Seahorse Acrylic Painting LIVE Tutorial

hello this is Angela Anderson thanks for joining me for this acrylic painting tutorial in this video I'm gonna be showing you how to paint this seahorse we're gonna take our time and go step-by-step with it all the way from start to finish got my husband mark with me he's everybody he's been in chat for our live show today so if you've got questions while I'm painting you can ask those and I'll try to answer them let's get started [Music] all ready so I'm using a 9 by 12 inch belgian linen canvas board from Frederick's their pro series are awesome they've got a nice hard core so they don't work for anything very high quality and I have put a very thin coat of a transparent yellow oxide on here used equal parts water and glazing medium for the background just to give it a little bit of a tone and you could put in on a darker yellow oxide if you wanted to but I'd I had already put in my drawing so I didn't want to cover it over so that's why mine so thin so go over my brushes really quick we're gonna need a few little angle brushes to get into these tight spots to do our background since we're gonna be painting around the seahorse if you wanted to you could paint your whole background and then transfer your design onto that and then paint in the seahorse with your yellow oxide so that it has a nice yellow base and then continue with the painting as I'm going to be doing it so there's a couple different ways of doing it I've got a number 8 and number 4 so this is a 5/8 inch 3/8 inch angles and then a quarter inch angle these are all Princeton brushes velvet touched the red handles umbria the dark handles I don't think that was list meeting there that was left over from my two Thursday video okay I've also got a number six filbert and a number four round and a number six round for some of the larger Leafs and and background details and then you're going to want some sort of a stippling brush to do the greenery and the coral and things not greener in Coral quarter inch and three eighths inch blenders here and then this is the three sixteenth inch Deerfoot stipler really any of these brushes are going to be sufficient I don't know that I'll need all of these but grab just a few different sizes so all the corals will have kind of a little texture and having that brush that's got a little bit of a stiff bristle or angled bristles like this one will help us get in there and do those and then for the grasses I'm gonna want a long either either one of these two brushes I've got my quarter inch dagger striper to see I might use that for some of them although these aren't super bladed so I may not need this one actually now that I'm thinking about it probably won't use it and then I've got a few little round brushes for some of the details on the Stars or the seahorse if you want to know how to draw a seahorse I have a video on that that I did couple two three years ago so I'm not going to draw it today we'll just we'll just be painting him today I don't have time for that because it's going to take us a while to get to him today but I do have a drawing video about how to do a seahorse and it is nautical creatures it's called a nautical creature so if you just google or go up into the YouTube search and put angela anderson sea creatures or something like that it'll come up or even just seahorse and it'll come up in that angela anderson seahorse it'll show up it's on a blue canvas with white so it's it's blue and white it was a very simple but it'll it'll give us give you a good seahorse basis the tail is a little bit different but that's that's about the only difference so I think it's even facing the same way alright oh let's get going here so thank you to Frederick's and Princeton our sponsors they're Frederick's senses canvasses and Princeton supplies us with brushes they're awesome I was already using their products and so it's just a win-win for everybody they don't pay me to use them but they're really some of my favorites in there awesome so thank you to them let me go over our colors I've got black carbon black I'm not sure I'm gonna need that but I grabbed it just in case burnt umber burnt sienna and speaking of I need to spray all these to keep them wet I just put him out carbon black burnt umber burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange yellow oxide Indian yellow hue cadmium yellow medium when I magenta doxa seen purple Prussian blue ultramarine blue say hello blue cobalt teal Velo turquoise stay low green yellow shaded don't need that much it just plop right out of my thing it's wait way too much came out so I don't think I'm going to need how much unbleached titanium titanium white and then this is my glazing medium that I showed earlier that's the golden glazing medium leave it liquid it's got it's got a little bit of a slow drying extender in there so it works well for our needs and glazing is just using a thin coat to tint things and we'll be definitely using it on here so and then you might want to speed sea sponge for some of the background I don't know how much I can use this because I'm gonna be painting around the seahorse but I think I'll probably for sure use it up in this upper corner if you don't have all these colors just use what you've got that's similar I put out a lot of these colors because I'm gonna try to work quickly today and having the premix colors really speeds up the process but I do have a color mixing video that shows you how to mix most of these colors so it just whit using basic a few basic