Learn How to Paint SCARECROW GNOME with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home- Autumn Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting scarecrow gnome and i'm going to be sipping on my coffee and if you enjoy this process i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you'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 titanium white cobalt blue burnt umber which i will call brown fire red mars black chrome orange green oxide and deep yellow 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've got a standard white piece of chalk that we'll be using for drawing and then 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 four round synthetic brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and of course you can switch those brushes 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 all the lots of numbers of colors that we're using today for paint and all the good stuff in between so that's down 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 what we're going to do for the first step is we're going to paint our sky i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm going to be using are brown blue and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be painting with a left to right brush stroke i'm going to have it darker at the top and lighter down at the bottom and i'm going to be coming down about three quarters of the way down my canvas so what i'm going to first do is i'm going to mark myself a stopping point because i know me i will just keep painting the whole thing if i don't have a stopping point so i'm going to put brown blue and white on my brush at the same time i have about equal parts of all three colors and i'm going to visually pick my halfway point and then i'm going to visually pick a halfway between there and the bottom of my canvas make myself a little bit of a mark i can use my brush as a measuring tool to come over to the other side and make myself a mark at about the same height and that's going to visually stop me as i come down my sky then with that three color combination i'm going to start at the top of my sky using a left to right brush stroke reloading with blue brown and white to start the top of my sky and as i come down the sky you can certainly adjust it to be more blue or more brown or wherever your comfort zone is as far as the color tone goes you can certainly adjust that i like all of my paintings to have a nice warm feel to them which is why i introduced the uh the brown in there and when you come down maybe about a few inches then what you'll want to do is just start picking up white on your dirty brush and what will happen is without reloading the other colors your sky will get naturally lighter and lighter as you come down that canvas if you feel that you want it to be darker than this you could certainly pick up some of those other colors and just continue to reintroduce them to the sky but i'm going for a nice gradient coming down my sky so i have a some good atmospheric dimension behind my cute little scarecrow gnome so i'm going for a nice light background implying that it's a beautiful sunny day outside beautiful fall sunny day and so i just keep continuing to add white to my brush and my sky is getting lighter and lighter as it's coming down my canvas so again if you wanted yours to be darker you could certainly introduce more blue or brown as you're coming down it will get a little bit darker as you come or as it dries so just know as you're going through this process that whatever color it is when it's wet it will get a little bit darker as it dries so if you want it to be nice and light just you know kind of plan for that as you go along and then i just kind of go back and forth until i've got this all nice and blended as much as i wanted to and then when you get done doing your sky we are going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so you can just wash it and dry it and get ready all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be painting our ground i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are brown and green and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be applying the paint with a stippling type of technique i'm going to be alternating my green and brown so i have these different tones within it and then as i come up towards my horizon line i'm going to pull up a couple of long pieces of grassy stuff on the bottom so i'm going to pick up both green and brown on my brush at the same time and i'm just going to start making these dots next time i go to pick up paint i'll just pick up brown and i'm just going to start making a whole bunch of dots along the bottom portion of my canvas then i go and i pick up green and i just continue to repeat this process until i have this bottom area completely covered in the goal for me is just to get a nice textured look throughout this ground with varying natural tones within it so what i'm trying to avoid doing is over blending so you'll see that i put paint on and then i just kind of travel around in a sporadic type of stippling or dotting type of technique as opposed to sitting in one spot and just dotting that area a thousand times until i get 100 coverage the reason why i do it this way again is so i avoid over blending and so i can maintain this great textural look throughout the throughout the grass and i'm coming up to my horizon line in a second here and once i get to that i will be playing with my paint and pulling it up into the sky a little bit but i just want to kind of cover the rest of this area bringing it all the way up to where my sky ended and at times i'm just kind of running out of paint letting myself just kind of get some light spots and some dark spots throughout the throughout the ground area and you can really just use the remnants of your brush whatever is on there to get some really kind of light dusty type of areas and now that i've reached my horizon line you can see i've left it nice and uneven so i don't have that a straight line going across now that i've done this what i'm going to do is with my dirty brush i'm going to pull up these long like out of focus type of wispy grassy type of pieces and you can even bring it into your ground a little bit down into here if you have a wet sky as i do utilize it just pull it right through i was kind of too dry on my brush so i just reloaded with a little bit more brown and green just so i can get some of these pieces coming up in through here and you can have them long on one side of the side i think i'm going to bring a whole bunch up in through here and i'm just picturing this in my head to just be out of focus autumn field kind of place where this cute little scarecrow would be sitting so i've got those pieces in through there and then i'm just going to kind of dot some some extra textural type of look to some of these areas you can really get this to be as detailed as you want or just nice and simple and out of focus just giving us a little bit of these colors pulling them up the sides and letting it kind of frame the painting with some nice complementary colors and then once you've got this all done we're going to be using our chalk for the next step so you can put your large brush away take out your piece of chalk 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 drawing an outline of our gnome we're going to be using our chalk and i do want to kind of forewarn you that before you start this step that you want to make sure that your canvas is dry because it's much easier to dry to draw on dry paint than it is to draw on wet paint so if you have to you can take that extra long break if you'd like to or you can find some kind of fun fanning method to get it dryer you can do as i did and just whip out your blow dryer and get it dry that way so what i'm going to do is i'm going to give you a series of marks we'll connect those marks and by the time we're done we'll have this super adorable outline that we get to color in so the very first thing that i'm going to do is draw the outline of my pumpkin so i know for me my pumpkin is going to be in this area in through here and i know that i've instructed you to use white chalk because it's easy to erase and stuff but i know that on top of this light paint it's going to be difficult for you to see so for this part i'm going to use my pencil so you can still use your chalkboard i want to make sure you're going to be able to see this so i'm going to use my pencil as well so what you're going to do is you're going to kind of go left to right in your canvas find about the center point of your canvas from the top to the bottom you'll also find your center point and then you're going to come up about an inch from that so if this is about the very center of your canvas you're going to be up from that about an inch that'll be your first marker then what you'll do is you're going to make another marker down around your horizon line it may end up a little bit in your sky or out of your sky i'm almost about halfway between that marker and the bottom of my canvas so for me i've got mine a little bit in my grass and then what i'm going to do is about halfway between these two i'm going to just kind of come out and i'm going to stop about three and a half inches from the exterior sides of my canvas so what i'm doing is giving you barriers for your pumpkin once you've