How to Paint with Acrylics - Abstract Layered Textured Art Painting - Ethereal Landscape

[Music] hello there and welcome back to my art table today I'm going to show you how to do a kind of a unique texture painting that uses a couple of different types of texture what I've got here is just a little canvas board I've primed it with some titanium white as I always do and then I've got just a basic piece of tissue paper white tissue paper Thank You valinor and I torn off a piece of it kind of in this shape because I want it to be neat just on here you can use of course any shape you want you can use more or less whatever whatever you're into and then we're going to adhere it and you can use a gel you can use a Mod Podge these work really great for adhering so I think what I'm going to do is just use a matte Mod Podge put that on mine it's kind of like a mixed-media painting a little bit that uses some mixed-media some sort of fine art principles often they're so interchangeable it's kind of fun to use different textures and see just see what happens you know so I'm gonna put a nice kind of layer of that on there and then I'm gonna lay it down my tissue paper to kind of hit the bottom here and I don't really want it to be like a perfect flat I want a little bit of crinkle and texture in there so just kind of scrunch it up with your fingers do you want to bring it down just a bit and I suggest always you know tearing that I didn't quite get it to the antia but if you tear your tissue paper makes hurt kind of goes off the edge that way you can just try it and you always know that you've got enough so then what I'm gonna do with this is I'm gonna go back over it on my brush and get out the bubbles you know there's definitely gonna be some bubbles when you do this get those out and see if you can get a fairly flat you can always add another layer of this I'm going to actually go ahead and add some modeling paste with this so with a palette knife and some of my I'm gonna go ahead and go over this a Ranas seems kind of around the bottom because I do want it to look like it's melded in with the the canvas itself and I have that obvious seam you may want that obvious seam for whatever reason the seam of the paper where I tore it is what I'm talking about so I'm just gonna go ahead and add a little additional texture this way so I get a kind of a couple different texture patterns with this and I do like to use paper sometimes it gives you a kind of a you know that absorbent ground you can go over this with a little absorbent ground medium and that will make it even more of a papery finish and give you more of like a watercolor effect on your final project when you've applied the paint there's various ways to do that but I definitely want to make sure I have a nice coat of each of these and it does give you a little different effect and that's the reason I'm doing this you can do this painting and I have done this painting on a large scale with just the paper and that gives you a really interesting look this one I'm doing just a little more texture I do want it to adhere really well so that modeling paste is going to give you a little additional adherence and kind of give you a fun texture all over your painting I do have a little off my eggs right there and I'm gonna worry about that later and trim that up and all of that but I do want to make sure that it hears this this little corners giving me a problem so if you kind of lay down some texture on areas that aren't it's going to really you know glue it down to your surface and so I'm gonna let this dry really well and kind of see a little bit what that looks like let the stripe very well because I've got that both of those textures on there and then we'll come back and we'll put down some layers of glazes and colors and do that so that's the first step I'll see you in the next segment okay we are back and now our textured surface has dragged really well in a few days so kind of see there's some of the paper texture and the applied medium that we used so I'm gonna go ahead and start adding color and the colors I'm using right now of course you can use any colors complementary colors my phthalo blue which I love this is a cadmium yellow light and I've got a brilliant yellow green this is pretty I also have a fellow turquoise high-flow and a couple of inks not sure from knees the gold or not but there's a white and a gold ink I'm using a flat brush small because I have a small painting and just a small round sponge that's damp so what I'm going to do is go ahead and miss my surface a bit just stitch because I don't know how much flow I really want with this always have your water handy etc I think what I'm gonna go ahead and do is put down a little yellow kind of see what I'm thinking with this little bit of the green go ahead and just put it right on my canvas versus mixing up a glaze or anything I might I might end up doing that with a little bit of glaze because they do want this to have a nice kind of finish sort of a translucent so I'm going to pour a little glaze I'm using this little recycled sealable pan all right paint I'm gonna go ahead and put my glaze on there and kind of dip into it and do a little differently this time take a little glaze on my brush and then just go ahead and kind of move this around who's the garbage truck comes by where it is I'm doing this apologize for that noise in here that's giving me kind of a real pretty background finish I take this all the way up a little bit when I do kind of a painting with quite a bit of large white space and the color concentrated more around the edges here so I like the way that looks what I'm gonna do now is drop down a little bit of my blue my palate and then pick it up with my green a little bit of glaze on my brush and kind of dropped it into a few areas just with my brush that's given me a real green look which is kind of what I was going after for this painting so I might go back over it with when it's dry with blue and a glaze just to blew it out a little bit more cuz right now it's a little bit too Easter Eggers for my taste then I'm going to take my damp sponge this is just very a little bit of water on it not too much and kind of just see what I want to do as far as diffusing this because I don't want it to have a super heavy-duty painted look this is not going to be an impasse no painting this is going to be sort of glazed from the back moving forward switch it over to kind of remove a little bit of that paint and you can do this of course on a larger canvas or surface there are things to know when working large versus working