colors so like I think there's eight or nine in my basic palette that can mix just about everything else so if you want to if you don't have all these colors and you want to know how to mix some colors you can check that video out it will help you hopefully shoot that was quick how are you doing today honey I'm doing good good whose came before a breath of air I know it's already been 12 minutes or well I started late I guess so a few minutes but not too bad not too bad I was still putting out my paint so um so yeah welcome to everybody and if you hopefully if you're new um you'll stick around and come back subscribe I'll let good stuff thumbs up thumbs up yep share it with your friends helps helps us tremendously alright let's get going here today so like I said I already drew out my sea horse and everything on here so I'm just gonna be painting around him a little bit today I'm going to grab let's see I think our base color and I used yellow for our under coat because the it'll mix well with the greens and blues on top so it won't clash like I wouldn't want to use like a color that would not mix well with our over you know our main colors so I could have used blue but but our seahorse is not really doesn't have any blue in it so the yellow was a color that is kind of in all of the other colors so that's why I picked it it's in our corals it's in our seahorse and it's also in the green that our blue and blue so alright let's grab my thing I'm gonna go ahead and start with the turquoise that's the color that I'm seeing most up back here and I'm just going to kind of paint around him and I'm not gonna worry too much about the little spike ease right now cuz probably just put those in again later but if we can go around him that'll help us not have to do it again ya can see him going fairly thin with it okay so then don't go too much with this outlining before you blend out this edge so once I get kind of a good outline area going and this is only if you're going to be outlining yours if you're not then you don't have to worry about this I'm going to go right over those spikes because I just feel like it's gonna be too much just try to paint around them alright so so what I want to do is make sure that these outer edges are feathered out before I go any farther so I'm just going to kind of do that section and then feather out any of those lines and that way I don't have a whole solid line there that I have to compete with later to paint around so down here I'm gonna get a little bit more that coops heal because this area down here's a little bit lighter and phthalo turquoise you can mix with phthalo blue and phthalo green in pretty much equal parts so if you don't have it you can mix it yourself really easily but again it just speeds things up when I've got these colors pre-mixed I can grab them and go and don't worry about it so our quarrel is kind of do this sort of in and out thing here so did you sketch in the coral also mm-hmm oh just a little bit so I like tinge it sorry just a little bit okay again so we've got all this this is gonna be all coral here and trying to see where where I'm not hearing this I feel like this goes in right here I don't know why I'm bringing it out again and then up here it's quite dark so I'm gonna grab that Prussian blue at Prussian blue you can mix with ultramarine blue and burnt and black so or you can add little phthalo blue to it too it's got a little bit of a blue a green but ultramarine blue is kind of the base and then just a little bit of black it's a beautiful color and I notice I didn't clean out my brush so is it's all these colors are gonna kind of merge together and that's fine mainly just trying to kind of blend out that transition between the one color and the other color a little bit every now and then grabbing a little bit more water and it's definitely gonna have to go way darker back here but it's just kind of our initial layer so I'm just using the tip of the brush to kind of get in between any little areas here that I see and it's okay if I go over some of these because we'll be painting this spiky things out again feathering out that edge and what I fed them my brush and just pulling that wet paint layer out so that it it's got a soft edge there that I can blend back into and then back over here it actually starts to go a little bit Brown so I'm going to grab a little bit more of that and I'm gonna having some purple with it that's fine I'm gonna grab a little bit of brown back here I'm just going to use that now make sure that you don't add too much water at this point because if I added too much water what would happen is I would end up washing off you can see how it'll just pull off that and damp the paint back here so make sure that when you're putting your next layer on that it's at least the same thickness as the paint that it's going on top of and that way it will cover otherwise it might have some issues okay so that's good I'm gonna get a little bit that they look Taylor green but more the turquoise do that around his face here and what can happen too is if that background layer is starting to dry that layer that we're blending into which seems to be happening right in here and I don't want to go back up into that area right now so I'm just gonna I'm not gonna worry about it being it's not gonna look blended yet this is just our initial layer our under layers are always weird and ugly looking so call it the ugly stage so just kind of know that that's going to happen when you're putting on these first color background colors