Color Walk Forest Easy Acrylic painting techniques step by step for beginners | TheArtSherpa

Harry one I am cinnamon Cooney your art Sherpa and tonight I'm so excited for this particular art lesson I'm going to show you how you can create very easily your a step by step process this colorful fall tree forest like a tree tongue and it's done as a tribute painting to the great efremov who's this amazing expressionist painter he's just known for his color and his thick paint and I'm gonna show you those techniques and how you can make this painting for yourself at home today I want to say hi to everybody I saw kind of early up before the show in the live chat there was a lot of first-time viewer so if you're here for the first time I want to say hi if you've come in you come all the time if you're one of our sure pets or Sherpa Zoids I also want to give you a big art hug and say thank you for coming in this evening I love this new day and time on the mic as many of you know is my husband John also noticed that hands and mostly because we're just using I don't like the camera it's not but he will talk to you on the microphone so what he's gonna do is he's going to track me with one of our robotic cameras and he zooms in he gets in on the paint action if you've got a question he tries to get it on a better angle if you are here on the live and you do have a question you might get it answered on the show and to do that be sure and put your question in all capital letters it's not shouting if it's during the live and even if we don't get to it this class either the moderators will be able to show you to a link that does answer your question or maybe I'll answer it after in the comments you never know I'm ready to jump on in you're ready how are you I'm ready let's paint this easy painting let's go all right i'ma turn it what it has to do the the thing in the thing there's that 1% just yeah that's it okay so this here I really love this if you'll notice this I'm sure John can get really up on this a very thick implied paint in an art if you're brand new to painting there's a really fun art word for this it's called impossible oh all day today we're gonna be saying in stole it has no carbs in stole huh this is an 8 by 10 artboard and duplicate it I'm going to take a blank artboard I'm going to put it here I get these at Michael's in canvas packs they're economical they come in big packs they're great for storage search canvas a paper for painting all of it it's all good we like to put wishes on our surfaces so our first wish is healing and love to surround Bob and bring him back whole in okay to his loved ones love and peace to a fromage family and all his friends and family because it's just tremendous to lose somebody that you care about we're wishing that Torre has a really really effective surgery she's fast healing tons of support love healing friends and family around her healing for Charlotte size which is really like her ID to just like be cool and I'm ready to getting into the material look at what we're using today yeah all right so in this I'm going to tell you what we are using give you some ideas of pants you could easily exchange I want you to think about this particular piece is being very flexible on color so I'll tell you what I've got but if you have to make little adjustments it's not gonna damage the results the piece I have titanium white heavy body paint the ox is in purple well sometimes it's referred to as Doc's or a book cause nobody likes to write the whole thing out they look green they little blue these can be referred to sometimes it's a little if the King but it's another one of those nobody likes to write the whole thing out or say it's so even the pay companies called them now cadmium red light you could use an aft Allred with that and it would be perfectly okay or you could use a bright orange it would also be alright I have cadmium red that would work very well with naphthol red I have cadmium yellow you could use Hansa yellow or nickel aza yellow I have burnt sienna that's pretty much the color that's in everybody's paint kit so you should generally have that around I have carbon black but Mars black is just fine I was thinking we might use you a little ochre but I have a suspicion we're not going to need it in this piece I'm going to put it aside the brushes we're going to be getting in today is a nice big wide brush to paint a background in or a ground I've got a cat's tongue but you could just as easily use around this is a number for cat's tongue and this is a number for round either one of these would be fine now we're fun instead of using an artist knife we're going to be using my cloud brushes and I've got the number eight number six and number four it comes in a pack but look if you don't have the cloud brushes you can use a palette knife or you can just use a stiff brush little inside tip if you're new to painting there's always a multitude of ways to accomplish a technique so if in the chat you're like hey I don't have that but I really want to do it and you shout it out I am sure about 50 people here will be enthused to help you and answer that question so you know what else you can use because those who have painted with me for a while they know and then of course to sign the painting I have a monogram liner but that's all I'm going to be using that for now to start this out you guys are going to love this we're going to start out with three colors but buddy boom boom boom boom we're going to use a little a low blue and a little halo-halo green