Learn How to Paint "GEESE GOING SOUTH" with Acrylic - Paint and Sip - Step by Step Landscape Lesson

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 going to be painting geese going south and i'm sipping on some coffee 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 can 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 primed 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 fluorescent orange mars black burnt umber which i will call brown fire red green oxide and deep yellow and of course you can switch up those colors as well if you'd like to but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a standard number two pencil and i have two brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush and i have a number one round synthetic brush and i will refer to these as small 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 paints and i'll even throw in the pencil for you so that's down there 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 we're going to do for the first step is we're going to be drawing an outline of our landscape i'm going to be using my pencil i'm going to give you a couple of markers and we'll just connect those markers and hopefully we'll have something that just resembles some kind of waterway type of landscape you can certainly tweak yours and have it whatever way you'd like to but what i'm going to do is on the right hand side i'm going to come up about halfway and then i'm going to go about two inches below that make myself a little bit of a marker that'll come about an inch inch and a half below that make another marker i'm going to do the same thing over on the left hand side so about halfway two inches or so below and then another inch and a half or so inch inch and a half and then i'm just going to connect my top markers with a not super straight line and i'll do the same thing with the bottom ones you can have them wider or more narrow you can really make this into whatever kind of little land line that you would like to and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make my tree line but when i make this tree line i'm going to make it a little bit lower than i want my actual trees to be because i'm going to have the tree tops kind of crossing over my sky but i want i don't want to over paint my canvas and bring my sky down too low so i'm going to kind of section off where i want my trees to go but again i'm going to make them a little bit lower than i ultimately want them so on the right hand side i'm going to come up or down about halfway make myself a little bit of a marker and then on the left hand side of my canvas i'm going to come down about two two and a half inches make myself a marker and i'm going to connect these two with a uneven kind of line so i'm going to just pretend like you know this is going to be where my trees are going to go but again i will have the trees a little bit taller than this you can make you know some coming down and just have fun with how you want this to um to formulate itself just know that you're going to have a whole bunch of fun tree tops on that are going to come past that so we have little peekaboo spots see in the sky and then in the water this is going to be your waterway i kind of want to do the same thing um but we don't have as much area to go here so i'm going to just bring this down below my my line in through here and i'm going to just watch this up here and kind of give myself the same type of line only upside down but i know that i'm going to run out of room at some point it's probably going to be right about in let me bring this a little bit further somewhere right about in through here and then the rest of these are off of the off of the canvas so yours may end up looking a little bit different than mine however it looks it doesn't have to be exactly a mirror image from up top and then you can put your pencil away we'll be using our large 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 going to be painting the sky and its little bit of reflection down in the water so i'm going to be using my large bristle brush i'm going to be using blue and white i'm going to have my sky darker at the top and lighter as it gets down towards the bottom and then it'll be reverse in the water so i'm going to start with mostly blue and just a little bit of white on my brush i'm going to be using a left to right kind of crisscross type of brush stroke you could use circles you could use just a long continuous line whatever works really for you i'm just going for a beautiful crisp autumn kind of sky that is going to be nice and vibrant and provide a great backdrop for my beautiful fall trees and my awesome canadian geese that are flying through the sky if you want to you can even give the impression of clouds by just leaving yourself a couple of light areas and then without washing or reloading your brush with blue just pick up some white paint and you can get these other areas to be a little bit lighter throughout the sky i am going right up to my pencil mark and i am going right into my pencil mark or crossing over it a little bit just so we make sure that we bring that sky all the way to those tree tops again the tree tops are going to overlap the sky a little bit but um i do want to ensure that i get a good coverage on that sky i'm just picking up white at this point to get my sky to go lighter and lighter as it gets down towards those tree tops you do not need it to go all the way white because we are going to have a lot of other information within the the canvas that will utilize some brightness to it so if you don't bring this all the way white that's totally fine and then i'm going to come right down to my reflection of the water i know that i still have a little bit of blue left on my brush so i'm going to start at the top of this little area and i am going to again overlap it into those into what's going to be the reflection of the tree and this reflection is you know only a little space of what you see up top but if you can get it to go a little bit darker as it goes down towards the bottom of your canvas that will look nice and the color in the reflection does not have to be exactly the same as the color up top so you might find in the water that it might be a little bit darker then you see it up top so that's just one of those things that when we get into the water depending on what's underneath it it might change the look of it and all that good stuff so i'm going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step but you're going to want to wash it and try it so just get ready alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our land so this is going to be right in through here i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are green brown yellow and white and this is really just the base coat so it doesn't have to be beautiful or perfect at this point so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put all four colors on my brush at the same time so just a touch of brown a touch of green a touch of yellow and a touch of white so i have a little dot of all four colors on my brush at the same time i'm going to be using a left to right kind of messy brush stroke to just get a layer on here you can certainly make it lighter or darker in aries i just picked up some yellow and brown just trying to give myself a variety of warm natural kind of tones that are going to give us a great base to put our bright grass and any other kind of little details on top of it so you can build this as wide as you want what i'm trying not to do is over blend so i'm really just kind of putting the colors on here you can alternate the colors like i'm doing at this point and the the green brown yellow and white and i'm just going right to my pencil marks if it's not perfect coverage no