Learn How to Paint TURN THE PAGE TO AUTUMN with Acrylic - Paint & 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 turn the page to autumn and i'm going to be sipping on my coffee and if you enjoy this process i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you're going to find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using a stretched and primed 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white green oxide mars black deep yellow burnt umber which i will call brown chrome yellow and chrome orange and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a white piece of chalk that i will use for some drawing later and i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number 10 round synthetic brush and i have a number one round synthetic brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and of course you can switch those up as well if you'd like to if you're painting along with me you'll probably want to have a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying your brushes and down below this video i will be providing you with a couple of additional resources that can help you throughout your painting process one of them is a link where you can purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to a piece of chalk and all the good stuff in between so that's down there for you there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today all right so we're going to be doing for the first step is we're going to be painting our background i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors that i'm going to be using are green black and white and what i'm going to do is i'm going to have a really dark green color along the edges and then it's going to get a little bit lighter in the middle we'll add some extra glow to it later but right now i'm just kind of setting the stage so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my green and i'm going to add a little bit of black to it i'm not going to pre-mix all of my green because i'm going to want to use some of that green on the grass later so but i'm going to use quite a bit of it as i'm adding my black i don't need to add a lot of black the black will very easily take over so i'm just kind of pretty cautious at the quantity let me just turn this so you guys can see it a little bit better at the quantity of black that i'm adding into it because again i know that the black will take over very very quickly so i don't want to overdo it and i do want to preserve some of my brighter green for later so i'm just kind of spinning this around i do know that this will get a little bit darker as it dries as well so i'm just kind of visually planning for that i'm making it a little bit lighter than i ultimately want it just knowing that it will get a little bit darker during the drying process so this is about where i'm headed with my dark green color and you could certainly make yours lighter or darker or whatever is visually appealing to you so once i have it there what i'm going to do maybe just a smudge darker i always i'm always like yeah that's it no that's not it and i just kind of keep adjusting it until i until i like it all right i think that's looking pretty good so once i've got it into the color that i want somewhere in through here i'm not going to wash my brush i'm going to use my dirty brush and i'm going to pick up some white paint and this is how i'm going to start the center the lighter area of my canvas so i've got that dark green plus white on my brush i put a good amount in the center of my canvas and i'm just kind of spreading it around you can i like to kind of go horizontal and then vertical and just kind of get this to spread out pretty darn far you could certainly use a bigger brush if you wanted to but you can see how by doing it in this fashion i'm kind of getting these soft edges to it which are going to allow it to intermingle really well with that dark green which is what i'm going to add to my brush now so i just added the dark green to my brush and i'm going to add this along the edges of my canvas so this is going to go all the way around the outside edge you can certainly use any type of brush stroke that you want i will most likely in the long run probably do like a circular kind of thing oops just got that in the middle a bit um a circular type of kind of final brush stroke just to get this exterior color to work well with that interior color but right now i'm just kind of adding it on in like block kind of section so that way i can um distinguish that darker area along the outside and i'll get it to blend in with that center area in a minute but just kind of getting this on here and i am using a good amount of paint when it comes to getting this exterior color on here you might find that you may want to do multiple layers on this you might get it on it dries and you're like i don't you know i want it to be a little bit softer looking or whatever so you can certainly uh do multiple layers if you want to and i'm just kind of getting this to go right into that lighter section in a second i will start to blend those two sections in with one another but right now just kind of getting this on as close as i can to that center section and now i'm going to start just blending them in so i'm i may end up picking up a little bit more white my center section is still wet but if by the time you get to this blending area if your center section it has dried on you you can certainly just start picking up the dark green plus a little bit of white to get those areas to blend in together and i'm just kind of doing a overlapping type of type of technique in through here where i'm getting that lighter area and the darker area to just overlap one into the next i have this area over here that seems to have dried a bit more than i wanted it to so i just added that dark green and the white onto my brush and now i'm just going to start kind of fiddling with it until i get this blend as blended as i want so again this is that that time where you may want to do multiple layers on it i like to kind of keep working it as it's drying but you might find again that maybe yours has already dried and it's difficult for you to blend at this point so let it dry all the way and then just do another layer on it that makes the blending process really easy it allows you to to get those colors to with a second layer it'll help you to get them to kind of merge together and you just do the same process over and over you start in that middle with that lighter color and then you can just work those darker areas along the edges and then we are going to be utilizing our chalk for the next step so once you've got your exterior done do as many layers on it as you want get it to blend as much as you want it to blend and then you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like to take out your piece of chalk or whatever utensil that you are using for your drawing and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be doing the outline for our book i'm going to be using my chalk i do want to forewarn you though that before you start this step that you make sure that your canvas is dry so this is that time where you get to take that extra long break if you'd like to or you can find some kind of fun fanning method to get it dry or you can do as i did and just whip out your blow dryer and get it dry that way so i'm going to give you a couple of markers and we'll just kind