Hummingbirds Acrylic Painting LIVE Tutorial

hello this is angela anderson thanks for joining me for this acrylic painting tutorial in this video i'm going to be painting a pair of hummingbirds with some flowers i think it's going to be a lot of fun and welcome back to our saturday shows got my husband mark with me hey everybody evening in chat today so if you've got questions while i'm painting you can ask those and i'll try to answer let's get started [Music] all right so if you're new to our shows welcome we um paint in real time show you step by step how to do uh the painting and we also kind of chat and talk about life so don't leave you mean comments where it's just like you're sitting down with us and painting along that's it got my uh fredrick's mixed media canvas board today that i'll be using a 9 by 12 inch size really any size would work for this image it would be really pretty on a larger canvas and i've painted it with a coat of yellow oxide so a transparent yellow oxide kind of a light wash of color there just to kind of get us started and transferred my design on and then i've covered it with some matte medium so my design will stay put when i do other washes over the top of it for the background all right um for my brushes i've got you can see a pile of brushes here um variety of brushes i've got a few for the background so i've got a couple of large filberts that i'll probably use for the background not sure i'm going to need that one that was left over from my these two are also okay um and then i've got my angle brushes here and then a couple of liners for our um hummingbirds and i actually do need a liner brush too let me grab one real quick so a liner brush for like the hummingbird beak and these long branches so just some sort of a long brush a small round for some of the smaller details and then a bigger round for filling in some of the bigger areas all right so that's our main brush situation there these are all princeton brushes the green handles are their summit 6100 series and the red ones are the velvet touch and then i also grabbed a um deerfoot stippler that i might use for the background so i'm not really sure exactly how i'm going to do this background yet i think i'm going to do light washes though so we can see our hummingbirds still are you okay yeah okay and then i've got a two inch uh aspen prince or a yeah aspen series princeton brush for um kind of fading out and um smoothing out our background you can also use like a sponge or even a paper towel if you don't have a fancy brush sponge so i have dampened that you can see my damp spot there dampen that with a little bit of water and so we're gonna put some colors on here and then we're gonna use these larger brushes or the sponge to kind of soften them up and kind of make them look blurry and blend into the background all right i don't think i'm gonna need that well let's go use it for our colors we got a ton of colors um i just put out all the colors uh because there's just a lot of colors going on in this but you just use whatever you've got that's similar you don't have to have all these colors i have a lot of pre-mixed colors just to make it faster for me to work live but um here's carbon black burnt umber burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange um this was that yellow oxide that i used in the background it's transparent yellow oxide but you can use regular yellow oxide it's just opaque um indian yellow hue cadmium yellow light green gold which we can mix that color if you don't have it [Music] phthalo green yellow shade uh phthalo turquoise cobalt teal phthalo blue green shade ultramarine blue dioxazine purple looks like lip black doesn't it um and then uh quinacridone magenta and cadmium red light unbleached titanium titanium white and then this one is my gloss glazing liquid and i put out a big little bit of it all right so i'm going to grab my largest filbert here and like i said i haven't really done anything special to this except for um i've put matte medium on it that just sealed up the the drawing clear and it dries clear so you can't really tell it's there and then i'm going to use my spray bottle now spray my canvas so that it is a little bit moist to work with and wet down my brush i didn't dunk it i just kind of wet the tip and then brush off the extra on my cup there get some of the glazing medium and then i'm going to start with the lighter colors and kind of gradually work to the darker and we've got two colors going on here we've got orange and green and those are kind of uh almost complementary colors they're really um almost opposite on the colorway let me see if i can pull out a color wheel here and show you what i'm talking about so we're working with the green red would be direct opposite but the blue green in the um in the hummingbirds is opposite from that red orange that we're going to be using so that's what gives it this really beautiful that complementary color working side by side with this blue green from the hummingbirds and this red gold in the background is red orange is what gives it that vibrancy and what makes this painting pop but so we're going to use kind of a yellow green and yellows and then some of these colors here this red orange so they're kind of um close enough to complementary that we want to be careful not to put them on at the same time because if they touch each other and mix they will get muddy so we'll end up with a brown and we don't there are some browns in here but it's not our main color so green gold i'm going to start with that and this hummingbird has a darker background than this one so this hummingbird you can see those those wings are light and they're going to play off that dark background and this one the wings look dark they're probably almost exactly the same tone maybe this one's catching a little bit more light and it's lighter but because this background is lighter the wings look darker in contrast so we're just gonna have to like um be aware of that you're gonna have to make this light gr this background a little bit lighter behind this hummingbird and this one a little bit darker so that this the lighter wings show up all right let's get going here i'm talking a lot i'm going to get some white add that to the green gold so if you don't have green gold you can mix it with some um uh well here let's just try we'll see if we can get a color close enough close to it yellow cadmium light a little bit of the indian yellow hue or a kind of an orangey gold yellow and then my phthalo green yellow shade and i added way too much of that so i want to get a little bit more of that gold color and you can see we got a color i still had that white in my brush so it's kind of making it a little bit lighter but you can see it's it's a similar tone so if you don't have this green gold that's fine this one's a little bit darker all right so i'm going to use this i'm going to get some water get some glazing medium i don't want it too thick because i don't want it to cover up my hummingbirds but i just want to kind of put it on here over this yellow it's going to be really pretty and just tint it just a little bit of green and i'm just going to put it wherever i see that color and then while that's still wet i'm just going to either use my finger or paper towel or my sponge or something to just kind of dab off my corners so don't have a rough hard edge see that so just kind of blending out those corners and let me get a little bit of my phthalo green and a little bit of burnt sienna and that's gonna make more of an olive toned green i haven't cleaned out my brush so i still have the same colors on here and i'm going to put a little bit of that up here and it comes down to this one and kind of peeks out there and then again just use this to kind of push that around don't do too many places with the color because it dries pretty quickly so that that water that we sprayed on there first will help um give us a little bit extra time to dry or you know to blend things out but it dries fairly quickly so get a little bit of burnt umber adding that to it and don't press too hard with this sponge otherwise you're just going to wipe off what you just did so we don't want that just wanting to kind of soften those edges up and again a lot of artists just use their finger and do like this and that's fine too except for on this it's kind of soupy you can tell you know it's kind of like wet and so it's kind of um sticking to my finger and pushing it around so the sponge kind of helps regulate the moisture too all right that's good got a question real quick okay somebody would like to know um would we ever use like a metallic paint to get the hummingbird glittery sparkly effect i used metallic sometimes for that yeah i have in the past in fact i've done i did a hummingbird painting with gouache and acrylic and showed the com uh the difference between those and then we used a little bit of metallics in that one so yes we have done that before um we're not doing it in this one but but you could totally just add it yeah you can watch that video and show you um because there's a certain way to use metallics you don't want to um you have to have a color underneath because they're transparent so if you just try to put them on your canvas over the top of this you'd be putting multiple coats of the of the um metallics on and they just wouldn't even like show up you know they're very transparent and so you have to have a color underneath that's like the tone of the metallic that you're putting on top so that it shows the color will show through and the metallic will shine but the metallics will alter the alter the values so it kind of flattens out all your values so i use them if you use them i would just use them sparingly because they can be a little tricky and they will you know if you've got a hummingbird that has a light and dark area right up close to each other and you put a metallic over it just make everything look the same value and you lose that darkness and the light the light um interchange so all right so there we go and this you know this is looking a little bit messy it's not as super blendy so i could i could go over it with the brush if i wanted to while this is still a little bit damp and just kind of lightly fuzz it out this way too so however you want to do it it's fine you could even use a