Learn How to Paint DANDELION FAIRY DANCE with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home - Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint and sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm painting dandelion fairy dance and i'm going to be sipping on some chai tea and if you enjoy this process i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you're going to find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and prime 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white cobalt blue mars black burnt umber which i'll call brown green oxide and deep yellow and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number six round synthetic brush and i have a number two round synthetic brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and of course you can switch those up as well if you'd like to if you're painting along with me you'll probably want to have a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and down below this video i will be providing you with a couple of additional resources that can help you throughout your painting process one of them is a link where you can purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to the same kind of paint in the brushes and all the good stuff in between so that's there for you there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today alright so what i'm going to be doing for the first step is i'm going to be painting my sky my in my background i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm using are black brown blue and white and what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to make myself a custom blue to use for the majority of my background and then i will be using i'll make it a little bit lighter at the top and dark at the bottom so what i'm going to do is i've already pre-mixed mine so you can see where i'm headed with it i used all of my cobalt glue and then what i did was i'm going to utilize this so you can see how i mix this you use a tiny bit of white because white is really powerful and will lighten it up really fast and then just a little bit of brown and a touch of black so what we're in essence doing is kind of making the blue the cobalt blue a little bit lighter and a little bit duller so with the brown and the black that's putting um that's kind of neutralizing it a little bit and the white is adding a little bit more lightness so somewhere in this vicinity is where i'm headed with it and then once i've got it in the in the color tone that i would like to what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up just a little bit of it on my brush plus white so i've got a little bit of the custom blue plus white and i'm going to start at the top of my canvas and i'm going to be going left to right to get my entire background onto the canvas as i come down towards the middle of the canvas i'll be using more of the custom blue and then when i get down towards the bottom of the canvas i will be using some black in with my mixture so this way i'm going to get a nice natural gradient as i come down that sky and it is nice and light at the top and as it goes into that middle i just started pushing my brush a little bit harder because i knew that i had that um paint the custom paint on the inside of my brush so now i'm going to start utilizing that color with some white as well just to get this to blend in and we're just going back and forth left to right so when i do these gradients you'll often find that i put the paint on and then i go back up into the previous section and i just kind of keep going back and forth up and down that canvas in order to get those sections of color to blend in with one another so this just kind of helps as they are working together and they're kind of drying on that canvas you're getting them to to blend in together while they are still on the moist side and i'm using a good amount of paint so that way i have a nice long continual brush stroke and i can pull that paint all the way across the canvas and i'm just doing this as a fun nice neutral representation of of the sky behind my beautiful dandelions and my fairies that we're going to be putting on later but you could certainly do any color background you could have your background purple or you could have it pink or whatever color you would like to incorporate would totally work you could it you could even do this type of gradient with with a different color so i'm going to bring the blue all the way down just about to the bottom before i start incorporating the black because i know that i'm going to want to bring that black back up a little bit as well so i like to overlap when i'm blending so now that i'm just about down to the bottom i'm picking up black and the blue i did not wash my brush and i'm going for a nice deep dark tone down at the bottom and you'll see that i'm gonna just kind of get it to blend in with that blue above it and it will get a little bit darker as it dries so just kind of in your mind's eye just prepare for that a little bit and if you want it darker you can go ahead and add more black to it and then we are going to be utilizing our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your background done you might even find that you want to do a second layer on yours if you do want to do a second layer just let it dry for a couple minutes and then you can go back oops just drop my paper towel um and then you can go back in and do a second layer if you'd like to but we'll be using our medium brush for the next step so you can just get ready all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first step to our large dandelion so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using just black paint but i do want to kind of forewarn you that you want to have your canvas dry before you start this step so you know you could take that extra long break if you'd like to or you could find some kind of fun fanning method to get it dry or you could do as i did and just whip out your blow dryer and dry it that way perhaps yours is already dry but mine wasn't so i had to make sure mine was dry so i'm going to be using my medium brush and black paint what i'm first going to do is put my my stem on and then we're going to do um the main flower area with just our silhouette color of sorts so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to give myself a couple of a starting point and a stopping point for the stem so i'm starting mine right about here so where this is is it's almost halfway up or halfway down your canvas and it's just to the right of the center so if this is about the center left to right i would go over maybe about an inch and then i'm going to be bringing it down to this bottom left hand corner so i'm going to give myself a marker down in the bottom left hand corner but i want it pretty wide as it's going to be pretty narrow here and get wider as it comes to here so i marked myself down in the bottom left corner but i'm also going to make another mark kind of up maybe about an inch inch and a half that'll force me to make sure i make it wider as it comes down to here as i go to do this stem i'm going to bring it up just a little bit in through here and then curve it back down so i'm going to start in through here and i've got it maybe about i would say a quarter quarter inch wide at the um at the front part of it so something like this and then just bring it up a little bit and then just kind of curve it back down into your one of your dots and then what you're going to do is you just kind of make it wider keep it nice and narrow at the beginning of the stem and then as you come down this left hand side you're going to get it wider and wider so you can meet your other marker so this is going to give it some nice perspective to make it look like it's almost coming closer to us down here in the bottom left hand corner and then once you've got that on there we're going to make the little ball center part so again i'm still just using black i'm going to have mine maybe about i would say an inch and a half wide by an inch and a half tall i'm not having the top part of it come much higher than where the stem enters it so something something like this something is similar to this something something like this that didn't even make any sense and then when i what i'm going to do next is