Learn How to Paint TITMOUSE AND TULIPS with Acrylic - Paint and Sip at Home - Step by Step Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint and sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting tip mouse and tulips and i'm going to be sipping on a little spike seltzer and if you enjoy this video i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you're going to find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and primed 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white burnt umber which i'll call brown mars black green oxide deep yellow and fluorescent pink of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like but that's what i'll be using i've got three brushes today i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number eight round brush and i have a number one round brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process of course you can switch those up as well if you'd like to and 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 drying your brushes and down below this video i do have a couple of additional resources for you 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 to the palette and there's even an apron in there for you it's disposable though so that's there for you there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions for you down there 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 out-of-focus forest or woods um it'll be the background that's behind all of our beautiful flowers and fence and bird and stuff like that so i'm gonna be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm using are black brown green and yellow and what i'm going to be doing in order to make this look like it's kind of out of focus is i'm going to be applying my paint in a circular motion and i'm going to have some dark spots and some light spots so i'll use black and have some a couple of spots of really dark black then i'll use brown and green i'm going to have it darker at the top and i'll have it a little bit lighter as i go down to the bottom so i'll be using more yellow and green and brown at the bottom as opposed to black i'm going to get this to come down about two-thirds of the way down my canvas and to know how far down that is you can visually kind of pick where your halfway spot is you can go halfway between there and the bottom of your canvas and then your halfway point or your two-thirds point is somewhere in the middle of that so i'm just going to take a little bit of brown on my brush make myself a little bit of a marker i will use my brush as a measuring tool to see how far down i came and i'm going to go on the other side and make myself another marker this just helps me personally to stop to stop painting at that level because i know my own brain will just have fun painting and i just keep going and going and going so this helps me to visually stop so i have brown on my brush right now i'm going to pick up a little bit more brown and a touch of black and i'm going to start applying some really dark areas with soft edges around the exterior of those areas so what this is going to do is it's going to allow me to introduce or intermingle other colors around it without having really distinct edges to it so as i go through this process it almost begins to look a little on the polka dot kind of spot stage with it being really splotchy but as i introduced the other colors like right now i just put brown and green on my brush and i'm gonna start to intermingle that brown and green with my black section and with my brown section so that way it'll give me these areas that just look like maybe this might look like an evergreen tree over here that is just out of focus and i will continue to blend these colors as i go through the process but at times you might find that your paint has dried too much for you to blend with with the neighboring color so if that happens you just overlap them you can pick up some more of the black that you initially used and overlap it you can do layers you can you know just continue to add these these circular type soft sections my trick here is i never use too too much paint i am using a good amount which keeps it on the moist side for me to do this step but what i'm not going to do is pick up as much paint as i can because what would happen if i did that is my brain especially when we're using these multiple colors my brain will say keep blending keep blending and if i have a lot of paint on my brush and then what will happen is i will end up with one solid color for this background where that's not the look i'm going for i'm i'm going for an out of focus kind of look so as i come down towards this what we'll call the horizon line or where my forest stops and my my distant meadow is gonna start i'm gonna start to pick up some yellow as well so right now i'm using i'm pretty much alternating my green my brown and my yellow in order to get this bottom section to be filled in and again i'm only going to come down to where i've marked it on the left and the right and then that way i have i'll have a good meeting point for the other for the next section that we're going to be doing and it's okay if you go back into a previous section and just kind of move that paint around as it's drying sometimes that will help to eliminate unwanted brush strokes some some artists like to see the brush strokes and some artists don't like to see the brush strokes so if you're one of those who likes a smoother background my trick is just to keep blending that paint or moving it around as it dries and i i let off on the pressure on my brush as i am blending it during its drying process so that way what i end up doing is just using the soft edge of my brush in order to get to eliminate the brush stroke marks so you can do a couple of different methods in order to get rid of those brush stroke marks but we are working on an area that's way off in the distance in the background and this is really just going to be background noise for our painting so it doesn't have to be perfect you're going to be painting over a whole bunch of it so don't worry if it doesn't come out um a hundred percent perfect and then we will be using the same brush for the next step so once you've got your out of focus um forest on in through here you can see i'm i've got a couple of spots that didn't quite get painted 100 so i'm just gonna make sure i tackle those but once yours is all done you can wash and dry this large brush okay 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 ground so i'm going to use my big brush and i'm going to use the same colors that i used for the forest but i'm also going to use white so i'm using white yellow green brown oh actually i'm not going to use black so no black or no pink on this step what i'm going to do is i'm going to start up at the top for about an inch or two i'm going to consider this as a distant meadow it's going to be super bright it's going to have lots of yellow in it and it's just going to kind of fade at the top into the forest and then as i once i reached that maybe inch and a half two inches then i'll start introducing the more in focus colors of the grass which would be more green more yellow and i will stop using white all together because i want it to go really really dark as it comes down to the bottom of my canvas which is going to allow us to have a lot of depth perspective within the ground so i'm going to start with just yellow and white on my brush and i'm going to actually just give myself kind of a section so i'm only going to come down about an inch and a half to two inches and i'm just wiggling my brush left to right i'm not over blending i want to have some variations within the colors then i'm picking up some more yellow and green i mean excuse me yellow and white and i'm just going to i'm kind of going left to right uh is my brush stroke process almost as if it's low lying maybe mode meadow grass or something like that just to give it a little bit different of a texture than what we're going to be doing down below and then as i get up to where it meets my forest i'm going to with almost a dry brush just get it to blend in a little bit at the top so you're almost creating like a foggy type smoky effect which is not necessarily what it's intended to resemble it's just intended to resemble often the distance little bright grass but as you're creating as you're doing this step it will feel as if you're just creating like little fog on the um at the bottom of the of the forest and then once i've got that on there now i'm not going to pick up any more white i'm just going to pick up green and yellow on my brush i did not wash my brush and i'm going to start to dot so as i'm doing this i'm overlapping it a little bit in my in my meadow kind of area and that way it is going to make it look like it's transitioning into the meadow so i feel like i have a lot of paint on my brush and i want these to softly transition so i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to lightly just overlap these two sections and just dot it along the edge so they are going to slowly just merge into each other without having a distinct line from one section to the other i'm hardly tapping i'm not smashing my brush i'm just using the the wet paint to guide me with a very gentle um tapping of the the end of my brush and then once i've got these two areas uh transitioned nice into one another then i'm gonna kind of get wild and crazy