How to Paint a "HAFLINGER HORSE" with Acrylics | Paint and Sip at Home | Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today we're going to be painting halfling halflinger horse and i'm going to be sipping on a little pinot grigio so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for the materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and prime 16 by 20 canvas you could certainly switch up the size if you like but that's what i'm going to be using i will be using acrylic paint today the colors are titanium white purple violet this is burnt umber which i'll call brown i have mars black i have burnt sienna which i'll call rust and i have raw sienna which i'll call yellow so i'm just going to make up my own names as i go through the process of course you can switch up the colors if you'd like but that's what i'm going to be using i have three brushes that i'm going to be using today i have a half inch wide bristle brush i have a number eight round brush and i have a number three round brush and i'll refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process again you could switch those up if you'd like if you're painting along with me you're also going to need a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and down below this video i've got a couple of additional resources for you to help you through your painting process there is a link where you could purchase the same paint kit that i'm using so it's the same large canvas same paint color same brushes um so that's there for you and there's also a link where you can download for free an image of the final painting so you could print that and use it as a visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today all right so we're going to do for the first step is we are painting our entire canvas we're going to be painting the background i'm going to be using my big bristle brush and the colors i'm using are black brown purple and white and i just want this to be like a dark mysterious kind of background you could make yours as light as you want but i'm gonna go for a nice dark background i'm putting all four colors on my brush at the same time just kind of get the party started now maybe i pick up just brown and purple and then maybe the next time i just pick up black i'm going to use quite a bit of paint so i can get i'll get this you know a full nice smooth kind of look to it but you could have it as light or as dark or as purple or as brown as you want it's going to be a visual preference on your part for me i want my horse to really pop out of my um of my composition so i really want this to be nice and dark but again if you want yours to be a little bit lighter feel free to do so or a little bit more purple that's cool too um and i'm just going to kind of keep going until i get this entire canvas covered we are going to be painting our horse right on top of this background and this way we won't have to worry about painting around anything we're painting this background first so that way we don't have to worry about it again it's going to provide us with a nice base coat for for the painting and it's also going to provide us with an easy way to paint the horse without having to paint around come back and paint around for the background so i'm just giving you a little bit of a shortcut by doing it this way so we can worry more about our horse as opposed to the background so this is just going to again give us a nice a nice layer to work on and provide us with some good a good solid foundation for the rest of the painting so i'm just keep on painting until i get the whole thing done and you can see i've i'm kind of switching colors as i go about it sometimes i'm picking up more purple sometimes i'm picking up more brown sometimes i'm picking up more black so you just get it to be as light or as dark or as purple as you know brown as you want it to be and once you've got it all rendered here and you've got the whole thing painted in i am going to kind of go back one final swoop to make sure that i have all of my areas painted to make sure i've got a nice full coverage and i'm going to go back and forth left to right just to work out any really thick spots make sure everything is as blended as i want it to be and then we are going to be switching brushes to our medium brush for the next step so once you've got this step all nice and complete you can put this large brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are painting an outline of our horse so i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm using are brown rust yellow and white and i'm going to use them all at once on my brush because one we're just doing an outline but two i want to give it kind of a natural color and by using all four colors on my brush at the same time it's going to help to provide different tones of this chestnut color so these horses are known for their chestnut color and their really light blonde mane so the chestnut shade can come in all different varying lightnesses and darknesses so we can make it any shade of chestnut we want so that's why i'm going to just kind of go with the four colors on my brush let happen what's going to happen if we have it light or dark so be it and i do want to caution you that before you start this step you do want to make sure that your canvas is dry so if you have to you can just take a break and sip a little bit more or you can blow on it or you can just get out a blow dryer and just dry it a little bit more um but how i'm gonna start this is i'm putting all of those four colors on my brush at the same time so i have brown rust yellow and white and i don't need a lot um just enough so you can see it uh for you too you want to just be able to see it so i'm gonna have you make a couple of marks and then we're going to connect the dots really so you're going to find yourself about the in the center of your canvas i want you to come down to about the halfway mark so you're going to make yourself a mark around the center of your canvas and then you're going to go straight above it and you're going to make