worries and then we're going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry your large 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 first layer of our trees and the reflection so we could call it the forest or whatever you'd like to but we're i'm going to generically refer to it as the trees i'm going to be using my large bristle brush i'm going to be using a ton of colors this is going to be the base of all of these trees so i'm going to be using kind of like a dark base or darker than i want the the actual leaves to be i'm going to be using black and brown down at the bottom so it really shows the depth of the forest and then as i get up into the trees i'll be doing some real dark areas and then we'll work our way to the more vibrant leaves but all the while i'm thinking this is my first layer and in my first layer i usually go for a deeper tone so that way we can have the the depth within the tree branches and leaves and stuff too so i'm going to start with a little bit of black and a little bit of brown on my brush at the same time this is going to be the darkest area at the bottom and whatever i do up top i'm going to emulate down in the bottom as well so i'm just going to be starting off with a left to right brush stroke i'm bringing it all the way to my grass and then i don't necessarily want a firm line like a straight line going into my forest so or into the trees so i'm just going to kind of rub it out so i have a soft edge to it i'm just reloading my brush i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to go all the way across it's excellent if you touch this grassy land area with this color that we're doing so that way they in essence kind of look like they're just merging into one another and maybe some of those forest trees are casting a little bit of a shadow on the grassy area that we'll we'll be putting later and then of course i just kind of rub this up a little bit so i have a softer kind of area to it while i have this dark color on my brush i'm going to add just these little kind of pockets of darkness throughout my whole areas of my tree of where the tree tops are going to go this way when i go to put those tree tops on in a little while i will have that those really nice dark kind of areas to put between the trees and things of that nature so now that i've got that in there i'm going to go ahead and do the same thing down in the reflection down below so black and brown is on my brush and i'm going left to right making it meet the waters or the land's edge in through here i'm going to rub it out so i have that soft edge to it and i'm watching my my top area to try and emulate what i did up there you don't want to if this area only goes to here you don't want a big huge dark area to go all the way down to the bottom so i'm just kind of emulating what i see above bringing this in through here i've got a little spot in through here so just kind of doing you know some something representational of what's up top i just keep reloading my brush with brown and black so i may end up with some areas that are a little darker or um browner or blacker one area to the next so if that happens that's great i'm just kind of again watching what happened up top i don't need it to be exactly the same but if i can emulate something that is similar in nature that's going to make my reflection more believable so again i'm just kind of bringing this down whatever i see up top this one goes all the way to that to my pencil mark so i just bring this one all the way to my pencil mark and then once i've got those areas on there now i can start putting in what i feel to be the base coat for my trees i'm not even going to wash my brush i'm going to pick up some green and brown paint right now and this is going to give me the base of a lot of my evergreen kind of trees or maybe the trees that have not totally turned their their autumn colors yet so i'm just rubbing it in and i'm kind of overlapping it into the neighboring color so that way they look like they're living together i think i'm going to bring this all the way to the edge and then i'll do the same thing whatever i do up top i go ahead and do down below and again i'm using pretty dark colors as my base for these leaves on the trees so that way when i do go to put the vibrant colors on top of them we'll have that depth and dimension throughout them and i love using green in my autumn paintings because to me all leaves start green before they turn reds and oranges and yellow so this helps to make it for me a very authentic kind of look i'm going to put a little bit here maybe a little bit here i'm going to put maybe some over in through here this is where also i will start to bring out my area past my footprint of my pencil mark so you can really utilize this um so these soft edges when you go past your your pencil mark but again you don't need to do too much on this step because this is really just kind of speaking to the base coat so i just wanna whatever i do down below i'm gonna do up top i'm thinking that's a good amount of of green kind of represented for now i might add a little bit more in a little while but what i'm going to do now i'm not going to wash my brush i'm going to pick up red and brown so this is going to be for my representation where i want my red trees so again i'm going to have i'm going to have a big huge one up in through here maybe i'll have a little bit of one coming down in through here and you can overlap like i want some of this to you know cross over my green area i want it to go out into my sky a little bit so you don't necessarily when it comes to where you reach the sky you don't have to do like a ton of dotted detail or anything of that nature if you're just kind of lightly rubbing the edge of your brush onto it or into some areas of that sky that will provide you the base that you need when you go to do those little detailed ones later i'm going to bring i don't really have much of this area up here to to represent down in the bottom maybe just a teeny tiny bit at the bottom of my canvas but that reflection has disappeared off of the edge of the canvas i'm again just reloading my brush with red and brown i think i'm going to have a big area in through here of the darkness you can even pull some in down below into the darker area if you want to but just make sure that you repeat that down below maybe i'll have some in through here and again overlap it into those neighboring areas that's going to make it look nice and natural maybe this goes a little bit higher up and through there maybe i'll have a whole bunch of these darker trees over here and you don't have to think oh i'm doing red so these are gonna all be the same tone of red by the time it's done i've got many fun highlighted colors that will change these into different shades of red so don't feel like just because we're doing kind of a um uniform type of look on this red or on the green that it will remain that uniform type of look by the time we're done because we've got when we go to do the the vibrant kind of um leaves on top of it we'll be able to change change a lot of tones and have them look in a lot of different ways so just kind of capturing this over here so the next color i think i'm gonna go into let me just make sure that i brought this high enough and through here next color i'm gonna go into is my orange so i'm going to without washing my brush i have a dirty red and brown on my brush right now i just picked up a little bit of orange i'm going to have a big orange kind of tree up in through here maybe bring this out just a little bit further in through here and if you feel like the or the you know it might not be the color that you were going for it's okay because we're gonna we'll be adding a whole bunch of again we can change it