- 1). Squeeze green and violet acrylic paints onto your palette. You will use your palette to hold the paint before your use them, and you will mix colors here too.
- 2
Lilac flowers grow on a tall stalk.Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images
Paint a vertical green line just off center onto your prepared canvas with the green paint. This line will be the main stalk for your lilac flowers and it should be slightly diagonal, rather than completely straight. It will give your flowers a more realistic look. - 3). Add another green diagonal line from the bottom of your first green stroke. It should start from the bottom and go to the left. This will be the secondary stalk of lilac flowers.
- 4). Dab violet paint into a four-petal pinwheel shape at the bottom of the main green stalk. Above this first flower paint a row of three flowers in the same fashion. It should look random and natural. Above the row of three flowers, paint five pinwheel-shaped flowers.
- 5). Paint rows of flowers above the last row of five flowers until you reach the top of the stalk. As you get higher on the stalk, decrease the amount of flowers so it has an overall cone shape.
- 6). Dab four-leaved pinwheel-shaped flowers on the secondary stalk in the same fashion as the main stalk. Wait about one hour or more for the paint to dry.
- 7). Mix one part white to one part violet paint onto your palette. This lighter purple color will be used to create variations of color on your lilacs.
- 8). Highlight some of your flower petals with the light purple paint you mixed. Randomly paint some violet petals with this paint. This will create a more natural look.
- 9). Dot some of the flower centers with white and light purple. This will give your flowers depth. Go back and add violet shadows onto the flowers by repainting some of the petals with violet paint.
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