it's not going to look good and you're going to start questioning yourself when you get there if you don't realize that that's gonna happen ahead of time then sometimes you'll get to this stage and give up and say oh my gosh I'm doing this wrong something's wrong and then you'll split you what you'll start to do because you because you're not trusting the processes you're gonna go straight into what you think it should look like and so you'll start putting your upper layers on instead of building this process from the ground up and when you do that it makes your painting look flat because your upper layers are going to be your lighter colors obviously and those are the colors that your your brain is going to be telling you that it needs to look like so this is just a process of kind of like trusting that we're going to get there and trusting that it's okay for this to look really weird at this point and and know that we'll we'll get it we'll get it there but you just have to kind of trust that process that it's normal it's kind of I think of it like a teenager just going into the teen stage here it's a little awkward but there's potential [Laughter] no no of insanity users I was speaking about my own teenage experience there might be some braces happening here there okay so there so we've got a few colors obviously none of this is blended yet and that's fine this is dry so what I'm going to do is grab some of this color from over here and just put it over the top and then that over get rid of those brush strokes that I'm seeing I'm just darken it up a little bit give it a second color happening and this is still wet up here so I can't really go much farther than right there let me grab the brown and the purple burnt umber purple and add a little bit of that pressure and blue to it oh also it's gonna be our dark dark color and a coral so I'm like to use color instead of black so this is called a chromatic black which means your eyes going to believe it's black but it's not it's a color it's not actual black that we've mixed a move mixed in dark dark color and purple is one of my favorite colors to use instead of black this also will give us that blue undertone that we see underwater so using purple instead of a true black will also kind of help with that illusion having a little bit of a bluish purple tone in it will look a little bit more natural than using a black in this case I'm just gonna go ahead and cover most of this with a purple and you're like why did you even paint that yellow in if you were going to cover everything well it's still peeking through and especially where the paints thinner than other areas you're still seeing it and it just tones the canvas it makes it easier for me to see my values to have a color there instead of that pure white so it's a good habit to get into and when you're picking your colors like I said you know it doesn't it there's no real hard and fast rule I find that yellow oxide is one of the easiest colors to use as an undertone and use it quite a lot it goes with just about anything even blue like on a sky or something like that it's still it works so I'm gonna grab a little bit of the burnt orange and yellow oxide here and I'm gonna use that in this area for the undertones in my coral because these areas are not quite as dark as the other areas are getting a little bit of light maybe I don't even know this is probably an aquarium fish the light is too good for her to be like underwater under you know unless they lit it up with a light or something but that's okay hard to tell yeah they might add a little bright lights on their cameras could have been just hanging out there by himself I found out I was looking at seahorse facts so on my quiz you on seahorse facts monkey what is a group of seahorses called they called a gaggle parade nope let's kick if I mix it a little bit this green in here with this stampede that's closer think horse trot somebody asked unheard that's right I cheated I had help on that that's okay okay so there we go so we've got all these kind of undertones scary's a little bit lighter I'm gonna add a little bit of the lighter color but for real who gets to make those decisions now who says no I'm right it's a herd yeah just I think a gaggle would be better okay now leaving the co is pretty bright cuz he's got a kind of a translucent color so I don't want to add too much color yet we're gonna add our color gradually may have to have you dry this I don't want to start on him until I get my background done don't mind we can keep drawing real quick doing that so your basic shapes obviously going to be this long nose here that's the most identifiable you know part of the seahorse so our angles kind of like right in here and we've got this part that sticks up and out it rounds out a little bit comes down then flattens out kind of parallel this comes back a little bit farther rounds out again I went a little bit too big on this nose it's kind of in-between my first I always go lighter I went too dark there it's like real confident you all go light with your first layers of your sketch and then you can darken it up once you realize that you've got it right a little bit of a thing there this might be a little bit long let's see I think it's going to start right in here somewhere so the heads gonna come angle up right here this is right here and it's just kind of above where this comes out it comes down just a little bit so like if you were to draw a straight line from here out it's gonna be right kind of at the bottom of that