when we go to um do the the other layers on top of it i think i'm going to go just orange now i just picked up more of my orange i'm going to have another one maybe sitting in through here a bit and you might find that you don't want to do the same exact kind of color um uh areas that i am doing maybe you want yours to be all red trees or all yellow trees feel free to just explore whatever is visually appealing to you i'm going to put a little bit of this over in through here a little bit down in through here i think i'm going to pick up my yellow now so yellow is going on my brush right now going to have a big yellow one in through here and when you start using like the yellow colors or any of these lighter tones you might find that you can see through them don't worry about that because again we when we go to do those additional layers on top we'll be able to mask any translucency that might be occurring in here i do want to bring some of this yellow i think over into here a bit i like going yellow and green next to each other that provides some good some good highlights maybe we'll do a i'm putting yellow and green on my brush right now and you'll notice i have not washed my brush i like to utilize a dirty brush especially when i'm doing these kind of steps in through here because that's going to allow it to really look nice and natural and provide me with some really good really good changes throughout those colors i think i'm gonna bring some of this maybe in through this area as well and i'm just having fun right now just making sure that i've got all of my areas with some a nice kind of deep color that i can work with later and that's looking pretty good to me if you feel like you have any additional adjustments that you want to make feel free to make them and then we are going to be utilizing our um our small brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our tree trunks branches and their reflections so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using a combination of black brown and white and i'm really going to be very carefree when i do this i'm going to be doing just a lot of vertical kind of lines maybe some of them are tipped over a little bit to look like they're leaning or they're you know broken or things of that nature i'll put a couple up in my tree top so it looks like maybe we can see some little peekaboo branches and then i'll be doing a loose representational reflection of them so i'm going to be alternating my colors but i usually like to just kind of start with all the colors on my brush at the same time so i've got brown black and white all on my brush at the same time and i'm going to have them land some of them will land within my ground and through here and i really just kind of have fun with letting my paintbrush just kind of go in kind of chaotic type of directions if you feel that you know you've got too much darkness or too much lightness feel free to alter the color a little bit and just have fun with this there's no there's no rules here you just want to give the impression that there's a forest back there when i go up top into my tree trunk or my tree branches just a little bit of paint giving these the illusion of some branches up in my trees and don't worry if you accidentally made one and you're like oh my god that's huge like i don't want to see that you'll be able to hide it with your leaves later so it's it will inevitably happen where you're like oh my god i just made this humongous branch and or you know tree top or trunk or something like that and it's totally okay you'll be able to to disguise it later and then i'm just gonna travel right across it would make sense because to me this land over here is a little bit farther away from this so it would make sense if you wanted to make them a little bit smaller as you go over into this right side but that's going to be a judgment call on your part and again i am bringing some right into the land area you can certainly do some wider ones maybe you know you have a couple of big old birch trees and they're really light you can really just have fun with whatever kind of happens i try not to think too hard when i'm when i'm doing a step like this that way i just kind of let my brush do whatever my brush in my hand kind of do whatever they want to do and then i just kind of sit back and see if once whatever happens happens if there's any more that i want to do to it and if so you just can kind of come back into little areas and then i'm going to loosely just try and emulate this down below so again black brown and white and i in my reflection i don't really need to do uh anything that is a mirror representation but if you see one like this that is pretty dominant then maybe that's the one that you you definitely kind of make a reflection of or if there's one next to it you know something that looks to be oh well there's a light one there so let me let me try and emulate that down in my reflection but again the reflection is going to have much more information in it as well we're going to have water that's going to be a shiny coat of water we're gonna have a bird flying in our in the um on top of the water so if your reflections aren't perfect no worries just kind of have fun with it if you can grasp a little tiny one that you can see up top that makes sense excellent if not no big deal so i'm kind of looking for my my lighter ones right now because i know that those would those would definitely help me sell the story of a reflection so that's kind of what i'm looking for right now to get my reflection going and once you feel like you've got enough that will sell the story of the reflection we are going to be utilizing our large brush for the next step and if you want a bigger one like i just wanted one to be a little bit more evident so i made it brighter that again you can totally have fun with this if you have some branches that you felt would be you know actually you wouldn't be able to see that one would be beneficial then go right ahead and kind of emulate those and then we will be um switching to our large brush for the next step so you can just put this brush away take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're finishing the leaves on our trees and their reflections so i'm going to use my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm going to be using are red orange yellow white green that might be it so how i'm going to approach this is i'm in essence going to put my highlighted leaves on which will be a brighter version of whatever my base coat was so if i'm working in my red trees my brighter lighter version would be maybe just red or maybe red and orange you can certainly have multiple colors in one tree so like my green trees could certainly have green and yellow in them as well but when i approach the brighter highlighted aspect of it my brain immediately goes to i just want a lighter version of whatever i did for the base coat so i'm going to start we'll start with maybe my red trees because they seem to be what i was describing the most so i'm going to put just red paint on my brush i know that i had red and brown to start so my red would be a lighter version of that so when i approach this i'm going to be approaching it with just kind of a dotting type of technique i don't want to over paint or take away from all of that shadowy kind of areas that i've put underneath so i'm i'm being kind of cautious and i approach it in a in a slower type of formula i know that my red is see-through so it will take on some of those lighter aspects of the um of that base coat underneath so i'm not terribly concerned about painting it a hundred percent because again it's got that see-through type of version to it so what i whatever i did at the top i'm gonna come down and do it at the bottom