Learn How to Paint this Beautiful LOVE LETTER with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home Step by Step Lesson

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint and sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting love letter and i'm going to be sipping on a little bit of merlot and if you do enjoy this video i 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 for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and prime 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 will be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white purple violet burnt umber which i'll call brown mars black fire red and deep yellow and of course you can switch up those colors if you like but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a standard number two pencil and i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number eight round brush and a number one brown brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and 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 through your painting process one of them is a link where you can purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using with the same type of paint and brushes and all that good stuff so that's down there there's also a link that 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 i'm going to do for my first step is i am doing an outline of the scrolled piece of paper so i'm going to be using my pencil and we're not going to do the entire detail of it right now we're just going to give it a basic shape for the outline so i'm going to give you a couple of markers and we're going to kind of connect the dots and we will do a little free form drawing um as well so the first mark that i'm going to have you make is about the center of your canvas you're going to come down about i would say two and a half inches or so just make yourself a little bit of a marker that's about as tall as we want the top portion to be it's going to go over to the right a little bit but that'll give you a good gauge as to saving some space up at the top then over on the left hand side i'm going to come in maybe about an inch and a half from the left hand side and i'm down a little bit lower than here and i'm going to make myself another mark so maybe about four inches down and then i'm going to make myself one more mark it's going to be a little bit kind of diagonal from here in through here so this is just going to kind of give us a couple of marks that we will hit in a moment i'm going to come a little bit to the right of here and then straight down somewhere around here this is going to be the bottom of my um side the side scroll that we're going to be making again this is just giving you kind of like a a marker where to stop so what i'm going to do is i am going to be connecting this dot i'm going to come up like this around in a in a kind of a swirl like that i'm going to come down in through here out to the left of here and then i'm going to bring this right about into this vicinity so that's going to be the first mark that i make i'm going to start in through here and this does not have to be perfect we're going to be making the edges jagged anyways in a little bit but just so we can have a place to start and i'm going to bring it about as high as here just so you kind of get an idea of how high i'm making this little scroll mark and then i'm going to come over into this vicinity and i've got it coming way way far down when i come and bring it out here i'm going to bring it out about as far as i have the of the top one so somewhere in this vicinity and then it's going to curl around and hit my marker down here and then what i'm going to do is from this marker i'm going to finish my finish a this scrolly kind of mark that i'll be making so something like that so you've got almost equal look from the top to the bottom then what i'm going to do is about mid range from here i'm going to come over to the right hand side so i'm just going to kind of travel over to the right hand side till i'm about i would say a third or a quarter of the way from the right hand side i make myself a little bit of a mark in through here i'm going to connect this corner to here with a little bit of an arcing motion something like this like that and then what i'm going to do is i am going to travel over from the right so you're going to kind of eyeball here go over to the right like this until you're about a little bit shy of that and go up a little bit so you want to be a slightly higher than here and almost as far over to the right as there so you're going to be right about in through here then i'm going to connect here to here with a slightly arching line very very slight it does not have to be anything very dramatic and if you miss your mark like i did just bring this up a little bit um and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect these two with a little bit of a curved line over in through there and then what i'm gonna do is i am going to come in from here maybe i would say about an inch or so and travel up up up and away you could even go a little bit farther in but that's about good and you're going to be about at this height and through here make yourself a little bit of a mark and then just connect these two like this and now you're going to connect here to i would say maybe about an inch in through here with a similar curve that you have in through here so i'm just going to kind of watch this curve make myself a similar one over on this side and it doesn't have to be perfect just something that is similar in nature it doesn't have to be very very you know exact and we just got a one i think one more line to make we're going to take this and just give yourself a horizontal line in through here so the goal here is you want to have this all closed off at this point and then we're going to be using our large brush for the next step so you can put your pencil away 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 painting our background i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i am using are purple brown and white so i really want this to have like a romantic feel to it so for me purple and red really kind of speaks into that love that love like language so what i'm going to do is i'm going to be using purple as my background but i don't want it to be really vibrant and and take away from my focal point so i'm going to dull it down so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take all of the purple that i have and i'm going to be using brown a good amount of brown and a touch of white and the reason why i'm going to be using white in my mixture is because i know that the paint i am using is very translucent so you can really see through it so i want to make sure that i have a little bit better opacity to it so adding a tiny bit of white to it will help you with that and i'm going for a nice warm purple and you can tweak yours into whatever value that you want or maybe you want yours really really vibrant or darker maybe you want to add a little black to it or a little red to it and that'll make it look more like a maroon type color so wherever your visual preference is feel free to make your color that way this is the color that i'm going to be making and i do also know that my paint will turn out a little bit darker when it dries than when it is when it's wet so i'm also visually planning for that as well and then once i've got the color that i want i think i want a little bit more brown in mine once i get the color that i want i'm going to just be painting a base coat or a flat coat of this purple this nice warm purple on my background so i'm thinking this background is a nice wall slash table or something of that nature we're not going to really have much of it delineation between the wall and then and the table but i'm going to just go for a nice dark you know romantic kind of color so i've got myself this beautiful dark purple a nice warm color and i most likely will end up doing at least two layers on my background if you find that your paint is nice and thick and it gives you good coverage you may not need to or want to do a second coat but i know that mine is going to be pretty darn see-through and i'm going to have evidence of brush strokes within my paint on this first go-around so i will get this first coat on i'm going to let it dry or dry it with a blow dryer and then i will do a second coat to it so that way i'll get nice a nice even coverage but using these darker colors and a firm bristle brush which is what i'm using it does tend to provide kind of the uh the um the look of your brush stroke you can really see your your brush stroke within it especially since i haven't used a lot of white in my mixture so that's why i will end up doing a second coat and knowing that i'm doing a second coat i'm not terribly concerned how awesome the first coat looks i am trying to keep my my paint of equal thickness so i have a nice consistent um layer to it but i'm okay if my paint strokes go in different directions