with the rest of the grass i'm gonna pick up a whole bunch of green and yellow i didn't wash my brush and the rest is just going to be a more chaotic more in focus kind of dotting and i'm going to again get these two sections to kind of overlap just with a little bit of that tapping with my brush and as i come down my canvas i will be in a minute introducing some brown to the equation so it gets nice and dark as i get down towards the bottom and again as you're transitioning from one little area to the next just you don't need a lot of paint just kind of tap the edge of the brush and if you don't cover your canvas a hundred percent do not worry about it because we have lots of things that we're going to be putting on top so you might you might at this point detect little pieces of your canvas little dots of your canvas still showing through without paint on them don't worry you've got you've got many more things that you're going to be putting on top of that so if you don't get 100 coverage right now it is quite all right and in a second here i'm just going to start to introduce some brown so i'm picking up green and brown on my brush and you're going to immediately see that nice dark almost shadowy area start to emerge from the bottom of my canvas and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your first layer of your ground all nice and completed you can put this large brush away wherever you would like to and you can take out your medium brush get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our fence posts i'm going to be using my medium brush and the colors that i'm using are brown and white and i do want to forewarn you before you start this step that you have your canvas dry so you know you could take a extra long break if you'd like to or you could find some kind of fun fanning method paper towel mouth hand whatever you want or you can pick up a blow dryer like i did and just dry it with a blow dryer so yours might be dry by this point but if it's not just find some method to get it dry it'll make your next step much easier so what i'm going to do is i'm taking my medium brush and i'm going to load it with white and brown paint more white than brown i just have a little dot of brown on there and i'm going to mark the tippy tops of each fence post so i like things kind of off center a little bit so i'm not going to have my my center one in the center of my canvas so if this is about your center of your canvas you can come down i would say almost about a quarter of the way down your canvas and then just go over to the left a little bit that's going to be my first marker that i do you can have your posts at different um lengths apart i'm going for mine kind of symmetrical in order to resemble a typical picket fence but if you want yours just to be a nice country farm fence with with wood it can really your posts can be different sizes you can have different types of tops different you know they can be round or square or whatever you want i'm going to have just a little triangle type top and they're going to be um just straight so i'm going to have mine pretty similarly are equally spaced between each other so if this is here i've got the next one over maybe three and a half inches or so and it's at about the same height from there and then i'll put another one over here i've got one here i've got one here and i've got one here so they're all about three and a half inches apart and about four and a half inches from the top and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to create the top of a triangle for each of them so i'm going to keep this one a little bit away i want to keep a little sliver of my canvas showing on that side so i'm just coming down at maybe i don't know my angle degrees so maybe 45 degree angle i could be totally on that but i know that wherever i have these i want to have a little slit in between them so i'm going to try and get them to be pretty similar to one another but if one of them has a little bit more of an angle i'm keeping maybe about an inch between those little points at the um at the bottom left and the bottom right something like that and then this right one might go off of my canvas and that's okay because i planned it that way so whatever works for you and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to draw vertical lines and i'm not using a ruler i'm just going to free form this and this will make my fence look like it has not it wasn't just put up yesterday it's weathered and it might have some little bumps and stuff in it i'm going to do my vertical line all the way down to maybe about an inch or two shy of the bottom of my canvas like that and like that and again i'm not utilizing a ruler so i can certainly um deal with the unevenness of my lines and again i'm just using brown and white to create these vertical stripes and for me my biggest thing is to try and get them so they don't look too tipped over so that's why i started on my left hand side and i was watching the edge of my canvas that helped me to stay pretty darn vertical and then as i go through the other ones i just kind of looked i have a little yellow on my brush but that's okay i tend to watch the line next to it because one i'm working from an angle right now off to the side of my canvas so that has a tendency to make my lines go crooked but um you might be working straight on and finding that you're not you know your your posts are tipping a little bit so you can just watch those edges and that'll help you to visually see kind of a straight line then what i do i load my brush again with white and a touch of brown and i wet the top of that triangle part and then i start pulling it down like this and because i'm using white and brown on my brush and i'm using a lot of paint i'm going to get these really nice natural subtle little streaks within the post itself and as i come down towards the bottom where it meets the grass i want it to be uneven at the bottom so that that's going to help me when i go to put my actual grass on there it will allow me to have really a natural transition into the grass without having to do much work to it and at times you'll you're going to pick up more brown than white sometimes you might accidentally pick up a little bit of yellow like i have done a couple times and if you can see through your paint a little bit that's okay the um the other details that we're going to be putting all of our flowers and grass and things of that nature will help to hide any see-through areas but you might end up finding that you just want to use more paint we we certainly don't need this to be terribly thin paint you can make it as thick as you want it to be in order to cover that that background color but again if you still oops that one's going to grow a little bit sometimes when you paint outside the lines your post might grow a little bit but you can find that you whatever intensity that you want this color to be you might want it to be a little bit lighter or darker than mine maybe you want your fence to be red you can totally make your fence whatever color you want but in doing so just use a lot of paint when you're going to cover this so that way you're going to have some good coverage over that background and i'm using a lot of white which definitely will help to cover up some of that um those background colors and again you can see i'm getting a nice natural subtle streaks of the white and the tan within my posts which is great and then we have we're going to do one little detail step on these well maybe two little detail steps on these before we move to our rail so once i once i get the base coat on here i'm going to be using this same brush with the same color combination with brown and white but i'll be using more brown and i'm going to add a little um dimensional element to the left side of these posts so i'm getting this base coat on and within this step i'm not going to do a second step for this because i want my paint to still be this base coat to be pliable and kind of moist in order for me to execute the next step the next little detail so i'm not going to wash my brush i have white on it i'm white and brown i'm picking up more brown and what i'm doing is i'm adding my shadow piece on the left hand side so all i'm going to be doing is i'm going at the top left of my point and i'm bringing down a little line with my brown and white on my brush so this is going to act as the side of your post so it's giving it a very simple and easy to execute dimensional element so i'm just using the tip of my brush i'm using a lot of paint and because i still have the remnants of the white on my brush with the brown i'm getting a nice natural look to it if you're not getting a kind of a two-tone type look to yours it might mean that you have too much brown on your brush or your paint underneath has fully dried this one's nice this one's getting some nice two tonality to it um so you could just pick up a little bit more white on your brush and just have more of both colors on there or just do a second layer whatever whatever works for you and then once i've got this done we are going to be using the same brush for the next step but you'll want to wash it and dry it so once you get this little piece over on the left hand side almost here and again i just bring it down and just making it disappear in that grass bringing it on the left which i got a little weird spot at the top bringing it