again i don't have much down in through here and in my reflection i'm going to use more of a rubbing type of technique as opposed to the dotting simply because it's in the water and i don't need much detail because we have moving water here so i just reloaded my brush with some red paint so i'm approaching all of my dark red sections with a little bit of my just red paint this comes down here i see that i've got some up top so i'm putting my red in these areas in through here and then i'm gonna just continue on with all of my red areas to make them look again more full i'm bringing these more exterior kind of pieces into the sky so you can see the see through them and have these little peekaboo spots from the from the sky behind it and i'm trying not to overdo it so that way again we continue to see the areas underneath it with all that dimension that we had in it and this is just you know have fun with this there's no there's no reason that it needs to be exactly as mine you just want to emulate whatever vibrancy that you would like to look at in your beautiful autumn landscape here and then i again i'm doing whatever i did up top down below i'm also going to add a little bit lighter of a version of it now on my red trees so i'm going to be picking up a little bit of my orange and you could certainly do orange and yellow whatever i put orange and yellow on my brush whatever you want for an additional lighter layer to have on those trees and i'm not going to do the whole thing maybe just a little bit here and there and again that's going to be something that whatever vibrancy you want to bring them into is going to be a visual preference on your part so i'm just i'm going yellow and orange it's going to be my super vibrant part you could even add a tiny touch of white to it i'll do that now so you can kind of so i have orange yellow and white on my brush if i wanted there to be an even lighter area throughout this red tree i could certainly bring in a touch more but again you can see i'm not overdoing it i really just want to add some some bits of highlights here and there and i'm going pretty slow on these ones because i know pretty soon my brush is going to take over and i'm going to go wild and crazy but i want to kind of give you the thought process before my brush starts to take over and goes wild and and i just keep picking up different colors here and there so again my my thought process is i just gradually go lighter and lighter towards the edges or the outside bits of that particular tree and i'm mindful that i want to keep you know one tree in front of the next or you know one tree behind another tree so again i try not to overdo it i put some yellow and orange on this one so i can't forget to come down below and put some yellow and orange as the little highlights into here and if you feel you know there might come a point where you're like oh that you have too much paint on your brush because you just keep adding these these colors on top of colors so if that happens to you don't hesitate to wash and dry your brush you don't have to muscle through just continuing to add paint on your brush as i do you can certainly wash and dry your brush whenever it is needed and i'm just at this point using the little corner of my brush to get those added extra tips on the edge of that one and then of course just bringing that same color down into my reflection so that's how you're to sell the story of the reflection is to carry those colors from up top down into its reflection so it looks you know like it's it's telling that that story and maybe a little bit on here maybe a little bit on here just kind of tackling my red ones first and then i think i'm going to go in for my green ones now so i'm going to wash and dry my brush and for my green my light color green could be a version of green and white or green yellow and white or you can even use yellow and white or you know again whatever color speaks most to you so i think i'm going to put a little bit of green and yellow and that's where i'm going to start with just green and yellow on my brush at the same time you could pre-mix it or just kind of utilize it on on your tree as you go and then i'm just going to kind of sprinkle in or dot in some some areas that i feel are going to be my lighter areas on these green trees and again you you could certainly come and and bring back some of the original green if you didn't feel like you had enough coverage you could certainly bring back any anything that you need to be at the dark green or brown or whatever whatever the case may be so just green and yellow is where i'm starting with these ones gonna kind of dot this in in through here and of course overlap it into the neighboring sections if if you feel the need to i'm digging this green and yellow right now sometimes when you're doing stuff it's like oh i really like that color and you just kind of keep rolling with it so so we might have a lot of green and yellow in my my landscape because it's it's tickling my fancy right now so i'm just adding that in through here and again trying not to overdo it right now i think i'm going to go green yellow with a tiny bit of white paint i think i want to add some little bits of extra highlights on this tree in through here and then of course do the same thing down in the bottom below and again this is one of those things i'm just going to kind of start popping from one tree to the next seeing where i want these extra bits of highlights and putting that second more vibrant layer of leaves on it and bringing these leaves out past my my footprint of that original outline so that way it shows that we have those those edges to the trees i am going to uh not wash my brush just wipe it on my paper towel i'm going to pick up some yellow and i think i'm going to go yellow and orange to add some highlights to these some some of these other trees in through here so i just picked up yellow and orange and i'm gonna this lighter tree that we had in through here on my dirty brush so you're gonna see a lot of different tones in through here so there was a little bit of white on my brush but primarily yellow and orange maybe stick a little bit of that in through here and a little bit in through here and this is where my brush is going to go crazy because all i want to do at this point is just kind of add these beautiful autumn tones in through here i don't really need it to be anything perfect i got my my major ones that i kind of wanted and i'll add these extra flecks of i'm going yellow and white right now i totally want to have some brightness in through this tree right in through here wherever you want to see some extra bits of brightness yellow and white will really help help dictate that but again don't forget about your area below your reflection so yellow and white went here i put this here but i don't really have much of an area in through here maybe a teeny tiny bit like that and now i'm just going to kind of look around and see if there's anything more that i want i definitely feel like i want to have some in through here i'm washing and drying my brush right now because i feel it's a little overloaded and when i get to these edges i really want those to be nice and vibrant and not overworked or have too much different colors on them so i washed and dried my brush i'm going in for these tips over here i'm going to go a little orange yellow and white and i'm going to bring some of these out in through here and again i'm really just having fun with bringing these extra bits out past my footprint that tells the story of them just being full of life and have lots of you know movement and size to them i have yellow and white on my brush right now and you could always again introduce more colors if you wanted to if you wanted more branches