Autumn Squirrel Acrylic Painting LIVE Tutorial

hello this is angela anderson thanks for joining me for this acrylic painting tutorial in this video i'm going to be showing you how to paint a cute little squirrel for autumn it's going to be a lot of fun i think and i'll show you step by step how to do it from start to finish got my husband mark with me hey everybody he's been in chat today and so if you've got questions you can ask those and i'll try to answer let's get started [Music] alrighty so i'm going to be using a 9 by 12 inch canvas board today this is the fredrix mixed media canvas board and i've painted it with a very light coat of burnt umber i just used a paper towel and kind of wiped about maybe that much um on sprayed it with a little bit of water and just kind of smooshed it around um to give me a dark ground on my background of my canvas and then trace transferred onto the canvas the drawing and then i covered it with matte medium but you really probably don't have to do that i just did it just to seal it in real good for brushes you're just going to want some sort of brush that you can give you for texture so you could use a textured brush and that'll give you kind of a thicker um maybe not as fine of hairs if you want really fine hairs you're going to want to use either like a liner brush to do them individually which will take you a long time but can be done or like a very fine fan brush or a red comb this is called a filbert granier one of these brushes that have the separations in there already built in so it makes it really easy to do fur textures and things like that much quicker so something like that to do your fur and then to do your eye and some of the other details and the smaller details in the hand i'll have a couple of smaller rounds these are all princeton brushes the velvet touch in the red handles and then the blue handled one here i showed was the quarter inch filbert granier and the select and princeton brush um and then for our background where we're doing that kind of blurry leaf background i'll be using a different stippler this is 3 8 inch deerfoot stippler and that'll help with kind of that blurry effect and then i also grabbed a few of my um filberts in the longer handles these are the summit series 6100 summit series for some of the leaves in the front and possibly just to block in some of the color back here so and i also grabbed these two because these are the aspen series they're kind of a faux hog bristle brush they're they're synthetic so they don't get soggy in water like a regular hog bristle brush would do um but they uh will make the texture as well on the fur so i'm not sure exactly what i'm going to use i just usually kind of grab a bunch of brushes that i think i might need and then i'll use them i'll introduce them as i need them as i use them okay let's go over our colors real quick got burnt i'm sorry carbon black burnt umber burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange uh yellow oxide and this one is a transparent yellow oxide but you could use either regular or transparent um this is raw sienna um and if you don't have that one just substitute it for the yellow oxide and add a little brown it's fine um this one is uh which one is that yellow indian yellow hue cadmium orange cadmium red light quinacridone magenta uh ultramarine blue and this is unbleached titanium in the [Music] heavy body acrylics all these are the golden heavy body acrylics this one is the golden fluid acrylic in titan buff so it's a little bit softer this one actually is a liquitex color i take that back this one is uh the only one that i have that i use it's liquitex um it's a little bit more of a deeper color you can see kind of the the tone of the titan buff is just slightly off so but they can kind of be interchanged titanium white and then this is titanium white in the fluid which will be easier with the fur that's so i put the two fluid colors down whoops um to use when we do our fur because it'll just make it easier and then got glass glazing liquid all right oh shoot that was fast all right welcome if you are new to our channel we're happy to have you along for our live stream and um we just kind of go through this live uh from start to finish like as if you're hanging out in the studio with us so sometimes we talk about things not related and that's so just be warned but hopefully you'll enjoy it and uh subscribe and come back we do these live twice a week yeah and uh yeah at the very beginning of the the show you're talking about how you're putting in the background and you use the advanced uh painting technique term smush so are you gonna go over that or is that that a whole separate video it's a whole yeah it's too too advanced for this video okay all right sorry everybody we'll we'll do it another time okay thanks so you're mixing some colors together there got white and uh indian yellow hue so and i'm just gonna go over this now we're um going over the dark color here with our light color so we may have to do these parts a couple of times but i actually kind of wanted to do it this way so that a little bit of that dark kind of can show through it just kind of gives it a different effect and i'm going to paint around my little chipmunk here now it's chipmunk squirrel sorry get it right let's get it right squirrel so this squirrel people don't leave me comments oh yeah i still i'm still getting comments about that farmall tractor painting i got a comment the other day about it i've painted that what it's gotta be at least four years old something like that i don't know maybe not that long ago but it feels like it and i'm still getting comments about what kind of tractor it is it's the most controversial painting she's doing oh my gosh it's like wow who knew you were such an edgy universe knew that tractors were so controversial it's hilarious do not miss i better know exactly what make and model of tractor that i am painting next time or i will hear from it for years it's hilarious tractor people are intense they're serious about it they're all in all right i'm adding some burnt orange here and a little bit of this uh yellow oxide and just making kind of reddish tone so i'm going to really kind of use all of these colors for my leaf background so kind of all my reds and browns here in different shades honestly doesn't matter what uh combination you use so it's it's uh kind of up to you this part is pretty easy fun hopefully don't stress out too much don't use too much paint at first so you know i'm kind of going on fairly light with the coats of paint um and just kind of adding them where i'm seeing my lighter colors yeah four years ago four years ago may 2017. there we go it is big i think it's probably the oldest video that i still get regular comments [Laughter] it was very interesting okay all right so just using these lighter colors here and i'm going over the top of the tail i kind of drew in the tail there so i'm going a little bit over the top because that color kind of comes in underneath the tail part comes over the top of that so you want to be sure that you've got that color well into that fur because it's so fluffy i have two disney references [Laughter] [Music] all right for those who are watching live what movies are those [Laughter] i don't know about the fluffy i i we use it all the time but i don't don't blurt i don't remember okay don't blur i won't all right using burnt sienna and the burnt orange here i'm gonna use that and just kind of lightly go over now wherever i'm kind of meeting up with this yellow if i kind of just feather it over the top see how i'm kind of lightly lifting as the brush kind of hits that part and that'll kind of give it a softer edge and i did that all along these outer areas too of my um lighter color here my yellowish color also and that kind of helps make it easier to blend in the next color if you don't have a really hard line there okay so meanwhile got plus five points and we got up and echo got uh plus five points for the despicable me despicable me okay i was going to say nemo so i was right i was way off it was way off but i didn't embarrass myself when she wins that toy at the fair she's like it's so funny oh okay it's funny the movies that we adopt into our everyday lingo you know we've got certain movies that for a while there we had a lot of napoleon dynamite uh going on all right getting some yellow back so kind of going back and forth here adding some more of this yellow back in maybe a little bit brighter yellow um just a slightly different tone and they don't have to be match exactly so if you're you know if you've done all this yellow and then you come back to it and you're like oh you know i have to match this color exactly to do it you don't have to just get it as close as you can and you know just put a little bit over the top and move on it doesn't have to be exact the main thing we just kind of want is our borders to be kind of soft and fluffy so this is pretty much how i'm going to leave it i think i'm going to leave it kind of just slightly with these brush strokes showing and a little bit impressionistic style maybe um so i'm not going to get too fancy with the background and have it have to be exactly the way it is in our photograph we'll just get it close and be good enough your leaves fell on