over on the left hand side and if yours is just one tone that's okay too you know but i i like my wood things to have multiple tones to them so i'm just trying attempting to get a little bit of um those color variations in that side as well and then i'm gonna wash and dry the small brush or medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what i'm going to be doing for the next step is i'm putting my rail on my on my fence so i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using brown white and black paint because i'm going to do my rail and i'm going to have a little shadow underneath and i might actually do a little highlight on my posts too but we're going to finish our fence right now i guess is the better terminology for this step so what i'm going to do is i'm going to load my brush with white and brown again just like i did with the original coat for the fence posts and i'm going to come down my canvas about halfway so yours might have played out a little bit different than mine but if you were if yours looks just like mine great you can come down about halfway if it looks a little bit different you want to give yourself a bit of a space between this meadowy area and the forest so even if you're just kind of halfway between the top and there just something so you can see though that definition back there so i'm going to make myself a little bit of i want to be able to see it let me put a little bit more white i'm going to make myself a mark about halfway down and then i'm going to go ahead and make another mark about halfway down on the right hand side i like to have when i'm doing a line such as this this is going to be a horizontal line i like to have a starting and an ending point so that way i know where i'm going in my and i don't stray too far so that's why i put these dots in place and when i go to do this line i'm going to keep my eye on the prize which is the other dot so you might find that you want this to be wider or more narrow than mine you can certainly go for it as wide or narrow as you want even if your posts are still wet at this point that's okay too so i'm going to just kind of give myself a horizontal line and i'm not terribly concerned about this being perfectly straight i just want to have something on there that is going to hold up my fence so that's going to connect them all together i'm going to have mine maybe about i don't know maybe about half of an inch to an inch wide and i'm just going to kind of keep whiting in it until i feel that i have it wide enough and then once i do i'm going to give it that dimensional element like we did on our posts we're going to do that on the top of our rail system so this is looking pretty good to me i'm thinking that that's pretty wide enough to connect these uh fence pieces so now i'm gonna pick up some brown with a little bit of white which i already had on my brush and i'm in essence gonna give myself a little flat spot on the top of this um of this rail so i've got the brown and the white and i just want this top little edge to be just a bit darker with these um tonal kind of changes in them so you'll see the lights and the darks of that brown and the white as long as it's a touch darker than the um the face of that rail that's going to give it a little bit of um of a dimensional element it doesn't even have to be really wide as far as the thickness of the line goes just something that gives you that that information that it's got a little bit of a flat top to it and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to quickly wash my brush so i can add shadows underneath the the rail so i'm just washing and drying my brush because i don't want oops i guess now i have two pieces to my brush that happens quite often to me if you if you have your brush in water a lot of water and it doesn't dry out your the top to your brush can the the glue can be compromised so you just witness that happen i'm just pushing it back on and later i'll glue it back on so um i'm just i washed and dried my brush and i'm going to be picking up black and brown with a little bit of water in order to get a shadow underneath this rail that's going to be on the post so i'm going to take a tiny bit of black a tiny bit of brown and i just dipped my brush in water so it's very fluid and then what i'm going to do is i'm just going to give myself a little bit of an outline right underneath and i'm just doing it on the face i'm not doing it on the left hand side so something like this and you might find that you want yours to be thicker than mine or thinner than mine i'm going for more of a um dark shadow to indicate that the that the sun is really bright and this shadow is nice and close to the post or the rails themselves so that's why i'm going nice and dark but you might find that you want to go a little bit lighter and if you do just use a little bit more water in your in your brush combination and i'm only going maybe about an eighth of an inch thick on this shadow for the height of it that one might have had a little bit too much water because it's a little bit lighter than the others you can always add more if you have to go back and kind of adjust your shadow a little bit that totally works or if you go outside the lines a little bit like i just did you can certainly adjust it and then i'm gonna wash and dry this brush real quick and i'm going to give the top right corner of these posts a little bit of a highlight so i'm taking just a tiny bit of white paint on my brush and i'm going to add a little bit of a line here and then what i'll do while it's still wet is i'm going to blend it down into that main color so this way it's going to give us an extra little illusion that the sun is over in the top right hand side of the sky and this will help to sell the story of all of our highlights and shadows so i just added a bit of white and i'm just pulling it down and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got your fence finished you can wash and dry oops let me just get this to blend in a little bit you can always use a touch of water on your brush too to get this to blend in but once you got that all set you can wash and dry this medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so i know i said that i wanted to use the medium brush for the next step but as i was on my break and just contemplating my painting i decided i want to add another element to my fence so i'm going to have you use your small brush i want to add some little nails to my rail system i suppose the nails could be on the other side which is where my head went to initially but as i'm i was looking at it now i want to put them on this side so i'm going to put some nails on these are just going to be very quick impressionistic not too much detail to them i'm using my small brush i'm going to be using brown white and black so i'm just going to start with some brown paint we're just going to make little kind of dots along the fence and i'm going to start over here with just a little polka dot and you can put yours in whatever formation you want i'm going to do mine kind of um diagonal from one another on each of the posts so something like this because my mechanical brain tells me that you'd need more than one so we've got the nail now i'm gonna put a little bit of black on my brush to give myself a shadow underneath my nail so i'm just gonna do a little crescent underneath that nail something like this this is going to give you just a little bit more dimension to it and you can put it right next to it or a little a little away from it would would make it look pretty cool and again i'm not doing anything fancy here and then i'm gonna do my highlight so i just washed my brush real quick and i'm just gonna put a little highlight on the tip of my nail something like this and then we're going to use our medium brush for the next step i i guarantee it so once you've got your little nails on here 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 are painting wild grass one of my favorite steps of all time i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are brown green yellow and white and i just want to kind of give you a little vote of confidence that if your grass doesn't turn out awesome in this step don't worry one because it's gonna be hidden by a bunch of flowers and two later after we do the flowers we're gonna be putting little leaves and and stems and stuff around the flowers so you'll be you'll have time to tweak it later if it doesn't come out exactly as you had planned so my grass is going to be darker underneath like at the bottom but i still want to have some brown pieces to act as almost shadowy pieces so i'm going to work my way from dark to light i'm going to start with brown paint on my medium brush when i do wild grass i don't hold my brush tight i use a lot of paint on my brush and i'm doing a lot of long curvy type brush strokes i say long but i i have them in and different angles because i use a lot of paint on my brush i can get these really nice kind of pointy tips to the pieces of grass we want them to be all different kinds of lengths i can have big huge ones coming out this side over here i'm going to have the flowers taller over here on this right side so i'm going to add a bunch of wild grass coming out over here and i'm putting some in front of my posts at the bottom this is the beginning of the disguise at the bottom of my post so they don't look like they're just