Old Shed Window Step by Step Acrylic Painting on Canvas for Beginners

Let's paint a garden shed with old wood boards, a broken window, and vines growing inside! Thank you to Art Monster Barb Hall for letting me share my version of her original painting with all of you! Barb is also the artist of the month at the Halifax Nova Scotia public library! You can check that out here: bit.ly/2qUCd7h
Congrats, Barb! I'm so proud of you! ♥
I’m painting on a 12x16-inch stretched canvas, but you can paint on any type and size of canvas you like.
I used:
• A 1-inch flat brush
• A 1/2-inch flat brush
• A 1/4-inch flat brush
• A 1/4-inch filbert
• A 1/2-inch angle brush
• A small round or liner brush
• A piece of chalk
I’m using Liquitex Basics acrylic paint in the following colors:
• Mars Black
• Unbleached Titanium White
• Raw Umber
• Burnt Umber
• Ultramarine Blue
• Phthalocyanine Green
• Light Green Permanent
• Primary Yellow
• Transparent Mixing White (or Zinc White)
But you can use any colors you like.
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Painted this yesterday and it turned out beautiful! I love the old wood look. Thank you for your very patient guidance and encouragement.

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[@kaquinn8971]

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[@Happyhippy70]

So excited, I started mine Yday. Almst done. My mom wants me to make her one as a chalk board. I am really loving mine. Puting your name on the back. This was a practice run. I want to make a real window for a pallet shed my husband made. Thank you, thank you. Blessings to all

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I just completed this painting and it was so much fun! Thanks, Jane!

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[@amandaboxall5949]

This has given me such inspiration and confidence to do this on my actual shed window which has been boarded up and ugly for years!!

[@pamketron]

Jane - I just found you today on KZbin. You are an amazing artist and teacher. I am going to paint this window when my gessoed canvas dries. I love how you make it so easy to follow along. Your tips as you paint are incredible. Just showing how you dab the black on with the angled brush is so helpful. I am fairly new to painting and I am so glad I found you. I will be painting a lot with you. Thanks for sharing your talents with us folks that are new painters. 🎨

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[@sharonreznick4397]

Love this! My project today! Reminds me of old broken down sheds in the rural area where I live. Thanks for your expertise, Jane!

[@PaintingwithJane]

Thank you, Sharon! Sounds like you live in a beautiful place

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Haha! You guys are really tempting me with that 6 hour video, aren't you? ;) Thank you so much

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Thank you so much, Cheryl! I can't wait to see :D

[@caroldalsing3281]

Hello Again Jane! A huge “THANK YOU” To YOU and Barb Hall for the beautiful Old Shed Window painting. I love the old rustic paintings you’ve done thus far. Please show us more of them along with some outdoor nature perhaps an old shed with a fence, or a meadow of flowers with a rustic cabin. Water features in nature and forest trees and bushes just to name a few. Sorry to ramble on but you’ve made me excited to paint! Although the Old Shed Window painting is only my second one to paint, I am practicing and having my own joyous calming moments as you instruct me. Your wonderful soft voice is teaching me to relax and actually enjoy painting. I find myself in my own little world. Keep making those tutorial videos!!! You’re a very talented lady. Carol D.

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Getting ready to paint this Jane! I actually have a photograph, almost identical to this, except, it has grapevines weaving through the window frame. I have to send you the picture. I'm so excited to learn how to paint barn windows, as I live next to many, many old barns. Thank you, you're such an inspiration. Currently working on The Scream as well, on a 30 x 40 canvas. My sky came out amazing! I have to tell you, I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, at 58. I always wanted to paint, but because of it, and not knowing I had it, I would buy everthing, paints, brushes, canvases, etc., and never get started. Now, with help from medication and my therapist, I have found a passion. I don't have to rush through it, I don't have to make it perfect, I don't have to use the same colors, because, it's mine. Thank you, sincerely.

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Perfectly beautiful!!! 💜💜💜💜

[@isaacelswick4611]

love love love this, reminds me of my grandfather's old shed in Wva , I was terrified of it when I was a kid. I can't wait to do this painting

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Wonderful!! I'm so glad you can use this painting to help you remember times and places from your childhood

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Aaaw, thank you so much

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Jane Thank you Love painting along with you, Cindy

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Love, love, love it!

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Love it..it was fun to paint! Thank you both so much for the lesson.

[@PaintingwithJane]

You're so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed :D

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Jane I think your a fabulous painter and you make it look easy which it is not, love this so realistic!!!

[@jantrichel4713]

this painting is awesome. Can not wait to do this one.

[@lizmorris2421]

love your work its amazing liz

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I grew up in Germany on an old farm, this reminds me of that :) Very lovely

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Another wonderful painting. I enjoy the subjects of your paintings.

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I simply love love love this

[@baljeetdham]

Wow so beautiful I love your painting. Very inspiring. I like you have posted all the colors you used and con as size. I learned from your video how to mix the colors. Thank you for nice tutorial.

[@francinetaitel4161]

Just found you...I was looking for a background for hydrangeas that I had painted. I love this shed! Your tutorial is great! Thank you!

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Hello Jane...this is beautiful!!! Thanks.

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Thank you Jane, thank you Barb Hall !! I will do this painting once I received my order of your brushes... yeah~~ :)

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Loved this one!. I will have to try it!. Thankyou!

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Thank you so much

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Wow a warm and hearty howdy from Cape Town Sunny South Africa, this is awesome. I have no formal art training and once I turned 50 I started painting. Never would of thought I could paint. Just done my sixth canvas and loving it. So am going to give this obe a try. Love the way you explain the use of the brushes results.

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Thank you so much, Meryl!! I'm so glad you decided to jump in and learn! Keep it up :D

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This was a real fun one to do. Thanks

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Loved doing this

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Thank you so much, Garba!!

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LOVE this!

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I enjoy watching your paintings on KZbin​. I am a beginner painter. I never took lessons, but I enjoy painting. I love the techniques of loading paint on the brush. I have been practicing these. would Ike to paint a picture I seen in your videos. just to practice these techniques. Thank you Jane for sharing with all of us. Barbara.

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Great work, Jane. It is so good to see you pull this together. I like what you painted.

[@PaintingwithJane]

Thank you so much, Michael!!

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Wow oh 😳 wow you have made me want to start painting again thank you for your wonderful videos

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this is so beautiful....I love your work

[@pammolton3281]

You are a great teacher and do great work. I have never ever painted , but am trying to paint a desk for grandaughter with a music theme. Gutar looks awful, but will statrt over with what I have learned from your video. Thanks for being so fabulous and easy to understand.

[@PaintingwithJane]

Thank you so much, Pam! That's right, don't let that painting get you down. If something isn't working out, you just start over and try it another way. Keep it up

[@jeanmilhollin5176]

You are an amazing teacher love love your painting

[@Nancy-ii5yo]

Love it! really rustic.

[@joannecarroll5504]

This is so sweet, Jane & it's nice of Barb to let us to play with it ... I'm excited! It's taken me 5mths to find a Zinc White here in Australia; as nobody ever stocks the full range of colours for any brand, (so I have to go to 3 different shops for my art supplies but at least that means 3 times the art shopping opportunities! lol .