How to Paint a Dandelion Using a Starbucks Paper Cup
Image credit: Jay Lee Painting on Youtube
There are so many cool ways to paint flowers without having to use a paintbrush. You can paint with a metal scrub, leaves, or other household materials. You can even use your unused Starbucks paper cup! Jay Lee Painting on Youtube shows us how to use the cup for a particular painting technique to paint dandelions, one of the most whimsical flowers in the world. All you need are just a few paint materials and your cup, and once you’re done, you already have a painting of dandelions that you can display on your wall.
Materials:
- Starbucks paper cup
- Paint
- Scissors
- A canvas painted in black or a black board
- bottle cap
- Earbuds
- cotton ball
Directions:
Cut the Starbucks cup at the top by a few inches. The cuts should look like fringes. Then bend the fringes to sort of flatten them so that they open wide into a circle.
Take out your paint palette. Put white paint on it. Then take your cup and press the fringes onto the white paint. Then press the cup on the canvas slowly and gently. The paint will transfer to the canvas and will form a white dandelion. With the cup, paint another smaller dandelion.
Take out your paint brush and dip it in the white paint. Then dip the brush in the middle of the dandelion and make a brush stroke down to form a stem. Paint another stem for the smaller dandelion.
Then take out your bottle cap and dip it in the white paint. Then use it to paint circles in the centers of the dandelions that connect to the stems.
Tie your earbuds with a rubber band. Then dip them in white paint. Then use the clump of earbuds to dab white dots around the dandelions to form fine hairs.
Dab a cotton ball dipped in white paint across the dandelions to make the small dots look like flying fine hair or the pappus.
Lastly, use a smaller paintbrush to paint small falling flowers. Let the paint dry.
Once dry, you already have a dandelion painting. You can display this painting on your shelf. Or hang it on your wall.