got those four barriers now you can just kind of make yourself a fun fun shaped pumpkin so i'm going to just kind of give mine a couple of ripples along the top just to give it some nice pumpkin esque type of shape i'm gonna not go any farther on the right than this marker and when i come down to the bottom i'm gonna give it some bumps along the bottom so i can have that a nice um kind of a stereotypical type of bottom to my pumpkin which to me has these these kind of um bumps along the bottom of it so i'm going to just kind of incorporate some of those in my outline so that's going to be the outline of my pumpkin the next thing that i'm going to do is from the center of my my pumpkin here i'm gonna go up i would say about an inch and a half to two inches this is going to be for my nose and i'm going to have my nose about a third of the width of my pumpkin so if you were to kind of cut this pumpkin in threes that's about the width that i'm going to have my nose and i'm just making myself a cute little oval along the outside edge of my pumpkin that's going to represent my nose then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a couple of little hands on my on the sides so these are just going to be these oval type of shapes along the edges of my pumpkin somewhere in this vicinity you can even bring it into the pumpkin a little bit and then just if you have um your chalk would be much easier but i like to erase that little line in the middle it doesn't have to be fully erased but if you can get it erased a little bit that'd be great they don't even have to be the same height so feel free to have fun with making these however you want to just giving myself a couple of of i'm not really quite sure exactly what gnome hands look like but we're going to make them look a little bit like mittens for me and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come down to the bottom i'm going to make myself a couple of legs coming out so for me i'm just going to have him sitting on the ground so i'm going to have these diagonal type of um lines coming in through here and maybe like this and then i'm going to have these cute little shoes coming down the bottom something like this the shoes are going to look kind of boxy and you know not totally shaped all the way right now but once we put the um the other information on them with the highlights and shadows and all that good stuff they will look much better so i'm just kind of giving them these little boxy type of shapes they don't even have to be exactly the same size because we may be seeing them from a different angle so if your shoes are not the same size exact size from one another that's okay too then what i'm going to do is i've got to put my my hat on so i'm going to be putting my hat it's going to be pretty darn wide it's going to be a little bit wider than my pumpkin on either side and it's going to be really tall so i'm going gonna from the center of my nose i'm gonna come up about two and a half inches maybe two two and a half inches to there this is gonna represent like the rim of my hat and then i'm gonna bring it over on the right hand side i'm gonna have this coming over pretty darn far maybe almost as far as my mittens so if it comes straight up from my mitten maybe maybe a little bit to the left of that something like that and then over on this side i'm going to have it pretty darn far i'm going to have it past my mitten so you can have yours as far out if as you want but what i'm going to do is i'm going to create this really cute floppiness to my hat something like this and then i'm going to do the same thing over on this side and of course they don't have to flop in the same exact way and then i'll have this kind of going out like this and you can shape yours whatever way you want to i'm just having a whole lot of fun giving myself this really big rim to my hat once i have that there i can just bring down a couple of lines for where the outside of my head or my my cute gnome beard is going to be so i'm going to just bring this in through here and then on the left side i think i'm going to have this one coming out into the mitten area and then this is going to come down got to use my pencil here going to come down and connect into the leg and then maybe over here we got a little piece connecting into the leg and now i've got to bring my oops here goes my pencil i've got to bring my beard in through this area so i wanted to jump over my leg or lay over my leg like this and then i'm just going to kind of wiggle it down into as if it's laying on the ground so over on this side i'm going to do the same thing i'm going to bring it in a curved mark over my leg and then it's just going to kind of wiggle down into this direction in through here and you don't even have to close off this end because that's going to be all painted and then i would erase my leg line that is within my beard so i don't get confused later so i'm going to just erase this leg line that's within the beard and then i just need to put the rest of my hat on so for my hat i'm going to have it really big i need the the base of it here to be kind of as wide as my beard is or as my head is so i'm going to come right up from there and give myself a couple little markers just so i make sure that my my hat fits on my head and it's not too small and then i'm just going to kind of bring this up in a really fun kind of way going up towards the top of my canvas this one maybe i've got maybe a piece of the hat is off of the viewing range and then i'm just going to kind of bring this down in through this vicinity and that's all i'm going to do for my outline you can certainly tweak yours as much as you want we're going to be using our medium brush for the next step so you can just put your writing utensil down get 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 doing the base coat for our plaid areas and our boots so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using yellow and black paint so i'm going to be using yellow for the base coat for all the areas that i am going to be doing plaid or patchwork kind of stuff so that's going to be his hands his pants and however many little patches that you want on that head so my yellow is oh and i'm using my medium brush i think i said that but just in case i didn't my yellow is very translucent or see-through and i'm okay with that at this stage because i know that we're going to be doing a lot of additional work on these particular areas i'm just utilizing this as my base coat so we can kind of maintain some really vibrant areas throughout these sections and it will provide us with a great color to to work from when we're adding the other details onto it so i'm just kind of going right where i see i have outlined for my pants and of course you can see that they are going to be a little bit darker because they have the green or the grass underneath them which is awesome because they'll look like they're a little bit more in the shadows as opposed to the mittens that are going to be wide out wide in the wide open air and then i'm going to go ahead and make myself a couple of pieces of patches you can certainly do these in whatever areas that you want on your hat i'm gonna just kind of give myself this little like diamond type of shape and just color it in you can have heart shapes you can have circles you can have squares whatever type of patchwork you want is totally fine i'm going to do a big one up in this area and then just color it in with yellow paint and then once i've got all of my areas that i'm gonna have plaid um cloth on i'm gonna wash and dry this brush and i'm gonna do my base coat from my boots and that's gonna be with just black paint so i washed and dried my brush and then i just put some black paint on my brush and i'm going to paint just a base coat on here you might um end up reshaping your boots like i just did they might get bigger along the way no big deal will totally work with that and they will look much better once we put the detail of little highlights and stuff on them later but right now they're probably just going to look like a couple of you know kind of block shoes which is totally fine and then i'll go ahead and do the other one and then we are going to be switching to our big brush for the next step so once you've got your base coat for wherever you want your um plaid cloth to go and your boots you can put this medium brush wherever you'd like to take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be doing the base coat for our hat and our pumpkin i'm using my large bristle brush i'm going to be using brown for my hat and orange for my pumpkin so i'm going to just start with my pumpkin first with some orange paint on my brush so i'm going to be using a pretty heavy coat of orange paint um i know that again my my paint is pretty see-through and i am totally okay with that because we're going to be doing another you know important layer to this whole pumpkin but for this first step i i am putting it on pretty heavy but because it is on the translucent side i'm going to get some natural almost stripes within my within my pumpkin which is gonna allude to the to the shape and the style of this um this type of squash anyways so i'm going to just kind of roll with that and put my brush in that direction so i'm going to do these what i refer to as directional brush strokes