mop brush some people use mop brushes i don't tend to use them very often but i probably should they're they kind of make this kind of thing a little bit easier all right so that looks good i'm going to go ahead and get some of the lighter green for over here while i still have my greens out there's a little bit of a turquoisey tone so i'm going to get just a slight bit of my turquoise with my well let's get this cobalt teal that'll give us that turquoise color and my white and again we've got it very very liquidy so whenever you're adding a lot of water to your acrylic paints if you're using heavy body acrylics they don't have a lot of binder in them they have more pigment load the professional quality acrylics so you're going to need to watch how much how much water you add to them and anytime you're adding a lot of water to thin them out you're going to want to just add a little bit of glazing medium or some sort of acrylic medium that's transparent that will help the paint um stick to the canvas otherwise you could lose your you lose your stickiness of the acrylics whatever that's so we have a bind have we used green gold much before a few times but it's not a color that i pull out very often but it's it's in the hummingbird and in the background and since it was so you know it was showed up so frequently in here i just decided to go ahead and grab it because i'd be having to mix this color multiple times otherwise so so do you think it'd be worth that somebody going and buying it you know i don't know what other uses if you used it if you do a lot of landscapes um i would say it's a really helpful color to have for you know landscape painting so if you're you know doing a lot of that it's one of those colors that's very um um very specific you know so it's it's kind of like you you won't use it um a ton but when you do need it it's really helpful to have it kind of does that make sense you know um it's it's it's it's fairly easy to mix though so you know i like you could see how but i didn't get it exactly that darkness either so you know um you have to have connect nickel as a gold and a henza yellow light or a well they used hands a yellow light i think because it's more transparent than the cadmium yellow light they're very similar in tone but the the this one the the green gold is transparent so it's this color a has a yellow light and then instead of this color it is nickel as a gold yeah so you can see it's it's more on the transparent side and it's nickel as a yellow um phthalo green yellow shade and henze yellow light so it tells you right on the bottom the paint splotch on the front so you can see that black the black through it how transparent it is i got paint on mine i might all my paint bottles but if they were to do like a camouflage pattern on like tanks and stuff like that it would be a handy bottle to have hands out of that but yes yeah if they're doing a lot of tank camo work [Laughter] is that a problem you see very often like maybe i mean somebody somebody might have that problem i hope all right so we've got that on there i really kind of need to let that dry almost completely here we're just gonna have to say hi to everybody be careful yeah say hi hope you guys are enjoying your saturday and thanks for hanging out with us i'm glad to be back we've got a lot of really fun paintings coming up for the fall i've already posted a lot of my october schedule um even before before i've announced it on social media or anything i just kind of got in there yesterday and was feeling very um motivated to get my schedule out there so we posted some really fun stuff paint a bear painting a squirrel coming up painting a bee lots of trees lots and lots and lots of trees yeah it's this time of year the trees are the star aren't they here in the u.s at least it's it's trees are gonna start changing colors i haven't quite yet but i like to be just slightly ahead of the schedule so that you can paint it in time to actually use it when you want it you know in your home all right so i think i'm gonna switch to this brush this will give me a little bit more control and it'll also give me that fuzzy look that i'm looking for um it is the 3 8 inch different stippler so i'm gonna just kind of clean out my brushes over here i cleaned out my sponge a little bit i'm just gonna make sure that i i'm wasting time here just letting this dry so i feel like why is she yeah i'll show what we did on patreon can you draw that real quick for me just i think it needs to be all the way dry it's taking sweet time there i'll show you what we're working on um patreon this is our 10 level it looks weird don't judge it's in the ugly stage still where we're gonna do a lot of shading in the eyes of the kitty cat and add all these little open spotches here our leaves so we're gonna have leaves all the way through here coming in front of the kitty cat so we worked on a lot of these background leaves um still gonna do some more work on that and then finish up the first so it's a good lesson in fur using a different couple different kind of brushes and we've got lots of work left to do on the face and the eyes so patreon is the um it's another website where you can go and kind of get exclusive videos um if you didn't get enough of us on youtube our youtube channel has over 500 videos um but the the patreon stuff tends to be things that take a lot longer so these videos usually take eight to ten hours depending on what we're working on sometimes less sometimes more but um though ten dollar level ones then we do a bonus video which we'll be doing tomorrow that is let me see if i can find the well mark's not here let me see if i can sneak in this photo real quick of our bonus image there it is the sunflowers so we'll be working on that tomorrow um for our five dollar level and that video is just like a once a month thing and we just paint until we finish it so usually those are about four or five hours videos and then like i said the ones that i'm doing here um for the ten dollar level we do about two an hour and a half to two hours every thursday until we finish it all through the month so anyhow it's it's a lot of fun all right so while mark is doing that let's go ahead and mix up our color i think we'll by the time we get it mixed up and everything ready to go he'll be back hopefully i'm gonna spray this down and get just a little bit of this cadmium red light and my quinacridone burnt orange those two um will make a really bright bright color but we're going against this yellow so we got to kind of take into account that yellow is going to change our color a little bit it'll make it more orange so we can go a little bit more red on this and see what happens because we're wanting to do this transparent transparently and um so the background will influence this color quite a bit all right so that looks good it's it's a little bit more vibrant than what's in our picture but i think when we get it on here yeah see how that yellow kind of tones it down so i'm just going to use this brush very so i added my glazing liquid i have that blended um blended out and ready to go it's thin so it's going to just go on here nice and transparent really pretty just a blush of color and i'm gonna go over the top of my green in some places and that's going to merge and that's why we needed this dry because i didn't want to try to do this while it was wet it was just not going to work i'm going to get a little bit maybe a little bit of this unbleached titanium and do a few of these areas with just a slighter lighter tone unleash titanium is opaque so it'll help kind of cover over that yellow a little bit and also create a lighter lighter tone so i'm not really worried about what's going on in the wing here i'll go ahead and kind of blend that out because it looks kind of funky that color but um this is the area that that will show and so this is the area that i'm kind of concerned about i'm going to go ahead and get some of that light yellow and while that's wet i'm just going to kind of blend those two together okay so the thing that you have to watch out for is right now this red is still a little bit damp but it's starting to dry and as soon as it does like decide to like okay i'm gonna dry it starts to get solid it starts to stick the molecules start to stick to one another i'm gonna get a little bit of burnt umber and burnt sienna here and i'm gonna go a little bit darker right here but once they start to stick to each other and you touch them with a brush or anything they'll stick to you they'll stick to your brush and um they will just come pop right off your canvas and you then you could try to paint over it but it it will just it won't it's kind of like it has that whole area has to dry and it just won't um lay down color for you until it's completely dry so just kind of know that you just have to work in small sections and then right now this is starting to dry so i can't touch this yet i i have to move into another area work work over here and then i can come back to it later once it's dry and lay more color over the top um dries way faster than oil paints but it you know oil paints these would still be wet and i could you know i could play with them and i wouldn't have to worry about them being dry but um but i wouldn't be able to do the layering that i'm doing right now because the the yellow and everything underneath here would still be wet so it's kind of a catch 22. you know it's it's a lot easier to blend two colors into each other with oil paints but they do take a lot longer to dry so you're not having you're not having the layers that you can do in acrylics in a short amount of time you can do layers with it with oils but you have to wait for them to dry in between and it can take several days sometimes weeks depending on how thick your paint is so i get questions a lot you know about can i do this in oils i'm like yeah you can but it'll be different you know the techniques are a little bit different okay so just in that pretty i think this is going to work out just fine and it looks like you're not really pushing down no i'm not and i don't have a lot of paint in my brush either so i'm just barely kind of picking up a little bit of this you can see it's just you can just barely even see it on my brush it's just barely there i don't need a lot it's going to do the work and