i'm going to do the little stems to the puffy things on the edges so i'm still going to be using black paint but i'm going to use a tiny bit of water on my brush too so what i like to do is i'm just going to kind of dip my brush in my water and maybe just tap it on my paper towel so i have a lot of moisture in my brush and i'm going to be flicking out these little tiny skinny pieces coming out of here i want them in mult different lengths so i'm starting with some short ones that are maybe about an inch inch and a half long going all the way around it and i'm just going from the center and just kind of pulling it out like this and then once i've got kind of one layer of them i'm just going to reload my brush with a little bit of black and a little bit of water tap it on my paper towel and now i'm going to make some longer ones so i'm really just kind of flicking my brush out from that center area and even if you start to pull some of that blue paint because you have water on your brush don't worry about it or if you make a big clunky one like i just did don't worry about it the longest ones for me are going to be about halfway between the center and the bottom of my canvas so that's about the longest that i'm going to have them and because i'm doing these i did shorter ones first and now i'm doing um longer ones it's going to give me a real good um element within the center where these dandelion um pieces they actually have like a thick piece as they enter into the stem so that this is going to give you that illusion so i'm just going to kind of keep going until i feel that i have enough of these longer ones and if at any time you feel that you're pushing your brush really hard or your lines are a little bit too wide for your visual liking that just means that you probably don't have enough water on your brush or enough paint on your brush because i'm really not pressing hard i'm just making sure that i have enough moisture on my brush and enough paint on my brush and that's going to give me that illusion and allow me to pull these as far as i want to and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got this all nice and done and if you do something like that don't worry about it we'll have plenty of stuff to cover it up so i'm going to wash and dry this brush and get ready for the next step all right so what i'm going to be doing for the next step is i'm putting the highlight on my stem i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm using are green yellow white if i need to i can go into some black you do want to make sure that your stem is dry at this point before you start adding some colors on it so what i'm going to do is i'm starting with some green paint i'm assuming the top of my stem is going to be the lightest because the light source is up top so i'm just taking a little bit of green and this is one of those steps that less is definitely more the less paint you have on your brush the more control you will be able to keep and it will dry nice and fast and you can just kind of keep adding layers so i know that i want to have the illusion of it going into the darkness down here in the bottom left so i'm going to just kind of put some of that green on the top and pull it down into this dark area and i know that my green is uh is translucent a little bit and with the black underneath it will turn darker as it dries so i am just kind of rubbing it on there the thicker areas are going to be a little bit brighter green and the thinner areas are going to turn darker so you can do a nice easy natural gradient with it that way so i'm just kind of adding my green up on that top side of it and just a little tiny bit and then just kind of blending it in so it blends in with the rest of that stem and now once i've got that on there now i'm gonna i'm just wiping my brush off on my paper towel and picking up yellow and white paint at the same time this is gonna put a really nice bright highlight at the top of my stem and again i'm just putting a little bit and i will be able to move it however far i want to on that stem so because i'm just kind of putting a little bit on here and just kind of steering it as it's drying that allows me to control it and make it as bright as i want or as subtle as i want i think i want a little bit more brightness in through here so i just added a bit more white to my brush i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel going to pick up a little bit of yellow just to get this highlight to blend in with the neighboring area and of course you can keep fiddling with this once you've established where you want that brightest highlight to go you can kind of just keep working that paint into the stem step away from it for a minute see if it's if it dries as bright as you want it to dry you can always keep adding a little bit if you want to and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your highlight on your stem you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our wild grass underneath our large dandelion so i'm going to use my medium brush the colors i'm using are black and green and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to consider the bottom area to be the darkest and i want everything to kind of go out of focus as it goes away so i'm going to be using water also but first i'm going to just use the straight color to get some of the pieces of grass the more in focus ones um in place and then i'll use a little bit of water to just kind of wiggle my brush off in the in the distance to get it to be out of focus so i have straight black on my brush right now i'm gonna maybe i'll just start over on this right hand side and i'm just gonna kind of bring some big pieces of grass up in through this area and you can really have them as tall or as short as you want but i'm looking for mine to kind of fade off behind that big dandelion so i'm just going to kind of do a few darker ones down at the bottom and then i can just dip my brush in my water and do some shorter ones or some more more translucent ones just past those that dark area so i can almost just kind of run out of paint on my brush with a little bit of water on it and the water is going to make it look nice and see through and it's going to set it way far off in the distance so that that's a little trick to just kind of get some out of focus pieces of grass off in the distance so just a tiny bit of water on your brush will help you do that i'm going to just kind of get myself some out of focus ones in through here maybe some all the way up in through here and then i think i will pull some more in focus ones down in this bottom left hand corner just bringing some larger ones maybe pushing my brush a bit harder so that way i it they look thicker and more close to us i think i want to pull a couple in front of this um the main dandelion so that way it really looks like we're you know engrossed in the the the i don't know the dandelion feel those sorts now i'm gonna without washing my brush just pick up some green paint and i'm going to do the same thing just kind of adding some green pieces of grass on top of this but again because i did not wash my brush and i still have some black on my brush this is going to provide me with just a great way to incorporate some darker pieces of grass as the the kind of the foundation for the for the main area of the grass that i'm going to be doing in a little while and then i'm going to do the same thing with dipping my brush in my water in order to get some out of focus pieces of green in the distance so i just dipped my brush a little bit in water and you can even kind of rub your brush a little bit as opposed to just giving it a a piece of grass you can sit here and just kind of rub it in a little bit with the water on your brush that's going to allow you to get more soft wider pieces in the in the distance so you can certainly have fun with that and i'm going to go ahead and give myself a little bit of that out of focus stuff over here on the right hand side a little bit of water a little bit of paint on my brush and this is going to allow me to kind of rub it in and give myself some out of focus pieces off in the distance and if your background was lighter than mine you could certainly incorporate a bit of yellow into your background into the out of focus areas i just added a