so it's going to start my process of painting in this this pumpkin and so later when i go to do the the details i'll already have this striped type of look started for me and then i'm going to just wash and dry my brush and i'm going to load it with brown paint so my hat is going to be done with brown paint and i'm not really terribly concerned with the brush stroke on this but if you want to keep it kind of simple in your head if you do left to right on this rim part and then maybe up and down on the top part that will keep your sections visually separated for your own um benefit when you go to paint it so just one of those little tips that kind of helps me along the way if i'm doing two sections that are next to each other that have the same color for that base coat this changing of directions in my brush stroke helps to keep them separated for me so i'm going to have this little piece of patchwork almost look like it's kind of rolled over in the rim of the hat so that's why i'm skipping that portion right now i'll get to it when i do the top portion of the hat and then i'm just going right up to the edge of my little patch in through here and then on the the top part of my hat of course i'm going to be using that brown and i think i'm just going to use more of an up and down type of brush stroke and i'm going right up to my pieces of patchwork you could certainly go around them you could leave a little space around them whatever is going to work easily for you i you know just know again that we're going to be doing another layer on it anyways so that's just whatever it makes your painting process the easiest that's really just what you want to roll with so i'm going to come right up to the edge of my room just visually you can either leave yourself a little space or just keep those directional brush strokes opposite from one another and that will tell you which which section is which and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got these areas painted in with their base coat 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 painting the base coat for our nose and our hair i'm using my medium brush the colors i'm using are red yellow brown white and black and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to actually pre-mix myself a skin color for my nose and a gray color for the hair and then i'll just paint them in so i'm going to show you how i get to those colors i have magically pre-done them so you can see where i'm going so this is going to be about my skin color that i'm making when you're doing skin colors just know that they will dry a little bit darker when um than they are than when they're wet so just kind of plan for that i do want this to be on the darker side when it dries so i can add a highlight to it later so how i got to here was i did a little bit of red not a lot the red can really easily take over a little more yellow than red and a little bit of brown about as much brown as the yellow and then a touch of white and then i just started spinning it together and you can adjust it however you want so if you want it more pink add more red if you want it more yellow add more yellow if you want it more tan or brown you can add more more of the brown so you can really get it into whatever color vicinity that you want and once you've got the tone that that is appealing to you you're just going to paint in that cute little nose so i'm gonna just go right up to the hat and if you bump into it that's okay go right up to the hat i'm gonna go right to my chalk outline on both sides and then i'm gonna bring it right to my pumpkin and i'm not doing any special brush stroke because i know again that i'm going to be utilizing highlights and shadows on another step so i'm really just looking to get my base coat on right now and then once i've got that done i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to create my gray color for the beard and of course you can have your beard any color that you want i'm just going for a nice gray beard with my wise little gnome here scarecrow gnome so i've got my gray color somewhere in this vicinity so i've taken about equal parts of black and brown and then i've mixed in a little bit of white to it and i'm going for like maybe a little more white than that i'm going for like a medium type of gray because again i know that i'm going to be adding white or highlights to it later so i'm not going for anything too too dark but i do want it to you know look gray as opposed to brown so that's why i'm definitely adding the black and white to it so once you've got the the color that you are looking for we're just going to paint in our hair area or our beard area so this is going to be this section right between the nose and the hat and the pumpkin i'm not going to do any special brush strokes here just kind of coloring in this section but once i have the section colored in i will pull out a couple of individual strands coming out the side i'll show you how to do that in a second here so once you've got it that section painted in you can just take the tip of your brush and bring out a couple of stray hairs along the side that's going to make it look nice and natural as far as gnomes go and then i'm gonna well we'll go ahead and do this little section over here as well just we can go from maybe top to bottom and again if you bump into any of your neighboring areas don't worry about it at this point because you'll be able to correct or modify those when we go to do the final details on them i'm bringing it right to my pumpkin in through this area don't worry about any special brush stroke as you're coloring it in and then you can go ahead and pull out a couple of stray hairs along the side let them be as flowy as you want and then i'm going to go ahead and paint this little section in down in through here and when you get to this section of the the bottom area of the beard you're going to want the beard on the ground to look like it's flowing or has movement to it so i'm going to just kind of paint in the area right at the pumpkin first and once i've got this area painted in i will then start to move my brush in a way that implies movement throughout that beard especially along the edges again we're going to be adding highlights and shadows and other information that will provide that story to the viewer but right now when we're putting this base coat on i've got to start that process so i'm going around the leg like this which will imply that that leg is round or has some shape to it and then as i'm coming down in through here i'm going to continue with my wiggles but then when i get to the edge of this beard i'm not going to color the whole thing in i'm just going to almost do these little kind of strands of hair wiggly strands of hair at the end so that way that's going to start the um the frayed kind of look of the natural hair at the end of the beard and we will of course add more information to the to the details on the beard in a little bit i'm going to pull a couple of these little hairs along the side of my leg so of course that's going to add to the illusion as well and same thing over on this side so just adding these little hairs that are going to go along the edge and just kind of you know splay out all on their own and then we are going to be utilizing our small paintbrush for the next step so once you've got this done you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish our boots and the shadow underneath our boots and underneath our legs and beard so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using black well i'm going to use my gray white black and brown so how i'm going to do this is i am going to put my shadow underneath my legs and underneath my feet i don't end my beard i don't need this to go totally black i really just want to imply that the that this has some light around it and that these are three dimensional objects so i'm gonna put a little bit of brown and black on my brush at the same time and i'm gonna assume that my light is up above somewhere so i'm gonna have my shadow right underneath these objects so i've got a little bit of black and brown on my brush at the same time you might find that you want yours a little bit darker or especially up like in the little crevices so you can use a little bit more black on your brush as you're close to the objects and the farther away that you get you can use more brown that's going to let it kind of dissipate as it goes away from that object and i'm going to just kind of skirt in a little bit of black and brown underneath these edges of my of my beard and when we go to do the the final details on the beard you can certainly add more at that point as well but this is just kind of getting the information down that it is kind of three-dimensional and it's got some some shadow underneath it i definitely want to put some underneath this leg in through here so again i have the black and the brown on my brush and i want this shadow to look kind of translucent or i want you to understand that the grass is underneath it so i'm not turning it totally black and if you can't see the color underneath you can always add a touch of water or liquid medium to your brush which will allow that paint to be more translucent or see-through and that's going to show the colors that are underneath it and then i want to put a little bit of a shadow