the ground a little bit differently than the picture right exactly so just doing our own interpretation of it here and we officially are in fall we are and our weather is it's like on on the first day of fall it was so nice like 54 degrees i know or whether i was like oh okay well it like overnight literally went from really hot to beautiful it's great we've got about oh i would say about two months in the fall and two months in the spring where we get pretty decent weather on a regular basis and it goes cold cold or hot hot blazing hot and humid so all right i just kind of went back over these ears because i kind of covered up a little bit of them with my thing there i don't want to lose my drawing there we go okay this brush is getting a little bit big so i'll probably switch over here in a minute but i'm gonna get some of the cadmium red light and that'll give me a brighter orangey red for some of these areas here i'm gonna add the quinacridone burnt orange to it so i have a really nice deep there we go pretty red look how pretty that is okay so let's switch over here just kind of feather that out like i did feather it out over it doesn't matter if this is perfect right here we're going to go over it again so we don't have to get it just right just as long as we don't leave like this really hard sharp line like that because that would be hard to blend into this is going to be really easy to blend into we just get our color and we can go back over it the same way and it'll blend right out but this we'd have to go over it multiple times to kind of get that softness to happen so just kind of watch that as you go just do small sections at a time and and always kind of go back and forth like this real soft and letting that brush kind of blend out your edges so you get these soft kind of blendy areas here if you want that blurry look and if you don't you can do you know more firm brushstrokes and leave you know maybe use a smaller brush and leave more you know distinct brush strokes like this you know in different places and i love that look too so it's just up to you what you do with your background here it's all kinds of different possibilities lots of fun don't let it stress you out and sometimes you're gonna have a heavier hand so if you're you know if you're one that like loads up your paint really thick thicker than i do here and you're having a hard time getting this wispy look then go with something a little bit more bold you know doesn't have to be exactly like mine do what uh comes naturally to you i always tell my students don't fight it you know because i there there are people um and i'm using the um which one raw sienna here with the burnt umber and i still had some of that yellow in my brush so i'm going to use it over here so we're just again using all these different colors but um i i'm often all you know when i especially when i would have the in-person classes um of course you know online i don't get to see exactly what you are doing because i'm not sitting there right next to you able to help you along but um in my in person classes i often would have people students who would come in and they would just be much thicker with the paint you know they'd load it up much thicker than i did and sometimes they you know had a little bit more trouble doing these kind of techniques um and i always just kind of tried to tell them you know that maybe this kind of style of this kind of um soft and blendy or or you know ultra realistic may not be um as easy for them so maybe you know think about doing some more kind of type impressionist type work or something like that you know you use your strengths um i have a harder time doing kind of impressionist work because i tend to get bogged down in details and things but i really love that style and sometimes when i try to paint that way it's harder for me and it would be the same thing for somebody who's who that style would come naturally to you know to do this style might be a little harder for them so when you're first learning you know i would say just kind of try a bunch of different things and if if the way i'm doing it is a little bit difficult for you then you might try a little bit heavier hand with it or different style or you know i've got all kinds of different paintings and all kinds of different uh styles of painting in my tutorials so i'm sure there'll be something out there that you can work on all right if that made sense yeah there's a nice tank video out there we'll link it yeah that that tank video was like it tanked exactly a tanked tank video tent but you know you didn't have half the people you know telling you what type of tank it was true true it ain't no tractor i did have somebody leave me a really nasty note in german though about it i do remember that as a slayer he was very very angry about the tank and i don't know what he said but it was very like i interpreted like the first couple of sentences and was like nope don't need to read that we're moving on we're just gonna delete it oh my gosh i upset somebody so yeah that's where we're getting the things that set people off we're already at seven thousand views on that video wow after two years smoking it's assuming how many mm-hmm oh 352 thumbs up how many of them is down 27 well that's not bad that's a good average i can just put my phone over there next to what you're painting so people can wash it at the same time no no it's okay we're good all right added a little bit more brown now as we come to the foreground we're getting a little bit more um a little bit more contrast a little bit wider range of colors a little bit more um dark darks and more light lights so our values are getting more contrasted and dramatic and that's normal in nature things that are farther away a little bit more blurry a little bit less saturated and you won't see as much contrast and then as they get closer to you they're going to get more um resolved more you know clear in focus and also your values will get more of a range so in our background background we may have values that range you know in here somewhere maybe you know here to here um or here to here something like that in our foreground we could have values from here all the way to here does that make sense so our foreground is going to have this much richer range of colors and lights and darks naturally and that's just kind of how our eyes perceive perceive things so if we do that on purpose here and it isn't that way in our photograph but if we kind of make sure that these foreground areas have these darker darks and lighter lights we'll kind of reinforce that automatically and our eyes our brain will automatically push this into the background that make sense okay so we're kind of manipulating the the scene to making sure that we're we are following that rule so that these things that are farther away look a little bit more muted and closer together in value and then our leaves that are in focus in front here we can do just pretty much whatever colors we want lots of detail okay getting that darker so i went in with a little bit of that cadmium orange there to try to get a little bit of more of an orangey but i still have these other colors on my brush so it's not bright orange per se okay so what do we got going on tomorrow tomorrow we are going to be finishing up our sunflower from our bonus video show it we got just a little bit maybe an hour maybe last left on these few leaves here to finish this up this is our bonus video for patrons five dollars and up over on patreon.com angela fine art you can sign up for that if you're interested but um yes so we'll be doing that and then afterwards we're going to be doing bingo for our patrons so we'll be giving away some gift cards amazon gift cards and some fredericks and princeton goodies things that they've sent us to give away for our patrons they're our brush and canvas sponsor they're awesome that was very generous with when we do giveaways and things so oops yeah there's there's the goodies [Laughter] [Music] they have like a shiny glow around them and if you're you know if you don't care about bingo you can't again you are interested in in uh joining patreon you want a full month of uh of uh membership then you could wait until october 1st and get a full month because it runs on a calendar month so you only get till the end of september if you joined today i don't i know i i was almost said october i am i just finished my october schedule speaking of so we've got all of our october paintings kind of scheduled out so you can see those if you're interested click on my name and or my image there below the video and i'll take you to my channel home page you can see the upcoming live streams that we've got be fun got some fun halloween type projects coming up more fall stuff that's good things all right so that looks good so now i'm going to get the ultramarine blue and burnt umber and go in here and add some dark shadows just here and there just mix those two colors together and make a dark brown black color okay and i'll probably need to let this dry before i do any more layers on it because it's just kind of looking a little bit a little bit uh unfinished so i'm just going to kind of use this color that's left on my brush to kind of fill in these leaves that are here in the foreground and then maybe