Learn How to Paint HOWLING AT THE MOON with Acrylic - Paint and 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 going to be painting howling at the moon and i'm sipping on my iced 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 we'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 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 mars black ultramarine blue titanium white green oxide and burnt umber which i will refer to as brown and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like to 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 10 round synthetic brush and i have a number one 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 certainly switch those up as well 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 and 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 all right so we're going to do for the first step is we are doing the first layer to our sky i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm using are blue black brown and white so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to pre-mix myself a really nice dark blue color as the base color for my sky so i've magically pre-mixed it but i'm going to show you how i got there so this is the color that i'm going for how i got there is i used all of my blue except for this little bit here that i'll use for a demonstration and i added a little bit of black to it and a little bit of brown so the black will very easily take over so you just add a teeny tiny bit at a time and the brown i use just to kind of neutralize that blue a little bit so it's not so blue blue it turns it a little bit more of a of a natural blue to me so i'm going to take my bristle brush and i'm really just adding a teeny tiny bit of black to this quantity of blue and conversely if you were doing the larger quantity you just want to add a little bit of black to it the blue will get darker as it dries so just kind of plan for that as you are preparing that mixture you don't want to bring it as dark as you want it because it'll turn a little bit darker as it dries then i'm going to add a teeny bit of brown and again i don't need much for brown that's not going to change the darkness of the color at all it will just give it like a more natural look to it and then once you've achieved the shade that you want which i've magically done in my big quantity over here um i'm going to be painting the sky i know that i have a bunch of other stuff that i'm going to be putting on the sky like clouds a big huge moon some trees a big rock so i don't need this necessarily to be perfect but i am going to go for a kind of solid type of coat to it which i will most likely do two layers of paint on my on my sky my my this first layer of my sky i'll probably do go over it twice so i have a nice soft solid look to it but what i'm doing is i'm using that dark blue right now predominantly on the left hand side of my canvas i'm just really adding it in this left to right brush stroke you could certainly do circles or dots or criss crosses however you want to get it on here is totally fine i'm working my way over towards the right hand side of my canvas and on the right hand side i'm going to use this dark blue down in the bottom right hand corner and as well as in the top right hand corner and then i'm going to start adding white to this area with this dark blue because this is going to be where my moon is going to go so i want this area of the sky to in essence be lighter than this area of the sky so without washing my brush i'm picking up some white paint and you can think of this as a circular kind of area because that's how the moon will project its glow so if you just start adding white to this dirty brush and to the center area and then just kind of continue to expand it out until you reach the um the darker blue region that'll give you a nice gradient within your sky so i'm just going to kind of keep adding my white as i get into the area that's going to meet this dark blue region i will start picking up the dark blue plus my white on my brush and that's going to give me a area where i can blend the two colors together and you can see it's got you know some shades of light and some shades of dark and that's going to allow me to get a really nice pretty gradient throughout that sky as i work my moon into the equation in a little while and it doesn't have to be perfect at this stage right now i'm going to be picking up some blue the dark blue and white on my brush to get these two areas to kind of talk a little bit more together and get them to blend in a little bit more together and i'm just again using this kind of circular type of brush stroke or circular shape to this area to speak to the shape of the moon and the glow that it is casting upon the sky near it and then i'm just going to kind of keep fiddling with this again i may do a second coat just so i can get the the dark blue to have a really nice solid look to it but you might like yours the way that it is these colors do tend to as we're as we're blending them in together like this they may look a little bit streaky which is totally fine you can um if if you like that look awesome know that you are going to have a whole bunch of clouds on top of this which will make it not so prominent and you don't need to see the details as much onto it but then once you've got your first layer to your sky we will be using the same brush again for the next step so you can just you can see what i'm doing right now i just picked up some more of my dark blue and i'm giving it that circular kind of motion throughout the rest of it but you know again fiddle with yours let it dry see if it's as dark as you want or as soft as you want and then you can wash and dry this large brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be painting our moon i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are white brown and black you could certainly use some of your sky blue too but i'm going to be using i'm not going to be using that color so the moon will stand out a little bit more but i do want to forewarn you before you start this step that you do want to make sure that your canvas is dry especially where your moon is going um so you could take that extra long break right now if you'd like to or you can find some kind of fanning method to get it dry you know creative wise or you can just whip out