How to Paint BIRDS AND AN APPLE BARREL with Acrylic - 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 birds in an apple barrel and i'm going to be sipping on a little cabernet and if you do enjoy this video i encourage you to like and subscribe to my channel and also check out my patreon page where you're going to find additional painting perks 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 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white green oxide deep yellow fire red burnt umber which i'll call brown burnt sienna which i'll call rust and i have mars black and of course you can switch up those colors but that's what i'm going to be using for my tools today i have a standard number two pencil and then i have for my brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number eight round brush and a number one round brush and i'll refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process of course you can switch those up if you'd like and if you're painting along with me you're probably going to want to have a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and down below this video i do provide you with a couple of additional resources one of them is a link where you could purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to the paint and the brushes and all that good stuff so that's there for you then there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual 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 what we're going to do for the first step is we're creating an initial sketch for our bucket our table and our apples so i'm going to be using my number two pencil and i'm going to give you a couple of dots and we're just going to connect the dots and by the time we're done hopefully we'll have an outline that's good for our composition purposes so the first thing that i'm going to outline is my bucket so i'm going to come up the right hand side maybe about a third of the way up my canvas and make a mark and to know how far up that is if you can eyeball about your halfway point and then cut that in half to about your quarter way it's somewhere in the middle of those two spots so about a third of the way give or take an inch or two and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come over to the left just past about my halfway mark at about the same height and make myself another marker so if this is about my halfway point i'm just to the left of it a little bit then what i'm going to do on the right hand side is i'm going to come down maybe about an inch inch and a half make myself another little marker in through there and then i'm going to do the same thing over here on the left hand side right about the same height it could be a little bit in further um than this one or a little bit more to the right but just somewhere in that vicinity then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make almost like an invisible diagonal slightly diagonal mark down to the bottom of my canvas and i'm going to make another mark right about here so this is about uh just a little bit to the right of the center of your of your canvas at the bottom now i'm going to connect these the trick here is when you connect the top two and the these two you want to give it a little bit of an arc down towards the bottom of your canvas so i'm just going to kind of make myself a little bit of an arc like that and then i'm going to make myself a little bit of an arc like this and perhaps part of the bucket is not being seen so it doesn't have to be um like a full circle kind of arc then i'm going to connect these two something like that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come in from here just a little bit and then i'm going to connect this to this bottom area and you can see i'm just sketching it doesn't have to be a perfectly straight line then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come about halfway up or down that bucket something like this i'm going to with my pencil measure how high up i went and then i'm going to come about halfway between here and the edge of my canvas and make myself maybe a little bit more than halfway i'm going to make myself another mark at about the same height i'm going to connect those two and then i'm going to connect the end of this to the left-hand bottom corner of my canvas it's a nice diagonal line now i'm going to make myself a whole bunch of apples so i'm going to make one in through here and when you're creating these apple shapes don't worry about them being perfect apples definitely have their own shapes to them they don't have to be perfectly round it's almost better if they're not so i'm going to have one kind of hiding behind my bucket there i'm going to have a big one covering up this corner in through here maybe it's a little bit higher than that one and it's going to sit really far down my table maybe about halfway down my table something like this and again doesn't have to be really of a perfect shape just something that resembles an apple so i think that and you can see i'm just sketching um so i've got those two and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make a whole bunch in my bucket so i think i'm going to have maybe one in through here i'm going to do my front ones first the ones that are going to be um kind of tucked in that front edge and then i'll build my bigger ones behind it so i'm going to go a little bit next to this one and again you don't have to have yours in exactly the same format or formation that i do this is just you know i'm just kind of free-forming it here so maybe i'll have another one this is going to be maybe a really a really big one in through here so maybe this one's going to be a little bit rounder and maybe it's tucked deep in there maybe i've got another one back here and again have fun with the way that you're forming them maybe i've got one that's even taller over here and then maybe another one somewhere in through here now before i go away from here i want to finish off my bucket if you have a little piece right here what you want to do is just kind of bring it around like that maybe your bucket is fully um you've got enough apples in there but i'm leaving myself a little bit of an edge in through there and then i'm going to have a floating one somewhere up here i'm going to have it a little bit smaller than this one just so it looks a little bit farther away i've got it i'm going to have it up going a little bit over to the right of the corner of my bucket and about halfway up that that remainder space and i'm going to do it something like this with just a little dip in the top left hand side and again it doesn't have to be a perfect circle just something like that works and that's all i'm going to do for my sketch we're going to use our large paintbrush for the next step but oh you know what i do want before we go i want to erase these two lines in these apples so if you've got an eraser just it doesn't have to be fully erased this will just make your painting process a little bit more i need i need to bring out my bigger eraser i didn't have any more left on that pencil so now that i've got just these two apple lines erased we'll switch to the large brush so you can get ready all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our sky i'm going to be using my large brush and i'm going to be using green yellow and white i'm going to start off with all three colors on my brush at the same time i'm going to have my sky a little bit darker up at the top and lighter down at the bottom so i'm going to be using this kind of left to right crisscrossy type brush stroke just to get the paint on it really almost doesn't matter what type of paint stroke you're using because you're using really light colors and those tend to hide your brush stroke very easily so if you want to use a different type of brushstroke feel free to do so you'll have to use some other kind of brushstroke as you're getting around your apples anyways and if you bump into your pencil mark that's okay you want to get that color right up to the pencil mark you can have some lighter areas and some darker areas whatever works this is in essence kind of meant to look like an out of focus a forest where there's maybe some evergreen trees back there or maybe it's an out-of-focus apple orchard so you can certainly imagine this to be whatever you want it to be but we're gonna i'm at i'm gonna imagine that the painting or the the part of the painting that's the focal point is the thing that's in focus so i'm okay with these really soft colors behind it and i am going to from time to time you'll see i'm just going to kind of go brush my brush back and forth i'm okay with bumping into my my outlines a little bit i just want some kind of nice smooth background and again i'm going dark at the top and i'm coming down lighter and lighter as i get down towards the base of that background and you might find that you want to do more than one layer you might find that you want yours more yellow or more white than mine whatever works for you is totally fine i'm just going right up to my to my outline and sometimes you're you'll notice that your pencil itself the the lead from the pencil depending on the type of pencil you're using will almost bleed into your paint just let it happen it's all right if that happens it's just going to add a nice soft look to the background a nice natural kind of color and if you wanted to you could certainly use a little bit smaller of a brush to get in towards these little crevice areas but again because we're using a light color it's going to be okay if you have to switch your brush stroke just to get along these edges of your apple and the edge of the table and you can see i'm really light with my with my color right now but you can of course use it darker or lighter maybe yours ends up looking like a sunset back there whatever is visually appealing to you is totally fine and then we are going to be using the same brush for the next step so once you have your fur or your your sky on here you can wash and dry this large brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the first layer of our table top and our bucket i'm going to be using my large paintbrush and the colors that i'm using are rust brown and yellow so how i'm going to do this i'm going to start with my table first and then put in a little bit of rust and a little bit of brown on my brush and i'm hardly using any paint i just want a thin coat on here this is going to act as what