of connect the dots and by the time we're done we'll have what appears to be the outline of a book that's just kind of open and maybe at a little bit of an angle so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to um find myself a couple of key points which is going to be kind of the center of my book so i'm going to come up from the bottom of my canvas i would say about two two and a half inches i am a little bit over to the right of the center left to right so this is about where the center of my canvas is i'm just a little bit to the right of that and up about two two and a half inches somewhere in through there gonna make myself a little bit of a marker i'm gonna come up about two inches from there and over to the left maybe about an inch and a half to two inches make myself a little bit of a marker and you can connect those with a diagonal line something like that then what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna this is going to be the bottom part of the pages of the book so the pages are going to be up top and then we'll look at the side of the book so i'm going to go directly over to the right from here so you can travel over to the right i'm going to stop maybe about two inches from the edge of my canvas and go up about an inch make myself a little marker and i'm going to do the same thing over on the left hand side so i'm going to just kind of travel over over over to the left and maybe about an inch and a half to two inches away from the edge of my canvas and go up about an inch these don't have to be exactly the same mine are probably off a little bit see and which makes it to me look a little bit more natural because the book is kind of tipped a little bit and the pages might be a little bit more ruffled on one side so then what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect here to here with a wavy kind of line so i don't want my wave to go really high up i only want it to go up maybe at most halfway up this line so i'm going to go something like this where i'm going to curve it just a little bit and then i'm going to bring it down just a little bit and back up something like that and i'm going to do the same thing over here and your wave on the left can be way different than the wave on the right especially since we've got the book turned a bit so i'm going to bring this over in this direction bring it up higher than this mark in through here but not by much and then i'm going to just kind of bring it back down and just slow slope it up just a little bit on that edge then what i'm going to do from these two corners i'm going to go up i would say maybe about an inch and a half to two inches and bring them in so up maybe about an inch and a half to two inches this side i'm going to bring it in maybe about two more inches and connect these two markers so this should seemingly be at a similar angle as this center mark especially on the right hand side because of the angle that i have the book at and it's a little bit higher than this top here so if you were to come straight over like this it's a little bit higher and then on the left hand side i've got this one almost at about the same height as this one so again my book is is turned a little bit so i'm going to go up 2 about the height of here maybe a little bit higher and i am up maybe about an inch and a half two inches in a little bit from here and then i'm going to connect these two like this and again we're seeing the book at an angle so it's all right and then i'm going to do similar waves from here to here and here to here as i have down in through here and again you don't have to make them too dramatic they're actually farther away from you than these are so they could seemingly be a little bit smaller so i'm going to kind of go in through here i've got a wave coming up like that to emulate that and then same thing on this side i've got it a little bit flat in through here and then i've got my wave coming over in through here and again it doesn't have to be perfect but something close is good enough and then what i'm going to do is i am going to give myself an arcing type of motion underneath this point in through here so i'm going to give myself a little bit of an arc like that a little bit of an arc like that this is going to be the inside of the binder for the book i'm going to come over to the right hand side in about an inch and up about an inch and a half and then over on the left hand side same thing i'm in about an inch inch and a half and up maybe about an inch and a half somewhere there i'm a little bit outside of this corner here and i'm a little bit outside of this corner here and again they don't have to be exactly perfect i will connect this marker to here i'm going to connect this marker to here and then i'm going to connect these two to here so this is going to be the um the bottom of the book or the book binder itself so i can give myself a little bit of an inside arc like that and then i'm just going to connect here to here and i'm going to connect here to here and that's going to be our outline for the book we will be using our uh we're going to use our medium brush for the next step so you can put your chalk 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 painting the base coat for our book i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are green orange brown black white and deep yellow so i'm not going to use chrome yellow that's the only color i'm not using on this step so i'm going to be using my green oxide and i am just oh i i said i was using my medium brush i forgot if i said that or not i'm going to use my green oxide to paint the top pages of the book this will be my base coat for what will end up being a little hill um or landscape kind of area that we're going to be doing later i go right into my chalk the chalk will bleed or you know go right into your paint so you might end up having a little bit lighter of areas with that with that chalk but usually it's pretty good at disappearing but we will um we've got plenty other steps so if your your chalk shows up a little bit no worries at this stage as i get into the center of the um the top section of the book i'm going to put a little bit of darkness in there but just kind of getting this main area on here i'm really not using any special brushstroke just kind of getting the paint on here because i know we're going to be adding a whole bunch of grass textured grass on it in a little while so i'm not concerned about the perfect execution of the paint right now even along these edges because we're going to be doing you know we got a big tree and some leaves and all kinds of stuff as i get into the center area i'm not going to wash my brush i'm just picking up a bit of black paint to give myself a little bit of a shadow in the center there i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and pick up a touch of brown to get this shadow area to just kind of um go up into my grass so this is just gonna give us that little bit of a dimensional element right in the the crease of the book and you can just kind of get these to work their way into one another they don't have to be perfect again at this point because we're going to be we'll be adding a whole bunch of other stuff maybe a little bit coming on it on this side as well but the deepest darkest would be in the center of that of that crevice and then what i'm gonna do is i'm i wiped my brush off on my paper towel i'm gonna