#489 The best brush's to paint believable clouds in acrylic

[Music] g'day how you going iannapolis here your acrylic guru welcome in this video i'm going to show you just what brushes to use to get believable clouds in acrylics so that's what this video is all about we're going to paint clouds that look believable and i'm going to show you the brushes the best brushes you can use for your acrylic mediums to get these clouds to look this way here's the size of my canvas i'm using and i will also get some colors going up the screen so stick around to the end and soak up the knowledge about the witness all right let's go so i've already got a prime canvas sheet that i've cut off the roll it's a fredrick's canvas and i'm going to prep this to get our clouds in acrylic and this video is all about how to get it happening that way what you need to use and like i said the best brushes to get acrylic clouds believe it or not are these types right here one two three four i've got my putter on a brush a couple of blending brushes and a brush to stamp the footprint of the cloud on i prefer to use a fan brush you can use a filbert whatever or even your finger but this is what i use and this video will demonstrate how these are going to work back up here we've got our canvas cut off the roll nothing's done to it it's primed from the factory so what do we do to get our acrylic clouds on there we're going to prep it first so i've got some soft acrylic paint here it's craft paint i call it craft paint it's just like a student quality paint it's artist quality it's very soft bodied okay i use that because it's soft body that's not thick and i'll put some retarder with that the retarder is going to delay the drying time of acrylics then i simply get my putter on a brush i'm moistening it into the retarder first so it's not going to be dry when it hits the paint and now i want to start mixing the paint into the retarder there and this is going to condition our canvas to have a white wet surface so we put some real colors on there because we want clouds that when people look at them in your painting you can practice this method and they're going to look believable that's what it's all about because when we first start it's hard to get believable looking clouds in it now i'm just going to paint the whole canvas with this craft white soft body white student paint poster paint wherever you are there's so many different names for it i do have people asking where can i buy craft paint i just call it that or craft white okay now that's all on there it's uneven it's thick it's important to put it on with this putter on a brush see how it got it in there it's in all the teeth of that canvas i'm using the very sides of those hairs and it's pushed on there see what i'm doing now i come to the tip of the brush this is where everything happens see it's all thick and running and then you just simply massage it and you're evening it out into a thin film on top of your canvas now that's i'm going to the tip of the brush again and if anything i'm wiping bits off and thinning it down and making it an even surface of that white acrylic paint you don't want it too thick now i've just wiped that brush because i don't need to wash it because all that color is still on the canvas so i just wiped it i've got three other colors here now the actual sky colors to give it the believability of these two colors here i'm using cerulean blue i've got a mid-tone grey out of the tube mix up a grey if you don't have a tuba gray and i've got some permanent alinsoran so first i want to pick up the cerulean blue on my brush and we'll get the sky color in there now the sky is important to have that a believable color as well and in getting that we're going to start at the top push it on now see that white paint that's if i painted that without the white on it'll be a lot darker it's making it a believable blue sky color start at the top and then i want to bring it down because as i come to wherever my horizon line is i'm going to have a low horizon there because this is all about the sky about there so i'm going straight across left and right now look over here there's some empty spots don't be shy to just get them in there you're pushing the paint around get rid of that heavier band so it's down in there a bit more like that don't be shy to do this you can do it and knowing what to do and practicing it you can absolutely do it okay now we'll start again and then we're going from the top and we're bringing it down to the horizon and if anything the lower half of this sky is lighter value than the top half that's what you want because that gives you i've said it many times that sphere shaped like it's coming the blues coming over your head now i've cleaned the brush next part of the sky i'm going to pick up the gray the mid-tone gray and this goes right at the horizon line put a little bit of this in there just a little bit just to warm it up there we go it's not pure gray i'm just adding little bits because this will dry darker now this is simply the horizon line straight across the horizon line come across the horizon just like so push it on there you're getting the color there now i'm coming to the tip of this brush because this is all about the brushes and how they work and this brush is going to gradiate that gray into our blues now i don't know if you notice it or not but if you look at the sky in the evening time certain parts of the day you see this band of haze in the bottom of your sky and that's it i can just using the see this brush there's no paint on the tip it's all been pushed up the hairs and that's why there's nothing no grey going up here if i tilted the brush that way i'd put a big chunk of gray there i don't want that i just want that haze right at the bottom of our sky now i'm just simply going to go to the good quality titanium white it's a bit more thicker structured than that softer bodied craft paint that i call there okay so i use this for the actual stamping of the clouds and the clouds are done in the three stamping process what i mean by that is i use this to paint the shape of the cloud on there do the blending then i'll put another color in there blend it in and then the final color so there's three steps now i like to use my fan brush like i said before just so i'm going to get this on both sides of the fan brush and then stamp in a cloud so along the horizon we see how you got the