Learn How to Paint NAUGHTY BUT NICE with Acrylic - Paint and Sip at Home - Fun 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 we're going to be painting naughty but nice and i'm getting into the holiday spirit and sipping on a little eggnog and if you enjoy this painting i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and check out my patreon page where you'll 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 burnt umber which i'll call brown green oxide fire red cobalt blue mars black and deep yellow and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a piece of white chalk and then i have three brushes that i'll be using i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number nine round brush and i have a number one round brush and i'll refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process of course you can switch those up a little bit too if you like if you're going to be painting along with me you're probably going to 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 in the video description i have a couple of additional resources for you 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 paints and even the piece of chalk is included but so that's there for you but there's also an another 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 okay so what we're going to do for the first step is we're going to paint our wall i'm going to be using my big bristle brush and the colors that i'm using are green brown white and black and how i'm going to do this i want my wall to be kind of a neutral color you could certainly have your wall whatever color that you would like but i'm going to go for like a neutral kind of army green kind of color and i'm going to try and get my wall to be a little bit lighter up at the top and darker down at the bottom so first i'm going to pre-mix myself a army green kind of color so i know i need a lot of it because i have a big area that i'm going to be covering and i want to save some of my green for later so what i'm going to do i'm just going to separate out a little bit of my regular green so i can use it later and then i'm going to use the rest of what i have here and i'm going to add quite a bit of brown to it and a little bit of white and i'm going to spin it around until i get it into the color that i would like for my main wall and then what i'm going to do as i paint my wall i will add a little bit of white where i want it to be lighter on my canvas and a little bit of black where i want it to be darker on my canvas so i think i want mine a little bit browner so i'm going to add a little bit more brown into this i'm really just going for a nice neutral color to not take away from my my um my focal point which is going to be my really cute cat and the lights that it has tangled itself up into so i think that's pretty good for for the color that i'm going for and then once you've achieved the color that you want what you're going to do is i'm going to make a line where my wall is going to end so on the left hand side of my canvas i'm going to come up about a third of the way and to know how far that is if you can kind of eyeball maybe your halfway point this is about your quarter way and it's somewhere in the middle of those two and it doesn't have to be exactly where mine is but that's a good balance for the painting and then you can use your brush as a measuring tool and come over to the opposing side make yourself another mark and then you can just kind of connect those two with a it doesn't have to be a perfect line just something loose will will do fine and then you're just going to start painting in the wall so this is the main color that i have chosen to do maybe a little bit more brown i think i want a little more brown in it um so this is the the main color that i have chosen to do so i'm going to do my predominantly the entire wall with that but when i'm up on this right hand side i'm picking up a little bit of white to lighten this side or this edge of the wall to almost make it look like it's being illuminated by maybe the christmas tree or by a light or something along that line so i've got that wall a little bit lighter up in through that direction and you can see i'm kind of using a a variety of brush strokes just to get these two colors to kind of fit blend in well i'm dip i'm picking up more of that original wall color and you might find that you want to do two layers on your wall whatever works for you if you like the more painterly type style one coat should do it for you but if you want it to be really super duper smooth and not have any brush strokes within it then you'll probably want two layers so i'm gonna get my first coat on here and then i i might just go with the one coat but you can certainly go with two coats if you want i'm bringing that regular color all the way down to the bottom of the wall and before i make the bottom of my wall darker i'm going to have the whole the whole wall painted in first because i'm going to be dipping my brush in black paint and i don't really want the black paint to go all over the place so once i get i want to get the main structure of the wall done first and then i will add that little bit of darkness and this is a great way to get colors to blend while they're wet if you paint them in different directions into each other that gets them to blend really nicely together and then maybe just one more back and forth left to right that's a good blend going on there and then once i've got that wall all nice and painted now i'm going to start adding my darkness to the bottom so i'm not going to wash my brush i'm just going to pick up a little bit of black paint you might want to use black and brown or just black whatever you want and i'm really just trying to get the bottom part of the wall a little bit darker so i've got a little bit of black paint my wall is still a little wet so it works for me to just kind of blend it in like this and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you have your wall painted you can wash and dry this 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 painting a faux wood floor i'm going to be using my large bristle brush i'm going to be using brown and yellow and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be doing a series of horizontal stripes with these two colors i'm just going to alternate them on my brush but first i've got to put a line where it meets my wall and i'm not going to make this a really clean line because it's kind of off in the distance perspective wise so it doesn't have to be super clean line but i do want to make it so it doesn't look like it's wobbly so how i'm going to do that is i'm going to put yellow and brown on my brush at the same time so i have yellow and brown on there and i'm going to eyeball where my highest unpainted spot is and i'm going to make myself a mark so then i'll use my brush as my measuring tool and i'm going to go make a mark over on the right hand side at the same height and over on the left hand side at the same height theoretically it should kind of be where you put the first marks but it may have wobbled a little bit when you went through that painting process and now i'm just going to connect all three of these markers and sometimes the faster you go the straighter you'll go and these are pretty you know for the tonal value they're pretty similar in nature to the background so it's it helps with making it look you know more straight than it might actually be and then once i've got that line on there all i'm going to do is i'm going to alternate my colors brown and yellow and i'm going to be doing these horizontal type brush strokes so i'm going to end up overlapping them i'm going to end up some are going to be short lines some are going to be long lines but i don't really need a whole bunch of paint to accomplish this so don't