Learn How to Paint SUNRISE BEACH BIKE with Acrylic - Paint and Sip at Home - 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 sunrise beach bike and i'm going to be sipping on some pinot grigio 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'll find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so what i'm going to be using for my materials today is a stretched and primed 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along 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 fluorescent orange mars black raw sienna which i'm just going to call yellow this is green oxide burnt umber which i'll call brown and this is cobalt blue and of course you can switch up those colors but that's what i'll be using i have a uh seven inch paper plate that i'll also be using to draw a circle later and i have some brushes as my tools i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number eight round synthetic brush and i have a number one round synthetic brush and as i go through the painting process i will refer to these as small medium and large and of course you can switch those up as well if you're painting along with me you'll probably want a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for doc for drying your brushes and down below this video i will be providing you with a couple of additional resources that can help you through 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 even to the fancy paper plate so that's down there for you and 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 painting our sky i'm going to be using my large brush and the colors that i'm using are orange yellow blue and white and how i'm going to do this i'm going to be occupying about a quarter of my canvas with my sky it's obviously going to be at the top quarter that i'm using and i am imagining this to be a morning sunrise type sky where we're not really going to see the sun but it is going to give you the essence of a morning sky where it's kind of almost pinkish yellow at the bottom of the sky and then it's getting into the bluer area up towards the top and i'm going to have it the lightest over on the left implying that the sun is rising over from the left so what i'm going to first do is i'm putting a little bit of orange yellow and white on my brush at the same time so i have very little bit of all three of those colors on my brush at the same time and i'm going to mark a quarter of the way down my canvas so to find that you can visually kind of find your halfway point and then about halfway between there and the top of your canvas is going to be about the quarter way mark you can use your brush as a measuring tool to figure out how far down you just came and mark it with your finger and then come over to the other side and make yourself a mark at about the same height so as i do this i'm actually going to be starting at the bottom of my sky and working my way up i have those three colors orange yellow and white on my brush at the same time i'm going to first do a horizon line but i'm not terribly concerned about it being super straight because we'll be able to make it straighter when we do our water so i'm just going to kind of give myself a loose kind of line connecting my two dots in through here and then i know that i want my sky to be a little bit darker on this right hand side so i'm gonna elevate those morning glow kind of colors and make them a bit darker over here and again i'm using my orange yellow and white on my brush right now and as i move towards this left hand side i'm picking up white and with my dirty brush and i'm not picking up any more of the yellow and the orange and it's going to get naturally lighter and lighter as it comes over to this left hand side i'm using a left to right kind of crisscross type motion um i do want this sky to be a little bit darker and more dramatic over here on this right hand side so i just added a bit more of my yellow and orange and white and maybe yours ends up a little bit more yellow than mine or a little bit less pink than mine or a little bit more pink than mine however yours ends up is totally okay because there are no two skies alike in this world so you can completely have yours whatever intensity that you would like and as i move up towards the top of my sky i'm going to start picking up a tiny bit of blue and i indicate a tiny bit because if i were to have a lot of yellow on my brush right now and i picked up a bunch of blue i'd end up with a big green sky and i don't want a big green sky so i'm just going to start cautiously with a little bit of blue i'm over here on this right hand side and i'm going to get my pinkish type sky to blend in with my blue sky that is emerging or showing its beautiful morning face up above that i would call it the morning glow at the bottom of the horizon here and then i'm just getting it to go a little bit darker as it goes up towards the top of my canvas so i'm using a little bit more blue as i go up there and because i'm using this left to right kind of crisscross type brush stroke this is going to almost give you the illusion of these light floaty clouds that are that are you know making their way through that morning atmosphere but you could certainly use whatever brush stroke that you would like if you want to use circles or dots or whatever is comfortable for you it's totally fine and again i'm making it as light as i can over here on this left hand side just to insinuate that the morning sun is making its way through the sky from the left and then we are going to be using our large brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful sky all nice in place 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 our water we're going to be using our large brush and the colors we're using are brown blue and white and how i'm going to do this i'm going to give you a couple of markers so we can do a horizon line and we'll also give you a couple of markers so we can separate our water from our land and when we go to paint our water in we're just going to be doing the um the gradient of sorts from dark water up at the top to light water down at the bottom we'll be putting waves and movement into our water later so right now we're just going to kind of give it a base coat so right now i'm going to put blue and a little bit of white on my brush at the same time and i don't have much paint on my brush because we're going to be doing just a little bit of an outline so i just want to show you got just a little bit of blue and a little bit of white so what i'm first going to do is i'm going to make myself a couple of markers for my horizon so i know i need my horizon line to be within my paint so i don't want to put my horizon line down here it has to be up where there's paint so i'm going to look for where i see to be is the highest point of unpainted canvas and that's like right in these two spots so i'm gonna this one's nice and close to the edge so i'm gonna make myself a dot at that highest point where i don't see any paint and i'm gonna use my brush as a measuring tool and then i'm gonna come to the left hand side and put myself a marker at the same height so for me it's pretty pretty much even from left to right so those are my two markers then i'm going to make myself two more markers one is going to be about an inch to an inch and a half away from this one so i've got a marker in through there and then on the bottom right hand side of my canvas i'm going to come up maybe almost halfway or a little bit more i mean a quarter way or a little bit more than a quarter way up the canvas so this is about your halfway point of your canvas this is about quarter i'm a little bit higher than that so somewhere in through this vicinity what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect these two bottom dots with a very light kind of sketcherly line this is going to be the separating line for the land versus the water so i'm going to have this one kind of just coming over here a little bit and just kind of sloping down and right i would say almost at the midway point in your canvas is where i'm going to kind of almost level it off to bring it into that area and you can see i'm hardly touching my canvas because i don't want a big solid line that's going to be difficult to paint over later so now that i've got that in there now i'm going to connect these two markers i just want to double check these one feels like it's a little bit lower than the other one to me yeah this one so for me i just i'm looking at this and it almost doesn't look straight for me so i saw that this one was here and i came to here and it's actually lower so i need to up move that right one up a little bit i just noticed that it didn't it wasn't exactly what i thought it was going to be so maybe something like that i think i'm right i'm using my my fancy measuring tool and it's not always 100 accurate so now what i'm doing is i'm loading my brush with blue and brown paint on my brush at the same time and i'm going to connect my two dots so my my virgo is coming out of me right now you guys are witnessing it right as we're right as we're speaking all right so i'm going to get these two to connect and for me when i'm doing these kind of horizon lines i like to keep my eye on the prize which is the other marker and i'm pushing the tip of my brush into my canvas so what's happening is it's forcing it to be nice and firm and it's providing me with a pretty darn straight line at least visually for for for me to be happy with you could certainly like i said you could use a ruler or you can use painters tape or whatever you feel is necessary to get yourself a nice straight line and then you just kind of sit here and make any adjustments that you need it's pretty good for for for me to be happy with it and then what i'm going to do i started with blue and brown on my brush with whatever little remnants of white that i had from that original outline now as i come down