floating there or something so i'm again i'm just starting with brown paint at this moment i've got varying sizes for my pieces of grass you don't really have to go overboard at this point especially since we're just using brown to start in a second i'm going to start using green paint but you can see i've got these a really nice assortment already started that's going to provide me with some great information for um for the flowers and and and everything so i've got my brown now i'm not going to wash my brush and i'm going to pick up green paint and i don't wash my brush in between these colors because i really want them to look like they belong together so i still have brown on my brush and what's going to happen is that green and the brown will talk to each other and they will i'll have varying shades of both i will have a good assortment it'll look really nice and natural and it'll look wild as if the landscaper did not come and and mow this lawn or mow this this grassy area by the fence i am doing it a little bit shorter in through um this center area just so we can maintain some good balance throughout it i do want to have a good focal point on the cute little bird that we're going to be adding so i don't want this side this left hand side to necessarily take over the visual um the visual focus so i'm still putting a good amount over here but definitely i'm weighting it more heavily on that right hand side and now that i've got my green on here i'm not going to wash my brush i'm picking up yellow paint and i'm going to go ahead and start adding some yellow i know that my yellow is very translucent so at this point until i start using the white the yellow is going to be almost just a hint of a of an accent color it'll get darker as it dries so it's not going to provide a whole bunch of information right now but it definitely will start to add the sunshine into my my pieces of grass as soon as i start using the white with the yellow that's when you'll really start to see the dimensional elements of the grass himself and you can see again i'm not going too wild and crazy i am keeping that bottom area except for that one area that's going to be a great spot for a flower i am keeping the bottom area a little bit darker i'm not going to um oh i'm not going to i'm not being too aggressive down at the bottom with the with the lighter colors because i really want to keep that dimensional element to it um and now that i've got some of this yellow on here i'm going to pick up a bit of white and again not washing my brush so i don't want to be too overbearing so i just kind of wiped a little bit of paint off on my on my palette and right now this is where this is where my happiness comes in when i start adding these these highlights because it just starts to well i might not even want to put any flowers once i get these these lighter pieces and i start to see the um it just come alive it really makes me happy as as my it makes my painterly eye really super happy um and then once you've got your wild grass on here we are going to be let's say we're going to switch brushes to our small brush so i just got a couple more pieces on here that i'm probably going to do a little happy dance off camera just to because i like my highlights but um once you've got your your makings of your ground in through here you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush dig in the grass and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to be doing for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our tufted tip mouse that's going to be over the tulips it's my tongue twister for the day so these cute i think it's such an adorable bird so that's really why i'm doing it but it's native to where i live in north america but it's also native a whole bunch of other places um in europe as well and even in holland where where tulips are very popular so i figured it'd be a cool bird to put with the tulips but i'm not going to try and say it the whole thing again tough to tip tough to tip mouse over tulips so i'm going to use my small brush and i'm going to be pre-making myself a medium gray color to use as a base coat so this is where i'm headed with my gray color so all you really need to do is take a touch of black take some white and just blend it together until you get a medium type gray color it will dry a touch darker than it is when it's wet so just as you're planning for just account for that little um color shift as it as it dries and if you make it too dark no worries you can put lighter feathers on it so when i um teach doing birds i always teach that a bird can be created or started with two basic shapes one shape is an egg which represents the body the pointy part being where the tail is and the other shape is a circle which represents the head they all birds have different length necks they have different types of feathers they have different beaks but the body can always start with an egg and the head can always start with a circle so that's where we're going to start so i've got my gray paint on my small brush and i want my little birdie to be sitting on this posts here so i need to have enough room for its head and i know that the head of these birds is pretty large in proportion to the body so i don't need much space for the head so what i've done is i've come up from this tip of this post maybe about an inch and over about a quarter of an inch that's going to be about the furthest part out in the chest the tail part or the bottom part of the egg i have almost halfway between these two and down a little bit so somewhere about here is where i've got that and then the top of the head just giving you markers so we stay in the boundaries the top of the head is going to be straight up from here and a little bit to the left and maybe about an inch inch and a half away from the top of the canvas so these two i'm going to make my egg with so i'm going to start in through here and i'm going to bring it i'm not going to i'm gonna keep it a little bit away from the edge of my little post in through there so it's gonna be something like this and then i'm gonna bring it up and bring it around like this so this comes pretty pretty pointy down into the back like this and then you can just color it in it doesn't have to be a total solid color just color it in so you have a good base coat for the bird itself and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put my circle on the top so i'm going to have my circle coming out almost as far as the chest so i'm going to have this in through here i overlap it into my bird a little bit so it's not quite as far as here it's just a little shy to the left of that and then i'm going to color it in so there was my egg and my circle now what i'm going to do is i'm going to put my tiny little beak on my actually let me close off the neck first so you don't want this neck to look too wobbly or bobbly so i just kind of connect the head to the chest and through here and then the back of the head into the back of the back something like that now i can add my little beak my beak is going to be right about here and it comes out maybe about i don't know a half of an inch or so maybe just to the edge of your your chest or a little bit farther and it's a cute little beak it will come further into the face when we add those details so something like that there is a tuft on the top of the head which i guess is where it gets its name so i'm going to from the forehead part i'm bringing my paint up and giving it a little like crown at the top of the head i don't want it to go too too far up so i definitely want to control how how far this goes i'm going to connect it just trying to get my hand out of the way here for you so i want it to look like it's naturally coming out of the front of the head and then i just sit here with my brush and give myself these little tufted feathers coming out of the head something like that and then i need to give myself a tail so the tail is not terribly long i'm gonna have it cross over the fence a bit i'm having it come right out from the pointy part of my uh egg shape and it comes up just a little bit and i'm gonna have it coming there they're long feathers on the tail or they're they kind of they kind of close together so something like that and then i'm going to put my legs on so i have the one that's on this side of the fence is going to come again i'm just using my gray paint i'm going to have it coming out in a diagonal fashion i'm hardly touching my canvas just using a little tiny tip of my brush i'm going to have one little toe coming and wrapping around the back and then i'm going to have a couple little toes coming down in through here and we'll make it look more realistic later this just kind of gets the party started and then i have a little leg that will be we'll just gonna see the the leg part that will be over on the other side of the fence and that's all i'm gonna do for that step we're gonna use the same or actually we're gonna use our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your um first layer of your bird on here you can put your me or the 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 putting the base coat on our flower tops so i'm going to be using my i don't know why i just did that but that apparently is my my tulip top motion i'm going to use my medium brush i'm going to be using pink yellow brown and white so how i'm going to do this i'm actually going to