i refer to as my primer coat or my base coat and if you run into a little bit of wet paint along the edge from your sky don't worry about it and i'm almost just like dry brushing this on here i'm just looking for a soft light or thin i should say base coat that's gonna dry nice and quickly on me and what i'm gonna that's all i'm gonna do for the table and then as i go into my bucket i'm not going to wash my brush but i'm going to instead of brown and rust i'm going to pick up rust and yellow and i'm going to do this part this little inside part and here but i'm going to start with this part first because i'm going to do different directional brush strokes so i'm going to start with this one and i'm going up and down it's going to be my brush stroke but i need to get underneath here or at least have the be paint so i'm going to just put a wet line there and then pull it down like this so when i reload i'm just picking up a rust and yellow and i'm you i want this to look like wood or some some representation of wood same thing with the table but i don't want them to look exactly alike which is why i'm using a different color combination in the bucket than i am on the table so even though we're doing something very similar and again you don't need a real thick coat we're just getting the base coat on there but even though we're doing something very similar as the table adding that yellow and rust is going to make it look a little bit different so on here i'm going to go with the the shape of that particular section and i have you'll be able to detect if not by your pencil mark but by the direction of your paint stroke those two different sections and then you don't want to forget this little area here and you no special brush stroke there just however you can get the paint into that little tiny spot is totally fine and then i'm getting this color all the way up to the edge i think i need a little more yellow on my brush here just to make sure that i've got good coverage i want it thin but i don't want i want to make sure i have enough paint and then we're going to be switching brushes to our medium brush so once you've got this first layer on your table and your bucket you can put this large brush away in your watercolor 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're doing the first layer of our apples and we're just going to be using red paint i'm going to be using my medium brush before you start i just a little information as to why i'm just going to be using red paint i again i'm looking for a base coat which is what we've done on everything else up to this point and these three apples are going to be really easy we're just going to paint them in red and they're going to be fine but when you get to this area red tends to be very translucent so you should in theory be able to just paint over this whole section with red paint and still be able to see your pencil marks underneath test it out first though when you're i'm i'm going to be doing these ones first and you'll be able to on your own canvas tell if you can still see the the pencil through it if you can't see the pencil through these that means that your paint is really nice and thick and it's got it nice and thick and you can't see through it so what i would recommend doing is somehow either making your pencil darker or you could even do a little bit of a brown paint let it dry and then do the red over so you can see those those outlines of where you put the pencil or you can leave a tiny bit of space between each object so if you can't see through it those are going to be my tips i'm using red paint and there's nothing fancy here i am just getting the paint to go all the way to the edge of my pencil mark and coloring it in again i'm going to be able to see my pencil underneath it doesn't really matter on these singular apples but it's going to matter on that one i do want my out my paint to overlap my pencil so that way i don't see any of my pencil in the sky so i want to make sure that i get that on there and i'm just looking for a thin coat i i don't need it to be really thick in this step again this is just going for our primer coat i'm going to do this one right up to the edge make sure i don't have any gap between my my bucket and my apple and if i accidentally do i can fix that later but i'm going to try to get it all on now and then bring it all the way to my pencil mark and you might find that you want to reshape your apples at this point now's the time to do it you can certainly have a whole bunch of fun with making them in whatever type shape you want maybe you've got a favorite kind of apple that has a distinct shape and i'm going to go ahead and do this one and you can see i've got my apples are really organically naturally shaped here so and again i can certainly see my pencil marks underneath i'm leaving a little bit of almost a flat spot at the bottom of this one of this apple so it won't look like it's going to roll off my my farm table here and then i'm just going to paint it all in a red this is uh i mean it's funny because some of these paintings i just i get inspired i was talking to my sister this weekend on the phone and she says yeah we're going to go apple picking this weekend so ta-da now we have an apple picking and an apple barrel picking kind of painting so i haven't gone yet this year i usually go at least once a year but this has been a much different year than normal so right now on here all i'm really doing i'm gonna do an outline i can still see my pencil underneath my red paint because i'm doing a nice thin layer and once i've got my outline i'll go right along the bucket edge and then i'm just going to paint in the whole apple or the whole area of the where the apples are and again i'm making sure that i go all the way to my pencils the edge of my pencil so any pencil marks are within the footprint of my apple so that way i know later when i go to do my highlights and my shadows on my apples i'll be able to really disguise those uh those pencil marks and again i go slow when it comes to going along the edges if if you bump into your bucket don't worry we've got another layer on the bucket too so even if your lines or your paint isn't perfect and if you did not stay within the lines don't worry about it and then let's see what are we going to do next we're going to be using the large paint brush for the next step so once you've got your base coat of your apples all nice and completed you can put this medium brush away in your water cup take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to be doing for the next step is we are doing out of focus foliage we're going to be using our large brush and the colors that we're going to be using are black brown and green but before we start that step i do want to kind of forewarn you that you want to have your canvas dry before this step so if you have to you know you can just take a little bit longer of a break or you can sit here and blow on it which might take you all day or you can just you know pick up a blow dryer and blow dry it so whatever you need to do maybe yours is already dry but you definitely want it dry because we're going to be applying this out of focus foliage with a dry brush type technique so you really want that background to be nice and dry if your paint is too wet what will happen is because we're going to be kind of scrubbing it on there you'll be lifting your paint right off your canvas so if that happens just stop and take your blow dryer and blow dry it and add another layer but what what we're doing is out of focus foliage so think of this as if this was a photograph that we were emulating or painting the the focus of that camera was was on the apples and the buckets and the birds and the branch the single branch that this this apple is coming from everything else behind it is out of focus so that's what we're trying to emulate we're trying to emulate the rest of the tree that this one branch is coming from only in an out of focus type of way so never have a lot of paint on your brush and if you if you're scrubbing scrubbing scrubbing and you feel like you're pulling that paint off the canvas just back off with your pressure so here i go i'm going to start i hope i didn't scare you too much i'm going to start with a tiny bit of black brown and green i'm gonna have mine darkest up in the top left-hand corner and i'm gonna have it getting lighter and lighter as it comes down so i've got all three colors on my brush and i'm gonna start rubbing it into my canvas that's the only time i'm going to pick up black now i'm going to pick up green with a tiny bit of brown and i'm going to start bringing it down a little bit further and a little bit further and it doesn't have to be a solid color this is when it's not intended to be a solid color it's intended to be out of focus so more like foggy or um out of focus it's the best word i can come up with for it so i just reloaded my brush with a little bit of green as i come down towards the bottom i'm gonna try and give it almost the impression of little little branches but again i still want it to be out of focus so i'm really just rubbing it on my canvas i have hardly any paint this is why also you want your canvas to be dry so hopefully your apples dry so if you need to you can bump right into your apple you don't want it to look like you're painting around the apple you want there to look like there's stuff behind it so that's why i like to bump into it even go over it if i have to and that's gonna when we do paint the apple it'll definitely give the impression that there's stuff behind it and i'm giving these nice fluffy little edges to these pieces i'm going to come up and do a little bit up in this top right hand corner maybe i'll use more green on my brush this time and i'm sure you can hear my brush right now just scratching away at my at my canvas this is the beautiful part of bristol brushes you can really push this paint around and i don't typically go back into a previous area as it's drying because that's when you'll run yourself into a little bit of trouble so i think that that's pretty good so i'm going to call call it on this step and we are going to be using let's say we're going to use the the let's use the medium brush for the next step so once you've got your auto focus foliage all nice and painted you can put the large brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our branch i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm using are black