Stunning Beauties to Paint for the Nature Art Competition

 Stunning Beauties to Paint for the Nature Art Competition

With TERAVARNA’s nature art competition coming up you might find yourself in a frenzy trying to find subjects to paint before the deadline. But with so many options it becomes hard to choose what exactly to paint for your piece de resistance. Will you do a beautiful shadowy blue mountain painting? Or will it be a painting of a golden valley, streaked by sunlight? Maybe a stark red mesa on the horizon? No matter what you choose you will ultimately end up with a beautiful drawing of scenery. So why don’t we explore the options?

Make some Nature Art of a Celestial Phenomenon

Many celestial phenomena are interesting to look at. Many cloud formations by themselves can be an interesting subject to look at. Even the humble cumulonimbus cloud in all its fluffy grandeur can become a great subject piece. Look at Mark Maggiori’s cowboy pieces for example with great gradated clouds spewing out of the background. You could paint a rare rainbow, get it just faded enough to properly portray it as droplets hanging precariously in the sky for what they are. You could paint an even rarer eclipse, those are symbolic and are great tone-setters for a piece, representing in-betweens and liminalities. You could even paint rain. Rainy scenes make for great paintings, though often hard to achieve. You could do the view from a cozy interior looking out, with droplets of water streaked on the canvas to represent the glass in between. You could do a rainy city street with the headlights of the cars reflecting off the puddles on the asphalt.

Look to the Stones for Abstract Nature Art

If you’re looking for something both more materially solid and more visually abstract, then you don’t have to go any further than rocks. Rocks come in a great variety of shapes and sizes and they can look like literally anything so painting them gives you a certain sort of freedom. You can paint rocks in nature like huge boulders by a river stream or a mesa on the horizon. Or you could paint rocks in your collection if you so happen to be a collector. If you do happen to collect rocks you may have some gems and crystals on hand. If that’s the case then you’ve got a treasure trove of subjects, and well, more literally, a shiny treasure trove! With differing lustrousness and shine these shiny rocks can serve as great subjects or additions to a piece you’re working on. A rose quartz may brighten up your piece or some malachite might add some dark swirling undertones. You could have a geode and work to bring out the difference between rock and crystal.

Animals and Nature Art Go Together

Animals are an integral part of nature so you’re very welcome as an artist to paint animals for a nature painting competition. Animals are versatile subjects; they can be at rest or on the move. Capturing them can be sort of finicky sometimes but it’s easy when you’re working from a photograph. There’s a vast amount of animals you can pick from. You could work from life and head out into nature. Go to a local lake or river or perhaps a national park if you’re lucky enough to be near one. Check out the local flora and fauna there. Maybe you’ll find a couple of preening ducks in the water, or some errant quails, or maybe a caterpillar that came onto the trail by mistake. All of them would make for fine subjects for your painting. On the other hand, you could work from the comfort of your very own home, by working from photographs. This gives you the ability to draw any animal in the world that you’d like. Pull up some reference photos, arrange them, and then get started!

A Nature Art Scene

One of the most common things to paint for a nature art competition is a scene. People often go for sprawling landscapes, scattered with some flora or fauna. It’s easy to think of a couple that come to mind, the Saguaro desert is one example that would easily suffice as a perfect scene. There are tons of animals hidden in the nooks and crannies between cactus and shrubbery and there are lots of interesting shapes in the flora in the scene. Another similar one would be the Joshua tree forest which is identical in its abundance of interesting shapes. You could go for something local and go to a local riverbed and paint the scene there as well. You could go to an abandoned lot that’s been left alone for so long that the weeds have started popping up and there’s a natural pond full of dragonflies and turtles that you don’t know where they came from. There’s natural beauty everywhere around you, you just have to know where to look to find it.

In Closing

We hope this blog has cleared up a subject for your next painting for the nature art competition. Looking through the vast amount of potential subjects, I hope your inspiration has been aroused and you’re looking forward to painting. Whether it be abstract or figurative, your entry for the nature competition is sure to thrill once you’ve looked at some of the many wonders that mother nature has to offer.