underneath the feet so they look like they're off of the ground a little bit so i'm going to just kind of put a little bit of this darkness underneath here and then just kind of rub it out a little bit so we have the information that this ground is darker in this area from that shoe itself and i'm going to go ahead and put a little shadow underneath this foot as well so i've got maybe i need a little more shadow coming in through here like this and again shadows don't have to be they don't have to be black you just really want them to um be representational of whatever that light source is doing so i definitely want there to appear that there is um some sort of light that's being cast upon our little guy here so this is going to help me to sell that story by putting this type of shadow along these objects and then maybe i'll put a little bit underneath the beard in through here just to make sure that we've got a little bit underneath there and then over here as well and then i'm going to go ahead and put a little or finish the shoes themself we'll put when we go to finish the beard we'll we'll put the details up higher um for shadows and stuff like that but i'm gonna put some gray paint on my brush right now to give myself the um the difference between the bottom of the shoe and the side of the shoe or boot or whatever you'd like to call this so i'm just going to kind of give myself a little um marking in through here and maybe come along here and maybe a little bit down at the bottom if you want to you can take and just kind of whisp a little bit of that down at the bottom of the shoe and then my brightest area is going to be right about in through here and then i'm just going to pull this gray color down a little bit that way and a little bit this way and i'm going to then put a tiny bit of white paint on my brush to give myself an extra little bit of a highlight where i feel that the shoe would be popping out the most which is in this little toe region in through here and then i'll do it the same thing for the other side so i'm going to put a little bit of that gray on my brush i'm going to decide where i want this side to go versus the bottom of my shoe and i'm going to kind of mimic the shape after the other one so it looks like he's wearing the same kind of shoes they don't necessarily have to be exactly the same shape just because of the angle but if you want them to look like they're kind of representational of the same style issue you'll want to give them similar shapes and then i'm going to just i put my light mark in through here and pulled it out a little bit that way then i pull it out a little bit in through this way if you felt you'd see a little bit of extra highlight in through here you can do that and then i'll put a tiny bit of white paint on my brush giving myself this little highlight where i feel the light would be hitting the most so just putting it a little dab there and then just pulling it out so that will give me my brightest area and then we are going to be using our large brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can put your small brush away take out your large 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 finishing the brown part of my hat i'm going to be using my large brush the colors that i'm using are black brown and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to in essence kind of add shadows let the shadows blend into my main base coat and then highlights and i'm going to be kind of dictating where the hat cloth kind of dips in and pops out with these highlights and shadows so i feel that it would be dipping in or have a shadow at the bottom part of this section as it goes behind this rim part and then maybe i'd have some shadows underneath here as it curls under i probably have a highlight in through here as it bumps out from the nose and maybe some highlight at the top edges of the rim and then maybe some highlights at the top edges of these two pieces in here so if your hat isn't dry at this point it would probably be wise to either dry or wait for it to dry it'll just be a little bit easier of a process if it's if it's dry for this process because what i'm going to be doing is in essence kind of using a dry brush technique where i won't have a lot of paint on my brush and i'm going to be in essence kind of dry blending this the whole way so i'm going to put a little bit of black and brown on my brush at the same time and i don't need a lot so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with this area in through here i'm going to get this nice and dark as it's going to meet the um the rim of the hat and then i'm going to get it to blend up into the rest of that brown area of the hat so once i've got this on here i'm blending it out until i'm almost dry on my brush now i'm going to pick up some of my brown without washing my brush and this is going to give me a full-fledged blend as i go up that hat you don't have to use a ton of paint you don't have to make it super dark that's why i let my brush kind of run out of the black paint and then i went into the brown so that way the black wouldn't overpower the whole thing and then i'm just kind of getting the the rest of the hat to have a nice full coverage in through here i will add a highlight in a minute but right now i'm just kind of using very little bit of paint to get a nice coverage on the rest of the hat looks like i need to bring that out a little bit further to cover that check mark and then i'll go ahead and do the rim in through here i'm going to start with a tiny bit of black i did not wash my brush so i just picked up a tiny bit of black i'm going to put that down along this edge in through here i'm going to go ahead and put a little bit down over in this edge in through here and just and again i have hardly any paint on my brush i'm getting it to kind of blend up so i don't have a firm line of black paint and then once it's started to blend a little bit then what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna without washing my brush i'm picking up brown paint and i'm gonna get this to blend out into the rest of that section of the hat so this way again without adding a ton of paint this is going to dry nice and fast for me so i'll be able to go ahead in a second and add my highlight but right now i'm putting that full-fledged coat and if you bump into your nose like i just did don't worry about it the full-fledged coat on here so i have a good um base to work with when i do that highlight so right now and so it looks like it's really nice and blended so right now just getting that on there and now what i can do if i have a lot of paint on my brush i would wipe it on my paper towel but you don't necessarily need to wash it and then i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of white paint and really you don't need a lot now i'm going to start adding my highlights so my highlights are going to be where i feel that that hat is going to bump out the most and and or be hit with the light of the whatever that light source is so i'm going to put some up in through here and i'm going to make sure that it just kind of blends into my darker areas going to put a tiny bit of white on my brush to get this little bump in through here and if the white is too bright for you you can start adding a little bit of brown but i know that my brown is probably still a little wet so i'm just kind of working it into that brown area as well i think i'm going to pick up a little bit of brown right now just to get these to blend in as much as i want them to and then i just kind of dry brush it in like this growing in some circles so i can get this to just blend out and look like these have just slowly kind of merged into each other and they look like they've got you know a nice fluffy part of that hat and it's bumping out for us and it's got some good volume on the top and then i'll do the same thing with this portion of the rim and with the portion above the nose so again very little bit of white paint on my brush i think i want a little bit of a highlight over in through here so i'm going to add a little bit of white and then blend it out into that brown and again if the white is too white just pick up a tiny bit of brown paint on your brush and that's going to give you a nice soft highlight that's not too too invasive and i can just put a little bit in through here then i'm going to go ahead and do the same thing and again i'm using such a little bit of paint i always have my paper towel in my hand and i'm ready to kind of wipe it off if i feel like i have too much paint on my brush and then just getting this highlight in through here and then getting it to blend out wherever i want it to maybe put a little bit more brown paint on my brush right now just to make sure that these two areas talk nicely together and again that using the brown with the white is going to give you a nice soft highlight that looks nice and natural and then i'm going to put a little bit of a highlight where the where i feel the hat would bump out by that nose so just again teeny tiny bit of white paint i'm going to get this to go right on top of this nose and get it to blend out so it looks like the part right above the nose is the part that is poofing out the most and again just pick up a little bit of brown paint to get it to blend out into those darker sections and