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If you want to get extra crafty here, add some gold glitter! Paint the horn gold or use a gold sharpie to color it in. Use a small round brush and black to outline some areas of the unicorn to make them stand out.ĭon’t outline everything, just a little here and there. You can go back and blend the colors some more by using a smaller round brush and really blend the colors to get a rainbow ombre effect in the hair! Slightly overlap colors to allow them to blend together. I went in this order: fuchsia, orange, yellow, green, bimini blue, purple iris. With a small round brush, paint each stroke of hair separately, following the lines of the curves you drew. Paint The Hair One Color Strand At A Time

Paint the eye and nostril black with a small round brush.Ĥ. Blend it in white the white.īe careful not to add too much blue, just a little! When you shade with the blue, blend it in with the white by applying both white and blue to the canvas.Īdd some shadow areas with white mixed with parrot blue (light blue permanent). I used a 3/4″ flat for this as well as the blue shading. Paint The Unicorn’s Head White with some blue shading Paint spirals in the background with a small round brush and parrot blue (light blue permanent). I dipped my brush in both colors to get an inconsistent color. I used bimini blue (bright aqua green) and white. Paint the background with a small flat brush. The drawing looks slightly different in the following pictures but the instructions are exactly the same.

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>Printable download is for personal use only.Note: I ended up changing the design of the snout at the end of the process pictures. If you want to do this on an 11 x 14 canvas (or larger) you may to enlarge the printable. Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Unicorn Template:ĭirections: print this on standard computer paper.

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Transferring the unicorn onto the canvas is recommended if you are doing this as a birthday party activity because all they’ll have to do is paint it in.Ĭlick here to go to my PDF library or here to learn how to enlarge the traceable. Or you can transfer the unicorn onto the canvas using graphite transfer paper and the printable. Kids LOVE unicorns! You can try to have your child draw the unicorn using the step by step drawing directions below. Wouldn’t this be a darling birthday DIY paint party activity!? T ips if you’re doing this his with kids: This painting would make an excellent DIY unicorn paint party activity! I f you are doing it with a group, I recommend transferring the unicorn to all the canvases before the event to make things easier.Īs always, don’t forget to share your painting on Pinterst or Facebook! UPDATE: I recently redid this painting with the Liquitex BASICS acrylic paints and it turned out very similar, if not more vibrant than the Apple Barrel! So, yes you can use Liquitex on this painting and achieve similar color results! I decided to bring out my craft paints for this! I wanted to use all the colors in the rainbow and didn’t feel like mixing all my colors. Apple Barrel Craft Paints Check Price on Amazon You can do this on any size canvas, canvas paper, water color paper, etc. In this tutorial you will learn how to draw and paint a unicorn head with acrylic paints on canvas! This was done on an 11″ x 14″ canvas. Are you ready to channel your inner Lisa Frank with this Rainbow Haired Unicorn!?

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