gray and the gray i want to put the the distant far away ones in the sky first so you stamp them on anyway pretty much at the top of this gray not right at the very top but down a bit so you've got something to come up and something to blend down that's what's going on in my mind so we'll do a couple of um stamping on and i'll start to give it some body these pretty much go all the way along the the horizon line something like that i can turn the brush around and add some more paint on there i'll get this pretty much all the way along there stop now grab one of my blending brushes i'm going to use this smaller one and a half inch and you always need a kitchen cloth okay to wipe off the build up as you blend and then you've got this cloud we want to start from about this area here in the cloud and come down i'll start over here and this is going to mix with that gray underneath now i've only done a little bit but look what's on my brush there's quite a bit on there i hope the camera is picking that up so you wipe that because if you're keeping that on your brush you're just moving it around and you're keeping it as one thick blob you've got to get value dull and bright of values within it and wiping the build up off helps that happen okay so i'm going to control the bottom first picking up some of that thicker stuff bang look there's a big chunk of it there these are all the little minute things you need to know just to make your art believable and this is all about clouds we all know how difficult clouds can be such a little simple thing in a painting but my goodness the trouble they've caused is and i like to give them a bit of a drag that's just something i like to do like that just see how this paint underneath has allowed that to happen now obviously that does look a bit dumb so i'm going to keep shaping this cloud pulling it down into that gray permanent linzer in color just like that tapping i'm not just doing this i'm tapping coming up there look at it look at it look what you're doing this bit here is still looking a little bit so i'm going to just distort that drag line a bit there we go now see the tops of that i like to tickle them i call it tickling the tops i get the very corner of my blending brush because you can see just the actual brush marks and you want it to look like believable clouds so i'm just very gently tickling the tops of that wipe my brush tickling the tops you can get these brushes from me just message me on facebook the link's in the description below and i'll send you some out okay we've got the one section of our cloud there but this is the horizon clouds i can put another one over here so to put another one over there i might start off the painting and because these are i don't know what they're called they're i'm just calling them horizon clouds i keep them low and long and i'll try and get this one in front of that but if not i'll show you what we can do there because you could see this haze color here it's adding real values in our sky grab your blending brush again and simply the same procedure i'm blending pulling it down into that hazy color wiping the brush as i go it's very important now you don't want to dance like this over the whole cloud don't do that okay you mush it up too much you need to start tap and then you're getting some turmoil and twist those drag marks that's what creates the lustre and the realism within a cloud the believable look of a cloud in a painting it's a lot better than just stamping stamping and stamping you do i call it turmoil you would have heard me use the word turmoil in videos before i'm just tickling the tops of that this video is all about how you can get believable clouds clouds are no same shape so don't worry about trying to get them the same all the time just use the same procedure and they'll just happen grab some of this grey with the permanent linserine in there just a little bit this main cloud i might just put a bit more in here like that so i'm dancing across the bottom of it and slowly fingering up within the cloud body there come down into here a bit more so see what i've done practice this procedure just every procedure is a practicing stage if you want to master what you're trying to achieve when you know you have trouble i'll do the same in there as well just getting some of those values back in there blending brush you're just going to soften that into the top half soften it see everything's still wet from that retarder and craft paint it's allowed everything to stay wet if that wasn't on the canvas this would not be possible with acrylic paints knowing the signs of different paints and how they work is going to help you in your art journey immensely okay now we'll just finish these bottom ones off you can see how that color that i just put on there has kind of put a from the cloud looking like this a bottom on there i'm just grabbing simple white again and i want to just put something let's say from about here a nice long that tinted color that i put there i want to leave some of that in between this cloud and the one that i've already put on but try and get that i don't know that cloud shape you're going look how easy this is to stamp it you might have seen people just go on willy-nilly but this is controlling the believability within your clouds when you know what to do we're just going to put something about here see i controlled how much thickness and blobs and ooh lars or painter in there you know what i mean there's that one there and i don't know just for the sake of it we might put something just lineal and long right along here like that and maybe just here right grabbing your blending brush just the bottom of those clouds just grasp the bottom of them with your blending brush pull turmoil twist and it's blending with that gray hazy color i'm tapping it twisting it adding turmoil because i stamped it on there in a controlled way i'm not having trouble blending it see the different things you can pick up you might not realize i didn't know you had to do that but it's knowing it when you know these things and the more you do your art the more you'll pick up what's going to work for you as well tickle the tops a little bit but they're not too bad because i controlled the way i stamped it on there and then down here it's already mixing with that gray hazy color that i've put in the sky so it's created a bit of realistic depth the bottom of this sky now this is just