small small that's real easy to do a painting because there's not a lot of surface and you can really move around fast and large it all of a sudden you realize you've got this great vast area to fill and move paint around and sometimes things don't quite work out as easily as they do in a small canvas so if you are trying these techniques on a larger canvas just know that know that it you know if it doesn't if it's not quite working just like it did on a small really that's normal that's completely normal don't freak out just kind of you got to kind of keep practicing and working large to kind of really understand what that is that's a whole nother ballgame then working small you can transfer these techniques but they don't always just transfer quite as easily as as what it looks like on a smaller canvas so just gonna kind of put that out there so you know that I was scared of working large for years you know I always liked working small and I still do you know it's very easy to control working larger is a different you have to kind of learn a few things and not be afraid of it no I'm not I like for it's now - but took me a few years to kind of get over the hump and fear of that all right so I've removed I've removed some paint and a lot of my you know some artists don't do that but I like to put paint on remove paint put paint on that gives me that layered look and kind of helps me guide where I want to go with some things got quite a bit of that yellow on my brush still so I'm gonna pick up a little more blue a little more glaze just on a paper towel here drop it down in a couple areas just to start getting that look with a little bit of blue coming through definitely want some yellow and green by the blue to kind of tamp down that not a SuperDuper bright bright color person I do like bright colors when done right and just tend to leave that to other people and kind of mute my colors down because I'm I guess that's just what I like but of course you can do this with bright pinks and purples and you know just be sure to use complementary colors that's I guess that's one thing I'm gonna a little tip I'm gonna give you with paintings I get a new clean brush to apply a little more waited a bit but my my thing is with colors honestly I think that's what is a lot of times of course it's technique and skill and style and all of that but color is kind of what draws us to things why we like things or don't like things especially with art and I think if you use the right colors you can almost make any at work look appealing if you use the right colors if you use appealing colors that that go well together I do notice and I've done this myself so I'm not disparaging anyone but you know newer artists people just starting out they tend to want to you know add more and more and more and all of a sudden you've got a kind of a a mess that doesn't really there's no color that really sticks out there's so many things going on so many colors that it kind of dilutes the painting and you know I used to do that of course until I understood a few colors used in varying tones and degrees are going to give you the effect of many different colors so you don't need six different blues on one painting as a matter of fact we're gonna get a real muddy look because some blues are blue red some are blue green some are blue gray some are you know very opaque some are translucent you you really have to learn the different types of colors and what they're going to do I know that phthalo blue is a very translucent blue and I can I can go over other colors and get that translucency but the of course the cadmium is like this yellow that see that's a very solid color that's not going to give you that translucent C so you just kind of learn that but you learn if you use just a few colors in the right degrees you're going to look like you put many colors on on the canvas but you maybe only use two or three paints I probably don't even need this yellow green because I am using the blue and yellow but I do kind of like the tone that gives me but that's a very you know limited palette that I'm using here and and still getting varying shades all throughout the paintings so what I'm gonna do is let this dry because this is at the point where I want to let it dry kind of see where I'm at and see where I need to move on so that is the segment and I will see in the next segment okay we are back this is dried very well and at this point what I'm going to do I'm gonna miss it just lightly very very light miss I am going to put a little of my gold ink on this is the liquitex gold ink that I'm using you can use a gold paint you can make your own alcohol ink or you know mix a little with some glaze etc be your own Alchemist in other words I'm taking a dry flat brush and I'm just going to move that around a little bit one thing with these inks and metallics is they don't flow and move quite as well as paints do so you do they grab they grab more on the canvas so sometimes you have to kind of understand that and work with them a little bit differently but I just want a little bit kind of shimmer in the background there just a little I don't really want gold gold I just want kind of this shimmer from it the metallic format so now that I put that down I'm going to use some of my turquoise fellow and dry up a few pieces down this this high flow paint is high flow as you can see it it it really buggies on the canvas if you set it down especially with some water oh I've got some splatters here so that's another thing to be aware of I probably sort of laid down on my palate and then picked it up versus right on the canvas but if you work quickly you can fix anything like that and although I do like some of this sort of watercolor look I'm gonna go ahead and remove some of it some of it I just want sort of the background of the color somewhat some areas I'm not more of the depth of the color so I'm gonna leave loose I'm gonna leave this more deep over here I don't know if you can hear that outside work in our monsoon season here and I love those monsoons they are crazy storms pretty wild to watch but of course it's got a kick up for it when I'm filming a video the Thunder is what I'm talking about a little more I do really love working with those high flows is very interesting but they have a unique and unique life of their own shall we say sometimes just to clean or damp paper towel is your best tool kind of like when you do your makeup you can have all the greatest brushes in the world but sometimes the fingers work best all right so what I'm doing is I'm just laying that depth of the blue down