brown and white so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to start with black and brown and then i'll end up with brown and white as my highlight kind of bark accents to to the branch so i know that i want one clearly coming to connect this apple otherwise it would be suspended in mid air and i don't really want that so i'm going to have it because this is going to be my main focused branch and i'm gonna have it coming up in through here i know that at least around where i live the apple tree branches are really wiggly and and bumpy and not straight so i'm gonna be using a wiggly kind of brush stroke as i do this so i'm going to start with black and brown on my brush and i know that the further away from the tip of the branches i go the thicker that i want that branch to be so i'm going to just start here because i know that this is definitely where i want a branch to come out so you can see i'm just wiggling my brush and then as i get up in through here i'm gonna i'm gonna make it a little bit thicker and it's okay if you can see through the brown or you can see through the black we're gonna add a little bit of a highlight or bark marks on it in a minute once you get this one on here the rest are just free form so i think i'm going to have maybe one or two coming off of this area and you can see i'm just wiggling my brush as i'm creating the appearance of these and then maybe this one combs i don't know out in through here maybe it goes up a little bit i have shaky hands so this is a great step for me i don't have to i don't have to worry about holding my hands steady on this on this particular step so maybe i've got one there maybe i've got one coming in through here and they could certainly you know have branches that cross over one another whatever works for you visually is totally fine and then what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna i'm don't wash my brush i'm adding a little bit of brown and white to my brush and i'm gonna give what i refer to as little bark marks or little highlights so i'm gonna just go top side of some of these branches and give them a little bit of an accent of uh you can refer to it as a highlight you can refer to it as the the evidence of bark whatever works in your head to decipher or to make this uh look pretty realistic i'm going to add touch more here and once i've got the the white on there i don't want it to look like snow so i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel and then i just get it to blend in a little bit with whatever it's next to and that helps to give more of a realistic look to it as opposed to you just putting white streaks on top of the bark and or on top of the branch and i think that looks pretty good you could always add a little bit more brown if you wanted to or more black whatever whatever you need to do to bring it into the the realm of your visual preference and then we are going to be switching brushes to our large brush for the next step so once you've got your branch on here you can put your medium brush away in your water cup take out your large brush and get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our tabletop and our bucket there is a little handle but we'll put that on the bucket later i'm going to be using my big brush my big bristle brush the colors that i'm going to be using are yellow rust brown black and white and how i'm going to do this i'm going to do my table top first because that one's going to be a little bit easier the colors i'm going to be using for that are yellow rust and brown and all i'm gonna really be doing is little streaks i really just want this to it's okay if you bump into your um your apples just for the record i just started with a little bit of yellow i really just wanted to give it almost like a wood type appearance so i'm not using a lot of paint because i don't want to blend them all in together but i do want to give it some sort of wood look so i went yellow then rust now i've got a little bit of brown on my brush and it's okay if you bump into your bucket too because we're gonna we'll we'll finalize that in a second when we go to when we go to put its last coat on here and then i'm going right up to my edge i suppose if you wanted to you could use a little bit of white if you wanted it to be more bright or more brown and rust if you wanted it darker whatever again works for you that's that's the way that you should do it so i just want to make sure that i've got right up to that bucket too so it doesn't look like i've missed anything maybe a touch more rust in through here and i just want various almost wood tones to it i'm keeping a left to right brush strokes so that way it looks almost like there's slats of wood and then i'm going to move right on to my main bucket here i'm not going to wash my brush i'm going to put a little bit of black on it i'm going to start with a shadow underneath this little lip so i'm putting just a teeny bit of black paint on my brush and what i'm going to do is i'm going to push it right up to that edge of that border whatever that the correct terminology is for that i don't know my my apple bucket analogy or anatomy very well that's all right i'm going to bring it almost to the edge i am going to have a little bit of a highlight in through there and then what i'm going to do while i still have a little remnants of this black on my brush is i'm going to i'm going to kind of rub it in here and pull some of it down this is going to give us the again more of an illusion that there is wood slats and we're over on the darker side of the of the bucket if you have a clean outline underneath there that's that works too and now that i've got that on there now i'm going to go using those rust brown and yellow and just do a second coat on the rest of this part of the bucket i'm not using a lot of paint again i just really want to get a nice second coat on here if your brush is overloaded with black paint and and you're not able to get that black paint off please wash and dry the brush that way you'll have a better success in getting these almost wood slats type look to it but maybe you want yours to be dark so if you want yours to be dark fine by me you could certainly put actual black lines down each piece so that's looking pretty good to me and then i'm going to go ahead and do this top part again if you have a lot of dark on your brush i recommend washing it at this point but i'm going to put a little bit of yellow and white on my brush to start this left hand side so yellow and white on my brush i want this left hand side to be highlighted so i'm going to put yellow and white just come right down this edge of the bucket and through here and i want a nice highlight on the top part of this lip or the the edge of it so something like that and then i'm gonna load my brush with uh rust and a yellow to get this to almost do a gradient going over towards the darker side of the bucket so i've got yellow and white and then if you need to wipe your your brush off on your paper towel i'm going to bring some rust and brown over here on the right hand side so what i just did there was i made it light on the left and i'm making it darker over here on the right hand side and again if you need to wash your brush feel free to do so but you want to make sure that you have a nice second coat on the entire bucket area and i don't want to forget this little tiny spot in through here i want this to be a little bit darker so i just added a touch of brown to my brush you might need a little or brush to go in this little tiny crevice but we're going to have other things that will disguise it in a couple of minutes so that's looking pretty oh i want a little highlight down here the left hand side of my bucket yellow and white i'm putting on my brush just to give it a little bit of a highlight down this left hand side give it make it a little bit more three-dimensional and then if you need to or want to you can blend that in a little bit with the neighboring colors and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your bucket and your table all painted in you can put your large brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we're adding the shadows on our apples so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using black and red paint so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to decide where i want these shadows to be i have in my head my light sources way up kind of center in the sky which is where you're seeing a little bit here i'm going to have my shadows underneath my apples pretty center so really i'm just kind of looking for the bottoms of the apples and maybe for this one here i'll put a little shadow on the left hand side and then wherever the apple dips in the top so not too many of my apples you're going to see that little top part so i've made my job a little easy but definitely in my bucket between all of these apples where it dips down into the bucket we're gonna need a shadow so i caution you just to let you know that the black can easily take over so if you find yourself in trouble and you feel like oh my god there's too much black on there know that you can wipe it away with a little bit of water and or back off on the quantity of paint on your brush you can always add more but it's really tough to take away once it's on there so i'm going to start up here i'm going to start with a teeny tiny bit of black paint so how i'm typically going to do this is i'll put the the a sliver of the shadow in with black and then i will pick up some red to get it to blend into the rest of the apple i'm not going for full coverage on my apple right now i'm really just looking to get a shadow and get that shadow blended into the rest of the apple and if i want a pointy brush i'm going to spin my brush in my paint and that's going to make my my bristles come together and nice and pointy so i'm going to start up here i think i'm going to have a little bit of a shadow over on this left hand side so something like this i'm just really using the tip of my brush right now and then i think i'm going to have a little bit of a dip underneath my apple and then before i pick up my red i'm going to take my brush and wipe it on my paper towel pick up a little bit of red while my black is still wet and i can get that black to oh my apple's going to grow a little bit i can get that black to blend into the rest of the red so if your black dries before you have a chance to blend it in with the rest of the red don't