my water i'm continuing to pick up just blue and brown for a little while i'm using a left to right brush stroke and i'm conscious about staying left to right i don't really want to go diagonal i don't want to paint around this hill i want to paint into this hill in a left to right brush stroke now what i'm going to start to do is i'm start to pick up a little bit of white within my mixture and this is going to get this to have or create a gradient of sorts which means it'll be darker at the top of my water and it's going to get a little bit lighter as it comes down towards that land and i just continue to use this left to right brush stroke and you can almost go like in a figure eight kind of um brush stroke motion if you want there to be a little bit more movement in the water or you can just go left to right so wherever your visual preference is is totally fine but if you can get it to go a little bit lighter as it comes down towards that water that's going to make it look nice and natural so once you've got your water on here we will be using this same brush for the next step so you can just kind of fiddle with your water and make it as light and as dark as you want it to be as with as much movement as you want it but just know we will definitely be um adding waves and other you know dimensional elements to it later so if it's not as wiggly as you want it right now you can certainly know that we will have the opportunity to put that movement into it in a later step so i am going to take my large brush wash it and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our sand i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm using are brown white and yellow and i might use a little black too if i feel like i wanted any of my sand to go a little on the grayer side but what i'm going to do is i'm going to have two sections of sand i'm going to have a section of sand that is down below where the water meets and then i'm going to have my big section of sand kind of in the upper sand dune of sorts so i'm going to start with the one that is in the let's do the bottom one first so we're going to do the bottom one first i'm going to have the sand down in the bottom is going to be a little bit lighter so it looks like it's being hit quicker with that sunshine so i'm going to be using white brown and yellow to make myself a little bit of a beach sand type color so you can mix it right in you know wherever you have or you can mix it in a separate area so i'm going to make mine in a little bit separate oven area and i'm adding just a tiny bit of yellow and a tiny bit of brown because i know that i want this sand to be on the lighter side because it's going to be down by the ocean and i feel like i want it to be the lightest down in through there so just adding kind of making a light tan type color and i do want it to be darker than white so i want to just make sure that i i've got it into a region where i feel that it is darker than white it will turn a little bit darker as it dries but when it's wet it will look pretty light but you can certainly kind of use your um here's your best judgment as to how dark that you want you can always make it darker too so that's about where i'm going with my light tan sand color and i'm just going to kind of give myself a separate area in through here so somewhere i would say right around here is where i'm going to kind of separate it and i'm just going to kind of give myself a little bit of an area that is going to be down by the beach this is going to be my other sand so once i've got my designated area i'm just going to paint in the area but you can use a a texture type brush stroke so i can use a circular type brushstroke i could use dots whatever you want to make it look nice and uniform with its texture is great and then when you get to the water area this is where we're going to start to intermingle it with the water a bit so i'm just kind of getting it to blend in with that water area just a bit we're going to add the waves on in a in a future step but this is just going to kind of get it to start to intermingle a little bit with that water so i'm just lightly kind of brushing it over into the water a little bit and if you have some wet areas within your water right now that are merging into your sand that's okay too so just know that if that happens it's all right because i've planned for that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to do this whole area in through here so this is going to be what i'm going to call a cooler kind of tan so i want this to look more like it's in the shadows so i want this to have a little bit less yellow in it so i'm just going to take what i have here and i'm going to add a bit more brown to it and a little bit of white so what's going to happen is it's going to turn a little bit more muted and not as sunshiny as the stuff that we have down in through here so that's about where i'm taking i just added a little bit of brown and white to it to dull it down a little bit and then as i do this larger area i know that i want and you could probably see as i if i put these two colors right next to each other this one's similar but a little bit more on the browner side so i'm going to use you can use a circular or a dotting type technique whatever you'd like to get it on here but i am going to add a little bit of a textural type look to it by adding lightness and darkness to it as well so i'm just taking this main color and putting it in the main mid section of it and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to add a little bit of darkness down at the bottom by just picking up a tiny bit of either black or brown on your dirty brush and you can start to just manipulate some darker toned areas down at this bottom area of the sand and it doesn't have to be really super dark i'm picking up some brown right now it can just be something that looks a little bit darker than that main sectioned area and it's that's going to help to give the illusion of us kind of coming up over over the the sand dune hill and then once you've got that area a little bit darker than the mid section of course you wanted to kind of blend in a little bit so you can just keep maneuvering your brush i'm just kind of wiggling it in like a circle circular type motion and then as i work my way up towards the top of that hill i'm going to be using this tan plus white on my brush at the same time and that's going to get the sand to go lighter and lighter as it goes up towards the edge and then when i get to the edge i'm just picking up white on my dirty brush and that's going to get it to go really nice and light up at the edge and you want to make sure that you get all the way where it's touching the water and you don't have any space between the water and your sand dune that makes it look like um that it's unpainted and i'm using this light lighter white type color as i come in through this area and through here and this is going to help us decipher the the um hill sand dune versus the beach and then we're going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your sand dune and your and your beachy area in you can wash and dry this large brush and of course you can keep fiddling with yours as i'm fiddling with mine but you can wash and dry this large 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 water and this little beachy area we're gonna be having our waves kind of come crashing or rolling into our beach i am going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm using are predominantly white but i will probably also use a little bit of my sand color whichever sand color is available and some of my watercolor as well so blue brown white and maybe a little of my sand color as well so for me creating these type of waves that are just kind of rolling into into the sand is a fun process because you get to kind of be carefree and have them go as prominent or as subtle as you want i'm going to have mine kind of coming in in this direction and i do like them to cross over into my sand so as i'm doing it i will be carrying some of the sand color into the water and the watercolor into the sand i do recommend that you have your your canvas dry before you start this step so you could certainly you know take that extra long break if you'd like to or you could you know pick up your paper towel and fan it or blow on it to you know get it to dry that way or you could do as i did and just whip out a blow dryer and get it dry that way so whatever way works for you um that what i would definitely recommend so i'm using a firm bristle brush for me because i like to move the paint as it's drying and give myself kind of these gradients as it goes from the water to the white cap so i'm going to start with a very little bit of paint on my brush and i use what i'll refer to as kind of like a dry brush technique my brush is pretty dry and i'm hardly using any paint and i use that to control the intensity or the volume of the paint as i go when i do my waves i hold my brush in a weird way i hold it like this and i kind of push that paint so it has a firm edge here and it's subtle as it goes into the actual water itself so this is just my little strange technique that i use it helps me to to build these waves in a pretty natural kind of looking way but i try not to be too systematic i don't want every single wave to be exactly the same width or the same curve or the same distance i also think in my head as i'm doing this i kind of i think kind of like spider webby things where they all connect in a you know in their own special way and i'm gonna have them traveling out into into the ocean but i again i hardly have any paint on my brush if you feel like you have too much paint on your brush or it's not giving you the gradient you can always i just picked up a tiny bit of water on my brush and this will help me to get a little bit more of a gradient going throughout from the darker part of the water