feel like you have to pick up the whole kitten caboodle from your from your palette the less paint that you have the more variation in your colors you'll have so you'll have if i have thick brown paint one place and thin brown paint another place i'll get two varying tones of that brown so just know that it doesn't all have to be super duper thick it doesn't all have to be the same distance you can have some long strokes and some short strokes this is just meant to look like faux wood so it doesn't have to be again anything or really perfect i am trying to keep mine horizontal though as opposed to diagonal if you wanted to do a diagonal type floor you could certainly do that um you would just want to make the planks larger as they were meeting the bottom of the of the canvas so if that's something that you want to tackle feel free to do so and then let's see what are we going to do for the next step we're actually going to be using our chalk for the next step so once you've got this floor all nice and painted in you can put this large brush away you can take out your chalk and get ready for the next step all right so for the next step we're going to be doing an outline of our cat with chalk you could certainly use pencil if you want to but i want you to be able to see it and i want my lines to be able to be easily kind of altered if i want to so i'm just using white chalk you could use a regular pencil whatever tool works for you to draw an outline is great but what i do want to forewarn you is you want to have your canvas dry so if it's not dry already you can either you know take an extra long break if you need to or you could blow on it that might take you a while though or you could just whip out a blow dryer and blow dry it so whatever method that is the easiest for you maybe yours is already dry by now but if it's not i recommend drying it so i'm going to give you a couple of dots we're going to connect the dots and then hopefully by the time we're done we've got a cute outline for our cat so i'm going to have you make a mark about i would say about halfway up your canvas you're going to come into the middle of your canvas this might be a little high let me make it just a smudge lower something like that and then you're going to come about half the distance from here to the edge of your canvas and make another dot about the same height so something like that then you're going to come directly down from this one and stop about halfway between here and here make yourself another mark and then you can come over from that and stop maybe about two inches away from the edge of your canvas so something like that we've got four dots right now um we'll make a fifth one too if you go about between these two and about half the distance from here to the top of your canvas you can make another one so we've got five markers at this point i'm going to connect this one to this one this is going to be the right side of the um my right side the cat's left side of the back leg i'm going to come down a little bit and then kind of at a straight line and then i'm just going to kind of bump it out a little bit like this and come back to my marker in through here and i'm going to do the same thing on the other side only this side i want it to kind of look like he's sitting kind of squatted a little bit to the side so i'm going to bump this one out a little bit further so i'm going to come down again something like this and then maybe i'm going to bump it out even further maybe just maybe an inch or so away from the edge of my canvas and then kind of bring it down in through this direction and it doesn't have to be anything perfect this is just giving you a fun shape to work with and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to bring this marker over to the right maybe about an inch or so inch inch and a half and then i'm going to make a couple of cat feet down in through here so from the right corner i'm going to just bump this out a little bit like that that's going to be one paw and it's going to come up just a little bit maybe about half the distance between here and here bring it up a little bit and then you're going to do the same thing over here you can make yourself a little bit of a paw something like that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect this corner to here and this corner to here so this is going to be the outside of the front legs so something like this and they're all going to be a little bit different shape so you don't have to just make a straight line i've got a little bit of a curve to mine so it kind of is wider up at the top and gets a little bit more narrow down towards towards the feet and one paw can look a little bit bigger than the other because maybe it's turned a little bit more so that totally works and then what i'm going to do is i need to make myself a head so really what i'm going to do is i'm just from here going to make myself the top of an oval so something i'm going to meet this marker up here and cat's heads are kind of square round-ish so don't make it too too pointy so something like this and then i'm going to make myself a couple of little ears so i'm going to make mine something like this and your ears can totally be different than mine uh there's lots of cats have different ears i'm going to have my head tipped a little bit so this one i'm going to have a little bit more lower and to the left so something like this and then at this point you could reshape your cat if you wanted to if you felt that you wanted your cat to be bigger or fluffier or anything like that we're going to be adding fur that will help to fluff it out but if you've if you're trying to emulate your own cat and your cat is more slender or meatier than my cat you're more than welcome to do so and then i'm going to add a little tail so i'm adding my tail coming out from this direction in through here and it's going to have a lot of movement and it's going to wrap around in through here and it's going to come down towards the bottom of my canvas and then something in through here like that so it's narrower where it meets the body and then gets really big and fluffy down in through here and that's all we're going to do for our cat outline we're going to be let's see what are we going to use for our next step we're actually going to use our big brush for the next step so once you've got your cat outline done you can put your chalk or your pencil away and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting the base coat for our cat fur i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm using are brown black and white you can certainly make this base coat whatever color you'd like for your cat maybe you're making this to look like your own little cat at home for me i'm making this um kind of representational of a cat that i had as a kid his name was charlie so he was just kind of a gray alley tomcat kind of cat who seemed to always be getting in trouble and he lived outside a lot so this is kind of representational of charlie so i'm going to be doing a brownish gray color for his base coat so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to take my brown and actually i'm just going to leave it in that little spot i'm going to add some black to it but i'm going to be careful that the black doesn't take over because black can very easily take over i'm just looking for a nice dark grayish brown color so just adding a touch of black to my brown is gonna achieve that i'm gonna be doing two different shades but the first shade is gonna be the darker of the two and that's going to be the color that i start i'll make the lighter shade in a minute when i get to it but i'm going to be doing the darker shade in these in the back sections of the body and the tail so when i paint this in so i've got my dark brownish gray on my on my brush i'm using