the same thing maybe about two or three yeah about one about two and a half inches below the top of your canvas and then you're going to come from about the center of here and you're going to come maybe about four inches in from the left and maybe about four inches in from the right now you're going to make yourself a big circle so um one of the things i notice with people when they're making a circle from four dots like this is you have people have a tendency to make a straight line from one dot to the other so just make sure when you're doing this that you're actually making a circle as opposed to um like a diamond type shape so i'm going to just concentrate on making myself a circle as opposed to um just connecting those dots with straight lines and i'm going to keep going until i have it all in my circle that i want so if you have to keep adjusting it so be it and then once i've got my circle it doesn't have to be perfect you can see that mine is not perfect we're going to be coloring over it anyways so once you've got your circle now what you're going to do is you're going to go straight from this center spot all the way over to the right hand side of your canvas make yourself a mark and then you're going to connect your circle to that mark using an arcing an arcing motion so i'm going to start right about here i'm going to come down and i'm going to make myself an arcing motion that's going to be the back of the neck then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make two more marks one is going to be right here where we started here and then i'm going to go straight down and make another one at the bottom of my canvas and i'm going to connect these two this is going to be the chest so it's going to have a bump in it but you don't you want to be careful not to make a super big bump because it'll look out of proportion so i'm going to goes at a slight angle to me towards the left hand side and then i'm going to make just a little bit of a bump coming out like this so you can certainly make it larger if you want to once you see how the whole horse looks but initially i wouldn't go too far big you can always make it bigger you can't make it smaller now what i'm going to do is i'm going to make a circle for the muzzle part where the where the nose is going to be so how i'm going to do this is i am going to come about from here oh maybe a little bit lower you're going to come about two inches down from here and over to maybe about halfway between here and the edge of your canvas and make yourself a small mark and you're going to come about from here over to the same spot and now you're going to make yourself another circle so something like this this one's going to look pretty small and now once you've got this one now we've got to connect the head to this muzzle part so again i just keep reading reloading my brushes with those four colors so think of this as the um as the jawbone in through here and this is going to be where your mouth is so i'm going to do an arcing motion here but i don't want it to be too dramatic so this is my jawbone and then i'm just going to kind of give it a slight arc like that now i'm going to do the top part of the head so we're going to put a nostril on in a minute so it's going to look kind of funky for a moment but really all you need to do is kind of connect this to this and of course it looks a little funky right now but we're going to add a bump for the nostril so i'm going to add this bump a little bit above this circle on the outside and i want it to look natural so you don't want to just add a jutting bump i'm going to go like this and i want it to be farther out than this part here so i'm going to go like this and a little bit like that and then i'm going to add almost like a flat spot for my mouth so again i'm just reloading my brush with those same four colors and i can if you want you can bump out like the little front part of the of the top part of the mouth and then you've got a little mouth that comes down in through here and something like that so you got almost three bumps nostril front part of the top lip and then this is the under part of the mouth because i totally know my horse anatomy obviously and then we're gonna do a couple of ears so again i'm just reloading my brush with those four colors and i'm gonna go straight up from this mark right about to here and that's going to be the left side of the right ear so i'm going to maybe come right about up to here and go like this and then like this they're not super huge ears so you don't need to make bat ears or anything really large and then i'm just going to come over to the left maybe about another inch and then do a similar type shape somewhere like this and then oops i guess i'm i guess i'm painting in my ears we're going to switch brushes to our large brush for the next step all right so we're going to do now is we're painting in just the base coat of the whole horse um the only kind of color um instruction that i guess i want to give you is underneath the um the jawbone you want this to be dark darker than the jaw so that way you can see the difference between the two other than that what i'm going to be doing is i'm going to have it darker down here and then i'm just going to fade it into a lighter chestnutty kind of color as it goes towards the face even if as you're doing the face you could have it a little bit more gray around the muzzle but it does not have to be one solid color so the colors i'm going to be using are black brown rust yellow and white so i'm going to use five colors and what i'm going to do is i'll be mostly probably doing like a circular motion maybe at times i'll be you know using more of a long brush kind of stroke but you'll notice that because you have this dark under color here it's going to provide a really good base for the um for the fur that you're going to be putting on you do want to make sure that by the time this step is over or by the time you're done painting it you've hidden these obvious outlines that we created when we were doing um the the base out structure