again because i know that i'll be using um a second layer on top of this so that way once i get that second layer on you won't be able to detect my brush strokes anymore so i'm just kind of going right around my my piece of paper and if you bump into it a little bit that is quite all right because we're going to have lots of details and stuff that are going to be filling in those edges and if you want you can paint the edges of your canvas along the sides too that provides for a nice finished look on your paintings a lot of people will do that if they don't plan on putting a frame around their canvas after they're done painting it provides you with that nice finished edge to the painting so a lot of people will paint the edges of their canvas i am one of those people who normally does as well so if you want those edges to look nice and complete feel free to paint those and then again once you've got this first coat on if you feel that you want a second coat feel free to just dry your canvas or wait for it to dry and add a second coat and then once you've got that done we are going to be utilizing the same brush for the next step so you can just get ready all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our paper i'm going to be using my large bristle brush and the colors that i'm using are brown yellow and white and i'm going to pre-mix myself like a tan color which will be um the base coat for this so what i'm going to do i'm going to go for something in this vicinity it's got a little bit of yellow a little bit of brown and a little bit of white and i'm just going to spin it together until i've got something that is almost like a light gold like the metallic gold kind of color so somewhere in this vicinity is where i'm going you just want to make sure that you are mixing enough that you'll have plenty for the um for the rest of the for that entire area so even if you've got a you know mix a little bit more than you think you need it would be wise to just mix a good amount in through here so once you've got the desired color and again just plan for it to get a little bit darker as it dries so if you if you like the color that you see here and that's the color that you want the the paper to be you might want to make it a little bit lighter than um than than that in order for it to dry in the tone that you'd like it to and then once you've got your your color that you'd like i think this is pretty good for me i'm going somewhere in this vicinity i'm just going to take it and i'm going to paint in this entire area what may happen is you may lose this line and this line and end this line in through here and that's okay if if you do because what will happen is you will still have your visual marker of these um like this corner and this line and through here so if you lose it don't worry if you want to leave a little space you can certainly do that i know that my paint is a little bit see-through so i'm still going to be able to see well i can see this one i can't really see the top one but if you can see it great if you can't no worries you just kind of know that i will guide you when the time comes to get your um to get those markers back in the right place so i'm just mixing myself a little bit more paint not quite sure if i had enough on my palette but i want to make sure that i do now and then there's no special brush stroke involved here we are going to be doing another layer on top of this with the highlights and the shadows and we're going to be doing some rough edges to it so don't feel like it has to be perfect at this point you do want to make sure that you bring it all the way to your background so just make sure that you've got no unpainted area between your background and your piece of paper so i'm going to bring this right up to those edges and again it doesn't have to be a perfect line because we're going to be making it rough anyways in a little bit so just know that that's going to then that that's going to happen as well so i'm just going to kind of continue on my on my little journey in through here and once we have this step done we're going to switch brushes to our medium brush so i'm going to again just bring this all the way up here i'm going to just make sure this corner up here is curved so just making sure that that remains in a curved fashion and then once i've got this done again i'm just kind of getting the paint on here not doing anything really special with this i'm going to make sure this corner kind of stays curved too just making sure that i've got my paint all the way to the edge of where my where my background sits and so i go a little bit slower when it goes when it comes to these smaller um little detail areas of the exterior just so i can not get too far out of my lines and i'm just gonna make sure i go all the way to the edge that looks pretty good make sure i have a nice good coverage you most likely will not need to do a second coat with this particular paint mixture because you've got a lot of white within the mixture so that makes it so it's not so see-through and then i'm just going to kind of finish up down here and then again we're going to utilize our medium brush for the next steps so once you've got this done you can put your large brush away in your water cup almost done here and just making sure i go all the way down to the edges here i would say if you if you were concerned about having a clean edge to this piece of paper it'd probably be where it rolls so like the bottom edge here as well as the top edge over there but all the edges on the sides they definitely don't need to be nice and clean they can have some roughness to them so as you're doing this if if you do feel like you you want it to be nice and smooth at some point it would just be where you where it rolls and then i am just about all set here so i'm going to put my large brush away i will take out my medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of the inkwell so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using just black paint so how i'm going to do this when i load my brush i will i want to kind of have control over my bristles so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my brush and spin it in the side of my palette to make sure my brush is nice and pointy and then i'm going to have my inkwell sitting on the surface in through here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go below this corner of the um of the paper maybe about an inch or so and i'm going to draw a very gentle curved line over towards the edge of my canvas that's going to end maybe about an inch before the edge of my canvas over here then i'm going to go directly up from the center of here so come up up and i've got mine maybe i don't know an inch or so shorter than here or a little bit less but a little bit shorter than the corner of here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to do a horizontal line that is not as wide as here you could curve it a little bit if you want to but curving it on the top side a little bit if you want to and then once you've got that what you'll do is just connect this corner to here and these inkwells come in all different kinds of shapes but what i found was that they really kind of buckle out and are bigger at the bottom so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to just kind of come down almost horizontally a little bit for maybe about a half of an inch to an inch and then i'll do like a a diagonal type line to me that bottom corner and then i'll do the same thing on the other side so you can kind of shape yours whatever way that you want but if you can get both sides to look pretty similar to one another that would definitely make it look a little bit more realistic and then once you've got that in there what i'll do is i'm also going to add another little detail of a little bumped out part of the glass so something like that and go to the other side and do a similar bump and then i'm just going to color it in black we're going to assume that the the ink inside this inkwell is black because i'm going to have um black lettering on my on my paper so i will be i'm thinking that this inkwell is just a piece of glass so you're just seeing all the ink that's inside of it and it's black ink and then we're going to be switching let's see we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer to your ink well you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so i know i told you i wanted to use the small brush for the next step but i don't want to use this one i don't want to use the medium brush sorry about that so um what we're going to be doing is we're doing shadows of the paper on this on the surface that it sits on so i'm going to be doing my light source that i'm imagining is up in the right hand side so my shadows of the piece of paper on the surface is going to be in this corner and through here maybe a little bit down the side in through here definitely on the surface down here and underneath this front little edge that's rolling under so i'm going