all i need to do is just kind of i'm doing little circular motions here to get it to go on and fluff out these edges so i uh what i do do i i didn't mention this start in the area where you want it darkest so put that color down where you want it darkest and if you have too much paint on your brush and you're like uh it's just like if i got out to here and it wasn't fuzzing out or fading out then i could wipe it off on a paper towel really quickly and then come back here and or put it in another area but i i tend to say don't do that because then this area could dry before you got back to it to blend it out um so put that color in darkest where you want it dark and then as soon as that color is mostly off your brush then go about and now i'm really scrubbing just try to get the last little drags of color off onto my canvas there we go again darkest area first and once that's mostly gone mostly down on the canvas then i can kind of work the edges and blend it out and these are all different kind of shapes kind of meeting up and you may have to do this two or three times to get it just right you know but again like this i i touched that little area right there you can see it right there that little bit lifted off and so now instead of having a nice dark area there i have like a little bit of a light area in the middle there because it lifted and that was starting to dry it dried really fast it dries that fast because we're putting this on super thin um so these colors are really transparent and really fine very thin and so they're gonna dry like that and the glazing medium that i use this gloss glazing medium from golden i'll show it to you called gloss glazing liquid it has a slow dry extender in it you can use as much as you want so it's not like a regular extender where you can only use like 30 percent to your acrylic paints or whatever you know a lot of these extenders have um like only a certain percentage you can use and then it makes your paints like actually not stick at all it kind of makes them like weird and glossy so this is nice because i can use as much of this as i want to and i don't have to worry about like you know using too much um and it works really great for this so i use it a lot um i just added a little bit more like burnt umber color and burnt sienna color to this red so that i had like a little bit more brownish tone down here and i'm gonna wipe that off because i can tell over here i'm getting a lot of brush strokes and things that i don't want so wipe most all of that out and then go back in and i can pick up the extra paint and then work around the outside do this very quickly just in small sections like i said you can do this as many times as you need to just as many layers as you want to just make sure that you dry it completely in between your layers and then um continue layering so all right gonna get a little bit of that there we go this is mostly just burnt or orange down here but i don't want to cover up on my pretty green there either so and i've got another one of these brushes over here so i'm going to use this for my green and go back over some of these green areas while this color is still wet so i'm grabbing that and i sprayed this down so it didn't dry on me all the way and i'm going to grab that give it a good neck another coat okay so you can see right there where it's kind of doing that weird halo thing it's not like blending that means that that was starting to dry so i just need to be careful probably need to just let this red dry use my finger to try to fix that there we go okay yeah i got kind of a weird halo thing right there i didn't want that to happen so i waited too long for my green to do the green and my background was already starting to dry but i can go over here now this is all dry i can work on this area i'm going to get a little bit of the turquoise with this white mixture that i had just to add a little bit of that back in here over the top and we're almost done with this we're not not gonna do a ton with this it's not it's all kind of blendy and fuzzy background here get some of this i just mostly want to kind of go over the areas that look a little bit rough like that look a little beaten up you know getting some of that brighter green and again i got to be careful right here because that was starting to dry go over here and go make sure i go behind and uh oh my flower too so i don't have a weird open area right there around my flower so i'm going to go ahead and deliberately mix my green with my reddish color that i had here so i'm mixing them both together so i get kind of a gray gray brown use that kind of some in the middle anytime you're meeting up two colors that are different like this you can kind of mix a little bit of those two colors together and then use that for the area where they meet up and they'll blend out better it'll look like it's blended right get a little bit more of that darker quinacridone burnt orange and i'm when i'm picking this up i'm not picking up a lot of color because i don't want it to that's sort of dry oh i missed this part in here there's a little red area right in front of him right here so let's go ahead and put that in wipe that out and then just go around the edges i think the main thing when people have trouble with this is that uh they use too much paint and they blend in the same area too long so if it doesn't look great don't worry about it you can always go back over it you know as many times as you want to so you don't have to get it right the first try you can come back to it and i'm getting some of that quinacridone or some cadmium yellow light here i'm going to do a little bit brighter right here you can see i'm just bumping up the color saturation in that area until the expenses here the sun coming home he's living on campus this semester it's been hard on mom i cried the other day i'm not gonna lie empty nesting is no joke i get it now you look forward to it when they're about three you're like oh my gosh is this ever going to end and then somewhat when they're teenagers too occasionally and then they suddenly become like really fun to be around and then they leave and then they leave they're you know not that they weren't fun to be around before but you know what i mean like friendly like friends you know they're like adult yeah i don't know anyhow all right going back to this what about your husband my husband he's all right is he okay to be around i know he's all right he goes off to work though and leaves me oh this is true hopefully we can remedy that we're trying to pay down our debt so mark can quit and help me full-time got lots of plans for him i'm going to put him to work [Laughter] yep i'd be the boss now it's gonna be really fun he's like oh gosh thanks okay yeah but i work from 5 am to noon all right that's all right you get the morning shift i'll take the afternoon evening that's kind of how we always did our parenting anyways [Laughter] all right so getting some brownish i'm just kind of tweaking the colors now just using the same colors just in different you know places here just kind of trying to get this really pretty blended thing going on here i think this is dry enough now i can go back in with some of this quinacridone burnt orange just right in the middle there wipe it off and blend out around the edges so while this is you know obviously doing it specifically for this painting and subject it's a really great technique for doing any kind of a bokeh look oh absolutely if you want to do that blurry background first for other things you want to paint yeah you could use any colors you wanted it you know you just kind of the main thing is you just kind of have to know how your colors are going to react to one another colors that are next to each other on the color wheel so um you know these these three colors these three colors um these three colors you know any of these colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel and that's how i put them out on my palette too so i know those are going to blend fine you won't have any issues with them turning muddy or weird you know doing weird things it's when you have colors that are slightly opposite on the color wheel or start to get into you know other color families so this orange is closer to the red family than it is the green and the so that the and the green is the opposite from the red on the color wheel you know that those are going to kind of create a muddier color to be more brownish it's still a pretty color and it works fine for this and we you know it is in our photograph because these colors are blending optically um by their blur blurriness you know they're obviously not blurred in you know real life they're just looking this way because of the photograph the way it was taken and um it's kind of like pointillism or one of you know one of those things where you've got two things right up next to each other and um because they're so close to each other they created another color totally you know they're um pixelating you know creating different colors so that's what's happening here we're just trying to replicate it and i got a weird weird thing right there i'm gonna try to you can kind of fix those little open areas if you kind of rub off too much paint by tapping you know tapping a little bit like thicker paint in there but probably the best solution is just let it dry okay i'm loving that i think i'm gonna leave it looks really pretty um i think before i do anything else too i'm going to splatter because i like butters and that's just you can leave this part out if you don't want to but i just want a few little splatters so i'm just going to use up these colors that i still have left in my palette i'm going to use up this light yellow it's already thinned out so it's going to splatter really nicely for me and this also kind of has that effect of like sunlight speckling through i don't know i just i think it it kind of adds to these kind of backgrounds and again you can leave this out if you don't like it all right there we go so we got this really pretty splattered light speckling going on in our dark areas mostly okay real pretty let's paint some hummingbirds i'm going to clean these out and i'm just going to use this this is still damp so i'm just going to wipe this all off well it's wet clean off my area so i've got a clean spot to mix on my