pick up some black paint and i am putting a deep shadow underneath this the binder of the book just bringing it right to the end of my my chalk mark in through there i'm going to reload my brush with a little bit more black i'm going to use the black along the um the book binder or the book cover i guess down in through this area just having it travel right along that chalk mark i'm going about a quarter an eighth to a quarter inch wide you could certainly have yours more narrow or more wide totally up to you we'll add a little bit of a color to it in a minute i'm gonna bring this um the book cover along the edge just a little bit in through here as if we're just seeing a bit of it going um behind the the book itself and of course i'm just kind of squaring off this corner in through here i'm going to do the same thing on the other side just using black as my um starting point for the book cover that what is you know seemingly going to be in in the shadows a bit it's definitely not a focal point for this this image but it definitely you know if you want to get that realistic look you want to be able to incorporate some of these realistic elements and then i'm just bringing it down over on this corner i want to make sure that i have a good little curve down here so just making sure that i identify where that book cover is going to be and then what i'm going to do without washing my brush i'm going to start picking up white orange and brown on my brush so i have black white orange and brown on my brush right now and i'm going to start the pages of the book so this is where i'm going to just do a series of stripes to get the pages to start to emerge you can certainly do a solid color if you want to but i really like using this stripe type of technique to do the inside pages on a book because to me it looks nice and natural as i get over to the corner of the um the pages i'm going to use a more just the tip of my brush which will give me these little pieces that look like they're the individual pages but i want to make sure that my my brush stroke doesn't stop or doesn't have like a um a firm end to it as it's traveling through the book so you want it to look like a continual line even though you might have some light spots and some dark spots that continual line is what's going to sell it as uh the side of the piece of the paper and then i'm gonna go ahead and do that same thing on the other side so white brown orange and a touch of black is how i'm gonna start this and as the pages of the book they'll be more curved up to the top but when they get down to this area they would in essence be laying down more so i'm trying to give it a realistic movement to to the pages i'm going to use a little bit less orange on here just so i can make sure that i don't overdo it with the orange but of course i'm going to be doing layers upon layers on this as well and that green color that we used as the base that really acts as a wonderful um starting point for for the colors on the on the pages on the books because it gives us a good dimensional element to it so i'm just kind of adding these bits of information with these pages and this is one of those steps that i know for me i personally love to do more than one layer so if you're going about this and you're like oh my colors are blending too much or i'm not getting the dimension that i want just give it a minute and let it sit and fester and you can certainly add to it i'm going to brighten up this little tiny area where the pages kind of all meet in this vicinity and then make sure that i have some bright pages at the top this is where i'm going to start picking up my deep yellow so i've got deep yellow and white i did not wash my brush so i'm use utilizing that really dirty brush in order to give myself some um brighter pages that will that will show more movement on on that book and we're going to have another step where we um kind of finalize the look of these pages so don't feel as if the way that they look right now has to be the final destination for them you can certainly um just kind of let them sit let them let it kind of dry and see if you're digging the lightness or the darkness of it and we will have a future step that will will be at making sure that we have all of our highlights and shadows and as much dimension in them as as we want to so once you've got this on here what i'm going to do my next little task for my pages or my book is i'm going to put a color on my book cover you can certainly have yours whatever color you want i'm choosing to do orange as a complementary color to the trees and the leaves that we're going to be putting up top but you could certainly do whatever color you want i think i want a little bit more lightness over in through here on this page on the little edges of the pages and of course again you can make yours as dimensional as you want i'm just wiping my brush off on my paper towel and picking up some orange paint to add the color to my book cover i'm i'm allowing for my black to still be evident at the bottom of it to add a little bit of a visual um information that it has a bit of a shadow at the bottom of it so i'm kind of placing this orange it either to the top side or the middle of that black um section that i created and then i'll go ahead and do the same thing over here leaving a little bit of that black showing at the bottom and if you want to you can also add a little bit more i just wipe my brush off of my paper towel to give the illusion of the inside of the cover just kind of fading off into the distance i had a little bit of orange and just allowed it to dissipate underneath that book um the book cover itself and you can keep fiddling with this so i could keep adding you know some of the darker black or darker brown down along these um bottom pages maybe a little bit in through the the edge where it meets the the binder in through here you can add a little bit extra shadow in through there so wherever you think that the shadow would be lurking or hiding within this book that's where you want to add those those extra pieces of dark information because we're you know this is definitely a an imaginary setting so we you know don't have to follow all the rules as to where shadows and highlights and all that kind of stuff goes but if you want to give it that realistic kind of element to it if you can incorporate some of those realistic elements like shadows and highlights that adds to the um believability that this could you know come to life to the right imagination and then we're going to be utilizing our large brush for the next step so once you've got your pages as as rendered as you want to at this point and again we'll have that little final step where we'll we'll add any bits of extra highlights and stuff later but right now i'm going to be putting this brush away taking out my large brush and getting ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're adding the background glow to the painting so i'm going to use my large brush i'm going to be using deep yellow and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be using my deep yellow first to get the area of where i want this glow to happen and then i'll be using my dpl plus a little bit of white to get some extra special like i don't know atmospheric glow movement so i'm going to start with some just the yellow paint and the reason why i'm using this deep yellow is because i know that it's translucent which