MISTY AUTUMN FALL FOREST PATH Beginners Learn to paint Acrylic Tutorial Step by Step

hey everybody this is Cinnamon Cooney your art  sherpa Suddenly Bigger because this is a live   stream i'm going to be showing you today how to  create an acrylic painting from this reference   photo of this gorgeous fall scene i'm going to  break it down step by step i'm going to tell   you the tools that i'm using the colors that  i'm mixing and the techniques that i'm doing   and demonstrate them so that you can follow  along at home this entire thing is going to be   broken up step by step and we are going to time  stamp it after the show traceable is going to   come out after the show as well because i may  move some of these trees for design purposes   during this event to help me do this is my husband  john who's busy removing green screen curtains   that's okay these are the remove the green screen  curtain and what he's going to do is he's going to   make sure that the camera is pointed at this now  we have a lot going on in the show besides this   being a fabulous three hoot forest that you're  gonna love doing this could be something you're   really proud to put on your wall we're gonna level  up all the skills that we've done so far this year   um on top of that we have giveaway winners to  announce from the bird hop a reminder that the   auction is still going on so if you've ever wanted  to own an original painting of mine that would be   perfect and we're going to do another giveaway oh  yeah what are we going to give away i think this   one if you live in north america you can have  the option of a print from this painting or a   patronage and if you live in the global world it's  a patronage because shipping is insane right now   unfortunately it's very weird it's just really  really strange right now so that's what we can   do and that's going to give away uh let's  say leave a comment after the show is over   on youtube and anytime on facebook  with the hashtag the art sherpa on it   what you love about fall hashtag i'll leave  terms and conditions after and the moderators   will explain to you the rules and give you an  idea of how to enter and we're not particularly   hard on people or penalize them in any way  today i'm going to be using a 9 by 12 canvas   all right 9 by 12 surface today and i don't have  my wet palette mostly because it's been a really   crazy week yeah it has been a crazy week so but  i'm live and i'm here and that's wonderful thank   you very much for you guys who are supporting the  premiere shows we really need that to happen so i   appreciate you guys showing up because that's  the only reason we can put them up is if you   guys come so thank you very much and coming by and  leaving comments there we like to see you people   it's important they like your shirt do you  like my shirt stitch because you you are ohana   and i'm not going to leave you behind today  nobody gets left behind and you are stitch am i i feel like i'm the big sister but i'll  be sick can i be the alien that got attacked by   the mosquitoes oh he's great yeah they're great  they're great they're great because that was a   very fluid alien i have i have a feeling that i  would be the multi-eyed whale dude you would be   the multi-eyed will dude for sure but that's just  because how that's how yes all right let's begin   um the first thing i'm going to want to do is i'm  going to want to uh divide my canvas in half and   half and i'm going to be putting out paint as i go  i do actually expect to be using most of my color   palette today because we're really really really  really really painting this forest and i resisted   adding more reds and more yellows to the mix but  i promised you we would only use these colors   maximum during the year so i'm keeping my promise  so let's put up a step one okay so do you know why   this is an autumn path because nobody likes to  fall path it's so nobody likes a falling path   nobody likes to fall down the path or up the path  or on the path or around so it's a autumn path   um what we're going to do is we're going to be  doing i do have a group provided for you but   we're going to be doing a method where we divide  the canvas in half and half so first i'm going to   divide it at the halfway mark so if it's 12 inches  across we're going to do it at the six inch mark   i'm using a watercolor pencil to make these lines  and that's because it will disappear into the   paint and be easily removed with water now because  this is nine it'll be four and a half inches   i don't know the centimeters guys and i'm really  sorry for that because it would be reasonable   in a world where you know centimeters makes more  sense and metric makes more sense that i would   but guys i'm barely surviving the new math  they're making my kids do in homeschool so   john bought a book i did and you know  what i found out what our math is better is that how you feel i'm like can we just carry  the one here please well i would say reverse   polish notation has worked for a very long time  and it continues to work quite well so if you just   use it and they've changed it they had a reason  i'm sure i don't know what it is all right because yeah i i'm i'm with you i don't like the new stuff  i'm with you it's i did not know until this moment   that it was reverse polish notation though it's  well no like i gotta google that i got stuff   that i do that's like that's how i prefer to do my  maths reverse polish notation yes how you it's the   order of operations and how you structure the math  stuff um it's you it's what you do so um we're   letting everyone catch up to finding the canvas  and half what's up talks about this all right in this space we're able to divide  the canvas up into four quadrants   and there's a couple things that we're going  to be doing we've got the background that   we've got to work we've got landscape  but this will allow us to position   the path itself right like which we know is kind  of down low and sort of comes here at an angle   and does not go too far up past this and then even  almost swoops in here so see how i'm coming over   an inch from the bottom which  is about my thumb and curving in   so this is really going to be the foreshortening  of our path i don't really need to sketch in much   more than that because a lot of this is just  about creating atmospheric perspective which   is the way that we paint things to make them  seem distant or close or misty now today i do   want to be using some gloss glazing liquid you  could use a zinc white if you were not into this   i'm going to put some of that out on my  palette before i forget about it and of   course i have let it plug up again take better  care of your art materials than i do all right   there so that's not white paint that is a medium  that slows down the drying time of my paint and   it also um lets me glaze and that's going to be  important i'm going to put out some phthalo green let's call this uh let me get the paint  out and then we'll put up a new step   okay i'm going to get out some burnt sienna i definitely am going to want to  put out some ultramarine blue man   it's for sure happening out here i like that very much i'm going to  put out some yellow cad yellow medium all right those go nice together you never  know when you're gonna need some cad red this is a pretty good start you may want  to get some mars black into your mix   all right little mars black into the mix i don't  see any need yet for dioxazine purple to the   background but we'll see as we go okay this  is what we have out on our palette right now   and i'm putting just this out because i know  my paint's going to dry the studio is pretty   dry today and i don't have my wet palette i don't  have my humidifier all i have is my mister so it's   going to be kind of a i can get you a humidifier  uh kind of a weird day all right i could come over   here heavy you are a humidifier that'll work  just breathe on the palate that's the new show   john breeze on the pallets asmr cad red medium  cad yellow medium phthalo green burnt sienna   ultramarine blue mars black titanium white and a  little gloss glazing liquid just in case you're   you know wanting to see that let's take a  picture and then we're going to start painting   the background john's going to give us a step so  first part of it pretty easy you can get to it   now i want everything in the background to be  very soft and very minimal i know that i've got   this sort of corridor of trees it's quite light  and it can be darker coming out much darker   and that's going to be what i'm playing against  i'm going to use a mop brush this one happens to   be the ultimate varnish i can use one of the  princeton ones princeton makes a pretty good   this is the one and a half inch one and a quarter  inch oval mop it's kind of basically the same   brush and it does a lot of wonderful work clouds  trees lots of things i'm going to go ahead and   start to just lighten my line a little bit with  water just so that it'll vanish as i'm painting   and i want it to bleed through and make a weird  line through my trees like the forestry service i support the forestry surface all right  let's begin with this idea that there's a   very soft light in the middle i'm going to   begin that light with a little bit of my  titanium white all terrain blue and burnt sienna i'll get my glazing liquid on here so that it's   flowing and i might even  add some water quite light i'm just brushing this out this is the beginning  the beginning of the brushing the beginning of the   brushing everything in this little corridor  blue will be misty and emotional and have   light value and be lit beautifully that's what  will happen and i want it to be quite soft now coming out from that it  can get much darker as we go i can darken this up a good bit here with  my burnt sienna and my ultramarine blue but that line there is not our favorite is  it when i want to change that i take a second   dry brush or a dry brush i had and i'll come  here and very softly blend these two together wipe off on a towel i'm just going to  make sure that they have a nice blend so as i'm working even though i know i've got a lot of this will  be that beginning of just gentle atmosphere   continue to go brown and blue  getting darker and darker   maybe start adding some green because  it's quite dark in the distant forest this has a very unique um  light coloration to it it does   you have a thought on that sir no just that i  noticed it sometimes he has a thought because he   does photography so you never know if it's going  to be like john thinking about some photography   things i'm going to wipe my brush off on a paper  towel here and also kind of come in even before   rinsing or changing color and yeah start the  blend and then i can come back with my dry brush   i can promise you there's not a thought  in my head today it's a thoughtless day have no thoughts in my head  that's believable to me it's just a wandering around sometimes i'll  change my direction on my canvas and you can   turn your canvas too and notice that i'm blending  it's not dissimilar if you have done makeup to the   techniques you use when you're blending