palette this is a glass palette all the materials that i'm using are in my amazon shop um so if you visit that down in the description there's a link to my amazon shop and i have an acrylic painting supplies for beginners and then regular like art supplies that's got basically everything i ever use so um but the acrylic painting the basics beginner set has got kind of the just the main stuff that you might want if you're first starting out with acrylics alrighty so let me see i think i want i'm going to go ahead and use the actually let's go ahead and do our flowers because those will go on nicely for us i'm gonna use my liner brush i might actually get a slightly bigger she is calling an audible okay i'm gonna get my script liner it's gonna be a little bit just a little bit fatter like so if you flatten those out see how that script liner is just slightly bigger and it's also longer it'll hold more paint so i'm gonna go ahead and go with that that's a number two script liner from the velvet touch and we're gonna get some yellow actually going to mix this color with my palette knife because it's going to be easier to do that that color is just gummy isn't it i'm gonna use the turquoise instead it makes a really pretty green turquoise phthalo has the phthalo green in it so it's gonna make just basically the same color that you would get using phthalo green anyways oh that's a not not a good noise it's like nails on a chalkboard okay so got that color now this color alone is going to be really like too too much it's it's it's like a lime green here and it's not really what we're seeing in our photograph um because our photograph is a little bit more natural colored so i'm going to get this gr gold and it's going to react with that yellow i got the yellow oxide which is kind of a brownish yellow and then the yellow indian yellow hue and those are going to see how that neutralized that color now it's still a bright color but it's a little bit more natural it's a little bit muted not as bubble gum you know like circus colors ginger cook calls them circus colors like out of the box crayon colors which do show up occasionally in nature thus our hummingbird you know it's got that super vibrant colors here and there flowers often have like super vibrant colors but um a lot of times they're just slightly toned down so this is going to be really pretty all right so i'm going to grab just a little bit of this take it off here and get some more of my yellow turquoise and a little bit of burnt sienna that will also do it'll kind of mute that color still have that yellow in here from the color we mixed over here the highlight version all right so that'll that'll work so we've got a shadow color and a highlight color now i'm just going to scrape that up and have a nice little spot for both of those colors to live and while this is wet i'm just gonna scoop that off that's my highlight color right there and then what i need to do is add water so i'm just gonna spray it that'll help thin it out for me let's try it again and keep me from having to dunk and come back and forth okay so you need this to be like a milk cream consistency so you just have to keep adding water you can add a little bit of glazing medium too again to make it sure it sticks but there we go so you should be able to see through just slightly but the thick areas should still you know have paint so it's not completely transparent that's about what you want right there and then it should just flow right off your brush with no pressure at all that's that's how you know you've lie you've loaded your liner brush right all right so i'm gonna get a little bit of this darker color too i'm gonna add some water to it so i have both the lighter and the darker color and i'm just gonna do a double loading trick so i'm gonna get my darker color on there and i'm just gonna run it through the thickest part of this lighter color so now i have both colors on here and i'm gonna turn it so my lighter color is towards this side which is my light side i don't know why i'm holding this in one hand like i didn't clean it off all right there we go um again so turn it so that the light part is over here and i'm going to start to line up my thing and these are like a series of little loops so they kind of go like that so it actually makes it fairly easy to do this because you don't have to get it just so on the first try you can just do a little short section they get a little bit thicker as they come down so um i'm not seeing a whole lot of my highlight so i'm gonna get a little bit of white here try to get a little bit more highlight going that'll just save me from having to do it later that's a little bit better still not yeah that's better and then this kind of just does one there we go okay and then the green kind of comes up and butts up into this flower so you can kind of just square off the end of that right there there's a little flower nubbin right there really good i definitely think i need more light highlight on here so let me get a little bit of yellow and white come back through and just add a little highlight on the side there we go okay let's do this one and this little guy's standing on it and holding on to it these were our hummingbirds they would be actually fighting they wouldn't be sitting here looking at each other this way sharing nicely they don't do this at our house they don't politely sit there and watch each other apparently the the breed that is prevalent here in arkansas super aggressive yeah you can have five hummingbirds and seven feeders and they will be chasing each other all over right it's just like can we not share there's plenty to go around guys and they'll like guard it they just sit there and just like guard their their little territory i mean their little feeder not for you no no come by zip off chasing each other one one of them was like i'm using this light yellow white color here just to highlight these uh one of them was checking out the what had a hummingbird moth that looks like a hummingbird only much much smaller you know it's kind of a big moth size yeah off and um he flew right up to it was like what are you and then he flew away he's like okay you're not all righty that looks good okay so um at the beginning of the show you went over how you prepped the canvas could you just quickly i um i painted the yellow oxide then transferred on my design and then i used matte medium matte medium because it's got a little bit of a grit to it you know it'll be um as opposed to gloss medium gloss medium would be a little slicker to paint over so matte medium and that seals in the design so that i can paint over it like i did perfect yeah excellent thank you alrighty so you want your coffee while i was about no okay i'll be right back you're going to make coffee oh go get some okay got it check it all right so i'm going to use my cadmium yellow light add a little bit of the gold yellow uh ending yellow hue i'm gonna get a little bit more of that try to get the yellow that does not have let me put out some fresh yellow just over here because i'm going to need quite a bit of it for my flowers there we go and i'm going to add just a little bit of white to it over here so i have kind of just a slighter slightly pale version and i've added a little bit of water to it but i can keep this one fairly thick i'm just gonna do like this and i'm gonna turn my palette over so that i can get kind of a nice rounded tip on that using a round brush like this i can if i kind of press down on it it spreads those bristles out for me it's almost like having a filbert and then i can use it to fill in these petals really easily it's got that rounded tip that i need and i'm going to do these all yellow even though some of them are reddish because i'm going to have this yellow underneath and that will give us a base for our red gold to go over the top really pretty and this is good i wasn't sure you know if my background was dry dark enough but it looks just fine you can see the nice bright yellow right over the top no problem like the artist fine be quiet what oh where's my mic on so i'm sorry i thought my mic was people are like leave me comments i'll stop flirting oh never been married how many years yeah well i've only known you 36 so right i haven't not done flirting yet that's good all right there we go and as i paint this on i'm kind of trying to also kind of smooth out the ridges but you could leave that texture in if you like it so it's just up to you whether you want it kind of more flattened out smooth or if you want it textured i'm gonna get this kind of more golden version here for that one let me use this more yellow gold version for these and again like i said these are going to be more red overall but i want this color underneath i'll make my red more vibrant and it'll peek through here and there when i do it so it'll be nice and just make sure i'm covering up that drawing my another way of doing these is to kind of come out and then just kind of press flat you can see how it kind of bulbs out so press flat and it'll round out that tip also all right and i took out the one that was over here but i thought i would do another flower down here so i'm just gonna go ahead and kind of fudge it from this one and just do a flower down here similar to this one up here maybe put a flower petal coming down so that it's a little bit different it doesn't look too matchy-matchy here we go i'm making decent time on this let's go ahead and do kind of a bulb out of this one and i would probably be open already because it's down lower but it's all right we're just gonna pretend same thing here i just want more color a little bit further down so so so when people sign up at uh patreon like at the 5 10 levels they get an email right a welcome email and they should be able to get links and stuff like that to the videos it um yeah it explains kind of where to find stuff but the main patreon page has um it's like a blog style right and it's got posts and i post everything on there so all the videos from 2017 to present have all kinds of resources and everything and it's all posted on patreon for people so you just have to kind of search for it if you know the title of the video it's better but if you just want to kind of look and see what is available you can go to my website and my website has a page that's for