into that light edge that i want to happen and as it goes out further into the ocean it might just be little tiny specks throughout adding these little tiny visual kind of light spots throughout the um throughout the ocean as it goes farther away and then once i've got all of my kind of white caps so to speak i want i want some more coming in through here once i've got as many of these as i want then i'm going to start to just really intermingle it with the um with the surrounding water so or sand so that's looking pretty good to me i feel like they're coming in at a good kind of angle so i'm going to pick up a little bit of my beach sand make sure that this is intermingling with my with my water nicely along the edges so i just picked up a bit of the beach sand getting this to make sure that it blends in with that water and of course you might want yours to go a little bit further out than mine if you've done too much again you can pick up some of your water color which would be your your blue or you could pick up some more you know tone down the sand a little bit whatever works for you is totally fine by me and then once they're talking to each other i think actually i'm going to pull in a little bit of the the blue um in through here just to make it look like there's a little bit of some wet sand going in through here once i've done that then i add what i call the shadow underneath the wave so i'm going to pick up a little bit of blue and brown on my brush and wherever this white cap is you if you add a little bit of darkness underneath it that's going to make it look like it has more volume to it and you don't have to do it to all of them and you don't have to do it at a really intense um way you don't have to go black you don't have to make it look really really dark just something that's going to say oh there's some height to that wave and it's going to give it a little bit of a shadow you can even do it with a little bit of brown on your brush when you go into the the sand area i'm actually going to wash my brush and put a little bit of brown on my brush so you can see what i'm talking about in through here so if you add that bit of darkness underneath the ones coming into the sand area that also is going to add a little bit more intensity on it or volume to it i just added a bit more brown and through here and gonna get some of the sand to look like it's wet that the that the water has receded and it has wet all the sand that is along the beach edge and you know you can certainly keep tweaking it as much as you want to i just kind of keep adding these little bits of layers to make sure that it it feels realistic to me and you can of course step back from yours and sometimes when you're looking at it from a distance that helps to see it a little bit better and then we're going to actually be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful white caps crashing into your morning your morning beach area you can put your large brush away take out your your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're putting uh an umbrella on our beach so i really l like to have my paintings with a lot of perspective in it and i want you to feel like you you're ready to ride your bike down this sand dune and just park your butt on that beach for the for a beautiful summer day so i want to give you the impression that somebody beat you to it or you went down there and put your umbrella down there earlier so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to pre-mix myself a custom color for the umbrella you can certainly use whatever color you'd like but i wanted mine to be pretty complementary to the rest of the painting so i'm making myself a peach color for my umbrella so i took this is the color right in through here that i've made i took a little bit of my yellow a little bit of my orange and some of my white and just spun it together until i found a color that that was very appealing to my eye so once you've got the color that you like what i'm going to do is just draw a shape for the umbrella we'll color that in we'll put a couple of details on it and we'll call it done so i'm going to have mine in through here it's going to be coming out of the sand in through here so i'm just going to have it a little bit at an angle maybe something like this and yours can go off the edge of the the canvas maybe maybe one more a little one more little hump there and then i'm just going to kind of give it this arc over the top and color it in with my peach type color my beach peach color and then once i've got it all colored in i'm gonna let this peach base kind of sit for a second while i go and do my um i need a pole on my umbrella so i'm going to wash and dry my little brush and i'm going to use brown paint oh i didn't i never told you what colors i'm using for this step i'm using yellow orange white brown maybe a little black too but right now i just washed and dried my brush and i'm putting some brown paint on it and i'm giving myself a little pull that i feel would look kind of natural i think we'll go somewhere i guess it's going to come somewhere in through here and get it to land in my sand and then go straight up to the top of it with just a little bit of brown on my brush and you want the top to be in line with that with the pull that's in the ground so something like this my sun is over on the left hand side so if you wanted to you could certainly put a little bit of a shadow like this just going off into the distance or hiding behind this little hill under under here would be totally fine and if you feel like you needed anything any little modifications with some extra sand down there or something you can totally do that or a little black would give you some more dimension on the on the post itself so however detailed you want to get that is totally fine and then i'm going to put some details on the top of my umbrella so i just washed and dried my brush i'm going to go for just for first off the highlight on the top of it so i just added white to my brush i've got my sun rising over on the left hand side so i'm going to give myself a little bit of a highlight there wipe my brush off on my paper towel and then just kind of get that highlight to blend in with the actual umbrella part itself with that peachy color and then i'm gonna do some decorative um kind of decorations on it so i just took white paint and i'm gonna have like a little um kind of stripe along the bottom edge or near the bottom edge and you can do polka dots maybe i'll do some polka dots that just give it a little bit more decoration but again you could totally do whatever you'd like to make yours as fancy as you want it's going to be hidden behind a whole bunch of um other elements too so i wouldn't i wouldn't spend too much time on it i'm going to put a little highlight at the tip of this as well and then we're going to use our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your umbrella all nice and secured in your sand 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 painting ourselves some wild beach grass so i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are black brown green yellow and white and how i'm going to do this is again i want this to have a lot of perspective so i'm going to be doing kind of sections of grass that are going to lead the viewer down this path and through here so what i'm going to direct you into doing right now is kind of we're going to put kind of place markers where we're going to have our areas of grass within the sand dune so i'm going to put some brown paint on my brush and i know that i'm going to have my path is going to come down in through here and it's kind of going to come down into this area in through here so i'm going to designate this area as a little bit of a grassy area that's going to be almost on the other side of the sand dune so i'm just going to kind of pull myself up a couple of little pieces of grass and i'm not doing anything fancy to start this this is just kind of giving us an idea of where we want all of these little pieces to go and then i'm going to have this next area this is going to be the left hand side of the path of sorts so i'm going to just kind of give myself a little bit of a designation in through here i know that i want this left-hand side to be about halfway between the top of my sand dune and down here so somewhere around here this kind of has to make sense and connect with this area in through here so i'm just making myself a really kind of messy line of sorts this might end up being kind of the bottom of the the the ground near the fence and then i'm just going to kind of give myself a couple of little areas that are going to be where i'm going to have the longer pieces of grass by this fence line that we're going to be putting in there later so again i'm just using brown paint right now to designate where i want these bunches of grass this just kind of gave me a connector to know where i wanted this one in through here and i want my grass to be on the shorter side the farther away that it goes and on the longer side the closer it gets to me so i'm going to have another kind of area of grass up at the top of my sand dune so this is going to be these are going to be much more they're going to have much more volume to them once we put the other colors on them but right now i'm just kind of giving you areas where we're going to start them and then over on the right hand side i'm going to have a big section of grass that's going to be below my canvas that's going to rise up into up into the sky so this is going to be the area that's the closest to us so i'm going to bring this area of grass all the way over past this marker here so i'm going to find that marker and go a little bit to the left of that and then i'm just going to kind of give myself an area where i want this this grassy stuff to emerge from so now that i've got my my designated areas now i need to make my grass