makeup  when you're trying to soften or smooth out lines   and change how focused things are a lot of times  uh people feel like oh well with acrylic paint   you really can't blend in the way  that you can with oils but it's not   factually true you can actually do quite  a lot of blending that's very similar   to oils and if you get really good at it it can  be hard to tell an acrylic from an oil painting so   i'm going to get this now i've rinsed the brush a  bit because i want to start on the other side and   i'm going to dry it out thoroughly so it's damp  i'm going to get into my little dark mixture here and i'm going to begin to paint this side  as well i need more paint on there more more   so there's a nice coverage and you  can see it's quite moody and again it's so moody we want it to be very moody i like  the brushiness of it well it'll be brushy for a   second and then we're going to blend it in to the  other area and then hopefully that will do a nice   job but i mean even in the blended space it's  still cool and you know kind of has that soft a little harder right here because this paint  has begun to dry whenever you have that happen   i'm going to get right back into  my white and look come back in i don't i don't give up but just to keep blending  i'm like dory just keep blending just keep   blending and it's a slow process and you keep  switching and drying your brushes well i'm   constantly wiping this one out with this towel  and i haven't gotten it wet and then this one i   do get wet but i dry the extra water out of it  and i am leaning on the softness of the brushes   as the acrylic paint starts to dry it  has different stages of blendability   sort of interesting and when you do this technique  more and more you'll start to get a muscle   understanding you'll get that experience and then  go oh it's going to blend real good right now   or it's too early for the blend or it's too late  for the blend and i've got to add more paint you   start to get that that experience i'm going  to add a little more of this very light color   and it's okay that i get glazing medium in it now have you you like the open paints by golden  i love them yeah and there are times i wish   if i could go back in a time machine you know all  the things i've learned since i've been on youtube   know all the things i've learned about  teaching online since i've been on youtube   i probably would have started with golden opens interesting to know however you know  i have so many people who and they're   great uh the reason i was i would go back is  that they have this slow drying agent in them   and that might have helped beginners but here's  what that's the thing i think i haven't taught   any open classes so i don't know if they would  make beginners miserable right like i'm guessing   there too right like maybe they're really hard to  use for a beginner easy for me but for a beginner   just kind of a nightmare you know and  now now people are going to be like oh no sometimes you can know sometimes you cannot  know and get a little more white in here you can never not know enough now just brushing this through really  thinking about this background the   beginning the architecture where we start  our painting it matters just thank you to   everybody out there supporting us on youtube and  facebook did we remember to even text i didn't   i don't know that we did oops we'll text  another day we'll take us another day we   got almost sherpa here okay well then we're good  okay i'm gonna be sure but like in a two seconds   so from here i want to dry this uh  because i'm going to be doing some   multi-tonal trunks to make them seem that  they're very what we're going to be doing next   is really going in those techniques that make  those distant trees and leaves and things   feel like they're in the mist we're going to  explore this even more than we ever have before   so hang in for this because i think it's really  gonna be one of those things that is helpful   i i can't dry because i don't have my hair dryer  uh you don't let me look over here i'm not taking   two pictures just some place away from here i'll  go find out why i talked to them uh john has been   unhooking the studio and re-hooking the studio and  adding new curtains and we're trying to create a   black box area in the studio and we're adding  new equipment and um that means that sometimes   we get into stuff and it is just missing and  gone it looks like it is just missing and gone   camouflaged it was among the unsorted  cables there's many cables soon it's going   to be really gorgeous we're going  to be able to show you the studio if i choose to show that behind the  curtain if he chooses if he chooses all right i'm gonna dry this when  he gets me all charged up to do so   am i still good on charging uh yeah okay  my ipad is not unplugged he's looking for   an open plug that won't short out the house  all right so let's talk about some things   when we're doing landscape painting right  and i do pretty fast landscape painting on   youtube we're going to slow down a bit today  and really get into some deep techniques   um there are a lot of modalities or philosophies  on how you can go through this with acrylics right   one is a very immediate fresh kind of painting  style like in the daily painting style you just   capture the light and everything you see  and you go through as quickly as you can   and that has a value because your artwork is loose  and it's expressive and you don't get wrapped up   in the details and that's wonderful and we do  a lot of that but we're going to get a little   more detail-oriented today so you can understand  how if you wanted to have a more representational   or realistic painting how you might get that  done okay so it's going gonna take a second   we're gonna probably have to let the kids walk  through the dogs walk through during the lesson   but this is gonna be worth it because you're  gonna have a really great painting result   now let's dry so while she dries um  yeah this is gonna be really cool and   you know i think it may take a little longer than  normal because it's got so many layers but i don't   think it's going to be that difficult i mean  it's one of those things where it's persistent   persistence you have to just stay at it keep  going just keep blending just keep blending   yep and uh don't forget check out the link  links in the description down below um   we're doing a whole bunch of studio upgrades  oh my gosh thank you guys for helping us that   wouldn't be possible without all you guys there  really would not all right so nothing is possible   i need to give you a step i think we're at a step  place all right here we stepping it up we'll be   stepping it stepping and getting a couple brushes  well i'm thinking about it so we have a bunch of   distant trunks and trees we have distant leaves  we've different distant elements that we're going   to be painting in and we have to make some  decisions about how we want to get those in   and i'm going to think about you know kind of  what we have going on here um one of the things   that we have is we have sort of these distant  trunks which are a bit of our bird sienna and   a little bit of our altering blue and some white  there's still a brown trunk they still have that   but they have that definite distinctive lighter  value so i'm going to mix up kind of a gray brown and i'm going to say about an inch off here let's talk about some of  these little trunks the trunk   yeah we're using a number four round  just because it gives us some control   the trunks are fairly straight so  that's not going to be difficult and just paint that there you know  there's about you know an inch of this maybe this one's a little bit bigger and kind of get that little bit  of lines in and then i'm going to   take a little of my white and a little of my blue i'm gonna make sure that there's  some light between these trunks you know they gotta have a little space  between the trunks they do otherwise   they get cranky with each other i'm also  going to come in and maybe make some little   runs of distant light it kind of implies the  way the light might come through trees far away i've got a bit of my burnt sienna  in my green and some of my yellow get it into the gray that i have going and i'm going to kind of stagger  this to the background pull that over   i think i'll need to pull that trunk  down i can get a little of my yellow my white and i'm just going to tap in maybe  some distant little lighting like i said a   little more involved than we normally do  i'm gonna take a little yellow way here kind of light those up a bit on the left-hand side   give them a little little little  sunlight a little sunlight a little more into my blue now now is laurie  wanted to know is there a significance   significant difference between the experience of  using open paint versus glazing liquid or so the   glazing liquid is kind of like the base of golden  open um it's like a heavy bodied version of it and   it has around the same slow drying time so the  open paints can be wet up to like 24-48 hours   where they're still workable and  you can still do stuff with them which i think is kind of cool so i do i do think it's amazing um and  again i until you guys use a product   i can sometimes have a concept in my head of  like oh this won't be that hard for them to uh   to use and then i get there and it's like super  hard for you guys to use and i'm like oh i was   super wrong they are not loving this experience at  all i'm adding a little more yellow into my green that's nice i'm just dabbling  a little light where i can and adding some highlights  to that left hand side there these are just far away little elements of trees   far off tree yellow are off tree  elements i mean they happen right they do you're just gonna paint that in a  real relaxed way notice it's not   uh particularly darker or different than  the background whatever you're doing in your   in your forest guys what you're going to want  to remember is that things that are far away   will often be in similar value or  hue to their background that's part   of the atmospheric perspective  that helps them look how they do i'm just using my brush to  just create some distant little thoughtful combos there and things that could  be far far away i've got a lot of interesting   stuff happening around in here and you know you  want to work on this stuff to feel like oh well   like i feel like i've got it you know just keep  kind of adding little you spend some time with it about every hour guys we're going  to want to stand up and stretch   get fresh coffee do those things okay so be  prepared for that today so irene says that burnt   sienna and ultramarine blue with a little white  is her favorite green yeah it's pretty awesome it's a very natural green and it  it's good for landscape painting i'm creating lighter values between  these so that when they peek through   and the forest around it is so vibrant this  will feel like you're seeing sky in the distance   that's why you see me working these little  very light elements different places anyone here and there now i'm going to want  to do a layer of kind of very