worry you can just add a little bit more wet black to the edge of it maybe that spot grows a little bit more and then you can finish uh getting it to blend into the rest of the apple and then once i've got that done then i'm just going to move on to my next one and i'm going to go in kind of a systematic way through them i just want to make sure that my black is blended into that red and again i'm not terribly concerned about getting the entire apple covered at this point i just really am looking to do those shadows and get the shadow to blend in a little bit so i don't wash my brush when i go back to the black i just wipe it on my paper towel because the black will overpower the red so you don't really need to wash it in that case scenario so this one i definitely want to have some shadow down the bottom and then i'm going to have it coming up this left hand side you can leave a tiny sliver of the red as well sometimes that will help to to give contour information a little reflective color if you go don't go all the way to the edge now while it's still wet i just wiped my brush on my paper towel and i picked up a red and i'm going to get this black to blend in with the brighter area of the apple so i'm just taking it and you might want yours more intense than mine you might want yours more subtle than mine however you feel it it's gonna read as a nice shadowy area that's that's fine by me and i'm just adding a little bit more red to my brush making sure that it blends in with the brighter area and i have remnants of black on my brush so this is speed making the entire side a little bit darker which i'm okay with that's going to make it look even better when i go to add the highlight on there as long as i've got that the darkest area down at the bottom so now i'm going to go right onto my next one this one's a really tiny one so i don't need much black at all on my brush and i'm going to have this one kind of creeping over from the side here i just want to get that black to blend in just a little bit i'm going to pick up some red in a second here pick up some red and now i've got now i'm really blending it into the rest of the red and again you can certainly add more or less we will be doing i guess my apple really grew there we will be doing more of a shadow underneath on the table so know that that time is coming as well so i've got this one in through here i think i'm going to have a little bit of a shadow right in through here all of these ones across the way are going to have a touch of shadow from the bucket itself so i might while i'm here go almost all the way across just because i know that that's going to happen maybe not as intense on all of them but it's easy because i'm right there and it's the same motion so i wiped my brush off on my paper towel picked up some red the only trick to doing a big area like that is controlling when your paint dries and doesn't dry so that's something that you might have to work out if if you followed my lead and i'm just adding more red paint to my brush getting this all to work in together and if you go into your bucket don't worry there's always time for touch-ups if you need touch-ups at the end i just want to make sure that i've got a nice shadow down here and i'm blending it back up into that apple now i'm going to start doing some really deep dark shadows in between those apples so i know that i'm i've got a little one back here so i'm going to add a teeny tiny bit of black wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up some red paint and you can see i'm i'm pretty systematic when it when it comes to doing this because i know that if i can just keep this process going i'm gonna do everything i need to do in order to make it look three-dimensional and this whole apple could be a little bit darker it could be shadowed by these bigger ones in front of it so just know that you can certainly play with the intensity of the shadow when i go to do this one which is where i'm headed next i just have to be careful of this corner so i want to maintain that that one is the darkest one so when i get to this corner here i want this to be a little bit lighter than that but my deep dark shadow is going to be right in through here so i'm going full on black into this little corner or crevice in through here i want that shadow to come up behind this one a little bit and then once i feel like i've got the main area where i want it to be actually i think i want this is part of the same apple down in this little corner here so i'm going to add some black down here and now i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up some red paint and get this shadow to blend into the rest of the apple and again yours might be more intense than mine it might be lighter it might be darker it's going to work once we put the highlights on it so the highlights are really going to help to tell the story of the dimensional aspects of that particular object and then i just have these couple little ones over on the right hand side that's looking pretty good these ones back here i'm going to consider way way way in the shadows so i'm going to use quite a bit of black on them i've got but again i don't want to confuse myself in in any particular spot so i've got some black in through there and then maybe i've got some over in through here and just a teeny bit in through here and now i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up some red paint get this to blend in and you can see as i'm blending i i can pull that shadow further so i want this to definitely be up so when i do a highlight on this apple you can see the difference so i'm pulling a little bit of this shadow up higher and it's it's gradually getting lighter as it goes up towards the top but it's still a pretty dark apple so same thing with this one in through here as i'm doing it the the most intense part is probably going to be over here on the right but then as i get towards this left hand side of the apple i can still bring some of that shadow over there so it can have some more of that the optical illusion that we're giving it and then we are going to be yes nice shadows we're going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your shadows on your apples you can wash and dry this medium brush get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the handle on the bucket i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are brown rust yellow black and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to put brown rust and yellow on my brush at the same time to create the handle and then i'll do a shadow and a highlight so i'm going to start maybe halfway up this apple over here and i'm going to go up a little bit at a diagonal and then i'll come over maybe a little bit past where the edge of the bucket is in through here and then just wrap it back around and you're going to tuck it right into the corner of the bucket and through here so what because i used all three colors on my brush you're going to have a variety of tones within it so whatever happens just let that happen it's just meant to be a complementary color to what you have going on in the rest of the bucket and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a little bit of black on my brush so i'm just going to take my brush and wipe it off on my paper towel i'm going to pick up a touch of black i'm going to put a shadow on the inside over here so something like that with my black and then i'll put a little bit over here on the bottom of the left hand side so something like that that's going to make it look like it's kind of going right into the bucket and then i'm gonna wipe my my brush off on my paper towel and pick up a little bit of yellow and white and this is gonna be the highlighted part on the top of my bucket or on the top of the handle and that's all i'm going to be doing for this step i'm going to be using the same brush for the next step so once you've got your handle on here you can wash and dry that medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the first layer of our birds so we're doing these cute little black capped chickadees which are very popular around where i live you can make yours into any type of bird that you want but i'm going to be doing these cute little birds and if yours don't come out exactly like mine who needs to know that they were supposed to be this distinct type of bird uh so what i'm gonna do when i teach doing birds i do like to teach you that all birds have two distinct shapes to them they have an egg for a body and a circle for a head so it could be a swan or a hawk or a dodo bird or a little cute chickadee they all have an egg for the body the pointy part is where the tail is and then a circle for the head but they have different length necks they have different type of tail feathers they have all different types of shapes in between those two things but those are a great place to start so we've got three different positions of these cute little chickadees so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using white paint and we're just going to be doing a base coat for all of them so this is going to be a the primer coat and that way when we go to add the other colors it makes it really easy process for us because we've got a nice vibrant tone underneath and these birds they are of a black and white kind of nature so this hosts a very appropriate base coat for us so i'm going to put white paint on my brush my very first one that i'm going to do is going to be up in my tree on top of my apple and to me he's kind of peering over the apple to his other little chickadee buddy over in the in the apple bucket so i'm gonna put his tail coming up in this vicinity and his body here and his head somewhere around here so here i go i'm going to do my egg type shape with his tail the pointy part of my egg being somewhere in there and it can overlap your apple a little bit so don't feel that it can't overlap the apple and i'm not making my birds huge you can certainly make yours however long or big that you want but i'm going to try and keep mine all pretty similar in size ratio so that's going to be my egg and i think i'm going to just modify it just a little bit here so something like that that's my egg my circle for my head on this one is going to come over here it's going to be peeking over the edge a little bit so i'm overlapping my circle into my bird a little bit then i have to connect my neck because i don't want it to look like it's just a bobbly head so i