make my first layer of the tulips in the deepest tone that i want for them and then when we go to do our second step on them we'll bring the highlights in it and that'll show the individual petals which to the best of my knowledge tulips have three petals so we don't have too much petal work to go and they're usually in a nice bell shape so these as far as flowers go are a fairly um simple flower to go and i'm making myself custom colors you can have red ones you can have yellow ones you can have pink ones they come in a whole host of different colors so you can certainly utilize whatever um visual preference that you would like so my first ones that i'm gonna do i'm gonna have pink ones but i want a deeper darker pink as my base coat so i've taken my my fluorescent pink and i've added a touch of brown and a teeny tiny touch of white into it the reason why i'm adding white as well i'm going for this color and through here the reason why i'm adding white as well is because i know that my paint is translucent or see-through and the white helps to make it more opaque so it's not so see-through so i utilize a little bit of that white in order to get this nice first coat on there so it has a nice solid base for me so once i've got my desired color i'm going to just put all of my pink flowers in place so i'm going to have them of varying sizes and i also when i look at a field of tulips a lot of them are standing straight up they don't have much bend to them so mine are just if i do have them bending they're just going to bend a little bit i'm going to have them all different kinds of sizes though so i think i'm going to have one over here and don't be terribly concerned about the um if you can see through them at this point so what i'm in essence doing is just kind of doing almost like a u-type shape and then just one in the middle they might you might not see them all open they might be you might just have some cute little buds like maybe i just have a little bud down here that's not totally open maybe this one you're just going to see two of the petals you can have them overlapping each other you can have them you know some of them can be longer than others we're going to be doing a whole bunch of other information on them later so just know that if they don't look perfect now which they're not going to you're you're gonna have plenty of um other information that that you get to do so all i'm really doing is i'm going i'm doing a left arc a right arc and then maybe one in the middle the one in the middle can be longer or shorter again they don't all have to be open like mine are maybe some of maybe this one is more closed and we're only going to see two of its petals maybe i've got a big one that comes in front of that one a little bit so have fun with the different sizes of them i know that they are pretty uniform looking flowers so you wouldn't have a huge amount of diversity in the in the sizes to them but for me i think of you know maybe some of them are closer to us than others so that to me would make them have a variation in the size and i'm going to have some really tall big ones over in this corner so this will in essence kind of carry my color up into this right hand side of my canvas and you can strategically put them in places if you felt that you know maybe one of your posts wasn't perfect or something like that you can certainly do that so you just want to have a nice good coverage i'm going to wash and dry my brush and get my second color ready because i'm doing two different colored flowers so i'm just washing and drying my small brush and my second color is going to be like a light peachy color um just to complement the whole painting i guess i was thinking about doing a vibrant yellow or red or you know again you can do any color you want but i'm settling on a a soft peachy color so what i've actually done is i've taken my yellow and my pink and a touch of brown and a touch of white and the reason why again is my pink and my um yellow are going to give me the color i want but i want it a little bit darker so i added the brown to it and then to make it not so see-through i added a touch of white to it so again yours can be lighter darker more yellow more pink than mine wherever your visual preference goes and i'm gonna just do an assortment of these ones as well and i'm not again terribly concerned about perfect coverage i'm really just kind of getting the colors on here trying to get them in a little bit different sizes or different maybe a little different angle on one rather than the other one oh this is a pretty color you know i like making my colors on a fly because sometimes they turn out a little different than i had anticipated and this one is totally tickling my fancy i'm digging it it's more on the um orangey side and i'll do some nice bright peach highlights later it's going to be so pretty i like my flowers especially when i have four feet of snow out my house right now i'm totally waiting anxiously and patiently for my spring flowers to show up they will soon they're they're gonna come and when they come i'm gonna be so happy i'm gonna be a happy little painter who's gonna just go out and take a million pictures of the flowers so i can paint them another day but you can see i'm doing some outside of my um my viewing range i'm doing one in front of my pink one maybe i've got a big huge one up in through here and again make them as big as you want just make sure you've got a nice good coverage for it and it but if you can see through it a little bit at this point that's okay too no worries and then we're going to be changing to our small brush for the next step so once you've got your base coat for your beautiful tulips on here you can put your medium brush away take out your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so what we're going to do for the next step is we are going to be doing the shadow and darker areas of our little bird i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black brown and i'm probably going to use a little yellow as well as maybe this peachy orangey color that i that i create because they've got a little a little color underneath their wing so i'll show you what i'm going to do so the first thing that i'm going to do is i am making a shadow of the bird on the fence posts so i'm going to be using a tiny bit of brown and a tiny bit of black and i'm going to put some water in it so i'm using watered down brown and black and the reason why i'm using it watered down is because i want to be able to control the intensity of this shadow i can always add more but it's really tough to take away once it's on there so i don't have much paint on my brush and i also have a little bit of water i'm going to have a little bit of a shadow cast upon here from the tail so i'm just doing a similar width and i'm just bringing it down at a little bit um more of an angle and just bringing it as if it's coming down the um the fence post a little bit so again a little bit of water on my brush that's all i'm going to do for there i'm going to add another shadow of the bird on this fence post here so it doesn't have to be a mirror image or anything like that i just want to give the viewer the impression that the sun or the light is up top and we are seeing um an impression of the underneath silhouette of the bird if that makes sense so i think in my head i would see like the the beak i'd see kind of a circle part of the head and then maybe a little puffy part from the chest that's just why the way that i perceive i would see it so what i'm gonna do is i'm making myself a little kind of circular area in here i know that i'm using watered down paint so i'll be able to see that little foot underneath there and if you if you paint over your foot and you can't see it any longer then you can just paint it right back on top but i'm using it in a see-through where it's translucent so i can see that impression of the foot that i put on there earlier so that's going to kind of represent my body i'm going to have a bump out part that's going to represent my head and again i because i'm using the water in my on my brush i'm able to move this paint around and keep it nice and translucent and i just keep moving it until i feel i have a good enough representation that i want i'm going to put a tiny little beak representation somewhere in through here so just just a little itty bitty spot so that's good for me on i don't again i don't really need to do much more on that now i'm going to put some black and brown on my brush and i'm going to put my shadowy um and dark areas on the bird so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to i think i'm just going to kind of work my way from the face down and for that i need to separate out where i want the beak to be so underneath the beak what i'm going to do i have black and brown on my brush and i do recommend when you're doing these tiny areas too you can use a touch of water on your brush to keep your paint nice and fluid so you can control where these go so i'm gonna just almost outline where i want this beak to be with a little bit of black and brown on my brush so something like that tells me now that's where my beak is going to go these birds have a cute little like black area that surrounds the where their eye is so what i'm going to do is i'm making myself this little bit of a horseshoe kind of mark in through here and i'm going to bring it back around here