far off kind of   tree texture i may just keep using the mop brush  that i have you could use one of those cheap hogs   that i have let's call this a step  and then we'll add some distant leaves   distant leaves okay the destiny leaves we've done  some distant trees let's do some distant leaves now on this as we go if we need this to be lighter  as we're painting we can come back with glaze so   don't be too hard on yourself at this stage  if you're like oh if there's too much value or   i need it to be different it's actually going to  be okay because we're really going to get into   some of that sort of variance i'm going to  begin with a little of my green and brown okay so i'm going to use this sort of right here  yeah i just want to have a leaf kind of structure going on through here these are very  background elements create a dv structure   yeah i just want them to feel like out  of focus distant leaves and the brush   any any brush that gives you kind of that  dispersed effect can be really helpful on   that what i don't like here is that i  don't have a mix of my brown into my   green and those brown spots are pulling the  eye so i'm going to definitely take that away i may get my palette knife involved if it doesn't  get mixy mixy better but i think we're okay now   it's quite dark here add a little white and glazing  medium to it get into that and talk as it comes in it should be blending in see how that's kind of blended into that center and it just works its way yeah cory was wondering if you could do this with a  sponge technique you could absolutely do this   with a punch sponge technique cory and that is  a good instinct that you're having now would   you want is there a little yellow into it one  sponge over another that would be good for this   um i think the small sea sponges are  actually much better um just personally   because they have a really kind  of raw leaf texture some of the   bigger ones their their patterns are a  little too uh too open and aggressive so i tend to find the smaller little sea  sponges to continue to get this light here really want it to be light  even if it's got yellow in it now we're just creating those little distant   moments you can get a little more yellow  into it anytime and a little more white just adding some little highlights to it we're pushing some of those  trees into a distant background you can even get a little brown into this and  gray at some look at that they're very grey now more yellow and then right back into our  dark values right back right back this time maybe i'll get a  little green and ultramarine blue kind of pushed in front of that  little set of trees there doesn't it does this is very nice for the  beginnings of our distant foliage we have lots to do here but  we're right now setting the stage with paint with paint i'm getting these different greens  really just trying to capture what's happening in the forest and where i  need to being light enough with it where it   pulls into the far away you don't want that you  don't want that phthalo green in there it'll pull   it forward you want to use it as a mix but you  don't want it's pure pigment in that event at all and this is a good start we're starting to  think about how these objects kind of super   relate to each other yeah um i may take a artist  knife and kind of take a little of these two   together and make a more even deep green and the  reason for that is is it can be kind of a pain   um trying to keep the pops of pure pigment out  i'm going to just give myself a base here to   start from and i can add more brown back out on  my palette i wipe my pelt knife off over by the   blue i can even position some over by my uh multi  brown yeah i can do two burnt siennas out there i'm not trying to make an even  pattern we're not making tv   static just trying to make sure that we've  got some of these little distant values these will pop through the trees as we go   and that will be super lovely yeah okay let's call  this a step okay and we'll continue moving forward   i'm gonna dry it and we're gonna continue moving  forward adding layers of foliage layers of leaves   layers of things in the background you guys ready  we're ready we're gonna layer it lots of layers hmm let's see here lots of good questions here  i'll keep if you guys want to keep those coming   i'll keep asking them up here for her thank  you guys so much for just hanging out and   being part of our paint family doing all this  kind of stuff i don't know something to do on a   saturday i think it's saturday it's a saturday oh  it's saturday we're going to be painting all day   today i'm going to be watching you paint i'm going  to need my coffee warmed up do we have any of the   little munchkins around uh we'll figure that out  in a second i'm going to add a little more white   um to my palette just because i know  i'm going to be going through a lot   i'm still not ready to get into any of my um dot ox purple or quinacridone  magenta or naples yellow as of yet   i know that's too soon for for us too soon a little more green out there and then struggle with the cap  of my paint for five minutes all right so we're going to continue  loading up our white paint into our blue scam likely loves me so in  love with me stalking me always   i love that new feature on the phones  that lets you know when it's like   like a time share is calling i don't know if  they have time shares anymore i think those   all went away but you know what i mean  i know i think they're all now like um   what do you call those things airbnbs do  you yeah they're all airbnbs same thing   yeah i think that's what they are now all  right so i'm just adding a little light to   that i may want to put some dark green  in that mix just so that there's some a little brown paint in the forest today  what you do sometimes you know   paint the forest you do you have to  paint the forest to get the trees is that is that what you think you have to paint  the forest to see the trees you got to just kind   of playing with some of these little branches  making sure that i like how they're showing all right now we've got some more focal trees  that are coming up kind of in the middle and i   feel like that foliage i'm going to get a smaller  brush actually and i feel like that foliage is   perhaps uh more grayed and yellowed out let me  see maybe i'm gonna try a fan brush let's try   the fan brush this is a number four silver stone  number two silverstone fan so it's a tiny fan   i'm gonna get a little of the yellow on here and  i'm gonna try to get a level of white onto it so   that it's just very very light and i'll let the  altering get in here and kind of gray that out that's pretty cool let's see we're going to see  if it works sometimes i'll get into something and   be like is this the brush that i'm looking  for and sometimes it is sometimes it's not and i just want to see some  of these little specific   kind of trunks and trees start to be something i think that will begin to work  again that's the number two   now let's start a trunk then we're going to  add some leaves over but let's let's begin   a trunk and we're going to say that our trunk  starts with a little blue and brown but mostly blue and the trunks going to start here might even get a little kind of black into it just   for coverage initially and then i'll go  back into the other colors in a second a little thicker at the base and kind of at the halfway point one of these will go up and then it's going to split that should have  been a step yeah did we not step it i don't think   i stepped it let the mods let you know they did  they said i should have thrown up a step oh sorry   maybe i didn't should i throw this  up real quick just give it to him   i'm up for all of it as long as they can find  their way back through the lesson they can find   their way don't answer so they know just don't  unsub because we're having some step moments i   think i'm okay with everything in the steps so i'm  going to get up to six now next one and that there you know there are some kind of like distant little little sticky trees that could  be here that we're seeing a couple places and i get those in there now  in the background these are   you know essentially let's  get a little yellow into that oh i like the trees we're adding a little yellow and  blue into that max just kind of   warming it up putting a  little more light around it there so i'm gonna i just lost my thing i'm gonna  grab it with my little clippy lippy little   grippy your gripper thing my gripper thing all  right so we have highlights on either side of   these and we also have branches and you've just  got to decide when you want to do your branches   and when you want to do your highlights and  i'm going to highlight first i'm going to use   some fluid white for my highlight just to  improve the flow this is exactly titanium   white paint but the body of the paint is  more liquid like craft paint and it's very   pigmented and i like it very very very much  so i'm going to get on either side of this   and i'll take a little yellow into that and  i'm going to get some white and we need to create a little hair fine backlight it's sort of catching this and i may even switch  down to a smaller brush because this brush is not   giving me as fine of a point as i would want so  i'm going to get to my detail brush this is an   art sherpa number one detail brush if ever i'm  painting and i'm not getting the results i want   you know i don't mind changing  the tools the tools can change just a little bit of a yellow  white highlight happening quite light doesn't go down necessarily into the trunk it is a bit about like what we were seeing  happening around maybe some of these it's okay to add that in a few places i'm gonna just paint these trees i'm going to try something yes so your side  camera oftentimes is i'm gonna try a little   different angle for folks okay so you let  him know if you like this angle he's trying   let's see if this works trying to get it  so that you guys can have a little more try that i mean a little more on the  blue black bring that down   i'm going to give this just another little  value and come in on the blue black too   and just make sure that the space  between these guys is a little bit darker   i'm just pushing that little this is my number  four again and i'm just pushing that around i can always come over and  get into my green and yellow talk about some of these little bushes that are  maybe highlighted on the outside edge so there's   a shadow there in the bush and then these  kind of highlight around this outside edge so that's just helping you put isn't that for  starting to get some depth now yeah it is so   we're going to take our our little branch color  and our detail brush and we're going to be like   yeah this is it let's go into this right and  we're going to load up we're going to make sure we add some of these little branches off this tree it's just my number one round and we're just  adding some of these branches and we know   that we need it now again remember i said  if we get too much value into what we're   going to do we're going to glaze with  a little bit of white and knock it back