then we will be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful hat with a lot of dimension you can wash or actually put your large brush away wherever you'd like to 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 nose and i know i said that i was going to be using my medium brush but i changed my mind i want to use my small brush so you can whip out your small brush for this step so what i'm really looking to do is add a nice bright highlight in through here and get some shadow along the edges so it looks like it's got some dimension to it so i'll definitely be using my skin color brown and white but i may also break out my red to make a pinky a pinker tone too so if i do that i'll let you know but what i'm going to first do is i'm going to start with some brown paint on my small brush and give myself a little bit of a shadow so i'm going to go along the side edges and underneath this little hat give myself a little bit of a shadow so i put the brown on the edge and then i'm just rubbing it until it fades into that skin color so you may find that this takes you you know a couple of tries to to master how your brush is going to allow you to do that but sometimes just using very little pressure on that exterior and then pushing it your brush a little bit firmer as it's coming into the other color helps that process i'm going to go ahead and do the same thing over on this side putting my brown all the way to the edge and then just rubbing it until it fades into the rest of the area of of the nose making sure i've got it down in through here i'm going to go ahead and pick up a touch of brown with my original skin color just so i can make sure that i've got a nice nice blend into it i just picked up a little bit more brown to get that tiny tiny shadow in through there picking up some of my original skin color just to make sure again that i've got it nice and blended in in those two with those two areas that shadow leading into the regular color skin now what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of white paint to start my highlight i don't want my highlight at the top of the nose or too far down so i'm going to go if this is the center of my nose i'm going to go about halfway between that and the top so right about here is where i'm going to put the brightest part of my nose i put white paint on there and then i'm just going to fade that out i will pick up my skin color in a second to make sure that i've faded that as much as i want to so without washing my brush i just picked up some of that original skin color and if you wanted to if you and i think i'm going to do this right now i think i want it to be a little on the pinker side to show like a little bit of rosiness so what you can do is you can take your red and add a touch of white to it this is going to give you that really pink pink look to it and you can use a little bit of this within the transition to that to that bright highlight so i just put a little bit of pink on my brush and this is going to enhance the pink rosiness to that nose so some people like that look you might like yours to be really nice and tan looking but i i tend to steer when i'm going for these fun characters on excuse me a nice rosiness in the color i just added a touch more white to my brush to just make sure that i've got my highlight as vibrant as i want and i just kind of keep blending it out until i feel like i've got that fullness that i want to to the nose and then once you've got this done we are going to be utilizing our medium brush for the next step and i'm pretty sure of it this time so you can keep tweaking your nose as much as you want to and then you can put your small 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 going to finish our pumpkin i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are black brown orange yellow white and green so the only colors i'm not using i think are blue and red so i'm going to do this is i'm going to be adding some shadows underneath i'm going to be adding the area where my stem is i'll put my stem on last we'll put some shadows base coat highlights stem and we'll be done so what i'm going to first do is i'm going to put some brown and orange and a touch of black on my brush at the same time this is going to be the start of the bottom section and the shadows to my um pumpkin so i'm starting down at the bottom i'm gonna put little dark areas where i feel like i would have shadows like i feel like i have one underneath his hand i feel like i'd have some underneath in through here on the pumpkin like this whole bottom area i'd have some underneath this guy and through here i'm using light sketcherly paint strokes i'm not doing firm lines because i want them to blend in with the rest i'm actually going to wipe my brush off of my paper towel right now and pick up just brown and orange so i can work the center area where i want the stem to be coming out and i don't want this to be too harsh so i have orange and brown on my brush right now i will get it a little bit darker in a minute but right now just kind of wanting to plan it out and make sure that i have it where i want it to be once i've got that started i can start connecting this center in curved lines to these points that are coming up so for me the pumpkin is definitely kind of a round type of object and it's got a lot of movement in it so i want to make sure when i'm doing these lines that they have curves to them and i'm not using a lot of paint on my brush if i run into some of that wet black i'm allowing it to just work itself into these stripes of sorts and just allowing to have some of these some of this information just kind of making its way into the pumpkin i'm going to put a tiny bit of black and brown paint on my brush to make sure that i get this center area as dark as i want it so when i put that stem on it's got some good some good darkness to it and then just making sure that i've got these areas down below as dark as i want them once i feel like i've got them as dark as i want them i'm just going to start picking up some orange paint to get the the bottoms to be colored in enough for my liking and making sure that i have a good a good coat on there and that everything kind of talks well together and then in a second i'm going to start adding my highlights up on the top so this this is looking pretty good at the bottom it's pretty solid in color but once i start adding my highlights onto it i will get that highlight to give this backside a little bit more diversity so that's looking pretty good to me i'm going to just wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to pick up some yellow and orange to start my lighter area up at the top so this is where i'm going to just kind of bring these lighter tones or these more vibrant kind of tones into this side area so this is orange and yellow on my brush right now and this is helping me to work in the um the yellow tones to to the pumpkin so it makes it look a little bit more natural i'm going to bring this all the way up to my cute little guy's face and even in through here making sure that i've covered that nice and well and pumpkins can have multiple color variations throughout them so if you're going about this and you're like oh my god i really like that yellow by all means bring it down further let it be introduced with this bottom color have it as stripey or as polka dotty looking as you want that's totally your visual preference and call as much as you want it to be and then without washing my brush i'm picking up some white paint so this is going to start my highlight which is going to be along this top edge that i feel is popping out the most so i have white paint on my dirty brush i'm going to start working in some pretty vibrant highlights along this edge where i feel again that the pumpkin is going to pop out the most and have the most roundness to it and then i just start working this highlight into the rest of the pumpkin i don't need a ton of paint i'm really not looking to have the entire pumpkin this light i'm really just looking to have this upper region where it pokes out the most have the most lightness on it and then i just kind of pull it down and start working it into the that bottom area so the concentrated highlight is in fact in this vicinity right and through here and i'm of course just using a nice painterly type of brushstroke and style you could certainly have yours with much more detail to it if you wanted to you could have it be much smoother looking but i really like the the natural side of mother nature that has all these different color variations in it and different you know shapes to it so i like to leave mine on the looser side when doing something like this and then i'm going to wash and dry my brush to put that stem on there so washing and drying my brush and i'm going to put my stem on with a little bit of black paint not a lot just a tiny bit of black paint i'm going to have mine kind of coming out of the center of my pumpkin and it's just going to kind of curve around a little bit like this you can have yours as big or as small as you want you could have yours with the little vines coming off the side totally up to you however you want yours to look is is a personal preference on your part i'm going to pick up a little bit of green paint now to start working the green into the black a little bit