exclusive videos and it shows all the exclusive videos okay so i've very loosely you can see i've got just streaks of that red through this i don't want it fully blended i just want like streaks of the red through and i'm gonna start with that and go over and kind of lift up through and add some little bits of this red here and there and that red kind of comes up there comes down using very light touches here just kind of dry brushing almost over the top it's kind of on this side of this petal some streaks and then a few little streaks in the middle there okay now this one is a little bit more i'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of the magenta it's a little bit brighter red i'm seeing kind of different bits of the yellow peeking through that covered up a lot of that i think i need a smaller brush get this one's the two ott round i might need the one round actually let me get the one which is kind of in between there we go that's the one okay get a fresh one because that one's not looking too hot all right so this is just one down from what i was using i think this one was the two yeah so and it's totally normal for your paint brushes when you first use them to die so this one dyed yellow because that was the first one to use this one's gonna die red because i'm gonna use red so when i get it cleaned it's gonna be red and that's totally fine that's just the way they do all right so i'm just kind of running it through there to kind of create these streaky lines here there we go let me get this yellow just running my yellow back over softening up some of these areas here and then let's get some of this brighter red for this area right here so [Music] mix up a little bit both of those to just get kind of a softer medium color nice bitsy puppies in the studio what you doing hi go play with spencer getting some yellow [Music] all right so i'm just making small kind of adjustments here just kind of streaking the colors through creating this really pretty and this one is kind of folded down over right there okay isn't it pretty let me spread this because it's starting to get a little sticky i'll just help me have a little bit more working time do we know what kind of flowers those are i don't know i would say yellow was orange good thinking thank you um i do not know no they look like jasmine almost but i don't i think i don't i don't think jasmine grow this way so more of a tall flower is jasmine on your mind it doesn't even make sense it's not the right saying isn't that what this song says georgia on your mind blowing like jasmine in my mind oh okay i was the wrong song man you're not even i was not with you at all there no georgia like what are you talking about okay flower bingo has started so let's see we have we have jasmine but we're not sure if that's right we have crocosomia we have phrases yeah they look like gracious i'll uh i'll just go wild here i'll say tulips gonna go rogue yeah there's gotta be somebody who has these that knows exactly what they are it's the weeding through the wrong answers that's the problem we have pretty i like that [Music] don't need to know just know that they're pretty yep check pretty so just very you know subtle going over very lightly and just kind of touching it down and lifting almost immediately in some places this yellow is still a little bit wet but it's dried fairly quickly so it's good so just let setting it down and kind of dragging it and the key to this kind of technique is to is to i'm not pulling the brush down all the way i'm just i'm just using it like a um my my the part where i'm holding like a pivot point so it's doing like this i'm flicking it in the direction instead of pulling it all the way and then that way it it breaks up the end here breaks up and you get the that kind of broken line that fades it out into another color get a little bit darker color under here and you just need to make sure you can see it against the background so i can tell already my background over here is not dark enough because i can't see this color so what i'm going to do is just brighten up this darken it up right here so i can see it right there okay now i can see that petal you can see these ones okay these ones are in the dark so i'm just not gonna i'm not gonna use as much of the red over here i'm gonna just leave them a little bit more more bright yellow and in fact i see a little bit of like highlights of white even on them so i'm gonna get some white and try to put some sunflowers spiderman alexa stop she's trying to play this song sunflower for us how what did i say that i did not say her name no i didn't she's sitting there she's just waiting she's like oh i think she's i think she's i think she called me [Laughter] she's like oh yes finally i get i know this i know this she's just like the kid in the class you know waiting to raise her hand me me me the teacher's like really anybody but brian anybody know this anybody but lexi she could probably tell us what flower it is so i mean right now looks like crocos mia might be the leading candidate just by looking at pictures on the interwebs but it's yeah it could be let me see there's other pictures yeah looks very similar a little bit of the green to this color and just using that to shadow the bottom side i used white on all of these to kind of highlight them and i'm just using the darker green i didn't come out far enough on this that's what i get for doing my own version is it raining uh it had yeah i thought i heard green i do hear rain looks like green yes it is ringing it looks i guess all right okay so this one we're gonna have to make up so i'm gonna look at my other flowers to kind of see where the highlights were on those and kind of just try to figure out which petals are in front and which ones are behind i'm gonna do a little bit more pointy i'm just going back over it with yellow now there we go go ahead and do a little bit brighter brighter orangey red here what somebody would like a little more help or explanation on how to double load the brush because they're not having success in doing it okay yes hold on please hold your question it's very important to us [Laughter] yes i will do that here let me just give you a second let me finish these i'm going to do a bud over here too why not let's do a big one over here too these are just spent on this one but we can just pretend like they're not give them a little bit more color right here it's our world and we'll do what we want that's right we make it up as we go we can do what we want bob ross told me that i knew he knows everything but all right there's a few of them down here too so there's one there already did that one so this one here and i think that was the last one party i like it all right i'm gonna get a little bit of purple and mix that with what's on my brush here the yellow i'm just gonna kind of tone it down use that a little bit on this one these have a little bit of purple this one's got little bit of that okay double loading you can start with the dry brush if you're having trouble it may be easier to start with a dry brush or you know clean brush and just run it through run it through the thickest part of the paint turn it over run it through the opposite side so you have both colors on there at one time i don't know if you can see that it's not focusing focus there we go these colors are pretty similar so it's kind of harder to see but then when you do it on here you can too zoomed in on the palette so there i've got white and green so you can see what i'm talking about and then when you do it you lay it down so that you've got the lighter color where you want the lighter and the darker where you want the darker and then it just automatically kind of does the highlight for you so you don't have to come back in and do it again later let me do it on here so you just drag the brush through one color then rotate it 180 degrees and drag it through the other yep that just comes with practice so if this is your first time doing it don't be discouraged that it's not happening for you yeah it takes practice for about 30 years so she kind of just right right yes exactly sometimes she does it in her sleep well no not really but she could if she had to i i could try i could try all right okay i'll leave that for now we probably we might mess with it some more later but i'll let it dry let's work on our hummingbirds here so you can see what i was talking about with that one turning red and the other one turning yellow totally normal all right so this hummingbird's tail it's got blue purple burnt umber it's kind of a bluish i'm gonna get a little bit more blue a little bluish purple closer more more blue there we go okay and i want it dark so i haven't added any white yeah that's good i'm gonna do that first i'm gonna put this on in in stripes like i'm seeing on the tail and that way when i go to put my highlights on i can see where to do those if i'm getting streaks i'm just going to pull through these colors are transparent so even though they're dark they have some transparency the burnt umber isn't but the other two are and we're not using enough of the burnt umber to make them not fully transparent so i'm just going to pull any streaks that i see out towards the in the direction of that tails ground the feather is growing a long ways and that way it'll look like we're meant to do that if we see any streaks okay go and this one it's got a little bit more brownish on the underside so we get a little bit of brown added to that kind of a v-shape here and uh i will have the traceable for you on my social media later on today on on not social media on patreon getting some unbleached titanium i'm using that color for the highlight here on top maybe after dinner yeah depends on how late we go okay and then i'm going to use this color in the wings too so this unbleached titanium with this blue purple brown color burnt umber with a little bit of blue in it a little blue and purple it's going to be my wing color and these wings are in our photograph are blurry so i'm not going to try to define them more than they are in a photograph we're just going to kind of put them on sort of blurry like and hope for the best they might not look you know completely i'm gonna get some unbleached titanium here can i use that with it yeah there they're blurry i'm gonna get some yellow i'm seeing