right next to each other and there's a reason why they can be right next to each other and then I'm going to put out white and we're going to do something called a ground a ground is something that really creates a forgiving surface for new painters so the reason I'm having you do this is if you're really new to painting and you're unfamiliar with the techniques the grounds gonna come in and kind of create a safety net for you you'll really help you do this because believe you me this is actually an easier painting than you might think so this is called an artist knife and I'm gonna mix this together using that now you could use your brush I do this all the time when I'm feeling like oh I just don't want to get my artist knife out I just do with my brush there's nothing wrong with it at all I'm just incorporating these two paints together because I don't want to pull out a whole third paint or phthalo turquoise and of course what is the one thing I'm missing John yes Jessica's really I get to as per the always I have to how you have to-- so and it can be really useful to have a towel when you're painting and it helps me remove excess water it helps me get paint off i don't throw it if you throw it at me i'm not gonna catch it I'm gonna fall down and then they're gonna call the cops on you and then that spider will come back and it'll be a whole thing we have no history here okay anyways it's really gonna help you to do this I'm gonna get a little bit of the blue onto my brush you can see I'm actually not grabbing that much I'm on just a little bit and then I'm gonna come and get quite a lot of the white you may need to if you're painting heavy body paint like me add a bit more water if you're painting a student paint like liquitex basics I want you to use less water than me right the amount of water I use is appropriate for a professional paint but it's a little excessive for a beginner paint beginner paints have less pigment in general not as strong or fortified as a polymer the ingredients are sort of where they save the money to reduce the cost and that means that your little tip there your little trick there is maybe you use two coats where I use one and use a little less water and that's all it is you don't got to run out I mean it's fun to run out by all new paint but you don't need to at all see that's an acrylic round you learned a thing that's pretty cool already you're like I know what in the curly ground is now to do the next part I really need to dry this because I'm gonna be kind of mapping some things out and I don't want to get it all over my hand John's gonna talk to you real quick and I'll be right back oh so while she's doing that I'll remind you guys don't choose heat there's all sorts of reasons why not mostly because paint doesn't like it that's a really good reason paint doesn't like heat it's a temperature sensitive to some degree especially when using hot air it doesn't like that color shift and you know cause problems so don't use heat just use air that helps speed the curing process is it all I have did it now the first thing I'm gonna do is show you where to put your horizon line that's the furthest little landscape line that we'll see in a painting it's really important to get it in so we're gonna do that and it's just five and a quarter inches or centimeters down from the top and to get that in I like to use something called this is measuring tool here's all the t-square they're not expensive but you could also just use any straight edged anything that you have I mean I have used printer paper yeah get a straightedge so don't feel like you gotta you know get a thing here now for the opening I'm gonna come here and I'm gonna like give myself like four inches over and we come back over four inches yeah I was right it's too open so sort of too open here so right here that's gonna be where my road starts to come right yeah one side of my road is gonna come right here to the corner right and the other side of my road is gonna be just a little bit in from the corner and that tells us a little something about where our viewer standing is like not being totally a perfect one-point perspective but it's darn close now from here are you ready to do from here I'm ready are you ready we're gonna get our big big big number eight out and I'm gonna start by putting out my doctors in purple my dots purple you guys remember that from earlier I'll put that here that's actually how I'm gonna darken some of the color instead of just using black it's super fun and I will go ahead and had a little bit of weight to this right here so I can kind of really get into it slightly and I'll go ahead and put a little blue into my purple and I'm gonna get into that quickly these are thick coats that we're gonna do and I'm going to come here and I'm going to do with this very distant very distant bush line yeah we're doing yeah this is far away it's gonna come up here and we're gonna take this all the way to the top and you're just gonna make these slick loose brushstrokes I'm an inch over from the edge here and moving in I'm gonna bring this down at an angle what I'm trying to do is cover the background have you what you're gonna notice is I can even go into our thick turquoise make a dark color see how we do kind of fine I like to mix it up these little mix-up of Blues is really fun how we're just making thick pressed brushstroke you can do this with other types of brushes when we get into the trees we're gonna get thick thick like that right now we're kind of brushing back and forth we're