to be using black and brown paint with my medium brush and i'm going to use both of those colors on my brush at the same time and a shadow is meant to look like the whatever surface it's on only darker so it doesn't have to be a hundred percent black some of it can be translucent or see-through so you can see the purple underneath it the closer the shadow is to the object the darker it will be so i'm gonna i have both colors on my brush and i may tweak this make it a little bit lighter or a little bit darker as i go through the process but i'm gonna start with my shadow right in through here so i've got black and brown on my brush right now and i'm just kind of bringing it along this edge because i know that this would be casting a shadow from above and i've got this big um area of the paper that would be casting the shadows so i'm going to bring my shadow down i would say maybe about oh maybe about a third of the way down the paper something like that and then i'm just going to perhaps wipe my brush on my paper towel if i need to but i'm going to fade this shadow into the the wall that it is resting against or whatever surface it is resting against and if you want that shadow to travel up a little bit to just indicate that that piece of paper does in fact hat it is in fact kind of lifting off in this in this area you can certainly do that wherever you see a shadow that's going to tell the viewer that it is lifted away from the surface a little bit so i've got that in through there that's looking pretty good to me i'm going to go ahead and add my shadow over here on this left hand side so again just some black and brown i think i just picked up a color i didn't want to by accident so i just wiped my brush off on my paper towel so this is going to be over here on the left hand side again and i feel like this piece of paper would probably be lifting off the off the surface a little bit but this is going to cast a shadow off to this bottom left again to control my quantity of paint i have my paint my paper towel ready at all times to make sure i can wipe away any excess paint off of my brush and i'm just rubbing it into the surface and i'm going to bring it up just a little bit and if you bump into your piece of paper don't worry because we're going to be adding some ruffled edges in a minute anyways and i'm going to bring this just up just a little bit to indicate again that it's kind of away from the wall a bit and then if you feel like you've done too much you can always add a touch of water to your brush that will help you to keep that paint moving and also make it a little bit more translucent in areas that you feel that you may want it to be then i'm going to add a shadow underneath here so again black and brown are on my brush and this is going to be more of a firm kind of shadow because i know that this line or the edge of this paper would be on the smoother side where it's rolled so i'm just kind of taking a little bit more time and care as i do this this mark right in through here and i'm going to make it a little bit more narrow as it comes around this corner in through here to indicate that that piece of paper is closer to the surface and i can make it a little bit wider or thicker in this center area which would indicate that this part is lifted up off of the surface a little bit higher so you can play with the visual um cues by the size of the shadow so you can really have some some fun with learning how to how to do stuff like that and once i've got this on here now i believe i'm going to be utilizing my small brush for the next step and i think i really mean it this time so you can put your medium brush away 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 making our ripped edges of the paper so i'm going to be using my small brush the colors that i'm going to be using are my wrap background purple i'll be using brown i may end up needing to use some of this color too and black so the idea here is we want these edges to look like they're all little torn edges so if i have a torn edge over here it's going to see whatever color colors behind it so we'll start over here with a little bit of our background color which is the purple or the warm purple or whatever you want to call it and really all i'm going to be doing is arbitrarily just making some little kind of uneven jagged little marks maybe you want it to just look like it's almost rippled maybe you want a big kind of tear in it you might need to since we know that this purple might be a little translucent you might need to do a couple of layers in some areas but just getting as many little marks that you want along the edge so that's along this edge i would not do it here because that's the piece of paper that's rolled i could do a couple in through this area and they don't all have to be the same they can come in at different angles they can be wider some can be wider or thinner than the others that's it's a you know it's a tattered old piece of paper so you can have definitely some different edges to it i'm to have wherever else since i have my purple on my brush i'm going to just do wherever else i feel might have a purple edge to it which is over here this is going to um transition into black as well so i'm just going to do a couple little pieces into here i'm going to pick up a touch of black as i come down this side my background color is going to be black so again you can have this as ripply as you want you do not want to put ripples here because this is going to be a piece that is rolled up so stop right here and then skip to this area in through here to make it as ripply or as ripped as you want and i'm just kind of letting my brush do its thing i'm not really thinking about it too too hard i'm just making sure that i've got some good diversity in my little tears and my marks maybe i've got a good size one coming in through here it can go in far it can be just a little a little tiny mark whatever is again visually appealing to you feel free to to make it that way i'm going to come all the way down in through here maybe these edges down this side just are a little more ripply as opposed to ripped so again feel free to make it whatever way looks good to you and you might you know find yourself spending a few minutes just tweaking it and getting it whatever way you want i might end up coming back with a little bit of purple in this mid section just to show that that's um nice and close to the wall on that side but i don't know yet i'll give it a couple minutes see if it if it tells me i need to do that or not so i'm making some rips down here and you don't want to go past this corner down at the bottom so just get it however tattered you want in through here and then we are going to we've gotta somehow get to this scrolly part in through here and in through here so i'm gonna wash my brush my little brush and i'm gonna i'm gonna start with some brown paint because what i'm gonna do with the brown paint is i'm gonna give myself those visual cues and start the edge of this paper we had a line previously that connected this to here so that's in essence the front part of the paper rolling up in through there so that's where i'm going to start i've got brown paint on my brush i'm going to give myself a couple of markers so i know so i have a starting point and an ending point so i'm going to have my starting point somewhere in through here and then i'm going to have my ending point somewhere in through here and from here to here i i know i want to keep it in an arcing motion something like this but i want some tears and stuff in it so i want it to be on the on the ripply side so i'm just going to use the um the point of my brush to kind of make myself a little ripply edge here's maybe i'll have a little tear in through there and then i of course want to make my way down here oops i had some wet paint on my hand it's okay i'll get rid of that in a minute so i just want to get this edge in through here making sure that it looks like it belongs to that and it certainly does i'm going to get rid of this paint right now with a little bit of water on my brush before it dries too much and i can't get rid of it later there we go so you just saw me make a correction so now that i've got that edge i'm going to do the same thing to here just so we don't get confused where we're going what i'm going to first do is i'm going to travel from here to where i used i had that line going in through here so i'm going to give myself a slender line just so again i have a visual marker so i'm going to come up from here and this marker where i'm going should be a tiny bit higher than that one it doesn't have to be a lot or a tiny bit lower sorry it doesn't have to be a lot lower just a tiny bit something like that and then i'm just going to give myself a slender line from this corner and it can dip in a little bit too from this corner to this corner so something like that is going to give us that visual stopping point now the same exercise that i did here i'm going to do from here to here so i'm