Koala Acrylic Painting LIVE Tutorial

hello this is Angela Anderson thanks for joining me for this acrylic painting tutorial in this video I'm gonna be showing you how to paint a koala we're going to be showing you step-by-step how to do it from start to finish call my husband Mark with me hey everybody he's been in chat today for our live show so if you have questions while I'm painting you can ask those and I'll try to answer them let's get started [Music] all righty I'm using a 9 by 12 inch canvas panel today this is a Belgian linen panel from Frederick's Pro Series it's got a nice hard core so I really like them kind of a low tack low textured for the linen there so I really like working on these so thank you to Frederick's for that low tech low tack I know I don't know why I said that but that's me no texture or maybe high tech okay okay okay number eight bright a quarter inch and 3/8 inch angle brush in the Velvet Touch line and this is the 6100 series from Princeton and then these are also the Velvet Touch here and the red handles quarter inch 3/8 inch will those blenders and then a couple smaller rounds for the eyes got it number 2 and a 3 OTT round for those so use whatever brush is it you've got Princeton is our birth sponsor we really like their products and thank you for providing yeah providing them to us today go of our colors really quick here I've got carbon black burnt umber burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange which is kind of an optional color today we're not going to use much of it just mostly in the eyes maybe a little bit on the tree yellow oxide cadmium yellow medium cadmium red medium um ultramarine blue cobalt teal yellow phthalo green yellow shade gosh lost my words there for a second ultramarine blue alright I'm sorry unbleached titanium titanium white and zinc white and this is my glazing medium the gloss glazing liquid that I like to use it's got a little bit of an extender in it I won't need much of it today but we probably will be glazing some of the fur after we get it on there there's gonna be a couple layers I will warn you the Koala is going to look worse before it looks better so as with most animal paintings we do it's all about the layering the sketch is looking kind of creepy this kid he already they have kind of creepy eyes I have to say I did when I I didn't really notice that they are super cute but when you're just looking at those eyes they are a little bit creepy all right so let's draw it out I've are drawn it on the canvas but I thought I'd draw it real quick with you guys so we're gonna start out by kind of doing a and I probably need to move this over but you get the idea a tree branch it's coming and going in like this this arm is coming over it a little bit overlapping right here there's the shoulder coming up to the head and there's a little probably hind leg or something back here maybe that's a baby I don't know I thought about doing the baby with it I really kind of wanted to but that would have been twice the work on and I wanted to do this on YouTube so to keep the length short and I don't like to do much over two hours on YouTube if I can help it on two Saturdays so that's why we're doing the single koala today there's the arm coming up comes out a little bit more and the hand fingers kind of gripping it right here there's part of the back of the hand this knuckle comes up here and then these two fingers are fused together we've got we're doing this obviously the wild flower fires are have been going on in Australia for a while I think they're still going on last month was particularly devastating and so we kind of as soon as I saw that we put a koala on their schedule as soon as we could get to it so this is the earliest date we had available to do it but we do have a koala rescue adopt a koala link down in the description so if you're interested in that you can check that out after the video thank you Mark I'm doing good how are you doing good I'm saying hi to everybody all right awesome I think I think I need to bring this up I think that arm looks a little bit too uh didn't look like I'm gonna be armaments look I'm illiterate or not but his arms pretty long day to day long I feel like this body's kind of comes up a little higher though do you want me be an arm model for you okay no public service announcement jelly belly popcorn flavor not my favorite really gross he's like he's like this is gross once you try it this one try it like no I'm not gonna eat that you just told me I hate it that's not good okay so the head is about the top of that where the hand comes around so just gonna measure that that's kind of where you know and then this is all kind of whitish gray fur I don't know it's probably the other part of the shoulder coming around or something I'm not really sure but the ears right there that yours right here so you're gonna kind of have a circle for the face almost and then right about halfway is gonna be the top of the nose so kind of fill it that in half and then kind of do that curve for the top of the nose the nose fills most of this middle section like if you kind of split this bottom curve into three part one two three you know one two three then that nose is gonna fill this middle third here not the middle third this way but this section down here that makes sense and it's gonna narrow and come all the way almost to the bottom there's a little bit of a chin right here that comes up really cute he's got these little kind of smile lines almost and then the bottom of the nose is curved around it's got these two little curves and the mouth comes out from the sides of that corpse in just a little bit and then widens out so the bottom section is a little bit more narrow than this top section up here and then right in here there's these little nostrils they're in there and then right up a level with the top over the head here is the top of the eyes are real close to the nose you kind of do these circle here in here and then this part kind of comes in like that and then there's some outline some skin that kind of outlines the lid all the way around it's a little bit just pinkish color and then their pupil is kind of like a cat eye it's got a slit and you're gonna curve it a little bit out just slightly and then we'll have some highlights and things in there probably close enough that chin on there there's like a double chin kind of a little bit of fur there's really not a whole lot of strong coloration it's all pretty much the same grace it's just gonna be kind of a subtle subtle um shadows and things to get to get the shading on the face right so coming across there like that and then these ears go wow i think the ears are what makes it cute kind of before the ears it wasn't so cute but now it's cute Oh how'd that work that the baby koalas are super cute too I really kind of wanted to paint it baby this one I think is kind of I don't think it's a full like adult I think it's kind of in-between maybe okay something like that so there's our koala and you know once I get kind of the main area then I would go back in and you know I just make a little adjustments and things you know maybe adjust the size of the body I don't know he looks a little bit chunky here but you get the idea all right I'm gonna just start on the background here I'm gonna get my number eight bright just started with a kind of a medium round for the background and I'm gonna do it mostly in kind of teal blues greens I know there's some branches back here in our photograph to some might add a little bit of that but not a not a ton I'm gonna grab some of the burnt sienna that will darken up might even grab a little bit of that ultramarine blue a little darken up make it a little bit more of a natural color so it's not so Mindy yeah I'm just going to use this brush along the edge there I'm just gonna kind of tap so I get kind of a blinded don't don't outline it too much cuz you don't want to have a line going all the way around it so make sure that if you do outline it like that you go right back in it and blend that out really quickly I'm blending it out a little bit from that outside edge they're kind of going over lapping my line just a little bit unbleached titanium just a word of caution for people and chat don't believe anything I say they haven't figured that out yet are they did you miss miss did you mislead them again well one of our longtime faithful viewers from Australia mmm this morning doubt that the baby koala is a Joey yes and so I said a toddler koala is a Joseph and they were like no an adult koala is a josephus so you may want to fact-check like that I hope they know you by now - not some do sometimes I always get on to mark 4 in the Facebook group especially he loves to mess with people I think Julian just threw something at me right off the bat for so anyways that somebody did ask a real question here said why do you choose not to paint the background first like one quality in the Koala itself why do you paint around it not I just do it I for Speed sake and he had the perfect answer is it'll be over hard to cover it up with the other pink colors it's true that you this one though I'm gonna paint mostly dark so it really wouldn't matter as much I mean you could definitely paint the whole background I thought about painting the whole background kind of a gray color because that wouldn't compete too much with this green so yeah it's it's just up to you whatever but I didn't wanna have to draw the Koala live onto the canvas I wanted it pretty done so that takes time we would never paint a live koala well I just it just takes a long time and I don't have time to edit I've done that before where I've like that sometimes if it's a super simple animal or something I'll do it live but I really prefer having my time to make edits and stuff and it takes time to kind of paint it and then look at it you really part of drawing is just kind of taking time to look at it and that doesn't really play very well on life you know shows so I prefer to have my the hardest part of the drawing done before hands and so I can take my time with it and don't have to rush and then I can do that drawing you know like I did on paper but I don't have to worry about that being perfect it's that make sense I don't know if that makes sense but anyway it's nice it's mainly a choice just for the video editing if I wasn't I was doing it home I'd probably well you're home do the big [Laughter] moving on hello everybody all right it's one of those days that background is it's too dark but we'll add more to it here in a minute let's go ahead and fill in the tree here [Music] I'm gonna use a little bit of that and [Music] quinacridone the orange or the yellow oxide the inside part of that tree is kind of a golden ochre color looks like so I'm not sure what country this is maybe like a clip this or something that well or a gum tree well the gum trees have a like a smoother bark they're real pretty mmm they're kind of a whitish color it seems like but I could be wrong this kiddy another variety I don't know he's a little bit of brown for the outside edges here burnt umber I'm just gonna pulling in this is gonna take a couple different layers of color to get the tree so right now we're just laying down kind of the basics of the painting the first layer is always kind of messy I call it the ugly stage so don't take too much time with it don't worry how it looks too much you're just gonna mainly trying to kind of get an undercoat on for your other colors to go on top of and I kind of try to pick colors that I see in the painting or colors that are underneath your other main colors so this reddish color is kind of British yellow colors underneath some of the exposed to some of the areas where the dark bark is over the top so we'll start with that and then when we put the dark color on top it'll kind of be underneath and that's the idea at least so this is a gum tree according to our are struggling bones nice he's having this neck I don't know if it's like bubblegum or what but it's the eucalyptus is another name for that eucalyptus I believe really yes bubble is better okay I'm gonna use black now and I'm gonna be a little bit of blue but to just go ahead and fill in most of this coil