means you can see through it so if your yellow that you're using has opacity to it which means you can't see through it well then you could use it with a little bit of liquid medium or water to thin it out a little bit so it could be see-through because i want to be able to see this background behind it so i know i want my glow to come out of my book so i'm just utilizing this deep yellow and i'm rubbing it in and you can see even when i bump into my book i can still see that book behind it and i'm just going to make this go as far out as i can i'm going to add more in a minute but i want to kind of make sure that what i just put on there i've dissipated and made it go out as far as i want it to i'm going to add a touch more and these bristle brushes are great because they allow you to kind of scrub it onto the canvas and get it to really just kind of blend out and i'm one of those who um i'm not very nice to my brushes so if you care more about your brushes than i do perhaps you you want to utilize a brush that you don't love as much because you might you might end up um hurt you know hurting your bristles a little bit doing the scrubbing type technique um so i'm going to go ahead and bring this i want some of this glow to be all throughout or out a lot throughout the painting so it gives it this real mystical magical kind of look to it so i'm bringing it pretty darn far out and kind of letting it again dissipate as it goes past that that book area but we can still see that background behind it and once you've got it in the area that you want you can start utilizing a touch of white now when i go to use the the white you'll want to play with it a little bit to because the white again is not see-through so you could utilize a touch of water on your brush you could utilize a little bit of liquid medium i know that my white is really thin because it's a student-grade paint so it has a lot of fluid to it um so i'm going to put a little bit of the deep yellow plus a little bit of white on my brush i know i want it to be brighter in this area in through here so i'm just going to kind of dabble it in there a bit rub it around and then i'm going to start to kind of pull it out wherever i want it to be pulled out and if you want to you can certainly add like i said a touch of water to your brush and or a little bit of medium on your brush that's going to allow you to kind of pull it out and and get it to be as see-through as you want i'm going to have some really long pieces that are just really helping to sell the story of this brightness that this that's just kind of illuminating my my you know the rest of my painting you can bring them as far out as you want but i'm getting them to be more um brighter in the center area and then just kind of dissipate out into the atmosphere so again feel free to make yours as bright and as glowy as you want to and then we're going to utilize our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your your background glow on here you can put this large brush away and fiddle with it all you want and if you do something that's too much you can kind of reverse it a little bit without having to redo that background by again utilizing a little bit of water on your brush you can always kind of scrub it out a little bit if it's still fresh so just know that if during this painting process you're like oh my god i put too much on there if your undercoat is dry you can certainly remove that upper layer with a little bit of water on your brush so know that that's a good way to kind of reverse some action might take a little bit of work but if you needed to do so that that definitely is an option and then you can get your uh medium brush out and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our tree trunk in branches so i'm going to have my tree emerging from in this area and it's going to be kind of like an oak slash maple tree but you could certainly have your tree resemble anything that you want mine's gonna be pretty wide at the bottom and then as it comes up it's gonna i'm gonna have it start branching out maybe like two or three inches above my book and i'm gonna have my branches really splaying out really far but i want to be able to see some of my background through it so i will you know leave some some spots the colors i'm going to use my medium brush the colors i'm using are black orange brown yellow and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to start it pretty darn dark i'm going to be using black brown and orange on my brush at the same time and i'm going to put it all into place and then i'll add some highlights i like using multiple colors on my brush at the same time because that's going to allow me to have multiple tones within that that one object but i do know that black can easily take over so if you're going about this and you're like oh my god my tree is just a hundred percent black then just back off of the black a little bit and use more of the brown and the orange to get those initial um tones in there so i'm going to have my tree starting i would say maybe somewhere in through here and then i'm going to have the left hand side i would say maybe somewhere over in through here and i'm just going to kind of start building it in through here when i am doing um tree trunks and branches and things of that nature i don't really like to hold my brush super tight like a pencil up like this i like to hold it on the looser side so that way when i'm going about doing the edges and creating those branches my my tendency is to give them a little bit of movement a little bit more wiggle whereas if i was holding it tight like a pencil i might end up with some really straight um branches and it might not look as natural as i want it to look so feel free to hold your brush whatever way you'd like but that's kind of my mo when i'm doing branches and things of that nature i want them to look natural so i end up holding my brush um on a looser type of fashion so i can get those those more organic type of brush strokes i'm gonna i'm just kind of slowing down here for a minute so i can plan out where i want these branches to go i think i'm going to have this one kind of coming in through here i just really want to plan out my main branches and then i can once i've got my main branches on there then i can really start to no pun intended but branch out and do my my smaller branches and the ones that are gonna have um you know kind of fill in my gaps and stuff so i've got my tree kind of branching out in through here so when i am building my trees i really like my branches to be nice and thick by the trunk and then get thinner as they go farther away so i as i'm building it those are those are you know the thoughts that are going through my head that these branches can be nice and thick as they're meeting that trunk and then as they go away from the trunk they can get thinner and thinner and i like them to have lots of movement and have lots of little branches kind of flicking out here and there so you can certainly utilize your own you know visual preference when it comes to to creating trees but i like mine to have lots of character to them and to have lots of movement and things of that nature i do want to have the insinuation that there's leaves coming up and kind of canopying the top of my canvas so i know that it's important for me to have a couple of these branches reaching the top of my canvas so that's why i'm going all