getting texture but we're not laying it on so thickly yet but we will more to love that all right that's a nice little bit going on here and I'll take this up at the top that's pretty good I'm gonna come over here and I'm just using that turquoise on next doesn't that make a nice dark color it really does pretty easy to get this dark color and it's a very similar little run of marks that are gonna come back here now this Kathleen that's a good question I love your good question Kathleen how do you decide what color to paint round so how I do it is I look at a particular type of color theory where I have a strong focal story like all these warm reds and then I look on the color wheel to see what its contrast is and then I use that as a pop of color and then it split to create little pops and I have a wheel that I really really like that helps me do that this wheel actually tells me what my disc chords are and what my main color is and this whole piece is based off of this palette right here and a very boring photograph the photograph itself is actually not that compelling in any way boring not great lighting I'm using a darker color right here at the corner but you can take a boring photograph if it has good composition and using color make it something really dramatic get into that even if something peeks through what peeks through well that beautiful turquoise who doesn't love that beautiful turquoise now when I get here I'm interesting things are gonna happen I'm gonna go ahead and put out a little of my burnt sienna go ahead and put out a little more of my phthalo blue because I'm just really heavily into my turquoise now I'm going to put out my phthalo green such a great color and my CAD yellow and that's a lot of fun I'm going to take my artist knife lean and bring just a smidge of that green over to this yellow just a smidge you pull them out which they can you show it a cloud brushes oh yes I'd be happy to so again don't have to have this one but what this is is a dome scum blur it's very stiff I use it to make like stratus clouds and really nice hard edges on round fluffy clouds it's really nice synthetic filament you can almost hear the stiffness of that so I can use it the way you would use a palette knife now this is my light green I'm going to go ahead and in planning guess what we're gonna put out a little more white right here now have a very small odd brush if you don't have a small cloud brush at this juncture you could use a round brush like this I'm going to take some of my burnt sienna and my blue together and see I don't even have to mix it with a palette knife every time and this is going to make my very dark on a background color and I'm going to come here and I'm going to apply these little trees messy silly little trees with these dark colors who's going to come up here maybe a little dark one that comes over that towards the left leaning towards the left you could have another one right here these are distant little fellow and they're just going to be far away put the pain out quite thick if you want good stuff guess what you get to do you're going to take some of your blue out of your weight and come right here in the center these trees meaning this very roughly and you see how I just sort of filled it in yeah do that again so yeah I load that up got a little bit of blue in it which is nice and come right here and paint around the trunks with this blue sky implication this is a fun little one because it's small it gives you some control and what you want here is a very light value that means you'll have a lot of white in the paint and not a lot of blue it won't be pure white that's how you're gonna do the impasto expressive version of distant faraway misty colors now my rinse that out I'm gonna get back into my big brush so I get to do some fun things now up here I get to fill in I get to take a bunch of mine green and even some of my brown green and brown and I'm going to begin to lay this dark color down here this is the outer edge of these trees outer edge green and brown you can pull some of these colors back in because on a painting where we paint thick like this each color layers and kicks in with each other look at how that pain is on there yeah I can go quite thick I do want it to be distinctly green look at my brown trees show and I'm only gonna come to write when that blue started and I'm gonna also fill this in up through here right here not quite the middle point but over about an in if you're painting with me for new to painting your big thing is going to be I want you to look at making a stroke and maybe making strokes different directions right also notice I'm turning my brush changing directions turning my brush that offloads paint and I go back into this color that I had before maybe I get some green and blue and brown this time it really doesn't matter it's all just fine alright so we're up here this is going to help our Reds really pop later on I'm going to rinse out a bit and I'm going to start getting a little of the screen and my yellow together that green yellow that I made this is a brighter color right now things are going to get a little thicker little more impasto we're putting color next to color this reminds us a little bit maybe of the pointillist painter doesn't it impressionist painters the idea that color next to color alright we'll go back and we'll put a couple colors mixed in see how it mixes on the canvas a little bit you can bring a pop back there you can't get it wrong because it's art so who's to tell you right they don't