a little bit of yellow too i'm gonna get this yellow oxide main thing is just trying to kind of get a little bit of that white color in between my feathers just so that i have a dark and light version of it and i need to flip it so that i'm going right up to that dark ridge right there okay it comes to a point sort of that sort of does come to a point like that getting that burnt umber using it on this end like that just running it through this wet paint and it's kind of catching darkening it up and then nice and dark under here just using straight burn dumper here i think i made that too big let me see if i can get that off like this one right here i think it's supposed to curve down a little bit faster no yeah it does yeah i brought it out too far okay i'll try that again right there i'm gonna have to let that dry okay let's use this lighter color here on this wing and this one's gonna turn so we're not seeing much of the much of the wing it's gonna turn inside i'm gonna get some green i'm gonna get that turquoise color and add it to that burnt umber i'm gonna transition from the burnt umber to green right here i'm just gonna dab it over that color create some this green right there do the same thing here i'm gonna get a little bit of this lighter color that's got the unbleached titanium with it add it to this one this one's not quite as dark okay and then i'm just gonna tap out this edge just to fuzz it out so i don't have a hard edge there to have to paint up to kind of comes in like a v shape right there and i'm seeing this dark green underneath his chin if you paint over the flower that's fine you can paint it over again you can paint it in again later if you need to all right let's do this guy's wing here so this guy's got this dark green right here burnt umber and turquoise or phthalo green whichever doesn't just a dark brownish green get some more burnt umber the back of his head's coming down here this brown i'm just leaving a slight green in here just to give it a little bit of color get a little bit more of the burnt umber maybe a little bit of purple just like our tail do really dark right there and i'm putting this on you can see i'm stippling it on with small little brush strokes so that it goes on in the direction that i'm seeing the feathers and that'll kind of give us a head start for when we do our highlights later our upper layers this area is going to be a lot lighter when we get it done but we'll just go ahead and put it in dark now and then we'll have it to contrast later when we do our highlights that's the thing with acrylics you don't you really need to look at the under colors do those first and then do your highlights very last and that's what's going to give them like a lot of pop and you'll get that good contrast because you'll have these nice rich darker colors underneath your highlights if you just go straight to the highlights you won't have these kind of undertones that we're seeing and your painting will be a little bit more flat getting some let's get some yellow gold and this is the indian yellow and the yellow oxide and i still have a little bit of that turquoise in my brush so it's kind of creating a color similar to the green gold a little bit darker a little bit more brown i had that burnt umber let me get a little bit of the burnt sienna on here there we go these butterflies are like green and blue but there's a lot of browns and things in them too hummingbirds hummingbirds what did i say butterflies sorry i'm in my art brain right now i can't be responsible for what i say that's okay i try to listen sometimes words are hard in our brain don't always come out right okay i'm going to use a little bit of this color golden color over here it's coming out green oh well there we go this is gonna be a lot lighter i want to get it done with it but i'm just kind of putting in colors now just to lay the base [Music] spray everything really well get some burnt umber and yellow and uh yellow oxide here i think it picked up a little bit of the quinacridone burnt orange too it's totally fine okay and then i'm getting that unbleached titanium i'm going to flip this over just make it easier to paint these long brush strokes here okay and then this back side here and get a little bit of that blue purple and do that whole wing with that light blue purple mixture it doesn't show up you can you need to bump up the contrast on the edge so that it shows up so you can add a little bit of dark to it if you need to or go in one direction or another a little bit more light a little bit more dark doesn't really matter as long as you can see it it begins that background so my background i didn't get it dark enough i said i needed to dark and this didn't get quite dark enough so i'm going to get a little bit of white and just lighten it up a little bit and do a little bit more light see now you'll be able to see it there we go and then i'm gonna do the same thing to this one i'm gonna go all the way this whole front and top part is lighter highlighted there's a little bit of this green green gold color coming out onto the wings right here see the top of the wing and you're seeing the shoulder coming down darker green here get a little bit of that color from the tail that purple right there okay getting that darker brown i'm gonna put in few under feathers here there's a little bit of highlight on them but i'll save the highlights for later i think getting some kind of medium tone that wing color put it in there so this is that unbleached titanium with burnt umber a little bit of eye maybe a little bit of white i'm doing it kind of like i did the flowers so i'm kind of starting it and then lifting as i go so i'm going to do it down here too so it's leaving the dark just like a little bit of the dark in between these brush strokes and this part's a little too thick right there i need to bring my my light color up higher right here it's so much thinner than i have it here i'm gonna have to let that dry a little happy with my green when i did a little bit too much okay yeah this is burnt umber just slightly going over these feathers while they're wet that'll give them a little color there we go that's probably all i'm gonna do mostly i might i might edit a little bit and kind of there's some area right here that needs to be filled in but since they're so blurry in the picture you really don't have much else to work with so this is about as good as we're going to be able to do it you could look up another picture of a hummingbird if you wanted to and get wings that were not as blurry you want a better idea of you know or like a little bit more focused wings and that's totally fine too in the unbleached titanium nico kind of in between here there we go all right let's do the same thing to these ones here now these ones are fairly done i mean there's not a whole lot left to do with these ones but i'm going to add a little bit of the brighter highlights to them just with the unbleached titanium i'm just letting it kind of break up as i put it on there we go and then let's do a little bit of the yellow oxide with the unbleached titanium there we go maybe a little bit of the burnt umber too just kind of a light brown there we go pretty i'm gonna go over the top of this brown area too just slightly get a little bit maybe darker i'm just gonna define these a little bit as well okay so i'm gonna hour and a half we're almost done with the well we got a lot to do on him but we're almost done with the hard part which is the wings so the rest of it's fairly easy oh excuse me all right getting a little bit of the turquoise mixing it with this purple brown color you sit down here where the legs meet the body and then i'm gonna mix the turquoise with that cobalt teal just a little bit and do that area where the cobalt teal is going to be in with just a slightly darker turquoise that'll give us a background to work with i can show the underside of that wing right there and then the little trailing feathers underneath here dark get a little bit of the lighter come up right above where those dark ones come down and add a little highlight right there and there's a little highlight off the back right there okay and get some green this comes down to green meets up with that turquoise and i'm going to go ahead and use the yellow oxide with this green that i got left on my brush to fill in the rest of this hummingbird it's it's fairly light through here so i don't want to go too dark and even the scales don't even the dark parts of the scales don't have too much dark there we go feathers and then this one is much more of a green turquoise tone so i'm gonna get the brighter green here maybe a little bit of that turquoise and yellow use that as my undertone just to clarify the hummingbirds are not reptiles what did i say so they have feathers not scales did i say scales yep okay again so our brain to be clear they're birds they're not moths or reptiles or butterflies you do you honey okay all right i mean i know that we're always saying that you know paintings are our world and we can do whatever we want to so all right in our world hummingbirds are a cross between butterflies and reptiles uh birds came from dinosaurs and dinosaurs like reptiles so i think yeah but to dinosaurs tastes like chicken which is terrible i don't know i'm getting some of the cobalt turquoise here and mixing that up with this let's put a little bit of it on the top of the wing so just going like one to two shades darker than what i'm seeing in the upper layers that's what we're doing here so that we've got nice undertone to work with when we put our highlights on and again if you need to paint this you can paint this first before you do this petal here if you want so you don't have to paint around it it's kind of a pain i'm gonna paint a little bit of this color just kind of in the transition between these colors okay get some this green that's got a little bit of the a little bit of that um unbleached titanium in it get some of the darker and then this area right here has got blue so we get the ultramarine blue and it's sticking out a little bit let's get a little flare and their feathers gonna pop out when they're defending sometimes this guy's got a little cheek flare there coming out fancy okay and then we get the smaller round here do my black eye here we are my beak so this is a