a lot of paint and i'm bringing it right up to that interior um outline for the for the front leg but when i go to the exterior edge of it i'm going to be using a little bit of a kind of a flicking motion to get the edges of the fur so it doesn't look like a solid line along the edges you'll see it better when i get into the floor here how i have these light or these fluffy little edges to it but the interior i don't really need to do much i'm just kind of adding a good layer of paint so it's nice and thick so you can't see through it um and then i'm going to go ahead and do that on this side too so i'll add the dark color on the interior side of that section and then when i go to do the exterior i'm going to be bringing it out in these little kind of fur pieces so that way i don't have a solid line i've got more of a fluffy edge to it and then what i'll do for the tail is the same thing so i'll do kind of a solid line down the middle just to kind of get it on here and then once i've got the the section kind of colored in then i can go ahead and add those little fluffy edges to it so i've got my solid color on the exterior then i just kind of reloaded my brush and i'm going to give the edges more of a fur look as opposed to just a flat straight edge and then i'm going to do the same thing on the interior and we're going to have all kinds of details and stuff on this so if it doesn't look totally awesome yet don't worry about it we are going to add lots of stuff that will make it look awesome but that's all i'm going to do for that and then i'm not going to wash my brush what i'm going to do is i'm just going to add a tiny bit of white paint to the rest of that brown that i had for for those sections or to some of that brown depends on how much you made and you don't need much white you just want it maybe one or two shades lighter than this exterior color so when you go to paint it in you can actually see the difference of the two so again i'm to do the interior of these sections with just a solid kind of paint and then when i get to the edges where it meets my my wall or that other section of fur that's when i will kind of fluff it out a little bit so i think the top of the head would be a little flat though without without that fluffing out too much so i just reloaded my brush i'm going to get some of these edges to just kind of fluff out a little bit and when you when you're using chalk it will probably blend in with your paint a little bit so that will help to get those little edges softer as well and if you run into wet paint that's okay too it all works out in the long run i've got these little cute paws that are going to have a little bit of fur at the edge of them and if you can still see some of your chalk around the edges at this point don't worry about it because one you can wash it away but two we will have many more steps of other stuff that will help to to get rid of that little bit of chalk so again along those edges i'm just kind of pulling it out a little bit so i have more fur along the edges as opposed to just a straight line and then it overlaps into that darker section a little bit something like that and then of course i need to do my ears too so i'm just going to give them kind of a solid edge at the top side of them and then when it on the right side of them or the exterior side that's when i'll flick it out a little bit to have a little bit of fur coming out of those ears so something like that and then do the same thing over on this left ear well it's to my left but it's to the right of the of the cat so whatever whatever side you wanna correctly call it is totally fine and then let's see what are we gonna do for the next step we are actually we're gonna use let's use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your base coat of your cat fur on here you can take the big brush put it away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing the first layer of our facial features i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black paint only so i want my cat to kind of look like he's looking up at either his human to say he's sorry or looking up at the tree to say i'd really like to pull some more stuff off of that or you know he's looking up at something so i'm gonna have his face kind of hit i call it a heat because again it's representational of charlie perhaps yours isn't she um but i'm going to have him looking up that way so i want the face a little bit tilted so i'm going to take my small brush i'm taking black paint and i'm going to start with the nose and then i'm going to build everything else around that so if this is kind of my circle for my head my nose would be kind of in the middle i want mine to be a little bit to the right of it and i'm going to be doing a upside down kind of soft triangle very small think of it like the size of of a piece of cat food that that little kind of yeah it's like the size of a piece of cat um so it's a triangle and soft you don't need it to be um a pointy triangle and upside down too and to the side an angled upside down soft triangle that looks like a piece of cat food that's what we're going for then i'm going to put the um little line between the nose and the mouth i'm going to make this kind of a little diagonal to the right and have a little bit of a curve and it's going to be about the length of the nose so something like that and then i'm going to have the mouth kind of coming down like this and like this and you can have yours really pouty or little almost smiley if you put it up a little bit it'll look a little smiley if you put it down a little bit it'll look a little pouty like i'm sorry i don't i don't want to get in trouble but i've done something that's probably going to make me in trouble and that's all i'm going to do for the mouth i got to put my two eyes on so these are going to be kind of like the shape of almonds i guess maybe a little bit more round than that i'm having my cat have pretty big eyes so i'm gonna go up a little bit from the nose to the um right and it's kind of where the ear and the face meet that's about the height of it and i'm going to make it maybe just a little bit a half of an inch to an inch away from the edge of the cat head and i'm just going to color it in black and yours might not be a perfect shape i don't think they should be a perfect shape because there's all kinds of hair and stuff around the eyes so if it's not perfect don't worry about it i'm going to put a little bit of a dark kind of marking over on that right hand side of the eye and i'll do the same thing for the left you just want them to be pretty similar in size so they don't look like they don't belong together but of course they can be a little bit different angle that that totally works you want it a little bit sorry i'm readjusting my nose a little bit you want it a little bit away from the nose and about the same height as where the ear meets the face so somewhere in through there and i'm going to make mine so mine are kind of ovally some cats have really pointy um corners to their eyes but mine i'm i'm doing a little bit more on the rounder side and again you can totally make yours whatever way i'm going to cover this a little bit with fur later i just i like that little that little dip look and i think that's all i'm going to do if you want you can pull some some little bits down in the corners but that's about all i'm going to do for that we're going to use our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer of the facial features on you can put the small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what i'm going to be doing for the next step is i'm going to be painting cat shadows so i'm going to be using my medium brush and this is going to be the shadows on the ground cast by the cat and it's also going to be the shadows within the cat fur so