have a right I mean until you you wrong you'll notice I'm just making a mark there are rubber pallet knives that you can do this with by easily as well a lot of people are super fond of just filling in these little trees coming in here and filling in as we come towards the center guess what happens to the color it's lighter because more light is going to get into it I'm right across the top here and I can bring this back brought it back in and when I want to kind of get some of that dark color off I don't really even necessarily rinse every time I might just wipe off on my brush sick sick sick sick notice I'm loading up super thick I keep thinking of the song from Madagascar I think it was two or three were the hippo like the other hippo it was before the giraffe had confessed his love the same this reminds me of that whenever oh yeah well paintings I can put some darker greens here look we pop those in don't those just vibrate when they come in look at that in there aren't difficult brushstrokes in this painting but there is some challenging emotional journeys because when you're very new to painting it's hard to feel good about your dabba paint you assume that because you're doing it you're dab of paint must be wrong and you give me the credit as the teacher that my dub of paint must be right but chances are you're doing just fine just unfamiliar with how you want to dab your paint when I am doing is I'm trying to leave little bits of blue peeking through and if we lose any of our little bits of blue guess what we get to do put it back I'm rinsing a little bit and the reason I'm rinsing is I want to control how light the next paint is so now I'm going to take yellow green mixture I'm going to come over to my white and we'll pull these together it's loosely mixed we're gonna just write on top look we just put it right on top so this is so thick right it's the white in the green it creates that next layer of light you I'm get some of that yellow green Green like colors even liner you you it's not white it's just very late and bright and just mix more in there listen little trees with their little lights that's fine now before I start to put in my trees or do any of that I've got to get some background in and I like to start with this yellow green I have if I don't have enough of the yellow green I may put out a little more yellow you I'm going to mix the yellow green mix that I had before into more of my yellow and I'm going to come right here along this and I'm just gonna scrape back and forth you see how I'm doing and you can be very uneven along this edge if you'd like to be or come into that space just back and forth it'll be a little more green if it needs to be a little more green see we made a little distant more green yeah I'm a cure don't worry about it too much you if I have trouble getting to a space on my canvas I try to turn it following that line I know I'll make changes to this space the other thing you're going to notice is if you have in paint the blue shows through and that's going to look better than just white gambit now I'm gonna do a similar thing to the other side but this time maybe that green is a little bit darker over here on the side if you get little pops of color like that don't fight it good good because you're trying to paint with the spirit of Impressionism right and that's just about capturing a moment a space you'll notice that I don't make a straight line back what do I do I have some uneven lines Tony this one comes out and starts to go back in and then out it's zigzag you can do that you can zigzag a thing yeah even get like that not fun haven't even pull I could have any honeybee had to do that at all in any way now once I have that in them and do an interesting thing here I am going to dry it's because I need what's happening next to relate the layer underneath it when you're painting with acrylic or oils knowing when something has to be dry and when it has to be wet is critical and that's one of the reasons that you want to teacher is just someone to say now now it needs to be drier no keep it wet because those are the moments that make or break a paint right now we want it to be a little bit more dry if you should wanna make sure that stays dry so you don't any of the under paint under colors as you later that's the thing about layers you want on the mixer you don't that's taking a little longer than I was expecting but you know I didn't prepare my normal like you already got that so Oh check description down below because we have stuff there's reference materials and information and all that gotta go store them all the information about other cool stuff we have going on find out in the link in the description down below yes so other than that I will look over here and say wow there's a lot of you guys out here thank you for joining us tonight super nice to see you love see any guys there's the couple questions coming up here that I will take note of so yes there's a she has a Oh ol theory around her colors what I do you do yes I do so why do you put down these darker green colors if you're just gonna cover them up anyway well these are gonna pop through the Reds they're gonna be like distant leaves if you've ever been in a forest when you look through it there's never just a monotone instead of red or green there are distant colors their shades there's values as things get further away they soften so even if you're painting in this manner you've got to remember those things and it will give whatever you're doing artistically a more cohesive