don't worry about that remember some  brother the branches might bend down   they don't all bend up you don't want  to grow them out like they're forks that won't help you just distant little branches we'll rinse out and get back into my little  highlight which is my yellow and white oh yeah and add some little highlights on these branches you can do this yeah you can  it's just about the steps am i heating my coffee oh i'll get that now we've got some real lighting that's  happening right here i also can take uh my white   and a little of my ultramarine blue  and there's that background color right i'm going to paint some sky back here  that's maybe peeking through these trees because it does my detail brush because there's a little bit of  sky in the back of the forest just creating a little bit of backlighting  there i've got my number two round again   right and i'm gonna come in and get  into those those light green colors i want to gray them i just get  the ultramarine blue into it just using this brush really wouldn't matter  what brush it was it's okay to use any brush all the brushes are fine it's just more important it's like what's  the shape that's that's the big deal so getting some of those little distant leaves  and things happening there a little oh thank   you a little of the ultramarine a little bit  dark dark foliage right dark dark dark foliage dark foliage maybe a little bit comes forward here  from the deep forest just follow our eyes oh thank you thank you thank you thank you i'll just drop my thing about every hour be sure to stand  up and stretch even if i've got to   paint through because we're live on  youtube you stretch you do self-care thank you mom for the clippy clip now don't forget  the auction is still going for the original birds   so 5 p.m today so if that was something  that you wanted to do go check that out   if you just want to prank those  are available on the website   um and you can still get those absolutely  i'm just taking some highlights here   you know and we're giving away um if you live in  north america assigned print or you could have a   patronage whatever that would be your choice  and globally we're giving away um a patronage   so there's global shipping on this one just letting those be far far away right  sometimes it's nice to just do things far far away let's get a little yellow there and just  tap out a little bit of a sparkling light just so that it's kind of on my  distant path because i really dig that you can also always use a little  detail brush if you want to add some   little specific whimsical  details to anything you can now coming forward here right so we've got  some distance we still have like kind of a   a little back background green that we've got to  put in and then there's a few trees here we've   also got this one orange here so let's call this a  step and then we're going to continue to do trees   john you want to step us i will step us all right  let's uh while we're at step do we want to end   uh announce the giveaways for the bird hop um do  you have them mm-hmm okay well if you've got them   go right ahead because i have no hair they're in  skype for you okay well there you go on youtube   the winner of the angry bird was youtuber grumpy  bunny that was the grumpy bunny maybe less grumpy   now maybe less grumpy i thought it was that funny  that grumpy bunny want an angry bird on facebook   davey liscombe debbie lescombe l-u-s-c-o-m-b one  um an angry bird these are signed prints so on our   website these giveaways these are signed prints  signed by me they're they have a certificate of   authenticity they are in limited edition we just  print a small tiny number and it's really about um   really kind of just what you guys buy so they  can be real small runs uh grumpy owl annette   keys on youtube one thank you annette and uh  the grumpy owl heather campbell on facebook one   so congratulations heather um the blue jay in  the bath was shelley belly on youtube and the   blue jay in the bath was elaine moore on facebook  we're also going to put that on our after the show   i'll update all of the places where we normally  announce the winners and now we also have on our   blog a place where we update winners you have 10  days to email support the artwork.com to arrange   for us to be able to ship you your signed print  i am never wearing these slippery pants again   they're the slipperiest pants so what's happening  is i have these really pretty pants and they're   super rainbow and they're also like super slippery  that's just what is happening i'm going to start   putting in um some of the new trees you have  any questions to go over haven't even you know   we should look at the questions right i haven't  looked at questions and a half seconds i'm gonna   take this step down now that we're ready to move  on yeah let's let's also you know what i wanna   uh trisha woods let me see is this current  now i've got a bunch of questions i think   well they're just like right here okay  all right i want to thank wait i don't   know who's today i think i am behind yeah all  right uh you took care of that screen pain um   barbara herbert wanted to know if i've ever done  a tonalist painting i i did do a grisai and i i   actually and i did a tonalist one as well so there  are the one was part of a big art quest where we   did a fairy face and that was kind of a thing  that i did in apple while but it's been a minute   any of the black and white ones tend to be and  we've done a few of them so yeah we have some   maybe we can pull some maybe the mods can think of  a few that they liked oh thank you deborah evans   um and uh share that with you so yes yes there  are tonalist paintings good question too good   use of a word good by the way i have a new word  for you verso oh yeah yeah my mom said you know   what a verso is and i'm like no i don't i don't  know what a verso is i'm cautiously going to ask a verso is the reverse side of paper when you're  signing the sign on the verso the other side   find a word today can i make flute acrylic uh  yeah you can make fluid acrylic you can use a   medium to modify your heavy bodied acrylic to turn  it into fluid acrylic um the golden glazing liquid   does that pretty well actually pretty good that's  a good question thank you so much all right so we   have some little trees coming up here but we've  got to get these little fellows that are sort of they're kind of like peeking out here so i'm going  to get a little of my blue and my ultramarine um   my ultramarine blue and my mars black and i'm  gonna put kind of peeking through here just a   a little trunk and i'm gonna see if john  can hand me that little spray bottle that's   just out of my reach i probably could just out of  my range and i'm just giving this so i can kind   of do my little traction yeah i need to miss my  palette a little bit coffee just water that i'm   using all right so i've got a little tree here and  i've got a couple little trees coming forward um   and some trunks are gonna come out of them  and i've got a little yellow tree here so   i've got some work to do little tree little tree  little tree i'm gonna start with my green yellow and always i like to begin  on the corner of my brush and   kind of work down and i'm definitely  going to let some trunks show through i'm going to get over into my dark green and work that in here at the bottom  and let's make sure that we've got   some of that dark green up at the top in  a couple of places even in our yellow tree   i'll have to put its little trunky back  can you kind of see it coming out though   can a little bit you can see the little tree  coming i'm going to add a little yellow green maybe a little more yellow green here on this  right side just paint a little landscape right and i can even come in and get as surprisingly  you're going to see me take a little bit of orange and yellow very light kind of yellow orange   i'm gonna pop a little that right there do you  see that i do see it it's making that tree pop   makes that tree pop we're gonna add a little bit  of the round that we had down here in the red still my little and get a little green into it it's always fun that's looking pretty good those are starting  to happen we're coming forward in the forest   and again we may be you know working  on these trees we'll see as it comes   forward if we feel like we have the depth  that we want coming forward now i can grab my half an inch angle and  i'm going to start to build this construct of the landscape that we have  going forward that our forest is built in   uh it definitely is going to be more in  the yellows and oranges as it goes forward   i'm just picking up those colors and you  can see i'm kind of sweeping the brush this is literally just the beginning  it's just a layer to make sure we're   not working on white we're going to have to  bring this more and more more into a gold i'm bringing in a little blue over here just kind  of this is the start of it we're just starting it   we just have to give ourselves something  to start from right just start there darker here on the outer edge  is lighter towards the center just something in the beginning right it kind  of brings a little landscape thought to it   yeah a little bit of our it's starting to   take shape deep in the forest take shape deep  in the forest a little more of our orange can you make flute acrylic yes how do you do  that uh you like i said earlier you would use the   medium the medium yeah john goes back and often  answers questions that i'll answer yeah sometimes   i just want to make sure that they've been asked  because you know i'm not always pay attention to   what you're saying he's not he's not he's paying  attention to five monitors and a bunch of stream   bits of data data data it's all flowing right  in here do it all flowing right in there and so   he's got a lot happening in his world um  yeah you can make fluid acrylics you can   make fluid heavy body you can make heavy body  fluid there are mediums that modify acrylics   and then really allow you to do that so we've got  some landscape here and we've got our fan brush   down now we can kind of even think about our our  it's sort of a yellow tree with a bit of red in it right it's not a perfectly yellow tree but it's  pretty yellow is going to be coming up right here and it doesn't really matter what brush you use  guys what you want to do is just make sure that   you're capturing the shape and form of the  tree how does it look where are the branches maybe a little bit of white into the yellow you  can see i'm working the corner of the brush if   you're having trouble with your fan brushes i have  a series of videos on how to get a handle on them   just teaches you all about them   really does starting to to get the  shape and thought of that brush a little bit of yellow a little bit of red sometimes things are more orange  than they appear because they're   in relationship to what's around them you know sometimes i'll get a little green  into it always adds a little bit of interest it's kind of that bright pop of tree isn't it   it also it also has some very dark  space around it that i need to put back which i'm going to use