with this black there's just so much of it underneath no white I feel like it'll be good to have this base layer oh I got a question about whites mm-hmm somebody has said that they have only titanium white okay is there a much difference in the other whites and do they need to buy them the zinc white is is a pretty helpful color to have it is transparent so a little bit of the regular white there so it is helpful for things like eyes and clouds and mist and stuff like that so it kind of depends on what you're painting but yeah I find that the zinc white is quite a helpful color I didn't use it much before I started painting landscapes but when you're doing the landscapes especially fog and things you really I I can I can do a demonstration of the two different ones here in a minute we can do it over here on this so titanium white with glazing medium there and then this isn't quite all in its own the difference is subtle but you can see where especially in these thinner areas along the edges like you can get those edges to kind of disappear a little bit better and that white is just even though it's transparent it's still got a lot of opaque mists in it just in inherently in the titanium white it's it's opaque so you can't get rid of those opaque particles in it even though you thin it down they're still there so I mean you can get it similar with using a glazing medium so you know I don't think that it's it's a deal breaker like I would use that if I didn't have Inca white I would totally use that and be fine with it does think white is just a little bit softer so that's all I'm gonna grab the green here and try to kind of cover this no give it a second layer it's trying to lift cuz I that wasn't fully dried well it's fully dried it wasn't like cured which it takes about a day or two to fully cure so you can't really screw up on them too hard all right let's keep going so I'm just looking at the reference photo I'm trying to kind of block it in in ways where I can tell you know the different parts of the animal the arm from the leg and that kind of thing or the arm from the back just changing the color subtly and some areas aren't going to be less dark black underneath in feathers so can use a little bit lighter gray in those areas and I'm looking at the direction that the fur is growing too so that when I'm tapping in this color I'm getting that that a little bit of directionality did though somebody has said they finished their Swan paintings and they would like to know do you think a blue background would look good on it yeah definitely pretty we we had one of our members did a paint party she said the only way she could get her husband to paint it with them with her is to do a paint party with several couples so they had said what couples do it in their living room which is it's funny to me like I do these videos I never really think about the reality of people actually painting along you know so just like the idea of a whole room full of people painting and listening to what we're saying just cracks me up like you know I'm like what did we talk about don't say anything to you embarrassing really occur to me until I was but but yeah they turned out it was cute that was fun like they had a good time and one of the good that made me think about it cuz one of the guys it was like he painted with his wife so he did a blue background she did I was like oh that was great it's like I would have liked to been in on that conversation the conversation while they were painting or later that evening either one yeah yeah yes somebody might want to check in on him make sure mark mark knows better than to do something like that or doesn't know I don't say that like you know like oval beak what it's like with the beak on on this one you're like what happened over there hard where you listening believe it or not I really wasn't trying to if you miss this one video it's pretty priceless it's really good mark did great though I mean honestly that's and I think that's a good project somebody was saying they were gonna be doing it with their grandkids this weekend she had our grandkids I was Thursday she couldn't watch this she was on her way to ten dollar patron thing we do a weekly chat with them and she said she had her grandkids over that day so I hope that went well for her it's like they're all painting the Swans for their parents I thought that was cute cute idea yeah I'm gonna get that you're gonna dark right here just trying to again darken up some of these areas where I know there's a lot of black underneath the white I'm just looking at that you can see it on the reference photo how much black there is underneath that white and the areas that are the darkest that's where I'm kind of trying to get this dark black on the armpit and things and again don't worry about what it looks like at this point it's gonna look like a hot mess that's pretty normal so just kind of trying to get the main colors on here and when you're doing this make sure you come in just a little bit off the outside at border so when you're drawing it you can go right up to the edge but that's why I went over the top of my drawn line with the green and here I'm not going right I'm I'm not going all the way over that edge I'm coming just inside of it because when we do our final layer we want it to overlap but if we do it right up to the edge right now then when we overlap it it's gonna be damaged wider so you're gonna have it everything's gonna get bigger and it'll end up being too big so just kind of have to narrow everything down a little bit when you're doing your first layers how's it going hon super fantastic okay you're doing good over there to think we're so good and honestly we could we could do the painting with this it would be a little bit different style so you could choose to you know do it in like a bigger brush stroke style I I think that would look really nice so you know you don't have to have the the smaller smaller brushes the fuzzy brushes and do it the way I'm doing you know feel like there's a lot of different ways to interpret this and a lot of different styles you could use to do it one of the very first barrier paintings that I did I did a baron of fox and they were both in a very like loose style larger brush brushes and bigger wider brush strokes instead of this small brush stroke so I think we're gonna go with them a little bit more realistic styles so this will be a little bit will use the smaller brush brushes and brush strokes but you want to go with more of an impressionist style and interpretive kind of thing you could use a bigger brush stroke and go a little bit faster with it and that would look cool too okay so coming around here I'm going to add more white even though I'm seeing the dark gray underneath I'm just I don't want to go too dark eyes [Music] we've got lots of time to add more colors to this so we don't have to have it perfect it's gettin close as we can to what we're seeing underneath so in these little areas right here I'm seeing some dark under the chin so I'm gonna go ahead and put some dark kind of right up next to the chin there just imagine waking up and seeing that how you doing hi got any leaves I'm hungry I ain't some kind of dark on that you're there so hope everybody's doing great today yeah welcome to the silent part of the show [Laughter] we're concentrating where were communicating through Monmouth but you can't see it so mmm-hmm right now angel is trapped in a box I'm not stop it oh [Laughter] [Music] my goodness so what you're doing in your patreon group this month we are painting um a still life um pull it out very very early stages this is after two hours this is for painting so it'll look like that uh in a couple more weeks hopefully it may take us um I'm guessing this is gonna be a eight hour easily maybe ten hour painting and so we're about an hour and 45 minutes in at this point so we're still pretty early that's the that's that's the ten dollar patreon group that I mentioned earlier that we do that on Thursdays and we work on it all month long and if we don't finish it this month we'll work on it next month so but it's a fun group it's a smaller it's just me so marks marks will work so I chat and answer questions and things it's a little bit more intermittent slower pace than the You Tube public videos but we have a lot of fun so I'm looking forward to that one I've been wanting to paint that for a while that's been on my kind of to-do list for several months but we just couldn't we had to get through Christmas and stuff it just wasn't quite the right time to do it so now we're working on it gonna be fun and then and we've done two other still lives that kind of go along with it I wish I had them out I don't have them to show you but they're kept away but there's one that was like a tangerine still-life that's got some like an urn kind of a Middle Eastern I like an urn kind of thing and then the other one was a flower vase with some large white flowers looks like piano peonies maybe with some blue fabric so that both of those are kind of complementary so and those are all included with those our previous obviously you didn't watch the replay but they're all included with the same $10 level you can watch all the old ones loves any ones so it's a pretty decent deal plus you get all of that bonus video stuff so we did the bonus video this was the bonus video that we did two weeks her last week you last weekend ya know so yeah and that was like five hours and that's a $5 level if I don't know right so $10 folks get both they get all the $5 stuff plus they get their own video once a week and everybody get these YouTube ones for free yep the YouTube yeah we do we do about ten videos a month two of them are paid eight of them are free so we get paid for 20% of the work I do still a good deal and I enjoy it I wouldn't have it any other way and thank you to all the I think there's like over 2,400 supporters right now on patreon so thank you incredible to everybody yeah really well beyond my wildest expectations of that all right so got most of that done let's go ahead and put in the nose I'm gonna use black and blue for that a bit more ultramarine blue let's start with the Elgin blue and black that way you're not gonna get too much black in there yeah this is really um if you have Payne's gray this is the color paints gray it's uh ultramarine blue and black get again get it kind of as close as you can but if it's not quite right you can you we can have time did it we're gonna be layering over all of this so it's trying to get the main outline of all of our shapes in and then if you have any thick areas you want to smooth those out so when you're painting these in the way I'm doing the layers you want you want smooth under layers that way the upper layers don't have to fight with little ridges and things so I went through and if you look at it it's all kind of fairly smooth there's not a lot of thick thickness that's the way I like to do since I glaze and do lots of layers if you have too much of the thickness and you're painting it just doesn't work with layering very well okay let's use the red with the unbleached titanium he's a little bit orange there too maybe a little bit of white you know what I'm gonna is Quinn aqua diamond toughest I feel like it's a little bit brighter pink and this red is just not doing it for me so I'm gonna add the quinacridone to our list colors marble rosy color that red cadmium red just can't quite do it it's a little too orange so I like to add paint improv here you know I was kind of on the fence I was I wasn't sure if I wanted to connect I needed the quacker dome I should just add it get in there but okay and that bottom edge of it is kind of irregular so doesn't have to be it's actually kind of irregular all the way around so doesn't have to be real smooth it's God use this color maybe a little bit of gray with it around the eyes you said something that darker here there on the nose too well okay it's not focused at all mm-hmm I'm not sure why I didn't focus oh yeah it looks like he's the same pink under here - it's on the under the mouth looks like a what what are you saying a koala from the wrong side of the tree mm-hmm like come at me bro [Music] you don't