How to Paint a Picture of a Sidewalk Cafe

How to paint a picture of a sidewalk cafe is a fun project for the beginner. 

I wanted to create this project for some time. There is something romantic and charming in the scene of a sidewalk cafe. It makes you think of leisurely afternoons in some exotic location. 

I spent about a week designing and creating this picture. And another week to put it all together. It is helpful to use the internet as a research resource for image ideas and designs for your drawings. You can create a scene of some distant place and put in all the details as if you were actually there. 

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Free How to Paint a Picture of a Sidewalk Cafe, Lesson, and Worksheet

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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 NOTES

Start by tracing the design onto watercolor paper. The best is a 140 lb watercolor paper, it is heavy and will not buckle when wet. If you have problems try holding it up to a window with the light behind it and then trace it. 

 

Do the light colors first. Use a large brush and a watery mixture of paint so it is light.  Use orange for the bricks, light blue for the windows, light brown for the wood, and light grey for the left side bricks. You can use the same grey for the street.  Let it dry before going on, EXCEPT FOR THE STREET. While the street is still wet, drag some other random colors like brown, blue, or light blue across it. Use a wet blue on the edges of the sidewalk then add a little water to pull it down a little toward the gutter. 

Use a smaller brush and keep the colors light and watery as you do the first paint of the green door and plants. Use the tip of your brush and paint around the word CAFE, leave the letters white. After it dries add a little dark green to the top edge like a shadow.  Do the same around the door. 

Red is hard to work with don't try to lighten it with white, you just end up with pink.  Use a small brush and a pale red for the window boxes, planters awning, and umbrella. Use a light lavender for the shadowy underside of the umbrella. After it dries come back with darker blue-violet and add an edge of shadow near the red edge.

With a small brush paint some random dark blue in the windows. If you want to use black be very careful and use only a VERY LITTLE amount of black. 

Make a dark green with a TINY bit of brown and blue, use the tip of a small brush to paint the darker green areas in the planter boxes by dabbing technique. 

Use the tip of your small brush and paint the light pole in light blue first and let it dry. After the light blue dries add a dark blue on one side so it is in shadow. After the dark blue has dried add a VERRY LITTLE BLACK line on the shadow side. It should look round with a light side and a dark side. 

Mix a darker orange, red, or brownish-orange and add texture to the bricks. Keep your brush drier by tapping the extra water off onto a tissue first. Use the brush flat like it is lying down and drag it across short areas of the orange wall. Be sure to leave spaces of light orange around the bricks.  Do the same with darker grey-brown-black for the stone on the left. 

Do the shadows last. Use lavender-purple under the awning and under the umbrella, and under the chairs. 

For the chairs, use the tip of your small brush and keep your brush dry by tapping the extra water out onto a kleenex.  Use a very light grey-blue and draw the lines of the chairs. The legs near the view do not need much but the legs at the back are darkest. Make the shadow on the ground more purple or violet so the grey of the chair does not get lost to the viewer. 

Sign and date your work about an inch up from the bottom so you have room for a frame.

I hope you paint a beautiful masterpiece!

(c)Adron Dozat 12/6/20

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How To Paint a Picture of a Covered Bridge in a Landscape

Free how to paint a picture of a covered bridge in a landscape, an art lesson, and a printable watercolor worksheet.

This is a good practice project and skill builder for any young artist or beginner.

Teachers and parents can use this in class or as a do-at-home project. It can be a lesson by itself or an extra activity.

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How to Paint a Landscape With a Covered Bridge Lesson and Worksheet

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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 ART LESSON NOTES.

BEGINNINGS
Trace the design onto 140-pound watercolor paper, this is the heavy paper that will not buckle. If the paper is too thick to trace through place it against a window with the light shining behind it and then you should be able to trace it easily.

SKY AND CLOUDS
Wet the paper all around the clouds. Be careful to not cross into the clouds. Mix some watery blue and lay it into the background. Keep the blue pale at the hills and a little darker at the top. LET IT DRY then wet the clouds and drop in some watery light-blue and watery blue-black. Use a small brush to move the color around to make the shape of the clouds. Let the bottom of the clouds disappear into the sky.

For more color you can add a little watery rose or yellow to the clouds it will give them a summer afternoon look.

HILLS
Wet the hills but not the trees, then brush in some light browns and greens for the hills. After the hills dry dab with a brush the light green for the distant trees.