grow so how do you make your grass grow i make my grass grow with paint so i'm going to put some i didn't wash my brush i'm going to pick up some green and a little bit of black paint what i'm in essence going to do is build my grass from dark to light and i'm starting with dark paint being the green and the black so again i've designated all of my grassy areas and i don't want to overwhelm it with black but there's got to be some shadows or some silhouetted pieces so that's why i'm using green and black on my brush at the same time so i found this piece of area and i'm just making it a little bit thicker down at the bottom and then pulling some pieces up a little bit taller and then i'm going to come on over in through here and do the same thing i'm not covering up all of that brown paint but i am in fact just making this resemble kind of wild kind of beach grass which tends to be on the longer side and it can get really really tall if you want it to so feel free to make these some of these really kind of tall i've got them you know going past that area where you can see the the the water itself in through here these ones are going to be pretty darn tall i want them to be take up a good amount of the canvas so i'm going to get these ones to come up even into my sky so you can see them that way if you feel that you want yours to be longer and skinnier and have a more kind of direction to them you may want to use a little bit more paint on your brush or utilize a skinnier brush if you want your pieces to be on the skinnier side i do like to have a lot of volume within my wild grass but i don't want it so much so that you can't detect what's going on behind it these type of grass can also have these almost the appearance of little wheat edges to them so if you want to push your brush towards the end of them you can give the illusion of that thick piece of kind of wheat uh style grass that that tends to grow by the ocean a lot so feel free to have fun with those little pieces if you want to i'm gonna go ahead and do this same process throughout all of the areas that i designated as the grassy areas right now again i'm still just using green and black on my brush and you can see i'm being very carefree with how i create these pieces of grass i want them to be darker a lot darker at the bottom as i go towards the lighter colors you'll see that i'm going to be making my pieces of grass longer and giving these areas of grass a little bit more volume as i get towards the um towards the lighter pieces but right now again i'm still just kind of building where i want them to go and you can have some overlapping in this front area of course because this is going to be the area that's the closest to us we're going to have fences in front of it and all that good stuff as i start building these ones over up into the right hand side i am conscious that i have a an umbrella that i don't want to totally hide i am also going to have a little fence that i'm going to be putting in through there so you might end up at some point tweaking those couple of elements if you get too excited and make your your grass too too invasive i guess but i do have my my some of my pieces of grass obviously coming out over into the ocean and again you can have yours encapsulating this little private oasis as much as you want to now i'm picking up green and yellow so i did not wash my wash my brush i'm moving into my lighter kind of colors of my grass and i'm just really adding bits of these light lighter type pieces throughout here i will be adding white in a minute to get those um extra highlighted pieces in there but right now again i'm just gradually working my way towards towards the light grass so green and yellow is where i am right now on my brush and again you don't have to make every piece of grass look exactly like the one that it was in front of these are wild beach grass so they can they can lean over in front of one another they can be some can be much more wild and carefree than others because i didn't wash my brush all of my pieces of grass seem to be talking nicely together of course they can be tall they can look like they've they've been struck by the wind a lot you can really have as much fun with this as you want to if you want there to be um you know a different shade of green you can certainly pre-mix yourself a different tone of green if you wanted to but right now i'm just using green and yellow on my brush at the same time i'm using this raw sienna type yellow which is a very natural type of color so it really helps to make it look like it's that long kind of at times seemingly dry beach grass so you can really have fun with this and some pieces can be thick some pieces can be thin whatever is visually appealing to you and then i just have the white um or the lightest pieces that i'm going to add in a second here but you can see i'm just really having fun letting my umbrella still kind of show a little bit but being hidden by a little bit of grass and now i'm going ahead and adding yellow and white onto my brush and i might slow down just a little bit when i go to add these lighter pieces to make sure that i've got as much dimension on them as i want and you can you know again make this as bright as you want but what i do recommend is while you're doing it think of where that light source is coming from and it's coming from over there so i don't necessarily need all of this grass down and through here to be super bright i would definitely see some bright pieces obviously up in through here this would catch some of the edges of the sun from the other side but you know you can you can have fun i suppose you could even add some of your some of the peach or the orange and yellow into your grass if you wanted to um so you can certainly have some fun with that i'm going to add some of my lighter pieces in through here i know this series gonna be hidden by a big bike so i am paying attention to it but i'm not i'm not um spending too too much time on it so when you're doing these types of paintings those are the things that you can think of too what area do i need to pay attention to but i don't necessarily need to put as much detail into and that's one of those areas that i i know is going to be have some other information i think i want a couple extra pieces in through here and then some lighter pieces over here and then yeah see when i get to these highlight pieces they make they make me my painterly eye the happiest and i'm putting these over on the left hand side just to kind of give again the idea that the the the light source is coming from over there and if i wanted some of those little wheat pieces i suppose i could just kind of add a couple of those with just pushing my brush in a in a dotting type of technique in through here but again that would be something that you could play with and then you just kind of adjust it as much as you want if you want some lighter or darker pieces just keep going into those paints um and adjusting it as much as you want and then we are going to be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful grass in through out the sand dunes 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 what we're going to do for the next step is we are doing our fence wire or connector whatever you'd like to call it for your fence posts i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using just black paint but i will be watering down my black paint a little bit so it's nice and fluid in motion so i've got my small brush i'm adding a couple of drops to some of my black paint so i can make it like a nice thin consistency so i can have a nice skinny line when i go to do this and i also take my brush and i will spin it on the side of my palette within that paint and it's going to make my brush nice and pointy so i'm going to give you a couple of markers your fence posts and mark the wires don't have to be in exactly the same place as mine i'm making mine really just a old rickety kind of fret well i don't know if it's fragile but a fence that's been there for a really long time and has been weathered by many years of the ocean breeze so i'm going to have mine not straight it's going to be not straight so i want my fences going to be i'm having my fence coming down along here and it's going to wrap around in through here and then i'm going to have uh it in through this vicinity as well again i want it to look smaller as it goes far away and larger as it comes towards me so i'm going to in this area i'm going to make myself four dots this is where the entry down into the beach is so i'm going to make a dot and through here in through here i've got one here and one here so these are maybe about two to three inches apart from each other maybe i don't know a half of an inch to an inch above the um the separation line then over on the right hand side i'm going to be making myself three more markers i've got a marker in through here a marker in through here so this is a little bit um almost where my beach meets my water and in through here and then i've got one about halfway between here and the bottom of my canvas right on this piece of grass which makes it very easy for you to see and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to start connecting a couple of these dots i'm going to connect these top two to these bottom two and again i'm not concerned about it being a straight line i'm actually purposely making it into a wobbly kind of line i'm going right in front of my umbrella because that's what it do the umbrella is on the other side of the fence i'm going to connect these two with again a nice wobbly line in through here and then what i'm going to do i've got another i'm going to make another one in through here i guess i probably should have given you this marker so it's going to be a little bit to the left of these two maybe by about i don't know almost almost to the halfway point and then you just kind of come straight