Nature Painting with Sara Tall

Kids

May 21

Hi everyone! What a beautiful day! The sun is out. The birds are chirping and I am in the mood to PAINT! But I’m going to use something other than a regular paint brush. I’m going to try painting with natural objects around my yard and woods! And I am going to paint outside too!

Here are my supplies:

Paper
Paints
Palette Brushes (for coating plants)
Plants
Blanket

Our yard is full of beautiful, fluffy dandelions. I just love them. The yellow is so bright and cheery. I just dipped the flower into the paint and tapped it on the paper.

I used all the colors on my palette and tapped over the whole piece of paper. When I stopped and looked closely it looked like something had danced very fast across the page!

Next I used a bit of Hemlock from our woods. I used my regular paint brush to brush a good amount of paint on the Hemlock needles and the little cones. Then I pressed and dragged the tiny branch around the paper.

The design looks scratchy and rough. I love how the cones made blobs of color and the needles stretched the paint across the paper!

My last natural paint brush is a delicate purple myrtle flower. I twisted the flower through all the colors of paint (more than once as you can see!) and then pressed the petals flat faced to the paper.