you could add more branches it's going to be a visual preference on your part i feel like this tree in through here needs a little bit more so adding some more um green with these lighter colors so maybe i can make this one pop out a little bit more maybe this one needs a little bit more too and this is the stage where i'm just kind of looking making sure i don't forget my my reflection down below if i did do something up top i might miss something and if i do i'm all right with that because i know that i'm going to be adding a a soft water layer on in a little while so if i miss something that's okay i'll live with it and then just kind of keep tweaking it as much as you want to we will be using our um small brush for the next step so i'm just going to kind of keep fiddling with mine i might add a couple of branches here and there but right now i'm look i'm thinking like it's pretty pretty good maybe a little bit more red and orange in through here and then once you feel like you've got yours as pretty as you want oh you could have a pink tree too red yellow or red white and maybe just some red and white maybe have a little pop of pink coming in through here yeah that looks pretty i might have to add a trunk trunk onto it though and you know of course just add a little bit of that color down in the reflection and then once you feel like you're all done you can put this large brush away take out your small brush this needs to come above here take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so for this step i know that i said that i was going to be using my small brush but i've changed my mind i would like to use my large brush so if you can just take out your large brush for this step that'd be great and what i'm going to be doing is i'm going to be painting or finishing my land and my water so what this is going to be is we'll put little grassy pieces and texture throughout our land and then we're going to put a little reflection of the land in the water and we're going to put a kind of a shimmery layer on top of the water so i'm going to start with my grass and i'm going to be using yellow green and white on my brush at the same time so you don't need a lot just a teeny tiny tip of all three of those colors on your brush you don't even need to pre-mix it or anything like that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to be kind of pulling it up and giving myself these little kind of pieces of grass throughout my land area so you can less is more you don't need a lot of paint on your brush i'm really just kind of looking to maybe disguise some of the bottoms of my trees if they weren't if they were too kind of um kind of just kind of stuck in the ground this will help you to add that bit of texture and an element of um that fine like realistic kind of look to it and then just kind of keep altering those colors maybe one time you pick up a little bit of green one time you pick up a little bit of yellow and i'm just giving myself a touch of that again just texture to the land area so it's not just a flat going across kind of um brush stroke you can even just wiggle your brush a little bit if you want to you know go left to right pop it up a little bit whatever is going to give you that texture that makes your painterly eye happy i'm going to put a little bit more in through here showing a little bit maybe more sunshine on the edge of this piece of land and that's looking pretty good to me so dots and dashes is kind of where i'm going with this give myself a little bit of extra information along the along that land edge and then once i've got that i'm going to with my dirty brush i'm going to come just away from this black line where the land meets the water and i'm going to skirt my brush back and forth left to right this is going to give me a gentle reflection of that land that sits right above it and if you run out of paint just pick up a teeny tiny bit more you don't need a lot if it's not translating as the same color then maybe you add a tiny bit more yellow or just kind of adjust your adjust that whatever is on your brush to give you the illusion that it is reflecting what it's seen above so you know maybe it's a little bit more yellow or a little bit more green or whatever works for you and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to not wash my brush i'm just going to wipe it off on my paper towel i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of blue and a tiny bit of white just a teeny tiny bit on my brush then i'm going to dip my brush in my water like that then i'm going to tap it on my paper towel and what not what i have now on my brush is watered down sky color land color all the colors that are surrounding this um this landscape and i'm going to put a glaze on top of my water so this is going to end up making it look even more realistic it's going to allow the viewer to understand that the water is perhaps in motion because the the geese have just flown away from it perhaps it is reflecting the stuff around it i'm not using much paint at all just making sure that i've got the um information of the stuff that's around it i feel like i have too much green on my brush so which would be the yellow and the green from the land so i'm actually washing and drying my brush right now i don't want it to be too too green i want to make sure that i have some of that blue so i washed and dried my brush and i didn't even reload it yet i'm just going to kind of move this paint around i want it to be translucent so i can see the information underneath it so that's why i'm just kind of moving it around with a little bit of water i just added a touch more blue and white to my brush so i can get that in through there and then i'm just going to kind of pull this all the way across in a very loose fashion again i'm not using much paint at all it's more or less more water on my brush and i keep putting water and wiping it off on my paper towel this helps me to get that translucency to it and it's allowing me to put these little bits of light spots and give this little bit of shimmer on top of the water you can bring it all the way across it can come on top of all of your trees if you want to you could even put some dark areas as well if you wanted to bring in maybe some blue and a tiny bit of brown on your brush if you wanted there to look like there's more ripples and stuff in your water you can add maybe a little bit of blue and brown and that's going to give you more of a almost like a movement to your water where there would be little dark spots throughout it so feel free to explore that just cautiously proceed with a very little bit of paint on your brush and water so that way you don't lose all of that detail that you've put underneath it and then we are going to be utilizing our small brush for real this time on the next step so once you've got your water all nice and finished in your land finish you can do any little tweaks that you want and then you can put this large 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 going to be painting the base coat of our birds i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using just black paint if you are hesitant about just using black paint to get these on here you can certainly start with just your pencil to get them on there and then just paint it with black but i'm going for it so i'm using my small brush i'm going to be using black paint and i am going to water it down just a little bit so i have more of like an ink consistency so i'm just adding drops of water to a little bit of my black so it's nice and kind of thin and i can control the tip of my brush um in an orderly fashion what i do is i spin it on the side of my palette so it becomes nice and pointy so whenever i need my brush to be pointy that's what i do so