for for the horse and if you end up having a lighter or a darker color than your outline just make sure that you blend it in so how i'm going to start is i'm going to start with black and brown on my brush at the same time and i just want to get a couple of the darker areas in so i'm going to kind of start under here just so i know you want it dark down here and then i'm going to once i've got that you can you can kind of fade it into the horse and then i'm gonna start with that down here that's probably the only time i'm gonna pick up black i might do a little bit if i'm gonna go for like a gray muzzle um but next time i pick up paint i'm going to pick up the rust and the brown and this is going to start getting my horse lighter and lighter as i get go up the horse again i want to make sure that i hide this outline in through here so even if you have to add extra paint or a second layer on you know any particular area feel free to do so but the goal here is to try and get that golden chestnutty kind of color to be represented they do have a nickname too i think they're called the golden horse with the golden heart so they're chestnutty but it translates as a golden color too so feel free to make it as you know vibrant as you want or as rusty chestnuty color as you'd like it's going to be your horse so you if you want to if you want to interpret it whatever way that you want feel free to do so so i just added more rust and brown to my brush and they do have you know it's a horse so their fur is not super long so you do want it to kind of look on the smoother side um which sometimes that circular motion can give you more of a rough look to it but i also know that we're gonna have this beautiful long flowing mane so if we have some spots that look rougher than others that's okay we're gonna hide it all with our main anyways this is just providing us with a nice undercoat too to that mane and again you want to see the separation between the um the shadow underneath the head and the actual jawbone itself so i'm just kind of getting this all painted out and again i know i'm going to have this big mane over there so i'm going to start working on the face i'm going to get the face a little bit lighter than the body itself and i already painted in my ears but if you didn't you could paint yours in now and again i've got this huge mane that's going to be all over this um i am going to make sure that i cover that outline though so i am going to concentrate maybe put a little bit more white on my brush as i go around those areas with the um the outline just so i can make sure that i i can fully cover those and if you need to sometimes you might need to do two coats over depending on how strong that outline was you might end up needing to do two coats but that's fine whatever you got to do is totally fine and i'm just going to kind of get one coat on here while i'm working on the rest to make sure if i do need a second coat i'll this will be dry for me and when i'm doing um this type of painting if i do have a firm outline under there to cover it fully you can just do a thin coat of paint first go work somewhere else and then that thin coat will dry quickly and then you can do a second coat over it in order to get it to blend in or to to disguise it a little bit and again i'm going for more of like a nice light chestnuty kind of look to it and these horses have lots of markings on them well especially on their face they can come with those white patches on the center of their face so if you do want yours to be lighter or have like a light patch they also have a lot of gray around that muzzlely area so you can certainly tweak these colors whatever way that you would like to i'm putting a little bit of gray on this area just to give it a little bit more authenticity and then i'm gonna probably put another coat on my ears while i'm waiting for this to dry a little bit because i do want to cover this so i'm going to give that another minute while that's well that's drying i'm going to go and put a little bit more on my ears the ears can be a little bit lighter too if you want them to again these horses they're just so beautiful they've got this delicate color to them all around so you just make it as you know genteel as you would like i'm going to add some more paint in this center area and maybe of course i don't really care about this part over here because it's going to be covered with the main but i do care about this area in through here so i'm going to add a little bit more white on my brush just to kind of make sure i get that covered maybe a little bit more into here white helps to make your paint less see through so if you do need any areas to be covered more just add a touch of white onto your brush and that's going to help you to cover up any of those lines and then i'm just going to get this fully painted in the head and then we are going to be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got a beautiful coat all on your head and on your body you can put this brush away in your water cup i'm just sticking my head back here for a second just making sure i've got everywhere colored in the way that i want to maybe a little bit more in through here sometimes it takes you know a minute or two to get the whole area painted the way that you want it so take your time there's no hurry and you can press pause or rewind or whatever you need to do to take the time that you need to get your horse as beautiful as you want it to be and then again we're going to switch brushes to the medium brush so once you've got this all did i say medium yeah medium brush couldn't remember what i told you we were going to use so we'll use the medium brush for the next step so you can get ready all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer for the features on the face so this will be first layer of the eye the nostril maybe the mouth and maybe we'll put in i don't know if ears are considered features but yeah they are features on a face or feature i don't know we're going to work on the ears so the colors i'm using are black brown