your blow dryer like i did and get it dry that way so whatever way you'd like to make sure your canvas is dry you can go right ahead and do so so i am having my moon clearly up in this vicinity of my canvas i've got my moon a little bit the the um the left side of my moon is a little bit to the right of the center of my canvas i've got a couple inches over from the right a little bit from the top so i'm going to give myself a couple of markers so that way when i go to create the circle for my moon i've got a places to kind of shoot for so i'm going to start with all three of those colors on my brush a little bit of white a touch of black not a lot just a little tiny touch of black and a little bit of brown pink i'm going for the crater kind of looking moon as opposed to the big white bright moon so i'm going to make myself a little bit of a marker this is about a quarter of the way over my canvas and down maybe about an inch inch and a half somewhere around here i'm going to come down about a quarter of the way down my canvas right about here give myself a little bit of a marker and then from here i go straight down from here this is a little bit below my halfway mark so if my halfway up my canvas is right about here i may maybe about an inch below that and then theoretically however tall or however why you've spaced these two which ironically is almost the same as my brush you want to go that same width from left to right that'll give you a circle or you can whip out like a paper plate or something and give yourself a nice clean circle so now that i've got those four markers i'm going to just kind of connect them with my with my circle so i just kind of utilize my my site to give me these curved edges something like this i need to put a little bit more paint on my brush so i can go ahead and get this one over here the only downfall about doing these type of four markers is your brain might tend to want to connect them like diagonally and that will give you almost a diamond type of a shape as opposed to a circular shape so just when the by the time you're done creating this circle type of shape just step back and kind of visually look to see if it actually looks like a circle as opposed to like a diamond again just because we've set these these markers in place sometimes our our brain wants to just kind of give us a um you know connect them with more of a straight line as opposed to a curved line and then once i've got something that resembles a circular shape i'm going to utilize those three colors on my brush and fill it in with circles so i use this rubbing kind of effect i want some aries to be lighter some areas to be darker so i'm going to utilize maybe a little bit more black in in one spot maybe a little bit more brown in another spot and i'm just going to maybe a little more white in another spot and i'm just going to kind of keep going until i have a variety of these grayish type grayish whitish type of tones to resemble what resembles to me like a moon filled with craters and then what i can do is i just kind of fiddle with those edges a little bit making sure that i've got a good enough edge to it you can if you want to you can do a couple of different things to get this to pop out a little bit more you can take a little bit of say black or even your dark blue and you can give the edge a little bit of crispness by just kind of darkening part of that edge you don't have to go all the way around if you don't want to this will give you that illusion of it kind of going around the corner and having that um circular type of look to it i went a little bit too dark into here so we're just gonna we're just gonna blend that in with the rest of it and you can also conversely you can put a white type of or a very light type of edge around the exterior of it so i'm going to demonstrate that by washing and drying my brush i'm going to wash and dry my brush and then i'm gonna put a tiny bit of just white paint on my brush so still just using the bristle brush and you can take it and you can illuminate the the edge or the um or the sky right next to it with that really light color so i could take a little bit of white and just kind of get this edge to be a little bit brighter and or i can take that lightness and i can go outside of the moon a little bit and put a little bit of that lightness right along the exterior so that's going to allow the edge of the moon to be visible on top of the sky a little bit more if you need it to be that's not not not a necessity but if you felt like oh my my sky's not popping out enough you can certainly do that and if it goes wrong just kind of bring back some of your sky color and just get it to blend right in and then you can keep manipulating your moon as much as you want you can get that sky to glow more around it again by just white paint but we'll be using our um we'll have some clouds around it that will get it to illuminate even more and then we're going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got your moon all on here i might add a little bit more brightness around this edge here just to get it to be a little more glowing around the edge but you can certainly you know play with yours as much as you want and then you can wash and dry this big 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 some clouds i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and again i do kind of forewarn you to just make sure that your canvas is dry even your moon because i'm going to put some clouds in front of my moon but you can certainly put your clouds wherever you'd like to so i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are predominantly white but i will also be using black brown and my background blue this way i can get them to really just kind of look like they're part of the sky and they can just be drifting by and we can see through them and they can have lots of depth to them so i'm going to be leaving my top left corner of my canvas nice and dark i'm going to have clouds just kind of drifting what will seemingly be to the right they'll be pretty light down in the bottom and pretty airy in through here and then i'll have so a couple of really bright ones closing in or even overlapping the moon to show that the moon is kind of illuminating them so when i do a step like this i'm not going to be using a lot of paint on my brush and i'm going to