down and maybe about an inch and a half away from the bottom of your canvas this one's going to connect to this one and again just black paint and if you run through wet grass don't worry about it just kind of get it to blend in or just paint right over it something like that will totally work and then over on the left hand side of your canvas we got to make the two opposing markers for this one we're going to make them over in through this area so i've got mine maybe about at the halfway point of my canvas somewhere in through there and then this one is just above this grassy area so maybe somewhere in through here and then i'm just going to connect the top one with the top one here and the bottom one with the bottom one here and again doesn't have to be a straight line it's not going to be i don't want it to be and i'm using my watered down black paint and i'm getting my line to just kind of follow the um kind of the way that the that i feel the hill would would work its way down and because these two are closer than these two it's naturally going to end up looking like it's getting closer to us because it the line is getting wider and wider as it comes up this this beach area and then we are going to switch brushes to our medium brush so as soon as you get your fence wire or connectors done you can put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our fence posts i'm using my medium 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 start with my smaller posts which are the ones that are going to be the farthest away and work my way towards the closer posts the closer posts are going to be larger so how i'm going to do this i'm going to start by just painting them with brown and a little bit of black on my brush at the same time i'm using both these colors on my brush at the same time so i can have a good um dimensional element to it we're going to paint them all with that color and then i'll come back and swipe a a nice quick highlight on top of them so i have brown and black on my brush and these are going to just again be kind of rickety and they don't all have to be straight i'm going to make some small ones down in through here so brown and black are what's uh the colors that are on my brush right now and of course you can have the tops pointy or they can be a little bit on the rounder side whatever whatever works for you of course i'm putting this right in front of my beautiful um umbrella i'll do it to the side so maybe you can still see that little uh separation point of the of the pole that we had on our umbrella so something like this we've got those on there and then of course you don't have to do exactly the same number as i'm doing then i'm just reloading my brush with brown and black and i'm going to go ahead and do these ones over on this left hand side and they would theoretically get larger as they come closer towards the viewer so that's going to be as they come toward this left hand side they're going to get a little bit larger on this third post here this one is going to be my beach sign so this post right here i'm going to make even taller so i'm going to make this one probably i'm going to say maybe about this tall and i'm going to put a rectangle on the top of it this is going to indicate um to the beach goer the correct direction they need to travel to go get to that oasis down below so something like this of course you could have your little sign saying whatever you want but i might just go for the the beach is down there type sign so again i'm just going to continue making my posts making i'm using black and brown so some of them are going to be lighter and darker than the other ones and then as i get closer to me on the left hand side i'm going to start making them a little bit wider and maybe a little bit taller you can see i've got mine not perfectly straight some of them most of them are just leaning in whatever direction i want them to lean they don't have to be again perfect i'm making them different colors so you know one of them's got more black in it one of them's got more brown in it they're not totally equally spaced apart so you can really again have some fun with it i suppose they would you know seemingly look like they're a little bit closer together down you know the farther away that they get but you can certainly i think i'm gonna add a couple more down in through here yeah that looks better to me um and then i'm gonna maybe maybe one more over here too and then i'm gonna go ahead i have this close area right in through here this is gonna be the biggest ones so again just brown and black on my brush right now this one i'm not gonna have blocking the view of here but it's going to be pretty wide it's probably like twice as wide as the ones over there so you can tell that it's really nice and close to us and then i've got another one maybe coming in through here and i only did one connector wire to give the illusion that the rest of the fence is down below and you can certainly have some of these go in front of of that back um smaller fence that again is going to add a great illusional element to it like these are really close they're really in front you know they're really um that other fence is down lower on the dune and once you've got them in place now what i'm going to do is start picking up on my dirty brush just a bit of white paint and you could do this with tan you could do it with white you could really do it with whatever color you want and i'm adding a bit of a highlight on the side where the sun for me is which is on the left hand side and these front ones could in essence be a little bit brighter because they in theory are much closer to the sun than these ones back here so you can certainly use your best judgment as to how light or dark you want them and i'm getting that white to kind of blend in with the rest of the fence so it's almost like a little gradual transition into the dark i suppose you could use you know white with a touch of brown if you felt that it was a bit too bright and again i'm still keeping this highlight on the left hand side even as i'm going on these fence posts um that are on the left hand side here because my light source remains in the still in the same spot so again i'm just kind of swiping a little highlight down at the the sign i'm going to do a little highlight on the top and on the left something like that and i just kind of keep reloading my brush if i feel that the white goes too white then i'll pick up a little bit of brown on my brush at the same time i really just want this to give the illusion that maybe they are in fact light or gray type posts but they are in the shadow they've been weathered they've got some you know some divots in them here and there so you can really get them to be you know as as gritty looking as you want and have them have as much texture on them as you want but starting with that darker base and just coming through with um this kind of a light swipe down on that highlighted side really helps to give you a nice natural type look i'm not really concerned about the bottom yet we're going to be adding a shadow in a future step to to sell that story so i'm not really concerned about the bottom yet on that so now i'm going on the left hand side of these posts with my white and if you need again a little bit of brown you can totally add that on in there and just kind of swiping it down and if you feel like you went too bright feel free to bring back some of the black even on these um especially on these ones that are far away from the um from the beach itself they could certainly be a little bit darker and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got this uh your fence posts all nice and finished you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting the shadows of the fence on the sand and finishing the sand if there's any little touch-ups so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm using black and white paint plus water to create this shadow so for me in my beach doom days experience they're all ruffled all of the sand has footprints in it and bite prints in it and it's got lots of lumps and bumps to it so i'm going to try and emulate that by telling the viewer what's happening with the sand by my shadows so i'm going to take a little bit of brown a little bit of black and i'm dipping my brush into water so i have a watered-down version of black and white and it's smarter in my opinion to err on the side of caution when doing this kind of shadowy type effect because it is much easier to add more paint as opposed to taking paint off so if you have less paint on your brush you can certainly control what you're doing a little bit better so of course i want to have a shadow at the bottom of my fence my light source is over there so i'm taking my watered down black and brown paint and just kind of rubbing it at the bottom of my fence something in like this and then i have shadows of my fence posts coming in through here and i want it to look like they have some wiggle to them because they are being the the shadow is being manipulated by the bumps within the within the sand this one is going to be longer because it is the sign so i'm going to just kind of bring that one all the way across my water or my sand and then i have these shorter ones i if my light is over here they're going to be at an angle to the right like this and i'm just going to keep going until i have as many in through here as i want again i have maybe some of them are a little bit longer because the sand is smoother or something i have the bicycle that is going to also be adding a lot of um information into this area of the painting so i'm not terribly concerned how perfect these look i'm just really trying to give the viewer the information that the light source is in fact over on the left hand side and it's the and the sand is lumpy and bumpy and then if you wanted to you could certainly do any other modifications to your sand