Meditating Buddha with Two Blue Birds : Detailed Acrylic & Gold Leaf Painting Workshop

This painting feels like a little peaceful world of its own. 🪷🐦

A serene Buddha surrounded by two beautiful blue birds, soft white blossoms, lush leaves and delicate touches of gold, there are so many lovely details to paint and enjoy in this workshop.

In this detailed, pre-recorded acrylic painting workshop, I’ll guide you step by step through the entire process. We’ll begin with the Buddha and slowly build the painting around it, adding the birds, branches, flowers, leaves, textures and those final little details that make everything come alive.

What we’ll explore together:

• 🧘 Paint the peaceful Buddha face step by step
• 🐦 Learn how to paint two detailed blue birds, including feathers, eyes, shadows and highlights
• 🌸 Create beautiful white blossoms without having to paint every petal perfectly
• 🌿 Build branches and layers of foliage to create depth
• 🎨 Blend warm skin tones with beautiful blues, greens and soft background colours
• ✨ Add gold leaf and gold accents for richness and texture
• 🖌️ Play with splatters, expressive marks and small details to loosen up the painting
• 💙 Learn layering, blending, shading and fine brush techniques you can use in your future paintings

Although this painting has lots of details, please don’t let that scare you! We’re not painting everything at once. We’ll take it one bird, one flower and one little section at a time.

And because this is a pre-recorded workshop, there is no pressure to keep up with me. Pause when you want, rewind me a hundred times if you need to, take a break and come back tomorrow. This is your creative time, and you can work completely at your own pace.

If you get stuck on a bird, a flower, the Buddha face, or you're simply wondering “Shilpa, what did I do here?!” 😄, I’m always here to answer your questions and help you.

So make yourself a coffee or tea, put on some music, grab your paints and come create this peaceful little world with me. ❤️

Medium: Acrylic Painting + Gold Leaf
Surface: Canvas
Format: Detailed Pre-Recorded Online Workshop
Learn: Step by step, anytime and completely at your own pace