be using a circular type of scrubbing um brush stroke where i can kind of manipulate that paint to be thinner and thicker in certain areas and i want to have some of the clouds on the darker side so it looks like they are in essence kind of shadowed in some areas and illuminated in other areas from the from the sun are from the moon so how i'm going to start this is i'm going to start with a tiny bit of all four colors so a little bit of brown a little bit of black a little bit of blue and i'm just kind of dabbing it in my um in the color and a tiny bit of white so i have all four of those colors on my brush at the same time i want down in through here to be kind of light um but it doesn't have to go super duper light because we're going to have some trees in front and i want you to be able to really see those trees so i'm just going to start with those four colors on my brush and really give myself some soft um kind of airy type of clouds and you can have these formed whatever way that you want yours can be really thick they can be really thin it's going to be a visual preference on your part if you want a little bit more brown in through here and i want some of my background to continue to be evident so i'm not doing this really heavy paint i just really am looking to get this softness on top that looks like these airy mists or clouds or something just gently going through that atmosphere the brown is going to help to really make this look nice and natural along with that background blue so again just kind of forming where i want them at this point i'm not really using picking up any um at this moment anymore white on my brush because i'm going into this darker region so i just picked up some of my background blue and brown working with a dirty brush which is going to give me the the remnants of whatever lightness i had over in that vicinity you can probably detect or hear my brush really just kind of scrubbing onto my canvas and again i'm just picking up a variety of the brown blue maybe a touch of black here and there but nothing too dramatic i don't have a lot of paint on my brush i'm really just looking for this airy type of look right now in a second i will start to add more lightness as i go towards that towards the moon but right now again i'm just looking to kind of tell myself where i want all of this atmospheric information to go and you can certainly put a little bit up in this dark area just to make it so it's not so flat looking but that's going to be again a judgment call on your part i'm going to go ahead and put a little bit of these clouds floating by the moon and i really want to kind of be cautious with the amount of paint that i have on my brush so i just took whatever colors i wanted and then just wiped it off on my paper towel so this way i can again control what's happening on my canvas i don't want to go too too much i don't want to cover up all of my background i'm really just looking to give it this light um you know kind of drifty type of look where we can almost see through some of these clouds and i'm still keeping them on the darker side at the moment dark compared to white because i want to be able to utilize that white in a minute to add that fluffiness or that real um look that's going to come from the from the moon itself so i'm just kind of drifting some of these clouds in through here maybe i'll put a little bit going in front of the moon somewhere off and in through here and they don't all have to go in the same direction they don't all have to be the same color really just utilize your imagination and how you're how you're kind of seeing these clouds if you want yours to be lighter or brighter or darker you can certainly manipulate that so i've pretty much kind of put them where i want them now i'm going to add a little bit of lightness to them on on part of them that is facing the moon so without washing my brush i just picked up a little bit of white paint and i'm going to just kind of add a little bit more lightness to some of these clouds on the side that is facing the moon and you could certainly i mean clouds have so many layers and fluffs and you know look to them so you can certainly make yours lighter or darker in various areas but the the trick is to keep some of that darkness showing so again you don't want to use a lot of paint you can really just kind of steer some lighter sections that are facing that that moon or closest to the moon and that's going to give you that look of these being really fluffy and having a lot of dimension to them and i'm thinking i want a little bit lighter in through here i'm going to have my rock where my um where my wolf is standing in through here and i want that to really pop out so i want to make sure that i've got this area back here light enough so when we do put the wolf on there it will pop out um in a in a nice way so i just want to make sure that i've got enough lightness in through here in a second again i will start adding a bit more lightness to the ones right um touching that moon but right now i'm just kind of working my clouds to make sure that they're in the arrangement that i want and they've got enough lightness to them and again there's no two sets of clouds like in this world so you can certainly steer yours in whatever way you want you can always bring back some of that sky the blue that you used and just kind of keep manipulating these i think right now i'm i'm pretty ready to start adding um that brightness to the ones right at the moon so picked up a good amount of white paint and what i'm going to do is i'm going to add this real bright white right along where that moon is and this is going to add that extra special kind of um illuminating aspect to these clouds and the moon's going to pop out a little bit more because now i'm adding more contrast in front of it and you don't have to put this white on all of the clouds that are right around the moon you just want to kind of give some aspects of the that brightness in you know some of the parts of the of the clouds i'm going to put a little bit on the edges of these ones into here you can just kind of tap it along the edges if you want maybe a little bit down in through here and again i'm trying to concentrate on getting these brighter parts in the direction of where the moon is to to tell the viewer that that's what's illuminating them and then