TREES
Use green for the trees but drop into the green some darker greens made of black and green for the shadows. Make the foreground darker than the hills. Dabb darker dots of green around the base of the hills and in places to give it texture.

RIVER
Start with blue then add black for the shadow below the bridge. After it dries add green and brown for the deeper water but keep some blue showing in places.

BRIDGE
Use brown and grey for the river bank. The road can be grey black brown or clay red.

Use the tip of your brush to paint the bridge, think of it as drawing with a brush. Use grey for the roof and red for the sides. After it dries go back and add more detail and shadow with black and red for the shadows.
ROAD
The road can be grey black brown or clay red.

FINISHING TOUCHES
Use clear water and tissue to "Lift Out" any color that is too intense. Dabb dots of darker color to give texture and richness.

Sign your work about an inch up from the bottom that way there is room for the frame.

(c) Adron Dozat 8/4/19

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How To Paint a Picture of a Lighthouse Worksheet for watercolor.

I am delighted to share my free how-to-paint a picture of a lighthouse worksheet and lesson.

This is a picture inspired by a lighthouse we visited on vacation. This brief lesson serves as a valuable practice and skill builder for any artist. Teachers and parents will be able to use this in class or as a do-at-home project. It can serve as a lesson in itself or an additional activity.

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How to Paint a Picture of a Lighthouse in Watercolor

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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 NOTES.

Trace the design on watercolor paper. If it is too hard to trace try to hold it against a window with the light coming through to see it better.

FIRST, put clear water in the sky area, be careful to put it around the lighthouse. Then drop in dark and light blue in random patterns. Dark blue above and light blue below they can mix in the middle. Leave random areas white for the clouds. Let this dry

Use light and dark green for the grass the dark green is on the lower part of the picture and the light green is up high nearest the lighthouse. If the lights are not light enough then use some tissue and blot some out. Let this dry.

 CLOUDS
After the background blues of the sky is dry wet the white areas where the clouds will be then swish in some yellows and oranges. Next, on the tops of the upper clouds swish in lavender and purples and blues. Let the colors blend naturally, but you can use a clean damp brush to move the colors around.

SEA
Use dark blue for the ocean in the background. Remember, keep the color light at the top and dark in the lower area.

LIGHTHOUSE
The lighthouse is round so it is lighter on one side and gradually becomes darker on the other side. Use a brush with watery blue-gray and wash the lighthouse with an even coat of water paint but leave one edge white. Pick up the picture and hold it sideways slightly so the color runs to the darker side of the lighthouse, it should have a gradual effect. If it doesn't look like it is round let it dry a little and add some darker color to the dark side. If the light side is not looking lighter use tissue and blot out some of the colors.
DO NOT DO THE BLACK STRIPES YET. LET THIS STEP DRY while you work on other areas.

While the shadow around the lighthouse is drying paint the top of the lighthouse black. Paint in the row of trees on the horizon with dark green and black. This should be much darker than the lawn in front of it. Use blue-gray for the shadow side of the workhouse.
Add details to the foreground lawn by mixing a darker green and draw a few lines back and forth for texture.
Paint the base of the lighthouse gray/black.
Paint in the path with mustard yellow or light brown.

LAST DETAILS
Use black paint and add the stripes on the lighthouse. Give the workhouse black shadows for the windows and the roof. Use more black on the base of the lighthouse if it looks like the sea is blending into it. If the sea is too dark use a brush with clear water and a tissue to lift some color out.

(c)Adron D. 8/24/16 

How To Paint A Picture Of A Gazebo.

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

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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.

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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.

(c) Adron D. 8/13/16

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How to Paint an Old Rustic Barn in Watercolor Worksheet

Here is a printable art lesson and worksheet on how-to-paint a picture of an old barn.

This printable art lesson and the worksheet below are perfect for the young artist. It will help to give a foundation for basic painting. I designed this as a handout to give my art students so they could take it home and practice painting on their own. This can be used in homeschool, classrooms, and at home. This project can be an extra time activity or a stand-alone lesson.

These old barns are so full of character, each telling a story. They are rustic and offer opportunities to paint contrasting textures and colors.

How to Paint a Picture of a Rustic Old Barn

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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 ART LESSON PROJECT NOTES

Start by tracing the little design onto some 140 lb watercolor paper. This is the heavy paper that does not buckle.  If it is hard to trace try holding it against a window with the light coming through.You could scan the design and enlarge it but the watercolor paper is expensive so I suggest you may want to do the project in its original small size.