going to give myself a visual marker so my ending point is somewhere in through here and my starting point is right there so i'm going to give myself a ripply edge to my piece of paper something like this and you can keep it at a similar curve as over there and again your ripples don't have to be exactly like mine you can make them or your tears whatever you want to consider them to be you can have yours as accentuated or as gentle as you want so something like that now we need to give it the almost the the spiral look to the piece of paper so how i'm gonna do this is i'm going to we'll do this part first i'm going to come about halfway up this curve and i'm going to give myself a horizontal line that's going to be maybe about almost half the distance between these two this is going to represent the bottom part of the scroll and then i'm going to connect here to here with the exterior of that piece of paper which is going to look very ripply you can bring it out pretty far if you want to something like this and you know it doesn't have to be again as ripply as mine it can be it can be less if you want it to be but something like that then i'm going to come and give myself another little swirl so this one i'm going to start about here and this is going to have a little ripple something like this i'm not going to do too too crazy in the detail you can see how this is going at the top of this swirl i am going to do a horizontal line that's going to connect it to the inside of the piece of paper like that and i'm going to do a horizontal line from this mark to the inside pieces of paper like that so i've just created myself a swirl for that piece of paper i'm going to do the same thing up here only this i'm not going to have well maybe it will curve in just as much but i'm going to come up or down about a halfway or a third of the way and i'm going to give myself a horizontal line that's going to come out about halfway into that vacant space so something like that and then i'm going to connect this corner to i would say maybe somewhere in here i keep getting my i must um i hold my hand i rest my hand on my canvas a lot and there must be a lot of wet black paint somewhere that i keep putting my hand in but anyways so i'm reloading my brush with some more brown paint so i can connect this corner to here with a arcing rippled motion so something like this and i'm just again giving myself a couple of ripples maybe this one comes in like this or tears in my in my paper so that looks good to me just reloading with some brown paint i'm going to give myself another horizontal line about halfway between here and here and it's going to come out a little bit farther than than the top one so something like that and then i'll give myself a rippled edge of the piece of paper that goes something like this so we just created a mark like that and then if you have any little tweaks that you you know second coats that you feel that you might need to do in through here feel free to do that and then we're going to switch brushes to our large brush for them now let's go with our medium brush for the next step so medium brush next step just get ready all right so what i'm going to do for the next step is i am adding the shadows onto my paper i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm primarily going to be using brown and the uh the original tan color that we made for the part for the um i called it parchment paper it is it's an old it's an old style parchment paper when i think parchment paper these days i think you bake with it well they used to write on it so um i am going to again my light source is over on the right hand upper side so my darkest areas are going to be on the left side i'm going to have shadows in through here in through here at the bottom and those are going to dominate where i have the shadows but i will also have a shadow kind of tucked in at the bottom of this piece of paper so it's going to be bright up here and then as it recedes into the canvas it will be darker down in through here so i'm going to start with just brown paint on my brush the biggest trick that i can give you for this step is never have a ton of paint on your brush especially when you're doing these smaller areas you can always add more like i'll probably use a good amount when i get into the larger areas but when i'm in the smaller areas i'm just using a teeny tiny bit of paint on my brush and i will always have my paper towel at the ready just to make sure if i need to do anything i've got the ability to do so so i've got just brown paint on my brush right now i'm going to start rubbing it into where i feel the darkest area would be which is going to be right in through here and i feel that this little corner might pop out a little bit so before i leave this section i just picked up a tiny bit of my original color with my dirty brush and i'm going to blend it in so that made this part of the paper in through here just recede back underneath this so i'm going to do the same thing for my next section so my next section i feel that would be really dark is in through here and if your paper is darker than mine i suppose you could get away with using a touch of black on your brush but i feel that i will probably be able to get away with a little bit with just using brown so this is going to be pretty darn dark up in through here and this paper this layer would probably cast a shadow on this piece here too so i'm going to pull a little bit of a shadow in through there as well so something like that i am going to i just picked up a little bit more brown to get this area down here a little bit darker as well and the brown the more layers that you put with the brown the darker it will get so you can progressively get those shadow areas to be darker and darker by just layering on more layers of the um of the brown so i just picked up some of my original tan color into here just to make sure that i've got these blended well together and i might end up adding more of the darkness or more of the lightness as i'm doing this i still want that edge to look nice and rippled so i'm not going to take away all of that and i will end up putting a highlight at the top of this piece of paper as well so i i know that i don't need to get rid of that all that lightness at the top but i do want a nice dark shadow in through here so i'm just kind of continuing to play with it until i feel that it is in fact dark enough maybe i would have a tiny bit in through here but not much so that's looking pretty good to me just work this just a tiny bit more and again i'm using a combination of brown and my original um tan color and again we're going to be putting highlights on in a little bit so don't worry if it doesn't look exactly perfect at this point because we will add like i said additional highlights that are going to help to make it a little bit more realistic so i'm just adding a touch more brown into here because i really feel like this would be the darkest area right in through there and i'm going to move down to this section using a starting with just brown on my brush getting this little tiny interior section the darkest because that's it's the the furthest inside so my brain tells me it should be the darkest and then i'm going to go ahead and put some of that dark brown in through here knowing that it this piece of paper would cast a shadow on this a little bit so i'm going to put some in through here as well not a ton but just a little bit to make sure the illusion is alive and just getting that in through there maybe this has a touch of a shadow at the bottom of it and maybe a little in through there and then i want to make sure that i've got this shadow blending with the with the surrounding areas so i'm gonna pick up a touch of my background color just to make sure that i've got enough of a blend i feel like i need a little bit more shadow in through here so i'm picking up a little bit of my brown and my background color because i don't want it to go as dark as that first tiny section that i did and of course you could certainly use a smaller brush for these smaller areas so wherever your comfort zone is that's where that's where you should go it does you don't have to muscle through a small area with a larger brush like i'm doing if you're if you're more comfortable with a small brush feel free to use a small brush i need to make sure this top shadow makes sense and it doesn't just look like i have an outline around the paper so i'm going ahead and adding just a bit more shadow in through there and again i just keep tweaking it with my brown and my background color there we go that's that's looking pretty good and then i've got to put my shadow in through here here and over in through here as well so i think i'm going to start over here just because i'm closest to it and i feel like i'm ready for it i've got brown and my original color on my brush so i'm just going to go ahead and almost kind of swish this around here making it appear a bit darker than the original color it can