the way up in a lot of these areas and then once i've got it you know pretty much formulated the way that i want now i just can kind of sit here and really make a whole bunch of little branches that can just come out and fill in a lot of these spaces i'm just alternating right now the brown orange and white as i go to a brown orange and black as i go to um to reload my my brush every now and again and as i'm doing these skinnier branches i do have a good amount of paint on my brush and i am not pushing hard so you might find that you want to add or use a different size brush for the little ones but i know that i'm going to have a lot of bran or a lot of leaves and stuff on my tree which could potentially hide some um unwanted branch branches if i want but to get if i do have those littler edges i'm just you know releasing the pressure on my brush which allows me to have those tinier those tinier marks so i feel like i've got it pretty much where i want it so i'm gonna wipe my brush off on my paper towel and start adding a little bits of highlights i don't really need to do much for the highlights so um i'm going to use my deep yellow and white i'm not quite sure if i said that or not but in the beginning that those would be the additional colors that i used but i'm really just going to add some extra bits of highlights with my deep yellow and white you could use your orange also for some some little highlights throughout the tree and i'm just kind of sporadically streaking in along the edges of some of these branches little bits of highlights so it's going to insinuate that that that glow that is coming out of that book is casting these pretty highlights throughout the tree and they really can be anywhere you want them to because we're going to have little sparkle glow dots all over the place so you can you know have fun with putting these highlights wherever you want because there's not just one light source here we've got we've got lots of light sources coming from those magical glow dots that are going to be coming out of the book so once you've got this all nice and set we are going to be um switching to our large brush for the next step so you can put the medium brush 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 the leaves on the tree top as well as our grass on the top of the book so i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are orange deep yellow white and if i need to maybe a little green but if i use that i'll let you know so i'm going to start up top with my leaves on the top of my tree i'm going to start with orange on my big brush so i'm going to be using a stippling or dotting type of technique to get these leaves to be put into place i'm gonna i know that my orange is gonna get darker as it dries so i know that the thicker my orange is the brighter it will be the thinner it is the darker it will be so i'm going to naturally be able to get light orange and dark orange just by the thickness of the paint so as i'm doing this i'm kind of keeping that in mind that i've got you know some thicker areas that will appear to be a little bit brighter and as my brush is running out of paint that's where it's going to look a little bit darker we are going to have the leaves that are falling out of the tree and kind of coming towards the viewer those will have more distinct shape to them but right now i'm just really looking to kind of give myself a good exterior um framing of the painting to with this orange color that's going to be complementary to our book um our book cover or book binder and the yellow is obviously going to speak to the fall colors and i'm bringing this all the way over this right hand side and down the right hand side a little bit i'm going to start incorporating some of the deep yellow onto my brush right now without washing my brush i'm going to start incorporating that into some of my orange leaves a little bit and again i know that this is um going to take on more vibrancy the thicker it is that it is um so i'm just kind of utilizing it in a you know a sporadic manner i don't want them all to be the same color all throughout the um throughout the tree so i'm allowing to have a variety of the yellows and the oranges and then in a second i will add a tiny bit of white paint to my brush with yellow as well and this will give me a couple of extra pops of brightness that i'm putting towards the top of the tree almost to insinuate that there's you know maybe an additional light source coming from above but you could certainly add these lighter pieces down below which would indicate that they might be um being illuminated by the glow of those sparkly pieces that we'll put in a minute and if you feel like you go too much or you have too much paint on your brush don't feel like you can't wash it and dry it throughout the process so i'm going to just kind of give mine a good quick rinse because i feel like i want a little bit more orange in some of these areas so i just washed it and dried it and i'm picking up a little bit more orange just to kind of get this color to transcend down that tree just a little bit more i'm going in front of some of my branches but i'm not covering them all up then i'm going to wash and dry my brush for my grassy area and so my thought process is i'm going to have it the darkest down in through here and it's going to get lighter as it comes up towards that glowy part so i'm going to start with a little bit of green i don't know if i said i might use green i'm definitely using green and i'm going to start it with just a dotting type of technique i know that our base color was green but i'm just kind of you know getting that paint wet right now allowing myself to add a little bit of maybe textured look to it now i'm picking up my deep yellow without washing my brush to get these two colors to start to intermingle with one another and i'm going to have it again darker on these as it's farther away from the light source which is the glow that's coming out from the middle of the book but we are going to have some extra glow from the little glow dots that we'll be putting on there later too so you can certainly have some of this yellow you know and lighter areas wherever you'd like to and i'm just going to add some of this yellow in through here i hear a delivery truck coming so we're going to see how how excited my little paparoonies get when it comes to down my driveway and i'm going to just bring this lighter yellow again i'm just using deep yellow right now intermingling it through the top side of the this grassy knoll kind of area that's on our book cover now without washing my brush i'm picking up a touch of white paint to illuminate or get these edges make it really look like we've got some grass that's full of life here and that's being illuminated by whatever that glowing source is you can even bring it up higher than the book the um outline of the book that you had originally created i'm going to put a little bit over here on the edges as if it's being you know kissed by whatever sparkle dots we might incorporate over there and then you can just kind of keep tweaking it so if i feel like i want a little bit more of that brightness coming along this ridge or this little hill that's being created you can go ahead and add a little bit more in through there or maybe coming in through here so wherever you feel like that glow would illuminate feel free to put some lightness in through there i'm just