we're just going to make a whole bunch of cat shadows right now so i'm going to use my medium brush i'm going to be using black and brown paint how i'm going to start it is with black paint on my medium brush and i'm going to be doing my shadows on the floor so for me the light source is coming from over there so all of my shadows are going to be under and to the left of everything that i see so i've got black paint on my brush i'm going to come up my cat for a little bit like this and i'm wiggling it to to touch the fur and then i'm going to go underneath this one little piece i'm just going to do one piece at a time so you can kind of catch the gist of it this is going to be the shadow cast from the body onto the floor so i'm going to go all the way to the left in through here with just a little bit of black paint and if you can see through the black paint and see part of the ground that's awesome or part of the floor that's awesome then i'm also going to do it down in through the left side of this pawl so i'm going to take a little bit of black and my paw is kind of up a little bit so you don't have to go all the way around it but maybe just at the bottom of it definitely something like that put a little bit down below and then pull this shadow out just a little bit as if it's the shape of the paw so something like that that looks pretty good leaving a little bit of room between here and here then i'm gonna put a little bit at the bottom of this one we'll do inside the legs in a minute i just want to kind of tackle the floor first so this is going to be something like this maybe this goes a little bit further something like that then i'll go do my tail so my tail my light source is over here i'd probably have a little bit of a shadow underneath here definitely in through this area here and then probably underneath here as well so i'm going to do a little bit coming up the tip of the tail like this pull it out a little bit just like i did on the paw over here pull it out just a little bit and then do a really nice dark shadow right underneath that tail edge and it doesn't have to be straight across because your tail has got little pieces of fur all around it so that's gonna that'll make it look a little bit more realistic now what i'm gonna do is i still have black on my brush i'm gonna put a shadow in through here because lights over there this leg is going to cast a shadow upon this fur in through here so again i want to keep it uneven around where it hits that leg so it looks more natural and then what i'm going to do is i'm just going to kind of blend it in to the rest of the fur so something like that and then when i go to do the shadow i have a couple more shadows within the cat i have oh maybe i'll put a little one over on this edge too this left hand edge over here because this is the exterior part of the fur so that will look good if it's got a little bit over there too okay yeah that makes me happy all right so in through here i'm gonna have a shadow between my two legs and then i'm gonna have a shadow underneath my chin so instead of just going total black i don't want it to be too too overpowering so i'm going to use black and brown on my brush at the same time so black and brown i'm going to come right up between the legs something like this and you can have yours as high or as low as you want if you feel like you go too high don't worry when we put the fur on later you'll be able to um kind of get it to cover up a little bit so i've got the shadow on now i'm going to just wipe my brush off on my paper towel and pick up some of that original brown color just so i can get this shadow to kind of mix in a little bit maybe at that ankle a bit and then just make sure that it is definitely not a super duper straight line so i'm i'm getting the the fur to blend in just a little bit so nothing major just just a little bit so it's not just one solid line and i'll do the same thing underneath the little toes so maybe i've got a couple of little little paw separator marks going in through there and then i'm going to do it underneath the the neck so for me i'm going to just kind of tell myself where is that neck so maybe somewhere about here and then i'm just going to kind of start pulling out some of these darker pieces so i again i don't want it to be a solid line i just want it to look like there's a shadow under there so black and my original um gray and or brown will help to accomplish this and then i think that's going to be it for my shadows because i can do oh you know what i need a little shadows up on the head too i didn't say i was going to do that but i am so i've got a shadow to the left of this ear so just a little bit in through there because again my light source is over there i've got a little shadow maybe on the exterior of this ear something like that maybe a little bit coming up this face something like that i think that's good that works for me so we are going to use let's see what are we going to use for the next step we're going to use actually um this same brush the medium brush for the next step so once you've got this done wash and dry that 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 be putting the highlight around the mouth so it makes it look like that mouth part is nice and and three-dimensional so i'm going to use my medium brush the colors i'm using are white and some form of my gray if i want to and maybe a touch of yellow too so i'm going to start with a little bit of white on my brush and i'm going to think of this as like the chin so i'm going to have underneath here is going to be really and this is not going to look awesome after this step i'm just forewarning you because everything else around it's going to be so dark it's going to look kind of funky but less is more on this and don't worry if it doesn't look super perfect so i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel because i want this to kind of blend in with the surrounding area so i wanted to kind of have a soft look to it so it's the mouth all around the mouth like where those little cheeks underneath that nose are and you know again yours might look much different than mine it's gonna be based on kind of the markings of the cat that you want to depict but i put it the brightest in through here and the brightest kind of by the nose and then i'm just kind of rubbing it out to the neighboring areas and that's going to give it a little bit more of a three-dimensional look i'm actually adding a little bit of yellow and brown and white to my brush right now to give it a little bit more warm kind of color so almost like a little creamy yellowy brown kind of color especially on those cheeks and again you can really have fun with this and make it whatever color you want to and then we are and you can see i'm kind of leaving that where the mouth is but you can if you need to or want to kind of disguise it a little bit that that totally works and for the next step we're actually going to be using our large brush so once you've got this highlighted area around the mouth you can put this medium brush away somewhere take out your large brush and okay ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're painting some cat fur so i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm going to be using are going to be whatever grays i've already created or browns whatever your base coat is i'll be using white also um and if i need to i can use a little black you can also incorporate other colors to it so i'm going to have my lightest fur over on the right hand side and if i feel like i want it to look like it's being illuminated by the tree or by whatever the light source i could certainly add a little bit of yellow or red to make it like an orangey kind of color so feel free to add live a little bit on the colors so how i'm going to start this is i know that