and maybe a little bit of white too so how i'm going to start this i'm just putting black on my brush and i'm going to start with my eye so my eye is going to be positioned between my ears and a little so if like this is halfway in your face it's maybe just a little bit above that halfway point and i'm going to turn it it's going to be kind of like a diagonal shape of an almond and it's pretty big so i'm going to have the right side of it come almost to the edge of my ear maybe like a little in from the ear come on down maybe make yourself a little bit of a dot there and then the left side of it is going to go maybe about halfway in this ear and come on down maybe at a diagonal make yourself a little mark and now i'm going to make myself like an almond type shape but i don't want my edges to be really firm so i'm going to almost do like a soft out of focus edge to it so i'll show you what i'm talking about so i'm going to kind of put my um almond type shape into play i'm going to color it in with my black paint and then i don't have much paint on my brush and what i'm going to do is i'm going to just soften the edges so i'm going to just almost like blend it into the the the body of the face so it's almost like we're creating these little kind of shadows around the eyeball itself i think i want to put a little bit more black on the inside because i really want that the center to be black but that exterior i'm just making softer so at any time you can always wipe your brush off on your paper towel too because you don't want to have much paint on your brush at all and then what i can do is you can also bring down like little shadowy areas down into the face a little bit and if you go too dark don't worry we're gonna we're gonna have ample opportunity to lighten it up but this is just giving us a nice soft shape to the eye and we're going to do the same thing with the inside of the ears and the nostrils so right now i'm just using black paint to find where my nostril is i have a bump here on the outside edge which indicates that's where the nostril is on the other side so you should go directly to the right of that and it's about almost halfway between like the the full section of that what would be that original circle maybe that we made so about halfway and what i'm going to do is i'm going to do the same thing i do a little curve line up at the top and i'm going to bring it down almost in a diagonal kind of fashion down here but i want the bottom edge of it to be really soft so as i come down here i'm going to just kind of blend the edges of that nostril area out into the rest of the face and you could have this top edge could be a little bit softer it doesn't have to be a firm edge but the softer it is the more out of focus it's going to not out of focus but the more it's going to look like it's blending into the fur itself and then also in the muzzle type area if you want there to look like there's a shadow between the two nostrils you can just take that remnants of the black maybe put a touch of brown on your brush black and brown and just put like a little shadowy area into here and again if you go too dark don't worry about it we will lighten it up later and this is where what i was referring to earlier the gray area which you could certainly use black and white or black brown and white to get some sort of shade of gray which is what happened earlier i have white on my brush i just picked up a little bit of black and they have a lot of these horses are kind of dark down in through here so i'm just going to kind of almost add that little bit of darkness down in through here if i want a little bit more and i need to give it a mouth so i'm just going to pick up a tiny bit of black and brown and the i want this almost to be kind of flat in through here maybe with a little bump up here but if you immediately just start curving it up it's gonna look um like a unnatural smiley face on a horse so i want to give it part of that front muzzle so what i'm going to do is i've got this little dip in here so i'm just going to kind of go up a little bit and then kind of back down travel almost all the way over to here and then kind of come up a little bit in through there and that gives you the the correct kind of look of of the mouth and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put i still have a dirty brush i'm just going to put a teeny tiny bit of white on my brush just to lighten up this little bottom lip a little bit you could use brown you could use the rust color whatever color lip you want to give it is totally fine by me you could even add a little bit in through here but that's totally up to you if you want to go even further now i'm going to put some darkness in my ears so a little bit of that black and brown and i want messiness in through these ears i don't want it to look like it's a really clean line so i'm just wiggling my brush a little bit near that um the lighter portions of it so that's going to make it just look nice and natural and i want it to naturally blend into the head so make sure you don't i'm white i just wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm just going to kind of fade it or blend it into the head area something like that and then i'll do the same thing for the other ear and again if it doesn't go right on you don't worry you can hide it with strategically placed pieces of its mane and then i'm going to do the same thing on this one just give it some really uneven little edges to it like the like the outer hair is kind of just almost fluffing over the little darkness on the inside of the ears i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel so i can get this area just to kind of blend in with the head and then we're gonna let's see what are we gonna do for the next step we are going to be using we're gonna use the same brush for the next step so once you've got your facial features started you can wash and dry this brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is our second step to the face of the horse i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm