Updated :
July 18, 2010 1:39 PM



Artist Contact Information
Lloyd Thibodeau
1901 Country Apple Court
Fountain Inn, SC 29644

Or email :
mail@draw-n-paint.com

Print Out Grid Pattern

For this portion of the Yellow Lily art lesson you will need to print page eight from the Yellow Lily Grid Drawing Package. You can obtain your free grid drawing package by requesting one from short form in the right column under the grid sample image.

Sizing Your Grid Pattern

First to consider is the size to make the Yellow Lily image on the artist canvas. For this oil painting I wanted to place the Yellow Lily on the left side of the canvas with a large meadow and warm sunny sky in the background. Something to keep in mind when transferring the image is that all the squares of the grid drawing pattern are a half inch in size. So it's just a matter of multiplying a half inch by a selected number to get the size of the squares I need to draw size of the grid pattern squares on my canvas.

I doubled the size of the grid pattern squares on my painting canvas to one inch in size. This makes the Yellow Lily image just over twelve inch in the horizontal direction and near sixteen inches in the vertical direction in size. The Yellow Lily grid image now makes up about one third of the canvas on the left side after it is transferred for the art composition.

If your using the full canvas, there's an easy way to transfer the image by measuring the canvas size first. For example take a canvas that is twenty inches by thirty inches in size. Divide the canvas width by the number of squares that make up the Yellow Lily flower image in the horizontal direction. There are thirteen squares that make up the flower image width. So the canvas width of twenty inches divided by the thirteen squares of the Yellow Lily grid pattern image makes the grid squares for the canvas 1.538 inches in size.

Rounded to 1.5 inch squares times thirteen means the full Yellow Lily image width will be nineteen and a half inches wide. This is important to know if I'm going to center the image or place it to the left or right on the canvas.

Formula : Canvas width size 20 inch divided by 13 grid pattern squares equals 1.5 square size.

Artist Materials Needed
Artist Canvas
Bristol Board Pad
Drawing Pencil
White Eraser
Ruler