on these dark sections these three right here i can use this lighter gray as my highlight color so when you're doing this my best tip for you is less is more you can always add more as you go through the process but if you start with a big huge scoop of paint on your brush and you go to make these little dainty pieces of fur you might paint over the whole thing and not get the little pieces piece of fur look that you might be wanting so i'm going to take some of my lighter brown and i'm really just kind of taking it and putting a little bit on my brush and wiping it off on the side of my palette so that way i only have a teeny tiny bit on the edge of my brush and when i do this i'm going to be doing these quick like swiping motions just with the little edges of the bristles and i'm going to be doing them in the direction that i feel the fur would be falling so if this is the leg i feel that the the fur would kind of come over it like in a curved kind of manner and if you feel like you go too much and it's maybe too dark i think this might be the back little foot in through here um if you feel like you've gone too much you can always bring back some of the original brown or the original color to just add different hues in through it and just make sure by the time you're done with the sip that all of your um your your chalk marks are gone or your pencil marks or whatever you used to get that on there and i'm just going to kind of travel around my cat to get these highlighted areas on here so i'm just picking up more of the lighter color to get some little highlights over on this side and i will probably incorporate another shade of of a lighter color but right now i'm just kind of getting the initial highlights on here and again even on this tail i'm gonna i'm gonna bring my my highlights mostly on that side the side where the light source is but you can see i am putting the brush strokes in the direction i feel that the fur would be falling so if i feel that this is the top of the tail over here i'm going to put the brush strokes in that direction and i don't want to cover up all of the dark fur from underneath because that's what's going to make it look nice and dimensional that's why i don't use a lot of paint on my brush that helps me to get these these layers of fur on here so now that i have that done i'm going to start working on these other sections in through here so i'm going just a little bit lighter than that gray in through there i gotta put a couple little pieces on my on my feet so something like this and i'm not going for photorealistic i'm just going for fun festive cat depiction so you can certainly make yours as you know realistic as you want but i'm just gonna i'm just gonna have some fun with mine and i'm just bringing some fur down in through this leg in through here maybe maybe mine is a really furry cat and he's got some big almost like a lion's mane on his chest and again if you feel like you've gone too far feel free to bring back some of the original colors that you have in that particular section and we are definitely going to have lots more information on this with our lights that we're going to be putting so if you do something that you like oh that's not the best don't worry you'll be able to disguise it with a big huge holiday light bulb so again i'm just going into my lighter colors here i'm going to have a whole bunch on his face something in like this coming off of these cheeks under the eyes and again i'm really just using the corner of my brush and i hardly have any paint on my brush at all and this again of course is allowing me to get these really tiny individual kind of pieces of fur i know that at the top of the head it probably wouldn't be really long fur so i'm just going to kind of almost do a softer look to it so maybe not as much paint and i'm more rubbing it as opposed to bringing in that those long pieces of fur i know i'll have some in those ears so i haven't reloaded my brush for a while now just so i can maintain control over these pieces of fur i will i certainly can add more but i like to start with a very little bit and then i can certainly add more as i go through the process so that's looking pretty good to me but i want some extra highlights over on that right hand side so i'm actually going to make myself a little bit lighter of a color so i've got some i added a little to my gray add a little yellow and red this is almost like an orangey kind of highlight well like a tan kind of color i really want this to read that there is some a light source over on that side so i'm going to add quite a bit of highlight over here on this edge of the cat in through here and you can see just adding these additional bits of of light color are definitely making it look a little bit more three-dimensional and giving a little bit more information as to where that light source is coming i'm gonna put some on the face and through here and you just don't want to go overboard you know if you if you if your cat has super long hair great you can have it really really long um but if your cat doesn't have you know super duper long fur then you don't want it to be too too too too bushy i guess is is maybe the right the right word for that maybe i get a little bit more on the head in through here definitely some on that ah that right my right ear his left ear some big pieces of long protective fur coming out of that ear and then i want to put some on the tail and it'll look much better once we once we put the eyeballs on there too right now he looks a little um a little scary movie-ish without eyeballs on there but i once definitely want some of this highlight on the tail and through here yeah i i like doing this kind of part when you get all these these informational pieces on here yeah that that works for me oh yeah see look at look at all that dimension in the tail that we can get right just with a couple of little brush strokes excellent all right so we are going to be maybe a little lighter over here we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful cat with as much fluffy fur on it as you want 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 are finishing our facial features i'm going to be using my small brush and the colors that i'm using are green yellow white and brown and i might use a little black too but if i do i'll let you know so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to put my colored part in my eyes so to do this i'm going to be using green yellow and white and i'm going to be having them darker green up in the top right and lighter in the bottom left i'm going to leave a little bit of a black circle around the exterior of the eye itself so i'm going to start with a little bit of green on my brush and i'm going to get this upper right hand corner to have some green in it we'll put the pupil part on in a minute but right now we're just going to start with this base coat so i've got my green on there then i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to pick up a little bit of yellow and i'm going to color kind of blend it in and color the rest of the eye with that yellow something like this i'll do the same thing over on the other side something like this and again i'm leaving a little bit of that um black exterior exposed and you'll see why in a minute and then i'm going to pick up just a tiny bit without washing my brush of white paint maybe white with a touch of yellow on it and i'm going to get that bottom left hand corner to be really light so the trick to this is do not use a lot of paint on your brush so the colors will dry on the fly for you if you run into an issue where it just you've used too much paint or it's really wet and the paint just keeps lifting off of the canvas just let it dry for a minute and come back and work it again with a second layer if you need to but because