line there I it's an oval just guys looking this way he's turned a little bit away from us so his I'm ball is not quite right in the middle its kind of forward a little bit and then he's got his neck rounds out right here and just big ol belly comes out down and if you did kind of an add agonal line here the belly kind of curves in right about the same level as that so I went down a little bit too much there I'm not a fast draw it takes me a while I think I used to be faster but when I started wearing glasses really trips me up a little bit I don't know what it is I think it's the the fact that my you know gotta I'm looking at it two different this is closer and this is farther away and it just kind of messes with my perception of things so I have to check and recheck as I'm drawing things I think we got it just about right there so there's our basic shape and our tails coming down like that and then all you're doing is adding these little spikes in different places and their spikes along the body too on the inside here and then there is a fin but on this guy I think it's kind of I don't see it so hopefully he wasn't photoshopped because that would really suck if he was photoshopped into this and they cut out that it doesn't look like he was but I don't see his little back fin so we can maybe add that it's usually right in here somewhere where this dips in let me see if I can find another photograph of a seahorse so we can add one cuz I kind of would think it needs it cuz otherwise he can't swim around okay no would be tough they're not very good swimmers they don't have a lot of they pretty much kind of go with the with the flow from what I was reading this morning I'm acting like I'm like the seahorse expert here I read this alright so let's go ahead and add some of our dark darks in back in here I'm going to grab that sea sponge and my purple and fill our Prussian blue just kind of equal parts and I'm just going to tap it in here this back in here I might even go so tiny bit of black blue dark back there and then once I'm gonna do my darkest part where I want it to show up the most and where I want that dark to be the most obvious and then I'm going to just use whatever's left on my sponge as I get farther out and it won't it won't tint it as much you know they won't have as much paint on there use the thicker paint where you want it darkest when you very first load it up and then I haven't reloaded it at all just that once maybe two times to get it really dark in this back area here if you're not seeing any anything back here then you can add and I'm gonna grab some green here you can add some lighter color so you know if you got your back this area dark enough on the first layer you may not have to do the dark color you may need to do a little bit lighter color to show up you just want a little bit of a contrast right here and I'm gonna go right over the top of my seahorse here not about him there we go that's the sponges just kind of gives it a little bit of texture there gives a little bit of interest makes it really easy to get this area filled in go ahead and just do this whole thing all very geared and what I can do if I get it on my seahorse here I can take a yeah paper towel I can find one my pickups are they can get a little bit of water on my finger here stick it up underneath there and just kind of wipe off any of this paint this parts well they already dried but down here it's still wet kind of wipe that off so catch it while it's still fairly new it'll just don't wear up too hard because you'll rub off your yellow off to paints takes about 24 hours for it to cure and then after that it's pretty indestructible but while it's still curing and fully drying it'll feel dry to the touch like if I touch this it looks dry but it's actually not fully cured and absorbed into the hardened and sorbed into the canvas all the way so it'll still wipe off if you're not careful okay I think that's pretty good for the background so let's start kind of adding in some of our grasses things back here I'm gonna grab some of the cobalt teal so my turquoise may be a little bit of a phthalo green and if you don't want this to be super like bright you can add a little bit of burnt sienna that'll kind of tone it a little bit make it look a little bit more than natural sometimes sometimes in nature you're you're gonna want to do that sometimes not you know just put depends but most of the time you're gonna want add more of a neutral color a lot of times they're not things are not going to be like super bright unless it's like bird feathers or flower petals or something like that that's often when you'll use the paint like straight out of the tube but otherwise you're often gonna want to add just a little bit of a neutralizing color like yellow oxide or burnt sienna or something like that let's grab some phthalo blue here I'm gonna add white so I have some white and I still have that green on there so it's kind of tint in that too I mean I think that's gonna be good I'm using Gilbert here and I'm going to use some of the the Prussian blue - so I'll have kind of some different colors to work with here and I'm going to just very lightly I might add a little bit of glazing medium they'll kind of help it go on a little smoother I'm just gonna zigzag very faint little things happening back here I'm kind of mimicking the seagrasses like they're probably happening back there I'm gonna grab some of this greener and I want when you mix a color like this you need to spray it because it'll dry out real