little bit of yellow onto my brush so you could see what type of effect that that would give but just again consider this to be out of focus at the moment we are just kind of adding the background information into our wild kind of grass down below and then we are going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got this first layer of your wild grass on here you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing step number two on the main flower part of the large dandelion so i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are brown black and white and what i'm going to in essence kind of be doing is putting some little highlights in the middle for where the um stems of the flower parts come out and then some little accents along the inside because i don't have technical terminology for these parts so we're just going to say say as we as they look so i'm putting black brown and white all on my brush at the same time so i actually just dipped the tip of my brush into all three colors what i'm going to do is i'm going to do a series of messy polka dots within the center of this flower and i have all three colors on my brush so i can get a variety of tones and shades within these polka dots because i want it to look nice and natural i want you to be able to detect that they're in here but i don't want them to be overpowering so i don't want them all to be white white white i want them to have a little bit of diversity so once i've got my little speckled polka dots in the center and you can see i'm kind of bringing some all the way to the edges now what i'm going to do is i'm going to do the same thought process with more of these streaks in through here so black brown and white on my brush at the same time and i don't want to do every single piece so i'm really just going to kind of do a few pieces in here with this lighter tone and what's going to happen is this will make some of these pieces on the inside look three dimensional so again i'm not doing a whole heck of a lot in um in these straight pieces i just really want to give some sort of three-dimensional illusion and by adding a bit of a highlight onto some of them that will help to create that illusion and then what i'm going to do with those three colors is i'm going to add a messy area around the exterior so if you see like one piece of a dandelion the exterior has like a flat piece at the bottom of it so this is going to give us the illusion of that within the interior of the flower so really i'm just going to kind of do these almost um left to right type of motions in this area which is kind of near the exterior of the flower and again this is just providing us a piece of the illusion to make it look a little bit more realistic so you can do little x's if you want to this is kind of giving you the illusion of the bottom part of that um of that little piece that flies off i should look these things up i know i should but um i think some of my my viewers will will help me out in the proper terminology and i'm going to do just a little bit over here but i'm going to have an open spot over here too so i don't want to do too too much in through there and then we are going to be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got this area completed you can put your medium brush away wherever you'd like to take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our fairies so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using black paint you could certainly if black paint scares you a bit when you're doing your figures you could certainly use a pencil to start if you'd like to if you feel like you're going to do some readjusting but how i'm going to teach you is i'm going to teach you to start with a stick figure which i know we all know how to make stick figures so we're going to start there and build it into the shape of a fairy so i'm going to use my small brush and i'm going to be using black paint i will at times if i want my paint to be a little bit more fluid and have a nice smooth stroke i might drop a dot a drop of water into my paint and then i take my brush and i just kind of spin it around on the side of my palette and then that will give me a nice pointy tip and allows me to make a nice slender line so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to show you how to make a simple kind of like i said stick figure and then we'll build some muscles and shape from there so i'm gonna have two fairies on the stem of my flower and then i'm gonna have one flying away so i'm gonna start with the one that's closest to my flower first so i'm going to be going maybe almost about an inch to to the left of where this main area is so i'm going to just kind of make myself a little tiny dot in through here just so i know that that's where where the tip of my toe is going to go and what i'm going to in essence do is make my two legs in just a single line or a single diagonal line i'm going to bring it to where the waist is and then i'll make a line for the torso so i'm going to have this particular leg is going to be about i would say two two and a half inches tall so i'm just going to go straight up from here and again this i'm bringing it up to where i feel the waist is going to be so i'm going to bring this in like this and then just bring it down to where i have made my marker i'm going to have the back leg of this cute little fairy coming out in this direction so it's going to be almost as long as this one maybe a little bit shorter because this is going to encapsulate part of the um other side so it might end up looking a little bit shorter right now but once we put all this stuff on it'll look better and then i'm going to do a slightly diagonal line that's about half the length of these two lines going up in this vicinity like this so once i've got my sticks on there now i need to build some some stuff on my body so i'm going to start with this back leg in through here my fairy is facing the flower in through here so i'm going to put a little rear end on this back side and through here so a little bit of a butt in through here and just very little bumps are what i'm doing then i'm going to put a thigh so the thigh is going to come up the butt a little bit and come about halfway down the leg something like that then i'm going to put a calf muscle on so the calf is going to be a little bit smaller than my thigh i think i want to bulk up my thigh just a little bit more so that way it comes down just a little bit farther to that halfway point there we go now i've got my my calf muscle on in through here and it just kind of fades into the ankle and then i have the little heel of my foot oops i have a little hair on my brush that can really screw up a little tiny line so i've got my heel which is going to come somewhere between my calf and the tip of my toe so that's going to give me my little foot i need to bulk up the front of the thigh just a little bit so from that knee area i just kind of bring this out just a little bit wider i don't need much just a little bit and if you felt that in the calf area you wanted to do that too you certainly could but i wouldn't go too much into the calf area now i'm going to go ahead and do the other leg so i'm going to start from the butt so if i start my butt is here oops i just made it a little bit bigger so my butt is here i'm going to travel down because that's where the leg would come from this is going to be my back thigh it's going to come about halfway down that leg and then what i'll do is i'm going to bump out a little calf muscle in through here and then i will bump out an even smaller piece for my um the back my heel of my foot so i'm going to put that in right about here and then just make my little point of my toe and of course you can do any little modifications i need to do the front of my thigh which is going to blend in with the belly area so something like this i'm gonna bulk out that thigh but just a tiny tiny bit nothing major something like that and that'll work and if yours doesn't get perfect don't worry because we've got a skirt that's gonna hide some stuff so if it's not perfect no worries so i brought this up to about where the neck is so i'm i've got to connect the um give myself a little bit of an area where the the chest is going to be or the neck is going to be this is going to connect to