this brush for and see that darkness to the side of it  helps pull it out into the light let me go just a little bit of highlight  maybe to the top of the bush yeah i like to take little bits of this it kind of pops  like little holes in the tree starts to give it   some shape it does and that's what we want we want  the tree to have some shape we wanted to have some   personality it's it's a whole being right it's got  it's got some personality it's got some thought   now i need to dry this to do another  layer so we should call this a step   anytime we've really got to dry between layers  we're going to try to call it a step um and we're   going to continue to move forward there we are i  really like how the corridor starts to come and   she paints from sort of the center out and so  you're sort of seeing the farthest back layer   as she comes forward moves forward so  thank you guys for coming hanging out   we enjoy doing this on the weekend it's  lovely to see everyone out there today   if you have any questions don't forget to  put them in caps and the uh the moderators   will help capture them for us and we'll be able  to see them in here oh i was just rambling on i'm going to enjoy the coffee i always like  wait till it's like lukewarm to drink it and   i need it more tickets that's okay and i  haven't my mom sent me an insulator cup we   had a charging cup for a while the eye cup that  did not work and i had some insulator cups then   i had an under coffee warmer and i found all  i managed to do with that was make a tincture   very concentrated old moldy coffee you just  cook down your coffee this is very bad it did   not work for me i was like how can i fail in this  simple task it's like a coffee crock pot it was   the ridiculous right all right so i'm going  to continue i really like this brush this   is working really well for me i may put  out some of my doc's purple at this stage   and some phthalo blue as we move forward into the  into the painting and i might hit some magenta in   there because magenta can give us some pops  of some unexpected moments in the painting   i haven't yet pulled into my naples yellow light  and i'll see if we get there we're going to just   have to find out as we go all right those  things are are to be discovered i suppose as we go now we have some green yellow  that's up at the top and i'm going to   go ahead and just take this mixture  here that got a little orange into it   maybe even a little more orange right  because sometimes that's fascinating   because it reads is green but  then it also reads as orange get a little red into that talk about some  distant stuff that's happening maybe here not part of this tree it's just part of some  distant foliage that's going on right we   we see it we know it's there it's it  is fascinating but it is definitely not expected so i'm going to take a little  burnt sienna and cad red and some yellow change my water at this stage  to clean water shall we not   i'm number four round we're continuing  to paint forward and we're going to kind of like at the halfway point between the  halfway point is where the top of this tree is i love super hot i'm going to kind of paint  that in it's just a much redder tree it's   kind of really in the light i can even grab  a little bit of the red and come to the back side of it another little tree up here these trees will have little trunks that come  out that we really see and have a tree that   goes in front of them ado i'm gonna add a  little of my magenta into my brown and red   for this next tree which is kind of like a  very surprising tree very surprising tree very alright questions i have  answers and i will answer all of them   how come some brothers sometimes acrylic  brushes are super long how come long   handled brushes are for painting in an easel  short handle blushes brushes are painting for   hate for painting when sitting what about  medium ones i guess those are more versatile   i haven't really noticed a medium handle brush  per say they usually label them as long or short   okay so they don't have an i'm sure they do  but it's really up to the manufacturer how   they want to label these things right so i  always thought that like the simply simmons   was an intermediate brush no it's definitely  a short handle okay but they also have a long   handle they have a long handle on the short handle  line they do not have a medium handle line at all not an intermediate brush no that's  not dope they don't have one somewhere   someone does somewhere somebody does points  if you can find it and drop the link here all right let's maybe kind of think about another little and then we can go into the purple maybe thin it a bit with water so it blows  off our brush better hmm that's an interesting   question could you paint the tree in black then  highlight it with red you could if you'd like to   so you could just like you could decide that  you wanted to paint the foreground first and   work your way into the background you could it  would create some challenges for you but you can   do what you like it's your painting you can do  the thing you want to do you really can do the   thing that you want to do that's an absolute true  thing you can do the thing that you want to do just painting this wonderful forest   right and so we're just adding those  trees we're not rushing through   in any way we are just adding them where we see  them getting docs purples great for this forest a little more red hit the front of the trunk   now i have these in that's pretty good but i've  got more work to do on them just generally right   one thing is is that they have these really  crazy dark branches so i'm going to use my docs   purple and cad red to be those branches because it  really will tie into the tree as it is and i have   once again some highlights or outlines  that i really got to think about without it's always interesting to see the weird  little broken off lower branches of trees we're going to continue to  just make sure that these are nice dispersion of branches because our tree right it's  like goals to get sunlight and and reach for the star have its daughters succeed  trees are like really aggressive cheerleader moms   you're surely my mom i'm not gunning for  you but i lived in texas long enough to   know to be afraid of you um respect  the moms respect the cheerleader mom respect the heck out of a cheerleader mom she  will come for you where you live in the night   um yeah i think it's so i have some very strong  cheerleader opinions i believe cheerleaders are   extreme athletes yes yeah what i learned is  that i mean if you're talking like sports   injuries extreme endurance people being intense  and tough about what they have going on i think   cheerleader moms even go beyond dance mops and  i think cheerleaders are very serious people   that said we are never going to forget wanda  hathaway are we never going to let it go and how could we don't you love how as we're building  this forest out it just layers out i   don't know if anybody is still with  us in this long involved lesson but   i think this one is going to come  out so beautifully i think so too i'm just trying to create that sense of  this the path coming forward right yep i really like to put little weird branches here and there  fun for me it's therapeutic i haven't even done the highlights yet these trees are for real yo they are incredible beings yeah big trees i know i'm gonna be like putting a lot of  bushes there but at least maybe there's a   little hint of them some shrubbery maybe i get  some green and kind of it's like here but it's   going to be blended into the shrubbery  i'm gonna come in with some orange and just enjoying painting them here are these guys  it is fun for me to paint the trees ah it should   be just a perfect temperature now how are you  guys doing and you're a very involved forest   very involved i like it i'm enjoying this i'm gonna get a little yellow  on here get a little red going to take me quite into  a brown almost an ochre no more yellow detail brushes can be so weird yeah  yeah they get a little orange don't   mind a little purple picks up on  it but i want a little more orange just a little more involved right  we're here we might as well do the work debbie allen told you everything you need to know  yeah what'd she say she said fame this is where   you earn it and you pay for  it in blood sweat and tears but you do not for nothing you know what we do   the things that are worthwhile sometimes  take a little work and that's okay guys okay for something to take a little work or something to be a little bit hard it's  all right things do not have to be easy peasy   lemon squeezy all the time i'll take a little  bit of my white and mix it into that yellow gonna halo the trees a little bit halo the  tree trees have a little halo it's okay it can putting a little light that's  reflecting on the trees these are little bits of light that might  have you know come through the forest   this is very like like hmm dreamy i guess is the word it's very  evocative in the color and the light   oh yeah i really love it it's like uh it's like  the good part of the hobbit before stuff got crazy just not for nothing because you know there  was that part where it got a little weird on   everybody and then ever it was like man i am not  loving that moment the age of man on middle earth   was really kind of messed up like it straight  up was i'm trying to decide like i really like   this and there's there's this opportunity to put  in a blue one but i've got these three sentinels   here and i want them to stand out so i might not  put the blue one in that's next to these golds   i may call this a step and then come in and  do leaves oh you may i think i am oh that's   happening i think it's happening all right  let's make it happen then let's make it happen let's do that taking the steps for the longest mini  book in history i don't know we'll see now   be sure that you hit the remind button for the  upcoming abstract couple in love that's a kind of   a really wonderful painting lesson i have coming  up and it's part of a new series i just i'm gonna   have romance romance love romance uh togetherness  hugging touching those things not nothing not   family friendly but just just a little more  like we live together in the world kind of stuff   because i think we need some of that take a little  of my yellow and green and i'm going to come here and i'm going to make sure that there's  another little run of pine kind of coming down   we did step it right yes we did i'm gonna  add a little dark to that back side of it i might even get it now into my more phthalo green i haven't rinsed my brush and i'm just using it  to make sure that what i have feels like forest a little dark blue there at the base to  create shadow and now you know what we have which creates this incredible deep value so i'm gonna get into some blue and some  glazing liquid and i'm gonna kind of come   here and glaze this out a little deeper but  with blue and not take out the leaves right now because later we're going to come back  and do some cool stuff and i just want   to make sure that that's deep i'm going to  do maybe a