Use a 3/4” Flat Wash brush to paint a titanium white ring around the moon. Position your canvas horizontally (or vertically if you prefer) and trace your circle with a pencil. You can find one that has a 7-9 inch diameter. There is no traceable for this one! I traced a plastic plate with a diameter of 7.25”. Traceable: Trace a circle with a 7.25” diameter (or similar size) Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Moon Color Palette: Touch up the circle by laying the circle you traced over the moon and making sure your circle is uniform.Splatter more stars in the sky if necessary.Use the 1/2” filbert brush to dry brush some clouds in the sky using titanium white, Payne’s gray & phthalo blue.Paint the outer rim of the moon white using the round brush.Use a round brush to paint small dots and two large craters on the moon.Blend in this black in various dark areas of the moon. Load some mars black onto your palette and mix white with it to make a warm black.Add more white to your filbert brush and blend in areas that are lighter.Observe how certain areas of the moon have darker markers. Use a 1/2” filtert brush to blend Payne’s grey in with the white.Keep that white paint wet because the moon texture will be done with wet on wet blending. Paint the circle of the moon solid white.Splatter stars on the canvas by tapping a paint brush of titanium white against another paint brush.Go back and blend the colors further if needed.Blend Payne’s Grey on the furthest edges and corners of the canvas.
Gradually blend more phthalo blue in the sky as you work your way to the edges of the canvas.Lightly blend phthalo blue with the white to create a light blue tone around the moon.Use a 3/4 Wash brush to paint a white ring around the moon.Use a pencil to trace a large circle (7-9”) on your canvas.Simplify this painting by doing a clear night sky instead of clouds. You can leave the moon in a clear sky if you’d like! I know clouds can be kind of intimidating. I also dry brushed a few clouds around the moon. I did a night sky since the moon is the focus of this painting.
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Perhaps you want to do a full moon in a landscape or over a body of water. You can also use the techniques of this moon painting in other painting projects you may have. It’s not intended to be realism so don’t worry about being perfect! I’ll show you where I did my dark blotches. Since this is an online tutorial, I will guide you through the steps of how I did this moon. It forces you to paint what you see versus what you think you see. Tip: Look more at your photo when painting the moon. It’s a technique that forces you to paint what you see rather than paint what you think you see. When I paint the moon, I look more at the photo than my painting. Really observe where those dark areas are.
The best advice I can give if you are trying to paint a somewhat realistic representation of a moon is to look at a photograph. The dark blotches we observe really aren’t a recognizable shape like a heart or a square. That leads the the difficulty of painting a moon. If you look at super close up images of the moon, you can also observe craters, little dots and some lines. If you observe photographs of moons, you will notice there are various dark and light blotches. Painting a moon can be kind of intimidating.
This tutorial will guide you through the steps with picture instructions and video. Learn to create a painting of a full moon with acrylics on canvas.
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