i'm going to be creating three diagonal lines the progression is going to be a larger one here a medium-sized one here and a smaller one up here the they're going to have a little bit of a curve to them to make up for the the um form of the body but i'm going to give you some markers and tell you about where mine are going to be i'm going to have my first one is going to be the biggest one in through here so i am just a little bit below my um line where my grass meets my forest and if this is about halfway in the middle of your canvas i'm to the left just a little bit so that's going to be the tip of the beak somewhere in through there and then the tail part is going to be down in through here so this is maybe about three inches to the left and just a little bit below my water line and then i'm going to connect these two markers with a slightly arcing type of line something like this i'm gonna go do that for the other two just so we have an order to our steps so the next one is gonna be right in through here my beak is right about here so this is about a third of the way over my canvas and if this is about the halfway point i'm about two inches above that so yours might not land exactly i have a little bristle that's gonna there we go yours might not land exactly where mine are but that's okay you can have yours you know in a different height in the horizon they don't have to be exactly where mine are i'm going to go about two inches to the left and down maybe about an inch and a half to two inches so that's the beak this is the tail i'm going to give it a slightly arcing line something like this and i'm not pressing hard so i don't have um a wide line to work with and then i'm going to do my one up here this one's going to be a really tiny one so i'm about maybe an inch and a half away from the edge of my canvas and i'm maybe about four inches from the top that's where the teeny tiny beak is going so a little tiny dot in through there and then the tail if you go about two inches to the left and drop it about an inch that's going to give you the end of it like that and then i'm going to re-point my brush because i'm like oh my god my line's going to be huge in a second here if i don't fix my brush so i'm um just going to hardly touch my canvas giving myself a little bit of an arcing line you can see i'm not arcing it much just a teeny tiny bit now i'm going to go back to my beginning and we're going to start to build this bird so i'm going to come back from my beak maybe about i would say about a third of the way down the the line and i'm going to give myself a oval type of shape in through here and this is going to be pretty similar on all of the birds so i've got it something like this kind of like an almond type of a shape in through here and then for this one i've got and they're all going to be in little slightly different positions so i'm going to pull where i got that tail i'm going to pull that down just a little bit more so we see a little bit more of that tail i'm going to create my neck and my beak so my neck my my head is going so i'm going to do my head in my neck my head is going to be just bumped up a little bit in through there these birds have these long necks and when they're in flight and moving they can be kind of like snit in a little snaky type of um wiggle type of shape i'm gonna put this one i think i'm gonna put the the mouth or the um the neck part somewhere in through there and this is looking pretty good in through there and then i'm going to go ahead and i'm putting a foot a leg and a foot on this one so i'm going to come up from in front of the tail just a little bit give myself a teeny tiny leg here and then his little webbed foot is going to come down in that direction and again if you do something and you're like oh my god that was too much or you know not enough you can always make corrections that's you know that's a beautiful part about acrylic paint we can we can make corrections so this wing is going to be really big we're only going to see one of the wings i'm going to come back from this neck just a little bit i'm going to give myself a kind of a little bit of a curved horizontal line it's not much higher than the head maybe a touch higher and then i'm going to come up in this direction this is going to be a big splay of the edge of the wing in through here my wing is going to come down this left hand side like this i'm just giving these little wispy edges to the feathers and through here and then it kind of narrows a little bit in through here and then i'm gonna come and meet the back about um i would say i'm gonna come right about down in through here so you can certainly you know once you've got this on here you can certainly manipulate the edges of the of the feathers all you want but you want to kind of if you can leave those edges so they're not a firm line if you can get them to have a little bit of wisp to them that's awesome and then we'll just move on from there just give this a nice solid coat in through here and if you have any little adjustments feel free to make them but we can also make adjustments when we go to paint in the bird as well so i'm going to move on to my next one in through here just reloading my brush i'm going to do the same thing where i have all this center kind of oblong type of oval shape so something like this in through here that's one side of it i've got my other side so this is in essence kind of representational of the body itself so we've got this going on in through there i'm going to go ahead and put my um just finish this little tail here bring a couple of these little tail feathers down like that i'm going to go ahead and do my head and my neck so i think actually i want to bring this a little bit higher in through here bring this this oval shape just a little bit higher there we go and so my neck on this one is just kind of stretched out but i want it to you know look like it blends into that body a little bit and then i'm gonna put a little head right in through here leaving myself a little tiny bit of a beak and then just making sure it kind of blends in and if i need to put any more information underneath the head that's looking pretty good i'm going to have the wings are going to be down on this one so i'm going to have this one coming out right about here and it's going to come out to about there and then i'm just going to utilize the tip of my brush to to make the edges of the feathers on this one i'm going to have the other tip of the um feather from the other side we'll cat will show up in a second here but first i just kind of want to get these little tiny tips of these feathers in through here i think i want this a little bit fuller in through there yeah that's looking pretty good so it dips down a little bit more and i'm going to do the tip of the wing from the other side i'm going to have that just kind of poking out a little bit right in through here that looks pretty good just making sure i got it the way that i want yep that looks maybe a little pointier on the end there we go and then of course if you had any little modifications that you felt that you wanted to do feel free to do so and then i'm going to go ahead and um move on to my teeny tiny bird and of course if you wanted to you could certainly switch and go for a smaller brush if you wanted to but i'm going to do the same thing on this one i'm going to do like an oval type shape for the body itself and then just kind of poke out the little the little um wings so i'm gonna do about a third of the way down my line is where i'm gonna start this little bit of an oval shape and this one's really tiny so you don't really have to do much just give it kind of a little bump out for the body the tail is going to be just this little pointy part at the end my head and