You may notice that the picture is loosely drawn without a lot of detail. Do not try to add detail at this stage, it is a painting you will add detail at the end.

GENERAL RULES
Do the lighter pale colors first.
Work from the background toward the foreground.
Work in alternating sections so one section dries while you are working on another.

FIRST WASH
With a large brush use light and dark watery blues for the sky, leave some areas white for the clouds.
While the sky is drying use a small brush and wash watery yellow for the foreground then not so watery orange and greens.

While the ground is drying us light brown and dark brown for the distant mountains, put a little blue into the dark brown while it is still wet.
Use watery green for the trees, and drop a little brown, and violet into the green for shadows. Remember some green is showing through the missing boards on the barn.
LET THIS DRY

SECOND WASH
With a small brush put in blue-grey streaks for the sides of the barn and fence.
Lay a wash of brown for the rusty parts of the roof and blue for the metal roof.
Use purple-black for the shadows inside.
NOW LET IT DRY

AFTER IT DRIES
With a small brush mix red-brown and draw streaks of brown down the sides of the barn.
Use the tip of the brush to "draw" in the details.
Mix a little darker red-brown and draw the rust streaks in the roof.
Mix a little darker green and give the trees and bushes details with small taps of the brush

(c)Adron 6/19/16

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How To Paint a Bell Tower Worksheet and Lesson

How to paint a picture of a bell tower.

This printable art lesson and the worksheet below is perfect for the young artist. It will help to give a foundation for basic painting.

I made this worksheet as a handout to give my art students so they could take it home and practice painting on their own.

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How to Paint a Picture of a Belltower. Printable Worksheet

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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 ART PROJECT NOTES

Start by tracing the little design onto some 140 lb watercolor paper. This is the heavy paper that does not buckle.  If it is hard to trace try holding it against a window with the light coming through. You could scan the design and enlarge it but the watercolor paper is expensive so I suggest you may want to do the project in its original small size.

You may notice that the picture is loosely drawn without a lot of detail. Do not try to add detail at this stage, it is a painting you will add detail at the end.

FIRST WASH
Do the lighter pale colors first.

Use watery blue for the sky, leave some areas white for the clouds.
Use light brown for the distant mountains.
Use watery green for the trees, and drop a little brown into the green for shadows.

Use watery mustard yellow for the underpainting of the building front. Mix a little purple in the yellow to make the color for the underpainting of the shadows.

Use orange for the tile roof.

NOW LET IT DRY

SECOND WASH
Use the tip of the brush to "draw" in the details.
Mix a little brown into the mustard yellow for a darker yellow-brown and draw dashes for the bricks.
Use red and draw the tiles of the roof.
Mix purple and brown for the bricks in shadow.
Mix purple violet and brown for the shadows inside the windows.

(c)Adron 5/14/16

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How To Paint a Picture of the Mission Bell. Worksheet.

I am glad to share my how-to-paint a mission bell art lesson and printable worksheet.

This is a nice little art lesson for the beginner. Parents and teachers will be able to use it in class and at home.

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How to paint a picture of a mission bell. 

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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 notes.

BEGINNINGS
 Trace the design onto 140-pound watercolor paper; this is the heavy paper that will not buckle. For this project, I used Strathmore 300 series; it is ideal for beginners, and you can buy it at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, both of which offer great coupons online. If your paper is too thick to trace through, place it against a window with the light shining through, and then you should be able to trace it easily.

I used a small Windsor Newton travel set of paints for this picture, but any decent paint will give you good results. The first layer of color should be watery and not very brilliant but pale. Use a large brush for the first wash.

Wash in the sky with watery blue color.
Wash the green for the bell.
Mix yellow and brown for a sandstone color and wash in all the walls.

LET THE FIRST STEP DRY.

SECOND WASH
Use a smaller brush.
Mix violet and green for the first shadows on the bell
Mix violet and the brown-yellow for the shadow inside the arch and under the edges.

WHILE THAT DRIES
The next step will not be so watery.
Mix red and brown and deepen the color of the bricks on the front. Leave spaces between the bricks.
Mix orange and yellow and go over the bricks on the sides; remember to leave spaces between the bricks.
Mix violet and brown for the shadow on the crossbeam.