a little bit I'm gonna come back when this is dry I'll turn this on to kind of see where we're at now I'm gonna let that dry that's not gonna take too long because the the paint I used is very thin and and we dry quickly I'm not gonna worry too much about splatters because I'm gonna come back and put some white over that and blend that in and this is really a study and sort of layers and blending doing a painting like this but you end up with a real pretty kind of multitude of colors sort of a very watery watercolor effect by using a kerlix so that is I guess what I'm gonna do with that a little bit of more blue on my brush so I'm just bringing it around the edges here so I get a little more depth sometimes after paint sits and bakes into the canvas for a minute then you can kind of stand back and look and see where you're at alright so that's where we're at I'm gonna let it dry and come back okay so we're back I let that dry and I also want to work with my hairdryer just a quick dry it now it doesn't matter if it's not fully a hundred percent you know overnight dry it down here right now because we're gonna work in this area I'm gonna bring some of the paint in and I do want a little bit of blending happening so I'm not gonna worry too much if that is a hundred percent dry I'm gonna put down just a little titanium white and using my damp sponge and I mean this is damp not soaking sopping dripping wet make sure it's very drying damp as a matter of fact what you can do is dampen it and then sort of put a paper towel on it and wring it out a little bit just to catch any extra because you just want a little bit of water in here you really don't want a ton of water that will ruin your your painting so by adding some of this with a sponge I'm getting a very soft blended look I'm covering up my background any splatters but I'm letting a little bit of it kind of show through since I'm not actually painting on a ton of you know paint with a brush so if you can see that as I go over some of this texture with my white what's happening is it's sort of you know picking up on the white on the texture and I'm gonna move that around a little bit again you want your sponge to just be very very lightly damp you don't want a lot of water or this will work it'll ruin it so that's one thing I caution about and I really like picking up paint on texture whether it's going darker using metallics or even white oh I can look very cool on a texture if you've got a darker background surface so this is giving you a very unique kind of look a little more white at certain areas and I definitely want some of that color coming through from the background so you know it's not just stark white color some paintings I like that but this one I want a little background color I'm not bringing bringing it all the way down I'm just bringing it sort of down so it kind of diffuses out a bit so right there is a good stopping point for letting this really get dry little hairs in the painting just annoy me to no end sometimes you'll get those just from brushes sometimes you'll just it just kind of float in the air especially if you have pets even if they don't come in your studio area you carry them in they get on things I love my kitties but not like the hair and stuff anyway this is a good stopping point like I said so that's kind of where we're at right there and you can kind of see how it's diffused down in areas like that now what we're gonna do is let this dry I'm gonna come back with another coat a very translucent fellow blue I believe is what I'm going to use over this to enrich so you can see a painting like this is you know putting paint down taking paint off fling another layer down you know doing a diffused white like this laying more paint on it all creates these layers that come through and you know this is not this is a study and patients doing a painting like this when you get done you're happy with it if you let it dry and you know I I do I do understand your your pain if you're not patient you just want to get the painting done and you really don't want to wait for the layers to dry then they're done that totally understand ruined paintings because of it but if you let it dry and you you really give it a good ability to cure into the canvas then you can come back and let lay what you want on top and be much happier that than if you try to hurry through it trust just trust me on that this I'm going to let dry I might do one overnight I might just do a few hours I didn't put a ton of paint on here so it should be dry especially my climate within a couple of hours you might if you're in a humid area or you just have any reason to suspect it might not be dry just wait wait overnight at least you know if you if you only paint like on the weekends then put it aside till next weekend and start a new painting that's what I had to learn to do is is to use my studio with multiple artworks going on versus just one if you only if you have a very very tiny area and you can only do one at a time I totally understand but it is a study in patience doing these sort of layered paintings like this so anyways just have patience and be willing to let it dry they're gonna be much happier in the end okay we're back and this is dries um there's just a little slip of glaze left over there because what I'm gonna do now is I put a little glaze in my palette I'm gonna use a little bit of my fellow blue just a little bit it's a very small painting you only need small quantities I'm gonna add just a drop of my gold ink and some water and mix it up and I'm just gonna come over this maybe just a quickness just a bit we're gonna lay some darker blue on top so we've got the white texture picked up now we're gonna do blue texture pick up the glaze I want to I want this to be a very light coat so I am using the glaze I'm laying down the color and then I'm gonna go ahead and just remove the color where I don't want it quite so much so I'm just kind of laying it down right now I want it to be a little more intense in a couple spots so I am just a little more there you can let it bake for a second and then start to remove your paint and again I'm using a very slightly damp sponge it might be actually a little too wet if you have a wet sponge to put it in paper towel you know absorb it out you can always use the paper towel damp and the sponge again you want it slightly damp so you're not removing and making your paints move all over there we go we're getting a very ethereal effect by doing this as you can see moving up into the white I have a much larger large-scale painting X I've done two or three