going to be using are all the colors in my horses so i'm using black brown rust yellow and white so all my colors except for purple so my strategy here is to one make sure that i've got a nice smooth coat over the whole face but to also if i can identify where there's muscles or shadowy areas or like an eyebrow bone i don't think that's the correct name for it but the bone where the the the eye socket bone maybe i don't know the bone right here so um we're going to be using the colors to accentuate contours of the face and also to add any additional markings or to finish up the color on the on the fur so i do know again this whole forehead area is going to be covered by the main so i'm not going to focus my energy a lot of my energy on that area or on this whole area over here where i do want to focus my energy is around the eye in through here and on the nose so as i'm doing this i'm going to be using this medium brush and i'm not going to be using much paint at all the whole time i'm just going to be using a very little bit of paint if i want there to look like a spot where it's protruding i'm going to add a little bit of lighter paint than whatever is on here so this is like a medium brown so i could add maybe a little yellow rust and white and add a little bit of a lighter area that's going to show that eye socket eyebrow bone part i do know that this type of horse has a really prominent jaw in through here so you could add like a little shadowy area in through here it's got a muscle right in through here so that could have a little bit of a highlight um it's got another muscle on the nose here so as i go through it i'm going to kind of identify what i'm doing with my light spots and my dark spots and you can kind of follow along i am going to put a little bit of a lighter area around the edge of the nostril too to make that look a little bit more three-dimensional and i'll probably add maybe a little bit more lightness on the nose and i might add a little bit more of that gray color around here so again as i approach this on each little piece i'll kind of talk about it and um you can just follow along and do yours as you'd like so the first thing that i'm do i'm going to kind of start from the top and work my way down i do know that i want a little bit more fluff in those ears so i'm putting a touch of white and just a little bit of the yellow on my brush and i'm just going to kind of add a little bit more fluffiness to the fur of these ears i know that when we go to add the main on that these ears are going to be sticking right out so i want to make sure that they've got enough of their fluffiness and enough dimension to them so just adding a little bit lighter of a color on top of what i already had on that exterior which is going to help with that and again the bottoms are going to be covered by the um the main so i'm not really concerned about that so now i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to work on my little eyebrow bone part so if you're nervous about the color that you're going to be touching the canvas with you can always kind of pre-mix yourself a little bit of a color but by doing that you might end up with a real solid color everywhere so um just be cautious when you do that that you don't use that same color everywhere because it won't look as natural so i've got some paint on my brush and i don't want a lot so i'm gonna just wipe it off on my paper towel i can always add more it's really tough to take away once it's on there so i want my eyebrow bone to be somewhere in through here i'm going to add a little bit of brown rust and yellow now that i've got that light spot and i'm just going to kind of blend it out into the rest of the area around it so i want it to have some soft edges to it and i am going to want to add a little bit more of the chestnutty color to it but i've got it nice and light right now so i'm adding a little bit more of the rust and the yellow just so i can have it read as that beautiful color that these horses are and you can see i've got a nice light area this um socket comes down straight down past the eye and it's going to end up connecting over here so i'm just bringing some of that color down and the key is to have those soft edges so even if you need to bring in some of a darker tone to like i just put a little bit of the brown on my brush just to soften that edge that's going to help to make it look more natural as opposed to just a real firm line i'm going to make this um lighter area come out past the eye because i know that there's a whole socket that the eye sits into so i'm going to make this a little bit lighter over in through here and i can see that this area needs another coat of paint because it's kind of streaky so i'm just going to add a little bit more of that rust and yellow so my kind of rule of thumb when i'm doing this second kind of coat on this type of painting is i definitely want a second layer of paint wherever it's going to be visible outside of that main area where the where we're going to be putting that big mane anywhere else where you're going to see that face i want a second coat of paint so even if you think it's it's pretty good i recommend adding a second coat of paint just to make sure that it's nice and soft and you've um you've developed it enough so i'm adding just a little bit more brown onto my brush to get this to be a little bit more shadowed on the outside of that eye socket eye socket area and i'm just going to kind of work my way down here i want this to be a little bit lighter over here and again i don't use a lot of paint which is why it might take me a good few minutes to get this the way that i want it but that's just the way that i do it because i want to be able to control what i'm doing if i came in here with a whole bunch of paint and wasn't able to um control the where i put it then my brain would just tell me keep blending keep blending and then i would have a whole big solid color everywhere so i don't want that to happen so i'm using very little paint i just added a little bit of brown