whole and more joy and who do they want more joy in their heart I feel like they do so that's why we didn't we even when you see covered up the bit we're a little bit of had red shows against this blue it's like joy now understand a couple of things it's very unlikely that your pain is truly dry if you're painting very thick it can take a long time for paint to dry so what you have is called a skin which means what's underneath it is still essentially wet so for this next part you are going to want to have a softer touch take my brown here and this grip I'm gonna add some black do not your black I want the brown in it I want it to be like this and then I'm gonna wipe that off it's always fun for me I'm going to make some orange and I'm going to use my cad red light and some CAD yellow to make a nice orange half of that you do so much thick painting don't worry it feels like you use a lot of paint and in some sense you do but you have very little waste because things just get layered and layered on your subject and then I'll go ahead and treat myself a treat yo'self so those of you that are Park and Recreation finance a little more burnt sienna it's so good right let's put in our treats now a couple of things about these trees are very beginner friendly but the most important thing about the trees that is beginner friendly if you would like to guess no branches oh yeah honestly that's the most I've got a fully branch packed lesson coming up if you're like I need to do a tree tunnel and I need all the branches and I need that tunnel from Game of Thrones but you're gonna make it look like was it Oz yeah I got that coming up and we will cover all the branch this is really nice if you're new to painting because branches can kind of be a pain sometimes but not always yes you know what I mean - it's just kombucha which is a fermented tea but not not fermented in that way it's a healthy it is good minds wavered living tea it's a living tea tonight is a healthy sippy sippy so that I sleep well now we have trees here in a couple things I want you to notice is you get the perspective of these trees a few things happen they are shorter in the distance right and they get taller as they come closer like this tree right it's about the height of this tree right there so if I were to come here I'm gonna use my small actually means my cat I'm gonna put the first thing in with a cat's down I'm going to load up and you could use the round here I get a little black and I'm gonna make a tree that comes over oh gosh about an inch over here doesn't need to be super straight anyway dysentry he'll have a little friend over here that loose it can be hard to believe that you get to be that loose with it but you do now coming on a diagonal line back I'm going to make a slightly taller tree it will also be a little thicker than his friend you and come back again on the diagonal now you don't have to paint them in like really overly intense row it's just a nice if you're doing lamps it's worth bends yes it has to be completely specific but with trees they kind of have a little bit again a little bit thicker this is just the beginning and that first line with the brush that can help me before I get everything loose you can take these up a little like comfort if you want that's okay and then we're gonna have here Mike Mike yeah yeah it's kind of my hair and falls out these days yes all right so [Music] and come back here we're going to make another little tree aimée taller his friend are you sure you do want your trees to be thicker at the base and more tapered at the top so there you go this one I'm gonna let him be not quite as straight as his friends he's not gonna be such a straight arrow you'll have a little bit of a lien to him just a smidge you interesting he's got a bit of a lien there we go that's fine and we're gonna do a similar little thing this guy is going to come forward a bit and he will be quite tall you're making them a little bit taller yeah and then we've got these two friends here that sort of bisect and separate what goes on with this now got to figure out what it is I will work on that I don't know babe huh okay so I'm gonna come here I come up and then this guy will have a little friend that goes almost off the canvas as trees sometimes do that don't they yeah and you can paint these brush strokes with very thick paint you don't just have to paint you know thickly with a palette knife you can paint thickly with other tools these are going to have a bit of a dry and we have to get a bunch of other color kind of coming in so let's start filling in I'm going to get my big cat's tongue and I'm gonna start filling in some other fun colors so I'm going to grab some green here and some light kind of yellow green it's a darker mix alright and we're going to start coming in here you maybe pulling in some green in the distance right yeah filling it tapping out those colors if you need to come back with some blue you can always just grab some right there on your brush look just bring it back in there we go bringing that back in and it starts you to find those trunks a bit doesn't it oh yeah bring that blue up if I feels like it I can come here and continue to work this edge here fun little brush being a little purple maybe a little weighing into this oh that was fun I get too much color on there I can always come back a little green and yellow come back towards this faraway tree look at that we can just do what we need to do now around these little trunks are super fine because they will have yeah I press