you could bring some of your sand color back in through any areas that you feel might want a little lighter lump or bump or if you brought your your shadow too far you can certainly just bring some of that sand color back in if you wanted there to be you know it to be darker down in through here now is the time to make any adjustments to your sand that you feel um you might want and then we're going to use what are we going to use for our next step we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your shadows on your sand and any little adjustments that you feel that you may want to make you can put your medium brush away wherever you'd like to take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're finishing our beach sign so i'm using my small brush you could really use whatever colors that you would like to paint this with but i'm going to use some of that peach color and white and maybe a little bit of black as well so how i'm going to do this is i'm taking that i'm using my small brush too i'm taking the peach color and i am just kind of doing some little accents of sorts on it you can think of this as maybe it was once painted with this beautiful peach color and some of the paint has chipped off throughout the years um so you can really have fun with however you would like this to look and then i'm gonna write my word with peach with the peach color i'm gonna write beach with peach and try not to stumble as i say both of those words next to each other and i'm gonna try and fit all of my letters on here so i might go a little bit slower just to make sure that i don't misspell the word beach because i have done that once or twice in my painting days as fun of a way as you want now let's just make sure i can spell it correctly impress you would think that i would have um pre-done this or had a little cheat sheet right next to me so i didn't misspell any of these words but we'll hope that i i do it right impression zom i think i got it i think i did it there we go i'm just using little block letters like somebody hand wrote this themself or carved these letters into this wood sign and while that's kind of drying i'm gonna wash and dry my brush and put in a little cute arrow on the on the side of the sign kind of pointing in the direction of the of the beach as if somebody couldn't figure that out on their own they need they need this directional arrow to tell them exactly where it is along with the word beach so it's very obvious what's going down this hill and then i'm just wiping my brush off picking up a little bit of white and making a little highlighted color on top oops i need a little bit more white so you can see it a little highlight in through here and then i'm going to use a touch of um white paint to highlight my my letters to highlight the word beach so you can certainly of course you could do whatever you wanted i'm just using a bit of white on the edge of my brush so i can still see some of that original peach color underneath it and then we are going to be using our we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your wooden beach sign done you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what i'm going to do for the next step is i'm painting the tire from my bicycle i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black and white paint and my fancy paper plate that i have so i can get a nice semi circle circle so what i'm going to do is i want my circle to be kind of off of my canvas a little bit so i'm going to take my canvas and kind of slide it to the edge of my easel so that way i can overlap my my paper plate a little bit i'm gonna have my paper plate maybe about three three and a half inches away from the edge of my canvas and i'm just leaving a little bit of it overlapping because i want my bicycle to look like it is uh kind of coming into view i'm using my small brush and i'm using watered down black paint to make the outline of my of my tire so i'm just kind of writing my brush along the edge of my paper plate so i can have a a nice circle and it may not turn out perfect which is totally fine this at least gets you started in the right vicinity but if you can have your bristles kind of just ride along the edge of your paper plate that up that kind of gives you a better shot of it being a little bit more circular and of course you could use a pencil if you wanted to then i'm just going to remove this and i'm going to put my canvas back in place i'm going to still be using my small brush and watered down paint and i'm going to thicken this line up to be i would say maybe almost a half of an inch so i'm using a good amount of paint and i'm just pushing my brush pretty darn hard into the canvas because i'm using a smaller brush so i have the ability of pushing it pretty hard which allows me to get a pretty symmetrical line as i'm going through this around this circle in through here and it doesn't have to be perfect i mean when these tires get all dirty and weathered they might end up looking like they've got a little bit of um wobbliness around the edges so i wouldn't be terribly concerned if it was super duper perfect but you might you might need yours to be more perfect than mine i i don't typically need my anything in my paintings to be too perfect so i'm just going to kind of keep continuing on around here and then once i've got the black area done what i'm going to do is i'm going to do an interior line right next to it about the same width with white but i'm not going to wash my brush so i'm using white and black on my brush at the same time so it's going to look like the little white the interior white wall of the tires only maybe a little dirtier so i've got black and white on my brush and i'm going to have this about the same width as the as the black area and if you bump into a little bit of the black area along the way it's all right just kind of kind of work you know work with it it doesn't again have to be perfect i'm just going for something that is representational of the style of bike that sits in my garage all winter long mine mine definitely is a beach style bike with a big huge cruise like big flat seat that's so comfortable to ride on it's got big tall handlebars and it sits in my garage all winter long and then i take it out in the springtime not as many times as i would like to but take it out in the springtime for some nice for some nice you know rides in the fresh air with my doggies so you can i'm just kind of imagining mine to be similar my bicycle that i'm painting to be similar to the one that sits in my garage all winter long and then once i've got those white area done you can wash and dry the brush what i'm doing is i'm going to do some spokes on the middle of it so i'm using very watered down black paint um so it will have some translucency to it and it's not ever going to be too too dark you could use black and white if you wanted to i'm going to just eyeball where i feel that the center of the tire is and then make sure i have a good amount of water on my brush and i'm just going to kind of pull out these spooks and you can have them i feel like it's a little bit too dark i'm going to add a little bit of white paint to it because i want i don't want it to be too too noticeable or too overpowering so right now i have watered down black and white paint on my brush and i'm just doing these diagonal lines from that center area that i designated and i'm just going to kind of make as many of them as i want i don't want them to be too overbearing or to take away the the look of it too much but i do want you to know that they're there so i know that they're very very skinny so you can certainly they would come on both sides of the of the tire because they have you know some on both sides from that little center area so if they don't look um exactly spaced evenly that's okay because maybe we're seeing some from the other side that works as well and then we're going to use our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your tire and your spokes done you can wash or put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of the blue parts of our bicycle so i'm using my medium brush and i'm pre mixing myself a light beachy blue color so what i did was i i've already pre-mixed it but i want to show you how i got there so this is the color that i'm going for i took some of my blue my cobalt blue and i added a little bit of yellow to it and a little bit of white to it and just spun it around so what this did was it made it more on the greenish side and it made it like a nice soft blue that's going to be really complementary to my um to the rest of the painting so once you've got the color blue that you would like and maybe you want a purple bicycle you can certainly have whatever color bicycle that you would like so again i'm using my medium brush the first thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to put an interior color part on my on my tire so i'm using my medium brush i suppose you could use your small brush for this line if you wanted to and then i'm just making myself a interior line in through here you can have it skinnier or wider than the actual tire itself it's all going to be a visual preference this is just the the metal part that holds the tire onto the bicycle so again you can have yours as skinny or as wide as you want sometimes if you're using a bigger brush as i am like i feel like my brush is a little bit overloaded from mixing my paint so i'm actually going to wash and dry my brush because i don't feel i feel that the bristles are overloaded with paint so i can't get the thin line that i want but i still want to use this brush so i'm washing and drying it and that's going to make my brush back skinny again so that's just a little a little experience tip that i can offer to you so now that i've got it back nice and skinny again now i can go ahead and get this line in the width that i want and then i'm going to go ahead and bring