the butt so i gave it a little bit of a curve i want to give a little bit of a chest not much just a little bit of a chest and of course you can make yours in whatever shape you would like to if you want yours to be larger or smaller that's totally up to you and you just kind of keep making it into the shape that you want i need to put a little head on her now so i've got the head is going to be kind of facing the um the dandelion so i'm going to bring this about up out to the back of the shoulder in through there and then just a little oval shape will work just make sure it kind of connects to your neck i'm going to give it a tiny little bun on the back of the hair so there's my little bun on the back i'm going to give a little front to the hair and through here i'm gonna if i want to i can put a tiny little nose on there so i'm just kind of bumping out a little nose and then a little chin so nothing major now i'm gonna put a little arm so the arm is gonna come out from the shoulder and it's going to go down towards the leg in through this area so kind of a little stick figure but a little bit thicker at the shoulder and i've only got it coming out right about past the knee just a little bit so maybe something like that give it a little tiny thumb in through here and that's really all i'm gonna do for her we will um put her wings and stuff on later and of course you can certainly reshape i think maybe she needs a little bigger butt in through here there we go that works for me and now i'm going to go ahead and move on to the next one so this one i'm going to have i want it you know to the left of here so it doesn't bump into it at all i'm going to put this one right about in through here and this first leg she's good this one's going to be a little bit taller i feel like she's a little bit closer to us so i'm making this first stick figure leg maybe about three inches so a little bit taller than the other one so something like this one that then for the other leg i'm going to be making a diagonal line like this and then it's going to come down something like i would see like this then i'm going to put the torso on in a stick figure kind of way so this is just a little bit angled not much you could certainly do yours straight if you wanted to so something like that now i got to put on my butt my calf my thigh so i'm going to put the butt on in through here so this is going to be um kind of coming out a bit in through here like this then i've got to put her thigh on so i'm going to put her thigh somewhere in this vicinity then i'm going to put her calf so every bump that i do gets smaller and smaller as i go down that leg and then i'm going to put the foot on in through here i think i need a little bit more paint on my brush so put the foot on in through here like that and then i've got to put the front side of that leg on so this is going to be the thigh to the other leg but i still need to put the front thigh of this leg on here so i'm just kind of starting from here and just going to bring it down into where i feel the knee is something like that and again if you needed to um bulk up the front of that leg you certainly could but i think mine's okay so this thigh has to connect to the butt so if the butt is in through here i'm going to just bring it an imaginary line across here and then bring it up to this knee so something like this and again if yours you know doesn't come out perfect it's okay you're going to be able to modify it with that skirt on there and then i'm going to put a little bit of a calf muscle in through here not much and then i'll put the little heel of the foot in through there something like that i have to give the front of the thigh some something other than a straight line so i'm just going to kind of bulk that up just a little bit give her a little bit of a knee in through here that works and then i'm going to go ahead and give her the um her stomach so i'm going to i know that the leg is going to come up in through here somewhere so i'm going to have this torso area somewhere in through here and then if i want her chest to be a little bit wider this is the top of her her torso so i can just kind of bulk that out just a little bit in through there and then just bring it back down and again you can certainly modify yours as much as you want to and then i'm going to i think i want her back to be a little bit more arced so i'm gonna i'm gonna actually bring this out just a little bit and bring this down in through here yeah now she looks more like a dancer to me a dancing fairy so i'm going to put her um head kind of in a similar position as the other one so i'm going to put it somewhere in through here i do recommend kind of making your heads smaller to start and then you can always make them bigger but it's really tough to make them smaller um once they're on there i'm going to have her bun is going to be a little bit more on top of her head something like this then i'm going to give her that little for forehead hair something like that i'm going to give her a teeny little tiny nose somewhere in through here and then a little bit of a chin something like that and of course you can keep tweaking your little you know little fairy noses and stuff and then i have her arm is kind of up flitting up behind her so i'm going to come from her shoulder in through here like this it's going to be a little bit wider where it meets her body in through here i'm going to have her elbow is right about where the top of her head is so i'm going to have this kind of coming out in this direction like this but just make it a little bit skinnier where it hits her elbow and then i'm going to have it coming up in this direction like this if she needs a little forearm i can give her a little forearm and i can just give her a little couple of fingers that are just kind of sticking up nothing major and then i've got my last one to do over on the right hand side so this one i've got kind of flying through the air so i'm going to have the center of the body or her waist is going to be right about here and as i do this i'm going to have her legs kind of um bent a bit like she's flying through the air so i'm going to have this kind of coming down in through this direction and then bend it at the knee just a little bit like that and then i'm going to have this one kind of coming out like this and bending at the knee something like this right in through here and again just just stick figures to start and then her torso is going to be somewhere in this vicinity so the torso is usually maybe about half the width of the legs or from you know you could in essence kind of break this into three parts that's a good gauge of course they vary depending on the body shape but it's a good gauge to use so her butt is going to be over in this vicinity and she's kind of contorted a little bit flying through the air so i'm not going to give her much of a rear end something like that then she's got a little thigh that goes down to her knee so this is going to bring it down into here and then her calf muscle is going to come somewhere in through here makes it easier to know where they are when you already have the knee established and then i've got her little uh heel for her foot in through here and then i've got to put the front of her thigh on so again not i'm not doing much for the front of the thigh just kind of bulking out that area above the knee just a little bit so it's not a straight line then when i go to do this other leg i know it's got to come from the butt so i'm starting at the bottom of that butt and making her her thigh go all the way to her knee or close to it with that gradual little curve so that gives you that thigh now i need to put her calf muscle on on the other side of the knee somewhere in through here then give her a little heel on her foot and then bulk out the front part of her thigh just a little bit something like that now i gotta put her torso on so this is where her shoulders are in through here i think i want her back to arc just a little bit like i had the other the other um fairy so i'm going to bring this out to the left a little bit and kind of dip it back down into that waist and then her front of her body i'm going to have her more kind of facing up in through there so i'm going to make her chest kind of going in a more upward