where that where the neck is while i'm doing this all i'm thinking is feathers and soft so you're going to see my the tip of my brush almost dabbing a lot it will i want there to not be too many clean lines the only time i'm really going to have a clean line is when i work on the eye or the beak where i want a bright spot but all the rest of the time i'm going to be using these rough type edges so there's a little black spot above the beak so i'm adding more black paint to my brush right now and i'm adding this black section of feathers that is above the beak something like this it's almost like a little mask area but not quite and then i want to make sure that i've got the beak kind of in place properly so i'm adding more black to my brush and giving the bottom of my beak almost like a little shadow so i've got black on my brush right now and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a little highlight on the top of my beak so i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel picking up a touch of white and giving myself a bit of a highlight on top of that beak it does not have to be a super straight line if you feel that you don't have enough dimension on it you could certainly bring back some of that gray or you could bring some more white into it whatever you feel that you need to do to get it bright enough to to show that there's some sunlight on it now what i'm going to do is i'm i wiped my brush off on my paper towel and i'm picking up some black paint i'm going to position my eye my eye is going to be almost halfway between here the beak the edge of the beak and the end of the head it's going to be a little bit above or up from the beak a bit but still kind of within this um crescent that we we did earlier so something like this it's a really cute just well proportioned eye it does it's not too big it's not too little it's just a cute little dainty eye in through here so now that i've got that push position the way that i want to i'm not going to wash my brush i'm just picking up a tiny dot of white so i can get a little tiny sparkle dot in here and this bird we're seeing it at a little bit of a distance so you don't really need to do much detail in order to get it to look nice and realistic so now that i've done that i'm wiping my brush off on my paper towel i'm picking up um oops we're so we're still in the dark areas hold on i was about to do all the feathers on the head i was going to screw you guys all up i'm going back into my dark areas which is going to be down below so right now i'm picking up some black and gray paint to get these under feathers where i feel that it would be shadowed underneath here and this way it is separating that tail feather from the under um the feathers that are underneath the body in through here so when i'm doing these darker areas i am usually going to be using black with a touch of gray so that way if it goes too i i don't fear it going too dark on me when i have both of those on i can always make the black blacker but i with the gray on there it's kind of a little safety zone for me i want to put the edge of the side wing in so the way that i perceive these to be is it's going to start like the shoulder area is going to start in through here and this wing kind of lays on top of the tail feather so that's what i'm going to i'm going to give myself kind of an outline in through here with a curve so i'm starting somewhere here a little bit away from the face a bit and then i'm going to curve it down almost to that area a bit above the tail so that way it looks as if this wing is almost resting on that tail feather and then in through here i'm just gonna um move my brush a little bit left to right so this doesn't look like a really firm line we'll put the um the other colors in there in a second and again i still just have black and brown or black and gray on my brush just to give a little bit of definition on that tail feather i've got a little shadow behind the neck so again just black with a little bit of uh gray on my brush i need a little more black than that and this is going to give you a bit of a shadow behind this head so you don't need much you just want it a bit darker than the actual gray it's the original gray itself and i'm just tapping my brush a little bit to get this in here and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to bring my brush i'm washing and drying i want a darker area underneath here but it's got to have the um the bird colors so they have a little bit of brown underneath this wing this is the only spot on the bird that's got some um some vibrant colors to it so i've got a little bit of brown which is going to start me and then what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to be using a bit of my orange that i used for my flowers to intermingle with this brown a bit and then i'm going to put a touch of white and yellow and i'm really just doing these almost curved type brush strokes that are getting it to come as if it's coming out of underneath that wing i just put some yellow and white on my brush to just get this darker colored area in here we'll work on it a bit more when we add the lighter feathers but the other um area that i'm going to make sure that i have a little bit more darkness is underneath this belly i know that i have a leg to contend with but we'll do that in a separate step so i'm just putting some brown and a little bit of black and white just to make sure that i've got some of these um darker feathers underneath the the belly area to make sure that it looks like there's enough shadow in through there and then we're going to use this same brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step [Music] all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our cute little bird so this is gonna be a lot of highlights but it's also gonna be the other little details like on the leg and on all the tail feathers and the head and all kinds of good stuff so we're really adding a lot of texture to our bird with individual little feather marks and we're adding some bright white onto that chest because that's these birds have a their chest area is nice and white they've got a white area in through here and then the rest of the bird is a grayish type color some of them i saw were a little brown but the rest of the bird is more gray the legs are gray but we'll have some some highlights on them and some little talons and stuff so what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with my bright stuff and then i'll just kind of work my way um towards the darker because i know that i'll want some layers on this bright stuff so when you're doing the brighter areas which are going to be primarily the chest and inside here and we'll do a little bit on the edge of the back as well just to give it some some sunshine but when you're doing this you don't always just have to use white you can certainly use white with your original gray and that's going to give you a lot of textural um dimension to it but i know that this is going to be the super brightest area so i'm going to i just started with white and when i do my brush strokes they are going to be in a direction that i feel those feathers are so i'm not going to have them straight down the chest comes out so i'm going to have them with a little bit of a curve to them and you can get them to lean over or go past the edge of the bird a bit that's going to make it look a little bit fluffier if you're having difficulty getting tiny smooth lines you can always add a touch of water to your brush and that's going to allow you to get more individual pieces of feathers throughout this area and you do want this white chest area to blend in with this area in through here so as i work my way towards that area i will start to pick up either those colored those colors that i used originally and or brown but right now i'm just kind of getting i mean gray right now i'm just kind of getting the initial direction of the feathers on here that i want for this lighter area the lighter area works its way up into the neck and it comes back as if it it almost follows that wing on on the top of the shoulder that's kind of where the lightest area meets the main gray area so i've got some in through here i'm gonna go ahead and put some in this little eye socket area so just a little bit of white paint on my brush is gonna and i'm just gonna tap this in here with little dots because the feathers didn't appear to be super long when uh in this area to me it almost just appeared to be this soft little fluffy feathers so i'm just tapping this in and if you can get it to blend in with that gray because it net it seems like it naturally just kind of blended in with the gray right about in through here so i'm using very little bit of paint on my brush just to get it to be the brightest in through here and then just fade in through there i think i'm going to add a little bit more of my white in through here just to get that to really pop and be nice and and sunshiny i'm also going to put some light aries so i'm using gray with white on my brush at the same time to give myself some light areas around the back of the um body and head so i'm just going to tap this in i'm not doing a firm straight line this is just going to indicate to the viewer that the the back side of the bird is being highlighted a little bit by sunshine so it gives us that um definite rounded feel to to the bird and i want to put some of