it all the way around on the right hand side and then once i've got this interior line to the bicycle i'm going to make the the brace part that will connect the tire to the regular part of the bicycle so we can actually have a place for the the person to ride if they so choose and you can see as i'm getting towards this bottom that there might be an area i think this blue might just connect to make it look like it's still going round and round um so now that i've got that i need to make myself a a brace from the tire up to where the handlebars are going to be so i know that it's going to start in the center right in through here and i've got mine going to be coming somewhere up in through here where the handlebars are going to start so i'm going to have it diagonal and i'm going to have it um at a little bit of a an additional angle in through here so i'm bringing it something like this for maybe about two inches and then i'm going to change my angle a little bit and it's going to be a little bit straighter in through here so i've got just a little bit of an angle coming in this vicinity and you can have yours i've got mine maybe almost a half of an inch wide if you go through wet black paint as i just did in my tire it's all right i'm gonna make this a little bit wider up at the top just to um because that's i think what my bicycle does and it's going right in front of the tire and again your lines don't have to be perfect at this point because we are going to be doing a little bit of highlights and shadows and some additional details so don't don't fuss too much with the lines at this point then what i'm going to do is i'm going to add a um a place that's going to go off into the left hand side the frame of the bike so i've got two pieces coming off this is going to represent a girl bike sorry all the boys who are watching this this is gonna dip down in through here as opposed to going straight across so it's my female beach bike so that's the one that i'm painting so i'm gonna do a couple of markers in through here this one goes about halfway up the tire that's going to be in through here and then this one is going to be almost at the the height of the the top of the tire in through here something like that i have to put the um um uh i don't know what it's called the the protector thing along the outside of the tire too i i could have done that before this brace part but we'll do that in a minute so once i've got this these two markers in through here i'm gonna have this top part come this is going to be maybe about an inch wide in through here and then it's going to come over like this and then scoop down like this and this one's going to be pretty wide at the top so you can make it like i said maybe about an inch wide up at this top portion and i'm using a good amount of paint on my brush just just to make sure that i get good coverage in through here and then just making it a little bit more narrow as it comes off the canvas on this left hand side and then i'm going to go ahead and do my second brace to my frame this one's going to be maybe about a half of an inch to an inch below this the top one it's going to be a little bit skinnier here than this one is and of course i'm just guiding you into the shape of my kind of bicycle but you can certainly have fun and build yours whatever way that you would like to and then once i've got this on here then i'm going to go ahead and do the um gosh i'm drawing a blank the fender that's what it is a little fender that's going to go on top of the bite on top of the tire so i've got my fender kind of coming um if this is the top of the the tire it comes a little bit to the right of that and it's kind of at an angle and i'm just gonna it can cover a little bit of the top of the black part of that tire so i'm just gonna kind of bring mine back in through here it is going to go underneath this frame piece but it's easier for me to just paint it through and then just come back on top like that and i'm going to have it coming down i would say maybe just a little bit lower than here so if you come directly over from here and then just drop it just a little bit that can be where this fender part stops and then i'm just again just bringing this down and letting it kind of overlap that tire a little bit and then as it comes towards the bottom it's going to start pulling itself away from the tire just a little bit like that and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer on here the blue layer you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer to our handlebars i'm going to use my medium brush i'm going to be using black paint so i am just loading my brush with some black paint i'm going to kind of just give you the idea of where i'm putting my handlebars first then we'll do some markers and then we'll do our base coat so the handlebars are going to be attached to this part of the frame so i'm going to be giving myself a little bit of um the a straight line in through here and then i'm going to give myself a diagonal line in through here this is where the actual separation of the handlebars is going to take place and then they're going to kind of shoot out in through here and your handle actually are going to be in here so it's going to look there's going to be a lot of perspective to it it's going to look like we're at this looking at it from us from the side so it may not make a whole bunch of sense at first when i'm giving you the markers but once you see how how it plays out it'll make a lot more sense so again i'm using just black paint you could certainly use a little bit and on the thinner side so it flows a little bit better for you i'm going to start right here at the base and i'm going to give myself almost a a straight line i'm kind of giving it a little bit of an angle in through here it's going to be about a half of an inch wide by maybe i would say about an inch or so tall and then once i've got it in through there i'm going to make myself a marker where i'm going to go for the next spot which is going to be in through here so this for for purposes of getting it kind of in a in a good proportion i have it about an inch above my horizon line but to know where it is in relationship to the bicycle i have mine if i was just to kind of travel straight down it's right about where all of these pieces intersect in through here so if you go straight up from there that's going to give you a great place to put um this marker of sorts for that area of the bicycle and then i'm just going to connect that mark to this little um die or vertical line that i had done earlier so again it's going to be about maybe a half of an inch wide is how i'm making this um the width of my frame in through here and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to give myself a couple other markers where the handlebars are going to kind of bend so i'm having my first marker is going to be about an inch away from the top of my canvas and again to give you an idea of where that is in relationship to the frame it's to the left from here about an inch so if you come to the left of here and go straight up until you're about an inch away from the at the top of the canvas make yourself a little bit of a marker and then the other one is to the left of here maybe about a half of an inch and down about an inch so somewhere in through here is where i'm making those two markers and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect these two markers to here with a very long sideways kind of you type type shape so here we go i'm going to start up and through here and my goal is to get right here with a little bit of a curve so i'm going to go straight like this and then start to curve it a little bit right before i get to to that marker and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to bring this back up the other side which is going to make me go right into this other marker up in through here so i just made myself a long sideways u type shape and then what i'm going to do now that i've got those two in through there now i'm going to make myself the actual handle bar part itself so i'm going to take this marker here and connect it to another one that's going to be about an inch i want it a little bit higher than here so if you go up just a little bit and to the left like that go to the edge of the canvas and then connect these two with that diagonal type line something like that and then this one up and through here i'm going to do the same thing i'm doing it at a little bit of an angle so not much of an angle but something like that will do and i'm going to widen the top of this one so i'm going to bring this like this this is going to be where you would hold on to it so this part's going to be wider in through here i'm going to widen my um this little frame into here this looks a little bit too narrow for me so widen that a little bit just make sure that it it looks like it would work and just making sure that i've got it in the correct visual preference for myself and then this one i'm going to have a little bit maybe maybe this one starts like about here this is the part again that's going to be wider that you would hold on to and then of course you can do any little tweaks that you want and i am going to be utilizing um i'm gonna you use this same brush for the next step so once you've got your handlebars all nice and in place and you can make any little adjustments that you want to to make sure that they kind of look the way that you would like them to look and sometimes stepping away and looking at them from a distance will help you to get that proper perspective on them but once you've got them in place you can wash and dry this medium brush get ready for the next step all right so we're gonna do for the next step is we're finishing our bicycle i'm gonna be using my medium brush if you want to after you see what i'm going to do for this step you could certainly utilize your medium and or your