tapping in this little bit of texture to create this effect make sure i got a little bit more yellow in this little edge into here and then we are going to be utilizing our small brush for the next step so once you've got your grass and your leaves all nice and illuminated and colorful you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like to take out your small brush and see now now's the time where i'm just going to keep tweaking and you can get ready for the next step [Applause] all right so what i'm going to be doing for the next step is i'm painting the falling leaves so these are going to be the ones that are just kind of in mid-air and are traveling from the tree into you know being closer to the viewers so these are going to have a lot more detail than what we did up top i'm going to be using my small brush and because i want them to emulate the leaves up top i'm going to use the same colors which are orange yellow the deep yellow white and i'll probably use a little bit of black and or brown to put some details on the leaves um that are closest to us so what i'm going to first do is just in my mind i'm going to kind of plan it out i think i'm going to have a couple falling from on this side you know just a couple on there and then i'm going to have them looking falling from this tree but kind of coming out in a magical movement kind of way so i'm going to have them a couple really small in through here and i'm going to in my head i'm imagining them coming close to the viewer and they would get bigger and bigger so i'm going to have small and then i'll just progressively get them larger and larger as they're coming towards this left side i'm not going to do more than like five or six leaves in the center area and then maybe just two over there so i'm going to start with whatever my base color for that leaf would be so for these ones over here maybe i start with a little bit of my deep yellow i'm going for a very loose interpretation of like a maple leaf or an oak leaf where it has lots of little points and stuff along the edges and maybe we see some from the side and they're just falling in different directions so maybe i've got a little one over here that we're just kind of seeing the side of and it's got these little kind of points along the edges maybe i'm picking up a little bit of orange with my yellow now maybe this one's got a little bit more it's curved in the opposite direction and we've got some little points and stuff along the edges i will um utilize some white in a minute but right now i'm just going to kind of get my leaf my leaves to be falling where i want them to so right now i'm just kind of using yellow and orange as my base coat i think i'm going to have a little cute one kind of coming out in through here i think i need a little more orange so we can kind of see it on top of that background so i'm really just kind of utilizing maybe a curve as this the center or the stem of the of the leaf and then i can give it a little bit more movement for wherever the um the stem or the edges would be so i think this one i'm gonna have maybe i'll have a little poking out on the side there and you know you can certainly google different kind of leaves and make these look you know what in whatever style of leaf that you want but where i live we have a lot of maple trees and a lot of these um trees with the the bigger leaves as i'm coming towards this left i'm going to start to make them a little bit larger so i can sell the story of this of these leaves coming towards the viewer and they might look a little muted right now as i'm getting this first coat on but as i create the the details to them i'll get them to look more detailed so right now i'm really just kind of switching from my yell my deep yellow and my orange on my brush without washing my brush this allows me to have different tones again throughout that throughout that leaf maybe a little more orange on this one and you could certainly use red you could use you know brown you can really use any kind of autumn inspired color to create your leaves and you know just have fun with them just making them nice and organic and having lots of points to them and shape to them that's going to sell the story of this being a you know realistic book kind of fantasy type of painting with some realistic kind of elements to it i'm going to have a big huge i think i might make this one a little bit bigger because i want it to be you know seemingly bigger than that one so it looks like it's closer to the viewer so just add a little bit more on through there so i'm gonna have a really big one in through here so i'm gonna i know my stem is gonna be somewhere in through here i'm gonna have this one looking from the side like it's just floating right towards that towards that viewer so i'm going to have this kind of looking from the side it's going to get a little more narrow where it's going to meet that stem so something like this and you know again imagine yours to be whatever you want i like looking at them from the side it allows me to kind of be a little bit more carefree when it comes to forming it so feel free to make yours whatever way that you want and now that i've got them kind of placed where i want them to be i'm going to just add little bits of highlights and shadows so we can just wipe your brush off on your paper towel i'm going to add some little stems and maybe some little shadows so i picked up some orange and black on my brush and i'm just going to kind of maybe add a little bit of a stem here and there maybe a little bit of shadow or something along the bottom side of of them or not of all of them as i'm just kind of working with the ones that are more closer to us where i feel like i might see the detail on it a bit more so if i feel like i might see the um the little veins in it i can certainly incorporate that if i feel like i might see the stem a bit more you can certainly make a little bit darker of a stem like i feel like i'd see a stem on this one and this one probably would have a dark shadow underneath it and maybe some little pieces of the veins going up the sides so use your imagination when it comes to this if you can kind of imagine you know that you're looking at it from the side or something that helps you to to build the detail on it i want some little bits of highlights so they look like they're glowing so i just wiped my brush or washed my brush i'm putting some white with whatever color you want so i've got white with a little bit of yellow on my brush right now just to illuminate it just a little bit more maybe you do white with a little bit of orange so i'm just really streaking in bits of highlights so it looks like they may in fact be being illuminated by those by the little sparkle dots that we're going to be putting on in a minute and you know you can have fun with however bright you want these to be i'm going to put little bits of lightness on the edges on some of the edges i just try not to overdo it you know i want to sell the story of them being illuminated by something so that something is probably the sparkle dots that we're going to be putting throughout the painting so i'm just kind of you know in my head imagining that that's what's happening so right now i've got white with maybe maybe i'll put a little bit more yellow on this one and if you ever feel that your brush is overloaded and that all your colors are coming out the same on the painting that means