this light so right now i have white with gray on my brush at the same time so it doesn't overtake and be more powerful than that chest feather i still want that to be the brightest of them all so this is just a little bit lighter than the gray but not as bright as that chest feather i want to put the the tip of this wing in through here so these appear to have almost curved type feathers not curved but definitely they seem to be laying down on the um on top of the tail feather so if you feel that you need darker areas like i feel like i want a little bit more separation between the wings you can always add a little bit of black with the gray on there so this can give you a bit more definition between your feathers themself if if you want there to be i feel like i need a little bit more up in through here with the darker toned feathers so i've just added a bit of the black and gray onto my brush so by adding these bits of darker feathers in through here as and the lighter ones towards the back that's going to again give you a rounded view of of the bird so right now i'm going to start to tap in a little bit of darker feathers back in through here not not too much you can always go into that original gray i just don't want it to look flat so that's why i continue to add these these feather type marks and in order for it to not look flat i've got a little bit of curve to the feathers as well as contrast in the colors so i've got a little bit darker in through here the tip or the edge of the feather not as dark as the shadow of course um and then it it's lighter towards that um end of the the left side of it and i just want to maintain my my um curve here so i'm just kind of making sure that's on there i'm digging the the tail and through here that's looking pretty good to me i'm going to go ahead and um i think i'm going to move up to the head and come back to here in a second because i've got my my grays and and the tones on the head are on my brush right now so i'm gonna just kind of tackle this and then i will go ahead and finish the the colored part and what i'm doing now is i'm just kind of blending that real dark area that we put on top of the beak into the actual head itself so again i'm really just kind of tapping my brush right now to make it look like there's some texture to the fluff or fur or feathers on top of this bird and then when i get to the crown area or i think the tufted area i'm adding a bit more white to my brush just to give i don't want it to look again as white as this but i do want there to be some dimensional element to it so a little bit of white and maybe even i add a touch more of um like the darker gray to give it again those those individual pieces so you have to have enough contrast in your colors in order to see one in front of the other or to see that that dimensional element to it so i'm just kind of continue to tweak this no pun intended tweet i'm tweeting it tweeting tweaking it a little bit um but you can certainly have some fun with this i am gonna go down into this colored area because i want that to be a little bit more vibrant so i'm washing and drying my brush i think i'm gonna add a bit more yellow to this yeah there we go and then i just need to tackle those little tiny feet so once i've got enough um feathers in through here that i'm happy with maybe a touch more orange and maybe maybe a little brown just to get it where again where i visually envisioned it and then for my feet what i'm really going to do is i'm going to put some little nails make sure that you can still see the the toes so i i think i have to redo just one of these little toes and through here because i covered over it with my shadow so i'm going to add a tiny bit of black paint to my brush and again you can water it down a little bit just so you have a nice pointy tip on your brush i'm going to add some little tiny little tiny nails and again it's a teeny tiny bird so you only need little tiny nails something like that i'm not going to see them on the other foot then i just wash and dry my brush and i'm going to add white and i'm going to add a little highlight to it so i've got the highlight on the top of the leg there's a whole bunch of little knuckles on this bird's um fingers so you can almost just kind of do a couple of fun little polka dots you could if you had a tiny enough brush you could put a tiny highlight on that that talon um but again the little itty bitty details sometimes aren't aren't totally necessary but if you can get to him great and maybe put a little a little bit on his bring his leg into the into the body a bit yeah that's looking cute and if you needed to do anything more to it to get it to be more dimensional maybe a little shadow under it would would help it pop out a bit more and then you can keep just kind of making any adjustments you want maybe a little bit more white on the chest and then we're going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your cute little cuddly tufted tip mouse all nice and painted 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 are finishing our flower petals so i'm going to be using my medium brush i already have orange on it i'm already prepared so i'm going to be using the original colors that i had used which was that dark undertone plus a lighter version plus white so i've got my original orangey peachy color that i had and then i brought some over here and i added some white to it so i've got varying shades of it and then i did the same thing for my pinker one so that's my original and then i brought some over here and added some white and i might have added a little yellow to it too but you can make whatever tone you want i might end up using some of the florescent pink as well so you'll see how this goes it's really going to be a visual preference how light and bright you want the flowers to be but they're going to look the most natural if you just use lighter tones than what you have here so you don't just want to use the base color and white you want to use varying shades of that petal and that's what's going to make it look the most natural so i'm going to start in through here i've got my light color of this on here and i can use this light color as my little bit of a highlight at the top to kind of define those petals and then without even washing my brush i can pick up some of that original color and get it to just blend in and it we're going for kind of impressionistic type petals you don't have to make them really in focus and photo realistic just if you got the great a good shape you've got some light and some dark you've got some definition between those petals that's awesome and then what you can also do if you want some extra sunshiny sunshine on there just add a little bit of white to your brush also and you can put a teeny bit of white on those tips and that's going to bring it even more in focus and you can leave a little of the darkness at the bottom or in between so now that i've shown you that one in slow motion i'm going to go ahead and show you all the others in fast motion because that's what's going to happen to my brush so right now i'm going to pick up some of my light and my dark orange in through here just to kind of get these petals started and you don't have to have um all three petals showing you can have just two petals showing if you want to so again this was the light color i might have had a smudge of the darker on there as well and then i can just i picked up some of the darker tone and i can get it to blend in a bit and i do it kind of on the fly you know once that first the light color is on there i come back with the dark color and just blend it in but you can you might find yourself having a different type process than i do whatever works for you but i like to work with my paint while it's still wet so that's what i'm doing i'm kind of putting that lighter area on picking up some of the darker color while it's still kind of wet and just blending it in but i'm not over blending it because i still want some of those darker tones in there and again you'll get your rhythm if you go outside the flower like i just did don't worry about it because we're going to have the bottom grassy part to put on there or if you make the bottom too light just pick up some of your darker color and you can bring that right back up in between if you feel that you need that that second coat on there or even a little bit darker so i'm going to go ahead and do some of these over here i'm not washing my brush at all i'll probably come back and pop a little a little white on some of those but right now i am just getting the um lighter values in through here and you can see how i'm pretty systematic with how i'm placing these petals i'm trying to give it a little bit of um variety with the way that the the petals are kind of folding over if you can give it a little variety great sometimes your brain doesn't let you and they all end up looking exactly the same but if your brain allows you to give it a little bit of um a variety of those petals kind of maybe one folds over the other one a little bit more that will make it look a little bit more natural but sometimes our brains just want to do one specific thing and they don't give us the option to to um a variety so you can you can find out if your brain is going to let you do that now i'm picking up just a tiny bit of white to put a little bit of extra bit of sunshine on the tips of these and you