fast on your palate so if you spray it a little bit it'll help and then if you're worried about having too much water in your paint you can add a little bit of the glazing medium no too much water will under bind your paint it'll make it not stick to the canvas well so you do need to be concerned with that but get some of that though some of the Prussian blue so I'm getting the same colors that are in our darker area then I'm gonna go back over this and add some of that so there's just a little bit of all these different colors happening back here and I'm gonna go ahead and put very little bit of that back in here this area back here is a little bit more of like a purple so I'm going to grab a little bit of purple and add some white to it it's still got this green and other colors in here some use that it's a little bit of glaze and what we can do is go back over this with our sponge to and set that in with our sponge it'll kind of lift off some of that color and make it look a little bit more just be sure that the paint is dry underneath when you do this so you know I added that sponging and waited long enough for it to dry before doing any of this so you don't want to do this while it's wet I'm gonna grab some ultramarine blue and add just some pops of that really bright blue in there going over the dark color it's not gonna it's not gonna look as bright three artists colors to give the effect of the grasses right now yeah just kind of adding this area back here is very out of focus so I'm not trying to and you don't want to have your background area in super high definition focus if you do it pulls that part forward and you don't get any depth so you really want this back area to be all blurry and you know not easily identifiable so just keep it kind of low loose just adding very loose details but keeping everything very blendy and out-of-focus that's another thing that people do when they're first starting to paint is they kind of feel like everything has to make sense and really you don't have to and especially it's better you know and this stuff like this where it doesn't if if you look at our photograph that our photograph doesn't none of this back here is really like we kind of know what it is but we don't see it and the tendency is going to be to want to all right bad that the tendency is going to be to want to make sense of this you know that it doesn't you don't want it to now as we get closer to the bottom then we're going to want to start to make some shapes that kind of start to be more identifiable so now right about in here kind of that diagonal area is where we're going to start to make starter grasses we'll say hello to everybody yeah again I think we already do that yeah we put all that is love but okay sometimes we don't I know I'm trying to get better about it so that's why so the load here oh pretty who's missed the beginning shame on you or for those who are watching this in the future and just skip to this point I don't know why you would do that but although uh yeah I do that all the time people do that ohad cuz these videos are long let me know if you would like to see shorter versions of this when you go to paint it like if it would help if you--if we did time-lapse versions of these or if you'd prefer these long longer videos or if you like we're not gonna we're not going to not do it live you know that's just my preferred way of doing it but we do we do have I have a social media guy that can do editing on videos now and so we do have the option to make some of these into shorter versions just for those who don't want to have to sit through the entire live stream so if that's you if you're like I love these but I fast-forward through most of it leave me a comment and you're probably not hearing this because you're probably already fast forward through this part but hopefully if that's you if you're like these are way too long and they just missed a million dollar giveaway because if s horde passed it no well okay so adding in some of these really bright areas here just using the edge of my brush and I don't have to they don't it doesn't it's okay if they don't make sense right now again we're kind of just doing the this blurry area back in here so just using a variety of all these colors I'm not really telling you I'm sorry what colors I'm done but I kind of tell you if you're trying to paint it long and you're like she keeps changing colors I don't know what she's using the best thing to do is to when I mix a new color to stop your video take a screenshot write it down whatever you need to do and say okay this is stay low blue or phthalo green and cadmium yellow here so this area in my palette is going to be that color this area here was the phthalo green and cobalt teal with a little bit of the burnt sienna right here this was a little bit of the Prussian blue mixed in over here we had the phthalo blue and the white and some of this is the green and cobalt teal in here too and then down here is more that turquoise colors and over here is the ultramarine blue so I would take a screenshot of the palette and you know mark out which which each of these are and then as I mix colors even it could help you to if you mix your colors on the same place on your palette if you've got a palette big enough try to make sure colors sort of in the same place as me and then you can see where you know what color it is to dip back into but that's I do I do recognize that that's kind of an issue that but if there's just too much I can't I can't explain what I'm doing and name