so i can have a little bit more natural of a tone in here and then you can pull this little base into the pumpkin itself so that's gonna make it look like it's growing right out of the pumpkin gonna bring this these little color the color green up in through here and then i'm gonna stick a tiny bit of white paint on my brush while this is still kind of wet i'm going to just streak in a couple little highlights along the top edge and to me a lot of pumpkins have almost like a swirly little pattern to their stem so i'm just going to streak in a couple little light stripes into there and then of course you can tweak yours as much as you want to and we are going to be using uh our medium our small brush for the next step so once you've got your pumpkin done you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to be doing for the next step is we're going to be finishing our plaid areas so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using brown red black yellow and white but you could certainly model your plaid after whatever colors you want you could certainly use the blue you could do just black you could do black and white you can really have fun with whatever color pattern you want the trick for me for doing plaid is just making sure that i have a similar pattern on each um on each section so well the pants would be the same the mittens would be the same and these could be different but i'm going to try and keep them all a similar pattern um so i'm going to tackle it one color at a time so the first color that i'm going to do is i'm going to be using brown on my paint brush and for a plaid can go any any way that you wanted to so what i'm going to do is i'm going to just kind of add a series of stripes and when i do these stripes i'm going to be doing them in the direction of the form of that object so i'm going to have stripes going this way and then i'll also have stripes curving along the shape of the leg when i get to the mitten i'll have them curved in the direction that i feel that the shape of that object would go so the first ones on the legs for me are going to be pretty simple because i'm just going to be doing them down the long way on the legs and i want my colors to be translucent so i can have the different color variations throughout the plaid pattern but if you were going for a specific type of look that had solid colors throughout it you could certainly model yours after whatever style of plaid that you would like to do so i'm going to just go for something that's going to be nice and generic and is going to come easy and natural for me to paint it so i did brown going that direction on that leg so i'm going to do the same thing over here and i'm not terribly concerned about my stripes being exactly perfectly width apart i'm not that particular about the way that this pattern is going to be because it's on kind of a cartoon character so i'm not um terribly concerned about about those um those nuances but if you are you can certainly feel free to take yours into whatever way that you'd like and then i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to do some on my my mittens or my hands so i'm going to do this in this direction and i'm going to do a couple of these brown stripes and of course you can have your spaced differently than mine again you can use a different color combination i think i'm going to have this one kind of moving up in this direction again so it kind of implies the um the direction of this hand and again you could certainly do yours whatever way you want i'm going to go ahead and do the one on this right hand side in a similar way to what i did on the left hand side and because i'm using this smaller type of brush i can push in a similar firmness on these lines and they'll be similar in width um from one area to the other so that's just a little trick for me too is using that kind of brush that i can um that's thin enough that i can certainly push the way that i want to and get the a similar size line but again i'm not terribly concerned about these being perfect so i if if one line is a little bit wider than the other one i am okay with that so that's gonna be that patch and this one up here i think i'm gonna have this one maybe coming in this direction and of course you don't have to um do yours exactly as mine but these are going to be fun for me to work the other colors in and i'm not concerned terribly about it going over the edges because i know i'm going to be doing a nice outline with black paint that will help me clean up my edges on these sections so i'm okay with that especially up in this vicinity i'm gonna wash and dry my brush my next stripe that i'm gonna do is with red so i'm gonna do i just washed and dried my brush and i loaded it with some red paint and again you could certainly you know if you want this to be pink or a dark red maybe add a little bit of black to it or brown to it and make it a darker red my red is very similar to my orange but i'm okay with that it has a little bit of diversity to it and that's enough for me to enjoy the um enjoy the the difference i'm gonna i'm going right over my brown stripes and i'm doing these ones in a curved manner so it tells the viewer that that's this is in fact a curved object and then i'm gonna do the same thing over here making sure that i don't confuse myself with the curve of this so i'm going to curve it in this way something like that yeah there we go that's going to tell i almost curved it the other way which would have made his leg look like it was dipping in instead of out so i'm gonna have two on this side just bringing it all the way to the edge of the leg then on my on my hands i think i'm gonna have one going let's say let's go one like this and then maybe one like this and of course i'm just bringing it right to the edge maybe we'll do a little one on the tip in through there and then go ahead and do um this one in through here so again doesn't have to be exactly the same as the other one sometimes that'll just confuse you if you're trying to do it exactly the same as the other one so just you know i'm doing a similar order to my colors i'm doing a similar pattern but again if they're not exact you know i don't think anybody's going to call the plaid police on you as you're on your fun whimsical holiday painting so just have fun with it and if they if the plaid police do come and you know issue you a warrant for not doing it properly you can you can send them my way and then i'm going to go ahead and put a couple up in this area so again this is one of those things that could take you a while to do if you if you know you want each and every one to be perfect but if you can kind of just let loose and let happen what's going to happen the the process sometimes becomes a little more fun and more whimsical and you can you know express your inner artist a little bit more if you can sometimes just let loose and let happen what's going to happen so i think my next color is gonna be i think i'm gonna throw in a little white into the equation so i'm going to pick up some white now i do run the risk of running through wet paint um which i'm okay with that but if you feel like you're not wanting to run through wet paint then just wait between each color to um before you add the next color on and i think i'm gonna go along the brown lines for these ones and i'm just going to cross right over my red i think i'm going to add a little bit of water to my brush just so i have a more fluid line to work with then i'm going to add another one in through here i'm i'm digging the white i like the white let's go another one so i doing it on one side of the of that brown stripe so i'm going to keep it the same so if i picked um one side of the brown stripe to do it on then i'm going to go ahead and do it on all of them on one side of the brown so you can that's the whole thing for me is just kind of keeping the thought process consistent and if i can if i can do that then my plaid sells the story of you know of it being plaid as opposed to just maybe a checkered type of appearance but you know again any any look that you want to go for is totally fine so that's going to be my white i'm going to add some white up in through here and then i think i'll just add a little bit of yellow after this and then we'll do some black details to it so for me going with this white is adding some nice fun vibrancy to it i like that and now i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i think i'm going to add some yellow so the yellow again i'm i'm going to just pick where i want it to be so i'm going to go on one of the sides of red so even though we already had yellow as our base coat i can certainly use yellow again and overlap it in some of these sections and that's going to add another tone of the yellow so it's just when i do plaid it's just layer those colors so you get these different variety of them throughout the pattern so that was on one of the sides of the red so now i've broken up the white lines by a little bit of that yellow going over it and it's just a really fun process especially if you like to draw lines because you can just kind of keep repeating a pattern and it ends up by the time you're done after you've just kind of continued to crisscross all of these colors it really ends up looking like a legit plaid um pattern but you've gotta you've gotta succumb