try to kind of go in next to those and sort of soften up the edges of those a little bit those dark areas all right so i'm going to leave that it's pretty good i think got a decent decent start on it at least it's going to need to dry really well before we do anything else to it so i'm just going to move on to working on the squirrel my bruise matches my shirt i didn't plan that color coordination how about that as soon as i did that i was like i just gave myself a bruise till mark walked into the door knob we have these like lever doorknobs that are really hard metal and i just went walked right and grabbed and grabbed right onto my arm and it's like turned to mark it's like okay well i'll have that in time for saturday's show a nice big bruise on my arm of course oh all right i should have painted my nails to match get ahead really done i've done it up i know all right so let me see yeah that's just a little bit tacky you can kind of feel um you know if you think it's dry but you're not sure you can feel it and if it feels cold then it's still drying because it's evaporating um so you can kind of tell what areas even if they feel dry to the touch if they're kind of cold you want to leave them alone you can usually tell if they'll feel a little tacky too a little sticky all right so let's go ahead and kind of get to work on our little squirrel here we'll baste in his fur and then i'm sure we'll need to do just a little bit more in our leaves but i'm gonna get black and got a little bit burnt under there too i'm just gonna do this area in his tail right here it's really dark coming out and down into the leaves and then where it overlaps the leaves i'm just gonna kind of pull out this way and set that brush down and just kind of fluff it out yeah that's going to make my fur texture for me and i'm just looking at my reference photo and seeing where i'm seeing these really dark colors in my underneath layers so i'm not looking at the upper layers i'm looking at what's dark where where my darkest darks are in my squirrel here so i'm seeing these dark areas right up along this body here and it's actually on the body itself too but i'm going to go just slightly lighter so that i know where that body is because there are some highlights on it so i'm gonna put some color on there but maybe not as dark and which brush is that this is the 3 8 inch blender sorry i didn't mention that yeah i always have good intentions of mentioning the brushes and then i always forget i get going and i forget mark has to remind me usually go somebody else in chat well good you guys are keeping me honest there so yeah i stay on it all right so i'm gonna go almost to the edge but not quite with this dark here almost to the outer edge is just like a little bit of a black area just inside right there and then coming off the underside of the tail there's some dark it's really kind of more of a burnt umber burnt sienna mixture so i'm gonna get some of that and just do like this there we go cute cute all right um i'm gonna go ahead and put some more of this reddish or use reddish leaves in here i'm gonna use this thicker brush here it's gonna go on a little bit different texture using this brush so it'll be a little bit more rough textured if that makes sense i'm gonna have more of that brush stroke showing and if you need this brush in your life you can try the brush guys yes dot com slash angela fine art no just pressurize your cup brush guys.com and then use the code angela fine art at checkout to get five percent off right and there's a link down below this video that takes you to angela's suggested brushes yes and it'll be in there yeah and i think it's in it's in the beginner series set i think it's either the beginner series or the intermittent immediate series but it's in one of those series and they have a discounted price for the set of brushes it's my most commonly used brushes so it's got like a angle brushes and some of the larger brushes that i use most often if you get that set and the intermediate set you and take care of them you really should be able to do most any of the painting that i do um with those brushes they're kind of the most commonly used ones that i using my videos okay so going back in now with the same colors but just kind of bumping up the transitions and contrast here some oranges pretty okay i'm getting some of this these three when i get going painting it makes it's harder for me to say the names so sorry i'm just gonna point and grunt hopefully you'll understand what i'm saying i'll try [Laughter] but um it's actually um you know have people that uh when they paint along you know it's actually good to watch it through one time if you plan on doing this and take notes and mark you know like take screenshots of my palette and then you can remember what i mixed here and here because a lot of times i go back to that same spot and pick it up again later and use it and don't mention what it is because i don't even remember what i mixed here you know 10 minutes 15 minutes ago so um i would say anytime that i'm making a new mixture i would just kind of like at the beginning of the video mark out all my colors and you can see as i'm going which ones i'm grabbing and where you know where i'm mixing them you could take screenshots and make notes for yourself make it easier for you to follow along because i sometimes like when i'm getting going here i forget to name them and that's i try but i forget i forget i'm not perfect so i'm not a robot do the best i can but again i get going sometimes i forget okay like it so right here let's go ahead and now that we've got this darker in here let's go ahead and kind of blend it out a little bit do smaller sections and if you find that you're blending over an area and it's like clumping or not blending really well for you then just let it dry just let it dry completely and come back to it later because acrylics will get kind of clumpy and sticky when they are drying and you don't want to mess with them when that's happening because they'll do weird things they'll lift and they'll clump together and make make a mess question regarding the brushes okay uh they would like to know are your brushes stiff like hog hair brushes like what you're using there and do you recommend using a brush like that for acrylic painting um it depends on what i'm doing so when i'm doing things like this where i want some texture then yes i use a stiffer brush um the ones that are stiffer are the um the blenders and the aspen brushes with the black candles those will be a stiffer bristle um the but then the um the ones that are this color that are the brown or the white and this um 6100 series these ones are softer they're they're still firm and flexible like they still snap back they're not super soft like a watercolor brush um but they are softer than these ones so those ones are good for blending when you want a really soft touch and don't want a lot of texture to show this is going to give you texture with these stiffer stiffer bristle brushes so it kind of depends on what i'm painting in the in the painting itself and i'll pull out different brushes for different things at times i want that texture and sometimes i want it to be super soft and blendy and won't won't use that put some of this darker color around some of that red around that darker color i mean kind of a buffer between that light color and then darker areas like there's a little bit of that red in between okay and if you do this and it doesn't look good to you then just keep keep adding layers until you like it so it's not finished until you're happy with it it doesn't you know and i would say it's kind of harder to see when you're right in the middle of it so as you work very frequently stop and take a break and look at it from a distance and see what these are looking like because with this blended background sometimes it's really hard to kind of tell how it's looking when you're in the middle of it you kind of need to look at it at a distance to really get a good read on the effect that you're achieving if you're getting that blended look or if it's looking a little too stiff so stepping back can be helpful okay i'm pretty happy with that for the most part let's go back to our squirrel so i'm gonna here some of the unbleached titanium and i'm sorry some ultramarine blue and burnt umber i'm gonna make that kind of a gray and i'm gonna use that on the back of the squirrel right here and then only like right up next to the tail and then right here under the arm the underside of the arm a little bit up the arm and again i'm just kind of looking to see where my darker areas are where i'm seeing this darker fur in my undertones top of the nose okay and then i'm going to get a little bit of that unbleached titanium and just pull it through so i've got the dark and the light on there at the same time so if you just kind of run it through both colors i should have a little bit of both colors on there yep there we go and i'm just going to tap back over that dark area short brush strokes and if you're seeing too much of a clump of the same color then just do this again just kind of run it through real lightly there we go and then the hair on the top here is more gray i'm going to get a little bit of the brown and do it the same way just kind of a little