i'm using very little bit of paint i'm i'm able to just kind of keep going back and forth between the two and you can see i was able to get kind of a gradient of the dark color the green up at the top right and the lighter yellow at the bottom left while that's dry i'm going to come and do my nose so my nose i want to be kind of like a pinky brownish kind of color so i'm going to mix a little red and yellow to get like an orangey kind of color and add a touch of brown into it and then maybe a tiny bit of white just so it's not see-through so any kind of skin color and cat noses can come in all different kind of colors too so i'm going to leave a little black exterior around my nose so i'm just coloring maybe a little bit more pinky kind of color here so a little bit of black yeah that's cute a little bit of black around the edges just bring this down into the little center and they have little nostrils kind of like on the side so if you've covered up those sides too much like i have just wipe your brush pick up a little bit of black or brown and just kind of pull a couple of cute little nostrils up in through there and then what i'm going to do and if you color covered this little center part too much you can certainly add some darkness back into there too so just kind of finagle it until it looks enough realistic you can always put a tiny little highlight on the tip of it too but everywhere oh that's cute a little little bit of a highlight on there um so then once you've got your nose nice and oh that's so cute little button nose i'm going to go back to my eyes i just wiped my brush off on my shirt which i should have wiped it on my paper towel i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of black paint because those have dried at this point i'm going to put my pupil in which is um kind of like the shape of a pointy oval i'm putting mine a little bit tipped to the side again so it looks like he's looking up to the right hand side so a little and i'm not bringing it all the way down to the bottom of the eye so something like that for me i love to have a shadow at the top of my eyes so without washing my brush right now i'm just going to wipe it on my paper towel so i have hardly any paint on my brush pick up a tiny bit of brown and i am putting a little shadow up at the top of that eye so this is really just a tiny little step to make sure that it gets nice and dark up at the top of those eyes and if you do it too much just bring back some of your original green if you need to and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a couple of sparkle dots in my eyes so this is below the black and kind of in my pupil i've got one little spark for that there one there one there one there and while i have the white on my brush i'm picking up a tiny bit of yellow and i'm going to increase the brightness over here in this bottom left hand corner of the eye something like that and now i just need to add my little life around the eye so i'm using white and yellow maybe some of that tan color that i used earlier i'm going to put a little bit of a highlight in through here and just bring some of this lighter fur up like that do the same thing on this eye above the eye something like that almost like it's the um the socket where the eye is or something and of course you can certainly add whatever intensity that you want make sure that you've got a couple of feathers there's no feathers on cats fur around the eyes i'm going to put some of these light areas underneath the eyes as well so maybe something like this and something maybe in through here whenever you have these little bright spots around the eyes it always adds so much little life like there's even more twinkles around those eyes definitely adds some in through here it just it adds the that bit of dimension like maybe this is a little little pop of um fur that's just being being highlighted by i don't know what by by the curve the form of the of the face so something like this and you can keep fiddling with these until you feel like you've got enough life in them i have to put my um my whiskers on too so my whiskers i'm gonna do some brown and or black polka dots whatever you'd like little tiny ones in through here on both sides just to indicate that that's where my whiskers are going to be coming out of and for me my whiskers i'm just going to wash and dry my little brush i'm using white paint watered down white paint so i'm going to take my white and just add a little bit of water to it you can have fun with whatever method that you want to do for these my whiskers tend to come out much larger than i always anticipate or want them to so use a small brush try and make sure that it's nice and pointy and if it goes to wide you can always come back with a little bit of water and thin it out while it's still wet or disguise it with a with a light bulb or something but i'm gonna have mine coming in from here and then i'm gonna kind of just do a quick motion something like that i want a couple of them to kind of cross over into into here so you can you can see them and i like to have them coming in different directions so you can really identify that they are in fact whiskers and not fur so something like this something like this that's good and then let's see i think i want a little more highlight enter here so we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful facial features on here you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we are putting the light string on so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using green and black paint at the same time on my brush i'm not going to pre-mix them because i want there to be light spots and dark spots so i'm just making a big long curly string that's going to come in front of my cat it's going to go between legs it's going to go behind the cat you can have so much fun with this you can put it wherever you want you can tangle it as much as you want but i'm just going to have fun with this i think i'm going to have some come like this in front of my ear and you can always strategically place this in you know in spots where you're like oh i don't really like the way that that came out so just put some lights there so green and black every time you want to reload i think this one's going to come out over here and maybe this one's going to come down between the legs i have a lot of paint on my brush so i have a nice thick line in through here i'm going to put that one between the legs and then maybe this one's going to come out over here and maybe this one's going to go behind the cat somewhere in through there so green and black uh maybe i'll have this come out over here maybe it'll go under the tail i don't know how it's going to do that but the the cat is really tangled up in this this here holiday light so maybe this is going to go over like this reloading i just want again i want to make sure that i have a good amount of paint on my brush maybe this is going to come down and come oh maybe it's going to go off my canvas how cool is that going to be okay green and black and then i'm going to have it come back up over here and maybe curl around over here yeah that looks good so once i've got the base on there maybe i'll have another little one coming in front of this leg too yeah i think i want one over here too so i'm gonna have this one come like this oh maybe it'll go behind this leg yep and then i'll have it come out cool over here yeah this is so cute i can't wait to put the lights on so once you've got it like that you've got your string you got to put the little part for all the lights to come out so i'm just going to again use green and black and i'm just going to do a little a little mark that's going to be the place where the light comes out so it's probably like a half of an inch to an inch long something like this i'm going to put