you can certainly fiddle with this all you want i might add a little bit more here and there as i'm as i'm finishing up mine um and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got all of your clouds in whatever type of arrangement that you would like them to be you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like clouds are hard to stop just for the record but you once you once you feel like you've got them in a in a nice way that that is making you happy you can put this 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 putting the first layer on our rock and our trees so i'm going to use my medium brush i'm going to use just black paint so again this is one of those steps where you could certainly make it into whatever style of trees that you like or whatever kind of rock that you like but i'm just giving myself a big rock that looks like it would um like my wolf would have to climb up on it and there's a little bit of a platform on the top and then i'm just going to do the tops of pine trees which are a pretty iconic and simple to paint type of tree so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to give myself a couple of markers so i know how big i want this rock to be so i'm going to kind of find the center of my canvas from top to bottom and from left to right so i would say the center of my canvas is about here i'm going to come down maybe an inch and a half to two inches and over to the left about an inch and a half to two inches make myself a little bit of marker and again i'm just using black paint so we have a nice base dark a nice dark base coat for this then i'm gonna travel down to the bottom of my canvas and over about two inches make myself a little marker which might be a little bit difficult for you to see on camera because i have a dark base but somewhere in this vicinity and then bottom left hand corner will be my third marker so i'm going to take this from this marker in through here i'm going to bring it out a little bit and make myself a jagged kind of rocks edge so i'm going to take this and just bring it out a little bit to the right and then i'll just kind of wiggle it a little bit and then just bring it down in a jagged type of um motion to give myself this right edge of the rock and then i'm going to do the same thing for the left side only i'm going to give myself a little bit of a kind of platform it doesn't have to be flat it can have a little bit of a diagonal look to it and i'm going to bring this out pretty darn far and again doesn't have to be straight i mean it's a rock so you can certainly get it to be in whatever type of formation that you want and then maybe just a little bit something like that i'm going to paint it all in with black paint so no fancy brush stroke because black paint really covers nice and well you just want to get a good coverage on it we'll put a little bit of dimension with some lighter colors after it dries but right now i'm just looking to get the the base coat on here the shape that i want and again you can certainly change the shape of your rock all you want this is just one that i thought would look good on our on our painting and then what i'm gonna do is i'm going to be doing my pine trees so my pine trees are in essence going to look like tall triangles but i want them all in different heights so in through this area here i don't want them any taller than my rock so i'm all i'm going to bring maybe my tallest one is going to be about this this height in through here and maybe i'll make another one that same height and then all of my other ones are just going to be various um different heights throughout the way and all i'm doing right now is kind of giving myself what i like to call place markers which is just these vertical lines that are telling me where i want these tree tops to go but you could certainly do yours in whatever way that you want that just kind of helps steer me in the right direction and then i have a few over here on the left hand side so these ones i've got a little bit taller than this one the ones on the right so i'm going to go maybe i would say about this high on this one and then maybe i've got a couple of shorter ones coming out on this area and through here once i have that established all i'm going to do with my brush is i'm going to kind of tap it so i get these kind of ruffled edges to my to my pine tree so you could use your large brush if you wanted to have a really ruffled edge to these you could have fun with creating the exterior shape of them whatever way that you want but what i like to do is just make sure that i'm i maintain that pointy top to it and that's going to tell the viewer that this in fact is some kind of pine tree that has that iconic kind of triangular shape to it and i'm just making sure that i have a full coverage down at the bottom so this is going to also tell the viewer that these are really tall trees and that wherever that wolf is he's kind of kind he's climbed up taller than these trees are so maybe it's going to imply that he's on a really high mountain somewhere or rock formation and you know he is perhaps closer to us than these trees are so by just doing the the tips of them down in this silhouetted kind of way it's allowing for a lot of information to be told to the viewer as to the scenery itself and you can see i'm i'm really just being super carefree when it comes to adding um the the different kind of branches or pine needles as they as they might be referred to on the sides of these trees and again you could certainly utilize that bristle brush that'll give you a more organic type type of type of look to them so just giving these little branches coming out making sure you have like a prickly kind of look on the edges of them and a look that looks kind of natural so if you've gotta stick out a branch a little bit farther here and there just to give a little bit more of a realistic look to it if that makes your painterly eye happy then feel free to do so um and then i've got these little a couple of ones over here on the left hand side the trick to just making natural looking trees and foliage and stuff is to almost have it not be systematic so you want one side to maybe be a little bit lumpy or bumpier than the other or have that rogue branch kind of sticking out every now and again so making it look like you know it just naturally has been