How to Paint an Ocean Sunset with a Sailboat | Paint and Sip at Home | Step by Step tutorial

hi there and Michelle the painter from Berkshire Payne sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] so today we're going to be painting ocean sailboat sunset and I'm going to be drinking a little Bordeaux rose wine so let's get painting and let's get sipping alright so for the materials that we're using today we're going to be using a sixteen by twenty stretched in prime canvas you can certainly switch up the size but this is what I'm using you can get it at any of your local craft stores or online we're gonna be using acrylic paint the colors I'll be using is titanium white ultramarine blue fluorescent orange chrome yellow fire red burnt umber and Mars black and again you can switch up the colors but that's the ones I'm using you're gonna need a cup of water for washing your brushes you'll need a paper towel for drying your brushes and the two brushes I'm using today is a one inch wide bristle brush and a number two round synthetic brush and that's all you're gonna need for this painting today alright so the first step that we're gonna be doing we're gonna be using our bristle brush and you're going to be using all of the colors on your palette except for black to paint the sky so we're gonna be painting the sky it's gonna come about two-thirds of the way down your canvas I'm gonna be starting with blue and white on my brush at the same time and I'm gonna be using like a left to right almost like a long kind of crisscross II motion I like to paint the edges of my canvas as I go along that way it looks all nice and professional by the time I'm done I've got a nice covered edge and I can hang it up without thinking of having to put a frame around it so I started with just blue and white on my brush now I'm gonna just pick up white without washing my brush and what's gonna happen is that blue is gonna kind of work its way off of my brush and I'm going to end up with a nice lighter area right after the blue and then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to use that brightness or lightness that I have on my brush right now to start my center Sun area where that Sun is going to be kind of drifting off into the distance so I'm just picking up white at this point and I'm gonna bring this white pretty far down just so I maintain an area that I've painted with white paint I don't really want to dilute this with other colors at the moment because I want to be able to keep this center spot nice and bright so once I have a nice bright area down the center now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start to go into that fluorescent orange and the reason why I go into that color next to start adding these sunset colors is because I know that I have a little bit of blue left over on my brush and I know that if I went in to say yellow next I would end up with a big green spot on my sky and I don't really want to do that so what I'm doing is I'm going into the orange next which is gonna allow me for a nice transition if I do have any remnants of blue on my brush it's gonna prevent any you know accidents not not that accidents in painting or bad but it'll prevent me from getting a really green sky so now I'm gonna start picking up my yellow and introducing that yellow into the sunset and you saw how I started kind of down at the bottom of this and now I'm just kind of working my way up I'm introducing the brighter colors almost into that the Sun area that I have in the middle and I'm not washing my brush because I really like these colors to work together I just picked up some white so now I'm gonna start to really get these colors to merge together but again all the while I'm still leaving some of that bright area in this Center to allow for it to be you know if you do the illusion that the Sun is just kind of peeking through as it's going down I do want this to transition and make sure that it blends with that blue up top so that's why I'm kind of going back up into it and if I feel like it's green at all I'm going to touch my brush into that orange because that's gonna counteract it and you can just kind of get these all to blend together and you can make it as bright or as dark as you want and now I'm gonna start introducing red and brown down at the bottom of my sunset so I'm laying these right on top of the other colors I want it to really all look like it belongs together and this is one of those steps that you could really make as personal as you want and get it to be as bright or as dark as you want I like this painting to have a lot of drama in it so I really have a high contrast of colors from the sunset area to the bright area in the middle so now I'm picking up some Brown and I'm using that right at the bottom of the canvas and I know from experience that these darker colors will dry darker than they darker than they are when they're wet so like these red and brown I know are gonna be a little bit darker when they dry so if they appear to be a little bit too light visually for me right now that's okay because they're gonna end up a little bit darker I am at this point gonna just wipe my brush off on my paper towel because I feel like it's oh you can wash it too if you want to I feel like it's almost muddled right now with too many colors so I just kind of quickly washed it so I can make sure that I get this sky the way that I want to I went back into white and now I'm gonna just kind of re identify that center area make sure I have everything nice and blended together I don't really like any spots that look like kind of dry I want them to really look like they're well blended so I'm using a very light touch when I do this but I did have a little bit of white on my brush because white really works well when you're trying to blend in these colors together you can use it as kind of that connecting piece