little purple this time over here   a little glazier little maybe  a little blue this will help um the orange kind of lily's got an interesting  question i have an interesting answer why do   oil paintings cost so much more than acrylic uh  perceived value there's actually no reason for   them to cost anymore honestly for work and labor  pencil drawing should probably be the most money   because if you look at the timing involved  to get a good pencil drawing going and then   you have to use the special paper and  the framing is expensive and all that   and then after that it should be pastels  and watercolors and then it should be across   it should be oils sculpture i think actually  deserves to be the price point that it is however   perceived value is that oil paintings are worth  more money and so they do they just get more money they do um but to me man i see a good pastel  painting i just like it's just so exciting to me   just so exciting to me yeah and i love oil  paintings you know they do take a long time   to dry and they can be expensive in materials  like if you're painting with michael harding oils   isn't michael harney i think it's michael  heinrich the guy that hand makes his oils uh   yeah you get to uh you get to charge a little more  because it's expensive those yeah they're just   more expensive paint just you know a tube  of paint can be a thousand in that line so   i'm gonna continue to in this corner i'm gonna add  this sort of like little dark value i really like   it i'm gonna continue to add a little bit of  maybe that there just kind of making sure that   that's there i'm just pulling in those things  and rinse out super thoroughly yeah and while   some of this is having a bit of a dry i'm going to  add a lot of yellow to my mix and get some of my   right into it but because it's a little dirty  with the green it tends to go a bit more to   the ochre i'm going to take this and begin to  work out the multi-colored floor of the forest yeah okay let's do it okay my reference is battling low  power mode oh is it yeah oh man i'm just trying to create the beginnings  of what is this incredible path right and   it is an incredible path as it invites us  forward i get a little red and purple there   and if you've ever watched my how to make brown  video you'll realize a lot of the colors here   if i do or if i do cad writing docs purple that's  brown yeah so there's a lot of ways to get to   brown red and black get to brown and they'll have  kind of a different temperament when you do and i'm so add a little bit of a maybe a little more  brown into it for insana there we go there's some biz along the path here nope you you you  fundamentally approach these a little   different when you're doing watercolor huh oh  just completely just completely approach it a   little differently when doing watercolor um and  there's and and just like in acrylic there's just   so many answers that you have in watercolor that  are different than what you expect right yeah   just so many so you know as you go  through i'm going to add a little white to   this you know with your watercolor you know  you have to go well am i gonna do line and   watch which i've been bringing to you guys a bunch  lately add some of that little very light color kind of push that little brush up it gives  me a little bit of a interesting texture trying to make sure that that nice little  forest floor invites you to the path with   light it's important now i'm going to dry it  you're good we're going to come back i know   it's a very long painting here we go we're here to  try and make sure yeah just thoroughly dry between   layers because it's important that you make that  the paint doesn't lift or do anything kind of   strange between the layers and you can see just  as the air moves over it it gets that sheen   and it uh that that makes it so that when you  you add another x layer of paint it doesn't   mix down with the one below it and allows  you to create layers so don't forget to um   don't use heat thoroughly dry your paint check  out the lake link in the description down below   um you can find out ways to help support  us by going to the art sherpa dot com   forward slash patron and there's all sorts of  stuff there that you guys could do to help and   we really appreciate that it's uh it's what  makes us be able to do these live projects   and provide all the resources so we really really  appreciate all our patrons thank you guys so much   all the wonderful stars the supporters here  in group you guys i really appreciate it and she's just drying she's thoroughly drying  really drying it it is is it dried it is dry   what it is is i use glazed lick and cleansing  liquid and when you use glazing liquid you have to   give yourself a little more drying time  did you say it's dried to the nines   should i say it's dry to the  nines i don't know step 9   if you would like to have a chance if you live in  north america and you'd like to have a chance to   win a signed print of whatever this painting turns  out to be um after uh you leave a comment not in   the live chat of youtube you if you're on youtube  you have to wait till after the show's over in the   comments section on facebook it's fine whenever uh  tell me what you love about fall with the hashtag   the art sherpa if you're international it's  gotta be patronage because we can't chip cause   that ended up being crazy the whole shipping  thing ended up being a lot i'm gonna take a   little bit of my doc's purple and my cad red and  my magenta and we're gonna come in and do some distant sort of little in the forest trunks we have lots of leaves we're going to be putting   forward but i want to make sure that you know  we've got that sort of oh hey oh hey oh hey oh hey adding a little more purple i've got a  lot that i will be adding in but it just   this touch will make a big difference you  guys in your results how it looks and feels same same same same over here maybe a  little more in the red but same same same and maybe i want to add them later it  depends on how the three uh kind of uh   sibling trees go in here but i'm  gonna put a few in just so that more dots purple we know that there's trees  behind the forward trees right   because they're they're important the trees  behind the forward trees matter all trees matter   all trees matter if you like to breathe oxygen okay don't chop any trees down because  they're like burning in california you're in california please be safe anywhere   actually that you're dealing with  uh forest fires please be safe yes because right now there's some  major ones happening like in russia   everybody's getting it so everybody's getting  getting it now i'm gonna be into my um van again and i'm gonna go my had red and  a little of my doc's purple that we had go   ahead and get a little of my magenta  in that so it's cad red dots purple wow this is really dimensionally  coming into its own   oh man i took out a branch  i didn't want to take out yes running through adding the wonderful  foliage right we've got this gray foliage and you've just got to be  thoughtful about it right i like all the foliage just pulling that foliage in   you can always go over to the other side if i  want to add a little more yellow and red to it well kind of an orange but it's like that something's happening there but it's in  the distance distance in the distance everyone's well i'm going to want to rinse  out and dry off just so that i can have   maybe a little more fresh color and get into  maybe my red yellow every once in a while come over the tops of some of  these branches with brighter colors where it's yellow like that i don't want that  so i'm going to come back with see how there's   yellow left there on the thing oh yeah i don't  want that because that pulls that branch too   far forward so that's how i'm going to like  blend it out make it go away it was never there that's what i'm trying to get rid of is  that sort of it shouldn't be yellow right on red it does help to have some dark leaves and  then lighter leaves and those things happening when i get over there it was check there we go got our steps loaded we're  all good are we all good   i think so just coming through  and building up those little trees they're wonderful aren't they little trees now i can always come in and add some light  amount of leaves as if it's a single leaf   right single leaf a little bit you don't  want it to be so much that you're like oh   my gosh it's like all that one color  right take a little bit of my green little fan brush stuff there i love working the  fan brush because it just lets me build the trees   in small amounts i can come into  the green and fill in some areas   with that deep green foliage and honestly i think  that helps the orange foliage pop a little more   and feel a pitch more  believable in the environment just building it up just building it up just  building it up all you can do is build it up   and it's it's like the for it's like the  path is coming towards you as the viewer   just building itself just it is it is coming  towards us as the viewer building itself i find that interesting yeah yeah because i  mean in a sense you you're watching paint dry   i've always i mean like that's my gig man  that's what i a professional paint dryer watcher   and uh amusing commenter heckler of  the wife you do a good job heckling me   it's i mean that's a free service i  provide people just don't even know you want to be heckled just stop on by i'm happy  to heckle you know it was an interesting thing   when we were smaller creators and by the way  you're always a small creator on youtube you just   don't know that if you're new to youtube but when  we were like small creators from the outside right people used to have so much more  agency to write us crazy stuff i think about that now because  i think about new creators and   like are they going through that or was it just us you know is it that you're small  and then people write in or   i don't know or has the platform changed it's hard  to say i think it's all happening simultaneously   adding a little more kind of noticeable cataract  if you guys can see that coming in now what makes   you pick where you put that so what i'm looking  for is i use my reference absolutely i do   but i'm also trying to understand you know maybe   where uh perhaps i need to pop a color  or a shadow or highlight a shadow i do think a lot about like you know hey yeah  how does that how does that work in this space and does that even work in this space all right i feel like we've done a lot there   that was a big amount of work and  i definitely um give him a step up wait hold on you hey what you you you blow  drive because you're i'm gonna and i'm gonna   you conveniently this is one of those times when  um i think she ran out of microphone yep she ran   out of microphone this yeah which is a perfect  timing because she had to hit mute right then   so while she's doing that uh i'm going to  look around my desk and see if i can find   another battery compartment because i have  a couple of little pre-loaded uh wireless   mic bat kits which of course are not um did we  mention we've been really remodeling the