Learn How to Paint "DRAGON DREAM" with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home - Step by Step Painting Lesson

Michelle the Painter
Michelle the Painter
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Published 2022-02-12
VIDEO DESCRIPTION - This painting tutorial will take you through easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to draw and paint this exciting surreal image of "DRAGON DREAM" with acrylic paint. You'll learn simple drawing and painting techniques that will help you to create this detailed magical beast emerging from the smoky fog into a young boy's dream. As the large mystical creature wraps its expansive wings around the small child to protect him, the boy reaches up to touch the nose, as if to say, "Thank You". This thought-provoking image filled with emotion and fantasy dreams will come alive as the fog drifts through the atmosphere and adds a sense of magical movement to the ambiance. This exciting image is full of motion and an inspirational narrative that is spawn from a young child's imagination. The dragon symbolizes supernatural power, wisdom, strength, and hidden knowledge, perhaps these are the qualities that the boy searches for in his dreams. You'll learn how to draw the shape of the animal with scales, horns, wings and spikes in an easy way that will provide proper proportions allowing it to have believable shape with form. You'll learn how to paint the smoke with translucent paint in a manner that will create dimension and airiness in the atmosphere with a simple layering and blending technique. Using quick gestural impressionistic painterly brush strokes, you'll learn how to define the small details, which will give the image a realistic 3d quality. You'll learn how to add dimension to the wings, head, neck and tail using strategically placed highlights and shadows. Use your imagination and customize this to resemble your favorite fantasy beast, perhaps you paint a word in the smoke, or change the colors, maybe you put a unicorn or Pegasus coming out of a misty forest landscape. You could change the boy to a girl or have a baby dragon under the mom's head. The point is to just have fun with it! With the look and feel of a fantasy illustration storybook that has an inspirational narrative to it, you'll be able to paint this image with a carefree easy style. You'll have fun painting it and you'll learn some valuable lessons along the way that you can utilize in future work. Using only 3 brushes and 5 colors we'll create this conversational masterpiece with a magical atmosphere and charming story. So, let's get painting and let's get sipping!

IMAGE LINK FOR PRINTING:
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MATERIALS:
Canvas: 16x20 stretched primed canvas
Brushes: 1/2 inch flat bristle (large), #12 round synthetic (medium), #1 round synthetic (small)
Acrylic Paint: titanium white, mars black, deep yellow, burnt sienna (rust), ultramarine blue
Other: white chalk, palette, cup of water for washing brushes, paper towel for drying brushes

PURCHASE FULL DIY KIT FOR THIS PAINTING or MICHELLE’S ORIGINAL PAINTING HERE: berkshirepaintandsip.squarespace.com/shop

STEPS:
1. 1/2 inch bristle brush - Paint background with black and blue
2. chalk - Draw dragon outline
3. #12 round brush - Paint base coat of dragon with rust and yellow
4. #12 round brush - Paint dragon highlights and shadows with yellow, rust, black and white
5. #1 round brush - Paint scales on tail and neck with black, rust and white
6. 1/2 inch bristle brush - Paint smoke with navy blue (made in step 1), black and white
7. #1 round brush - Paint facial features with black, yellow, rust and white
8. #1 round brush - Finish dragon with black, white, yellow and rust
9. #1 round brush - Paint person with blue, black, rust, yellow and white
10. #1 round brush - Sign with black

LINKS AND CONTACT INFO:
Michelle's Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/michellethepainter
Website: berkshirepaintandsip.squarespace.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/berkshirepaintandsip/
Email: [email protected]

#painting #art #acrylic
All Comments (21)
  • @tammyhoman9550
    I painted a few of these for my son, they didn't turn out too bad. Thank you
  • @SculKing
    I never thought to use chalk! That's brilliant. Thank you so much for your content. You've helped keep me painting.
  • @AnnaMarie2411
    A tip for the smoke, what really helped me was dilute the gray painting with your brush. Blot your brush on napkin and then do swirls like the smoke from a match is dancing. Then, go back over with diluted black paint to make it both strong and faded in areas, making it look more natural 🥰🥰
  • @sueharviel6510
    What a trainwreck for me! Hahaha I wanted to do something for my nephew and he loves dragons. I watched the video and thought "I can do that"....hahaha....oh no, I could not. I struggled with the scales and the smoke for two days. Painted over, tried it again, painted over, tried it again. Finally on my third attempt, I got a finished product that doesn't look like a 4 year old painted it.....I'd say maybe a 10 year old. Oh well. I loved the process and I kept at it until I finally finished it. BTW my fail had zero to do with your instructions. Those were great. I was just very scale and smoke challenged. Haha
  • @AnnaMarie2411
    This is extremely my pace and the quality you make these videos is so amazing, to the minor detail of ending your sample video of you blow drying with the “click” sound of the blow dryer. That’s so cool, and so creative!!! I’m really looking forward to making more “me time” without stressing on what to do. I can just watch a tutorial and relax
  • @helenevilleneuve4567
    Beau dragon et plein de bonté pour le petit garçon! Vous faites toujours de beaux yeux à vos personnages ! Merci Michelle et Santé!🥂🥰
  • @Dianawales
    Best teacher I have found on YouTube!!! THANK YOU!!!
  • @monikaseller8601
    Hi Michelle i sakts for all your wunderfull Pikture i,m Lern soory ich bin Germany, from your Pikture . 👍
  • @frankalichuk2033
    So interesting! You made this fantasy dragon magically come alive! So fun to watch you!
  • @conniemunroe7203
    Oh my gooodness!!!!! I love this painting so much. I just watched the Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon and cried my face off. Lol. Highly recommend the movie and I will have to try this painting. Thank you, Michelle. ❤️
  • @brendaplummer4162
    All I can say right at this moment is WOW!!! I love love love dragons thank you so much
  • @davinabarre3906
    Wonderful. Loved the dragon my favourite magical creature. 💖💖💖💖💖💖