two ott round and then there's almost like a straight line of black from the eye out to the beak and it comes down in and meets up with this part that's folded down right in there oops that part was supposed to be white get the white okay and then get that white and mix that with black it's kind of 50 50. use that around the outside of the eye to kind of define it give it a highlight on top a little bit brighter white a little highlight right there on top and a little teeny 91 down here okay this one's just got like a highlight on this side that we're seeing just a little one and then the the area around it is not as bright as this other one defining the eye just kind of a lot of black but i'm going to go a little bit lighter gray right here just so we can see where that eye is okay and then use this light grey to highlight the top of the beak right here as it comes down i know you haven't done this big yet let's get a little bit of brown and black a little bit of white with it it's pretty pretty highlighted get some white here kind of does a slight curve right here where it meets up with the body i'm gonna give this one a little bit brighter highlight too just a little bit like right there okay maybe a little bit brighter highlight in the eye all right i'm gonna mix up the burnt umber burnt sienna i'm gonna get a little bit of this purple color from down here maybe a little bit of the green just kind of a dark blue dark brown green color and i'm gonna kind of darken up the underside of these a little bit just not quite dark enough in some places oh plenty of them off camera and i could use a little bit of the cadmium red light to kind of pop into there some of these this is where you could go back in and really brighten up some of these get some cadmium and some magenta that'll make a really bright red pretend i've got some red down here let's make this one more red maybe open it up a little bit get some yellow just give it a petal that's kind of opening up off to the side there let's do the same thing with this one i feel like i can use a little open pedal over here a little bit of motion you know what i think i'm gonna just make it a full-on flower uh a little bit of white because this area's so light can't see what i'm doing here foreign these ones down here just a little bit smaller maybe a little bit less or maybe bent and they're starting to die off or something okay i'm just just messing with these because i want to let the hummingbirds dry completely before i do the next step so okay they're good all right so you need to pick a brush that is the size of the feathers that you want to do so when you flatten out that brush you can kind of see the size that the feathers will be so those will be good for the smaller ones the ones down here will probably start with this brush and switch to this one when we get to the smaller ones and for his because he's a smaller two smaller um okay so i'm going to start with this one round here and get the cobalt turquoise maybe a tiny bit of white add a little bit of glaze just to smooth this out a little bit i don't want it to be transparent though so the glaze is just kind of out adding a little fluid i could add water to either one okay so i want to test it there on my palette that looks good just start down here actually i probably need to do the tail feathers first but do this i've got it already loaded there and then come above it and do the next ones and then go in between you see that leaving just a hint of that darker stuff peeking through okay let's get the belly scales do the same thing these ones are smaller so i'm just going to barely touch down get a little bit of white with this color i'm going to go over these with the white just a little bit just kind of like right at the middle my brush is not flattening out enough there we go so go and use this over here okay so do an area and then kind of do a few outside that area so that it doesn't just stop abruptly you know then we can do the other colors on top but then we'll have a little bit of this color to transition between them ultraman blue here and some white right there and then i add this use this color ultramarine blue and white add a little bit of the burnt umber and a little bit of the purple so it's this color plus white maybe a little bit of this turquoise in it too i'm gonna highlight my wings that are down here so i'm gonna start here and i'm just gonna kind of dry brush over to add a highlight leave a little bit of space i'm just kind of kind of lightly blending that out okay do the next one leave a little bit of that dark and blend it out bright right along the edge and then blend it out there we go and then what we can do too is come back through with our dark purple brown and a little glaze and we can come back and add a shadow right there if we need to there we go and then there's a little bit of a shadow kind of where these petal these feathers come over the tail too so make sure there's like a little dark area right there where those petals come over the top get some green and let's go ahead and put in our feeds here get some black unbleached titanium brown a little bit of yellow oxide i'm going to start again with the darker color and then we'll add highlights over it this one comes forward okay and then get the unbleached titanium pretty thick maybe a little bit of white really thick on the brush right there i'm just going to use the very tip of it to just kind of lightly highlight just a few little spots on here that's it okay let's do the other one these ones are little bitty they're just little claws that are kind of bent over like that i'm gonna get some of the highlight highlight a little bit it's all about kind of just camouflage you don't need to have it you know super well defined to get it to look realistic just need to kind of have your highlights and shadows in the right places and your eye feels in the rest so you don't have to do every little you know every little feather every little thing here gonna go ahead and do a little highlight feather down there we got a question okay person said that when you do the water water mix wipe load are you just thinning or are you loading the brush in a certain way when i was just doing it i guess so the question just went by a couple seconds ago um i am getting it yeah when i do the liner the smaller details like this i'm adding water to that paint because i need i need it to be thin enough to um to paint a thin line if it's too thick it won't it won't come off my brush it'll just stick to my brush so i'm thinning it and then loading it at the same time so but as i'm loading it i'm twisting it to a point so that it comes out thin you know as opposed to when i'm doing the feathers when i'm pressing it flat so that i can get a wider area to cover go ahead and use this since i got it right in here hmm fitz is in here with us spencer's out there see i heard him just hurt him oh he's under the door probably he's got his nose pressed a bit against the bottom of the door making noises yeah i thought he was in here okay let's just do a little bit of those under feathers there gonna have them right here i'm gonna get the darker brown do longer dark feathers right there and then they kind of fade out into the lighter colors to get that dark brown nice and dark right here i'm just gonna go over the top of what i've got with these and then at the top of the head i'm going to get the unbleached titanium just mix it with this and tap in those feathers up here top of the head is mostly kind of almost a straight line you're not seeing much texture but just a little bit down here just tap little dots around the beak those feathers are so tiny you're not really seeing any kind of detail kind of behind that little white spot there under the eye leave a dark rim right up next to that light there so that it's got a good i'm gonna do it again get that burnt umber and to make sure you've got a nice dark outline underneath the highlighted lid okay let's get some yellow and some of that green gold this would be our highlight color and our this guy the gold areas and i'm just gonna do it like this the feathers are gonna overlap this way so i'm gonna start at the bottom here press that brush flat if it's not staying flat for you you may have too much water in your brush so i'm just going to start here and if it's not showing up well enough i'm going to add a little bit of white white's opaque so it'll make any color cover over another color better and that's what we need here so there we go if you're not getting a good feather shape you can change your brush too you know if you're getting too much of a pointy pointy feathers this look all right really press down to get those the paint saturated all the way through the brush the bristles see that okay getting there you don't have to see every single pet feather there and sometimes they're you know they're all kind of clumped together and not seeing the individual feathers so just kind of get the you know every now and then make sure you've got a good solid feather in there but the rest of them don't have to be exactly perfect you know looking good [Music] getting some more of that brighter yellow how's the painting doing oh you weren't talking about me i'm so sorry i thought you were looking over here first again it's not looking good there we go gonna go ahead and do these down here even though they're gonna be green and i think i'm just gonna glaze green over the top of these it'll be a good undertone color it'll give me a good undertone for my uh which brush are you using right now this is the one the one the one round the number one round okay the one no like the one from the matrix no okay okay getting some of this let's get something yellow i'm sorry uh yeah phthalo green yellow shade and my cobalt teal here make a color very similar to cadmium to um the yellow green blue shade if you have it you could use that get some of this yellow to use over here in the swings these are much smaller so i probably need to use a smaller brush i'm just barely touching down to get these little teeny tiny feathers here and there's some of this above the on the forehead coming up around a little bit of that yellow yellow green a little bit on the wings there i'm going to use the turquoise and a little bit of a cadmium yellow light to make my dark emerald green