so to speak you can make it as dramatic as you want if you want to add a little bit more blue I just picked up a little bit more blue so maybe I add a little bit more drama up towards the top but what I'm really doing right now is just kind of making sure all of these colors blend in nice together and that I have a good transition into that middle section so I'm just kind of going through making sure everything works well together making sure I still have that nice bright area in the center and making sure I don't have what I refer to as dry spots that look like I haven't fully painted them so this could be what's referred to maybe as a second coat on it but for me it's just kind of finalizing it making sure I've got the the dimension that I want and making sure all these colors look like they belong together because that's what happens in the sky they they just kind of merge together and I'm just kind of going back and making sure that I'm happy with it I've got a nice bright area in the center I've got my blue sky that's just kind of dissipating up on the top and it goes down into this nice dramatic sunset area down at the bottom and then that's going to conclude this step so when you're all set what you're going to do is you're going to wash and drive this big brush let me just tidy up this one little spot here you'll wash and dry this big brush Dada Dada and get ready for the next step all right so for the next step I'm gonna be painting the water I'm gonna be using all my colors this time except for black and blue so I'll use white brown red yellow and orange and I'm going to choose to not use the blue in the water just out of a preference I guess you could use the blue because the water is meant to reflect the sky but in my case I'm gonna choose to not use it and the very first thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do my horizon line so for me I want my horizon line to be super bright so I'm gonna use white and yellow on my brush to create this horizon line and I got a couple of little cheats for you to get in semi straight line without using a ruler so on the left hand side your line for your horizon has to be entirely in your sky so I'm going to choose what I see to be as like the highest spot of non painted canvas and I'm gonna make myself a mark then I used my brush as a ruler and I'm gonna say okay that's how high this line is where this mark is so I'm going to go over onto the other side and I'm gonna make a mark just as high as this one because you can see this is almost to the top of my bristles and on this side I need to do the same thing so I'm gonna make a mark up right about there now I'm going to connect these two lines in a pretty quick motion I'm going to always keep my eye on the prize which is the other dot so even if you don't get the line perfectly executed oops on this step you can modify it but if you keep your eye on the prize the whole time you're gonna get a pretty straight line so even if the paint underneath is wet as you can see mine is that's okay you're just going to get this line to kind of work together and you can see I'm kind of going back and forth a couple times just to make sure I've got it as straight as I visually can and then you can certainly tweak it as you want but what I'm gonna do at this point is I'm just gonna start working on my water so I just put yellow and white on my brush because I really want this top area to be nice and bright so I've got yellow and white and I'm just kind of going across with it make sure I've got myself a decent horizon line now I'm just going to pick up white to start my center reflection of that sky and I like to put mine off at an angle so again that adds a little bit of drama you can see my brush is kind of getting rid of some other colors that were on it and once I get that brighter area down the center which of course you can modify as you go I'm going to start adding in my other sky colors now my goal here is to have the top light and the bottom dark so again this is going to add that drama to it so my colors that I'm going to start using up at the top are the white yellow and orange so those are going to be pretty consistent up at the top now unlike the sky this can be choppier looking you can have more almost like distinct streaks going through as opposed to a smooth finish like you have the sky the sky is more blended so to speak and down in the water it certainly can be choppy that's going to lend the look of like ripples in the water it's going to show movement now I'm going into my red so this is gonna start pulling those darker colors down and I'm just kind of adding these colors and I'm almost kind of pulling them or pushing them into that center area again I want them to blend but I don't want them to overpower it I'm picking up some more yellow at this point I want the yellow to be represented through the whole thing and my goal again is just to kind of get this to go a little bit darker as it comes down to the bottom of my canvas all the while making sure I get it to blend or to it to interact with that center area of the highlighted Sun here so you can have multiple colors on your brush I just picked up yellow orange and red at the same time I will be using that Brown in a minute but I want to make sure I get a good amount of that white that I used for the center I want that to kind of get off of my brush a bit before I start using Brown the brown and a white will sometimes make almost like a muddy look so if you get a lot of that white off of there before you start using the brown you're going to have better success in getting that brown to be nice and dark dark dark so again I'm just still using the yellow orange and red to get these dominant rich kind of sunset colors on here I think I want a little bit more yellow in this center area so I just picked up some yellow once I get this all nice and kind of filled