know that these birds they have their head is pretty big in proportion to their body and they have really thick necks so that's how i'm gonna connect that head to that body and then i'm going to put a tiny little beak on my beak is going to be about mid circle in the direction i want him to look so i'm just really going to give it a tiny little beak right in through there and i'm gonna do my tail feathers so my tail feathers for this type of bird are almost as long as the main part of their body maybe not quite that long but definitely a a good distance away and they almost fan out so they're a little bit more narrow where they hit the body and then they just fan out a little bit so that's all i'm going to do for that one now i'll move on to my next one i think i'll have do this one down here so this one's going to be perched upon this apple i'm going to have its tail coming over on this side and it's going to be looking over at the chickadee that i'm going to have in my bucket so i'm going to do this egg is going to be well this one's going to be a little bit larger than i anticipated maybe it'll look closer to us that'll that's my story and i'm sticking to it i totally meant to make it that big so this is actually i think it's going to be a good size so i'm doing my eggs somewhere around here i'm going to have it overlapping this little tiny corner of the apple something like that i'm going to have the circle sitting right on top of this a little bit back to the left of its chest so something like this that's going to be my circle i'm going to connect that head to the body so i'm really just going to kind of drop this down like that and then i'm going to get rid of that back part of the neck something like that i'm going to give myself a tiny little beak facing where i want him to be looking so i want him to be looking over here so about mid head just giving him a little tiny beak and you might not be able to see it too much of your background super duper light but this definitely will help with that base coat so i'm going to do my tail and this one's going to just come down in this direction fan out a little bit maybe it's in front or behind the apple you decide and then i'm going to go ahead and do my third one this one's going to be sitting right up upon this tallest apple in through here i want its tail to be coming down in through here so i'm gonna have the back portion of its egg over here and he's gonna be sitting nice and perched on here as if this is his pile of apples and nobody else's but again you can have fun with however you want yours to be dominating the the apple pile and i've got him and through here and you know again maybe yours are all different sizes maybe you've got two on top of your pile of apples i'm gonna do my properly proportioned circle i think something like that this one i've got going about the same distance as the chest gonna close off this little dip and then i'm gonna make this go into the back of my egg like that and then i'm going to add on a couple little tail feathers so something in this direction again they just fan out just a little bit oh i forgot about his beak give him a little bit of a beak and then we're going to be using the same brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer of your birds on here you can wash and dry this medium brush get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of the leaves in the tree i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using green and yellow paint these leaves or at least from the apple trees that i'm familiar with they're about half the length of the apple and they kind of are pointy at one end they bubble out a little bit and then they're pointy at the next end so i'm going to just alternate or use at the same time the yellow and green on my brush and they don't all have to be in the same direction they can be bent they can be droopy they can be curved but that's the typical kind of shape to them so i'll do one over here so you can kind and they can ripple along the edges too so i'll show you this is kind of the typical type shape to it and then i'm just going to color it in and because i am using yellow and green on my brush or alternating them i will have light spots and dark spots and again this is just the first layer of these leaves so just know that oh and you can start it up the branch a little bit too that will help we're going to be putting little veins and stuff in it but if you want to start the look of the veins you can start it up that the branch a little bit and it doesn't have to just go on the ends of each branch you might put one somewhere in in the middle of a branch something like that i am going to put some on the outside of my apple because i know that a lot of apples have the ones coming out the the top part of them so i'm going to try and represent that maybe i've got one i don't know if this one's going to go in front of my bird or behind it but we'll just start it there maybe maybe it'll morph into something later maybe i've got one behind my my apple something like this so really just have fun with where you want to put them i think i'm gonna have one or two down in through here and again they can be curved they can have more yellow in them they can have more green in them you can have a crossing over a branch they're going to be see-through right now so don't worry about that we will correct that or modify it later when we do the second coat to these but right now they're going to be a little see-through so don't be alarmed maybe i've got one coming up in through here maybe i've got a couple that are over the top edge of my canvas so really just have fun with this put them wherever you want them to be put them as you know they can certainly be larger or smaller that would they don't all have to be exactly the same size that's going to tell the viewer if they're closer or farther away and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer of the leaves of your trees you can wash and dry that medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the shadows where our stems are going i know i said we were going to do this before but clearly i forgot so i was supposed to do it when i was doing the shadows here but i totally spaced out i guess so now i'm going to put them where i want those stems to be so i'm going to have one in through here so again i'm just going to start with a teeny tiny bit of black paint i think this one's going to go somewhere in this vicinity so this is a very little tiny bit of paint you don't need much at all just to tell the viewer that there's a little dip in there i think i'm going to have this one is going to be over here just a little tiny bit at the top i'm going to have one in through here this is going to be something like that this is a really really quick which is i'm surprised i did it i didn't do it earlier when we were doing the regular shadows and maybe i'm going to have one up in through here so you can really put them wherever you want i don't really have too too many there's going to be one here but that's going to be a little bit hidden and that's that's all we're going to do we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got your stem shadowy areas done you can wash and dry that medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing the main part of the apples so this is in essence going to be the highlight and then any tweaking that you feel that you need to do i'm using my medium brush and the dominant colors that i'm going to be using are white yellow and red and if you need to you can certainly add more brown or black as as you see fit the reason that i'm not just using white and red is one you can have yellow in in apples apples come in all different varieties but i don't want my apples to be too pink and if i was to just use yellow and red that would create a pink type hue which i'm okay with in some areas of it but i don't want the whole thing to turn pink on me so yellow helps to counteract that and the trick to this is you don't need a lot of paint you can always add more and you can always add layers but if you start with a big huge glob of paint and you put it on there and you try to work it around what's going to happen is you'll over blend and the whole thing will turn into one solid color so just go slow steady a little bit of paint at a time and and you'll be fine so i am going to be doing my i think i mentioned earlier that i feel like my my sun is just high up in the sky so my my highlights are going to be pretty high on the apples they don't just have to be on the top edge where the the your head would tell you that the sun is you want it to come in a little bit because these are rounded type objects so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to start with a little bit of white on my brush and i'm going to tell myself where the brightest spot of the apple is going to go so somewhere around here and just wiggle the paint around a little bit then without washing my brush i'm going to pick up red and yellow and i'm going to start working around that highlighted area and get it to blend a little bit again this might take you a minute or two to get the the rhythm of it but that's okay if it takes you you know three apples before you get your your groove that's all right if you ever feel like you have too much paint on your brush just wipe it on your paper towel you want to keep moving this paint as it's drying so you can have you know the lighter area creep a little bit farther than you want it to that's okay just bring back some of the red if you need to or if it's not dark enough or light enough then just bring some more light into it it's a round object so the the light spot doesn't just have to be in one saw in one specific spot it can really travel based on the contour of that particular object so because the light is you know up and over to the right this entire right hand side can be lighter than the entire left hand side so just know that you can really play with this as much as you need to and if you feel like you're you're working on one it's and you're just over blending and it's just too much and it's just not working pass go on to the next one and then come back to this one after it's dry so i might do a little bit more on that later but right now i'm i'm pretty pretty good with the way that that looks i've got a bright spot that just fades into the darkness so i'm gonna go on to this one over here so i just wiped my brush off on my paper towel if