direction and then just kind of gradually get it to blend into that waist something like this then her head is going to be a little bit leaning back so i'm going to put her oval type shape of a head somewhere in through here like that and then i'm going to put her bun somewhere in through here because i think all fairies wear buns they really have different style here i'm sure they do in the imaginary world that fairies live in they have all different kinds of hair so again i'm going to bump out the front part of her forehead and you can see i'm doing a systematic kind of style to each one of them and i've got a little kind of nose in through oh that's a cute little nose and a tiny little chin so just go small when you're doing these little effects on through here she's going to be holding a dandelion as it's pulling her making her fly through the air so i need one shoulder or one arm to kind of come out of um her shoulder in through here on to the other side so i'm going to just kind of make this coming out almost in a straight type of line like this and then i'm going to have it just kind of tipping just a little bit and maybe a little bit more narrow where it's going to go into the flower itself and then the other arm is going to come from the other shoulder so somewhere in through here of course you can't see it too much yet but i'm going to just kind of come out in this direction make sure it looks of similar length to the other one and then i can make this one come out at a different angle maybe maybe a little bit less of a diagonal like that and then that is all we're going to do for this step we are going to be utilizing the same brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful fairy silhouettes on here you can wash and dry the small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the stems of the flying dandelion pieces so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using black brown and white so i'm going to do this is i'm going to start with black paint and when i look at a dandelion stem of the flying pieces there's always like a thick dark black piece that is the part that was sticking inside the flower so that's going to be a wider piece at the bottom end of the stem so i'm going to have one coming out just kind of coming out in through here so i'm going to push my brush pretty hard to start and then as i go towards the tip of it i'm going to just kind of release my pressure so it's not pushing it as hard so i've got this thicker piece in the base and then it kind of gets thinner as it goes towards the end of that and i'm just going to do maybe four or five coming in through here so i think i'll have another one maybe down in through here so i'm going to push my brush pretty hard for maybe about a half of an inch to three quarters of an inch and then i will release my pressure so it's not as um hard and so it gets a little bit thinner of a line i'm giving them a little bit of movement so they're not just straight lines i've got one i think i'll have one somewhere in through here so i'm gonna have it pretty thick at the base of it in through here and then as i bring it up i'm going to release my pressure so it gets a little bit more narrow and of course you can reshape them i think i'm going to have one kind of coming out the grass over into here so i'm going to push that one pretty hard at the base and then just kind of release that pressure so it looks more slender as it's going out of camera view and then of course i have the big one that she's going to be holding on to so i need this one to kind of make sense so i think i'm going to have this one with the bigger part somewhere in through here like this and then i'll have the more narrow part just kind of going into her fingers and then i'm going to have this one kind of bending like it's really kind of pulling her or she's hanging on to it so this is going to give it some good some good movement and then i'm just going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to pick up brown and white paint at the same time to add myself a little highlight on these pieces so i'm just going to really do a little bit of a streak of sorts to give them a more natural look to them so it's not just a solid black color similar to what we did with the area on the inside so just kind of adding towards the top or towards one side of them so you can still see a hint of the black um which gives it the dimension that is nice and realistic so i've got like that and then a little bit of a line on there give myself a little one here here and then i've got a little one in through here and then and again i'm not doing it 100 because i want i want you to be able to see the dark area too i just want to give it a little bit of dimension and then we're going to be using the same brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry the small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're finishing our fairies i'm going to be using my small brush the colors that i'm using are black white and brown and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to put a very light or translucent layer on with my black and my water first so i can get my my wings and my skirt and any other elements on that i want to and then we'll come back and do some highlights and make it look like the fabric is flowing and all that good stuff so this time i'm really watering down my black paint so i have just a little bit of the black paint on the side of my palette and i'm really putting a lot of water into it so it is you can see as i pull it on the side of my palette it's a really see-through so this is going to provide me with that translucency so we can see through it still see the stuff behind it but yet still get a silhouetted type of look from the um for the wings and stuff and you can always enhance it and make it darker later but this will definitely get you going so you um so you don't go too dark to start so how i'm going to do this i'm going to put my wings in place and my wings you can make yours into looking like butterflies or fairy wings or whatever kind of wings you want angel wings but they're going to come out of the back so i've got this one coming out in through here just kind of coming in this type of direction so again i'm just kind of putting them on there first with my see-through black paint i think i'm going to have this one kind of coming out of her back and coming up in this direction and then this is going to kind of come down in through here something like that and of course you can pull up some of those colors if you want to and then you could have a dual looking one where you can see both sides of it which i'll show you on the next one so if you want to do it on all of them feel free to do so so i i'm going to have this wing in through here i'm going to have one coming up out of the top kind of of her head so we see it on the other side something like this and then i've got this one again they've got to meet the back so something like that if i wanted a dual one where you could see the other side you just want to kind of give it a similar profile then this one i'm going to have coming up in this direction something like this and of course you can have yours certainly shaped differently than mine and maybe i want to see a little tip of the other one something like this then i've got to put my skirts on i'll go do the other one in a minute but i want to put my skirts on on these two so the skirt i'm going to have coming off of the butt in kind of like a natural flowy kind of way just kind of coming out in this direction it's going to kind of drape over the leg in through here and then right about the knee is where i'm going to kind of just kind of wiggle it and get it to blend in with that tip i'm going to do the same thing over on my other girl so this one her skirt is going to kind of come lay down on the back side of her leg in through here and then right about the knee is where it's going to kind of just fall let gravity take over and then the wind of her dancing is going to take over and then over on the front side i'll have it right about around that knee and then it just kind of comes back and meets in with that one and if you want to you can certainly just whatever paint you have on your brush just kind of pull in through there at the moment so then i'm going