want to mess with this I've heard they're not cut quite that nice like which I think they're kind of called cute and cuddly but they're not actually all that nice I don't know if that's true or not but okay gonna use actually let me switch to smaller brush shares easier I'm gonna grab Aquadome burnt-orange chair and I'll probably add some other colors to this it's not gonna be our final color but I'm gonna use that in the eye now we're talking creep ink you meant like oh yeah nice laser eyes creepy red eyes mm-hmm all right well hey thanks for joining us today thumbs up like subscribe we'll try to make cute animals creepy for you hmm oh the black is helping yeah there you go believe it or not she knows what she's doing just hang in there buddy come together she does he was gonna be ugly but she didn't say it was gonna be creepy so so now we have the creepy stage just keeps getting worse I swear to you it'll be better eventually we will pull this together this is a side of koalas that Australia doesn't want you to see [Laughter] I'm getting a burnt sienna here I'm gonna add it around that burnt orange fill that in suicides looking up that way that's I can just fix those people's somebody said that that says I'll be koala so there you go yeah it's pretty much what it looks like right now around that out a little bit okay all right so this is a layer 1 it's going to zoom out see him in all his glory here yeah we're pretty much done if I was teaching the lesson we would be done we'd be done right now oh yeah well a lot of what happens when you are painting for the first time is or a lot I say with beginners is that you you look at the colors on top so you look at the COBOL his face and things you see oh that's a light gray so you go in that there and do the light gray around which is like I said and it's fine because it's a it's a stylistic choice but you're not going to have the layers underneath the dark layers underneath if you go with the light colors first so you always look at what's underneath the darker colors and put those first and then you're gonna have all these you know beautiful layers at once you finish but if you don't do those dark layers and you just can't get the depth that you're gonna want so we have when we finish he's gonna have a nice rounded parents and Matt lots of depth in his fur alrighty so let's work on that background some more it's still not quite where I want it to be so I'm gonna grab the glazing medium and some of the teal I have a little bit of blue in there and some of the unbleached titanium I'm getting titanium is just like a more of a warmer you got white so it's got a little bit of yellow tones in it so it's gonna kind of green out or teal colors too that's going to around here do a second layer we soften that up a little bit yeah so to remind everybody Mona posted the link in the description but down below the video also or sheep owned it posted the link in the chat oh good but also down in the description is that link to the adopter koala yeah to help them out recover yeah they've had I I was reading some statistic it's pretty sad they've lost billions of animals and a lot of habitat it's mainly they habit to add that there well you know obviously they couldn't couldn't afford to lose the animals either but the habitat it's gonna be hard for them to recover they were already having issues with that so they were already having struggles with the koala populations with Dizzy's and things and do not help I'm gonna kick some mother down some more that I like this softer like this color is definitely prettier little softer looking you're seeing a little bit of that original layering come through depending on how much clay Zeeman me to use you can have more or less of that background green showing through up to you I'm gonna go right up to those ears again did I touch my microphone sorry it was a closed thing I think I might do some leaves in the background here coming down thought that might be look nice just some like subtle leaves emily is my voice today don't know what color are you using right now this is ultramarine blue and sorry ultramarine blue green and teal so I'm using them kind of interspersing and just going back and forth between them and I'm adding a little bit of the burnt sienna if I felt like it gets too bright you know I'm just to tone it down it's basically the same colors we used in the background I used a little bit lighter tones over on this side I'm probably going to add a little bit more the dark colors in the corners adding dark to your corners when you're doing this kind of a background will help pull the focus in it kind of creates that vignette and so it helps to kind of draw the focus in towards your subject in the middle so it's always kind of a good idea just to kind of darken up those corners just a little bit especially when you're kind of playing with them like this you can do there's not a whole lot of anything going on in this background it's just kind of random colors let's go ahead and grab some this lighter color yeah that second cup really just helps kind of smooth everything out make it a little bit more finished looking just not one that background of the canvas peeking through like it was that's like going on yeah it's going great good I'm going to add a little bit of burnt sienna to the green I'm gonna add the ultramarine blue and green here great kind of a dark teal and it's mixing with just a lighter color that I've got on my brush already I didn't clean my brush out so I'm just going to use it to kind of create some very soft looking and I'm blending them a little bit as I do it so they're not super dark they have this long tapered leaf just letting them be very kind of almost impressionistic letting that and this background is still wet so it's kind of mixing with it a little bit I'm just gonna add just a few it doesn't have to be a lot but I think it'll help kind of give it that atmosphere that we're looking for or that foresty feeling and if you want to get a native Australian really fired up just call him a koala bear I got emails about it when I sent out my email my schedule put out my schedule there's a lot of things we'll put up with but we will not put up with that all fun and games until somebody calls it a bear toss it a bear and then thawne know it's in the same family as a kangaroo yeah the wallaby is that's the closest relative from what I read this morning mark didn't believe me that their babies are called Joey's he's like no that's a cool kangaroo I'm like no so as a wallaby kind of like a honeybee goofy thanks I know you got to put up with me you got this eye thing oh yeah I'm not loving it back there I don't know if I love what's going on over here me take those out I feel like it's a little kind of I don't know like there's not enough room in there to kind of make sense of what's happening so what I may do is just kind of yeah that's probably gonna work better just boland it all kind of out so it's all sort of that middle green color and just leave a few like little streaks in it it's like okay there's maybe some leaves back here but we can't really tell it there instead of having them bees leave the kind of more do you find ones over to the sides here oh yeah one we have an hour question okay person I would like to know about how much of each paint color do you put out mmm I'm say about a dimes worth maybe a quarter Nicoll in between not a lot it's kind of a fine line you want you have to have enough even if I'm not using a lot of that color I need to put out at least that much because if I don't if I put a little teeny tiny bit it'll dry almost immediately I've got to leave it enough paint there to kind of it kind of Huddle's and they kind of keep each other from drying out so the more you spread it out and that's why I always pull from the front side if you see how I'm pulling my paint I'm always pulling it from this front side and leaving this back side undisturbed that way all this paint in here is all staying moist it's all staying together it's also going to kind of form a little bit of a film like this eventually will get kind of hard back here and that air will kind of dry out that top layer but underneath it it'll be all that soft and what paint so even two hours from now if I keep spraying it keep it moist and just work from the front side here this part underneath will be protected and it'll stay wet back there and that kind of that film that forms over the top of it will protect it but if I was to pull my paint from the middle of it and make expose all of the middle part to air then it would dry out a lot faster so I don't know that's not even what she asked about all right so that I'm not happy with I mean I still mess with that a little bit I feel like needs a little something-something so I'm gonna grab somewhere that like teal I'm just kind of color got a little muddy a little something oh no I don't like it work on it a little bit more I think that's a little bit better maybe the paint's not wanting to stick right there you can see what happens when you mess with your paint too long this little area right here is starting to dry and so it's not wanting to stick so I got to go back in with some just like a little bit of the paint and just kind of DAB it over and leave it don't mess with it anymore I don't know if I like that leave I don't know see I may end up taking him out get a little bit of the ultramarine blue and they love blue that or they were green that was kind of her original leaf color I've gotten a little bit of white in my brush now so it's a little bit lighter just adding a little bit of that okay I want this color to kind of come down here so it looks like it's all kind of connected otherwise it kind of looks like background is separate from down here at the same colors all right well let that set don't think on it I'm a mess with it a little bit more later we kind of just let it sit and dry otherwise we're gonna just be lifting off what we've already done a lot of layers already on there all right let's work on our tree so I'm gonna get some Brown burnt umber and see let's get somebody ultramarine blue leaving more blur around than blue so just grain out that browned a little bit and get up under here and I've got the 3/8 inch Willows blender I'm gonna add my shadow on that log it's all the way down and I'm just gripping it almost laying it flat I mean I'm just going to kind of scrub you a little bit of that orange e color showing through my brush loaded fairly thick almost let that dry too much that was starting to get a line there you don't want that so just like Dagon letting the paint can I come off the brush and random shapes I want that edge there to find that a little bit damn on and it's okay if the pain is too light under in these open areas we'll will probably glaze over all of this so that's fine if it looks a little bit too light it's a lot easier to darken up something than to make it lighter something yellow oxide I cannot cover it up too much of it right here see how the color going back on and a lot different from that original color because it was going over the top of white when I put that lighter color on top of the darker brown it's not going to be as bright so I can add a little bit of white to it if I need to get it back up to that same brightness I was just gonna take a couple extra layers so that's why I was saying that it's easier to get a color let you know darker than my darkest you know glaze over the top of the light color and make it darker immediately but with with lighter colors you kind of have to sometimes you have to add white to them and then it dulls the color and then you have dad another layer of the original color back on top of that whitish color so I'm just going back in here with some of them yellow oxide again it's gonna go with kind of like a hot mess at first so fine could also use a large flat brush let's see if that works better no I don't think it does I think I think the this one's already got some texture so it kind of helps nice and dark back in here burnt umber a little bit of ultramarine blue just gonna to tone it down a little bit darken it up get a little bit more gray doing circular brushstrokes almost barely touching that brush