you're overloaded you can certainly wash it in between apples i want my bright spot to be somewhere around here so i'm going to give it almost like a curved type a highlight so that way it's telling the viewer that it is in fact a curved object i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up a little bit of yellow and red and go outside of my lightness and start working my way back into it and i'm just using a little circular motion you might find you want to use a different type of brushstroke maybe a tapping apples have lots of visual texture even though they are smooth in nature they have their color patterns can appear to be textured so if you if you don't want to have just a brilliant you know solid color you don't need to you can really have almost like a speckled or a stripe type look the different varieties of apples come in all different varieties of colors and some have speckles some have almost stripe like formations on himself feel free to make yours whatever you want maybe you want a granny smith apple thrown in the bunch here so you just or a honeycrisp apple or a macintosh i think that's about all the apples i know so oh red delicious red delicious apples too i think i don't know what my my favorite i think my favorite kind is just a sweet crispy kind of apple which i'm not quite sure what the name of that is but that's what i like in my apples empire yuma so i think that this one's pretty good so i'm gonna work my way onto the next one maybe just a little bit more up here to give you the information that this is in fact nice and light up here yeah that's much better okay and then over here i'm gonna have this one maybe somewhere in through this area so again i'm just working on that brightest brightest spot that i want it to be the brightest and then i'm gonna go into yellow and red in it in the surrounding area and kind of back myself into it to make it blend in and again i know that it's around objects so that light spot can travel further than just that that concentrated bright spot and i do want to make sure that i don't have that i that i have a full coverage on the entire apple so i might have to go back into areas that might not have gotten a full coverage the first time and put a second coat on it so here we go on to the next one i'm wiping my brush up on my paper towel picking up some white and again just like when i was doing the shadow areas i have a system you know i i'm putting my my lightest spot on i'm kind of moving it where i want it to be out to occupy its own space wiping my brush picking up my orange and my red going outside of that spot and then just backing into it a little bit and making sure that it blends where i want it to to be visible and i'm going to make sure that i've got this all the way over on this side and again you can if you want the rest of your apple more red or more brown or you feel that it needs a little bit more punch in one area or the other now's the time to do it we're just tweaking we're making sure that they are as dimensional as we want them to be wiped my brush off of my paper towel i'm picking up some white paint oh that was a lot of paint this one i'm going to have somewhere in through here this one might have a little bit of a shadow from my bird in a minute and i'm feeling not i just put my highlight on there i'm feeling it's a little pink so that tells me it's probably time for me to wash my brush so i'm going to actually wash and dry my brush right now because i didn't get that vibrant white that i wanted to so my brush has got to be a little overloaded washed my brush picked up some nice there we go some nice bright white wiping my brush off on my paper towel picking up a little uh red and a yellow and i'm going to go outside of that highlighted area and kind of back into it and make sure even though i'm going to have a shadow from my bird i still know without that bird there there would be highlights on here so i'm going to put my highlight as far as i think it would be without that bird being there so then when i do put the shadow from the bird it will only shadow the areas it needs to and i wouldn't i won't have missed the highlighted areas that would have been there if he wasn't there i don't know if that makes a whole bunch of sense but it makes sense in my head and then i think this one's looking pretty good but i feel like i need another layer in through here so i'm just adding a little bit more red to my brush and again making sure that even though i have the highlight where i want that i've got everything else painted and is fully executed the way that i want as well i this one back here i don't want to add too much maybe just uh maybe just a little tiny smudge there a little red and yellow on my brush just to make sure that it is complete and then i just have a couple more in my bushel of is that what it's called a bushel of apples a bushel a bushel a bat a peck a bushel i don't know another one of those terminologies that escapes me right now a bushel of apples a peck of apples a pick a peck of pickles no pickle peck is pickles apples is bushels i have a lot of fun in my head every now and again [Music] peter piper picked a pic peter piper peter piper pip peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers it's it's funny how i have to test my knowledge as i'm painting these i don't really i never think about these these technical things until i'm confronted with having to talk about them for this time frame that i get to spend with you guys so it's not just all about painting it's what is this thing that i'm painting and sometimes i frankly i just don't know what it is i know what it looks like but i don't know all of the fun aspects about it so again i'm doing the same thing i'm just i'm adding my i put my highlight on there i wiped my brush off on my paper towel added a little bit of the red and the yellow and then i'm just kind of tweaking this until i feel like that's a good enough highlight which i feel that is so i've got a couple left here these are just going to be teeny tiny ones i kind of want these ones to stay a little bit in the darkness so i'm just doing again i'm going to pretend like my my tail isn't there i want to make sure that i have my highlight where i want it to be even if the tail wasn't there so just something like that and again these ones i kind of want to be in the shadow a little bit and then we are going to be let's see we're going to use our let's use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your highlights and your apples look all nice and crispy and perfect you can wash and dry 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 leaves on the trees so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using brown yellow and white and if i want to some green too but predominantly brown yellow and white so what i'm going to do is i've got my small brush i've got brown paint on my brush and i'm going to give myself some veins inside my leaves and i do this in kind of a carefree way because i don't want it to look like i'm counting the number of veins up and down my leaves so i start at the branch i bring one kind of in the center and then i really am almost just whisping in these little veins and maybe you don't even see them on all of them maybe some of them you see maybe some of them you don't so you don't have to do it on every single one if you don't want to this is a good one so you can see it but i go down that center and then just bring out a couple of little pieces if you want there to look like there's movement in your leaf you can certainly do a curved line for that center stem part of the vein and then once i have my veins on here i'm going to do little highlights with my small brush so i've got some good veins on there so now i'm going to do i you can wipe your brush off on your paper towel or wash and dry or nothing i'm going to just add some yellow and white to my brush and i'm looking to get almost highlights on the tips or the edges of my leaves it doesn't always have to be on the tip or the edge but that to me is the part that would be sticking out the most on these type of leaves so that's where i'm going to just kind of pop in a little brightness to it you could certainly go back into the green if you want to i didn't put a little vein on this one let me see if i can pop one in there uh but i i think that you know if you have enough green on there you don't necessarily need to add any more green but if you feel like you need that extra pop feel free to do so this just helps to you know add little curves to the edges of your leaves or add a little bit more movement to them so feel free to have fun doing this and make them as vibrant as you want this also helps to get them to pop out of that canvas a little bit more so if you feel like you've gone too far feel free again to bring back some of that green or if you feel like you need to cut maybe one of the leaves is a little bit see to see through certainly add more paint if you need to cover up anything and then we are going to be using let's see we'll use this small brush for the next step so after you get your leaves all nice and finished you can wash and dry that 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 doing the stems on our apples we're going to be using our small brush i'm going to be using black brown and white so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to do black and brown on my brush i'm going to put my stems wherever i feel like they should be coming out of so i you know stems can be curved some of them have a little bit of a button on the edge of them you you know have fun with your stem formation i but again i'm doing my i'm doing a little base coat with just brown and black let's see where else do i want i definitely want one coming in through here try and get them to go in different directions too and have a little bit different shape to them that's going to make them look the most natural if they all really look the same and have the same length on them it tends to take away from the natural aspect of it so that's all i'm going to do for how the number now i'm going to just wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up a touch of white paint and just do a little bit of a streak of a highlight on them just again to give them a little bit of dimensional aspect and then we're going to be using that same brush for the next step so you can wash it and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our beaks we're going to use our