that you should probably just wash and dry your brush because it may just be carrying too many of those you know of the colors in there or maybe it's not your canvas hasn't dried enough and you're just blending everything together so you might want to let the canvas dry or add you know wash and dry your brush i'm using again just a little bit of the yellow deep yellow and white as my highlight colors but you could certainly use light orange you could work work that into the equation you can pre-mix it on your on your palette if you wanted to but going with whatever whatever autumn type of colors and highlights that you want is totally your call i'm going to add a little bit more orange itself onto here again using that thought process the thicker my orange is the more vibrant it will be i can continue to add some of that orange color right on top of that base coat and it will make areas of that orange more vibrant as well and then we are going to be utilizing this small brush for the next step so once you've got all of your beautiful autumn leaves just falling from your tree and making their way to the viewer you can wash and dry this small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're finishing the details on our book so it'll be our little grass that's at the bottom of the of the tree any little leaves that have fallen onto the ground and then any little details that we feel like might need a little more finessing on the pages and the binder so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to be using deep yellow white green black brown orange so the only color i'm not using is chrome yellow right now so i'm going to start with some little pieces of grass underneath here i just started with some black paint i'm utilizing the black paint so you can feel and see some little silhouettes of or shadowy pieces of grass throughout here this does a couple of things one it helps to hide the bottom of the tree so if that wasn't perfect you don't necessarily want it to look straight across this will help to um to hide that kind of detail or that kind of thing i just picked up green it also adds a little bit more um interesting to me information to the painting because it what it's going to do is say oh my god there's something growing on there it's not just that that tree that has sprouted there's also stuff growing and the landscaper didn't come by and trim it i just picked up some yellow and white gonna give myself a couple of extra bright pieces of grass over in through here bringing them along into the grass line you can certainly have fun with making this as wild or as subtle as you want i really just like to kind of add these little these little bits of details to um just you know again add that extra dimensional element add it a little extra detail to it and then i'm going to go ahead and maybe um i'm picking up some a little bit of brown and black just to make sure i have enough kind of shadow underneath my my grass in through here you can certainly you know give it as many dimensional elements as you want but just adding those little pieces of shadow underneath will help to help to make it look nice and dimensional i'm going to give myself a couple of leaves on the ground that have fallen so i'm just going to go with my orange and my deep yellow to just make a couple little marks on the ground so that was some orange i'm picking up a little bit of my deep yellow now making some couple of little strategic marks in through here i'm not giving it much detail i wiped my brush off of my paper towel i'm picking up a tiny bit of black to give a little bit of a shadow underneath some of these leaves that's going to again just add a tiny bit of a dimensional element to it and allow it to look like those leaves are in fact maybe piled up you could certainly add as many as you want you could add a little bit of white and yellow if you wanted it to look like they're multi-colored or you know have fun with that you don't need to do a whole lot to get to tell the story that there's some leaves that have fallen on the ground then i'm going to hit my my pages of my book so this would just be if you wanted to make sure that top line was nice and visible or have has enough highlight to it because it's at the top i just added a little bit of yellow and white and again i'm only using my um my deep yellow at this point you could i'm reserving my chrome yellow for my for my sparkle dots later so that's that's where that's going to come into play so i'm just adding a bit more shimmer or highlight towards the top edges of these pages just because i didn't feel like mine was popping enough i just felt like i wanted to add a bit more into that as well as maybe over here on the the tips so again i'm just utilizing this last step on these um on the book and its pages to give myself that little bit extra realistic element to it because i know for me as my paint dries sometimes um you know where i thought i had a lot of detail might actually not be as detailed as i wanted it to be so this just gives me that opportunity to kind of just come back and make sure that i have everything rendered as much as i want it to so i'm going to go ahead and add a bit more highlight to this little piece in through here where all the pages come together and just make sure that it translates as as well as i want it to making sure that i keep some of that darkness in between the the pages so you can feel like they're they're separated a bit and you can certainly keep you know keep fiddling and playing with that all you want i think i want a little more brightness over here on the edges and again this is one of those steps that if you step back and look at it from a distance it you really can see more of it you know when when you're looking at it from a distance because you you know you're cutting out all of you know you're not this close to it you're see you're seeing it from a distance which can help i just added a bit of orange onto here to add a little bit more of an antique kind of look to the pages as opposed to them being crisp white and bright and new i want mine to look a little more a little more dirty and have a little bit more um you know antique kind of feel to it but you can certainly manipulate yours whatever color that you would like adding a bit more of that highlight up and through here so you can still you know again i just kind of keep tweaking mine then the book cover itself i'm adding a bunch of orange to my brush so i can make sure that this is as vibrant as i want and if your orange turns too dark on you you could or if you wanted a different color that's more vibrant you could add a lighter version of it you know you could add it with a bit of white in it and then add the um the true color on top of it because sometimes when we're working on top of a dark base like this it may not get as vibrant as you want it so either you just keep layering it until it is as bright as you want it or you can add a lighter layer first with a lighter version of that color and then come back with your your true color i think i'm going to add a little bit of black in between my pages and my book cover because i really um want this to look like they had like the book pages are um maybe casting a shadow on the book cover or that there's some sort of separation between the two so i just added a bit of black between my book cover and my pages yeah that's that's working visually for me and maybe a