them in all different kinds of directions something like that like that i'm not doing anything fancy here just little little bulbs this is where they're gonna come out i remember my the lights when i was a kid they had these are these are totally the lights that were all over my christmas tree those big huge vintage kind of lights um and the string was always green and black and it was like curled like like almost like a little rope kind of curly thing so i'm not gonna do the little rope curly thing but i'm definitely trying to emulate the clothes i think they wanted it to be disguised with the pine with the christmas pine tree so whoever designed these lights totally tried to you know make that be disguised even though the lights themselves are just going to be super duper bright and you know not going to be disguised but you know all different kinds of fun stuff today today's day and age they've got even more interesting lights that you know are so decorative and so fun so maybe you incorporate the lights that you currently use in your house you know you don't have to do the exact same ones that i'm doing but i am definitely putting a whole bunch of spots for these cool lights i think that does it so we are going to be using the same brush for the next step so you can wash it and dry it and get ready all right so what i'm going to do for the next step is i'm doing the base coat for my lights i'm going to use my medium brush and i'm just using white paint so i'm going to again do these kind of reminiscent of the holiday lights on my childhood christmas tree which are just the big glue pointy globey kind of ones but you could certainly make yours whatever way you want so mine are going to look kind of like a teardrop or almost like the top of a candle um that pointy little top to it and you could have big one they could be different sizes i'm having some of mine go right in front of my cat you can you know really have fun with this mine are i'm gonna try and make them similar sizes to one another but i know the way that my brain in my hand works and they're not gonna all be perfect so you can certainly i'm just gonna say that some of them are closer to me than others or at different angles so don't worry if yours don't turn out exactly perfect it's going to work out in the long run no matter what shape that they turn out to be again you could have circle ones you could have little tiny dot ones you could have you know whatever kind of shape that you want is totally fine and i'm just putting a layer of white and the reason why i'm putting this layer of white is because i want my colors to really glow and be bright and i wouldn't be able to accomplish that if i had if i used that color right on top of this dark these dark layers that we have underneath so this white is going to provide me with what i refer to as kind of like a primer coat to the um to the lights themselves so that's going to make them super bright and super you know alive so that's that's what i'm choosing to do and if some of your lights end up going off of your canvas so be it that's going to look really cool it's going to make it look a little bit more natural and i'm making mine really big they are definitely going to be part of the you know focal point of this painting which is so much fun but you can certainly have yours whatever put them in different directions put them crossing over certain things like you know they could cross over the paw if you wanted to or the tail i think i've got some coming on over the tail in a minute um but i'm just trying to get them kind of in the direction whatever direction i had that little stem coming off of the wire the string for the lights so you can see they're all going in different kind of directions because of the way that i put that original string and again had fun with this you know i i just think it's a fun festive painting that you can certainly customize to whatever way you want yeah we just got a couple more here and again i'm just doing i'm just going with some white paint to get this on here it's a little more of a bubble at the bottom and pointier at the top going in all different kinds of directions and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your base coat for all of your beautiful lights you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step okay so what we're going to do for the next step is we're putting the glow on our lights we're going to be using our medium brush and i do want to forewarn you once again make sure that your canvas is dry before you attempt this step so what i'm going to be doing is the colors i'm using are yellow green red and blue i'm using my medium brush i am not using white paint because i want my colors to be translucent and see-through so i'm going to i'll start with yellow you don't need a lot of paint on your brush i just actually i dipped it in my paint and then i just kind of dabbed it on my paper towel to make sure i don't have too much and i'm going to be putting yellow paint on the light part and then rubbing it on the exterior whatever that exterior is so you wanted to kind of just blend in a little bit with what the surrounding air so to speak so i'm going to get a more yellow and i'm going to do all of my yellow ones first and then i'll proceed to the next color and you it can glow as wide as you want maybe you want yours to be super duper bright maybe it goes out like two inches or maybe it goes out an inch or however far you want it to glow make it glow so i'm just kind of taking that paint and rubbing it on the bulb and on the exterior part as well and you could have all yellow lights you could have all red lights you could have purple lights whatever you want is totally fine just make sure that the paint that you're using for especially this step is translucent so you don't want it to have a lot of um thickness to it where you where you wouldn't be able to see through it so if you need to you can certainly test your paint on like the back or on something else to make sure that it is going to be see-through before you start this stuff because the last thing you want to do is paint over all of your hard work let's see do i want any more yellows i think that's all i want for yellow i'm going to um wash my brush real quick i'm going to pick up let's see i think i'm going to go blue next so just a little bit of blue i've got this one i think is going to be blue i just wipe my brush off on my paper towel and again you can have that glow as big as you want it i'm just kind of softening those edges as they go towards the exterior my brush is dripping down my hand and kind of freaking me out a little bit so i had to dry my hand for a second there it was like dripping and it didn't feel good at all so anyways um so i'm taking that blue and even if it starts to encroach in what's going to be the glow of another one that's okay your glows can overlap one another that would totally happen in the natural holiday light display kind of atmosphere so again i'm just taking that paint and rubbing it out i think i want another blue one here and you'll get your rhythm you know know knowing how much paint you want to have on your brush to get that to get that glow it can glow on everything that's around it can glow on the string it can glow on the cat it can glow on the floor or on the wall so let it glow wherever it wants to glow and if it's a big glow great if it's a little glow that's awesome too so i'm gonna wash my brush now i think i'm gonna tackle my red ones next so again just a tiny bit of red paint especially on your first one so you know you can kind of get a feel for for how the glow is going to work with that particular color and then i'm just rubbing it out rubbing it out into the exterior areas i think i want this one to be red and again you might want yours more vibrant than mine or more