be a little bit lighter on the edges we're going to be popping a little bit of a highlight on those edges in a little bit anyways and this shadow is in essence going to kind of travel over into this area over here so i'm going to use a little bit of my original color plus brown on my brush to accomplish this shadow i want again i want it to be darker than my background but i don't want it to really be the darkest shadow like like i have in through here so you might find yourself manipulating it a little bit maybe you need to do more than one coat you know you just kind of blend it and get it to to work as much as you need to i am going to blend it up into the original color so i want this to be a gradual shadow as opposed to just a shadow of an object i want it to actually fade up as if we are seeing that piece of paper just curving down into this area so i know that i need to utilize my original background color of my paper in order to accomplish that effect and i know that my my paint will get a little bit darker as it dries so it looks a little bit light at the moment but i am not worried about that i'm adding some more of the brown and the original color over here because i want this to be a little bit darker over here and then i have a little shadow that i'm going to be adding at the bottom of this piece as well so i'm just kind of getting this to to blend nicely in through here before i move on that's looking pretty good it's making sure it's going to blend well at the top and we are going to also be doing like i said a minute ago the highlights for the entire piece of paper so if you don't have a perfect blend from here to up top don't worry about it because when we put the highlight on we're going to be hitting this mid section again anyways plus this is a really old piece of paper so it doesn't there is no need for it to be super perfect at any part because it can be ripply and wrinkly and it's torn on the edges so just know that the more weathered it looks the more natural it's going to look like maybe somebody found it in their attic somewhere maybe it's maybe it's a romantic love note from you know their their grandparents or their their mom wrote it to you know their their dad years ago so you know just it's meant to be romantic and old and you know just enjoy making this this tattered piece of paper and then we're going to use the same brush for the next step so once you've got your shadows in place you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to be doing for the next step is we are adding our highlights to the paper so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using white and my original tan color and if i need to i will also go into brown as well so again my light source is over here so the majority of my brightest area is going to be at the top of this section where it rolls over as well as this section where it rolls over so it doesn't necessarily just have to be at the tippy top i'm going to have it a little bit of the brightest spot a little away from the tippy top so that will give the illusion of it being round i'm also going to have bright edges along that right edge of the paper in through here as well as a couple little highlights on these rippled edges so it almost makes it look like they've been curled up a little bit or have a little bit more texture to them and i'll do the same thing in through here i'll add bits of extra highlights at where the paper rolls as well as at those edges so i'm going to start with white paint on my brush and i've got a good amount because i know that i want a big highlight up at this top so i'm going to just kind of start getting it into place in through here and i'm not fearful of going too light because i always can bring back my original color from from the start so i've got my white on my brush and i know that my white is also a little translucent so it may end up turning a little bit darker as it dries so i'm not terribly concerned about that i'm adding some bright little edges over in through here and then once i've kind of got it pretty much where where i want it to go now what i'm going to do the the this big area at the top before i go any further into the rest of my painting i'm picking up some of this original tan color to get these to blend in together so you may end up using a combination i've got both colors on my brush right now a combination of both colors in order to get them to blend in together so it's a a gradual transition from one color to the next as opposed to you just having a big bright white area and it not blending with the neighboring color or going gradually because i want the illusion to be that this paper is in essence rounded so in order to accomplish that i've got to get these colors to blend with one another as opposed to be as opposed to them being separate from one another so i right now i'm i'm really kind of alternating the original um tan color with white in order to get this into the proper balance that i want i think i want it to be a little bit darker up here in the top left hand um corner of the the top of the piece of paper just to give it a little bit more information that the light source is over on that right hand side but i do need these colors to blend so i'm consciously thinking about that the entire time that i want them to blend nicely with one another and you might find that you need to do a couple of different layers to it you might get it on the first shot it's you know it's gonna be one of those do it let it dry and then if you feel like you want to bump it up and make it a little bit brighter or darker you can certainly do that and i always recommend you know when you're doing a step like this to once you feel like you've got it on there and it's looking great to again just kind of sit on it for a little bit and let it dry look at it from a distance that's going to help you to determine whether or not you want to make any adjustments because your paint will dry differently and again i'm putting these little bits of highlight over on this side just to show that those pieces of paper might be lifted off at the edges a little bit and just getting this to blend in making sure i've got this area where i want it to be the brightest making sure that it really blends nicely and is a gradual type transition from from the light to from the light to the dark so that's looking pretty good to me i want to add a tiny bit of highlight over here i might be able to get away with just using the um the remnants on my brush so because this to me would catch a little bit of the of the light from wherever that light source is coming from so i'm just using a little bit of the remnants on my brush to add bits of highlights on these little corners here i think i'm going to add a touch right in through here too and again you can you can have it as bright as you want but to me this would be a little bit darker in through here than this area just because of where it's located from the uh from the light source maybe this has a cut a little a little edge right there too it's looking pretty good and again you can you can tweak yours as much as you want to in that there that area i got to catch this side over here too so i don't need much over here i just want to make sure that that transition is is appropriate and that maybe i've got a couple of little edges along along the um that far right hand side that will catch the the bit of the light from the light source so i'm just kind of going through with my original color right now making sure that it is blended nice with this highlighted area up and through here and then i'm going to add to me like this little corner here might catch a bit of that of the light so maybe i'll put a touch in through here just to show that that's a little rippled edge and most of this area is going to be hidden my by my quill anyways the feather on my on my pen um but if i have a little peekaboo spot between the feathers i definitely still want it to look like i didn't like i didn't miss that spot while painting so i'm just going to make sure that i've got this on that's looking pretty good i think i think i might want this area just to smudge lighter in through here just to make that piece of paper pop out a bit more you don't want that highlight to just be at the top and stop right there because i want this piece of paper to look like it's coming out a bit further so i just bumped this midsection up a little bit by adding a touch more lightness and then you definitely want to make sure that the transition works so just keep using your original color as you come down and then when you get to that shadowed area if you need to add a bit of the brown just to make sure that it it works that that totally um is what you should do so i've got this going on here that's looking like it's blended pretty well and then i just have the the scrolly part down here that i want to add a bit of highlight to yeah that's looking good i like making these three dimensional things all right so i've got my brush i'm just picking up