bit of the burnt umber run that through so i have the burnt umber and black like this gray and the unbleached titanium all kind of on at the same time let's go ahead and get some of the raw sienna too what are we seeing huh oh i thought you were talking about me there for a second and you said a little bit of gray the hair on top is more gray yes you are i play right there's still some there too nice you always had good hair my hair's doing the same thing so we're uh yes it is the covet i never really colored my hair much but every now and then i would get it kind of highlights or something you know but uh something i don't know if it was the stress of covet or what but my hair went great real fast last year all right getting some of the raw sienna and burnt sienna here i'm just gonna use like a little bit of each of these colors and again try not to over blend it so this will actually save me from having to do multiple layers if i kind of load my brush up in this way where it's got these layers all together you know i can kind of do it a little bit faster maybe that's the idea at least okay getting some more of that gray keep the brush strokes very small and the hairs are going back this way away from the head this way and then down under the belly here and to the side right here and the transition areas are really what you need to kind of watch out for so when you're meeting up two colors you want them to overlap just a little bit so i want to take my gray and put it into my brown just a little bit and my brown put it over the top of the gray so that i have an area where the two of them meet and there's not like a line of this is gray and then this is you know brown um even though on the animal it kind of looks like that there is just a slight area of overlap always so it's it's much more natural looking if you will have a little bit of an overlap okay i'm going to use the fluid paint and that'll give me a little bit softer look this is burnt umber with the unbleached titanium come on there we go come on do it yeah it's getting a little sticky so i'm gonna have to i'm probably gonna have to switch brushes we'll see does not want to come off on my brush where i want it to come off oh that's a leaf okay let's get the white and it's got all kinds of other colors on my brush here so it's not just white but i want to go over scratch over that burnt umber and some some of these are coming this way some of them coming straight down from underneath beneath the arm and going in different directions here there we go if i leave a little bit of that burnt umber underneath showing that i don't have to do as much layers i don't have to i've already got that color on there so i don't have to do it again all right i'm going to get the burnt sienna and this underside is white but it's being affected by the leaves underneath so it's turning it reddish so i'm going to do that part kind of reddish there i'm gonna get a little bit of that burnt umber and do a little bit darker if i can get it to do here we go i just need to clean this out i've got too many layers of paint on there they're all just clumping on okay that'll be much better that's how it should come off you shouldn't have to press down too hard for them to come off like that so much much better so let me get the gray do this area kind of gray just kind of mixed over into that darker color with this one that already had the whites in it and then up here a little bit lighter as it comes up our light source is coming down this way so this part's darker the light is hitting the back and the back of the head here so it's lighter too okay let me show you what it looks like with the with the fan brush because it's it'll be a little bit different it'll be a little bit less um thick it'll be a finer lines finer fur so and also when you're doing this you'll notice i was going this way with it so when i go this way i'm going to have a thicker line wherever you start so if you kind of go in the opposite direction you'll get finer lines wherever you're lifting where you set it down will be thicker and where you're lifting it'll be thinner so if you want to even that out and kind of spread out those bristles or those that hair so it's not looking so clumped and you can just go back over it in the other direction a little bit little bitty these are pretty short so i don't want too too long on these so and you can turn this so that you know it's facing the way um it's easier for you to hold i feel like it's probably going to be easier to do it this direction so you're pulling you know in the natural way that you would write left-handed i'm not sure you're on your own i'm not sure lefties sorry but for right-handed i know my dad's lefty too so i'm sorry i don't know all right going to grandson liam is i think gonna be lefty too he does a lot of stuff with his left hand like puts fruit in his ears we got a video of him with the fruit in his ears this morning mark's sister put trick tricks up her nose when she was about his age i think ended up in the emergency room so hopefully he doesn't continue that trend the family tradition hmm he's two going on ten okay okay and then this area is going to be kind of that whitish gray and get some of that gray go over the black it doesn't look like much yet well what we can do with fur which is nice is we can get the texture in get our values in right you know get it get some light and dark areas in and then what we can do is play with the color just by glazing over other colors so we don't have to get it perfect on this first go around we can get it close you know and just try to make sure that we get our texture in where we want it you know get these little hairs going in the right direction and then when we're done with that part we can go back over everything and shadow and highlight things even more and make it much more dramatic with our glazing so i'm gonna get a little bit of white here i'll try to pay attention to what i'm seeing in the photograph with my direction of my hairs come again i'm going to do a little bit more over here there we go little bit more on the cheek area right here a little bit brighter area right there okay cute and then on this area the fur the tail here i'm going to go ahead and get the yellow oxide and the raw sienna and i'm going to [Music] put my tail hairs in and this i'm going to go over the dark area there and then as i get to where the dark and the light are kind of mixing i'm just going to kind of tap and go in between my dark spots that i had when i did that black i kind of left a little bit of space in between some of this so i'm just kind of going in between here and [Music] putting this tail far in here and then in this area there's just it's kind of facing us so we're only seeing like little bits of of the tips of the tail so i'm just gonna tap and we'll have texture right there okay [Music] get the black we'll go do the same thing with that kind of go over this while it's wet kind of blend that out a little bit scrub scrubbing it okay [Music] [Music] i'm trying to keep these brush strokes all about the same length that makes sense so keeping them all about at maybe an inch or so the ones that are facing us that are like right in here will be a little bit shorter so that would be about maybe half that size but um we can get some of the raw sienna and unbleached titanium here and try to get okay this needs to dry because it's getting sticky okay so let's go ahead and kind of you see how this is turning green that's because the yellow and the black are mixing so i don't want that to happen because those will um yellow and black makes green so i need to keep those colors separate i can add brown to my yellow to make it darker but i don't want to add black so we'll do that back over there we go get rid of that green you want to have a green tail okay so let's let that set i'm gonna go ahead and use this color this um raw sienna and burnt umber color and tap it over some of my areas on my squirrel here where i'm seeing a little bit more of this color and i'm doing it kind of lightly i'm not trying to cover over the colors and this is what i was talking about with glazing it'll tint the fur but not cover the texture get a little bit of the unbleached titanium with this so right here where it's transitioning from white to this brown i'm gonna kind of just tap get some more of that white and just tap see that tap a little bit over the top of the brown and a little bit over the top of the white and that'll give me a nice transition between those two colors without a hard line okay and then there's a little bit of a dark shadow right here coming off the back of his head so i want to make sure that that fur back there is a little bit darker right there okay it's a cheeky little guy cute we're making good time i think let's go ahead and do the rest of his belly here with this white the gray kind of mixed in definitely need a little bit more of that kind of black mixed in with it it's darker got a couple areas right in here that's a little bit shadowed not really sure what that's why that's like that it's not supposed to be docked up it's gonna transfer or go over that light area there okay yeah it's kind of kind of got these weird transitions between the dark and the light right here for the gray and the brown i mean