Quick Acrylic Painting of the Northern Lights :)

It's Monday again, so another long and busy week of work has started. I'm working for 10 hours again today. I spread my schedule, though. That's why I'm able to take breaks in between to stretch and do other stuff.

I had an hour break a while ago, so I decided to paint something quickly. I limited myself to 30 minutes to do the painting, so I chose a simple design and initially decided to just use acrylic markers.

I ended up creating this artwork in less than 20 minutes. It's pretty simple, but it looks kind of cute. :) I'll make another version of this someday, too!

Anyway, allow me to share some progress shots of the process.

After preparing a 10 x 10 cm watercolor paper, I started coloring the background using different colors of acrylic markers. I chose several shades of pink, lavender, green, and blue. I just randomly created fine lines and they served as the background.

After doing the background, I outlined a generous amount of white acrylic paint over it. This is going to be the lights.

Then, using a fan brush, I just brushed the white paint going up. I think my paper is too small. hahaha I'll try recreating this on a bigger paper or maybe canvas next time. :)

After that, I outlined some mountains in the foreground. I'll just add it as a silhouette.

Just the black paint was too bland, so I added some white paint as details. And it's done! haha
I took out the masking tape around it.

After the black paint dried, I added my username, then just wrote the date and my signature below using a gel pen.

And that's it for this post. :) It was a quick acrylic painting, but was still enjoyable to make... and it turned out cute.

I'm really fond of looking at photos of the northern lights. I hope to see it in person someday. For now, I'd settle with my paintings and imagination. haha

Thanks for reading and have a good one! (^^,)/