down and go out these are like the shadows under the trees nice work those underneath if you need a little green and brown grab a little green and brown even those shadows have them right there green and brown your new clubbers give you so much fun right yeah seems really good and we're stop him and every time you do this you can get more colorful you can be more playful again a little shadow under the tree but this one has a little bit more light to it so I might come and grab a little bit of my green and yellow and some white look at that and lighten up this distant far away space I'm getting some white in the blue you can get the Taylor green the turquoise into it which is real fun I'm right here and see how I just kind of wiggle that out and it leaves that crazy multicolored paint but how easy is that maybe a little more of the green and yellow perhaps some of that bread on there make a like a messy mix here we've got lots of other colors that are going to be coming in you we build up and we build up let me grab a bunch of that made me come right across here right yellow the trick to this guy's is playing little bit of the green and yellow right here playing is playing if you're holding your breath I want you to breathe in and breathe out right now you know some of you are oh and your breath natural thing everybody does it don't remember watch out for it I come into this wet paint and it blends on the canvas and pulls through we're going to play against that joy the whole time yeah our whole time and as we put colors up here colors are going to start to come down here now a fun color combo that we can do is we've got some quinacridone magenta I mean very common color and Afra mom used to use in his paintings and tuck in and I didn't want to do something without that sort of element there so I'm going to take a little my dog's purple and a little of my connector on magenta grab some of your white wherever it's hiding let's tuck in a surprising pop of that over here on this side look at that gorgeous color let me come right here I think the most interesting thing about what I do is like I'll do a very expressive painting and then I've got to come back and paint it expressively again alright let's see if I can get all those little pops of paint in similar places not nice yeah it just comes out it just starts to happen now I'm gonna take my CAD red and a little bit of my Doc's Azim purple not a lot guys a little bit it'll mix them together I could have done an alizarin crimson but sometimes it's nice to limit the palette of a painting right so this is sort of a dark red isn't it yeah we go now I'm going to take some of that dark dark color begin tapping out deeper values my little trees a bit just a bit because I still have trunks and stuff to do just starting to think about it yeah we're just putting down thick paint pick it up thick we do put it down little dabs thick put it down thick while you're doing this with a palette knife round stiff brush whatever it is the trick is going to be layering large thick swaths of paint like I might come down here I'm over here to the right-hand side you he puts on there I use this brush very much in the way I would use a knife but this lets me not have to go through all that knife stuff Picnic layers of hey just you can take everything off your palate you you and put it on there now the trees real fast so I've got a little black here and I'll just come back through and reinforce this roughed out it that I did with my tidy brush it can be hard you can do this with just the cloud brush guys but if you're not familiar with doing it with just a palette knife or just a cloud brush or just you know whatever tool you're using strip of cardboard all these things will literally work loyalty discount card it was seriously never underestimate the power of a loyalty discount card it's a painting tool that's true I've seen you use it credit cards when you have that sort of on there in that nice thick way I'm going to come in and add a little bit of my burnt sienna but I'm going to do something important I'm going to put some of my orange into it you when I come along the trunk and if you have to switch down to your smaller size okay to do so so I'm going to switch down to my four you you know we're capturing a highlight there yeah you nice to see the two seasons side-by-side now they look like yes but there is a magical moment isn't there when some of the trees are still very green or some of the yellow trees start to kind of go through this transformation before they get to yellow where they work green like an aspen and then they're getting into the yellow so you just never know if you were gonna work a little larger I would size up my brushes yeah or you get into big palette knives the rubber ones can be really nice for something like this but you can do this with my plastic pallet knives do it just size up just don't try to do a big giant painting with a teeny tiny brush you like Genie and Aladdin all the power in the universe and an itty bitty living space that's exactly what it is to be painting with a small brush you're like a genie a hump just go ahead and you know you'll highlight these and the orange pops up a very specific kind of highlight you kind of can work in and look how that it's a bark effect doesn't it so what I'm doing here is I just go and I just move the brush up but you know what else I can do I roll I don't know if the camera is catching that which is what I'm narrating it and they do it right here now I'm gonna try to follow me and I'm