so i wonder if this is a a gray squirrel or a red squirrel i don't know or maybe a farm ball oh don't start that farmer tractors only have one front tire so apparently that's what i was told this week because i still cared [Laughter] oh my gosh i love it don't stop leaving me comments they endlessly entertaining i had somebody tell me i could do better on the moon too like yep you could do better i'm like well of course i could do better if i had like four hours and could do worse exactly and but you know to be doing it for a beginner and trying to keep it under an hour i couldn't do better that's about as good as it's gonna get but but again since you know we're we're good upstanding people we understand that we didn't perform to their level we did refund them their money right right and actually we doubled we doubled back their money so they should be happy their free video oh it's oh that's right it was free okay [Laughter] getting the white hair going along the tail edge of the tail just kind of going back and forth so i'm getting a nice soft blend on either side of it just did one direction i might have a little bit thicker line but by going back and forth this way and just kind of trying to pay attention to the direction that the first you know pointing in our photograph here uh it's gonna be look a lot softer doing it that way we're getting a pretty good soft blend on with this brush so i'm just going to continue with this until it i just kind of usually try to stick with the brush as long as i can as long as it's doing what i need it to do so this one seems to be doing an okay job so until it doesn't i'm gonna continue to let it play i'm not going to put it on the bench until it misses messes up all right so there we go so kind of going over the top and again if you get you know if you get a hard line here you can always go back over it with your dark so i could go back over you know with my dark this way to soften up that edge if i've got you know some thing in there that i don't like i'm going to bring that light color back in this way a little bit leaving a little bit of that dark border but just kind of starting to work in some of these lighter bits into the middle of the fur in this area i will i will be using the other brush because i want i want it to look nice and soft so i'm gonna save that last little bit for my fan brush where i can get a little bit softer blends cute he's so cute okay burnt sienna so it's a little bit tricky right in here because there's that that little bit of white coming over the top so i'm going to go ahead and get this this is the fan brush 10 ott and i'm going to use this fluid white the fluid white is real important because this fan brush is so soft if you use a really thick paint it won't come off so you want it to be so thin and the your paint to be fluid enough that it just without any pressure you're getting this nice separation of the fur and with very little pressure i'm going to do my little extra long hairs here just in some of these areas where i'm seeing the longer fur and i need to be careful with this brush because i'm getting these like long lines you see that how it was doing like this these kind of straight lines which i don't really want so i need to hold it kind of on its angle so that i get thinner thinner lines you just have to have a super light touch with these brushes though i can really overdo it pretty quickly and then where they start right here you can just kind of go and do very short little brush strokes to try to kind of soften up where that line starts okay then in the middle here i'm just going to kind of use the very tip of the brush the edge and do these little shorter just the very tip of the the brush has or the the hair her hair his hairs has the little white tip so i'm gonna go in different directions right here just crisscross all through here because these are kind of sticking up straight out at us so we're seeing just the very tip of them and then as they come down here they're kind of going this way but right in here we're just getting these little back and forth you can just do little x's see how that does and that's what makes it look like it's facing us because we've got you know these long hairs and only this part of it is white um we got black and like tan and then white right here and then these ones right here or in this area are all kind of facing us and they're all turned you know in different directions and kind of clumping together so we're seeing lines instead of instead of this you know these longer bits of the fur so instead of seeing this we're only seeing this and so you're seeing these little tiny bits here i don't know if that makes sense but i think it does okay good and again you do too much add a little bit more black a little bit more round it's not you don't have to do it right the first time you can kind of go back and forth until you get it to where you like it not set in stone and then right here i want it nice and bright there's a really bright area of white right here so i'm just going to get it it's going to look really bright but once we get the rest of the tail done and all the body it will be and this will this will dry a little bit darker too so do a little bit brighter right here too and you get like a really obvious place right there where you don't like it and get some of that black make sure it's fluid as well and go over the starting part with black so go down into the black where it starts and then go a little bit over that white edge where that white fur starts and you can kind of camouflage it a little bit and you're just barely touching i am very barely touching that's that's how you kind of have to do with these because otherwise it'll go on too thick it's just like if you're like trying to tickle it with just exactly yep i was watching we were watching that bob ross uh thing and they were talking about how he was like make love to the canvas soft touches this just cracked me up maybe butterflies i forgot about that of course i was you know eight or nine when i was watching him you know young so it went over my head but yeah he was he had the ladies watching i love it it's like just the softest touch good old bob [Music] using his little bedroom voice on the ladies great okay so there we go that's pretty pretty good pretty happy with that um i might i'm i'm probably gonna add a little bit of the lighter yellow uh up here but i'm just gonna let that set for now because we've got a lot of layers going on in there i'm gonna get the white and add it down here because i got some little white in my belly here and just go down below that leaf don't worry about where that's going to be i'll just put it in later what is the number on that fan brush it's a 10 odd okay thank you yeah yeah i really like it for fur it's actually not in my brush sets in fact i'm not really sure if they even carried on at the brush guys hopefully they do i think they carry all of the velvet touch brushes but i'm not sure if it's in my list or not it's kind of a newer one that i just got recently so probably is not in that list all right there we go he's so cute getting a little bit of that black and adding that white to it just making like a soft gray you can use that over here on the arm coming down from this part right here really this is just barely i'm just tapping now just barely very short little fur hairs okay let's do a little bit on his belly and use a fan brush a synthetic brush yes yes yeah all of the velvet touch um i believe are synthetic i don't think i think the only ones that they have that are like natural hair bristles are they're watercolor brushes the natural hairs are too fine for and for acrylics acrylics are too um caustic they um they kind of eat away your brushes so you have to have a synthetic pretty sturdy brush to withstand that the fibers of the natural bristled brushes would one not be able to push that paint around enough for you and to would you you know dissolve and have problems almost immediately so i'm gonna get the right brush for the right i found the i really like the velvet touch line for acrylics because they're kind of in between there if you like a shorter handle the i my favorite is the 6100 series but they don't come in the smaller sizes so i kind of have to do the smaller sizes in the um velvet touch and the larger sizes with the that one okay probably a little too much there but we'll see you can see how the white kind of darkens as it dries even even if you put it on bright white it kind of darkens as it dries so you may have to do this a couple of times until you get it the brightness that you want in some of these areas okay i'm gonna get there raw sienna a little bit of the yellow oxide for the cheeky his face is this kind of light yellowish fur color cute i haven't been keeping track of the cutes hopefully somebody has been keeping in a while they could play a game drinking game with us today probably tracking the cutes [Music] all right i'm going to switch to a little smaller brush this was uh the same as the this one i was using earlier it's a blender but it's a little bit smaller so it's quarter inch let's just give me a little bit more control i'm getting the burnt sienna and um yellow oxide here i'm just gonna tap over and make sure i have like a little fur texture to my