yourself to the um the idea of just overlapping colors letting the letting the color beneath them show through so again it will show the diversity in those um specific colors and it adds to the illusion of it really just being plaid work so now i'm going to just wash and dry my brush and i'm going to add some black d black lines and add some stitching and then we'll be done with this so again when you're doing small lines if you want a more fluid brush stroke if you add water or liquid medium to your paint you'll be able to get that that nice thin line to it so for these pants i definitely kind of want to make sure the viewer understands the exterior side of them so i'm going to utilize that as my thought process where i'm going to have these black lines so i'm actually going to do black lines horizontally and vertically so i'm going to have it in both directions and that way i will get some extra bit of detail throughout this and i saved my black for last because i know that the black will definitely dominate um the color scheme and i didn't really want to run the risk of its being wet as i was doing other colors so i saved it for last so i did that on one side of the red so i'm going to go ahead and do it on the side of the red and then the other side of the white so i'm just kind of watching the pattern that i did on the other leg and just kind of following suit putting maybe i'll put one up here so you can see the edge of the pants that's looking good to me i'm going to go ahead and do it on the mittens and so we just did one side of the red like this and again just having fun with the whole process one side of the white i'm digging this pattern something like this and if you need to go along the edges just to give yourself an outline if you you know don't want that out the outline of that object to disappear you can certainly utilize this last kind of color to help you do that and just making sure i've got a similar pattern and then i'm going to go ahead and move to the patches on the head so the patches on the head not only am i going to add my black detail in the pattern but i'm also going to add an outline and some stitching along the edges so i'm just going to kind of outline it like this with my black i'm not going to do this top side because that to me is over the edge of the hat and then i'm going to just add these little cute stitches along the way so it looks like somebody sewed this onto the hat and of course this is just one of those details that you could certainly add if you want to or not and then i'll go ahead and do my last patch in through here and of course if you wanted to or needed to use a smaller brush you could certainly you know utilize a smaller brush for these kind of details totally whatever works for you is totally fine and then once i have this step done i'm going to utilize this same brush for the next step so i'm just getting my my last little outline on this piece of patchwork done i'm going to reload my brush just to get these little stitches in here and then i will this is fun i like doing the stitches because you just kind of fly around around the edges i'm not concerned about my brush painting control on this little stitches and then i'm going to wash and dry oh actually sorry we're going to use our medium brush for the next step so put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish the hair i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors i'm using are black gray and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be adding shadow underneath the hat and it's going to work its way the hair is going to work its way out into the light and then we'll add some shadow here and maybe underneath the hands and then it'll all work its way to the light and we'll have some nice beautiful highlighted strands of hair along the edges so i'm going to start with a little bit of black paint on my brush and what i'm going to do is i'm going to push it right up into this little edge that meets the hat in through here i'm going to pull it down a little bit along the edge of the nose i'm going to have a little bit in this little crevice in through here and i'm going to pull this black down in like these strands of hair so that way it doesn't just look like a single line coming out from underneath the hat it's going to look like it is kind of the hair is just kind of emerging from out underneath the hat instead of just one line i'm going to do the same thing on the other side so a tiny bit of black paint bringing it up into this little crevice and i'm going to bring it up as high as it kind of to me would just disappear the shadow underneath there i'll bring it over here to the side like this bring it down this little edge by the nose i'm watching my my little stem into here just kind of skip over that and then just kind of rub it down in through here and then just pull this down as if it's just little strands of hair coming down so that way again so it doesn't look like one solid line in through there i'm just allowing a little bit of shadow to happen within those pieces of hair i'm going to do the same thing in through this area so to me it would be shadowed underneath the pumpkin so i'm adding a little bit of black paint to my brush i'm gonna get it pretty darn dark right underneath here where i feel it would be the darkest you don't need it all to be a solid solid black color underneath here and then i'm gonna start to pull it out just like i did up top where i'm pulling it out in the direction i feel that this hair would flow so i feel that it would be flowing off this leg in this direction so i'm going to bring something like that and i feel it would be flowing off of this leg in this direction and they're just going to kind of converge or meet somewhere in the middle here to start to work their way down the leg now i'm not going to wash my brush but i am going to wipe it off on my paper towel so i don't have too much on it i'm going to pick up a little bit of gray paint as well i'm going to work on these little areas underneath the hands and through here i don't need them to go too too black maybe a little bit of black right in that little crevice but i don't need it to go all the way black i still want it to kind of look like it's out in the open a little bit so just put in a little bit of black and the gray on my brush underneath these these hands in through here and then what i'm going to do now that i've got my shadows on there i'm going to start picking up gray without washing my brush plus a touch of white so i have gray and white on my brush and this is where i'm going to start getting the individual pieces to occur or to show themselves in front of the the flat gray color that we had as the background so if you want there to be more diversity you can add more white paint so i just added a touch more white paint on my brush so you could see if you wanted a couple more vibrant little pieces sticking out here just add a tiny bit more white paint and that way you'll be able to see those pieces more on an individual type of basis and i'll do the same thing down here so gray plus white to start as i am creating the flow of this um of this this hair coming down in through this direction i do want to it to look like it the hair is kind of overlapping some of these areas like the pumpkin so at times i may just kind of bring up a little piece in front of the pumpkin same thing with over here and this these are the little details that make it look really nice and and convincing and more on the um realistic side even though you know we're painting a illustrated kind of gnome but you can make it with realistic type of elements to it so i want this to look like it's really nice and flowing so i'm going to add where i feel that the beard or the hair would pop up the most i'm going to add some brighter pieces of hair so again gray and white are the colors of choice right now and i am just kind of intermingling them with the original gray color as well as this dark shadowy area in through here just making sure it all looks like it flows together and again any area that you want to have extra volume and pop out a little bit more just add touch more white paint to your brush and get those areas especially where the where it's coming over the leg you want to make sure that the viewer understand that that's popping out a lot and then of course you can add as much movement down into these deeper pieces that you want you can add a little bit of white onto some of these that are over on the ground that's going to show that they're catching a bit of the light and then you can certainly just kind of keep fiddling with this until you have as much movement in this in this beautiful hair that you want and then once you've got it to the liking of your painterly eye we are going to be utilizing our small brush for the next step so you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like to take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to paint ourselves some hay i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using yellow white brown and black and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to start with a base coat of a light yellow kind of color and then i'll add some shadows and some highlights and we'll be done so i'm going to take some of my yellow paint perhaps a little dirty yellow paint and add some white paint