every single color every single time I'm using it so once I mix it I don't really usually say what it is again I usually just grab it and switch back and forth between all these so if you know that going into it then you can know to make notes makes a little bit easier to follow your paint along okay so grab in some of the green here and the tendency is to kind of lose your depth here as you're adding your darker colored lighter colors on top so if you do that you know you can go back in and add some of the dark colors in again and we'll probably glaze over almost all of this background - so if if you got it here and you're like you know that area is too dark but I don't want to have to you know paint over one little section you can just glaze over the whole thing with a little bit of your watered-down paint glazing medium whatever you know tone that whole area darken it up or lighten it up or whatever you need it to do okay so using some of this medium light color you know when you first put it on over this dark it's gonna look really too bright but once we add more of it it'll kind of like we did over here it'll it'll make a little bit more sense so kind of trust that all makes sense so there's one like pretty bright blade right there okay get some of that green mixing it up with some of that cadmium yellow mixture up there and this one's if I pull from the edge down if I'm pressing my brush flat here this is the filbert I'm so it's got a rounded edge so it's gonna make a nice rounded tip on these grasses which I want so just pressing it flat so that when I do lay in these grasses they've got a good rounded tip on them open more than yellow some of these are kind of algae stuck to the rocks - they're not on grass a little bit of white okay so right about even with the head here there's a break some of these brighter grasses are gonna start give them some of the bright blue on the very tip of these grasses okay this brush is too it's too thick it's not give me a little thin there we go [Music] some of that turquoise mix that in let's use a little bit of the burnt orange tone that burnt orange yellow and phthalo green here she's doing huh that's weird it did that it does that when the power goes out to come in here and turn it off okay adding some brownish yellow to some of these grasses they're not all perfectly mean all right and then this ones down here have the rocks in front so I'm gonna do them yet can you tell explain the difference between the gold and open paints and the golden heaven everybody paints yeah golden open have an extender in them so it takes them up to 24 hours for them to dry so they're they they're workable more like oil paints and you can mix them with your regular acrylics too so you can mix a little bit of an into an acrylic if you want it to like you could and they have a I don't use it and use it they have a slow drying medium so if you have like all of your paints already I wouldn't go back out and I would just unplug that it's the same I wouldn't go back out and buy new paints I would just buy that golden acrylic medium gloss or satin I think they come in different probably have a matte too and then you can mix this in with your acrylics and it makes them more like oil paints I haven't used them I bought that intending to use it during the shows and then when I found out that it took 24 hours for it to dry was like afraid to use it during the live shows cuz I was like I'm gonna have areas that are unworkable for you know several I just I can't risk it so I need to practice it i I've been meaning to grab it and just practice with it to see you know play with it to see what kind of times that I can get on it this was the ultramarine blue with the white here just realize that it's just a little too dark all over back there they all in here this all got kind of the same same same color so I'm gonna go back in here and add some of this dark you know what will help you to is if you take your foot photograph take a photograph of your painting and turn it black and white or like squit your eyes a little bit when you're looking at it and squint and see look at your reference photo and then you can see that colors or the values a little bit easier but doing it in black and white you can definitely see the values that you're working with and tell if that you need to change up anything before you get too much farther you know before I I want to get the background right before I put the seahorse on because it'll be harder to fix it later if I need you know if I need to move anything or do anything different so I'm kind of just glazing sort of with thinned out a little bit of thinned out about Terkel or the phthalo turquoise here gets lit up green the green is not showing up so it may have to do it in a lighter color and then glaze back over it with my darker green what I need to do and see how it tinted that so you're gonna want to tint these grasses where they come down and attach so I'm using the turquoise here but whatever you use you just want a little bit of a dark dark color right at the base there it'll help set them in so they look like they fit and you'll grab some of that cobalt or the Indian yellow and mix it with this green here I've got the turquoise on my brush and going over the top of this say hello green make sure that I had with the yellow could use this this is probably closer to it's gonna be 1 G face it's using all kinds of different kinds of different greens that really help you look a little bit more natural and I'm going over the top of