small brush wherever your comfort zone is is totally fine i'm going to be adding highlights and shadows and any little details that i feel will be needed to finish my bicycle i definitely am going to be using black and white and my original bike color but when i get to the handlebars because they're going to be of a silvery nature i can certainly use any color to reflect in them so i could use some of my sky color if i wanted to um but i'll let you know how that's going to go as i get there so what i'm going to first do is i'm starting with a touch of black and my original blue on my brush very little of both i'm going to start putting my shadows into place um and then i'll start adding some little details so i'm going to put a little shadow of this frame piece right on my the back end of my um or the top part of my fender somewhere in through here so i'm just adding a little bit of the blue and the black to make it look a little bit darker in through this area i'm going to add a bit more black and blue on my brush to put a little bit of a shadow underneath the end of my fender down in through here i'm going to put a little bit of black and blue and the reason i'm using black and blue on my brush at the same time is because i want this shadow to look up pretty natural and to me a shadow is typically going to be whatever that color is only a little bit darker so i'm going to have a shadow on this piece to the left so i'm going to have it coming down in through here and having that original color on your brush also allows you to have a nice kind of smooth transition so i'm just kind of coming down in through here i'm going to carry this shadow up all the way on the left side of this piece of the fender so it skips this little piece here and then maybe comes up in through there or a piece of frame and then you can put a little bit of shadow in your wheel itself so if if my light source is coming you know from up above so to speak i could certainly have a little bit of a shadow in through here on this blue area i could have a little bit of highlight well let's stick with the shadows first so um blue and my black is still my shadow so i could have a little bit of a shadow on this side of the inside of the tire for the blue area let's see where else for the blue so i'm going to put a little bit of shadow underneath here for this part of the frame so again i'm just right now using blue and black putting my shadows on the blue areas and you can certainly again you make yours a little bit lighter or darker or wherever your comfort zone is and then of course i want it to blend in with the original blue itself so i'm just going to kind of keep working my way um over the blue areas and then i'll transition into uh not quite sure maybe my tire next so that works for me on that one i've got my shadows on all of my blue areas i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put my highlights on well i think i mean need a little shadow in through right underneath this little piece here too as as i'm doing it's like oh wait don't forget about that little shadow in through there so anything both you know on the bottom side of these shiny pieces will work and then i'm going to put a little bit of a highlight on my tire so i'm going to put black and white on my on my brush at the same time to put a little bit of a highlight on the outside of my tire so it looks like it's catching some of the morning morning sun and of course if you feel that you've gone too much you just add a little bit of that black back onto your brush and get them to blend in as you as you go through that process if you wanted to you could certainly add more little highlights onto your tire by maybe adding a bit definitely a highlight on the fender on top of your tire this is going to get it to separate away from the water if it was in front of the water at all so that would work in that area i have a couple of little details that i need on my tire in through here so this i'm just going to put a little bit of black on my brush to get a little bit of a shadow underneath this connector piece whatever that would be called i'm not sure but it's part of the frame of the bike i guess and in order for this to hang on and be nice and stable i've got a little connector piece going from here to my fender so i'm just going to give this a little bit of a line that goes like this and it goes in front of my tire and connects in through there gonna put a tiny bit of white paint on my brush just to give it a little bit of a highlight to make it look a little more three-dimensional and then maybe i'll put a little black detail thing in the center and through there pick up a little white and do a little highlight on the edge here so really what i'm doing is i just am adding some visual information for the highlight areas i've got my light sources up in the air and kind of to the to the i know my son is over here but i need to have some sort of light hitting this bicycle because it has contour so these are really more the contour highlights of of it as opposed to necessarily just being from the light source so i'm going to add a little bit of a highlight on the front of this piece coming down in through here so i've got white on my brush but in a second i'm also going to add the blue to it so i can get it to blend into the blue area of of the bicycle so i'm just kind of pulling this back in through here to give that highlighted area on the part that i feel is kind of bumping out the most and then once i've got that on there i can pick up some of the original blue of the bike and get it to kind of blend in a little bit more with it so it's not necessarily you just got to do a line of of a highlight you can you're you're in essence kind of adding the contour to these sections of the bicycle so i definitely have my brighter area in the direction that i want it but then i've got to get it to kind of fade into the rest of the bicycle so i just kind of keep tweaking this as as much as i want to make sure that it reads as three-dimensional and shiny and it's got all kinds of summer summer glow on it and then i'll go ahead once i've got my bike as highlighted as i want to or i have all the details on my bike you can see i just kind of keep elevating it with the with the white and the original blue color just to give it that extra bit of of um shininess i'm going to go ahead and add in a second i'll start working on my handle bars i want to just add a little bit of detail in through here that's looking pretty good making sure i've got every everywhere i wanted with the little bits of highlights and and shadows and again just adding a little lightness here and a little darkness there can can help to um accentuate all of the all of the the details on it or give it extra details to make it look more interesting or have more more of a story to tell and then i've got my handle bar so i'm making my handlebars on the metallic shiny side so i started with a black base i'm going to work with black and white on my brush at the same time to give it a silvery type effect and i know that i've got um my i want there to be some shine to it so in order to create that shine i have to be able to see dark areas and light areas it can't just be white and make it look shiny so i'm utilizing the black and the white on my brush right now just to give it almost um a gray type look that with little spots of darkness that i will be able to illuminate with the shine and color of the stuff that's around them so if you want something to look really shiny and make it appear as if it is reflecting the stuff around it you have to incorporate those colors that are its neighbors that that is um in its vicinity you have to incorporate those colors on it in order to tell the viewer that it is in fact reflecting that thing that is next to it so i definitely want it to be on the shiny side i need some a bit of darkness on on the shadow side as well so i don't want to lose that thought but i can with my brush i'm just washing dry my brush i can incorporate if i want some of those sky colors so i could take a little bit of orange and yellow on my brush and just kind of put a bit of that up and through there maybe a bit of it up and through here maybe a bit in through here which is will tell the viewer that it is in fact a shiny object i could even take some of my blue from my bike and put that in my handle bar as well and that will help to tell the story that it is reflecting that particular object i'm going to put a little bit of detail up in that handle bar where you're going to hold on to it so i'm just using black and white to give myself maybe a little bit of a gray or a gray like leather kind of look to it which can i'm going to leave a lot of the black around it so this is just kind of giving me a couple of little details in through there maybe this looks shiny maybe it looks more of um of a leathery kind of look to it but you can certainly i i'm not going to incorporate any other colors in um in these grip parts because i don't want them to look shiny i just want them to look like they have some black grip to them and then you can keep fiddling with this as much as you want to i might add little bits of highlights here and there maybe a little maybe a little extra white shine in the front to make sure it really is reading as a bright morning morning day but you we are going to be using our tiny brush for the next step so once you've got your bicycle all nice and perfected you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner i think i'm going to sign this one in the bottom left corner i'm using my small brush i'm using 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 would like to be your identifying mark is totally fine and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a beautiful beach oasis and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 93min 59sec (5639 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 24 2021