subtle than mine this could glow on his ear a little bit if i wanted to let's see what else oh another red one in through here and you can see i'm not doing mine in a systematic pattern i just am putting them where i feel that that color would work but you might want yours to be you know in a very systematic order and have maybe every fourth one be read and every fourth one be blue or you know whatever whatever works for your brain is totally fine and let's see maybe a red one over here and then i have green as my next color so let's see i want a red one here and you can see you know as as we're putting on these colors it is coming to life it is looking more holiday every every second that we put more life into these colors and ah one more over here i think i want one right here and again you don't need a lot of paint for this step just kind of put it in the center of that um that light and then just kind of rub it out my next color i'm going to do green but i don't think i want it to be dark green so i think i'm going to take a little bit of my yellow and mix it with a little bit of my green so it's not dark it won't be that dark anyways but i think i just want a little yellow in it you can have your green whatever color you want i'm just going to put a little yellow in mine so it turns maybe a more luminescent color to me so i've got yellow and green on my brush and of course i want it to be different than my yellow so i definitely it's definitely green it's just a little bit more of a vibrant green that i had on my palette and i'm just making sure that i overlapped this this uh glow onto that blue one as much as i wanted and i'm right now i'm just looking for whatever white ones i have left because green is my last color so i don't have to really think about this one too hard just doing whatever whatever ones are remaining and again i'm just adding it to that center and then just kind of rubbing it out and again you'll get your your groove maybe you do a little spirally move like i'm doing right now which i don't know why i didn't do that to begin with because it seems like it's a pretty easy way to get this glow on here and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your glow on your lights you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so right now we are going to be putting the shine on our lights so i'm going to do that is i'm using my medium brush i'm going to be using the same four colors that i used on the first round of the lights plus white so how i'm going to do this i'm going to do it in the same color order so that way it ensures that that first layer has already dried for me i'm going to do each yellow light with another coat of yellow just the light part not the glow and then i'm going to come back through and i'm going to swipe a little highlight of white onto it so i'll show you how i'm going to do it and this time you can use a lot of paint too whereas the first time i told you you didn't need to use a lot of paint this time you can certainly use a lot of paint so i'm just going through and i'm adding a second coat of yellow paint just on the actual bulb part not on the glow part i suppose you could do the glow part too if you wanted it to be even glowier but this way this is going to make the bulb itself pop out a little bit more and then once you have that second coat of the of the color on there i'm not even gonna wash my brush i'm just gonna pick up did i get them all oh that was a green one okay i'm gonna pick up white paint with my dirty yellow on there and i'm gonna do a quick swipe on each one in a little curved kind of motion so i see that the curve is here so i'm going to take this and i'm just going to do a quick swipe so something like that and you can put the swipes in whatever direction you want and if you feel that the white is not popping enough just wash and dry your brush because sometimes if you if you go a little bit slower what will happen or if you don't have enough white on your brush you'll just see the yellow so if that happens just wash your brush pick up more white and go for it so my yellow ones are done i'm gonna go do my red ones now so i just picked up some red paint and i'm gonna do my second layer on the bulb part and then once i've got that on there then i will go back through do myself that little swipe of white and i'm doing this second layer on them because i know that the paint can be see-through but i also want it to be really vibrant so because we had that white base underneath there the second coat is going to bring the the color of the paint into a more true state because right now my red if i was to leave it like this it looks a little pink because of the white that's underneath it so now that i'm doing this second layer on it it's really bringing it into a beautiful red vibrant tone for me and now that i've got that coat on there i'm going to just pick up some white paint without washing my brush and i'm going to go ahead and do myself a little swipe swipe and if i get to a point where it's not as white as i want it you can either wash and dry or just pick up another little spot of white on your brush awesome now i'm going to wash and dry my brush i'm going to go in for the blue so wash and dry my brush pick up some blue paint do my second layer of blue and it also give it this um second layer on there also gives it more of a solid color so you won't see the brush strokes as much and you can i suppose you could even do a third coat if if yours isn't covering as much as you want it to you could certainly go ahead and do a third coat but i think for me the second coat is really doing the trick and it's getting these colors to look really as vibrant as i want them to be and as glowy as i want them to be i'm really excited about this they're so they're so pretty um and then once i've got that second coat on there i'm going to pick up some white paint and i'm going to do my little my little swipe oops i have a little a little glob at the end there just watch the the ends make sure that they are what you want them to be before you touch them to your canvas there you go and then i have my green so washing and drying my brush picking up some of my green color and i'm going to do my second layer on my green bulbs and then once i've got this on here you can see it's kind of like rinse and repeat when you're washing your hair you do everything twice just like that's why i feel like on every one of these bulbs i'm just doing the same process and it works you know once you've once you've developed your the process for a particular thing it worked you know if you find that it works you just keep keep applying that same technique and then you have a sense of unity to the painting and it really begins to um look nice and complete and like you knew what you were doing and that you embraced the process and did everything that you wanted to do all right so now i'm picking up some white i'm going to do my little curved swipe on these so something like that like that and one more down here i think i need a little more white on my brush like that all right we have one tiny step to go and it's going to be with a small brush so when you get your shine on your lights you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step all right we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to use black paint i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner you could sign yours wherever you want to i think i'm going to sign this one in the bottom left corner i'm going to do my initials you could certainly do your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like to use for 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 the cutest little wild cat in all the west and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 76min 11sec (4571 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2020