the bottom horizon type of clouds i normally like to do in my skies we're going to go for some overhead ones to make things look like they're coming right over our head so we'll leave it like that and now we'll get some straight over our head okay we'll start from about here make the shape you want now i'm going to do that v scattered v shape i've said it before where it looks like they're coming over your face your head like this so i pretty much get a base of something out here creating the base whatever sort of body you're giving it and then it's going to gradually just v-shape spider way over our heads like this a big blob there just something like that [Music] break it up grabbing your blending brush now you can see the difference from the bottom clouds to the top clouds now watch what this brush does i'm going to go to the very bottom edge the bums is what's important for these ones over this over your head they have bums on them these ones down here the bums have been horizon lined away they're down in the horizon so you pretty much work out roughly where you want a bit of a bum i'm just roughly doing it just showing you for the sake of it but now i want to blend the tops of these so i'm twisting turmoil see the windows of blue in there as i'm blending it i want to be able to have brighter whites and bits of blue within that blended mix of white cloud if you do it all the one value you're going to lose that believable cloud look and because i've brushed it on like that i'm blending like that as well blending out boom i'm blending up and finishing it off the way i stamped it on so you know they're not just everywhere you can have fun with clouds when you learn just paint and blend any old way but as you progress through your art journey you want to evolve you don't be doing the same kind of thing year after year you need to evolve to enjoy your art and you can look back at your journey of art just by looking at your paintings so if anything with this procedure what i'm doing now is if anything the bottoms are tight but the top half see like here it just gets wished away into the sky coming over our head and you can just do so many layers of these type of clouds now this one here the bottom keep it level with the horizon line and then constantly wipe your brush that's important i've got a hair there i'll pick him off later i'll show you what you do when you get a stupid hair trying to annoy you let's get this cloud pushed right up into the sky come right up here you might not see any paint coming off but it's creating the behavior [Music] okay now with the hair like that just simply grab a pointy knife okay don't worry if you scratch your paint just get it off there [Music] see i've scratched the living buggery out of that cloud deliberately because you can come back to the corner of your brush everything's still wet and that's it it's done no hassle and now i just want to paint something here so we'll come along this is like this sort of cloud there's going to be a big one coming off the painting and now i'm just going to flip-flop the same thing i've done here i want some blue windows within the cloud body you can look at clouds and study them and work out what you feel you would like to do you can even go to the corner of this brush and make them pillowy like that but i'm just kind of going like this come down there a bit i don't want it too cone-shaped sometimes you can get caught doing too much of an even pattern there's that cloud same thing again [Music] blend turmoil turmoil whisper the tops away that bottom's a bit there we go because at the moment this cloud that i'm putting on now is flat it's going to look flat on our sky and we're going to make it start looking believable and how we do that using these brushes to blend it the way i do getting turmoil and then adding the other two colors so now if you look at this cloud you might not have noticed it in previous videos but that cloud is brighter white you can see bits of blue coming through it you need that and like i said it looks flat we're going to make it look pillowy and lovely just grabbing the gray and some of the permanent lindsay within there like i said don't get it too reddish this is going to be the weather i call it the weather within the cloud so they're not just white and we're pretty much come along the bottom of our cloud like this coming up coming along the bottom coming up and finger into the cloud like you're bringing fingers of this color within the cloud body there i'll do some over here look at clouds and work out what part of your cloud you can put these bits of gray and maybe i don't know let's just try a pocket there somewhere just like that grabbing your blending brush now you want to keep that color there but you want to sit all those hard edges down so we'll come along the bottom first keeping that flat and then softening those edges down so you can still see the white you can see this color that you've just put on there and over here so this is the second stage of our cloud color to give it that believable look twist it around twist it around don't kill any bits that you love within there you have the right to love bits that you put in there and keep them there i'm just getting that a bit more flatter at the bottom and just this bigger body here will put that weathered color in there just very minimal so i want to come i don't know around the bottom here trace some of it up there and maybe a little bit in there sit it down get rid of those hard edges of that color leaving the white still there in the cloud body there we go that's that one done i've wiped it and sit this down as well in there the rest of the clouds are too small to contain any weather now we've done that i'm going to go back to my fan brush pick up the pure white and this is where we create as a lot of people know what i call it the yumminess this gives it the final look to give it that 3d look so we'll start over here we're going to get bits of white put them within your cloud come past some of that gray a bit bring this section over here you're just adding yumminess within that body of cloud i call it yumminess it's just because it turns your cloud from that and it just makes it look a bit more yummy now there you go you've done that it looks a bit hmm but though i want to sit that yumminess down leaving the vibrancy of it there okay but try and blend it in a way so it's creating those pillowy