little cheek cheeky you've got some white under here get some of that white and leave just a little bit of that dark and then the white right here it's gonna look kind of funky at first so when you're when you're working on this and you get to this point where you're like this cannot be right like you know you're gonna get to this point where you're like none of this looks right um just keep on going don't stop um i get i get people comment you know leaving um posting all the time in my facebook group you know where they're like i think i'm doing something wrong and they've just got about halfway through and and freaked out you know and everything uh all these paintings uh when you're in the middle of the painting process and you got about half your layers on they're going to all look really weird and wrong and that's just totally normal so if you kind of go into it knowing that it helps you not freak out as much i think so get to this point kind of take a breath look at it realize okay it's it's not finished so we got we got some we got some more layers to do before we can panic don't panic it's okay you're not done keep on going even if it doesn't look like you're doing it right just follow follow the follow along the way i'm doing it you will get to the other side of this ugly stage that's what i call it the ugly stage so it's kind of funky looking and your brain is going to be telling you oh my gosh you're doing it wrong it's not good stop you can't you're not an artist you don't know what you're doing you know like all these thoughts will be at least you know for me that's what i still have been doing this 30 years and i still get to that point sometimes in a painting where i'm like is this gonna work this does not look good so totally normal push through you can do it and you know also if this is your you know first fourth fifth painting you're you're probably not gonna end up with something that looks like mine maybe you know if you're lucky but it's okay i mean if you sat down to play the piano you would not expect to play it the way your teacher played it you know it's and somewhat some reason in art people think that you know it that they just don't have talent if they sit down for the first time and they can't do it exactly perfectly which nobody ever can that's not i never i didn't i mean i it took me years to you know get comfortable with these techniques and painting and stuff and um so it's normal don't don't stress out if it's if it's difficult and you make some mistakes well hopefully you learned a little bit and next time it'll be a little bit easier and the next time after that will be easier too and then you know eventually you'll get these techniques and you'll be doing them you won't even realize you know that you ever had trouble doing them so it's the way of any kind of learning anything new anything let yourself be a beginner give yourself a chance to if you want to do it you can do it you just have to practice and push through it's not don't have to have talent for it immediately you don't have to be born knowing how to do this stuff hardly anybody ever is we all had to work at it okay he's so cute he's getting there so we're the main thing that we're doing here you know you put your color down and then you put your other color in next to it so got two colors one here and one here and then we find a color that's kind of in between and then we use that to kind of bridge that gap and just keep doing that back and forth back and forth add one color add another color add a color in between where they meet um to kind of help soften the transition and if we keep doing that enough eventually we're gonna get a nice little guy emerging just gonna take a few layers to get there it's maybe three maybe four maybe five but he'll eventually start to look like a squirrel and not a mutant [Laughter] it will get there eventually hopefully now i i noticed that you uh photoshopped the reference photo to remove the lasers from the eyes yeah so um if they wanted to add laser eyes you add them back in you know cutting open the acorn with his mutant laser eyes i can't remember what color were they were they blue or red lasers well the blue would work better with the orange so i would say probably i would do blue okay i'm gonna do i dare somebody that should have a contest sometime oh my gosh i keep getting this dark i did not want that dark there okay i'm just gonna wipe that off paintbrush got some black in it all right so we're close i'm going to go ahead and let that dry it's getting a little sticky and when it gets sticky it can get a little tricky to to manipulate the paint so we'll get a little bit of black hair and i got the three liner the three round now and i'm going to where is his nose the bottom of the nose is right in here get some burnt umber here and then the mouth it looks like i think he's got a little piece of this nut in his mouth because he's got like a little rounded part right here i'm not really sure what it is but just gonna do it like that a little bit of black i'm gonna get a little bit of the burnt orange and kind of soften up that area right there just so it's like a little softer and then he's got a little smiley cheek right here super cute so i'm just gonna use that kind of dark burnt orange with the black in there to make his little smiley cheek you have to use that voice when you say it it doesn't come out as good i'm going country voice the squirrel okay i think i kind of brought that out a little far but that's okay it's close enough there we go and then i'm just going to kind of use this and put in a few little black hairs just using the tip of the brush just tap it in little black hairs there and then let's go ahead and do the eye so he doesn't look creepy anymore although some would would uh argue that he looks creepy with with the eye too so wrote nice getting a little bit of the white and a little bit of the unbleached titanium or the burnt orange there so it's just a slight flushy color going right up underneath that black with that outlining oops a little too much there and then come in do that little teardrop shape right there and then the inside is going to be a little bit let's get a little bit more of that reddish a little bit fleshy red and then above it okay and then below i'm gonna use the unbleached titanium a little bit of white i'm gonna go right up underneath and do a little just tap it out so it kind of fuzzes out that edge a little bit and tap it out at the top too it kind of just above that reddish line that we did and then kind of soft just a little bit right there okay i'm gonna get a little bit right here and then i'm gonna get that black and do the inside of his ear with the black it's kind of a kidney shape or kind of a shape like that i don't know a little bit of the unbleached or the burnt orange with the white here use that in the ear kind of a pinkish color and a little bit around the ear canal too there let's get a little bit of the darker a little bit of burnt umber add it to that burnt orange just add it to the inside of the ear there just a little bit darker and kind of define the outer edge of the ear slightly get that burnt umber coming in front here [Music] so using that white that's kind of not far behind it here just to kind of soften up the transition between the ear and the fur here i'm just kind of tapping over the border of it making sure it's kind of soft and and then come up behind where the ear is add a little highlight right there and then there's a little highlight at the tip of the ear too so i'm gonna go right at the top and highlight right there where it comes down around and which brush are you doing this work with right now three three round velvet touched three rounds three round thank you well the four round comes in the the package that somebody could win tomorrow yeah you could use the four instead oh so they gotta play bingo win the brushes and then they'll have what they need exactly easy peasy that burnt orange on its own is a little too red or too pink so just adding a little bit of burnt umber color over the top to soften that up okay that here looks really weird i think i'm gonna soften up this not so black to black but not so black little bit of brown in there okay you use that white with what's left in my brush here and just tap it in on this ear that highlight get a little bit of yellow oxide or raw sienna either one use that use a little bit of it on this part of the ear right there okay there's a little bit of a highlight coming through right there so i'm gonna get some of my white with my burnt orange burnt umber burnt sienna that kind of light peachy white just highlight that little area right there use my finger to tap it out there there we go softening up around it with the burnt sienna here okay i think that's better getting some white and the yellow oxide hair i'm gonna kind of tap in right be underneath that ear and in front of it with some of that coming down and doing the head kind of behind the ear here on the back of the head there small little brush strokes there we go okay let's see if i can get some of these small brush strokes with this raw sienna yellow oxide i'm going to add a little bit of white so i have a little bit of both colors on here and i've got that went back to my fan brush now yeah these