for the belly right here how you doing honey i'm okay good how are you good getting close to being down here getting some you're not probably the turquoise here what said you are not fooling me [Laughter] this ain't my first rodeo [Laughter] [Music] okay so is that the 20-minute warning is that what you're saying well yeah yeah yeah at least getting some light green here okay getting some of that turquoise again and use it right around behind the eye it's a little bit darker color right there and then on the top of the head there's kind of a gray gray color so i'm just going to add the unbleached titanium to this turquoisey color that i've got here and just tap that in get a little bit more of the unbleached titanium and go right at the very top actually let me do white because it's not showing up there we go cute all right let's use a little bit of this color maybe a little bit of the light turquoise i've got some green in here and a little bit of that cobalt teal i'm gonna use it down here okay now we got some good texture on here and we can use our glazing medium and i'm going to use the turquoise and depending on how much turquoise to paint or to glaze and get a darker or lighter version let me get a little bit of that gold or that green that emerald green that was with the turquoise and the yellow so just add a little bit of yellow to this color basically just a little okay that's good i'm going to use this darker color to tint some of the feathers and we've already got the green gold and everything laid down so i'm just going to go over the top of some of these feathers and it'll just tint the color on just just changes the color of it but you can still see through the feathers underneath so we don't have to do those again a little bit of it right here do a little bit of it down [Music] let's here the blue cobalt teal maybe a little bit of phthalo blue because that's got a lot of green in it get that right here and the top of that wing has actually got a little bit of yellow yellows we get a little bit of the i'm not glazing here i'm just using the unbleached titanium with some of the yellow um indian yellow hue to highlight the front of that wing right there let's use a little bit of the burnt orange i still have a little bit of turquoise and stuff in my brush and use that down here these are small little things small little edits let me use the blue and the turquoise to get a brighter bluish color i'm going to use this with the glaze over the top of this right here i'm trying to get this a little bit brighter and my turquoise areas there just brighten up that blue tone i'm gonna use it on here too i'm just tapping it on so it's kind of going on with a little bit of a texture okay this guy needs to be a little bit darker under his belly here i'm going gonna get a little bit of the burnt umber just do a little bit of darker right there and right where the legs attach a little bit up this side slightly let's go ahead and kind of darken up this area here beneath it i feel like his his face is a little bit dark i'm gonna get a little bit of black and define my eye a little bit better in the bottom of my beak get some white with the black a little bit of a highlight right up under the beak there a little bit of a highlight above the eye let's get a little bit of that turquoise blue with some white i'm just going to go just above the eye with that there we go i'm going to brighten that out and pop that eye forward give it more contrast a little bit of light color back here now i'm just looking at my my um values making sure i've got my lights in the right spot and my dark's in the right spot and my darks dark enough my lights light enough that kind of thing so getting some white in that turquoise color again i'm just going to kind of pop a little bit of that over he's just a couple of these feathers okay go ahead and zoom it out so i can see if i got it bright enough and i can see the values better if they're closer the same size as my reference okay i think we got it pretty close so i think i want to i'm going to highlight that wing tip just a little bit just get a little bit of white and a little bit of glaze and i'm just going to go over that wing a little bit of white right there that's better do you see anything i missed oh yeah i need to do the little the little um stamen coming out of the flowers getting the white and the yellow they're coming out here [Music] so oops okay so those are the only ones i see it just open flowers let's go and do one here um adding a little bright yellow right here so [Music] and i don't see these i need to kind of do some scales on here so i'm going to get some white and the green and just like scales feathers you know what i'm saying they do look like skills they do for sure okay there we go all righty pretty i like it i feel like we could do something over here but it's good you could add more flowers i think there's all kinds of different ways you could adjust it but i'm gonna call that good and sign it so i'm gonna use my small round here this is the too odd i don't think i even used it i didn't end up using it get my water so it's important to do two things well three use a lot of water thin it out use a good round brush with the short bristles so longer bristles are gonna make it much harder so thin very thin with short bristles and then hold it upright like a pen and then just do it in small sections come up about a quarter inch from the edge so that if you frame it it doesn't cover your signature and you can do it in like small sections so line by line you don't have to do the whole thing i've done it enough that i can do it faster but if you have trouble controlling the lines just do each little section of your of your name separately and go slower and it'll work out just fine there we go oh he's so cute love i don't want it mess with these while you're doing that i'm going to add some yellow to that i like i think i see some yellows in there that i don't see super chat super chad yay yes so i'm partially prepared please hold burnt sienna and yellow oxide here with a little bit of white go okay so we had three super chatters today really yes the first one was from judith and she says your lessons have been such a blessing in my life during covet you and mark are a gift to so many thank you oh makes me cry thank you judith and the next one is from christina she says love you guys i'm a patreon a patreon from chile but this is where stickman comes back oh this is amazing like always go patreon over netflix oh it's awesome thank you and then we had one from carol and but there was no special message from carol but thank you very much thank you guys and christina and judith you all are too sweet all right i'm gonna get a little i notice a little cheeky here he's got a little yellow on his cheeky so i'm gonna get a little bit of this yellow and it is definitely good to be back on saturdays it is we have you know a lot of people that make it to both tuesdays and saturdays but there's a group of people that can only make it saturdays because of the time difference right it's great to see some old friends that you know couldn't make it because of the time difference yeah was in the middle of the night or whenever right all cetera and you know because they're they're not that dedicated i mean let's be honest [Laughter] they were real fans they would be up at two in the morning watching exactly and when they had work the next day right i mean the excuses are long i understand but you know we still like them oh my gosh yeah but it means i want to make this guy come to a point a little bit too i'm making very small edits here but we're at two and a half wow and this is something that you talk about all the time you know when you get finished with a painting you usually stop and look at it and you know look at it over a period of days and make small changes right when you're doing it live it's a much you know different situation because i'm trying to catch all these little things but you know you can't always catch it while you're painting it in one session i don't normally sit down and paint in one session um if i'm just doing studio time by myself you know i'll stop take breaks look at it you know go get something to eat come back work on it some more you know that kind of thing and that's a much more kind of normal natural way of progressing through a painting and i think it helps you see things a little bit better to take frequent breaks um you know every 15 20 minutes or so you know to reset your brain and so you don't get so tunnel focused on you know what's you i have the benefit of looking at my camera screen and i watch myself paint a lot because it it shrinks my my vision it expands it so that i am not just looking at this little bit right here i can see the whole thing um it's weird it's it's the way your eyes focus but you're you know when you're working on a painting your eyes are only focusing on this part of it you're not seeing the whole and so when i look at it on the screen or if you step back and look at it while you're working on it on it you can see other things that you might have missed you know things like the values and different things will pop out a little bit better for you so just kind of adding a little bit of brown above the eye right here just very small like i said like mocha said you know just small little things that make it better all right there we go let's stop there and uh we will see our patrons the five dollar level patrons tomorrow we're gonna be painting again and painting the sunflowers and the windowsill i think it'd be fun and like i said i'll be working on the traceable for this tonight and hopefully have that up for you um tonight for the patrons who pay for those for the two dollar level and what yes yep and the link to patreon is down below the video it is patreon.com angela fine art and um or you can just search for angela anderson google it angela anderson patron it'll come up everybody's doing it all the cool kids [Laughter] all right guys thanks so much have a great rest your day weekend whatever and uh we'll see our patrons tomorrow and the rest of you next tuesday thanks for watching bye [Music] you

Channel: Angela Anderson

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Length: 151min 24sec (9084 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021