weathered you know it's broken some branches here and there one branch kind of is longer than the other that's what's going to give it that more natural appearance making them different heights making them different sizes um if they all are the same height and they all have the same characteristics to it it'll they'll look more like a like uh like a farm where they were planted all in a row but if you want to give it that natural wild kind of side to it making them look different from one another is going to benefit you in the long run and then we are going to be switching to our small brush for the next step so once you've got your trees all nice and assembled here you can put this medium brush away wherever you'd like to 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're painting ourselves a little silhouette of a wolf so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using mostly black paint we'll do a layer in black and then we'll put a little tiny illusion of some fur on the chest with maybe some brown and white so i'm going to use my small brush you can certainly utilize any silhouette of a wolf that you want you can have them standing or sitting or you know howling or just looking at the moon whatever you'd like i'm going to have mine kind of in a standing position and howling in the direction of the moon so i've i'm going to have mine in this vicinity the way that i'm going to do this is i'm going to have my body is going to be set up about i would say about a half of an inch above my rock i'm going to do a basic shape like the shape of a bean or a kidney bean or something for the body then we'll add some legs a tail and a mouth and some an ear and we'll be all done so i'm going to go a little bit above my rock i would say maybe about an inch and a half in from the right hand side and maybe about a half of an inch to an inch up from there that's going to be like the belly of my um of my of my doll of my wolf then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come a little bit to the right of that maybe about a half of an inch and i'm going to go up maybe about two maybe about two inches that's going to be about where the top of my bean is going to go so and then i'm going to give myself a little bit of where i want that being type shape to end so i'm going to have that ending somewhere in this vicinity so with those markers that's going to allow me to kind of give myself the shape i'm going to call it of a some kind of bean and again we'll make we'll we'll make it look like a wolf after we've got this this on here so i'm going to bring this down in through here bring it out just a little bit or maybe it looks like um like a seal or something like a a sea lion kind of shape when i start it like this so something like this is going to give me my initial shape i'm going to color that in with black paint and again your shape can be a little bit different than mine this is just the i like to be able to start especially animals or anything that's got a lot of form to it i like to find a basic shape that i can start with and then just build off of that so i'm going to build off of this i'm going to give myself a couple of front legs so i'm going to come in here just a little bit give myself a vertical line coming down to the rock when you're doing these legs and stuff just kind of make sure that you plan for the other ones so my two front ones are going to be pretty close to the front of the body like this and through here they're not very far apart from one another and i'm really just doing simple kind of vertical lines to to get them on there my back legs are going to we're going to see kind of the the um the thigh part so i'm coming over here maybe about a half of an inch i'm going to give myself a little bit of a curved line like this and then a vertical line to put where that foot would go and then i'm going to go ahead and do the back side of that so something like this and again it doesn't have to be perfect the um if if something goes wrong you can always bring up the rock to hide the feet so you know don't don't feel the the pressure of making this look perfect and then i've got my back leg coming in through here and then something like this and again i'm just going for a real kind of generic type of look to this but you could certainly you could certainly model yours after you know the a photograph or any anything any kind of visual reference that you have and i might i might alter this a little bit once i've put the face and the tail and stuff on i'm going to do my tail right now the tail of wolves is pretty wide when it's meeting the body so i'm going to take up a good amount of this space with the bulk of the tail and then just kind of flip it out a little bit at the at the tip of it and again you could make this really fluffy you could add little bits of texture at the bottom of it with just kind of pulling out a couple pieces of fur at that bottom and that'll give you a lot of texture and you could also hide that back leg too if you know if it didn't go exactly as you had planned you could certainly hide that with um with your leg i think i need to put a little bit of lightness in between these two legs so this is one of those things that as you're doing this if you you know if you're looking at it's like oh that doesn't look totally right you can come back in with some of your background color and just kind of make any little modifications that you feel um are are needed i think i need this little thigh to be a little bit further down like that maybe close that off a bit there we go and then i'm going to go ahead and do the nose so i've got my my area in through here i want to add a bottom jaw and then the upper muzzle part and then a bump for the eye and a bump for the ear so the bottom jaw is going to go somewhere in through here and it's going to be pretty small i want it to kind of go in the direction of the of the moon so just a little bump out like that my upper muzzle part is going to be a little bit taller so a little bit taller and it gets a kind of a little squared off nose i'm going to just bring that up and kind of square it off like that and then i'm going to give myself a little bit of a bump for where the eye goes so i'm going to just make sure this kind of works in like it belongs that works out i think i need the muzzle a little bit wider something