to my brush because i want this area to dip in just a little bit more so just a little bit that's a little bit of black on my brush and i'll just keep telling you what colors i'm putting on my brush but i'm going to just really kind of keep switching as i want light areas and dark areas and then i've got some some darkness on my brush but i'm going to bring it in some of this chestnutty color because i want this whole cheeky area to make sure that it's if it's poking through my mane i really want you to be able to tell that it's a nice beautiful chestnut color so you can almost just do a light layer on top of it to make sure that it's nice and soft looking and that you don't have those really prominent swirl marks from um from painting it earlier so now i've still got some more of this chestnutty color here making sure i've got that on there and then i want to have um a little bit more of the muscle area to show in through here so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to add a tiny bit of white paint on my brush and i'm going to i know so i've got my eye socket area here and it kind of there's a bridge to the nose here that has a lighter area and then it kind of travels down and you've got a muscle area in through here so as long as i've got a lighter shade or a lighter color than whatever is on there it's going to read as it's an area that's protruding um off of the face so i know that i've got something like that i want to put a little bit of brown on my brush and my key again is i'm not using a lot of paint so when i want it to be lighter i can just pick up a little bit of lightness and i because i don't have too much paint on my brush that allows me to do that i do want to make sure i have another coat of paint in through here so it doesn't look unfinished so i've put the three the rust the brown and the yellow on my brush just to make sure that i've got this beautiful chestnutty color and you can see these two marks are making sense now they're making it they're making it look like it's got a nice muscle in through there maybe i put a little bit of shadow right in through here to tell you that this there's this cheekbone in through here or jawbone cheek jaw i just used a little bit of black too i don't know if i really wanted to use all that much black but that's okay i can work it out put a little shadow underneath here yeah that works i'm going to pick up some more that rust and yellow make sure i've got this nice and fully painted in through here and then as i get towards that um nostril i'm going to put a little bit of lightness above the nostril and then again oops there was black on my paper towel hold on let's wipe that off of there there we go and then i'm going to make this whole area a little bit lighter and that again just adds to that three-dimensional kind of effect to it so if i want that to bump out a little bit i can also do that on the top of the nose i can add a little bit of lightness in through here and just get this whole area to just almost protrude a little bit more and have the have it appear that there's more light on this particular area so i'm just adding a little bit of lightness on there which is going to give it that vibrancy i think i want to kind of soften this a little bit in through here so i just added a little bit of brown onto my brush and then maybe i'll put it a little bit darker under here just so it looks like it's a little bit more shadowed under there and you can see i'm just kind of cruising along here making sure i've got all the areas as light or as dark as i want adding these um these dimensional elements makes it look a little bit more natural and more realistic i think i want to add maybe a little bit of lightness on this side of the nostril on the right side of the nostril and again the key is don't use a lot of paint on your brush that's where you can very easily run into trouble and if you have to you can always put a touch of water on your brush and that's going to help you to almost blend out these edges of it and i'm thinking that's looking she's looking pretty good right now let me just kind of add a little bit more of this gray down here i like that and what that's doing there i can see the nostril going in i've got this area nice down here hmm i'm digging this she's looking like a pretty horse um i'm afraid that i might have some of this area exposed so i i want to put just a little bit more paint on here just so when you do have when i do have the main on there i'm not fearing like i don't want to skip a spot because it's not fully painted so i just added a little bit more of that beautiful color onto here and then we are going to actually switch brushes to our small brush for the next step so once you've got this beautiful coat on your halflinger horse you can put this medium brush away in your water cup you can take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our eye so i'm going to be using my small brush and the colors that i'm using are rust yellow black and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to put a little bit of rust and yellow on my brush first this is going to provide me with a little bit of color in the eye but i don't need much because when you're looking at horses unless you're standing really up close it's very hard to detect the color of their eyes because it's very shadowed um and it's you know it's beautiful when you're up close i used to own a couple horses when i was a kid and i loved getting up close to them because they just stare you right at the eye but when it's from a distance it's so hard to see their beautiful color in their eyes except for those unusual horses who have blue eyes but we'll talk about them some other time so again i have rust and yellow on my brush and what i'm going to do is i'm just adding a little bit of a um subtle color it's almost in a like an arcing fashion i'm not going all the way to the edges and i'm kind of in the middle and uh doing it on the left bottom of what i would consider to be the eye um itself this is all like shadowy area in through there and then once