Acrylic Silhouette Painting

  I graduated from the School of Architecture a few months ago, and before beginning my job hunt I decided to go spend some time with my sister in Canada and help her move into her new apartment in Bellevue, Washington for her new job. I stayed there for about two months.
During my stay, my sister asked me to do a colorful painting to hang on the wall of her living room, as all the furniture was black and she needed to add a little color. I decided to paint a silhouette of her and her fiancé with bright acrylic colors.
Of course I had no idea how I was gonna do that since I had only used acrylics on the surfboard I designed about a year ago! But it was time to try and learn something new :)
I headed to Micheal's and bought a set of paint brushes, some paint, a palette, and a canvas. And then I did the following steps:
(I apologize for the bad quality of the photos, I used my phone to take them.. which was not such a good idea)

Draw the outlines in pencil.
I picked the photo I wanted from their engagement session and I drew the outlines on the canvas using an HB pencil.

Pick the colors.

I started choosing the colors I preferred, like I said I wanted to go for brighter colors such as yellow, pink, green, blue, etc. And I started applying each in a certain part of the drawing and blending it in with the next.

Apply more colors, blending them into each other.

And when I was finished with my silhouettes, I went for the background.

I used just plain black acrylic paint with a little bit of water. The tricky part was the outline around the silhouettes, but I tried to be as accurate as possible.

Since my sister had just moved in, we didn't have much furniture and I had to use cartons as a stand for my canvas and as a table :D Here's how my work station looked like.

Eventually I think it turned out good considering I am not at all experienced with acrylic paint! :D Here's the final result, although the paint wasn't completely dry so you'll see some bright areas in the black paint but that's just because of the reflection of the light.