down so that it goes on a little bit roughly and this is one of the few times when I do not mind having some texture in my paint so I leave the bum piece in my brushstrokes I don't smooth everything out because then when I do my upper layers on top of this it'll I'll have those kind of textures underneath I'll just make it that much easier to get upper textures looking far marks just hanging out over there yes I'm enjoying having the seat to myself don't say the name don't wake the Beast don't wake our CIT that takes some funny pictures of her this morning I'm covering the edge of the couch pretty funny why she sits like that I don't know yeah so she's our studio friend but she tends to like to get in the way of things and insert ourselves see now I can't use those pictures on my cat influencer page oh sorry thanks no change but I saw the perfect I saw the perfect thing and we were out t.j.maxx mark took the day off for Valentine's Day super sweet so we got to hang out together all day really fun and we went to do you max cuz that's how we roll that's right our speed that's what those international superstars do we go to designer store their super romantic like it was headphones that had little cat ears it was all gold and then a cocktail shaker and a little keychain shot glass and I'm like that's how if I was a cat influencer that's right you get to be on brand right there not to shake anybody from being a cat some influencer I love those photos so your cat influencer good on you hey somebody's asked a painting question yes sorry so somebody she said that you mentioned glazing yeah the whole painting I just don't understand pleasing okay so will we be doing that at the end yes it's not as good as glazing Donuts so don't get your hopes up too high it's not what you it's not what Marc thought brush mark with like lazy yes I say here's perked up life is full of disappointments what I'm looking over here for my half-chewed licorice jelly bean growth and the popcorn flavored jelly bean I think maybe art actually those are not on your diet I don't know how why you even had those this is my art installation over here it's not like anything like a banana nailed to the wall or anything there's a flower break ridiculous I love it and also got some these ones I didn't put them together because they kind of different kinds but I took a bunch of pictures and it smells so good in here and there's more out there that we yeah there's more do you I got some of these this one was kind of dead or hurting so it was already broken off real short same thing with this guy he yeah so no for mark I stumbled upon my my valentine flowers accidentally good thing she finds when she goes from my phone I was looking at pictures of Liam that I didn't know if I had so I was looking for pictures of our grand baby on your phone and that was happened to be on there - she found pictures of flowers I found pictures of flowers and I just offhand said I hope that's not what I'm getting for Valentine's Day of course I would save pictures of things I'm not getting dick they were not good honey it wasn't good I'm sorry well I tried I haven't told you what kind of flowers I wanted and it was like I don't see one cabbage rose in the picture that you had on your phone I even took notes I don't know they were not when I asked they weren't like ugly necessarily they just weren't like I was like honey so so then he then he was like pictures and he was like well if I don't know what kind of gets you then they didn't have them so here you look and see if you can find something better and then I found them was a miracle it was like on the very same site where he ordered the in my defense hours I was trying to get ones that were already in an arrangement in the vase that's true I did have to spend an hour putting cutting them and beans we're all just like a bunch of this flower and a bunch of that flower they don't care they don't care we'll get back to the painting okay you're done putting up paints all right back to you raise the schedule creepy koala painting all right so adding a little bit of blue to the I made a dark wood just black and then I added some white here to it this one's like a lighter version this one in the middle here has got a little bit of the blue in it and I'm gonna use it with this one too yeah yeah you have issues with the flowers this is my problem as I complain about I shouldn't complain I should just be happy with anything I have one of the more stressful husband jobs because I'm married to an artist who knows her flowers oh yeah flower stop well when you basically order them for yourself oh my guess yeah I love my flowers they're so pretty you did a good job picking them out I think [Laughter] alright so starting on I started with the dark right here I'm gonna go ahead and do the lighter white ish color right on that edge I'm using the 3/8 inch Willa's blender and barely touching it down so I'm getting kind of some fuzziness along that edge and as I overlap I'm gonna try not to create patterns so that's the main thing about fur that can be difficult is that it's the tendency is to kind of create these patterns as you layer so you want to go over the top of what you've done before just a little bit so let me see if we can let's start it over here honey and I'll do a section here and show what I'm talking about so I'm somebody yes I'm in a little bit we'll do it along the arm here so right here along the arm I want this outline edge to be kind of fuzzy it's gonna go along that but I'm gonna even though I'm going in a straight line I'm still gonna go back and forth up and down a little bit I don't know if you can tell that but I'm kind of layering I'm not going in a straight line like this honest it can come create some kind of patterning that we're trying to avoid so I'm gonna go above it and below it and above it below it and softened it up a little bit and that will create kind of a soft fuzzier look and then I'm gonna almost go immediately into like a little bit darker for a color here using that lighter white ish color right there on the edge and just layering you can see how like each one of these brush strokes is kind of creating its own little blip there so I'm trying to smooth those out so I don't see those as much and these are starting to turn I'm doing these kind of in the wrong direction they're supposed to kind of go in this way I'm just gonna kind of go over the top of that and change the direction of that fur just a little bit and then it's rounding out this way that's kind of coming around as you can see I'm tapping and just barely touching the tip of the brush I don't have a lot of paint on here don't need a lot of paint for it to create that texture we're looking for and if I've got an area that's mostly white like right in here I can go back in with a little bit of that white and just go back over where I've already done you just want to be sure that you don't overdo and create a clump because it can be easy to kind of end up with sort of a clump of color there and cover up all of our dark area that we've put underneath so see how I'm leaving lots of that dark colors showing through and then glazing somebody was asking about that we'll be doing at the very end what we're doing with glazing is we're just gonna be adjusting the tone and color we can we can adjust the darkness we can make it darker in areas so look in our shadow areas we can add you know like a little bit of a darker shadow in some areas and we'll definitely be doing that especially like in the armpit areas and things like that and all it is is just a transparent layer of paint so we're adding lots of the glazing medium and we're gonna be darkening up certain areas and then you can also change the color so say if I want a little bit of a blue tone in the fur somewhere and I don't have it in this initial layer and I decide you know hey I want to it to look a little bit more blue then it can add a little bit of blue with my glaze and glaze over the top of certain areas and add tone tone the color a different way and I'm leaving kind of these you could see these lines here and the fur there's kind of these little lines in our koala really want to call them a koala bear I'm trying really hard not to I think it's an americanized thing it's just like kind of what I grew up calling it it seems like it's that way for all over the world is it okay yeah they look like a teddy bear or so alright anyway and they climb trees and they grow buddy ground but they're not mammals well I guess they are mammals aren't they they give birth to live young right yeah but then they tough about marsupials okay I'm just kind of cleaning those little layers of her in there and then down in here it's a lot darker looks a lot darker so I'm gonna go ahead and get a little bit more than black and use that in this area just a little bit darker and pulling that over the top and we're don't want the lines to form then that's where I kind of make sure that I'm going back and forth up and down and really kind of just filling it in as randomly as I can and not leaving those lines like I did over here always paying attention to the direction that I'm seeing the fur growing in our picture it's kind of rounding out this way and heading off this direction as it comes around that corner and if you get it too too light or cover too much of it up we can always go back in and add more of the black so say like right in here I feel like it needs a little bit for the black fur maybe like right in here you can always go back in and add that the top you just need if you do that just wipe your brush off get some of that lighter gray and overlap it cuz the black is not the fur color it's the shadow so it's not going to be the main color that's on top I want that to be that the gray the lighter gray should say okay let's get some of that white yeah and like just looking at the areas where I'm seeing the lightest a little bit it's a fur adding a little bit of that tiny little brushstrokes and they're not very long brushstrokes that's why I'm kind of tapping and just really kind of keeping them pretty small they're pretty short napped so except for up in the ears you're not gonna really seeing these really long furs that's another reason why I go it went in and chose this brush instead of like a rake brush the rake brush would work really well and I may actually pull out my rake brush to do the ears I didn't really think about it that I might need it for up in there or the it's called the Fiat filbert greeny or in the brush here so it's got separation between the tips almost like a fan brush in a way but it'll work really well for those longer hairs okay I'm pretty happy with that so let's do the lighter white areas that's not true white it's gonna have some gray in it but it's gonna be a lot lighter than what we just did and we did the background a little bit lighter on these so it won't be as I don't know why I just did that big huge thing there these are a little bit longer though that's shorter this area's gonna gray belly right there just covering over that dark there we go then there's like a shadow right there these are all kind of going in weird up you know odd directions so it's kind of coming down and cut down from the chin area and then folding in on itself a little bit in here so they're all kinda bullying in odd directions looks like it's kind of swooping up this way these ones look like they're coming up this direction how's everybody doing they're doing great no more questions for now let's see people wanted to know if they were poisonous spiders and Sweden mm-hmm so you can tell we're paying attention to what you're doing I see okay cuz I feel like just by myself it's awesome no I've been in Chad I get it I've done it so I know it's only so much time art talking and doing good how much so much quality' right somebody asked if I was painting and the answer is no I'm not painting then somebody said he's making a spreadsheet mm-hmm which right this moment I'm not but I am for our speeds yes you see it spreadsheet tell me know when to plant what and where all that awesome the neighbor with the noisy vehicles yeah check done I mean we have to remember to say like subscribe yes check out the videos