studio   so stuff is everywhere so what  i'm going to do is i'm going to uh   find uh oh there's one perfect so what will  happen here is i'll make cinnamon disappear   in just a second and then we'll uh hold on a  second yeah just give me a second let me make you okay so while there while  you're disappeared for a second you disappeared okay i think you may be back now you there okay  so you're back back from outer space there you are   little you from outer space okay so at this stage  i'm going to put in some of my more focal trees   and i may make some small changes to them so  that they feel uh more interesting visually also by seeing where they are i can see how  i want to fill in the foliage around them   okay these are bigger trees and i'm going to do them with  a base of dox purple and blue   i know shocking let's see here so coming up  forward here i know before we go before i   put up a step okay put up a step okay  i thought you had stepped already i'm   not sure if i did but i want to make sure  everybody knows that we've got a step here and then then we'll move on because i did a lot of   battery stuff there i want to make  sure that i don't you did it's true   so that's the diox purple and the phthalo  green and i'm going to sit there and say i   do want some of this to show through here so  i'll bring this from the top and grow it down and i want it to be substantial enough a  tree where it really brings a strong line to the canvas right so that's a  pretty strong line right there i'm doing the purple and blue  because these trees are going   to have a little bit of that sort of cast to them bring a little base out that i know now i could have three here but  what i really feel is two is better   that way that the forest can  kind of peek out around them this one i'm gonna set back from its  friend just a little bit yeah i'm not   quite on the same position on the canvas as in  the reference and that's just to give it balance kind of got a little big there with  that stroke so i'm going to remove that   sometimes i have to do that i'm like  oh no i don't want you that thick and interestingly enough i may um take a  secondary little shoot coming off this tree coming up whoops let's get this just to make that tree  a little more interesting in and of itself too   maybe maybe it's a good idea  maybe not we'll find out   won't we you will i'm gonna  watch somebody well i'm watching gonna trim that down a bit there we go so that's got a  little bit of personality there   i do like it on here you know i can uh make sure that this little  background tree has some trunks and things we can see through there this is really coming in you  know just a little bit of that   i definitely want to make sure  that back here i've got twigs and little elements now across here we have  three um and that is sort of interesting but maybe what we'll really have is two and one   i don't know why there's drops  there i'm going to remove those   so right here in between these two i'm going  to drop a tree he's going to end right here this is actually taking much less time  than i expected it to really yeah yeah was expecting this to go much longer myself  yeah but it's uh i'm not saying it's been a   short lesson guys i'm just saying it's  going pretty quickly it's not been long   at all it's been like it's been keeping a  pretty good pretty good pace we're like that all right um you can still win uh um we  announced our winners from our thing but   i just want to tell everybody that you can  still still win a print to sign print over   on my mom's channel ginger uh uh cook live yes  she still has her giveaway going and winners   won't be announced till the end of the show on  monday end of the show philosophically she and   i are a little different on how we announce  winners on my mom's show you need to be there so do show up if you want to collect your prize me i will i notify a couple places and you've  got like 10 days to get back with us so i'm just creating these you know the trunks  and i'm using the blue and purple we're   going to have these really sort of crazy  little trees here but i'm very glad for it just thinning my acrylic paint with water and  making sure that these have a nice coverage over the background you can see that pushes  all of that back a little further doesn't it   yeah which is just wonderful little docks and a little this a little water now these trees do have uh some trunks some  branches coming off like the ones to the side i want to make sure that i get that going this one not as much as these details there and some details that's right  you got to put in those little details oh thank you guys for all the stars and support  man this is really nice out thank you so much for   supporting us it does mean everything now when we  have those in all right those basic shapes in and   we're happy with that we can start creating  some personality and some color on the trunk   so one of the first things what we're going to  do is we're going to get a little of our magenta   mixed into our tree mix and add a little titch of  white to that you can see that gets this kind of   like a red glow i might even oh get the cat  red in it so just so it plays to everything i'm going to come with my number four round  on the top of my brush and just kind of speak about the bark dry brush and i'm letting  that dry brush kind of create that effect on the tree now i may have to come back and put some  of my branches back as i put on the bark   yeah i can see where they go so it's not going to  throw me off so much that i can't can't handle it maybe a little more red on this one hmm very rough dry brushing right cleaning bark we can  do this is there a lot of water on that there's   not a lot of water that's why whenever you hear me  say dry brush it means there's not a lot of water nice all right not a lot manageable  manageable amount of water you know adding some yellow and uh white and red to this maybe adding this would be like little bits   of light that are hitting that  tree in a couple places right the highlights on the inside of it it's  interesting how the light comes through   the center of that path it is coming to the side  of the path and it's also coming from other sets   because the forest is it's not a solid space  like trees have openings you know branches are   open you know stuff is happening now on the back  side of this tree i'm going to get a little white   into my ultramarine but not miles from my phthalo  blue it is toned a bit with my doc's purple not wonderful yeah come back with our color it is the play of the color here that really  kind of makes that magic isn't it it really is that's interesting question lily was curious  uh of what you would consider your style is   uh as specifically as compared to your  mom well okay i would say my mom and i   don't specifically have style um that's yeah  it's kind of like i don't know how to attach   that that's why all right well how you break it  down is uh most often here here's what because i   am diverse in what i teach right like  next week i'm saying hey come to the um   at the contemporary romantic abstract painting  which is next week right um that i would say has   has a more specific style right now  we're just teaching kind of contemporary impressionism would be you could say we both work  a lot in contemporary impressionism um i would say   that i have more of a uh idealized romanticism in  my work sure yeah just just definitely because i   tend to throw that in have a little more of that  sort of uh magical thinking magical realism right   it's a magical realism um so you could you can  talk about what we do in that kind of way um   and and sometimes as artists we do that  i was just thinking about like making an   artist statement recently like what that's  like to make an order statement i'm going to   keep talking to you while i i add i get my  detail brush and put my dark branches back   so i would say that your mom is much uh she sticks  to what she would perceive as a more traditional like the student comes to the art to the to  the style to the form and you have a much more   well whatever you're doing isn't wrong you  just may not understand what it's called yet   me i don't understand what's called no no no  no like when you're talking to students like   your mom like say okay for example well so here's  the thing a lot of times my mom does replica work   right she replicates the work of masters uh just  you guys know in terminology when you paint along   with the tutorial you haven't done an original you  have a hand-painted replica right technically when   you copy or duplicate another painting like if you  go do an old masters you have a replica um and so   mom does a lot of work where they get back into  like the old masters and they repaint those she   calls that her old dead guy series and she does  that a lot and so you know we have that going on   um i'm just continuing to yeah i've just noticed  that you're much more like if someone's like well   this is what i'm doing and you're you're much more  like well that's cool because this is what that   translates to like you didn't know that you're  doing pointillism that's what it's called right so   well i just sort of look like all the language  we use around art all of it you know whatever it   happens to be it's just a way to dialogue like if  i was to say somebody was an outside artist with a   contemporary sense of um existentialism right i'm  not i don't know anyway uh trying to elevate or   d like uh discriminate or put down that artist  there's neither either way i'm just trying to   talk about what i'm looking at right um and in  a way that if you speak that art language you   would go oh yeah yeah i totally know what you mean  like i've seen work like that in the field right   but it's not really this thing and because also  on um youtube i and i love this i have come to   really love this guys it's sort of like oh  every week i get to do a different thing i'm   in a different style i'm in a different concept  because i do a lot of diversity in what i do i   try to teach you guys a lot of different things  i i get to be diverse and have fun in a way many   many artists modern artists artists in general  do not you know and i kind of really enjoy that come over here and add a little of this  color back in get some of that going just creating another little  highlight for the branches sometimes you want to make sure that the branches  are highlighted um and then also my mom and i have   a weird thing that we have in common because i  grew up in her house there's a palette that i use   we've diversified as again we've been online but  there's this base palette that i i feel like i   inherited from my mom what does that mean when you  say a palette the colors that i choose to paint in   because i grew up painting in my mom's studio and  the paints that were available to me you know like   were things like cad red or yellow ochre dioxazine  purple you know i've been questioning lately like   would i paint in these colors if i was not  ginger's daughter an interesting question you know and the way palettes change over time  is sort of interesting i think also as