This is one of those projects you’ll make again … and again … and again. Why? Because creating retro painted flowers is easy, fun, and makes you feel like a cool{er} person {than you already are}. If you don’t have acrylic paints, this project alone is with the significantly small investment. Let the brushing begin!
With nearly every blog post I write, my great-aunt sends me an email letting me know that what I have created “is beautiful … but [she] could never make that!” Well, Aunt Diana, this retro painted flowers tutorial is so simple that — should the urge strike — you can make it. The great thing about it is it looks amazing {and impressively complicated} when you are finished!
To create my flowers, I started with a myriad of acrylic paints.
All of my paints are probably as retro as my painted flowers look … my mom got them for me a couple of years ago at an auction, and they appear to be older than I am {that’s not a joke!}. If you don’t have acrylic paints, don’t let that turn you off from trying out this tutorial. You can get an excellent set for $15 on Amazon {or just purchase some at your local craft store}. Acrylic paint is handy to have around, anyway; and as my set can attest, they last for a considerable amount of time … perhaps decades.
If there is anything you take away from my tutorials, it should be that you don’t have to have fancy equipment to get incredible results. For a palette, I just use an old plastic dinner plate inherited from a college roommate.
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