some of these grasses that I've already done okay then I'm gonna pick some of these and just kind of outline them a little bit some of these are you have kind of a fuzzy glow around them doesn't mean I'll be the right brush for it but just doing okay [Music] you happen that highlight really will help these puppies forward a little bit of highlight to all these grasses are sticking up now but you got to have the dark color underneath for these to work so that's why we did that first we got to have that darker color under there and then our highlights gonna really show up okay I think I think that's good we'll stop there and start working on our coral girls really fun to do it's very easy you know I may want a bigger brush but I'll start with this one this is the Willis blender here so for these I'm gonna want kind of earthy tones I'm gonna grab my yellow oxide and my burnt orange you can use burnt sienna if you don't have it and then I want some Brown so I'm gonna grab my burnt umber and my fun bleached titanium and do kind of a light medium brown here I'm gonna start with the kind of a mid-tone though so I'm gonna grab the burnt umber maybe some burnt sienna together we've already got a dark color here so I'm not gonna have to add too much of this color to make it show up but you can see how much lighter it is even just using there's a little bit of those lighter colors in my brush here just tapping and leaving a little bit of that texture of the under layer showing and this is where you want a scruffy brush because textures Oh Paulo we're going for here let's get some highlight color had some unbleached titanium to the yellow oxide maybe some white - what a really bright highlight so I've got this is the yellow oxide with a little bit of burnt sienna or burnt sienna here or actually burnt orange and yellow oxide here unbleached titanium with it here this is the burnt umber and Bert burnt sienna and then this is the burnt umber with the unbleached titanium here so just keep on going here so I'm just gonna tap in really it's basically we're just making mixtures of all of our Browns and yellows and our whites to just have some different colors to work with so I kind of put my mid-tone on and then I'm going to dab in here with my highlight color leaving some that dark and trying not to get too much of a pattern so I want to do this in a way where I've got some green there that was good picked up a little bit of that blue green looks good do it in a way that looks natural so you're just wanting to make sure that I don't have like a repeating pattern that's that's what it'll kill the realism here so if you and by repeating pattern I mean if I was to go through here and do a brushstroke like this and have see how that looks super unnatural because it's a repeating pattern so instead of doing that I'm going to tap up and down and try to make these dark areas more more bland and if you do do that well you can see it's I love it when I say doo doo just did you do that you can fix it so you can always go back in with your darker color if you notice that that had happened has happened not a big deal but it's it's a it's a tendency that especially when you're working with these kind of brushes that you get going like you're like oh that looks good that looks good you know and you keep and then you'll tend to start working in a rhythm and getting into a pattern because it's just kind of natural so try to train yourself to get into the pattern of doing this up and back one two back sideways sideways up back sideways sideways up back sideways sideways so you're constantly working in this like almost like a figure eight and that will keep you from creating weird patterns I'm gonna get some white and I haven't cleaned my brush out I'm just picking up some of this green here seen some greens and I need to switch to a different brush because I can tell like this is starting to get like very pattern II like patterned in that to happen so I'm gonna grab this small do stipler and because it's a round brush instead of a flat brush you're gonna get a totally different pattern when I dab with it it's gonna be more of a circle and I can use the tip of it to get lines or I can use the full and part of the time when I'm using the Deerfoot I'm loading very tip of the brush I'm just kind of pulling it at an angle so that the tip is getting a little bit more paint and that way I can kind of control where it's going a little bit and I can angle it down and dab it in where I want it to be brighter I'm putting all kinds of bright going over here telling you how to use this brush where it does it see so just gonna go back here let's fix that we didn't need to do that I'm gonna get some white orange yellow Indian yellow make it a bright that's a pretty color that'll actually be probably the color that we use on our sea horse too so that's that was the burnt orange and Indian yellow ever might want to go to use it think that pika color okay so there's a big ol something right here a barnacle or something right here then we're singing I'm gonna grab some purple do the center of it with purple angle brush and get some of the darker Browns put that around the backside of it bring on purple I want this area to be dark you know what I'm gonna just wipe this off cuz I am I have too much paint in here if it's just not funding for me okay so let's start that area over now that I've got my smaller brush it'll be easier I'm grab this color in here I'm just gonna do kind of a semicircle here like I see yeah I grabbed some of the