my beak i really in my neck i really don't need to do much for the neck itself i'm just going to kind of give a little bump for the for the head make sure that it just kind of naturally goes into the beak and then i'm going to go ahead and do my wing so my wing i'm going to have coming up in through this direction this is going to be the main wing that will be on our side here so i've got this kind of coming in through like this and then it's going to come up in this direction and again if yours doesn't turn out exactly as mine it's okay we're just going for a representation of these beautiful these are huge geese so i these are canadian geese and i live in north the northeast of the united states and they are indigenous to our area as well and oh my god they're huge they're like these big goose swan type of birds and they're beautiful too they make a lot of noise they make like this big huge honking noise which is so fun you can hear them from miles away and they they often travel in their flocks and they they they really are gorgeous to see in person so that's my canadian goose story but they're very cool so you can just enjoy this process and we are going to be utilizing the same brush for the next step so once you've got them all in place you can wash and dry this 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 painting the splash that this goose made when it's when it jumped out of the water and is flying away so i'm using my small brush i will be primarily using white and blue but i'll probably i might use a little bit of brown or black too but i'll let you know when i get to it so the thought process is is my goose is jumping out of the water in this type of um trajectory so if you want your goose to look like he's high out of the water then you can put your splash down farther and it will it will look like he's out of the water more if you want it to look like he's just emerging from the water you put the splash or the ripples right next to the bird so i'm going to put mine down a little bit so it looks like he's you know made his way out of the water a little bit i'm going to put blue and white and water on my brush at the same time to just kind of plan this out so if he's jumping that way i'm going to give myself this like little trail of water little s splashes that are kind of following his feet and his body and then i'm going to get it to land or come out of wherever i want it to emerge from the water i'm really just going to start to ripple my water with a with a circular type of appearance in the in the in the water because that's what i feel it does as as that motion kind of dissipates it turns almost like into a circular type of appearance so i just loaded my brush with a little bit more water and white and i'm going to really kind of just get this look to happen and once i've got what i believe to be a good enough ripple from him jumping out of the water then i can start to add little details to it maybe i've got more splashes coming up and stuff but really just kind of planning it out making sure that i've got it in in the direction or in the area that i want it to so this is looking pretty pretty good to me and now that i've got that on there i think i'm going to pick up a little bit of brown and white to start i want a little bit of a splashy kind of area coming up like maybe he you know his wings flittered a little bit and gave it this extra bit of splash coming up maybe a touch of blue too just to kind of give myself this darker type of water and then i'll put the little white um sparkly pieces on top of it so to make water look like it's got some dimension you don't miss or splash it to look like that dimension you don't necessarily want to just start with white you can put um i put a darker tone on there first and now i'm just sprinkling in or dotting in what appears to be this little piece of there we go not my brush there's one little bristle that was getting away from me um putting in these little white shimmery type of marks which is going to make it look a little bit more realistic maybe we've got a couple bigger pieces just kind of making their way towards my towards my bird and i just kind of keep playing with it i don't want to over overdo it just give that information that this is you know the nucleus of where the splash is coming from and i've got some dark spots and some light spots which will definitely tell the story of the direction that the water is splashing out in and then once you feel like you've got enough you can fiddle with it all you want get it to blend in with your other water all you want and then we're going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got this all nice and done and of course you can certainly introduce any little dark marks that will make it look a little bit more dimensional you can do that and then we are going to wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our geese i'm going to be using my small brush the colors that i'm using are black white brown yellow and orange and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to put their um traditional identifiable white markings on them they have like this cool white spot underneath their necks and un like underneath their belly a little bit like the back tail and then they have like tan bodies and then they have these beautiful multi-colored blackish brownish orange-y kind of wings so we're just going to take it in steps and we'll we'll have them colored before you know it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with a little bit of white paint on my brush i don't need much just a teeny tiny bit of white paint and i'm going to put the markings on so the white areas so for me they i recognize that they have a white area on the side of their face and it kind of goes up into the top back of their head so somewhere in through here and i'm going to do that to all of them but this one because we're seeing the underside of it this one has a little bit of a white area at the bottom part of its belly too so i'm going to just put that in here while i've got the white paint on my brush so i don't forget about it later so this one's got again just a little kind of white part underneath its um belly going underneath or near those uh that back tail feather so i've got that white paint on my brush i'm going in for this little guy's white marking on the side of its face right in through here and these are so small depictions of these geese that we're doing you don't really need fantastic detail at all i'm going to go over on this one i'm going to do the same thing put that little tiny white marking right on the side of the face not much at all just a teeny tiny bit so i've got my white markings on there and i suppose if you were um really ambitious and wanted to add a whole bunch of detail you can put itty bitty tiny i don't even like that online i'm going to get rid of it the little tiny eye was kind of where i was going with that but i'm like i don't even like mine online but if you wanted to put a tiny eye you could certainly do that but anyways so i'm going to make myself a tan color now this is going to be for the bodies so i'm going to be using white make this over here so you can see it so i've got some white i'm going to add a little bit of yellow and i will also add a touch of brown so i could go just brown and white but to me that's going to make it look a little bit too muted so my yellow in there will make it a nice kind of rich tan type of color and you can make yours you know in whatever value you want but these particular birds may have it's kind of a nice light tan so this is about where i'm headed with that i'm going to be doing their bodies um and part of well if we see the inside or the underside of a wing i'll do part of that too so i have the tan on my