like that and then my ear is going to pop out about halfway down that neck i just pull a little piece of that ear out in through here and then what i would do if i was you is i would step away from your canvas and look at it from a distance and see if anything looks like it doesn't belong or looks a little big or a little small and then you just kind of keep adjusting maybe you want yours to have a little bit poofier of a chest and you put a little bit more fluff on that and then what i'm going to do without washing my brush i'm picking up a little bit of brown and white on my brush and i'm just going to give a real faint illusion of a little bit of that fur on that chest i don't want to go too invasive with it i really just want this wolf to look like it's in the silhouettes and just adding that tiny bit of texture to this area will make it look like it's being illuminated by the moon and then i'm going to be utilizing my medium brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful wolf all nice and completed you can put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish our rock and our trees i'm going to use my medium brush i'm going to be using brown green and white and if i need to i'll go into black as well so really what i'm looking to do is just add a highlight to these objects from the moon so my rock i'm going to be using a lot of brown and i'm going to be giving it some texture too but also a highlight on that right hand side and then the trees i'm really just looking to kind of illuminate or give them a little bit of glow on the tips of them to tell the viewer that they're being lit up by the moon so i'm going to start with my rock i've got brown paint on my brush and i'm going to take my brown paint and i'm going to just wiggle it predominantly on that right hand side of the rock and just bring some texture down towards the bottom so you might choose to go really detailed with this you might choose to go really subtle with it it's going to be a visual preference on your part the brown will get darker as it dries so just know that even if it looks pretty light when it's wet because of that black background it will end up pretty dark i want to give the illusion of this being kind of a platform on the rock so i'm going to give a horizontal type of appearance in through there if you want it to look like it dips down you can make it darker then if you want it to look like it's protruding you make it a little bit lighter and you could have long streaks in it i want it to progressively get darker towards this left-hand side so i'm just kind of running out of paint as i go towards that left-hand side then i'm going to pick up a touch of white with my brown to give myself a bright highlight on this right edge in through here so white plus a little bit of brown just kind of bringing a couple of these areas out to make them look like they're really getting a bit of that brightness from the moon and you can bring this some of this lightness back a bit if you want there to look like there might have some form to this rock and it might you know part of it might be facing that moon a little bit more and again this is one of those steps give it a couple minutes let it dry to see if you want to add any more to it i'm adding a bit more lightness down here just so we can see the um the profile of it as it comes down into the bottom region of the of the canvas and if you feel like you went too much like oh my god it's too bright pick up a little bit of black on your brush and that's going to help you bring it back to that original state or darken it as much as you want to and then you just kind of keep fiddling with it until it's as textured as as you want it to be once you've got your rock done then i'm just going to wash and dry my brush and move on to my trees the tree tippy tops are going to have a bit of green on them so i just washed my brush took a little bit of green i think i'm going to use a little bit of brown too green and brown just to give myself a couple of little bits of um the appearance of the green color the forest color on the tips of of these trees not adding much just kind of tapping my brush along those edges and then i'll do the same over on this left hand side so just again a tiny bit of green and maybe brown is giving me this look and of course they'll take on some of that black that's underneath and then i'm going to without washing my brush i'm picking up a teeny bit of white paint and i'm going to do even less of marks along those edges this is going to give me that appearance that from the other side where the moon is it's casting these little sparkle highlights on the tips of some of these trees they don't recommend you do them all just a couple or you know little bits here and there so it looks like some of the trees are in front and some are behind being shadowed by other trees so you don't necessarily want to do them all but doing a little bit on some of them really helps to provide that that illusion that the moon is at giving light to these to these other um objects within the painting and again if you feel like you've gone too much like i feel like that little tip there was a little bit too much i just picked up some black paint to uh dull that down and then we have one little tiny step left to go so once you've got your trees and your rock all nice and completed and again feel free to just kind of keep fiddling with it as much as you want to but once you've got that done we are going to be utilizing our small brush for the next step so you can put this medium brush away take out 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'm not quite sure if in the last step i said that you i was going to use my medium or my small brush but i'm going to use my small brush to sign my painting i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i'm going bottom left on this one and i think i'm going to use my sky blue my dark blue color to to add my signature here i do my initials but you could certainly use your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like to use as 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 night scene and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

Channel: Michelle the Painter

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Length: 44min 46sec (2686 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 14 2021