to it so i get myself a nice light yellow color this is going to be the base color that i'm going to use for my hay you could certainly add some brown to it you could add some orange to it if you wanted it to be a little more on the rusty kind of side totally up to you but i'm just going to go with a nice light yellow color and once i've established the color that i want i'm going to just put some hay wherever i want i'm going to have it sticking out everywhere so i'm going to have a big section sticking out up here so when i do my hay i definitely want a lot of it to come out of this little section in through here so i'm giving myself kind of like a solid area and then i'm just going to kind of pull out some pieces some of them are going to be straight some of them are going to have some little wiggle to them i definitely want to have some coming all the way up to the top of my canvas i'm going to have some splaying out over here on the side and you may find that you want to use a smaller brush to do this i like to use this style of brush a lot because i i'm comfortable with it and i can control it but you might find that you want yours to be of a more thin variety that's going to give you more pointy edges to it but i like to just kind of utilize this brush and give myself a whole bunch of different you know some may be thick some maybe thin type of pieces and i'm just kind of doing whatever is visually appealing to me with my hay so hey to me just looks like long grass with you know little broken edges here and there so i'm just doing a whole bunch of different lengths they come shooting out at different directions some are thin some are thick this is my main area of hay so that's why i'm kind of taking a little bit of extra time on it maybe i'll have a little rogue piece just kind of flying out over the side maybe this one's going to kind of come over in this direction i like to have some good volume in this area to sell the story of this being a scarecrow because i'm not quite sure why but i guess hay scares off crows not not sure why maybe it's the the being that does it but they all seem to have some hay involved so i'm not sure if it's the hay or if it's the the um figure that scares the the crows away but we'll call it something to do with the head so i'm going to have a little bit coming out in through here as well so just kind of getting some sticking out over i'm going to have this kind of sticking out pretty darn far maybe we've got some big old pieces coming out this side in through here and i'm not doing a ton um coming out underneath the hat in through here because i don't want to take away from my cute hair and beard but i definitely want a few you know distinguishable pieces so you can get the idea that there is definitely some hay coming out of there i'll have some coming out of this right hand side as well so again just kind of getting some coming right out from under that hat maybe some little tiny pieces just splaying out in different directions and then i'll have some bigger pieces just kind of shooting out in all these different kinds of directions coming straight out from underneath that hat and again you can have as many as you want maybe you want yours to be really have a ton of volume to it but i'm just kind of having some fun and making it appealing to my eye i'm gonna have some coming out of the shoes as well or the ankle area so just putting a little little line in through there and then just kind of pulling it out i don't necessarily want it to look like an outline around the around the foot so i'm consciously making sure that i i pull out those pieces enough so that they look like they're splaying out and then just bringing some of these pieces out in different directions and making sure they you know go as far as i want them to i'm going to put a little bit of a highlight and a shadow in a minute so they'll have a little bit more diversity to them but right now just kind of getting that base coat on there and telling myself where i want all of these cute little pieces of hay to be sticking out and definitely all along his little ankles of his um of his pants getting them to stick out along the boots and just bringing it you know all out as far as i want this can be coming out and you know even hitting the beard a little if you wanted it to and then once you've got as much of the base coat and as many pieces of hair kind of sticking out or pieces of hay as sticking out as much as you want i'm actually going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to add some shadowy pieces so washing and drying my brush my shadow pieces are going to be made up of brown and maybe a little bit of black and i'm not going to do too many i can have some making shadows on the hat if i wanted to and i can have some within you know the base area so i just have a little bit of brown and black on my brush and i don't want to overdo this i really am just kind of looking to put some darker pieces in intermingling with the lighter pieces so it gives it a sense of diversity and you can just kind of streak it in a little bit here and there if you have one crossing over you can you know it doesn't even have to be directly on top of an existing piece of hair you can certainly make it just you know as its own piece it doesn't you know have to be right in you know in line with another piece of hay i'm going to put a tiny bit of black paint on my brush to give myself some shadows on the hat of a couple of these pieces and that's going to add some great dimensional elements to um to the painting as well so if you put some that are just kind of shadowing on that hat that's going to say oh this little piece of hay is away from the hat a bit and it's casting this really cool shadow on on the hat itself and then that seems to be good for the top portion of my hat i'm going to go ahead and add some shadow in through here so again just black and brown is where what i have on my brush right now and just adding a little bit of those shadowy tones right underneath as as the hay is coming out of the hat so that way again it adds that that bit of diversity and a dimensional element to it as it's coming out of that hat and then if you wanted to add a little bit of um that brown into some of these pieces that are coming out over in through here or shadowing on the beard itself that would make sense and then do the same thing over in this direction with that little bit of brown and black to tell the story of these little pieces that are just making their way out from underneath the hat and then if you wanted a couple of little shadows throughout some of those pieces we'll put a highlight in a second and down in through here i don't really need much for the shadow but you know if you want to keep it consistent and that it all makes sense that it's all um a consistent process throughout the whole thing and they all look like you've um you know that they've been developed in the same way so i'm putting a little bit of brown at the base of them now i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going in for my highlights so my highlights are going to primarily be white but if i feel i want to incorporate any more of that yellow i certainly are the light yellow i certainly could so i just popped some white on my brush and i'm gonna really just kind of streak in a couple of little bright highlights throughout some of these pieces of the hay predominantly on the tips if i have a piece that didn't connect like that one i can get it to connect and again i'm not going to overdo it i really just am looking to add that dimensional element to it and once i find myself feeling pretty satisfied with it then i just move on to my next section so this is looking pretty good to me that's going to be a big piece of hay at the top maybe that's a little piece of wheat now we're just going to get rid of that that that was a little bit too much for me so we just we just wiped it away magically with my palm of my hand and then i'm going to go ahead and put some bright pieces over here with a little bit of white on my brush and this is going to be a couple of these little pieces just shooting out over the side in through here and just trying to not get it to disappear on me so if my background is too is white then i need to maintain some of that yellow i'm going to go over here on the right hand side give myself a couple of fun highlights on some of these pieces and then i just have the little pieces on the shoes to attend to and so again same thought process just a little bit of white and i'm not doing every piece of hay just couple here and there just to give myself a little bit of that highlight on them and then we are going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful hay on here you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i think i'm going bottom left on this one small brush black paint i signed mine with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like for your identifying mark to be is totally fine it's your painting you sign it whatever way you'd like and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself an adorable autumn little character here and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Michelle the Painter

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Length: 86min 6sec (5166 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021