the Amazon store the most guys yeah neighbor maybe with a neighbor with loud vehicle so we're just gone through our checklist here [Laughter] but yeah if you need some brushes scroll down below the video the brush guys calm yep five percent off with the code Angela fine art there's a link there that takes you to Angela's recommended list brushes all kinds of brushes in there most all the ones that I use and my videos are on that list though and this is the kind of a medium gray here I'm just gonna try to tone between that light area and the face now the highlight there coming off the mouth and then it kind of comes around the cheek there and I do sometimes get comments about people like saying you know that I don't explain enough you know what I'm doing this kind of painting is one of the more advanced ones so on the advance paintings I don't do as much technique I'd I mainly are kind of talking to you about what colors I'm using when and that kind of thing in what brushes I would do and I don't do a lot of like explaining of how I'm holding the brushes or you know that kind of thing those brush those videos are like the Swan video that we did with Mark those are gonna be the beginner videos so if you're like you know wanting to work up to something like this that was that's where I would start is on a video like that it'll kind of give you some of the more basics of working with acrylics and then you know graduate to something more advanced like this one that we're working on today after you I wouldn't try this as my first painting this is gonna be you know much more of an advanced painting and you can usually tell to by the amount of time that takes me so you know if a painting is taking me 3-4 hours that's gonna be an advanced painting if it you know to two hours it's gonna be kind of one of more immediate intermediate paintings and then a you know one hour or one and a half hours you're gonna be the beginner paintings so we're already at an hour and a half here and we're definitely not done you know so that just I know I know it can be well I don't know I just I would I I think that when you're learning to paint that it's good to just set yourself up for success so you know just like you would do if you were learning to ski or something you'd start on the bunny slopes if you were learning to play piano you'd learn with your chords and easier songs to start with same thing with painting I feel like if you start with a little bit easier subjects get those behind under your belt yet you know get a little bit of confidence and work your way up to something like this this would be something that I would you know I'm not just not saying don't try it I'm just saying you know I think there's a balance there's there's something like this if you're not ready for it can be really frustrating a frustrating painting that's I think when I get comments you know from people I'm like yep it's just like everything you know you wouldn't into your kid into a marathon when they're just learning to walk right a little bit darker here I'm just gonna round out this shin area yeah I mean it's just you know just like anything else you just gotta kind of know give yourself a chance to be a beginner like it you know give yourself a little bit of time just to learn some of the basics and then you know jump into something like this but somebody wants to know which brush are you using this is that 3/8 inch rose blender okay and then somebody said they know you've been painting for over 30 years about how long have you been teaching almost that amount - honestly I it's funny I jumped into teaching pretty quickly as soon as I felt fairly comfortable with what I was doing so I remember doing it when I was pregnant with Jordan so that was 93 and I had been painting for our teaching for about a year or two before that so probably in that early 90s 1990 91 something like that probably 90 to 91 92 is from when I about started so how long would that be 20 years something so pretty and off and on I'd you know I'd teach a couple years and then I not teach and then I teach a couple years and I you know and I did it a lot of craft stuff too and we did decorative painting so when I first started teaching it was decorative painting technique so it was all that will be floating and we worked on wood and you know it was very very different than this and I only started teaching the fine art painting or the you know canvas painting in 2005 I think somewhere around there so it was a fateful trip yeah as after we went to France I hadn't I'd actually kind of taken a break from painting I had gone to work full-time and and then we had baby and so I had to be back home and [Music] painting was kind of a I said kept me sane we had three boys so I need something for me well I have three boys she has for me some black I didn't go quite dark enough under here so a little bit of black so yeah that's gonna how we ended it well and I I did kids classes I found that I really enjoyed down pant teaching to kids almost more than adults just because kids are easier on themselves they're not they're not gonna get as frustrated with themselves you know it it was it was hard for me I just don't like teaching to somebody who you know I don't want to disappoint people so you know I just I want you to have the best experience you can so that's why I do such a variety of paintings on YouTube because I know not everybody's ready for something like this so I want to give you something that you can start with and then somebody can work up to adding darker B I ended up doing a bunch of kids classes I was doing kids classes locally hauling all my stuff down to Hobby Lobby and doing home school class then an after school class and did that for years several years I had some girls who started when they were like six and they we did it until there were 17 I think oh we did for 11 years taught those girls I was pretty cool that was sad now they're all in college I continued teaching them that even it was that I didn't teach any I didn't take any new students it was like them and I had a class of three girls that were had been with me from the time they were really little and I was doing YouTube full-time but I still couldn't give up teaching them so we did it for several a couple years was busy with you too but my family once they went off to college I stopped and how do you miss them there's some good little artists too okay so here's an interesting question for you yes they want to know that do you ever get frustrated with your paintings oh yeah yeah there's certain paintings where I think the last time it happened there are certain paintings where you um I really wish that I even had the luxury of like letting of stopping and just like coming back to it you know there's especially like sometimes some of the bonus videos that we do because we're trying to finish a six hour painting in one you know one day and that's really unrealistic that's one of the things that I like about doing the the Thursday videos because I if I get to a point where I just need to stop on the painting I can say okay we're gonna continue this next week but with the bonus videos I can't do that and so it's like sometimes I get like two three hours into the painting and I'm like I don't know how this is gonna end and I really wish I just had time to just kind of look at it and think about it and before I did anything more to it but you know so those are the kind of frustrating things I'm pretty tenacious about it though so I will continue working on something until I like it I don't usually stop and not not finish it painting anyway so alright I'm just layering the dark I'm trying to leave a little bit of cheek I'm not happy with how this furs laying down I might have to switch to the smaller brush but let's just go ahead and get a layer of paint on here and then we can go back in and or I should say a layer of fur on here and then we can go back in and kind of it just I'm kind of fiddling with this face too much right now somebody would like to know that if they don't have a blender what pen brush would you recommend um you can get this kind of fuzzyness from a brush that's like maybe an older brush or you could use a like a hog bristle brush let me see I'm gonna see if I can find that I don't know if I have any of my older brush was out here anymore I used to keep a bunch of older brushes so something like this that's already kind of afraid and not looking too hot you can use it should put a little bit of water on there and pounce so push push down so it spreads those bristles out a little bit and then you can use it do that kind of same type of thing it may have a little bit of a different texture but it will it'll work you know that works so I never throw out any of my brushes I always have you know either given way or you know recycle museum for stuff like this where you can always kind of find something some way to reuse it but that those work pretty well and then you can also use like I said the hog bristle brushes a stiff bristle brush some sort if you can get one that's kind of a rounded or flat shaped like this you can even cut it so if you had one of those cheaper brushes like like this there's a hog bristle you just cut you know you could cut it to a shape all right these aren't that expensive though honestly I think they're like three or four dollars they're not that bad and I use mine a lot so it's on my essentials nice I have a list on the brush guys that is like my most used brushes and it's these are on there because I do I use them for a lot of stuff they're great for fur use them for foliage and landscapes and clouds and stuff like that too they have a lot of a lot of uses all right going a little bit lighter now so it's gonna slowly building up these layers here I am NOT pretty cake and see when I'm done it and where I haven't done it looks like he's got a hat on there lighter color almost pure white a little bit of Corian the nose it's got a lot of light as it comes out off the eyes it kind of comes out this way the angle out off the nose looking very light like I feel like there's a lot of dark areas in here that we still need to kind of come back to get some black hair who's calling you works calling you you're busy you're already working mm-hmm we did all right I'm gonna go ahead and use this color on the nose here give it a second layer adding a little with that black back in don't be adding the lighter color on top of it so we want to make sure we clarify that Princeton has changed the name of the pressure to just blender oh yeah so on your list it just says blender on there okay yeah you think kind of a medium gray haired I got put in some of this areas over the dark spots I need to go in Oh okay okay so is it the Velvet Touch blender yep the quarter-inch and the 3/8 inch are out of stock right now heythe inches and his talk there are about five five to six dollars right in that range oh I they I thought they were cheaper even with the discount yep hmm well I mean that's before the five percent off right yeah no sorry that's prices in 2020 yeah I haven't checked it oh wow so if you're watching in like 2029 prices may be different your dad already so pretty happy with that I'm gonna um still need to go over with some lighter areas let's continue working on him let's get the this area back here done really sure what that is perfect back or something give up a darker color we did it in a brown but it wasn't quite dark enough it's close so we're gonna be adding weight all along this edge here so I'm just gonna wait and I'll do this when I do that let's go ahead and use this over here it's really really quiet notes hmm I'm writing words I saw that that really nosy aren't I yeah you like over here she was ain't none of your beeswax you know it was recommended by people in chat that we update the description down below to remove the name willow from the Islander okay to help reduce confusion good idea so I'm giving you homework okay I'm doing the white hair sure now this is where I want to go over the top of that green I have a nice fuzzy edge cute stand it is this where he starts to get cute like he starts to come together a little bit I think this is my favorite part of painting is when it gets to