BERRIES: Easy Decorative Brush Painting With Acrylic

Set boundaries, frame the composition, and keep elements close but not touching while centering the artwork and planning space for a title within the working field.

Learn the berry canon in folk art by mapping berries with simple circles, a 90-degree guideline, and a wavy heart line to create proportional, non-touching berry motifs.

Repeat the composition with the same-sized strawberries using exact measurements in centimeters and inches, drawing circles with a radius of 1.5 cm and marking centers with guiding lines.

Learn to shape berry stems and leaves with wave-like brush movements in acrylic painting, creating flowing, close-but-not-touching lines that guide the composition from edge to berries.

Explore folky leaf design in acrylic painting, using proportional sizing to berries and geometric preparation (circle, square, rhombus), with the center guideline, decorative coloring options, and inner inserts.

Draw fern-like leaves at 90 degrees from berries using guiding lines and a kite-shaped triangle, then add a curling tendril and other folk art elements.

Learn to create decorative berry-themed paintings by adding handwritten titles with brush lettering and calligraphy, using a four-color palette and practical tips for composing a postcard-ready scene.

Begin your decorative brush painting with acrylic by outlining strawberries in red, then painting them over to complete the composition.

Wash and rinse your brush, then load black acrylic to draw thin stems for berries and leaves with a squirrel brush number two, finishing with subtle drops.

Begin a folk-style composition by painting greenery and a fern, using various brush sizes to form leaves connected to the stem and droplets, then refine shapes and add decorative details.

Master painting a leaf in acrylic by using green with a color insert, or create leaf streaks in black, yellow, or red for decorative brushwork. Then proceed to dampening.

Learn to depict berries with yellow sides using tamponing in Khokhloma style, dampening with a fine grained sponge and yellow paint to print berry shapes.

Learn to create yellow floral accents and green sepals with acrylics using cotton buds. Build flowers from dot pyramids, correct shapes, and finish with red centers after drying.

Paint green sepals on strawberries with long curved drops that meet at an off-center dot, then repeat on other berries and extend the drops if needed.

Build decorative grass elements—blades, drops, swirls, and tendrils—into a balanced bush for graceful, airy patterns in acrylic on paper.

Add additional herbal elements to decorate your acrylic grass composition, using blades of grass, drops from big to small, and a fern-like flourish around red berries, while maintaining proportion.

Learn decorative acrylic leaf painting by building volume with curved lines and 45-degree drops, using thickened center strokes and optional outlines to finish the leaf.

Add dots to berries, tendrils, and flower centers in acrylics using cotton buds, stylus, or brush handles; wait for yellow petals to dry before red dots, and avoid stem dots.

Frame your postcard with an even, red-painted border using a cotton bud guided by the pencil line, then dry, erase pencils, and sign in a Russian folk art style.

Share your views on the Russian folk art painting featured in this class and provide feedback to help improve future berries acrylic brush painting classes.