in that's what I'm gonna start really introducing that Brown and dig in what's going on right now but I want to make sure that I've got a good representation of this bright area and making sure that it it works well with the colors that are next so I've got that nice now I'm gonna start picking up that brown and this is where the drama starts and you get these nice bold bright colors that are sitting next to this darkness and it really adds that bit of dimension lets you feel like you're going right into the painting and gonna be following that we're gonna be painting a little sailboat so your eyes are gonna be drawn right to that once you have these nice dark colors down here and so almost done with this section because I'm thinking it's coming out pretty decent I've got some nice dark colors working their way next to these bold vibrant Center colors and through here I might do a little bit of touch-up later but I'm kind of digging that so I think what I'm gonna do now is we're gonna go on to the next step and the next step is gonna be done with your small brush so once you've filled with this water enough it's really hard to stop sometimes that's why I just keep painting here but once you feel like you've fiddled with this enough and you have enough kind of drama and distinction between that highlighted area and the areas that go next to it what you can do is you can put that big brush away in your water cup and you can take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so the next step we're going to be doing is painting the birds I'm going to be using black paint and I'm going to be using my number two brush we're gonna be making small lines here and one of my tricks for making small lines is I'm gonna take my black paint I'm gonna add a touch of water to it and my goal here is to make this like an ink consistency so I make it nice and thin not drippy thin just a touch of water in it and I take my brush and I spin in the side of my palate so that way my brush gets nice and pointy and when I go to paint these birds I'm not going to press hard and you can always practice on like a piece of paper or something before you do that first one but when I go to do these they're gonna be the ones that I learned in first grade those long like M's and I'm going to make them different sizes and at different angles so here I go I'm gonna do my first one and I'm gonna do it maybe somewhere up here and what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna press hard I'm gonna go in and like that and then so then maybe my next one is a little tiny one maybe my third one is over here and it's at a different angle so you could really make them as big or as small as you want based on preference you could do them all over your canvas but I'm just gonna do a few like that and that's all I'm gonna do for my birds so I am gonna use my small brush for the next step but you're gonna want to you don't even have to wash it because we're gonna use black so small brush next step just get ready all right so the next step we're doing is we're gonna do the outline to the boat I'm gonna be using black paint only and I'm gonna be using my small number two brunch so the same thing goes use that water down paint spin your brush on the side of the palette what I'm doing is I'm gonna be going about an inch or two away from my horizon line I'm gonna be making it about three inches wide I start with like a rectangle so you can start with a little rectangle a long rectangle just paint it in black and you can see because I'm using water down paint it's little bit see-through but life's gonna go on we're gonna paint over it in a minute I like the thin paint too because it's going to dry fast I'm gonna do a little bump up for the edge of the boat over on the right-hand side and I'll do the same thing over on the left-hand side so that way it gives the boat some kind of shape other than a rectangle and once I got that shape in there I'm going to use the same black paint I'm gonna do a vertical line somewhere from the center and you can go up or down whatever works for you I'm going pretty darn high I'm not pushing hard and I'm making myself look pretty slender line and you can see mine's not super straight doesn't have to be I want to make myself kind of like a peekaboo spot so you can see underneath the sails so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do an arced line over on the right almost of the back of the boat and same thing for the right or the left hand side and arced I make one a little bit different than the other I'm going to be putting some people in my boat so I made the left side a little bit higher now I'm gonna make myself the shape of the sails so I'm gonna not start at the tippy-top but maybe a little bit away from the tippy-top of my line and just kind of bring this down and some kind of line it can be wobbly like that it's a piece of canvas for the sails so it doesn't have to be super straight I'm going to do the same thing for the left oops you like it when the instructor says oops I just extended my line a little bit higher and I'm gonna do the same thing on the left I don't want these sites to look exactly the same because the wind is taking them so they don't have to look perfect so then I'm also going to put little people for my little people they are literally like ovals one is taller than the other the taller one is the guy and I'm gonna put a diagonal line to indicate he has a hat on him and for her I'm gonna put a little like the ponytail thing just a little bit of hair maybe sticking out the back to indicate that she's got some hair and that's all I'm gonna do for my people if you want a little rope at the top you can just take that black and almost make a bowtie like a shoe like you're tying your sneakers and that's what I'm going to do for the outline of my boat then you can wash and dry that small brush in