to go ahead and do the other one over in through here so i'll do my wings that are coming out the back these ones are going to be i would say almost as long if maybe not a little longer than farther than the feet but of course again you can really make yours into whatever way that you would like to and then i'm going to go ahead and have these ones coming out i would say in through here and just let your your brush and your and your own you know fantasy kind of mind drive you in the direction that you that that is pleasing to you does not have to be exactly as mine is and then i'm going to put a little skirt on her so something i'm going to bring this one maybe down past her in the front like it's you know it's just being blown in different directions because of her being pulled through the air or flying through the air maybe this one is going to come out like this go maybe over those knees a little bit and come out in this direction and then once i have it on there what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up a little bit thicker black paint so with less water in it and then i'm going to go ahead and enhance a little bit of this area that's right where it meets the body and if you want to if your edges are a little bit too bold you could certainly kind of put some little veins in through there but i'm just kind of getting a little bit more darkness as it's coming out the body i still want to be able to see through these um these pieces so this is just adding a little bit more dimension to it so it looks a little bit more in the silhouette again i'm using a little bit thicker black right now just so i can get a little bit more definition in some of these pieces i don't want it to all just be see-through and and too uh invisible or um translucent and then i'm just kind of pulling this out in a light sketcherly way i'm not using a lot of paint i'm just kind of adding this little um deep almost of a shadow kind of texture in through it and now what i'm going to do is i'm going to do some highlights so my highlights are going to be i did not wash my brush so you can use a little bit of black brown and a touch of white so when you're doing these highlights of sorts just think of it as you're adding the illusion of fabric so we want there to look like there's some light that's hitting this fabric in in places that makes sense so if the light is up top maybe i have a little bit of a highlight on her oops i need a little more white so you can see it a little bit of highlight on the fabric up in through here and then i just kind of pull it down if you have too much paint on your brush just wipe it off on your paper towel but you want this to look like it's shimmering and see-through and kind of like it's moving in the in the wind so you can certainly use a little bit of water on your brush to keep your paint in a fluid type of way but as i'm doing this i don't want to lose the look of her leg so i just make sure that when i'm doing this i'm not putting too much paint on my brush at any time i'm really just using a tiny tiny bit of paint making sure that i've got it the lightest up in the spot that would make sense so for me it would make the most sense if it was the lightest at the top of her leg in through here and then i just kind of add these little bits of highlights in other places that i think would make sense maybe even on the top of her leg it makes sense to have a little bit of a highlight um maybe on the front of her leg in through here it would make sense to have a little bit of a highlight so i'm not doing a whole heck of a lot just adding these the illusion of light to make it look a little bit more three-dimensional got a little bit in her hair something like this maybe maybe she's got some some hair coming in through here maybe a touch on her arm in through here maybe a little bit in that wing so even in the wing of the um going towards the top maybe adding a bit of a highlight or even in the in the interior of it would make sense to put ooh that looked pretty sometimes happy accidents do the best of all so i just made a little happy accident there with that light color and i like that so i'm going to add a little bit more into here too so once and i'm not really doing much that's kind of all i'm doing for that i'm going to move on to the next one maybe a little maybe a little bit more on her knee over here just so you can really you can really see her shape into here and it doesn't just have to be white you can use that a lighter version like a gray or you know that brown helps to neutralize it a bit so i just put white and brown on my brush again and i'm going to go ahead and add my bit of a highlight to the back of this skirt i feel like it would definitely kind of be flowing so i'm telling the viewer the direction that the fabric is going as well as where the light is so this definitely helps to add the illusion of three-dimensional of a three-dimensional thing as well as you're adding the movement from the um from the wind and the fabric so it's a really cool thing to do especially when you can keep it translucent like this that really helps to to sell the story so that's working for me maybe a little bit more into here and if you do something and you're like oh my god that was too much you can always bring back some of the black that's a very easy thing to do is just bring back some of that black i might um bring her back out a little bit and through here i don't know maybe maybe not yeah that works and i'm gonna put a tiny bit of highlight on her on the top of her head just to make sure that we've got a little bit of something up and through there a little bit on her bun a little bit on the top of her shoulder because again i feel like that's where the light would be coming from so again my highlight colors are brown and white and then i'll put a little a little dazzling highlight in the in the beautiful wings and again i'm not really doing much i just want to give you that that dreamy you know feel that these are three-dimensional maybe a little more on there and then a tiny bit on her legs maybe she had a little one up in through here oops i need a little more white so you can see a little one up in through here maybe a touch on her little foot there maybe a little bit on the front of her leg and then we just have our other little beautiful fairy over here to tackle so again just brown and white is my highlight colors i'm gonna put some in through here and through here just giving some movement on this dress and just allowing the viewer to understand where all the pieces of the puzzle lie and again i'm not doing a whole heck of a lot you can again even use a little bit of water in in your paint mixture just to allow for those fluid kind of brush strokes i'm adding a little bit more in through here yeah that's working maybe a touch on her legs and her foot just to give you that sense of form then put maybe a little bit on her arms this one's going to be the far arm this will be the one that's closest to us you might want to put yours in a little bit in a different position i'm not even worried about hands i i'm thinking you're she's she's flown so far away i can't even detect where her hands are and then i'm going to go ahead and put a little little tiny highlight in these beautiful wings back here i got her head i want to contend with too in a second and you can see i'm just doing these light sketcherly type of brush strokes just to keep the the airiness to the entire um thing she's got a little bit on her head maybe a little tiny bit on her cute face and that's all i'm going to do we're going to be utilizing our large brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful fairies finished you can put your medium brush away take out your large brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the base coat of the white fluffy parts of the dandelion so i'm going to be using my large brush and i'm going to be using brown and white and what i'm going to do is i'm going to pre-mix myself a light tan color so this will be the base coat for them which is going to help add a lot of dimension to them so they look more three-dimensional so i took some of my brown and then i'm going to add a bit of white to it thinking it's going to be about equal parts of both but let me just test the waters before i tell you