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How To Paint A Tropical Toucan – Acrylic Painting Tutorial
Learn how to create a beautiful, vibrant toucan painting with acrylics! This is a beginner painting tutorial that includes a free traceable template download for the toucan.
This particular painting is a little more advanced than my first how to paint a toucan painting! You can see an easy version of this over here (there is no video for that tutorial). I also have a “How To Draw A Toucan” tutorial!
I love the hot pink gradient background in this! It makes all the bright colors in the toucan and the black pop amazingly! It’s a great painting for the summer or as a year round design.
Enjoy and happy painting!
Materials Needed
Yield: One 11 x 14 Canvas
Paint a tropical toucan with a vibrant hot pink background.
Active Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours
Difficulty Easy, Medium
Materials
- 11 x 14 Canvas
- Acrylic Paint
- Green POSCA Paint Pen (optional)
- Traceable Template
- Pencil
- Graphite Paper
Colors
- Alizarin Crimson Hue Permanent
- Medium Magenta
- Titanium White
- Mars Black
- Cadmium Yellow Light Hue
- Light Blue Permanent
- Hooker’s Green Hue Permanent
- Burnt Umber
Brushes
- #4 Round Brush
- 3/4″ Flat Wash Brush
- 10/0 Spotter Brush
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Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Birds
Toucan Tutorial Video
When it comes to drawing birds, you can’t find many that are more interesting (and colorful!) than a toucan. Their long beaks and large eyes and squat little bodies are fascinating to look at, so you almost can’t help but have have a beautiful drawing when you learn how to draw a toucan.
A tip when it comes to coloring? Fill in the background with as much green as possible. It takes some extra time, but gives the added feeling of the rain forest canopies, which is where toucans live.
Getting Started with Drawing Guides
The best way to get students off to a good start to any drawing lesson is to show them how to use guides as a reference point.
You may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site have a dashed line running through the center of each step, in both horizontal and vertical directions. If students make their own centered lines on their own paper, before drawing, they will have an easy reference to follow.
Drawing skills are all about getting the size and placement of lines on paper, so having some visual reference point to get started, will always help anyone learn how to be a little more accurate.
So does that mean students need to get out a ruler to draw a big fat line down the center of their paper before they start? Nope, not at all! That will most likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished art. No, simply fold the sheet of paper in half both ways, make a crease, and unfold. The beauty is that by the time the drawing is done and colored in, the creases will disappear.
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