small brush and we're going to use black and white paint so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to start with just black paint these are the cutest little beaks ever they're just tiny little triangly type beaks so we've already got the base coat on there so what i'm going to do is i'm going to paint it black and i'm going to bring it a little bit into the face so paint it black and i'm going to do that to all three of them so i painted that one black i'm going to paint this one black and go slow so you don't end up with like a a parrot nose or a toucan nose beak nose i'm going to go ahead and do the other one you just want to keep it nice and dainty and tiny these little birds have these little teeny tiny beaks so something like that and then i'm gonna wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up a tiny bit of white and i'm going to do a little white highlight it doesn't have to be just on the edge i'm going to put it a little bit away from the edge so that way the viewer can see the left and right side of that particular beak and so you can still have some dimension to it so and i'm bringing it into the face a little bit however far that beak is and then we're going to use the same brush for the next step but you're going to want to wash it and dry it in preparation alright so we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the black head and neck feathers i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using probably you guessed it black paint so how i'm going to do this these birds for they they're called black capped chickadees because they have a black cap on the top of their head so that's where the majority of the paint the black paint is going to go and then they have on their neck there's a big black section of paint a pile of paint there will be in a second of feathers on their neck as well so we have a nice white base coat underneath so as i'm doing this i'm going to be doing it in the direction of what i feel the feathers would be growing so if you have little streaks of your color the white underneath it's okay it doesn't have to be 100 painted in so there there is going to be white feathers also so what i'm going to do is i'm going to let's do an easier one first let's do let's do this one so you can see really where the the feathers go so i'm going to start them at the back side of the beak and they're going to end up coming about halfway into the neck and over to where the the neck and the chest start as i'm on the edge of the feathers where they're gonna eventually meet other feathers i i'm gonna keep it messy like a messy line so i started behind the beak and i'm just gonna do this little cute uh feathery type stroke which is very appropriate and then i'm gonna go across this way to meet this little area where it would meet the chest you could even do little fluffy ones along the neck too because they're all feathers so if if it fluffs out a little bit there too that's fine so that's going to be the neck area and then i'm going to go ahead and do the the cap area so the cap is going to start at the top of the beak it kind of comes in a dipping type arcing fashion here and then it rides along the back of the neck into where the back or the wing feathers are so again i'm going to start i'm going to give myself like a little outline i'm going to start at the top of the beak and i'm going to do this broken kind of feathery line i'm going to bring it up a little bit in through here and then back down the back side of the of the head and then the entire head can get painted in black paint i would recommend the top part of their head be a little bit on the smoother side i don't think it's really super fluffy on the top of their head i think they do have more of a smooth type head but you can bring it right down to the beak in through there and then again if you see little pops of white underneath that's okay so something like that it comes bent down just a little bit down that back side and then i'm going to go ahead and start on my next one and they all occupy the same type of space so wherever you feel like this neck is that's where you're going to put the the black feathers and it's going to go about halfway between the where the neck meets the chest and the middle of the body so i'm going to start at the bottom part of my beak and i'm going to bring out these little feathery type motion it's going to occupy this area above my chest and then if i want i can have little fluffy things coming out that neck and then just paint that section in with the black paint his cap again is going to start at the top of his beak it comes in like an arcing motion to the back of his head and then it rides down the back of his neck a little bit so you don't want to go too far down just keep in perspective where the back of the head and the and the back meet because you don't want it to go much farther than that so i can start at the top of my beak and i'm gonna go in this almost little arcing type motion to the back of my head and then i'll let it ride down the back of that neck a little bit and i'm going to paint in the top of my head make sure i bring it all the way to my beak beak the top of my beak and then i can just paint it in with some black paint and again if you have the little peek-throughs of white showing through it's okay it's going to give it a little bit that'll make it look like it's got a little bit of fluff to it and then i have my last one down in through here and same thought process i've got the bottom of my beak the the black feathers are going to meet about halfway into his body and it's gonna have this little feathery type appearance to it so somewhere about in through here i'm gonna have it curve like a little bit of a chest type area something like this maybe a little foo feathers along his neck in through there and then just paint this in with black paint and again if you can see a little bit of the white that's okay and then i've got his cap area so top of the beak to the back of his head using like a little arcing type motion and again i'm keeping it nice and ruffled they're ruffling the feathers and then down the back of the neck and then paint that whole head in with black paint and we are going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got your black head and neck feathers on here you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing our tail feathers we're painting in tail feathers we're going to use our small brush we're going to be using black brown and white and you just keep alternating those colors on your brush and you use a lot of paint so i'll start with this one up here i'm going to start with some brown paint and really i'm going to be going on top of my tail feather that i already have and i also want to give some little connector feathers between the body and the tail i'm just doing streaks and i want to make sure that i still see some white or if i cover up all the white that's okay just put bring some back into it so brown black i'm gonna do some little connector ones in through here and you don't have to do much just a little bit a little dab will do you in this type of step and i'm adding a touch of white to my brush just to make sure that it really reads as having almost little layers to it i'm going to go down to this one start with some brown put some brown streaks in here and i'm not over doing it i don't want to blend all my colors together i really just want it to be almost on the streaky side so that way it looks like there's all of these different colors represented in here and you could really get really detailed and make sure that you have the underside darker than the upper side but i'm really just going for some some fun representation here i am putting my little ones underneath here just to make sure that the tail meets into the body a little bit in through here and then i'll go ahead and do the next one so i'm going to start with some brown and again so just some brown streaks in through here a little bit then i'm picking up a little bit of black make sure i've got some black in through there then a little bit of white just to again give all the colors to represent and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so you can wash and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our wings we're going to be using the small brush and we're going to be using black brown and white and the wings are going to go in probably an obvious spot for you which will be in through here this one is a little bit more towards the back side and then this one is going to go in through here and just like the tail i'm going to be alternating these colors but instead of going in a straight type motion i'm going to be doing a curved type motion so on here i'm going to just kind of start like this and just keep it curved the whole time so i just switched to black paint and you can if you want to they can kind of flip out past the back profile if you want to a little bit but you really don't have to do a lot when it comes to that the as long as you have the motion of that that particular wing that's really all that is needed to to kind of tell the story of the wing then i'm going to go ahead down here i'm going to pick up some brown this one again is a little bit more elusive it's over on the side of the body so maybe you just get a little sliver of it like that going to pick up just a teeny bit of black maybe it's almost curved over that side and then maybe just a little bit of white just to kind of give that layer type look to it and then i have this one over here so again i'm going to start with some brown it's going to go in this direction and maybe this maybe this is the one that we have flipping out a little bit into past its back a little bit so a little bit of brown now i'm going into a touch of black just to get this to really have that feathered look to it and i'm just layering and stripping striking streaking striping that was a new word that i just made up uh so you can certainly have as much fun with this as you want and then we're gonna use this same brush for the next step so you can all wash it and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the eyes on these cute little chickadees we're going to be using a small brush and we're going to be using white paint but you might want white and black depends on if you need to make your eyes smaller than you initially do but i'm going to attempt with just white and if i if i make them too big i will i'll go back into my