preparation for the next step so the next step that I'm going to do is the shadow reflection in the water of the boat so what because we don't want this to look like it's levitating in the water we want it to look like it's actually in the water so we need to make movement around the boat so what I'm going to be using is red and black because I know that we're gonna see both of them the black will overpower the red so I'm gonna use more red to start and what I'm doing is I'm just in essence putting some horizontal marks they don't have to be perfect lines just horizontal marks you want to make sure you bring them up past the bottom of the boat so they almost look like they're coming around the boat from the other side and you can put them you know as far back as you want because that shows the trail of the water and the front is going to show kind of like the push of the water so I've got some red on there and now I'm going to pick up a little bit of black this is going to just almost kind of intensify the the movement and if you feel like it's too dark you can certainly add a little bit of white for like white caps but that's gonna be a visual preference on your part so the white caps could be anywhere they could be in the front or the sides or whatever you feel is appropriate so then I am going to wash and dry this small brush we'll use it for the next step so that's it for that one and get ready for the next step okay so for the next step we're actually finishing the sails and the boat so I'm gonna color in my sails first I want mine to just be kind of like a canvas II color so I'm gonna use and it can also like reflect what you're seeing from the landscape so I'm definitely using some white because that's gonna act as like a primer coat to cover that horizon line because you might find that that horizon line is a little bit difficult to cover just because you might have used thick paint or it's a dark contrasting I do like to go over some of this black outline that I've used but I want that black outline there because I'm gonna utilize it for a little stitching along the sides of the of this canvas kind of sail that I'm creating but you can really make these sails whatever color I mean I've done this class a hundred times and and people make blue sails or vibrant yellow sails or super red sails patriotic sails polka dotted ones you could really do whatever is visually a pea to you but my trick here is I'm not using a lot of paint and what's gonna happen is it dries fast which is gonna allow me to put a second coat on it if I need to for coverage purposes but that again is a preference on your part you will be able to see the black through it which is on purpose from my part because I wanted you to be able to to see that but again you could like I just added a little bit of Brown to my to my color combination because I wanted it a little bit darker but again it's all in whatever is visually appealing to you once you kind of get it and I might just add it a touch of black to I think I want this a little bit darker too like it's being shadowed by the sunset you can really make this whatever shade you want to just add it a little bit of red I'm kind of playing with it as I go because I'm just testing what I like visually with it and I'm thinking I wanted it a little bit darker just so I can almost make it feel silhouette II because it's such a cool like sunset kind of picture and then once you get it the way that you whatever color you're looking for I like to add a little bit of stitching along the sides so you can do a couple of different things I'm going to put a little bit of white on my brush which is going to kind of separate and add a little bit of dimension to the canvas sail as if it's like buckled out a little bit and then what I'm going to do I don't wash my brush off and you'll probably notice that I just added a little bit of black and I'm doing these like little tiny diagonal stitches along the but that again is you know a preference not a lot of people you know even care about that stuff I my tree identify this center line to make sure that the viewer can tell that there's two sales here instead of one maybe I'll put a couple of little stitches on the back maybe I won't depends on you know what kind of mood I'm in and then I'm just gonna add a little bit of highlight to the front of the boat so I just picked up white yellow and red and I'm starting at the front of the boat I add a highlight here and I just pull it back so that way it's brighter at the very front of the boat as if it's being illuminated by this Sun over here and then I just pull it so it almost fades into the black of the boat and because I'm doing it in this curve it's going to add shape to the boat as well and if you need to you can you know make that back of the boat even blacker or you could you could have a you know a red boat you could really make this as colorful or not colorful as you want and that is gonna conclude that part of it and there's always one final step to every good painting and it's gonna be with a small brush so after you're done with your your boat and you have the sail and the people and little highlight as much as you want you're gonna wash and dry your small brush and get ready for that final little step all right so the last step to any good painting is signing it so I'm going to use my small brush I'm gonna use black paint I usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner and because the boats over here I think I'm gonna sign over here I like to use my initials sometimes I'll date it depends I want again what kind of mood I'm in but that's it signature on painting done I hope you enjoyed the process I hope you loved your painting and I look forward to painting with you again sometime [Music]

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Length: 28min 10sec (1690 seconds)

Published: Sun May 05 2019