for certain you need a little bit more white than that so maybe two thirds white and one-third brown so i'm just going for a light tan color i want it to be darker than white so it adds that base coat for us so when we do put the white on it's going to give us a lot of dimension to it so now that i have it on there i'm going to be putting this on the base coat of this big flower the largest one all of my out of focus ones as well as these little fluffy parts so i'm going to do the the flying ones first i'm going to use the corner of my brush and what i'm doing is i'm just going to be doing kind of a align something like that and then using the corner and just pulling up these exterior pieces i want it to be messy so don't don't feel like yours has to be perfect i'm going for definitely a light kind of airy fluffy look to these so they don't have to be perfect i don't want them to be but if you need yours to be that's okay this one maybe and i'm trying to do them at different angles you could certainly do all yours at the same angle but i'm trying to go for different angles this one of course is going to be pulling her out in this direction so maybe this one's going to be our largest of them and then once i've got that one in place i'm going to do a whole bunch of out of focus ones down in my ground so i don't want a lot of paint on my brush i'm actually going to wipe it off on my paper towel i can always pick up more but once it's on my canvas it's really tough to take off and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to just pick some strategic spots and make these really soft areas that are of a circular type of shape i'm rubbing the paint into my canvas so this is allowing me to have these soft edges around the exterior if you have too much paint on your brush you're going to have a really solid mark so just if if that's happening to you it just means that you want to back off on the amount of paint that is on your brush and you can really have some of these overlapping each other i'm just kind of putting them in uh you know larger at the bottom and kind of making them smaller as they go farther away and again i'm just you can see i'm just really just using the remnants of the um of the paint uh that was on my brush to get these these areas in place and again you can have as many as you want i'm gonna have a couple up in through here this is gonna give us the illusion of the out of focus ones that are out in the distance you can even bump into your stem a little bit if you want to make sure that you have that illusion as far up and out as you want to then i'm going to reload my brush with more of that tan on it and i'm going to do the base coat for the center one so i want a little open spot over in through here as to indicate that's where those ones are flying out of when i do this i'm going to be dotting but i don't want to dot the whole thing i want to be able to see some of the details that are underneath it i am bringing it a in a a large area around the um around the flower but i'm not going all the way into the middle and again i don't have much paint on my brush this is just providing me with that soft under color that will make it look really realistic you can even go just past those lines and the tips that we put on earlier that's going to again give you a little bit more of that three-dimensional look to it so i'm just making sure i go past that just a little bit and you can see you can see i did not reload my brush yet this is just giving me all the paint that's in my brush is giving me all i need to accomplish this step and you can bring it dot it into the middle a little bit you don't have to go all the way but if you have a very tiny bit of paint on your brush this will just add those little elusive kind of speckles that are going to make it look really nice and realistic and then we are going to be utilizing and you can see i can still see my lines of what i did before underneath it which is my intention so we're going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got this base coat on these you can put your large brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're finishing our wild grass i'm going to be using my medium brush and the dominant colors that i'm going to be using are green yellow and white but i may go into my black or my brown if i feel like i want some more dimension in them but i already have a nice dark base for my grass i did notice that i missed my little shadows on my fairies for the blade of grass so we're on a grass step so i'm i'm considering this to be part of the grass because we're putting a shadow on the grass so i'm going to put a little bit of black and brown on my brush at the same time i'm gonna go from the toe and i'm just gonna give it kind of a curved line to indicate the shape of the piece of grass so something like this this is just giving you that tiny bit of a you know of a realistic element that would definitely happen out in nature and the shadow can get bigger as it goes farther away and then i'm going to go ahead and do the same thing to this little lady over here so we're going to just go from her tippy toe and then just bring it at the top here and make it travel as far down as i want so maybe something like that is excellent and then i'm just going to quickly wash and dry my brush and i'm going to do some wild grass so i want all this grass to be kind of in between the dandelions it doesn't have to all be in focus there's going to be some out of focus as i go farther away but i just kind of want to make it more wild and bright so i just put some green and yellow on my brush at the same time i'm going to go in between and even you can pop it in front a little bit of these out of focus pieces or the the fuzzies the fuzzy gosh sometimes i just don't sound that smart the um the flowers that we have in focus down they'll be in focus you can put some in front of those you can put them really wherever you'd like to but really i'm just trying to add more dimension to my grass making it as wild as i want and as vibrant as i want so i just picked up some more or some white paint with my yellow and my green i'm getting some pieces to go in front of this main stem in through here and i'm just going to kind of keep alternating my green yellow and white and again if i feel like i want to or need to dip back into the black or the or green or anything i can certainly do that but i'm really just kind of looking to add the the vibrancy to i'm trying to keep it maybe a little bit darker as it's going you know into that bottom left or bottom right corner but if if i if that gets bright too that's okay and i just kind of move my brush really nice and fast and just kind of let my my intuition kind of kick in as i'm doing these i'm trying to keep it you know in between these flowers so when i do put the um the final detail on those flower heads they'll have these little pieces of grass kind of just popping through every now and again and you could certainly do again as much grass as you wanted to you could have it brighter or taller you could add little ladybugs or any kind of other information that you want to in your wild grass but once you've got as much on here as you would like oh i think i'm going to put a couple of taller pieces up into here i'm bringing this color up here because i think i think it's going to balance nice and well so i just did some up here oh yeah because it's the nice light green here we go with these highlights i'm telling you the highlights are my friend and then once i've got as much on here yeah as i want i'm going to be switching back to my large brush i think i just want to darken some of this down here make sure that this kind of remains a little bit more dark down here so i will be putting this medium brush away if i can ever stop my white of the grass and then i'm going to take out my large brush and oh i brought i brought some brown onto my brush i probably should have told you that when i went down into this darker area i brought some brown onto my brush um i will be switching to my large brush for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our dandelions so this is going to be the final fluff that we're putting on our dandelions i'm going to be using mostly white paint but if you feel that you want to go into that tan color again you