Still feeling like you’re stuck in a dreary, bleak winter mindset despite the changing weather? Maybe you’re beginning to feel like your walls or home is, too. This is the perfect time to consider returning to your hobby, picking up a new one, or just joyfully experimenting with these spring painting ideas.
Each project is beginner-friendly, enjoyable, satisfying, and tailored to bring a breath of spring air laden with blooms and colors into your home. Clean off your brushes, grab your favorite Nova Color acrylics, and brighten up your space with easy spring painting ideas.
1. An Ocean of Dazzling, Abstract Blooms
April showers bring May flowers, so the saying goes. But we believe nothing reflects spring’s boisterous bounty than the organic forms of botanicals. Instead of striving for realism, which can be frustrating for a beginner, go for abstract. Abstract lets you let go of perfection and explore expressive shapes and beautiful brushstrokes.
- Use bold and pastel color combinations for petals, leaves, and abstract plant forms.
- This is fantastic for large or small canvases, and you can customize the size based on your space and budget
- Use acrylic glazes, gessoes, gels, soft impasto, and texture pastes to add dimension and tactile elements.
This project also encourages experimentation with mixing mediums, textures, and more and can make an eye-catching piece for a living room gallery wall. It’s one of our favorite spring canvas painting ideas for learning to loosen up creatively.
2. Negative Space Leaf Silhouettes
Pressed leaves, flowers, and other botanicals meet modern minimalism with these inspiring ideas. Start by setting out the dried and pressed flowers and plants. Then consider painting a soft pastel or a neutral background. You can either use your dried botanicals as a stencil or layer over them using masking techniques.
- If you aren't sure, try keeping it graphic for simplicity: white leaves against a blush, sage, or soft peach background, for example.
- Another excellent beginner's idea for anyone short on time but wanting to create.
- Try painting a diptych or triptych to hang as a gorgeous set.
This easy spring acrylic painting idea is calming to create and visually interesting to display in entryways or bedrooms.
3. A Palette Knife Field of Lavender
Loved the texture idea for the first spring blooms suggestion, but not inspired by the thought of multiple flowers? You can embrace the freedom and texture you crave with palette knives and a field of lavender in spring.
- Start with a base layer of sky blues or grass tones and build from there.
- Mix your Nova Color acrylics with your favorite texture medium, and apply greens, browns, purples, and blues in generous, thick strokes for that unmistakable, lush 3D look.
- Want to add tiny lavender flowers, or create round bushes and foliage? Try a firm fan brush, or dig out that old, sad, split-looking brush, and play with the texture.
This is one of those acrylic spring painting ideas: the messier, the better. We love ideas that present no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ ways to shape flowers or foliage, just savor the entire process.
4. Spring Birds and Chicks in Nests
Spring has sprung and continues to throw out rainbows of color and dizzying shades of green, so what better idea than to paint spring birds and their chicks in a nest? Birds symbolize new beginnings, and there are a few times when the world is filled with them, like spring. Sketch simple, cute, fat, and round fluffy shapes, or simple ones, or use a stencil and fill them in with gentle washes of their bright shades or gentle hues.
- This is great for students, educators, and anyone seeking a quiet, focused, meditative painting experience
- Are there Ideal colors to try, we recommend? Get into a buttery Cadmium Yellow Medium, mix a little Cobalt Blue with Titanium white for Robin’s Egg Blue, and rich browns and greens for branches and leaves.
If you want an easy spring painting idea that is full of personality, you should try this one.
Nova Color Tip: How to Choose the Right Spring Color Palette?
Too many acrylic paints color choices? Want to use them all and find yourself in decision paralysis? The old saying: Keep it Simple helps here:
- 1 Neutral (e.g., Neutral Grey, Warm Brown)
- 1 Bold Hue (e.g., Fluorescent Green, Pyrrole Red)
- 1 Pastel Accent (e.g., a pastel Peach Tone, Light Violet)
Our curated acrylic collections make mixing and matching incredibly easy, and we encourage you to let go, get experimental, and see what exceptional-quality paint can do for your finished piece!
Let Your Mind, Imagination, and Color Lead the Way
For many, spring is not all about flowers; it’s a state of mind, a moment of sweet relief from the dreary darkness of winter, or a time to look at the world with renewed eyes.
Your art should be in full bloom, too. These spring painting ideas will give you a reason to pause, play, and add the beauty you deserve to see to the space you call your home. From florals to abstracts, soft color studies, or realism, there’s inspiration for every skill and style for you here at Nova Color.
If you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment, the time is now. You can start exploring your ideas today with Nova Color’s richly pigmented, artist-trusted acrylics.
Let the color lead your way, and your inspiration move you. What will you create this spring?
Explore our wide selection of acrylics and turn your world into a riot of color.