well so what i'm doing is i'm adding highlights  to these branches so that they sort of show   as you know being important in the  in the little landscape of things this has come together much quicker than i  thought yeah i'm i'm really surprised at how   well this has come in i just uh i think that it  is that i just get faster and faster is what it is i think we all get faster and faster  as we're going everyone hang on tightly   because i'm because i'm cooking  because we're going faster and faster   but i mean here we now have these forward-facing  trees which i think are super gorgeous right   and let's call this a step and then we're going  to start filling in the rest of the forest so   that this has you know kind of meaning for  us you know in its space you guys ready i'm ready i mean i don't know is everybody ready   i think we're still good on water i  might need a fresh water i'll get you   fresh i think i need a fresh water fresh  water i think i'm getting there i'm gonna   keep going with this weird little fan because  it's just uh it's effective and it works and you know it's what we're using so back here  and through here we've got some foliage that   we've got to weave in and out and then  we've also got what's happening down   on the ground which is sort  of fun um i'm really enjoying everything here sometimes i'm pushing up with my brush and  the reason i'm pushing up with my brush   is that i want to give it a little look of maybe grasses i'm on the corner and i'm just kind  of weaving that into the tree there as we go forward putting a little light into our space rinsing out i'm  going to get a little of my   deep green and i might get some of my phthalo  blue into that i'm gonna come here and push up and add some shadow greenery shadow greenery put a little bit around that also back here a little bit coming forward little green and yellow on the corner of my brush maybe  to kind of create some shape now i can get a little white  into my green and yellow i want it to still be pretty dark so i'm  going to keep adding phthalo green into it i'm going to just touch the tops of  some of this little forward greenery wipe off my brush a bit so it's a  little lighter in its expression a little highlight there right just  showing those little grasses we just   we just kind of try to figure  them out don't we a little more green white and yellow i feel like right here there's this little light  that sort of sparkles across the tops of these   just really beautiful am i still writing books what do you mean oh yes oh my gosh robin in a weird way you guys  can see it because there are i don't know how   there are so many chapters to the books published  for free for you guys to read if you guys will   share the mini books with robin the link to that  you can see the chapter and right now what we're   figuring out how to do is how to take those  and what i have for acrylic april and start   publishing those into our own bound books out of  out of our own space ourselves so yes we are i'm   adding a little yellow into the white and i'm just  trying to make sure that i've got little spots of maybe sunlight right just trying to capture nice warm bits of light   i'm definitely going to get a  little red and yellow together let's bring a little bit of that from this  tree forward i don't want to cross from the   trunk we want it to be like coming out  peeking out maybe a little redder here kind of coming over the green little bits of fall color that are  following through we can get into the brown you know i was going to add something to what  you were talking to robin about because it's not   without um significant reason that we're slow to  publish and it's really around one primary factor   and that's that commercial publishers don't allow  you to give away more than about four or five   pages of the book yeah it's very it's a  percentage and it's very little yeah so   you can give away generally a couple percent a  single digit percentage of your book for free   and then the rest of it you have to charge for  specifically they have to charge for it so if   we were to say give away our mini books they  will never publish them anything that has to   do with any of the free lessons that we put out  here for you guys on youtube anytime we provide   free traceables or these step-by-steps  they won't publish it because it's free   and because we didn't agree with  that we built our own publisher   and what i mean by that is is that we publish  our own books we produce and print and do all   that in-house so part of the reason why it's  taken a little longer for us is that we had   to staff up and gear up all of our own equipment  and process so that you know we can produce this   stuff for you really did i'm just adding little  bits of the fall color here and there so we   kind of can see that coming up the path so that's  the quick background on why why book publishing   more complicated than one would think more  complicated than anybody would have thought   and it really has a lot to us included  nobody thought it was that complicated   yeah we just there was a way we wanted  to get this done and that was it pretty much man and everybody's  always willing to do everything   until you're like but we're gonna give  some of this away for free oh yeah no it's a thing out there man you know i'm just adding little bits of  you know the color that we see around i'm just trying to make sure that you  know as we go a little bit of green we have this nice path that you can walk up   and it's you know it's got some light on it  right do you ever mix your media yes yeah um i uh absolutely do mix my media i do it more often in  life book but i do mix my media and i do it more   often with the patrons do you mix your media i  don't have a problem with mixed media i think   mixed media is just fine i'm gonna add a little  bush here it's like peas and carrots on a plate   some people are okay with it some people are  not it's just kind of true isn't it though   okay so i'm going to take a little of my yellow  green and i have here and i'm going to get some   glazing medium on it and i'm going to just  kind of come over i i liked the highlights   but i just feel like the highlights were just a  little highlighty see how that just pushes that   back right a little bright i want them bright  i do want the path bright but i don't want it i can even even hear my i  might more glaze less paint kind of add like a yellow glow through that i like that just fun to do right it is guys i   feel like wow it could be there pretty  it's pretty good i just uh it's so so nice you just kind of touch it in this is  where you kind of bring it home right   and you ask yourself does it need anything   is it missing step back and take a note what  else could it need or what do i not have to add   that's another good question to ask yourself what  doesn't it need that's a good way of looking at   it you know but i like i like putting a little  color on that forest floor i'm i'm happy with   this i feel like the lesson delivered what was  promised what do you guys think i think so i   think you this was yeah i like it better than  the reference image i might too all right so taking this in this is that time you take it in do  you feel like you need a branch do you need like   maybe little flowers or twigs or things here  and there you know what is it that you want in   this space to give it to give it maybe you know  more pull or are you happy with the way that this   balances out you know and that's that's a lot of  what we're always trying to do i think looking at   that in that process too i may want to take a  little of this a little bit here and there um not with any yellow i'm just trying to get like a just trying to pull that light a little forward there's so much contrast right  yeah so sometimes i'll look at   something and be like dude you need a little i just look at it in the  overhead and go as it bounced pretty pretty thing with the fox okay  so you take that in and you evaluate   and you can look one of the things that i can't  do because i'm online but you can do at home is   stick it on your wall and look at it for a week  yeah a lot of times when you're new to painting   you cannot evaluate your own work in with any  kind of clarity right you're too self-critical   you have too many of the erroneous and misleading  thought processes that you came into your painting   process with and so it's very hard for you to  step out all out of all that and really see your   own work so sometimes just putting up on a wall  and living with it for a while can help you have   some clarity around it i however have a beginning  and an end so i can see that it's important that   i you know finish at some point that's part  of my process are you gonna sign it a green   i'm gonna sign it in a green right here oh i have  a yellow green it's interesting it's a thought i'm bringing that little signature in every  signature everything every mark that you make   on your painting matters i like how you're  stippling it in there that's pretty cool i don't date my work uh there's a bunch of reasons  for that it doesn't i know sometimes people say as   a rule like my mom feels like almost as a rule you  don't date your work and some artists yeah and it   can you know um in some collecting circles reduce  the value and then some increase it what i will   say is that in signatures every opinion under  the sun exists so what i would suggest to you   is um realize the signature is important yeah and  think about it a little bit it's very personal   it can be very personal but it does matter  to the composite composition of the painting you know what you do and what you say in your work  counts yeah yeah you count by the way you matter you matter that's really cool  how you brought all that in let's have that be still a little larger  than i would like yeah yeah but hey   that is today's signature i like it it looks  like this there one lucky person who lives in   north america will have an opportunity to win  this print everyone can enter though but if   you live internationally you may just win a free  patronage we will have a winner from facebook and   we will have a winner from youtube um so be sure  and watch your comments and everything because   i'll be replying there we also update it's about  it's about a week after the show is when we do it   um and the moderators can tell you  where we announce winners and everything   uh to enter after the show is over leave a  comment about what fall is for you with the   hashtag dr cherpa if you are still here painting  with me and you haven't moved on to other   youtube channels i really want to say thank  you i really appreciate it i hope you enjoyed   this lesson i kind of enjoyed doing something a  little deeper and more involved landscape wise take care of your heart take care of yourselves  and and realize that you're part of this tapestry   in the world we are all in this together   be good to yourself be good to each other and  i want to see you at an easel really soon bye

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Length: 142min 40sec (8560 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021