under the gazebo's roof and the far post.
With the small brush lay down some light orange-red for the roof.
Lay down yellow for the grass let the yellow dry and dry brush green in vertical rows for the lawn texture.
Put some grey-blue for the path.
Use a small brush to dabble green and a little blue and brown for the bushes.
THIRD WASH
After the red roof dries, use your smallest brush and make dark red; then, using the tip of the brush, draw the red tiles as short lines on the roof.
With the small brush, use blue and purple to draw the details of the gazebo by drawing the shadows of the structure.
Mix blue and red and paint the flagstones in the path; make sure they are larger nearby and smaller near the gazebo.
Sign your work about an inch from the bottom.