this fur goes out up the nose and back so we're gonna go right past the eyes it's gonna be pointing back toward the back in this direction this one's going up this way it's kind of meeting up with it pushing up it's a little bit a little bit wiped out soft soppy it's kind of watery there i'm gonna get the black i'm gonna there and then my little side of his face here i've got that white and gray right here it's kind of coming up almost toward the eyes but i'm just really going to just kind of tap and lift just slightly as i tap i'm going to go ahead and go around the eye there too i'm just going to soften that whole section up a little bit cute getting some white this should just be kind of one of the last layers now just kind of firm up the direction of the fur and leave our highlights there so and then on the cheek right here would just seem more like kind of the yellowish let me get some of that white and add a little bit of yellow a little bit of that yellow oxide or raw sienna or both and i still have a little bit of that gray in there so just be careful not to turn your fur green if you've got too much black in there it'll turn green it mixes with the yellow keep an eye on that okay and then i'm gonna get the burnt sienna get some add some water and i realize i'm holding my breath as i'm doing this i haven't taken a breath in a while breathe well that's interesting they say that because we've mentioned it before but you know when you're painting you want to be kind of relaxed because that kind of translates to your breaststrokes yeah it does if you're like you said before if you're all tense and all that stuff then it could have a negative effect right right you have a harder time getting smooth lines and things smooth blends thinner lines i'm going to use this and just kind of tap out around the edges of this just to kind of pull off just a little bit of the extra so that it leaves a little bit more of that and just kind of soften up that color okay i think that's good we use a little bit of this color in the arm down here and then do the same thing just kind of brush through it or you could glaze this too this color is going on a little bit heavy so i could add some glazing medium the burnt sienna and use that it'll go on a little bit more thin a little bit more transparent like see how when you go over that white especially it's really obvious all right and i think i need some more yellow right here on the cheeks i'm going to get some of the indian yellow hue and some of my white and i'm going to do right here very small little brush strokes it's a very tense moment right now on the painting [Music] maybe a little bit of the black just there's a little bit of a dark line right here it's kind of like that person who sent that really awesome message last earlier this week about you helping them sleep yeah i mean which was absolutely amazing it is and now you know i had an issue with sleeping for for years and so forth and listening to enjoy the videos that have done what medication can't yeah but seriously and we've had people fall asleep in the middle of shows yeah we have yeah it's well you get into that i do too i mean and not fall asleep but i mean i get into that you sleep during your show i get into that thin state of mind you know when i'm painting and i think that's what is translating you know is that kind of calm that comes over you when you're kind of focused and time kind of disappears and you don't realize how much time is lapsed and that's why am i why uh i was like picking up my kids just from school sometimes because it would be painting and if i didn't i had to learn to i had to set an alarm because if i would just be like oh i'll you know i'll remember no i would not i would be so focused and in the middle of things i would forget what time it was lose track of hours it's amazing all right i'm getting very nitpicky here i need to stop i'm i need to just move on all right i'm going to let me see let's go ahead and use the i'm going to use the angle but i think i'm just going to stick with this three round here let's do our fingers and our little nut here so the nut is like a burnt umber burnt sienna almost black in some places you probably i don't know i don't it wouldn't make sense for his hands to be in this shape though i guess if you left it out i was gonna say you could leave it out but kind of have to have it to make it to make sense of his hands i mean are they hands are they paws are they maybe they're paws i don't know [Music] i've really never given it much thought there's a little bit of a light color at the top there and i'm gonna highlight the nut right here get some white and it's got some flesh open there he's been nominated not there what i was googling up uh squirtle anatomy mm-hmm and the first picture i clicked on must be done by you really yes because it's like pointing to the mouth and it says nut nibbler and then to the front pause it says nervous scratchy cling thingies and then for the back side it says bouffant twitching flip brush that's awesome so yeah technical i like that person that they were on the same wavelength obviously and then to the face it says expression of abject terror [Laughter] cute i love it yeah we uh come up with some interesting names for things when i'm in the middle of painting okay using the burnt orange here i'm gonna add a little bit of the white to it i'm gonna add that to my nut color here just a little bit of that reddish tone oh he's so cute i can't stand it all right make sure you reinforce this little cheeky thing going on right here because it's super cute i just added just a little bit more burnt umber and stuff to make it obvious so our hands are dark i'm gonna get kind of burnt umber here and gonna start with that and just sort of brush it out towards the hands some body i mean there you go dark and then i'm going to use the white and a little bit of the black for like a light gray and just kind of very roughly i'm not going to get super detailed with these i'm just going to kind of tap in with the general shape and call it good don't don't get too fancy with it you're not gonna see a ton of detail anyways you're these are almost dark you know there's just a little bit of highlight on them so getting a little bit of black there i'm gonna tap in my little fur this one under here is like black and it's got a little curved little claw and then this one the claws coming down this way we can add a little bit of black in between if we need to and then let's add our little highlights so get a little bit of white just roll that brush to a tip so i've got a nice little bit of white on the tip and i'm just going to drag it to create my little nails some of them aren't highlighted see that and then a little bit here and you're done not too much just a few little that's it and then right here we've got a weird you know transition here so just take some of the color right here that burnt umber burnt sienna and make that transition just dabbing over with little brush strokes towards the hand and make sure you put some on top of the hand and then some opposite in the opposite direction so that you're gonna get a little cross section of overlap let me go over this area here a little bit lost my hairs here when i added that burnt umber there we go then anywhere where you're seeing that you don't have like you know hairs obvious you can go back over and just add little bitty ones with with this brush make sure you've got you know everything kind of facing the right way and going in the right direction let's go ahead and put our highlights in our eye that'll make a big difference i don't want to forget that oops i covered over a little bit of that eye i'm gonna get my black and put that back in there we go so a little bit of the highlight color a little bit right there on the inside of the eye and a little bit right here a little bit right here on that lid okay looks a little creepy but we'll get there we'll get there we can add a little bit of blue too sometimes i like to add blue and the highlights of the eye like the sky color is picking up in the eye so just a tiny touch of ultramarine blue with my titanium white and gloss glazing liquid to thin it out you could use zinc white instead if you wanted to this is a transparent that's a transparent white but this is the only place i was going to need it so i didn't add it to my list of colors so just dabbing in a little bit of transparent color right there then i'm going to get the brightest white on my tip of my brush just kind of run it into that deep part of my paints roll it to a point so i got just a little bit of white on the tip i'm going to use it right there maybe right here just a little there we go little bright little highlights if you get too much just use your finger and dab it off with your finger so that one looked a little bright just dab it off with my finger there so he's got little highlights in his eye everything looks good his hands look alright um fairly happy with the tail i think right in here you probably could use a little bit more gray so i'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of that gray and just kind of very lightly kind of go over this just a little bit with some gray not want to go on i'm going to get a little bit of white a little bit of water a little