gonna roll up the tree and kind of make some bark they coming here and I'm lightly touching it and I'm catching the top and then if I I roll the brush look what happens yeah you good stuff you can always get a little bit of yellow into this and that's where I thought I might have used the ochre but you can see that there really isn't a need with the yellow being there doesn't need to be everywhere it's just a couple places and it's like you cut a little sunlight you [Music] if you lose any of your black what do you do you just go back with it you've got it right here where can you go you can go right there can't ya and we work out your treat in any way that you need to you can lit down into the ground look at that I love these little thing all right back to the big brushes let's start some vlogging on color it's super fun so more of my cadrin let me go ahead and just loosely mix Doc's purple and can read together you you bring some of that color down here now sometimes what I do is I tuck it neatly around the tree I paint around my tree I'm doing yeah little dot look at mixing it on the canvas so you can see how thoroughly mixed is different than loosely and this dark color is going to come out you all through here you you I may not go too deep with all of it into that green because as I get to the center area what's happening on my trees they're going to get lighter and you can see now little bits of the blue and stuff peek through those Reds and it is a delight to your human eye I'm going to come make a few marks across those colors should be incorporated throughout the painting you you believe how fun this is well I I couldn't I loved it I love winning more brush projects because sometimes we forget that our tools do a lot of different stuff and we get very linear don't we we get linear about this brush makes this stroke this tool does this thing but when you're an artist at paint all the time you're gonna see them use tools and ways that are not ascribed by their inventor and as long as it's safe in your studio to do so I highly recommend it paint with both sides of the brush you know paint with everything and tape all your brushes together make a long stick stick brush brush Monet did it he wanted to get back from his canvas and see things so he made him a stick brush what am I doing with these dark Reds just these deep values what are these deep values recommend rote represent my best day I have no idea deep shadows of the trees we don't have to you know tell those stories in a boring boring way interesting but I still wanna be boring and boring boring with the shadow stories clearly already I'm liking it just the layers overs and onions and paintings have later do you have layers look for spot right here so can you see the sort of shape I've left it open here some of it goes in here I want these dark values to peek through because it's going to help wheat now it's a good time to rinse out that I've got some tonality back there that I like so I'm gonna take a little bit of my blue and my white loosely mixed but still pretty dark you yeah we're done yeah we're letting that purple we don't want to like lose that and go back into my awful if I need to or you can even come up into there you are not trapped by any of your decisions so going forward the next interesting color we can get into is just the really great red now sometimes it's nice to mix this red into my quinacridone you guys know I love this so much and I'm going to just put it out in big thick plop and it is going to glow against the back you guys see the glow yet you see the glow we painting we painting so thick be brave if you're really liking this paint but you're concerned about the expense of doing it consistently I know when paint pouring came out that was a big worry for people how and I keep this to be sustainable because it's so much fun and I'm going to say that the best thing to do for that would be like the abstract paint because it's very economical but the body on its very good I feel like I have to do this every day of my life that would be a way to do that just a nobility is important alright I'm doing something similar and painting with the artist loft level 3 it's very sustainable and getting Mike you don't have Michael yeah you've got choices you have you have a power you have the touch that's been in my head all day by the way yeah yes yes all day you know like say when a song gets stuck in your head it's like trying to tell you something and I'm really trying to understand what the Transformers theme song is trying to tell me keep in mind that's one eighties yes the first original and another one well there was no Michael Bay did a thing you're worse I don't know Michael Bay did a thing I would say the best thing about what Michael did was make me that girl is shockingly funny I I don't know they made Optimus say my bad and if there's one dude doesn't say my bad I don't know I really liked bumblebee he was good so see we're just putting the the little mix with just the CAD red now putting these out here how are we doing let's start to look like little fall leaves having a little fall moment you can always get the quinacridone and add together again make a lovely mix out here on these outer edges what are we doing we're just happy it's your groove thing there you go and now I'm gonna come down here and do some stuff man what you gonna do I gotta give some of this red color anything that's up top you kind of want to give it a moment down below I'm right here on the left hand side and I'm coming out into