like this large scale and there's one I have it's called dreamed state if you want to check out what it looks like large-scale a different color scheme little more depth more drama on it I've done a few like this large-scale so this looks fantastic art skill in my opinion looks really cool just a little more blue and just kind of very I'm holding this so lightly I'm not scrubbing into it I'm just going over it so lightly just to move the paint around but I don't I don't really wanna you know scrub it or remove paint I'm just moving it around and very lightly kind of I mean it's just like tips of my fingers holding this turning it upside down where it's clean to kind of move into the white and soften those edges so just go back and forth like that quite a bit until they get where I want it and this is kind of it's you know kind of a soft explosion of color coming up from the bottom of the painting up to the white space you can do sort of an abstract landscape if you want it to be more linear this is kind of abstract landscape ish but not really it's more of a full-on abstract now I'm just laying a little more blue just on top of my texture too so it kind of picks up there but I still really like how the white texture came through on certain spots so don't want to cover that up and this is basically finished now I'm going to let it dry of course I may or may not add just a slight bit more of blue on here once it's dry just in a couple spots with a little bit of glaze just to add some depth because right now I've got the glaze in the blue and it's kind of um it's giving me what I want but the depth is like right there adding that I might come back and do that just with a little more paint than glaze right now I've got more glaze than paint so I'm getting a lot very light translucent effect but with a little more paint that might be all I need right there and I might just do that right now actually well I've got this I put just a little paint on my brush here I'm just gonna dab it in a couple spots and this is turn my brush over and see what yeah that's what I'm doing see where I'm at and since it's kind of wet and able to move around this is a good time to do that so again these brushes are very inexpensive you can get them at the craft store I wouldn't spend a lot on these kinds of brushes because by doing this sort of technique you're really scrubbing the brush as you can see it's kind of all coming apart and you know I probably throw this away after a few more uses get a new one and if you just buy the cheap sets for this type of situation then you know you're not gonna doing this the higher-end brushes where you really want to spend some money are more for brushstroke technique different kinds of techniques versus this this is this is you can even use like craft brushes or something for this because you're not really painting with it you're just laying down and moving the color there we go now I've got some depth in some areas and just soften it with my sponge just a bit and I'm gonna call this pretty much done I'm gonna let it dry I'm gonna go ahead and put a really nice couple of coats of glaze on here I'm gonna use a probably a little more high gloss glaze in my mix or maybe just a pure high-gloss let's see if you can kind of see that it's got a little gloss to it now because that's the glaze that I use to my last coat but you can see the real softness that you're getting by just using that sponge a clean sponge and moving that paint and just very very lightly yeah I'm very hardly even touching the canvas moving it around and that way you can remove color move color around easily without you know actually moving it replacing moving replacing which gets a little tedious after a while this allows you to kind of really have it you blend it spit it out blend is the word that I'm looking or there so you can get get that effect and there are certain brushes and things that will do that but for something like this this this little sponge works great and a note about sponges this works really well I particularly like this and one just bought a whole new package of these because I only had one I've had this thing forever but I've bought some cellulose sponges you know they kind of clean your sink with that you buy at the grocery store I bought some of those those work really well until they don't and I'm what I mean by that is they will start dropping little you know tearing apart especially with texture and then leaving those little bits of sponge in your painting and that can be incredibly frustrating so you might you know you can use those for a bit once they start to fall apart dump them really just get a new new set because I've used I keep doing that and reusing the sponge and reusing it and picking more and more bits out of my painting and it's like okay Karen just throw it away it's like a couple books so but I these work seem to work very well with the textured painting they don't tear up this much for some reason I don't know the composition or whatever so that's kind of what I'm gonna do right now it's on but I'll lay down might just finesse it just a bit and call it done so a nice glaze on it pop it in a pretty frame since this is a board and just then needs a frame and this is gonna be a really nice little painting and of course you can do this I know a large-scale canvas and I'm going to be doing some large-scale canvas tutorials those require more work more more everything so anyway I'm just gonna work small right now for these but I am gonna do a series of large scale so if you're just transferring some of these techniques large scale and really really doing it right and not not making too many mistakes anyways and that might be something you'll want to check out okay thank you for watching I really appreciate it let me know what you think subscribe comment like it etc etc go to my site FaceTime art comm join my art lovers our insider group and I just send out free prints every month and some other little goodies during the month so join that if you're so inclined and again thanks for watching okay just a real quick little recap here I decided right after finished to just lay down a little bit of gold alcohol ink again you can use just straight on gold or gold with a little glaze just encompass bats here just to give it a little more interest and definition so it's got a little glimmer in a couple spots so that's all I've done differently with this painting and so now I'm going to call it finished [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 38min 49sec (2329 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 10 2018