bit of black a little bit of white so i have both colors on here there we go okay let's give him some leaves and we'll be done well how long will have we gone almost two hours okay a little bit left to do on some leaves and we'll be done not bad i wanted to be around two hours so we got we got there i think pretty close as usual i kind of got slowed down by the details i always do it is much appreciated focused all right so adding some cadmium yellow with the burnt um burnt sienna here to this leaf and get some burnt umber and the burnt orange here do some dark leaves that kind of crisscross here so some of them are going to come up over our squirrel and if they don't show up then just add a little bit of white white will make them opaque so big leaf right here that's kind of orangey i'm gonna get some of the raw sienna sienna and at this point if you wanted to you could transfer on your leaf design so you know if you've covered over your leaves you can transfer those back on if you don't want to have to paint these in by hand or i guess you know like i'm doing however you want to do it and they're kind of out of focus too so you don't have to be super detailed with these i'm gonna get a little bit of white with my yellow here and do this one over here like a little bit of yellow but i am kind of fading out the edges so that they kind of just blend into the background a little bit if you watched our pumpkin from the other day we kind of did our leaves this way kind of a nice way of doing it because kind of keeps it sort of soft and not too not too much detail makes everything look kind of out of focus almost gonna get a little bit more that brighter yellow maybe a little bit of orange so the indian yellow hue a little bit of orange there we go getting a darker red coming up in front a little bit of burnt umber create some shadows little lines for veins just using very thin edge of my brush to do some little veiny like things so that got a little gray literally just lightly brushing through here let's go ahead and give this guy a little bit of didn't end up using my um or my quinacridone magenta so you could probably leave that one off your list get that back side of the leaf is kind of reddish burnt i'm gonna get that burnt umber here so so do that and then get my lighter color and it's got a little highlight on top so do you do that consciously and that is i noticed that you were kind of moving the brush without actually painting anything before you touched the canvas so were you trying yeah i kind of i kind of try to get the feel for where i'm going to put it okay i'm trying to visualize a little bit when i'm doing it this way and i'm kind of winging it i kind of need to sort of figure out where where i want to put stuff so okay yeah i kind of do do that sort of practice almost practice strokes kind of like a practice call stroke right exactly yeah actually very similar all right i think we're just about done you turn out cute oh you need to do his little whiskers don't forget the whiskers so getting a little bit of black he's got little whisker holes i'm going through here and then make sure that you thin this out really well i got the three three ot round or liner brush whatever works for you i'm going to do kinds of little and make sure when you do these that you crisscross them so they should go in um different directions there's some off of his eyebrows right there i should have i don't like i'm gonna try this over again i need them longer i've waited too long i'm gonna make them a little bit longer it's okay so and getting some white too because there's some little white ones doing some in this direction and with the white over a little too thick add more water they go on thick that means you just don't have enough water because they're you having to press down to get them to come off your brush so there we go i'm gonna do some over the top of some of these with the white i'm gonna hide them okay let me do one more over here the black there we go normally you wouldn't go over the lines again because you can end up with really thick lines but i didn't erase them fast enough so i had to go ahead and get the burnt umber now with my glaze and one last thing here i'm just gonna use the burnt umber to add my shadows in some areas here so just add some dark shadows underneath the fur in little areas add your i can add a little bit of black to it to make sure it's dark enough but all these areas where we see the shadows you could add it in the cheek if you needed to or in front of the ear here seeing inside the ear you can add some on front of the nose if you need to like this area is dark you can add some in the tail like especially like right back in here if you need this area to be a little bit darker along the body you can add some down here to ideally do this before you do your leaves but you get the idea all right i'm going to assign it this is the pbo acrylic marker probably saying that wrong super chat what super chat nice i need one of those air horn ones no please no okay [Laughter] uh today's super chat was from christina and she says hi again this is because you guys are so funny and adorable and dot dot dot for stick man come back thank you christina thank you for your appreciation of the finer things in life are starting a stickman comeback revolution in the chat i think i i i swear i think you are i i say nothing instigating i am nope [Laughter] okay we'll see it's not going to promise [Laughter] i'm anything go with this there just a little bit with that dark aren't santa color he turned out cute i like him he's adorable really his color is almost blue right in here so if you wanted to add a little bit of burnt or ultramarine blue here you could glaze a little bit of that on there too but i think i'm gonna stop there i'm pretty happy with it i think i think actually i said that i'm going to stop there i'm going to go ahead and if you're new to angela's channel and you were really thinking we were done you're an amateur sorry but that's okay we've just we know when she says okay i'm done we we know i see things i see things as soon as i say i'm done i start seeing things that i've missed so that dark that back there needed a little bit of a de definition it was a little bit too dark right there okay there we go cute cute cute cute i hope you guys try it we did a um a little chipmunk last year that would go really good with this guy i think they would be really cute together so i i really enjoyed sharing it with you i'm going to oh i just saw something else right here there's a big white highlight well look on his body there's a big white highlight right here and i missed it so i'm gonna do that really quick right here i'm gonna just highlight that's one of the first things i noticed quiet no but thank you everybody for showing up your support your likes your subscriptions your your support on patreon is continuing to be amazing yes again tomorrow for the five dollar and up patrons will be finishing up the sunflowers yes and we got bingo the cards thank you for 300 000 subscribers we hit 300 000 subscribers this summer and we meant to do bingo then and it just never happened and so we're finally getting around to doing it so so we got that going on tomorrow and then next thursday is the 10 patrons right you'll be finishing up that painting next thursday yes we'll be finishing up our kitty cat in the leaves and he's definitely in the ugly fish he's looking a little creepy but yeah he he would go along with this series too and we have an owl that we did last year that is in the leaves like that too so got a lot of animals and leaves this year right and as angela said before while we're doing the show today it's towards the end of september so you may want to wait if you're planning on joining patreon because it is a monthly subscription yes yes but you know if you're watching this in the future sometime check your calendar right right and yeah if you want to play bingo then it'll have to have to sign up for that tomorrow but we've got the information about that on patreon so if you're if you're a patron and you haven't gotten your card yet you should have gotten an email notification and my newsletter had some stuff about it but check check on patreon and it'll have information about how to get your card and played tomorrow it'd be fun all right i'm just fiddling here and you can find the uh the way to sign up for the newsletter over there on thankfulart.com yes yes and the newsletter comes with all kinds of goodies too if you sign up for it you get a color chart and some other stuff so it's a lot of fun all right i am just making a mess of this now here we go all right i'm gonna stop there i promise this time for real have a great rest of your day guys thanks for watching hope you give it a thumbs up like subscribe all that good stuff and we'll see you next time bye [Music] you

Channel: Angela Anderson

Views: 14,274

Rating: 4.9588013 out of 5

Keywords: angela anderson, acrylic painting tutorial, art, step, create DIY canvas art, free online painting, easy acrylic painting, learn to paint, how to paint, painting instruction, beginner painting lesson, acrylic paint, canvas painting, painting techniques

Id: -ESJBI9pg90

Length: 133min 50sec (8030 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 25 2021