black so teeny teeny teeny tiny bit of white paint on my small brush and get your brush as pointy as you can these eyes are typically really close to the bottom of that mask and they're pretty close to the beak as well so i would say come down really maybe you know close to the bottom and a little bit to the left of the center of the head that'll put you in in a pretty good vicinity i'm going to do a dot and a crescent and that's all i'm going to do for for this eye just making sure my brush is pointing up so somewhere about here i'm going to do one little dot and then the crescent is going to go on the bottom side towards the beak and that's all i'm going to do to it so i'm going to and if you make it too bold you can back it off with some black so i'm going to go ahead and do the other two so i'm going to do a dot and a crescent on the side where the beak is so i'm going to go ahead and do the third one i'm going to do a dot and a crescent on the side where the beak is that's all i'm going to do we're going to use the same brush for the next step so once you've got your cute eyes on there you can wash and dry 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're finishing our body feathers so we're going to be body and face just the bird feathers we're going to be using the small brush we're going to be using mostly white but we'll also use yellow and brown and if you need to you can go into the black too so how i'm going to do this is i know that these or the leftover areas that we don't have a second coat are in essence the white feathers however these birds do have a little bit of a brownish tinge to them towards it's brownish yellowish towards the bottom and where it meets the the wings and then you also especially on this one might want to have almost a shadow effect over on this right side just to give the story of it being contoured and same thing with this area in the the face area so it's nice and white in through here but you may want a little bit of other colors maybe gray to black and white to make these feathers all look like they belong together so i'm going to start with this one in the dark area down here and then i'm going to work my way to the light so i'm going to put brown yellow and white on my small brush at the same time and i'm going to start to make these little feathers and i want to tell the story that this is round so i'm not going to go straight up towards that beak i'm going to be using a round around the belly type brush stroke for those for those feathers especially around that front side of it so i'm just getting a little bit of a darker tinge on here i'm going to do the same thing in through here and then without washing my brush i'm going to pick up some white paint and that's going to allow me to layer into a lighter zone towards that brighter part of the chest that pop that pokes out the most and then when i get to the neck if i feel like it needs a little bit of overlapping of the feathers i can certainly bring back or put a touch of black onto my brush and that's going to help get these feathers that are right next to each other to intermingle with one another and i'm going to do the same thing on the head i just have a little bit of black and white or whatever my remnants were for down there and i just really want this i wiped my brush off on my paper towel and picking up some more white i want this to just make sure that i have a nice second coat on it even if some of it is or most of it is just white and make sure those feathers look like they belong together and they're they're intermingling with one another i think i want a little bit more of the darkness in through here just to make sure it looks like he's nice and fluffy in through here and then if you needed to make sure that it has a shadow underneath it this one is uh definitely probably should be a little bit darker down here just to make sure it looks like it's nice and round so feel free to you know keep tweaking yours as needed we'll put a shadow on the apple in a minute but right now just concentrate on getting those feathers to look good and representational i'm going to go on to my next one up here with brown yellow and white are my colors on my brush again i'm starting underneath where that tail would meet i'll meet the wing and meet the belly and stuff like that and that's where that those darker colors kind of reside and i want to put maybe just a little bit coming up that belly and then without washing my brush i'm picking up some white just to make sure i have a nice second coat on those chest feathers and that's where it's really the brightest and you want to make sure if you have any evidence of some object underneath poking through that you certainly want to cover that at this point this is the step to make sure that you've got all that done and same thing with the head making sure that i've got enough of those colors on there maybe a little bit more black and brown just to get these feathers to really look like they're talking to one another well that one went into the head a little bit too much let me just put a little bit more black in through there and again have fun with this make it as fluffy as you want as cute as you want just make sure that you've got enough feathers on there so if he decides he wants to fly away he's got plenty of feathers to do so and then i've got my last one over here so again i'm starting brown yellow and white on my brush i'm gonna do those darker colors underneath here again which is where they typically reside on this particular bird maybe a little bit more yellow in there which looks great and without washing my brush i'm just going to pick up that white paint and feather my way into the lighter area of the of the chest and again if you've got a little bit of those remnants on there that's great i actually want to make sure that i cover up that little piece of the apple down at the bottom and then i've got a little bit on that face to go just make sure again that the that the face feathers talk to the neck feathers which talk to the head feathers they all overlap each other and look like they belong together and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got your feathers your feathers finished you can wash and dry that little brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the shadows underneath our birds and our apples i'm going to use my small brush and i'm going to be using brown and black paint and this is definitely a less is more kind of step i just really want to ground everything so it doesn't look like it's floating so i just took a little bit of brown and black paint on my brush i'm going to almost just underline my apple i'm coming up on the left hand side a little bit and then i'm just going to rub this color in i don't need to do much i just want to give the idea that the sun is up there somewhere and it's casting a little bit of a shadow on the on the table underneath it and again less is more you can always add more paint it's tough to take it away once it's there so just a little bit of brown and black i'm carrying this up the edge of the apple a little bit and then just rubbing it out like this and again you could have yours as dark or as light as you want a shadow is just typically meant to look a little bit darker than the surface that it's on so if you want yours all black that's totally fine it gets darker as it recedes into the shadow and lighter as it goes farther away from the object and then i want to let me do a little bit underneath this bird in through here so again i just want a little bit on my apple to tell the story that this bird is casting a touch of a shadow on my apple so maybe something like that and then i've got maybe a little bit underneath this one so again i just keep reloading my brush with black and brown and this one maybe i'll just put a little tiny bit under there and maybe a smudge down this back side of the of the apple and then this one i don't know if this one would actually have a shadow because if the lights over there maybe just a little bit right here and then we have one little tiny step left to go it's going to be with this small brush so once you've got this all done you can wash and dry this little step and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to do little feet you might not feel that you need feet on yours if you feel like you want them great if not no worries maybe you've got yours perfectly placed where there's no feet needed so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to use black paint and white paint and i'm really just if i feel like i need a little toe poking out that's all i'm going to do so i'm going to start with black paint and i feel like i might want to have a couple of toes coming out right in through here so i'm just gonna put maybe two or three little claws like that and then i'm gonna put a tiny bit of white paint as a little bit of a highlight on top of so it'll be the top side of the black so my next foot i'm going to do i think is going to be up on this bird in through here so again i just feel like maybe i should have a couple of tiny little claws on this branch so a little black and then i'm going to take a tiny bit of white paint and just do a itty bitty bitty highlight on top of it so just give the impression that there's a couple of little claws there and same thing with this bottom one here i feel like i might want one coming right out in through here so with the shadow you might not even be able to detect the black that i'm doing but as soon as i put that white highlight on that shows the the shape of the toes and a teeny tiny bit of white paint and just a little itty bitty highlight on those toes just to tell you that they're there and then we just have the final step to go so it's going to be small brush so you can wash and dry it and get ready for that step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of any painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using black paint and i think i'm going to sign this one in my table right here on the left hand side i do my initials but you could certainly do your first name or the date or a symbol whatever you want is totally fine by me and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself some very vibrant red apples and some cute chickadees and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music]

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Length: 99min 24sec (5964 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 03 2020