the stage where it's starting to just try to look like I want it to look you know okay look you want to pet him done okay I did mention also I was gonna mention last week we talked about that we would not be painting on next Saturday but we we will be here next Saturday so we were not well you're not going to be out of town like I thought we might okay your normal schedule no problems because I'm a scaredy-cat I don't want to fly by myself [Laughter] that's okay I'm off camera I see that that's part of the bonus video later is it okay they can see paint a little bit of that hand they're like gray bit on the hand get some white here right there strong highlight right on the top of the hand right there [Music] hmm looking good so far there huh thank you go with the kind of a lightish gray hair so get this these ones are kind of long down here there's a lot of white trying to kind of do a little bit longer brushstrokes for these but um looking funky it's kind of a hard I'm getting this repetitive white dab there that I'm not liking so I'm gonna go back in I get real small real fast right up here and it's okay to keep certain areas kind of blurry so like up in here the hands sort of in focus but it's not our focal point so we can kind of fudge it a little bit but I just kind of keep it a little bit more blended and not not as crisp so I'm gonna paint it in but I'm not going to do as many layers as I do down here maybe keeping that and you can do that as a painter you can kind of decide where you want it's almost like taking a photograph and blurring the background you know you can do that on you know like my phone will allow you to blur your background or do different things kind of what we're doing with this who are gonna we're deciding where we want our emphasis to be and so we can really easily kind of pull the attention to the place where we want to by making this more detailed and blurring this out just a little bit we're not gonna do a lot but we're gonna you know just I'm not interested in spending a ton of time on this area it's not our focal point so I don't need to so you spend a ton of time on it turning this gets a little bit easier to get the brushstrokes in a direction that I want I'm on there there's a lot of highlight right there I've got kind of a white blob right there just had too much paint laid down at one time so I'm gonna just kind of go back over that a little bit with a grey tank smooth it out and some of this is kind of covering down too so I'm gonna take some of that and use the edge of my brush this way and just draw somebody's coming down a little bit thicker and that helps to with fur doesn't always lay exactly right you know maybe gotten a little roughed up or they moved in it you know the from the hairs kind of cross each other that that will help make it look a little bit more realistic too if we kind of do in one direction then kind of just shift the direction just a little bit and kind of do some that are criss cross in one another so that fur gets a little bit napped combined kids some of that kind of medium gray here just working on that transition between this shadow and down in here and then what I'm gonna do is right along here I'm gonna add it it glaze it so that I don't have to worry about trying to get that dark fur right up against that edge there I'm just gonna glaze it okay I'm pretty happy with that mm like a brawny lamb that's stuck up on me huh alrighty so let's we're gonna tree a little bit more I need to get the tree down before I do the last a little bit on the ear because it's overlapping it so much I don't want to have to go back in and try to mess with it so I'm gonna create my brown with the blue here that kind of grayed out color and then there's a lot of highlights on this bark too so I'm gonna get some white and use it so we've already got our color down I'm gonna use a little bit of that make a kind of a medium color I'm gonna go along that edge just a little bit and kind of clean that up a little bit it's a little bit messy right now the fur over the top of it what kind of things just can I clean that up if you need to and again we don't have to worry too much about it right here we're gonna be shadowing that arm so it's not gonna look quite right right now I'm gonna go right up against that and start adding some little highlights in my bark man just up until you did that it looked like he was holding on to really big chocolate bar it's like this is mine [Laughter] to him it probably is like a chocolate bar it's like this is my food maybe why [Music] you read the intent yeah with the client with the eyes that are glowing it's like don't touch it exactly this is mine this is my to my tree I'm gonna get a little bit more Baloo on some of these highlights and we will be glazing this also so don't worry about going to light with this I'd rather have it to light than not dark enough and then not I did enough cuz we're gonna glaze over everything I'm really trying to leave a lot of texture here you can see how I'm leaving the the canvas texture showing in some places and you're still just using that blender right mm-hmm you know didn't sir painting so far with this to use a little bit darker color in some of these areas here these areas where I've got that lighter color I'm gonna go round them trying to leave those like they're peeking through I'm not happy but nah no no it's not quite dune when I'm picturing in my head I keep messing with it until it gets it right maybe tap hey just comfy going a little bit too light with that here we go do you think my seats have come up you don't think that no when you planted this morning yeah probably not because they're bean seeds just been like three or four hours oh maybe there's a giant letters to the to the clouds [Laughter] mark and I are trying our hand at being gardeners again this year it's a little scary proposition we've done it a couple toners before and with mixed results so trying to research a little bit more this time and going a little bit more prepared we're not very good green thumbs they look really really good when you first plant them and then after that we'll see Mark Osler it's a plant hospice my house they have died in hospice so I think we put in an irrigation system we'll be okay so that's our getting to water or not watering the right amount at the right time that's my problem because I forget to water and then I'm like they start to droop and then I like overwater them and everything gets waterlogged and it's like alright so now going back over with this dark you see how we're kind of just layering layering and layering leaving a little bit of each under layer showing each time we add in a new color this is definitely getting there now closer to what I wanted it to look like and then what I need to do is go in with this dark and I need to find these areas where let's use a smaller brush series where we left some of that background showing and I add a dark shadow right around it mostly along the top edge and we've got for some reason knife power I'm covered up most of the reddish orange so I'm gonna have to come back in and add some so I'm just gonna put some this shadow where I want some of that color to be later and we'll have it okay there's some in this dark areas too I didn't use I mean okay to get some of that bright one gee you don't know that burnt quinacridone burnt orange and yellow oxide in here I wasn't sure if I needed to yellow I may not use it at all so believe it or not we're talking about chocolate in chat and we have told this story before but on it was Valentine's Day yeah that's June right in France mm-hmm we got some 100% pure dark chocolate yeah I can't we're like oh my gosh this is gonna be incredible we got some champagne yeah we yeah we we went you know in our hotel and oh my gosh we both I think we ate it at the same time yeah we just looked at each other like spit it out yeah you need some sugar so like 80 85 it's about the most you want to go like we've never seen this in the US before this is awesome France is the best yeah [Music] I think that's the night you ended up being on the phone with a credit card company for an hour - yep yeah because they the rental car we turned in put a lock or like lots of thousands of dollars until it you know cleared the checking of our car mm-hmm and yeah so we shared a meal mm-hmm cassoulet if I if I remember correctly I don't think so no all right I'm starting to glaze here got the burnt sienna and burnt umber yeah yeah adventures and we were not the best travel travelers huh Marc's been back several times since though that was our first time so I work for a French company just to clarify yeah it's business expense that we can't afford for them to cut for in Soho what time no yeah that was a big big deal for me to go all right adding the dark on that side there let's see how we're glazing in I'm not living the the tree yet we'll get there so somebody was using watered down or just glazed down black and burnt umber for this what somebody's asked to when you glazed is the paint underneath have to be dry yes yes for sure yes that's a big game if it's not it'll just lift it off okay I'm going to get the angle brush here get some of this gray before and just gonna lay it on and let it drag I'm not trying to go around my little spots there but just dragging a little bit of the kind of medium I like color that had that blue and brown together on it I'm gonna use some of this black with the glazing medium we add a little bit of the white to it to tone it down a little bit you know let's glaze the under Arminius cuz it's needing some definition right there so put the glaze down and then I'm just using I wiped it off and I'm just using the dry brush to pull that color out a little bit and I can grab this straight glaze and use it along that edge be careful doing that though because it can like lift off what's already there and it dries fairly quickly so you don't have a whole lot of time to work with it so you may have to do it in sections but there we go so now we've got that shadow right there on that arm let's use a little bit of it on this side shadow that airy on this side of the branch little bit on the chin these a little bit of the darker color a little more color the darker you need it you know just use more of the straight black so around the mouth here I wanted a little bit more black use a little bit more of the color wipe it off go back in with some of the lighter color and just kind of blend out around it just smooth it out down that works now you have to do the texture first because this doesn't add texture it's just and in fact it kind of smooths everything out a little bit so if you may end up having to and I probably will go back in and add another layer of the highlights on top of this because it it can tend to smooth everything out a little bit too much but it also it that smoothing effect that it does tends to blend everything together a little bit nicer and especially when you've got a lot of layers like this it can really help kind of unify everything and make it look a little bit more polished a little bit more realistic you want to use glazing medium and not just water because with heavy body acrylics the water will under bind it so it it breaks down the binder in the paint it's kind of like the Kryptonite yeah exactly yeah so it won't stick very well to the canvas and if you do it layers on top it would lift off I do want it a little bit lighter right there then I go back in with a little bit of white here well I forgot to mention the angle brush to is an option to do fur - it does work pretty good job also okay if somebody's on them budget what acrylic paint would you suggest I used dingy liquitex basics with my students for a long time it works really well for it's a little bit more fluid than this one so it's a little bit easier to control somewhat some techniques are a little bit harder like dry brushing is not quite as easy you have to use less paint but for the most part it it does a good job the colors are better than Kraft acrylics which would be your cheapest option but they have like sets of them that are pretty good I'm going to be using a set from martiza I haven't used them yet so I don't know if I can recommend