um some white paint i'm going to add my brightest brightest highlight over in this top right hand corner and if you needed to adjust your your edges of your piece of paper now's the time to do it because you're not going to touch this um again and again my high my brightest brightest highlight is going to be in through here and not at the edge edge of it so i'm putting this white here and then i'm just going to kind of rub it over towards this left hand side and that'll give me a pretty good gradual type blend i'm right now i'm going to pick up some of my original background color to make sure that this gets on here and blended well enough and sometimes just re-wetting that area like right now my what i'm doing in my head and on the canvas but my head is telling me wet this area with your original color and then you can add a little bit of white on top of that while it's still wet and that's going to provide you with a really easy way to add a a highlight without going totally white so again i want this the lightest area to be over here on the right but i still want there to be a highlight going in through this area as well so it looks like that piece of paper is in fact rounded so sometimes just again wetting the surface with the original color will help you to add a add white to it while it's wet and that'll give you a shade lighter or you can you can blend it pre-blended on your on your palette as well so that's looking pretty good i just want to add those bits of um lightness over here as i did up in through here i'm going to catch some of these edges of the paper with a little bit of white to give that that torn three-dimensional appearance and again this might be a little learning curve if you haven't done this type of technique before but just think of it the the pieces that are torn and kind of flipped up a little bit will be catching the light from your light source so that if you can keep those types of thoughts in mind that that helps you to understand where to put the the highlights so this edge might be also catching a little bit of the of the light source and if i want it to look like it's popped up a little bit just get it a little bit lighter than than this area and then this inside edge would probably have a little bit as well because that might that might be catching just a smudge so i'm just adding a bit in through there making sure that it blends in with whatever color i had done originally and then i'll probably add a tiny bit of a highlight right along this little area and it doesn't have to be much when you're doing these um little fine details you don't need much to to give a good effect and then let's see what are we going to do for the next step we are going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful three-dimensional highlights on your piece of paper you can get your large brush or excuse me your small brush ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our pen or our quill i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black paint only so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to just kind of put the the pen itself in place my feather is going to have a lot of movement to it so my feather is going to be more free flowing but i need to have that stable place to start so i'm going to start with a diagonal line so i know that my pen is going to be sitting in my ink well so in through here so you want to make sure that it kind of makes sense you don't want it to be this way or you know something that wouldn't make sense so just use an object as your guide so if it's gonna if you want it to be here and to rest inside the ink well it's got to come out something along this line for an angle and i want mine to be really pretty tall so first i'm just going to make myself a little marker in through there and if i want mine to be pretty tall i'm just going to kind of follow this angle and just make sure that it makes sense is that going to make sense yep and i want my quill to go into my paper so i'm going to make my line somewhere in through here so this is a little bit below this piece of paper mark here just so you have a gauge as to where i'm going with mine and i'm going to make myself just a diagonal line going from one marker to the next and if you make it a little bit crooked it's okay because it we're gonna we're gonna tweak it in a minute and we've got a big huge feather that's gonna be disguising any any imperfections that we may have so i want a little part where my for the the handle on the pen or the actual pen part itself so you can really make this as decorative as you want i'm just going to kind of do a shape right now that is going to be a little bit larger at the top and a little bit more narrow as it goes into my ink well so i'm going to just go up maybe like two or three inches somewhere in i would say this vicinity make myself a diagonal line because that's the diagonal or the way that the um the pen is and then i'm just going to make myself some kind of decorative little swirly line on one side and do the same or something similar on the other side like that and then just color it in black so i'm just coloring this in with black the next thing that i'm going to do if you know if you need to adjust the width of the um the feather gosh i'm i'm not feeling very smart right now the stem to the feather the feather oh i should have looked you know sometimes as i'm painting i really wish that i had looked up certain words but i didn't even think to look it up so the the center part of a feather i'm sure maybe that's the quill part maybe that's what it's called the center part i don't know i'm sure somebody will look it up for me so we've got that center part and we'll call it a quill and we're going to cross our fingers if that's the right terminology i if you want to or need to you can widen that a little bit but i'm going to have my feathers the fluffy part is going to start pretty close to where you would be holding it but i want this to have a lot of movement so i'm gonna take my black paint and start the the direction of where i want this to go so i'm going to travel this up in a diagonal kind of motion in through here and then i'm going to drop it back down because i want this to have a lot of motion to it so it's going to be flopped over is what i'm going to do now what i'm going to do is i'm going to actually add a bit of water to my black paint so i've got my small brush and i'm just adding droplets of water to my black paint because i want my black paint right now to be of an ink consistency which is very appropriate for our painting so i can have nice fluid motion as i am building my feather part of the of the um pen and i want my pen to the feather part to be very flowy so what i'm going to do is i i'm going to start a little bit away from here i'm going to have a very free type brush stroke but i know that if i don't put a couple of distinct pieces in to start my brain sometimes will or my hand tends to take over and not be as i want it to be it just gets too excited and my hand is like just make a thousand and it doesn't matter what direction so i have to slow down when i start in order to put these distinct pieces in so i've got a couple started down here now i want my feather part um that center part to almost kind of come up and flip over so i i want all of these little pieces of feathers to come in this direction and again i'm using watered-down black paint i'm not covering it a hundred percent because i really want to be able to detect that center line and i'm using black as almost my shadowy effect of the colored pieces of feather that i'm going to be putting on later so i'm considering this to just be like a base coat for my feather and so if it's not as full as you had hoped it would be or want it to be don't worry this is just the part that is going to give us the base for it so now this is where my feather starts to flip over so i'm going to consider this to be everything from here is kind of bending in a downward and flipped out kind of motion even out here if i want this to come out a little bit further i've got them down and out and my longest one is going to be in the center of those so something like that and this is going to give you a bunch of movements so i'm going to have shorter ones as it comes up in through this area and then those longer ones as it comes down here i would when i when i was doing this the first time because this is the second time i painted this um i this reminds me of like a ponytail for a girl that's just kind of flopped over and is you know just kind of flowing in the wind so that's how that's how i'm interpreting this in my in my head or how i'm seeing it in my head as a as a female ponytail and once i've got this all on here and i've got these in the direction that i want again you can see i'm not over doing it i really just kind of want to have this light and airy kind of appearance for these but i want to make sure that i've got a good base for when i add the colored part on in a minute so i am just going to