brush right now and i'm not going to use a lot i kind of want it to um blend in with some of the black as well the tan color comes up just right where that body kind of meets the the neck so you don't need to pull it all the way up i'm going to color in this body and if you can see some of the black underneath that's awesome that's going to allow it to look a little bit more natural and like it's got a little bit of form to it i'm going to blend this in to this area the white area i think i'm going to put a little bit more brown on my brush just so i can get the tan to blend into the black area so i just picked up a little bit of brown to help me do that and if you need this to blend in a little bit more feel free to pick that back up and i'm just going to kind of keep working this until i feel like i've got it in the way that i want with a little bit of dimension on it you can get that paint to be a little bit brighter in through this neck area or the front part of it that'll make it look a little bit oops i just have blue on my brush didn't mean to do that put a little bit of white in that front area if you want that the front of the body to look a little bit more like it's got form i'm gonna bring a little bit of this tan color up into the underside of this wing so just a little bit on your brush i can put it on here and with you could even put a little bit of water on your brush and get this to work its way in to this wing a little bit and i am going to put brown on my brush to get it to blend in just a little bit more just picked up a little bit of brown as well similar to what i did on the underside of the belly and again you don't need it to go full on yet we're going to put some more color in this wing in a minute but this will just get you started i'm also going to use that tan on the front part of this of this leg so i'm just putting a little bit of a highlight on the front part of this leg i don't need to do much this is just giving you the information that it's got a little bit of a highlight on it i think i'm gonna put a little bit of white back on my brush to brighten up this white part of this area just want to make sure i got it as bright as i wanted it to and then i'm going to put that tan back on my brush and i'm going to put the little tiny tan part of this body so this again is going to be just this little neck area and for um i have my big wing and the wings are dark so i don't this is just a little sliver here i don't need a lot of that wing to to have this tan on it the wing is going to be a darker color so i just brought this tan right up in this neck area and just pulled it down that back just a little bit i'm also going to put some of this tan on what's the tail feather so that's going to be this little area that's sticking out in through here and again if you wanted to you could certainly pick up a touch of white to get the edge of that area to be a little bit brighter and then i'm going to do the same thing over here so i'm picking up my tan and i'm going to do my body so this is my body underneath here i bring it up to where that that neck area is so right in through here is where that tan color kind of stops i'm just going to rub it in so this is kind of a natural type of of look to it put a little bit on the top side of that tail picking up a tiny bit of white just to get the top side of that tail to be a little bit brighter in through there and if you needed to you could certainly do the same thing on that neck little bit of white paint to get it to be a touch brighter and this is the underside of this wing here so just similar to this other one i'm going to pick up a little bit of that brown or the tan plus i think i'm going to put a little bit of brown so tan plus brown and this is going to get that underside of this feather to or this wing to show up like the other one that we did and then i'm going to add the colored part to the wings themselves so i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm picking up brown and orange on my brush so this is going to add these beautiful um almost like a rusty amber kind of color to these wings and you don't need to do much and if you feel like you've you've done too much just bring back some brown and black and that will help you to get that color to just blend in and look nice and natural on this particular wing i think i'm gonna add some brightness to these tips right up here so i'm gonna with my dirty brush i'm picking up a little bit more of that tan color just so i can have i want you to be able to see these tips in front of this dark background so that will help me to accomplish that and again if you do something you're like that was just too much you can just bring back some of that other color um the the black and the darker colors if you wanted to and once you've got this one then i'm just going to move on to this one so again it's going to be rust and brown is where i'm going to start with the colored part of the of the wing so really i'm just working on that black area and just adding a bit of this beautiful um burnt kind of color to these to these feathers they are kind of black in nature but adding these values or in these shimmery tones to them gives them that realistic look so i just have a little area up and through up in this little guy here so rust or um orange and brown and i'm gonna put this on the tips of these feathers in through here i might lighten up the the feather that's on the far side so it almost looks like it's catching a bit of sunshine and so we can see the difference between this one and that one so i'm going to put a tiny bit of that tan color on my brush just to get the top part of this wing over here to emerge so we can see it on the other side of that one and then you can do any little tweaks that you want oh we got one last thing sorry before you put your brush away we need to do a reflection of this guy down here so i'm just going to pick up a little bit of that tan color this is going to be a really loose reflection down in the water so i'm going to just kind of take that tan color and bring it in a diagonal kind of swishy way just so we can represent that color down in the water and now i'm picking up a tiny bit of black paint and i'm going to give the little tiny reflection of maybe the foot and the the top wing i'm going to put a touch of water on my brush as well so i can have some nice fluidity in through here i've got the beak that's going to be or the head that's somewhere in in this mix of here and then of course i have a little feather a little feather a huge feather that would be in represented somewhere in this reflection so just a little bit of sprinkling those colors down below in that water again just is going to add to the authenticity of this and provide you with those elements of realism that don't need much to to happen but you know if you can just you know see and execute these little bits and pieces it makes your painting look a lot more real and then that i think that we have one tiny little step left to go so you can sit and fiddle with all these little details on these beautiful birds and when you feel like you've got it you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step alright 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 and bottom left bottom right i'm using my small brush i'm going to be signing with black paint i'm going bottom left on this one i signed mine with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with your first name or with the date or whatever kind of symbol you would like to be your identifying mark is totally fine and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a beautiful autumn image and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 71min 13sec (4273 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021