i've got that on there i'm going to wash and dry my brush really quick and i am going to be painting the eyelashes so this horse has a very light pale eyelashes just like the main so i'm going to be using white you could use a little bit of the yellow too but i'm going to start with white and you can also use a little bit of black but again i'm starting with white the eyelashes they can come all the way over here and extend past the eye you want to keep some of this dark area visible um because that's the way they look you don't need to but that's the way they look so i'm going to start on the outside edge and i'm coming down and flicking kind of to the side because um horse eyelashes they they they're used to protect their eyes so i think all of all eyelashes are but um so they definitely come down and i don't use a lot of paint but i am using the little tiny tip of my brush and i'm going to make them shorter and shorter as they come towards this left hand side and i'm going to just they're really really tiny as i come towards here and then maybe i'll make a couple of longer ones over here so you can have them overlapping i'm going to put a tiny bit of white and yellow on my brush and then that's cute i don't think it needs much more than that sometimes less is more once you've got what you feel to be enough on there sometimes you just just need to stop and if you did too much you can always pick up a tiny bit of black paint and just reverse your action by putting a little bit of black in through there and that will help to separate them if you need to and then i'm going to put a little twinkle in the eye so i'm going to use white paint um i'm going to have this kind of in the not all the way to the edge here but in the bottom part of my um colored part and i just like to make a little couple of little sparkly dots so i'm going to just kind of pop my brush a couple times to make a little sparkle and that's all i'm going to do for the eye so we're gonna um let's see what are we gonna do oh we're going on with our medium brush for the next step so get ready all right so we are on to a freaking fun step we're painting the mane so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm using yellow and white paint and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to kind of map it out first because i know me when i paint on this type of step i get lost and i just keep having so much fun and before i know it i've got this big massive way too out of control thing so i'm going to kind of map it out first and then i'll stay within my within my boundaries so i'm gonna put yellow paint on my brush first um and i'm gonna kind of tell myself where i want this mane to go so i know that it's clearly going to start behind the ear so i'm going to kind of just start making myself i if you can ride it right along the neck but i want mine to look fluffier so i definitely want to have some fluffier pieces that are outside of the neck um and i want some coming down here i want mine to kind of split all along the the big muscle in through here so i'm gonna kind of bring some in through here i know i want it down here and maybe somewhere here is where i'm gonna split it like right about here so that way as i'm painting with my white it'll tell me don't put tons of you know pieces of mane in through here and that's going to give it a really neat effect and then so that's going to be my exterior my right side and then my left side of this big area i'm going to want to come a little bit in front of my ear so i'm going to have shorter pieces so the shorter pieces are going to be the new pieces they'll be at the top they'll be on the exterior and then those under the longer pieces are going to be the older pieces that have been there for a lot longer so they're going to be longer and underneath so when you get to around the face and around the ears those are going to be your shorter pieces so again i'm just kind of using the yellow right now to give myself a road map and i'm going to bring this i don't want to cover up all this area but i want to have some of the main coming in through here and then i want some main coming all the way down to the bottom of my canvas and overlapping some of the um the chest area so i know this is going to be i've just given myself a whole road map for this right side of the um of the horse now i'm going to do the same thing for the main that comes out between the ears so i've got it you know it's going to have some little pieces up in through here and then it's going to come maybe in front of this ear a little bit and it's also going to come i want it to kind of look like it's almost resting on the on the muzzle i don't know if that's the right word but on the front of the face so i'm going to have it kind of maybe dipping down like this maybe resting on that brow bone somewhere in through here maybe and then just kind of resting on the muzzle somewhere in through here and then they can have super long manes they can be i i think i saw when i was looking these up these horses that i mean they're super long they can't they have to like cut them sometimes they can grow so long so you can have a really long one over the face so have fun with it um but don't get carried away as i normally would so here i go i'm just going to kind of give myself again some stopping points over on this left side otherwise i would make it grow too big and now that i've got that now i've kind of got my roadmap where i want it to go so now i'm going to start using yellow and white and i'm going to use a lot of paint on my brush i reload so often i want to make sure i have some really long pieces but when i get to the exterior pieces i want to have some shorter ones and i want to make sure they aren't all going in the same direction so i think that's one of the biggest things that i see when people are painting manes or hair or anything of that sort that your the tendency is to get them to all go exactly in the same direction with the same exact bend which isn't really gonna happen you can look at my hair as an example but you so