continue to right now my brush is kind of doing its own thing but i do i'm definitely trying to maintain the idea that this is a it's flopping over into here if you want to make it fuller or whatever you can certainly do that but i'm thinking that's looking pretty good to me maybe a couple more in through here and this is an imaginative feather for me i didn't model it after any distinct feathers so you can certainly feel free to make yours whatever whatever way that you would like and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got the base coat on your quill you can wash and dry that small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our ink well as well as the handle part for the pen and a shadow on the ground so i'm going to use my small brush and i the colors that i'm using are brown black and white and how i'm going to start this is i'm going to start it with black and white on my brush at the same time because i want to add the um the dimensional elements to the inkwell itself so i'm going to have mine appear to be on the rounder side so i've got black and white on my brush and i'm going to be doing a partial oval at the top of my inkwell let me just add a touch more black on my brush i don't want this to go all the way white because i do want to add that another element later so this is going to be black and white are on my brush right now and i'm giving myself a little edge and if you feel like it's too bright like i feel like mine's too bright i'm just adding a touch more black to my brush because i i really just want this to be kind of the subtle um makings of the of the dimensional elements i want a brighter highlight in a minute so i'm holding back on my brightness this little bump that comes out here i'm going to add a a little line on top of that to tell you that protrudes i'm gonna add a little maybe we've got another little highlight in through there maybe i've got one here i'm gonna add a bit of a highlight down this left hand side so this again is just black and white on my brush right now i'm gonna add make this look a little bit curved down here maybe this is a reflection of the piece of paper you could certainly pull in some of that color if you wanted to so something like that i think i'm going to have a big reflective area in the glass itself more so to tell the viewer the shape of the glass so i'm going to give this illusion with a little bit of a curved line that's going to help to tell the viewer that this is a curved object and it might be reflecting something that's off in the distance maybe a light or a window or something along that line so something like this and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up just white paint on my brush right now and i'm going to add a bit more of now's where i'm going to add that brighter kind of little twinkle along these edges maybe something like that i've got a little piece in through here and then i've got a bright edge down in through here this doesn't even have to be right along the edge you can be near the edge this can be a reflection or maybe we're seeing through the glass i'm not quite sure what it is i'm just adding just adding some strategic bright spots that are going to help to sell the story and then what i'm going to do with this guy is i'm going to be using this where i'm going to use a little bit more brown so i've got brown and white on my brush right now i'm going to add some more decorative little elements for this and for me of course the right side is going to be the brightest i think i'm just going to add a little bit of this brown in through here maybe there's a little part that pops out there and again i'm just having fun with this and imagining this maybe this has a little bit of wood on it or something so we can use that that brown a bit more to make it look like there's maybe a little wood or maybe it's reflecting the um the paper itself you can certainly have fun with this also and i'm going to just make this right hand side a little bit lighter yeah see i'm just having fun with my details you don't you don't really need to do a whole heck of a lot adding touch of white to my brush right now just to give the um information that maybe it's something shiny and it's reflecting the you know from whatever light source there is so that's gonna that's gonna work out for me there maybe a little a little bit down here as well and then if you want there to be the illusion of further illusion of the pen going into the inkwell just bring these lighter colors down past that back edge of the inkwell itself and that's going to tell the viewer that it's going inside that particular object and then we are going to be using oh we need to make our shadow down here almost done i'm going to be using same brush just a little bit of water down black and white and i want my shadow to be similar to what i have here but i don't need it to be that big of a spot so i'm just putting maybe a little bit more black on my brush on this floor or on the table whatever whatever this ma this object is that where that it's resting upon and then i'm just gonna make sure that the shadow kind of travels out a bit i think i need a little bit more black on my brush there we go and because we have that gray highlight that we added on the inkwell that helps to show the edge of that particular object and if you wanted to see the edge even more you could add more of a gray type color and if your shadow doesn't work out quite the way that you had planned you can always go back into your background color and use that to to correct it or to dull it down or to make it blend a little bit further and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your ink well and your paint and your pen all nice and painted in you can put your small brush away take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are adding the shadow of our inkwell and pen onto the paper so i'm going to be using my medium brush and i'm going to be using brown and black and water so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to have the ink well casting a shadow on this portion of the paper it's going to be wider at the bottom more narrow at the top and it's going to be curved so it takes on the curve of the piece of paper and then i'll have just the stem of my pen as well as the fluffy part casting a shadow on the paper itself i'm going to be using watered-down paint so it's translucent and i know that if i make it too translucent i can always add more but it's really difficult to take off of the paper once it or off of the well we're painting on the paper but off of the canvas once it's on there so i caution you to just you know use it more watered down to start and if again if it's too light just let it dry for a minute and put another layer on it so i've got my medium brush i have black and brown paint i'm going to use both colors you might get away with just black or just brown you can certainly test it out if you want to but i've got both colors and i'm dropping some water in it so that way it is definitely watered down i know again that i can always add more but it's really tough to take away once it's on there so i've got it watered down i'm gonna actually just kind of pat my brush on my paper towel and i'm going to start maybe about an inch away from the right hand side on the bottom and maybe about an inch and a half to two inches up at the top and i'm going to give myself a little bit of a curved line i'm going to come over to the left maybe about two or three inches do and maybe about an inch from here and do myself another kind of curved line so it's in essence kind of more narrow at the top than it is at the bottom and then i'm going to color it in so i want to try and avoid it looking like there's an outline around the edges which is why i'm using the watered-down paint so i can just kind of keep manipulating it as it's drying and if i need to i can grab a little bit more water in essence too on my brush if i need to soften those edges a little bit but this is looking pretty good i'm just going to kind of keep softly rubbing it as it's as it's drying just so i can get that the look that i that i desire and i just keep adding a touch of water onto my brush to soften these little edges a bit and then once i've got this looking the way that i want yeah that's looking pretty good i'm hardly touching my my um canvas right now i'm really just lightly touching it as if it's like the a feather so once i've got that done i'm going to do the same thing for this guy and through here but i'm going to come to the left of this shadow maybe i would say about a half of an inch or so and that's where i'm going to start it i want it to curve with the piece of paper so i'm going to kind of watch this edge in through here but i also know that it is kind of tipped too so you don't have to follow this exactly but if you can get a little bit of a curve to the shadow that'd be awesome so i'm going to go something like this and then as i go up i'm going to watch these in through here and just give