little bit more black in through here so it looks like it's a little bit deeper in that crevice and then a little bit of black underneath these pages in through here and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got your book all nice and completed make any little adjustments that you want and then you will you can take um this brush and just wash it and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be putting sparkly marks all throughout our atmosphere so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using white and chrome yellow for this one so i wanted to change up the um the yellow a little bit so it didn't compete with the other yellow that we had in the painting so that's why i'm choosing to do a lighter brighter kind of yellow for these sparkly marks these glow type of marks so i'm going to start with a little bit of white on my brush because i know for me one of the biggest things that i wanted this sparkle stuff to tell the story of is these leaves kind of coming out of the tree and to the viewer so i'm just putting a little bit of white paint on my brush and i'm going to tell the viewer that's what's happening by making these tiny little dots that are going to show the movement of these leaves so if you ever watch or look at old cartoons they have movement marks so you might see them with lines or dots that not all of them but some of them do and that will imply what what's happening to that particular object so i am utilizing that thought process to tell you oh my god they're coming out here they're moving into into this direction they're going to get bigger as they come towards the viewer and towards this larger one there you know maybe it's going to move up you can think of the painting starry night by van gogh he in his wind he has all kinds of um jagged marks that tell the movement of that or the motion of that per of the wind and he did that with make with mark making so you can certainly do that throughout your paintings in a in a nice subtle way that that helps the viewer understand what's happening so now that i've got that in there now i'm just going to be really carefree with my with my mark making i want it also to be implied that the glow is coming out from the center of the canvas so i'm going to be putting some small some big dots coming out into here just varying sizes and kind of getting them to um splay out in the direction that i want i don't want to overdo that area where the motion is coming um or that i've set the the we the you know the air in motion but i definitely want to have some coming out of this small area you know the main area in through here i just keep reloading my brush at this point giving myself a couple of additional marks coming out wherever i want them to to come out maybe i've got a couple in through here they don't all have to be just dots i'm gonna do some like star bursts in a second but right now just kind of doing little dots in various sizes to give the you know the information of what what i want to to convey to the viewer so if i wanted to do like a starburst what i do is i just start with a circle and i'm just going to kind of bring it out in these i just quickly pull it out with my brush to give it the the idea that it is shimmering and you can do that you know on several of them i wouldn't necessarily recommend doing it on too many because it might take away from that um that motion that that we have in play in the center but you could certainly do it to some of them and i'm just starting with white at this point i'm going to add my chrome yellow in a little bit but right now just kind of understanding where i want all my little sparkly marks to go and i'm trying to give them little different sizes i'm putting my head back here for a minute so i can see this from a distance maybe i have you know one over here maybe i think i'm going to have another starburst one over in here so i'll start with a little circle and then just kind of quickly pull out some little splay of the brightness coming out from those and then what i'm going to do i'm going to start to utilize some yellow the chrome yellow with my with my white so i just picked up some of my chrome yellow you can put it on top of some of these marks the white marks that you've already put in there or you can do additional marks whatever really works for you you can certainly have fun with this i might put it on top of some like this make it go out a little bit further and then you can even come back in and put another additional little white dot inside of it so you can really get these to glow if you want to so if you want some of them to have some extra special little glow aspect to them what you can do i'll show you one second sometimes it's hard to stop it's hard to switch switch thought process so i'm going to wipe my brush off of my paper towel pick up just the chrome orange or chrome yellow sorry and you can take one of these marks and give it a glow on the outside with that chrome yellow and then pick up a tiny bit of white and put it back on top a little bit on top of that original dot so you can utilize like i'll do it with this star or with this bursting one i can take my chrome yellow and pull that out even further than i had the um the original burst and that's going to give you extra glow within that mark and then you just pick up a little bit of white and you re-brighten part of that center and again you don't want to do that to everyone i want i want this to kind of look inconsistent and like um like the magic is just taking over not the the um analytical thought of the painter i just wanted to just kind of happen so i definitely have mine a little more on the carefree side yours could certainly be very organized and take on a definite a definite thought process to them i'm trying to leave the motion ones more on the white side so again they remain um that focal point for the movement i want a little bit of my yellow over here but i want it to be more glowy so again if you use white with the yellow it won't be as glowy or translucent you want to use the yellow alone at times to get that see-throughness to happen which is going to allow it to look more like a glow as opposed to just light yellow on top you'll be able to see through it a little bit more so if you wipe your brush off so you're just utilizing the yellow you'll have those see-through marks which make it look even nice and special and then you just kind of keep adding as many little glow marks as you want oops just drop my brush a little bit and again look at it from a distance have a lot coming out of this center area so that makes it look like you know that's the kind of nucleus as to where the the brightness is coming from and then once you feel like you've got enough glowing aspects to your painting we are going to utilize this small brush for the next step so you can just wash it and dry it and get ready all right so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to sign this one in the bottom left with black paint i sign my initials but you could certainly sign your first name or the date or you could use any kind of symbol that you want whatever works for you as 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 very magical autumn image and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music]

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Length: 68min 22sec (4102 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 17 2021