can certainly do so so my whole goal here is i want to make this one really in focus and really vibrant and then a couple of these ones in the grass i'd like to make those pretty um in focus as well so that's going to mean that you're going to see the speckles a lot more than the ones off in the distance however i do want to make the ones off in the distance have a little bit of dimension to them as well so i'll put a little bit of lightness on them as well and i'll also get the white to emerge from these little pieces too so i'm going to load my brush with white paint and again not a lot so i'm because i'm going to work on the ones down below first so not a lot a little bit on the tip of my brush you can even once you get it on there just kind of dab it on your paper towel and as i'm doing this i'm going to be just using the corner of my brush to start and that's going to allow me to kind of control where i want these dots to go and the only way i'm a lot i'm getting these individual speckles is because i don't have a lot of paint on my brush if you have a ton of paint on your brush you're going to get these really large globby kind of um dots so less paint will equal more defined dots and i'm just going to kind of go through each flower and get as much fluff into it as i want the ones that are in the front here i am going to put a little bit more brightness to them which means i'm going to kind of layer my dots a little bit heavier so they end up looking more alive and in focus but when i get to the back ones you'll see i'll be almost rubbing it a little bit more than dotting and speckling it and you can add layers of the white so let's say i'm doing it this way you'll see i'll probably come back to these front ones to add another layer which will on like the top of them which will make them stand out a little bit more but right now oops that's a little bit too much paint on my brush right now i'm just kind of getting the speckles on getting the ones that i want to to show up and be in focus and then i think i want one or two up in through here nice and in focus before i start um really tackling the out-of-focus ones maybe maybe we'll have a a good one that's in focus and through here and you can see i'm just kind of working it in the areas that i began with the soft um rubbed in spots so now i'm moving my way back towards the ones that are out of focus so i can almost i haven't reloaded my brush i'm just kind of using whatever remnants are on my brush to kind of elevate that brightness of some of those so maybe a little bit here and i'm not doing it to the entire flower i'm just doing it to more more so the top side of it and trying to keep that little bit of of a circular kind of appearance and then if i wanted these ones to be more in focus i can come back and add another almost more intense area of that white paint and that's going to tell the viewer how three-dimensional this is and how close it is so you can certainly come back once you've you know done the first round with it which will do that up top as well you can come back with a little bit of a second layer to get parts of it to pop out just a little bit more so if i wanted this one over here to kind of pop out a little bit more i can come back with just a little bit more of that white and really get it to just kind of elevate that in focus aspect of it and then i'm going to tackle this in through here so right now i don't have a lot of paint on my brush so i'm starting the the layer of sorts like i did on the ones in the field or on the ground and you can see that i'm not dotting the entire thing i want to be able to see the stuff underneath so if i just go you know hog wild here with a super overloaded brush it's not going to give you that three-dimensional effect of it so this is a control type of step you really just have to work at it patiently just kind of keep adding your your your dots that are not really vibrant or not really thick with paint but they i am using white as opposed to the tan so you're going to start to see them emerging on top of that tan but again i'm not painting the whole thing as i'm coming around this side you can see i'm kind of leaving some of this open but you can speckle it just a little bit in through here and while that's kind of drying for a second i'm going to go ahead and hit these and then i'll come back and get that to pop out even more so again i'm just putting some white paint on my brush when you get to these ones if you wanted to switch brushes you could certainly do so because i'm going to be using the corner my brush and kind of swiping it but it i'm going to use this brush but you could certainly use your medium brush if you wanted to so i just kind of add that little white line and then just kind of pull out these fluffy kind of ends to it and i'm going to do that to all of them if you want to use this brush and it's splaying out on you what i like to do is i like to take it and squish it in the side of my palette in my paint and that will bring my bristles together and it gives me a little bit more control over what's happening but i like it because it's going to give me that little hairy look around the edges of these pieces so sometimes when i use a smaller more detailed brush it looks a little bit too uniform for me so by using these larger brushes that have a higher chaotic level to them it makes it for me makes it look a little bit more natural but of course you can certainly work with whatever you're comfortable with and get it to look in whatever manner you would like but this is how i'm gonna be doing it and then once i've got these little guys those are looking nice and fluffy i'm going to go back and hit this one but before i hit it with my heavy dots i want to give it this little feathery edge to it so while i have this little bit of white paint on this brush on the edges what i'm going to do instead of my dotting i'm going to kind of swipe it a little bit so i'm going to just take it and kind of swipe it and it doesn't have to be at all the way to the edge i'm inside just a little bit and this has given me that look of these little fluffy things around the edges these little more straight hairier pieces around the edges and i'm gonna i'm going ahead and going all the way around like this and of course i'm not painting the entire thing i'm just letting letting my brush kind of take take those edges away leaving this open spot into here now i'm going to reload my brush for the probably the final time to add that real heavy kind of the brightest bright that i want and i again even though i reloaded my my brush and i want it to be pretty darn bright i'm not smashing my brush all the way into the canvas i'm really just kind of tap tap tapping it not hitting it too too hard but you can see i'm elevating this bright area making it look even more three-dimensional and it doesn't have to be the brightest just at the edges i've got it kind of a little bit brighter as i'm going in towards the flower a little bit and towards the center a little bit and of course you can keep tweaking yours all you want if you feel like you went too far and it's too too bright for you you can always bring back some of that tan color to dull down some of that white a bit and then you can um that will help to give you that three-dimensional um look because if it's all just white white white white white you might not be able to accomplish that three-dimensional appearance to it and then we have one tiny little step left to go and it's going to be with our small brush so once you've got your dandelion all nice and fluffed out and you've got all your little pieces as as floaty as you want them to you can put your large brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner i think i'm going to be signing this one in the bottom left i'm using my small brush and black paint i'm going to do it i'm going to kind of hide it in the grass over here i do my initials but you could certainly do your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like for your identifying mark to be it's your painting you sign it however you would like to and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself some very fancy fairies and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 77min 7sec (4627 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 01 2021