generally speaking sure it's going to go in a similar fashion or in a similar direction but you're definitely going to have pieces of fur that are going gonna our hair that's gonna overlap in a different direction or maybe you have that one little rogue piece that just kind of flails out all of a sudden so have fun with it don't feel the need to make everything super perfect um you know these are majestic creatures they're wild they thrash their head about they you know it's all going to be different um at some point i am going to start using just white but right now i'm still just kind of picking up white and yellow in order to get almost like this kind of an under coat to it and as i'm by the face here i i do slow down a little bit because i want to have these more like little wispier pieces along the edges um and if you can curve it a little bit as if it's curving over the body here that would be great um i'm going to go into the front area now let me just kind of poof this up a little bit in through here make sure i've got these little tiny pieces in through here i've yet to meet one of these horses but i do hear that they are they're just super sweet and they're easy to take care of but they're fun they're they're healthy horses which is a great thing because a lot of a lot of horses come with health issues so these are just a you know a lovely horse to have as a pet um so if you're if you're in the market for a horse a halfling or horse is the right one for you as i do my commercial on halflinger horses um but you know they're just they're all horses are beautiful but these ones come with that special beauty quality with their gorgeous manes and that chestnut color and they've got the personality to to go along with it so you can see i'm slowing down right now on the face because i don't want to overdo it i have a tendency when i am doing this kind of fur and manes and stuff that i really like to just go wild and crazy and just keep flicking my brush here and there but i want to i want to control it i want to make sure that i've got some good movement in it and that it looks really nice and natural when i get to these exterior pieces i'm hardly touching the canvas because i want it to look like just little thin pieces of the mane are just kind of resting along that that nose and i'm just going to kind of put maybe a little bit more out in through here and i'm going to start to just pick up white in a second here and i'm going to do another pass on um on the on the main area of the main and i'll use just white but when i go to use just white i got to be careful that i don't overdo it i really just am looking for this to be the highlighted areas of this gorgeous creature's mane and again i want to get these little fluffy pieces along the edges so if you wanted to you could also use your small brush to get a couple of these little wavy pieces just kind of represented out on the edges now i'm picking up a whole bunch of white and i'm going to get these really big pieces to come down and if you come to a point where you're like oh i put too much or i want to back off on something you can always just dry the canvas and do another layer on top of the main because sometimes when you're doing this really thick just keep adding layers kind of deal if it's not drying for you you might end up blending it more than you want to so just know that you can certainly just kind of dry it if you need to um i am coming into a thick area over here where i had a lot of yellow but i'm okay with that i'm just kind of getting it to make it look like it belongs together and then i'm going to get these nice pieces along the edges and you can see it how at times i'm giving it almost like a gentle wiggle i don't want it to look curly but i definitely want it to have some kind of wave to it so it's not too straight this is a you know nice and natural looking main so i want to kind of keep that up oh i just got a little splash over here maybe i'll get a couple of little rogue pieces in through this split over here get some extra special or extra bright white over here i'm almost i'm almost there i can i can i can feel it now it's nice and got lots of texture to it maybe a little bit more in through here i think i want this to kind of bump out up here make it look like it's almost growing up and over here and right now i'm not using much pressure but i'm using a good amount of paint just to get this nice and thick maybe get a couple little extra rogue pieces in through here and then we do have one tiny little step left to do once you've got oh i want a couple more white pieces on this front though hold on a second here maybe a couple of little little pieces coming out in through here this is where it's it i find it tough to stop because now i'm like maybe if i do this or maybe if i do that but i think that's looking pretty good just get it a little bit thicker in through here and again you can have as much you know detail in this as you want to or you can have it as subtle as you want to make sure i've got a couple of nice brighter pieces coming down in through here and then i'm going to be using my tiny brush for the next step so once you've got your main all nice and as beautiful as you want it to be you can put this medium brush away in your water cup take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we are on to the final step which is the final step of any painting which is to sign it so i'm going to be using my small brush i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right uh i think i'm signing mine over here and i usually sign it with black but it's kind of dark over here so i think i'm going to use maybe something that's complementary so i'm going to use rust yellow and white i'm going to sign mine with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like to do is totally up to you it's your identifying mark and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a pretty horse and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 56min 48sec (3408 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 04 2020