FINISHING TOUCHES
Use your smallest brush.
Mix blue and violet, and green to go around the very darkest areas of the bell.
Mix brown and violet for the edges around the bricks.

I hope you paint a masterpiece!

(c)Adron 1/22/16

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How To Draw A Fence In A Rural Scene

This printable drawing worksheet is for a rural landscape with a fence. A fence is one of my favorite things to add when drawing a countryside scene. Adding a fence in a rural scene is easy for an artist to do and adds interest as well as direction to a sketch.

Free How To Draw A Fence In A Rural Scene

The key is perspective.  You must remember that the top and bottom of the fence will come together at the vanishing point at the horizon. In my illustration, the vanishing point is the point of interest where there is a break in the trees to allow the road to pass through. 

You can think of the fence as a very long triangle with a vertical fence post dividing it up. The post will get closer to each other farther away and will have less detail as they get farther away. The posts are drawn as longish cubes, so if you can draw a cube you are well on your way; start with three lines going up and down then connect them at the top with a rectangle slightly bent. Shade one side and you have a post. 

The rails are three lines between the posts and connected at the inside of the farthest post. The posts are just a few dashes farther away, this gives the impression of distance. At the base of the post put some grass, rocks or flowers.  

Don't worry if they are not all straight; in the country, things get worn down and fall out of place and you often see post leaning over or rails that are crooked, so work any mistakes into your picture- it may be more interesting for it. 

Put some shadowing in the post and across the road. I put an oak tree and some distant hills in my picture you might add a barn or water tower in yours.

(c) Adron

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How to Draw the Old Roman Tower

The old roman tower looks hard to draw but with a few tricks it can really be an impressive project. I personally think this one would be well done in fine tip marker.

The Old Roman Tower is essentially a large cylinder, so start by drawing the cylinder of the tower. Perspective makes the top arch down at the outside on the top and arch up at the outside at the bottom. Draw lightly at first with a hard pencil. Add the horizon as a slopping mountainside and some rectangles for the houses of the old village. We will leave the village and mountain undeveloped on purpose to give attention to the tower. Use a light touch and quickly sketch in the structures on both sides of the bottom of the tower, one side has part of some arches and the other had some building or entry. Keep in mind which side the light is coming from. Use the light pencil and a light touch draw a reference grid that you will use to place the texture of the bricks. The lines of this grid will arch up at the top and arch down at the bottom and be straight across in the middle I suggest you work top and bottom at the same time. Draw in the bricks as just dark lines on the grid, most of these dark lines will go horizontally and a few vertically. Don't forget the windows. Pick out some random places to sketch rectangles for individual bricks. Do the same for the structures on both sides at the base of the tower. Use shading to make the effect of roundness. The shadow will get darker toward the edge away from the light. Erase any reference marks that remain. Add a few details such as some pillars in the back ground, clumps of grass, and fallen stones.

(c)Adron Dozat

How to Draw a Mile Marker With Ivy Leaves

How to Draw A Mile Marker with Leaves looks hard but by using a few texture techniques it is easier than it looks. I was inspired by an old concrete mile marker on rt 108.  Start with a light rough draft using a 2b or hard pencil. Draw the rectangle top of the mile marker and just a few lines going down. I like to draw it tilted I think it gives the project a little interest. The horizon is just the tree line in the background- draw it lightly early on in the project. A few vertical lines and circles to get the trees in place. The leaves of the ivy are "heart shaped." after you have the area filled up with the heart shaped leaves work the area over with a heaver pencil to make shadows and other leaves underneath. The trunk of the trees are textured with short choppy lines. Make the lines heavy on the side of the tree that has the shadow. The leaves on the trees are rounded you can just scribble lots of tiny loops using a dark pencil for the underside of the tree leaves, then some tiny arches on top in ligh pencil. The grass creates distance by setting the foreground apart form the middle it is drawn with shot up and down bunches. Give the grass variety in thickness and height. Shade in the dark side of the monument and work it smooth whith a blending stick, add some pock marks and spots of weathering. The area on the ground around the monument is dried leaves, they are drawn with lots of little "Zs," "Ws," "Ns" etc. some over others some in light and some in dark pencil. Keep the distant trees soft to give the effect of distance. Don't do more than to outline them. A few squiggly lines make twigs sticking up finishes the picture.


(c)Adron Dozat

How To Draw a Mission Bell

How To Draw a Mission Bell

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