myself something that is similar but i know that i'm coming at a different angle too so it doesn't have to be a mirror representation but if i can capture some of those little characteristics that i've got going on on that feather in through there that'd be awesome i also know i've got another layer that's going to happen on my feather in a minute so this is really just kind of getting the illusion in place even though i still have another layer on that i just felt that it would be an easier task to perform before um before we did the colors on on the actual feathers so you can see i'm just really having this nice and free form in through here i know that it's going to go underneath that guy and through there so my light source is pretty high up in the air so i'm not going to have this travel much further than here so just making sure i've got a little bit more in through here and then we are going to be using this medium brush for the next step so once you've got your shadow on here you can wash and dry this medium brush thank you ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing the feather part of our pen i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are red yellow and white and you might find you want to use purple or brown or more black you just feel free to make this whatever way that you would like how i'm going to build it is i'm going to start with my red paint because that's going to take on varying shades because it's nice and see-through or translucent so it'll be a little bit brighter as it comes in front of here and it'll go a little bit darker over here so i'll do my base with red and then i'll start to build some highlights with my yellow and my white and i'll also end up at some point putting a little highlight down this part of the feather so i'm going to start with a red paint on my brush now as i'm doing this i know that i do not need to just stay on the black so i'm going to also bring some of this color outside of the black area so that way you'll be able to have many different shades of the red as it as it dries you'll have some darker spots from underneath where the black is and then some lighter spots as it is on top of the lighter areas and i'm just going to flick out some of the the feather parts along the edges to give um authenticity to that the shadow that we have going on but once i reach this internal area where it's going to start coming around the bend i don't need it to be too too bright because in my head that would be shadowed underneath there so i'm going to start to i'm going to leave that a little bit darker i might add a touch of brown or something in through there just to make sure that that stays on the darker side and then as i'm coming down here i don't need to cover up all of my black pieces a hundred percent this is um i mean the the red will show them show the black through it but you can leave some of those black pieces without paint on top of them they're in essence kind of meant to look like shadows so you can certainly leave some of them visible because they could be shadowing on the wall they could be shadowing on another piece and i do know that the red will turn darker as it dries so i'm not terribly concerned that how vibrant it is at this point i will um again know that it will turn a little bit darker i think i am going to put a touch of brown on my brush in this little area here i feel like it's going to go a bit too um there's a bit too many peekaboo spots for me so i just want that to be a little bit darker and through there there we go and now what i'm going to do is i'm going to start picking up some yellow paint and i'm going to start transitioning into some more highlights i didn't wash my brush i'm just going to add a bit of gentle brightness on the edges of this particular part of the of the feather and then i'll be a little bit more bold with it coming in through here so i've got a little bit more of the yellow on my brush i really just kind of want this to almost as if the the tips are being caught by the light so something like that maybe i'll do some up in this top area as well just to give you that full movement of the of the feather itself and i'm going to add a little bit of white in a minute here but first i'm just kind of getting these into place that's looking pretty snazzy so what i'm going to do now i'm going to just wipe my brush off on my paper towel pick up a teeny bit of white paint give myself a little bit of a highlight coming down this center of our feather and that's just gonna lead the viewer to understand that it is a that uh center part i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel i'm picking up a little bit of um brown this is a touch too vibrant to me so i just want to dull it down just a smudge with a bit of brown so that's how that's how i did that and now i'm going to pick up a little bit more white paint to add that extra bit of highlight up on the top of this feather so you might find that you might need to wait a minute to get this feather to dry a bit sometimes when we do these back to back colors right in a row it might get a little too muddled for you i just wiped my brush and picked up a little bit of of red i feel like i need a couple more feathers in through here so if you find that that happens too that it it's getting a little bit too muddled for you you can certainly wash and dry your brush and or just wait for it to dry a minute sometimes letting the the paint dry a minute will help you to accomplish those those quick swift little brush strokes that will add the the those dimensional elements to it that's looking pretty good i was going to keep going but i'm like i think it looks good the way that it is um so we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your feather looking the way that you'd like it to you can get your small brush out and just get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are writing our message on our piece of paper so you can feel free to write whatever kind of message you want i am going to kind of leave this open to the viewer's interpretation so i'm just going to write to my dot dot dot so it could be to my valentine it could be to my hubby it could be to my sweetheart it could be to my love it could be to my mom it could be to my anything really so i'm gonna leave my painting up to the interpretation of who's ever looking at it so they can plug in whatever they'd like but if you'd like to make yours into something um meaningful to yourself feel free to do so so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using watered down black paint i know that i've designated the ink in my inkwell to be black but i want to have a nice fluid brush stroke as i'm doing this so i'm going to be using watered-down white black paint you could certainly draw yours out with your pencil so that way you can have the placement exactly where you want but i'm one of those just kind of go for it kind of artists so i'm gonna i'm just gonna go for it i'm gonna use it with um some watered down black paint and once i get that first coat on if i feel like i want to do a second coat to make the to make it more solid i can certainly do that but right off the bat i'm just going to be using some watered down black paint i'm going to have mine somewhere in this vicinity and if i can it might not happen exactly as i planned but i'm going to try and get my letters to be a tiny bit smaller as i go towards the right hand side to provide a little more illusion for the the story here so i'm gonna just do i'm just going for it so i've got my t first so i've got two and of course you can make your letters as fancy as you like or as simple as you like sometimes when i'm teaching these classes where people are doing words i usually recommend that you use your own penmanship that's the easiest way to do this or practice you know practice on a piece of paper or something nearby so we've got the word to and then i've got to put this a little bit further away and see if i can get it to go a little bit smaller as i do this to my like that and maybe bring this up a bit and then we have dot dot dot and then we have one tiny little step left to go and it's going to be with this small brush so once you've got your message on your paper you can wash and dry the small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right spot i suppose if you did a whole message you could have just signed it within that piece of paper but i didn't so i'm going to assign mine in the bottom left i'm using my small brush i am using black paint i usually sign my name or sign my paintings with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with the for your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you want 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 really special romantic image and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime you

Channel: Michelle the Painter

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Length: 88min 14sec (5294 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 04 2021