Transform Your Home - DIY Floral Painting Techniques

Dress up your dresser in a cascade of flowers that make a stunning statement! Follow these easy techniques for creating your own flower designs using COLORSHOT Acrylic Paints. But first, true to our love of spray painting everything, we started by painting the dresser with Marshmallow for a stunning white base.

Tape carbon paper onto your dresser in the sections you want to add the flower designs. Draw or trace your design onto tracing paper, then tape over the carbon paper. Trace over the designs, pressing firmly enough to transfer the designs onto the dresser. 

First paint outlines of designs in the colors of your choice.

Fill in details with same, lighter or darker swatches of color for shading. Have fun with it, it doesn't have to be perfect!

If you're feeling extra creative, you can even add some greenery and extra flowers to your base design.

Work your way as far up the dresser as you would like to go, using a smaller liner brush to add in details over leaves and flowers with darker colors of paint. Once you're happy with your design, let everything dry completely.

Have you ever thought of designing your own clock? It's actually not that hard! You just need a base of your choice and a clock kit to install. For ours, we used a metal round and spray painted it with a basecoat of Marshmallow to match our dresser. After it completely dried, we used the same carbon paper transfer technique used to transfer floral designs onto the dresser for an easy way to paint your floral designs!

COLORSHOT Paint Markers are also fantastically easy to use for coloring in your designs, especially if you're not that fond of using a paintbrush.

You can color in, shade and add details in pretty much the same way! Once you are happy with your flowers, let dry completely before installing your clock kit in the center of the round.

Transferring a design onto a mirror requires a slightly different technique than using carbon transfer paper. Instead, flip your transfer paper design over and trace over the backside with chalk.

Once you've traced the backside with chalk, flip the design back over onto the mirror and use a pencil or pen to trace over the design. The pressure from the pencil tip will transfer the chalk underneath onto the mirror.

Use the Paint Markers to color in designs with base colors.

Add highlights with lighter colors and details with darker colors.

Flip mirror around and repeat design on opposite end. Let dry completely.

If you love to freehand paint, skip all of the transfer steps and just go for it! Paint yourself a lampshade to match all of your other fantastic floral pieces!