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Craft Tutorials | Adult Crafts | Crafts for Seniors | Shamrock Tree on Canvas

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

Author by Amanda Davis on March 2, 2019 Updated on March 2, 2019

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Decorate for St.Patrick’s Day with this Shamrock Tree on Canvas. This shamrock craft makes a fun project to do with the family or friends!

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

 

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday for adults and children alike. Decorating for St. Patrick’s Day has become more and more popular with the adult crowd over the past decade and shamrock crafts are always big. Adding little touches of lucky green to your decor is fun as long as it’s not overwhelming. This tree shaped like a lucky shamrock and adorned with shamrock leaves adds just the right touch without going overboard.

I originally made this project for Joann Fabric and Craft Stores via DecoArt. I used Americana paints and an 18×18 stretched canvas I picked up at Joann’s.

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

What you’ll need to make a Shamrock Tree

  • 18×18 stretched canvas
  • Graphite transfer paper
  • Pencil or stylus
  • Pattern

Americana Paints

  • White
  • Ebony/Black
  • Leaf Green
  • Hauser Light Green
  • Golden Straw
  • Primary Yellow
  • Jack O’ Lantern Orange


Steps for making a Shamrock Tree: Collage

I did an image search on google for shamrocks. Once I found one that I liked, I drew it out on paper.

Steps for making a Shamrock Tree on Canvas- drawing out the tree outline

Next I added some branches that reached out toward the borders of the shamrock shape, then I drew some shamrocks around the border of the design. I erased the border lines and added in some small inner branches and small shamrock leaves.

Final drawing of shamrock tree

While I used an 18×18 canvas, you could certainly scale this down like I did with my Love Birds in a Heart Tree, that one was only 8×8 and would fit quite nicely on a shelf or mantel.

Painting onto the canvas

First I used a pencil to sketch on the tree trunk and main branches. I freehanded it, but I made you a pattern which you could enlarge on a photocopier and use that to transfer the design with carbon paper. After filling in the main branches, I added the small inner branches. Adding shamrocks is just a matter of painting three hearts intersecting at their points.

Adding green shamrocks and other colors to the tree

I started with green and then switched to a lighter green and added in orange and yellow as well. Varying the sizes of the shamrocks adds dimension to your painting.

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

When you’re finished you should have a shamrock shaped tree! Mine’s a little wonky on the right because I freehanded, but using the pattern I provided should keep yours in shape.

Shamrock Tree on Canvas

Have a happy St. Patrick’s Day and don’t drink too much green beer!

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Shamrock Tree on Canvas

Supplies

  • 18 x18 stretched canvas
  • Graphite transfer paper
  • Pencil or stylus
  • Pattern

Americana Paints

  • White
  • Ebony Black
  • Leaf Green
  • Hauser Light Green
  • Golden Straw
  • Primary Yellow
  • Jack O' Lantern Orange

Instructions

  • Print pattern and enlarge to appropriate size for your canvas. You will probably have to break the pattern into sections to get it large enough.
  • Paint the entire canvas with White paint.
  • Use transfer paper to trace the pattern onto your canvas, or if you are comfortable with it, free hand the design on lightly with a pencil.
  • Paint the trunk and branches first use Ebony paint and a liner brush. Fill the thick areas in using angle brush.
  • For larger shamrocks, use round brush or liner brush. Creating shamrocks is simple connecting three heart shapes at their points, with their sides touching each other. This leaves an open area at the bottom for the stem. Paint the small shamrocks onto the thin branches first using Leaf Green.
  • Next add large Leaf Green shamrocks around the outside of the tree.
  • Use Light Hauser Green to paint more large shamrocks around the outside of the tree.
  • Fill in the rest of the shamrocks in different sizes and colors using Golden Straw, Primary Yellow and Golden Straw.
  • Use the handle end of your paintbrush to add different colored dots in various places around the tree.

Shamrock Tree

This post was originally published on this blog on Feb 23, 2013.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Unique says

    May 14, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    Beautiful liked it

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  2. Maria G. says

    February 26, 2013 at 7:06 am

    Wow! This gives me a great idea for St. Patrick’s Art. Actually, my son’s school always celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an art contest and the art contest is participated by the parent and the child. I really didn’t have an idea 5 minutes ago about what at we are going to draw for the contest. You just game me an idea. Wow! You really drew the tree and the shamrocks flawlessly. I hope I can do that too.

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      March 2, 2013 at 7:27 am

      So glad it was helpful!

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  3. Linda janicki says

    February 24, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    this is Adorable!!!

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  4. Vesna Milanovic says

    February 23, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Oh, zaista je divno!

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  5. Ashley Spain (@AshleySpain7) says

    February 23, 2013 at 10:44 am

    This is beautiful! you did a wonderful job. You should sell stuff like this for those of us that aren’t as creative!! :)

    Reply
  6. Debra says

    February 23, 2013 at 10:33 am

    This is gorgeous! I really love it. Something I would have never thought of and I wish I had!

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