the right right lay okay rinsing out what else have we got well we've got some orange orange is always great I'm going to take my yellow and a little bit of my orange mix I'm gonna make an even lighter value and I'm going to come between my trees you just a little bit down there's some green that's still there right you I'm not going lots of that on here in church the sinners you you more into the yellow and it's okay it'll get into other colors every once in a while changes the painting a little bit every time worry about it and of a negative space painting see yeah that's good we want that top things out now let's start having some fun up in the trees I'm gonna get my just like add red light here and I muster taking blobs of paint doing what evidence yeah on stuff so it's so thick you might wonder how does it still how does it still stick this works with a palette knife if this works with a brush acrylic paint tends to want to stick to itself and as long as I'm not pressing too hard I'm going to have a lot of control over what happened here and again if you get too overexcited you can always come back with any color that you paint it out and put it back it's returnable because they're just pops of paint I love doing this I'm getting that yellow and orange max that I going just because there's a lot of it right there why not no reason not every Sun comes down there trees become lighter opening in those little moments also be nice to take some of this orange ashlee the bright orange and if you need to put out some CAD red light get it sout and layer layer layer right Aaron orange your pigment is really bright isn't it you you now a lot of yellow into our orange a lot almost all yellow look at us go now Mariana if you need it you it's got a little orange in it but it's still like a lot of yellow you're afraid of light values or the fun part how is everybody doing with this really good this is something that excited to do you bother fine it's your messy on got a little chant they've got going wasn't it sure paint sure paint I surveyed would they like me to release a paint I just think it's funny I just look over here there's all these sure paint sure sure all right and then just these a little pops of color where I can find them picking up this just lots of color and they just work together don't they you find the balance where you can you put color where you think it needs it those little leaves they're popping [Music] I'm rinsing out thoroughly I'm going to get back into my little bit of kind of yellow-green right sure everywhere I want that that's doing well say you you can come back with color anywhere you want you want a dark green and her tree just come back with it maybe it blends into the red and that's good others blending together is a good thing you want that hotness now I'm going to take some of my turquoise and some of my blue come here Nik this is Mimi longshadow and then I just take a little bit my turquoise and a lot of my white mr. technically apply paint and fill in the gaps that fine the highlight right yeah and it brings itself Oh magic is that you can see I'm just picking up eat all we're doing is picking up like wow you no go ahead make sure you can use up these last bits right I'm gonna dad's look at that if you're using a good quality heavy body paint whatever you lay down it's gonna stay that make sense so if you put down a stick pop of anything it should hold its shape if you're doing student paint what will happen is not anything bad in any way I'm just putting it out there realistically is that just pleasing me if you're painting with a student paint all it's going to happen is it's going to do something called leveling all right I have to sign it yeah cuz I can mess with it all night I know and so could you guys so it's pretty signature on it I guess I'll pick this pure turquoise and my monogram liner give this a a while to dry somewhere safe days yeah because again the skin will tell you that it's dry but it's really not it's it a minute to hear all the way through even with acrylics fast drying times when you paint thick it can be a bit of a thing all right let's have a thing how do we do what you gotta do so I was it yeah I hope this was a surprise to use a project I hope you were like wow I didn't even know that was a thing we could do I like this I call it you know you know how you guys are I was like what do I do with my leftover paint on the palette over here on the palette yeah all that whole another painting I'll try a GC card right you can paint like this all of these colors are valuable all of these colors are good you can keep laying out paint you can go for it and go for it and go for it and go for it alright let me turn them forward I hope this is an invitation to you to try something new you know when you're a beginner I say take it all in don't be judgmental for yourself your learning skills we don't just walk a tightrope the first time we try that's why you need teachers where your net you can enjoy the experiment never worry about the outcome if you want to share your painting with a group you know is really friendly definitely come by the Facebook group and sign in you can share your very first painting you're gonna get supported you're gonna treat it really well I cannot wait to see your version of this painting be good to yourself good to each other and I want to see you at an easel really soon bye

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Length: 69min 38sec (4178 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 29 2019