can get it to blend in a little bit or you can just kind of put that little that little mark and sometimes just a little tiny mark will do it but you could certainly blend it in a little bit if you want to and then i'm gonna wash and dry my brush in a second and i'll tackle my my other ones and just in case you um have noticed or haven't noticed i i'm not concerned yet that some of these flowers don't have stems to them we're gonna tackle that on the next step i think i mentioned earlier that we had um the little things at the bottom of the flowers that we'll do as well so know that it's okay if you have floating flowers right now we will we'll get them to to be connected to something in a minute so i'm just getting these last couple here and then i will um wash my brush for the darker ones or for the um pink pinkish ones but just making sure i've got these ones in as much um darkness and lightness as i want those look pretty that these look a little too uniform these two down here so we're gonna we're gonna change that up a little bit i'm gonna put this one here all right so i'm washing and drying my brush and i'm gonna put some of my lighter pink on my brush and get my light pink areas this one almost looks like an apple with a stem coming out it's amazing how i i see things as i'm doing these that i probably shouldn't see but you know that's the joy of being an artist now i'm picking up some of my original pink oh i like this color i like the light um the transition that these colors are making with one another sometimes i get surprised when i'm doing this when i start to layer these um layer the layers how the values speak to one another and you know there is real value in value in using the whole scale the whole value scale because if if you can utilize the light to dark of a particular color that adds more detail to the thing that we're looking at so if just in this simple this simple structure of a tulip where we only have you know three little petals or two little petals that we're looking at if we can see how it transitions from light to dark within that petal that's going to give us more information and it's going to cause us to see the form or the shape of that particular object so it's all valuable in the in the painting world to get these um the different shades of the colors in there so that's your value lesson for today and this one i think i accidentally have four petals so we will just we'll just make that into into two or three and then i'm just going to go ahead and pick up my original oh i like this color it's like a very muted kind of pink i guess you could go for a more vibrant you could even pick up some of that um fluorescent type pink and just kind of get that and now what i'm doing oh i want this one to go on this side now what i'm doing is i'm picking up that bit of white paint and just kind of giving myself these little extra highlights on the on the tips of them and then we're going to be utilizing this same brush so for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful petals nice and complete and of course you can sit here and keep tweaking yours as much as you want to i might end up tweaking mine for a couple more minutes here because sometimes i just can't stop even when the camera gets turned off um but once you've got yours all nice and complete we will be oh i want some more highlight over here we're gonna be um utilizing this same brush for i know i need to finish at least this one while while i'm on camera here um we'll utilize this same brush for the next step so you can just get ready all right so what we're gonna do for the next step is we are painting any missing stems that really will need to be placed in there and i think the other thing is called the sepals that's going to be the little green pieces that are at the bottom of the tulips that kind of encapsulate the little bottom part of the bulb so i'm using my medium brush i'm going to be using brown green yellow and white um similarly to how i did the grass the only difference here is i'm going to be placing them more strategically so if you have you know after you're done with your stems you don't necessarily want the stem to be in front of all of that other grass so you can put additional pieces of grass as well but i'm going to just start with my stems and my sepals first and then if i want any other little bits of grass i will do that so i'm going to start with green and brown on my brush at the same time so this way i just have a nice visible stem that i can that i can work with so i've got this in through here and again you can kind of have it going whatever which way you would like to and once you've got that on there then you can go ahead and add these little pieces of greenery coming up the sides and of course you can add additional pieces of grass i would also after i did that i would add some green yellow and white for some little highlights if i if i wanted to so i'm not going to do all of them in this much detail you'll see again as i just fly around my canvas once i've shown you that one but in this step if you also felt that you wanted to put any more shadow at the bottom of that flower where it meets the greenery you could certainly just add a touch of brown to your brush and that would get the um the greenery area to almost pop out and be a little bit more three dimensional so if you felt that there was need for additional shadow at the bottom of your flower you feel free to do so you could even you know use brown with whatever that darker tone was and you can see how that really just brings that dimensional element right to it so again i'm going to just do kind of my with green and brown i will do um the placement of the of the missing stems so this one i think would be in through here and if one goes behind something awesome and then i'm just going to kind of flick my brush out to give myself some little area at the bottom of that flower this one needs one too i have a feeling i'm going to have way more floating flowers than i really thought i did once you start looking at it it's like oh wait that one needs one oh wait that one needs one so again i'm just kind of getting them on here to make sure that they all have a stem so they're not just floating there and then i'll just flick my brush out to give myself a little bit of movement on or those sepals i don't know my um my anatomy of my flowers very well i know that i love to look at the flowers and that they you know they bring me much joy but as far as knowing the pieces to the flower i'm learning i'm learning for you guys so i can give you the the correct names of things but i'm definitely not i know way more about painting than i do the anatomy of flowers we'll just we'll just call it as it is and so again i'm just kind of looking at the ones that need the need a stem they don't all need one but you know if you have an obvious one that like this one that really screams i'm floating here give me something to stand upon same thing this one this one definitely needs one and they you know if you feel that the brown is too dark certainly just you know bring in more green this one i'm going to have you going behind that particular flower and this is in a lighter area to the canvas so i can get away with just using more green on that one and same thing maybe with this one and now that i've got what i feel to be enough stems in there now i'm gonna go back and add any little highlights that i want for this area and of course you could utilize your smaller brush too if you felt that um this medium brush was a little maybe too big or too too clunky for what you're what you're looking to do but i like to just kind of use the tip and like it to have an organic kind of feel to it so i definitely let my brush do whatever it wants to do a lot of the time that isn't always the smartest decision to do but um it it tends to make me the most happy so and when i am happy at painting it's a very good day and it's a bonus if i you know create something that is you know of a of visual um preference for myself so this is excellent because i am digging these colors i tell you and then i think i might just kind of flick it just a little bit more to make sure that i've got enough um of everything i want a little couple more brighter pieces of grass down at the bottom this is where in the beginning i was telling you that we had that last step that you might want to just kind of have fun and and flick some pieces of grass here and there in front of some of the the flowers and then we have a one tiny little step left to go so once you've got all of this beautiful flowers so nice and natural on your canvas you can get your small brush out and i just need some sunshine on this one hold on a second you can get your small brush out and get ready for the last step all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it i'm going to sign mine with my small brush i'm going to sign mine with black paint i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner i think i'm signing this one in the bottom right corner i do my initials but you could do your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you'd like for your identifying mark to be that's what you should make it and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a super summery vibrant live alive image and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 91min 27sec (5487 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2021