sections within your cloud sitting that down don't think about it too much just go with the flow you need to practice join some of them up you don't want them just like dotty dotty bits of yumminess sometimes you might have to smear like that and really create the luster in your cloud there's so many thousands of types of clouds i've got so many videos on my channel here so many different array of cloud formations that i've done and we've created some yumminess i would like a little bit coming from the bottom just to give that i'll show you what i mean so it doesn't look too two-dimensional down there hopefully and you can see from this cloud how that's now got more pulse life within it same with this one a little bit of yumminess in here where you might feel don't overdo it don't overdo it it's so easy to overdo your stuff look at this [Music] now like i said if you want these brushes that i use just simply message me on facebook or if you find brushes that are going to work for you but these are the best brushes to do the clouds and acrylic i feel now i also want to show you one other thing sometimes i've done it quite often but i've let it go but i'll show you in this tutorial everything's in cahoots with the horizon line but see this one if anything it looks a bit crooked to me so to fix that up i'm just simply going to put another little cloud right in front of it just something there to break that up but this cloud needs a bum on it as well because it's in that part of the sky so we'll go like that in front of it and i'm just simply going to blend that and do what i do hopefully that's kind of masked that distorted visual that i had going on in this painting here obviously a bit of this color just to help with it because it looks like there's some rain wanting to come down maybe you've got that in there we've done it see this cloud it's back to front this one and that one this one we're going to bring over that now just so it's not going to look back to front there we go i'm trying to get that little bit in cahoots with the horizon line there because i feel it just didn't look the part see when they're over your head the closest ones are in front of the furthest ones obviously and then a little bit of yumminess just to fix that this is just fixing the mistake in that one i feel hopefully fix it the final thing you can do to get realistic clouds a lot of us do forget are the high cirrus look at your sky i call them gap fillers they're pretty much just i will go this way little swerves like this and ticks like that like that that's all they are they're the pretty much the most smallest cloud but you can use pretty much your biggest blending brush you leave no edge on those you simply blend them away into your sky my sky's starting to dry now because i've taken so long to demonstrate but normally it would have been a lot wetter if you're at home not demonstrating to everybody you're just painting for yourself and these are just those high cirrus clouds whispering around in the sky twist them around distort them something like that if you feel there's a bit too much uniform break it up a bit all right and then we've got a little bit of a gap down here we could probably just put something there like so so we'll quickly get these these parts a little bit wetter still and you just these are the cirrus clouds and they're good for gap fillers you might have a big area to sky and you don't want to go to the trouble putting too much detail clouds there so you just put these cirrus clouds in there and if you look at your sky you'll see these type of clouds doing their thing see i'll just wash that down into the sky color there and it's a very busy sky i know but it's a tutorial showing you the best brushes you can get to create believable looking clouds just these blending brushes that i use and the putter on a brush which is one of these you get a two inch and a one and a half inch and you get this fella here i'm just going to finish that off if i put her on a brush and some more cerulean blue just to go at the bottom of the painting just so it doesn't look half done i might be able to use it for some other demonstration down the track so let's just say this is water for the tutorial so you start at the bottom nice and thick and then you come up to your horizon line it'll it slowly comes lighter and then this brush on its edge we'll just come across there we'll make some kind of horizon line and you'll be able to see how that polluted haze in the horizon how it's sitting along let's just say this is the ocean way out there you can just see how it's behaving with the painting i'm going to get a bit of this just to make that lighter out there if i can yeah there we go i've just put a bit more craft paint into it i'll get a bit of blue because you need this darker you need the bottom of your water darker and why do you need it darker for those who don't know i'll tell you let me get this across first okay in general when it's a lot darker it makes the water look like that going that way i'm just grabbing a bit of that linsen crimson just to show you get right across here because this will make it darker and then i'll just let this wear up to the top and this is really creating that vibe that i'm just explaining to you okay so these brushes are the best brushes in my opinion and you can make up your own decision from this tutorial if they're the best brushes for you to create clouds that look believable my fan brush put her on a brush and a couple of blending brushes they're not a tiny blending brush but you can still get some small clouds with them this one's well used but they're not that expensive so you can buy yourself several pairs if you like yeah and sometimes they'll spay out like that whatever don't worry about that because all you do is say get back in line you fellas and then i've done that quite a few times and they go back they're quite hardy and this is the sky a believable sky you can achieve from them with a lot of practice if you haven't had much time in painting okay and i know you can do it well i had a lot of fun doing that i hope you enjoyed the show tell your friends if you like what you saw but if you didn't you tell everybody check out this other video of mine goodbye good luck and good on ya [Music] you

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Length: 32min 20sec (1940 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 30 2022