them yet but so that'll be coming up next Saturday so I can see how those work if you want to I'm assuming they're B all right they look pretty good to me so I just thought I'd try they're sponsoring a video so um I'm gonna use the smaller blender here and I've mixed that gray blue here blue and fashion mix on Amazon music Alexa stop that was weird I hope I don't get it like a I hope not YouTube doesn't try to monetize though he's dead it's over that would be bad so no everybody else with Alexa going off yeah she controls our lights in here most of the time she behaves herself but every now and then she decides to jump in there and do something we didn't ask her to do like that she's always listening it's kind of creepy and like like I saw that they had these ones or like like it tells you what to wear something like it's a camera thing I'm like heck to the no like no way I'm not like undressing in front of the leg so it's on a camera are you crazy no sorry if you have one to each his own you know what I'm a little more shy than that I don't yeah that happens sometimes but usually she does that I've been spending way too much time on this country yeah I know this is probably the tenth Alea on here we'll get it eventually and honestly it doesn't have to I don't know why I'm doing this doesn't have to look exactly like the photograph and have you met Angela before it's like you're surprised so you're asking if I ever get frustrated with my paintings just saying case in point well it's trying to do it the easy way and then it just didn't look right and then I kept at anymore just now it's like not quite what I had in mind but that's alright there's there's just some high contrast in here there's some areas where there's dark and light right up against each other and that's always kind of tricky to get it to look right cuz it can tend to look like the light or the darkest kind of pasted it on and you don't want that the glazing helped so it kind of smooths everything out a little bit so that lighter color here okay stop it whatever point that you find you like your tree so you may have liked it after the second layer that's totally fine all right I'm gonna I just need to put like a highlight up the middle here and that'll make it look more rounded and then we'll be good hopefully English first see if this works quite that high misusing the driver I hate it I'm just worried about those edges a little bit here we go yeah there's some eyelid over here to it comes the owner right in here to do that now we got that rounded it's a little bit more do it here we come okay I'm gonna call that good just stop while I'm ahead I've kind of lost all that really good orangie stuff that was in there though just kind of not happy about that part of it we're gonna try to dip it some of that in there okay what you doing i'ma kick him back in comfortable more honey you it's been a quiet quiet video today alright let's work on that face now get that tree gone I'm gonna work on his nostrils here get a little bit that quinacridone magenta and unbleached titanium made a little bit of the cadmium red it looks good I get a little bit of Burnt Sienna with the magenta there let's use a little bit of black to create it dark pink add a little bit of that nose color to it go I'm gonna use this around the eye it's a little bit lighter than that let me know if you zoom in I'll try to stay on camera okay well just do the face yeah there you go is it it's not zoomed in is it I'm not sure you might check it let me check it not it's on manual alright I think it's all not on now okay getting some of the black brown and now I'm gonna get some ultramarine blue here medium I'm gonna use some just so I'll just creating kind of a bluish gray here oh man 3 hours and Counting anyways this guy's taking a long time does anybody still watching or by ourselves so I can quit now that's what you're saying no man with that not many people you imagine watching a video and like getting to this point I mean like I think that's good enough I'm hungry I don't want to go get some lunch no no I wouldn't do that okay get some that blue gray there that makes put it right in there right in there that darker around it I like that lid a little bit this brush is a little bit too big these lines are a little bit big get a little bit that gray some of that unbleached titanium here and yes some black mixed that with the gray just trying to come on soften that up a little bit to happen around it there we go okay you get a little bit of them get something anything going here burnt umber and I'm just loading the tip of it I'm gonna gonna go in the eyes and shadow around the outside of that people make sure that you're getting a little bit of ash dark nice around that top area especially a little bit of a yellow I'm gonna just dab a little bit of yellow close just using a very tip of the brush just gonna dab it in there yellow oxide good more that burnt umber that I am can you get round that out right there I can see it's just a little too scrunched up just found out that bottom of that youth the black in the center just a darken up that pupil a little bit I think that helped right there I do not out all right let's use smaller brush I'm just looking at my reference a photo here getting a little bit of white very tip of my brush and highlight around the side right here you know again neighborhood thank you that right here put a little bit in the part of the eye there and I'm here and then let's get that zinc white and I'm gonna use the ultramarine blue with it do my first highlights with this it's a little bit of blue okay and then I'm gonna get more of the justice and quiet and go back in and down some highlights in here here we go goes from weird-looking all right it's amazing how that worked in it I had done a painting okay what's gets the small Willa's blender here I'm gonna get more that blue and zinc white here my dad just a tiny bit of black doesn't great it out just a little bit put a little color down and then just push it around put it down where you want it the brightest push it around make sure that you don't go back over that area too much like right here I can see where it's kind of lifting because I touched it while it was starting to dry so when you do this kind of dry brush you just have to kind of work quickly and then when to stop so I need to stop here let that dry I'll put more layers on let me get a little bit of the blue I can do it on this side more the dark blue just don't you mean maybe a little bit of black in there with it it's got a little bit of the white still in my brush so it's tinting it a little bit just dry brushing that highlight on there okay and then we'll definitely need to do it a couple more times one there to darken it up I need this bottom area needs let's get a I sure and clean that up a little bit of the blue and black hair making sure that this top edge right here is a nice dark rim and then we're gonna start the I like just inside that's dry enough I think that's right now you stop okay get some more of that sink white and if you don't have think white you strike titanium white and just use glazing medium like we shot at the beginning cuz I've come just underneath that that black leave a little bit of a black rim there just pull down a little bit thicker with the paint this time I'm still trying to keep them you can see that very little paint well is on there it's not gloved on my brush so I can have control you don't need a whole lot of paint for this technique okay so that paint right there just trying to dry right there so I need to let that dry right there I could do more but just gotta be patient with it I can work down here a little bit I wiped everything off my brush took up very little of my brush I'm just gonna dust the tiniest little bit right down the middle there and that's well that's drying let's go ahead and grab my white and I'm gonna brightest highlight areas now so right above the eyebrows there's this really bright white a little bit on there don't want it down that far okay let's try that one again I paint starting to get dry so it's doing weird things there we go yeah I'm just gonna and I liked around that I just in general [Music] I really thought he'd be a little bit easier man he's got he's he's a little tricky well tricky bugger this one that I probably put more detail on that I need to was always bit little light highlights right around the chin area right there it's really light right here either side of that nose that's really I kind of wish sometimes that I can do like a screen capture split screen - mm-hmm show people the the before and after you know the because we kind of forget right now that an hour hour and a half ago it was it was this creepy hot mess you know and it's because like you're saying it's it's the layers it's it's you paint the deepest part and set that background and they just slowly build the right the layers on it to give it that depth and the and the textures and and you know a lot of people and I'm one of them that thinks that oh it's just a single brush stroke and boom yeah it's it's it's representation so like you said that's why a lot of people make it up you know give up and get frustrated because they make that first layer and go what the heck yeah exactly yeah that's exactly why I make sure that I you know point that out when I'm when I'm doing it because actually it's funny sometimes people will send me pictures of their paintings and be like what am I doing wrong and I'm just like nothing it looks it's coming along good you just got to keep keep going you know because they're they're not seeing and I you know and I'll point out I'd be like what does mine look like at this point you know in the video and when they kind of stop and look and I'm like oh okay yeah hers doesn't look any better than mine does you know at that point you get it you kind of realize okay you just gotta got to let kind of trust the process I call it you know trust the process it'll get there just gotta you can't skip steps right in take your time right yeah you don't have to finish it in one setting like I'm doing or in two hours or three hours whatever right no we we do this because one angel has done this for so long and you know she knows where she's going you know that that's another thing that people get frustrated with is that when you're actually painting it you know where you're going but when you're following along you know right you don't know where I'm heading exactly so you got to think about a little bit more and it takes a little bit longer anyways so hmm it's okay to enjoy painting and take your time yep well it's normal to have frustrations too that's also you know part of this process and and don't give up you know that's the main thing don't don't give up in the ugly stage keep on trying until it gets to where you want it to be and you may have to step away from it I find that a lot of times it's helpful especially if you're getting really frustrated with something let's just step away go get a cup of coffee go you know watch a movie read a book do something take a walk come back to it in an hour two hours day don't you know don't give it up forever don't spend too much time away because then you'll tend to not want to go back to it you but you know there's like a fine line there you know but it can help to kind of get it away from it for a minute and just kind of take it a step back that's what I was saying about the bonus videos you know I was like I'd rarely when I'm painting by myself at home will I finish a painting in one setting from start to finish like I do on YouTube it's just not a normal part process normally I will stop and walk away and go you know take a break stretch do something and come back to it and you always can kind of see things better off with fresh eyes too you know it's easier to kind of see where you need to go next and so that's one of the things I've kind of had to give up but doing these live shows which I liked doing the live stream for sure I think for me it's just a it's a I like teaching live I'm used to teaching live so it just makes more sense I feel weird when I'm trying to teach to a camera instead of a like I'm teaching to a person here you know so that's because you are well I know but I'm just saying you know like this versus camera for camera it just feels like I'm talking to myself for some reason even though I know other people are watching it's just like they're not watching right then so it you know I just feel like I'm dating myself no it's too easy to overthink you - yeah cuz you know like oh well I can edit this out later or I can do this right yep yeah I'm gonna get a little bit of black hair back in some black didn't go dark enough back in here hmm if you look at their fur there's a lot of there's like I think there's it's white on the base maybe and then our white on the tip and then black at the base I'm not sure if they may have black skinned a I'm not sure but I know they've got got to have some black on these hairs too so they're going from white to black I believe looks like at least in the photos I'm not sure if that's true or not okay to get this done higher I'm not gonna do anything more with the background I if I had more time I would but I'm not gonna do it today I'm just we're getting close over three hours here so just need to get it done yeah but I think it'd be cold uh can I do a little bit more with the leaves and things back there so when you do yours you'll have time to get creative with that it can be cool to see what you guys come up with okay are our French repellent or say that the underlay of fur is dark and with long white guard hairs interesting never heard of a guard hair it doesn't it is interesting hopefully we're doing him justice are you guys he's sweet I've never seen one in person outside of a zoo be cool so gonna work on that little cheek area there cuz he's got that little kind of a smile mmm yeah didn't that angle is not quite right right they're gonna does like that just blended him and that white and then adding kind of that mid-tone grade I kind of blend it in to the rest of the fur where it's needed we can add some glaze it's um black and please some of these areas just got kind of thinned out black hair the glazing medium says not full dark okay let's kids on this dark purpley color a little bit of that black glaze when you use it in the nostril here and shadow that opening of the nostril and then add some of that lighter color right in here at the bottom opens that up makes it look like a pocket in there putting that I like color toward the bottom here and that shadow up somebody guess what kind of glaze this is the gloss golden golf gloss they are not a sponsor but I wish they were choosing this shadow color here tops the nostril there there we go all right let's do one more layer on the nose highlight there and then we need to do the ears won't be done I'm still not hundreds unhappy with that mouth something like that take it some of that watch me blue and think white it's not one to stick right there I'm gonna have to do titanium white get it to stick and wiped it off and then just rubbing around those edges a little little bit I don't want to touch the middle part there to lift it off I'm gonna have to do it one more time because it got a little bit lift right there fresh off okay and then I can glaze with the black glaze it back over just a little bit push it back I did it while it was wet it lifted it off a little bit so okay so I'm pretty happy with that I think let's go ahead and do the ears and we'll be done using white hair I may want to add a little bit of water cuz it's just not one to flow add just a little bit of black down here so I have kind of a gray medium color I've already got a little bit of the gray in here but you need to have a little bit of both I will do that kind of gray color first somebody asked can they use mixing white like a zinc white yeah it'll it's a got a little bit of titanium white in it but it should work for you you may have to add a little bit of glazing medium to it but oops do not mean to do that I looked away a little bit II and then they start to get long it's turning here gonna draw long ones so where this attaches here I can do a couple different things I can do smaller brush strokes kind of up over it to kind of help hide it right because you don't want like it obvious where it starts and I can also glaze a little bit over it and the glazing what that will do so if I decide right there I want it to go down the into the ear I can glaze a little bit of that black color if I can get some you can glaze it right there and that will push that down into the ear that clay is in some of the places a bit see how that kind of just popped that hair right down into that year now it's part of it he's black Kashmir's decided it's time to quit she's gonna start getting up in marks business now see she does this whenever she's decided she's it's time to in the video it's pretty funny our cat Kashmir can hear chirping at mark Kashmir what are you doing okay mmm-hmm that one was too thick so this is where that that Rick rush could come in or the green ear these work really good for the long thin the lines so you could use it for just for this part here you just have to kind of layer just like do with the other brush overlap them a little bit so that they blend in with one another otherwise I kind of look like very streaky so we use a combination of the two brushes and kind of get it more natural-looking look to it that medium gray color going here I'm just using the black like a wood to glaze I'm just gonna going over some of these blending them in a little bit let's do it over here too lots of little dabs and yeah I think just to give it all that layers of the fur it takes out to get it looking realistic we're at least close to I hope you guys have enjoyed it today we he's been fun to paint I hope you learned something maybe not I hope you just enjoyed getting to see the process I learned the white jelly bellys or popcorn flavor okay good to know okay and then at this point we could go back in and glaze again if we needed to but oh I was gonna do a little bit more the white I want this for a mom here kind of a white halo along the outside of the body right here got something that backlighting going on yeah again even though we're haloing it we're gonna make sure that it's blended in a little bit don't want it to look like you know just a line on the edge of the painting so I'm gonna get that glaze and gonna go over it a little bit with the dark brown dark gray glaze what do you think did I do it all right did I get everything I don't know if I I'm sure I probably missed something but oh yes we have a super chat sorry I wasn't prepared okay okay so we had a bunch of people with us today thank for joining us and the incredible koala painting and shout out to Krista and she said he's looking so gorgeous I had to send something oh you're welcome thank you and then we had let's see well we had a second one from Krista and said mark order pizza and I could feed the mark and then we had a third one from Krista she says okay and this is for some more paint Thank You Krista and yourself and yourself [Laughter] of it okay let me just tap in some black in here noticed and this this could be a whole another hour of just doing these little tiny you know adjustments and that's okay if that's what it takes you know to get it to where you want it to be so and that's pretty normal for me I like I said I don't hardly ever will finish a painting like in one setting so I would probably take this and set it up in my living room or something then and then go back in and adjust a few things here and there I don't have the time to do that today obviously but because probably don't want to sit around and watch TV with us while I'm looking at this painting so but just kind of know that that's part of the process too that probably you know there's probably a few little things that I could tweak with it and I've missed a few little shadowing areas or different things but you can always add those in on yours you see that it needs it so this one just in from Jillian OH Thank You Jillian and she said thanks for the Aussie koala love you both thank you that's awesome yes yeah shout out to all of our Aussies out there we appreciate you guys Jillian's been a fan from way back she watched like one of my very first live streams I think so and you know that they're good people if they've stayed with us through all those old videos yeah no joke no joke good and bad we've had a lots of different we get a message to check our PayPal oh yeah be on my phone yeah the PayPal is nice because they only take like 9% versus 30% off YouTube takes from super chat sadly let me see but we still it's still one of his all incredible yeah don't don't not complaining okay Laura Keller says Thank You Angela and Mark another fun tutorial Oh Thank You Laura very nice she sent that off of PayPal tiresome to me you know so wonder if it's the same person Laura tell her yeah because the person who said check your PayPal is Debbie in chat oh okay so no maybe it's undercover me I may have missed one okay yeah I don't know that's the only one I see okay all right well hopefully Debbie is Laura and if not Thank You Debbie later I'm sure all right so I just added another layer of white there to the arm but oh he's so cute yeah like it just make sure that your darks are dark and your lights are light that's one thing that will really help give him really good dimensions so brighten up if you're if it's looking a little bit flat or you could check it in black and white and see you know how yours compares to the original and you may need to just go you know like super black in your shadow areas and and then you know extra bright white in some of these areas there's only a few areas where it's really bright white but anyhow all right I'm gonna get off of here thanks guys whoa three and a half hours there we go yeah we did it he's adorable worth every minute and yeah if you want the traceable for him it's gonna be available on patreon.com probably tomorrow I'm not gonna do it tonight we'll probably do it tomorrow but it'll be up sometime tomorrow if you want to paint along and you trace yours out on the on your canvas and get a head start on it if you don't have to draw it and for the five dollar level you also get the reference photos so one dollar levels are actually two dollars now untraceable z' is trite just traceable is great and then the five dollar level get you bonus videos and the reference photos and the traceable so you get a little bit more okay ten dollars I mean gets all of that plus the extra Facebook group that and the weekly videos just for them that we work on something together all month long so alright that's it uh Tuesday yep well you've got Tuesday and we'll be painting what are we painting Tuesday I don't know we have my thing up we'll find out real quick do a quick fill Oh butterfly painting a butterfly on Tuesday and then next weekend we're gonna do a landscape oh yeah that's it I'm scalar kind of goes along with this on the landscape series that we did last year so if you were part of that and did any of those you you'll know what I'm talking about that it's kind of one of those so it I think it'd be fun and we're gonna have the sponsor for that one so if you're interested in seeing how that artis of paints work that'll be next all right good job honey Thanks I don't know what to say anymore I'm so tired thanks for joining yes subscribe all that good stuff so she immediately huh check out all those other videos oh yeah yes yeah after the after this you can go to click on my name or my photo and it will take you to my home page we're on YouTube here and you can see all the other videos that we've got available we've got all kinds of different ones for you so all right I'm gonna why not his cheeks just a little bit right and while she does that just remind everybody that I also down below the videos list of all the materials brushes links to Amazon store brush guys store and all they could step to yes it's a nice easy way to support the channel alright thanks guys we are out here we'll see you next time bye [Music]

Channel: Angela Anderson

Views: 100,885

Keywords: Koala painting, Acrylic painting Tutorial, Angela Anderson

Id: bCmqBj0pGa0

Length: 214min 50sec (12890 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 15 2020