darker put around the backside of it and then this bottom area is gonna blend into this dark purple back here and we can let that set and have darker colors in there if we need to so we just want a little bit of a highlight area on the top there so I'm gonna let that set for a minute and you continue working on our corals and things there's a little bit of like a light green behind it so I'm gonna bring that light green all the way up to it using the angle brush we can use the very tip of it straight down to create our little dabs and dashes so we don't have to have the stipler we can still use regular brush and it helps different brushes in here it'll it'll kind of break up that patterns like I said and you'll have all these different things going on your I can't focus on any one little pattern to make it look unnatural we have several different brushes and different techniques going on here I'm gonna get some in the cobalt II a little bit a little blue kind of a bright turquoise II blue here this area here's some of that kind of like jelly like um it's like these leaves are coated with goo you know chili so kind of just blending these two areas in you can't really in your photograph they can't really tell what's what it is so and I wanted to super define I just want to kind of blend that there and then this drops off in this area down here is all be kind of dark right there get some of the orange there's a little bit of burnt orange right here kind of where the tail is these guys are camouflage masters so he's grabbed onto some coral that's the exact same color as his tail so we can't even really tell which is coral and which is his tail somebody's this yellow Indian yellow and burnt orange here and kind of start that color up his tail here get a little bit of the green because I feel like this this needs a little green in here okay so just blending that tail in will will continue this color up but for now I'll kind of start it gonna use this color this is the green with my burnt orange mixture that I was just using their burnt orange yellow walk that are Indian yellow QBO here and green and yellow there we camp and I'm gonna use this now that this is dry I'm going to use a little bit of that Indian yellow at the top of that guy there okay well I'll go back to my staplers gizelle do faster work on this I'm gonna clean this guy out cuz I have been using him and I want to keep these refreshes that are still wet you can see that the paint's down in here and if I let that dry out it will it'll dry in that ferrule so I need to make sure that I keep these damp by adding some water pushing that water up into that ferrule lungis leaving them pretty soaking wet but setting them off to the side on a paper towel too not too dry too and every now and then getting a little bit more water with them so that they stay damp before I clean them out I always wash with water and so a little bit of a mild detergent keep your brushes last a long time don't ever let them dry out with paint in them and even if it looks like you've gotten all the paint out in your water you still need to use soap and test it on a white paper towel you'll pretty much once that paint gets stuck up in that barrel that dark up in here and dries up in there it it spreads it it's dry solid like a you know solid like a like a solid thing okay I think dry solid so the bristles can't stick to come to a good point anymore you can see how bladed that point is it's like a knife edge and you can tell if you've got a brush that's got dry and paint dried up in here because it won't hold that point anymore it'll it'll be fussed out just a little bit and the more paint the more fuzzy it becomes so let me grab some I've seen some blue oh I'm gonna grab some ultramarine blue just mix it with these colors that I've got going on here and add it I didn't hear grab some of my turquoise he's this kind of month the underside of the coral here and add some blue shadows just some of these areas I'm starting out this darker than your hand so I can see through some of these just such as adding a little bit more of a darker color did their first question okay they would like to know how is the Umbria compared to the Aspen as far as stiffness the Umbria is deferred and then the just a little bit stiffer than the Velvet Touch but not as stiff as the Aspen so Aspen is more like a synthetic hog bristle it's got thicker each one of these little hairs is just a little bit thicker I think I feel like and it's it's much differ you can hear the difference maybe I don't know he may have the filter on Sage in here hold it up to the camp to the microphone and then this one is softer it still has a flick but this one much more obvious and then the brush this one okay so here's the you can hear how much softer that is so these bristles are softer than the Umbria and the Aspen are the next much much thicker and firmer and then the I would say the Umbria and the 6100 series are pretty similar so the thing with the 6100 series is that they don't come in to smaller sizes so that these are really my favorite as far as the firmness and goes they're really really great to work with this the Summit Series but they come in those super long handles and they don't come in the smaller sizes so the Umbria is fast becoming kind of my favorite really the both of these would do really well for detail and stuff the only time I'm using the Aspen really is these Aspen ones is when I want a lot of texture and I'm pushing that paint around using it thickly so like the impressionist girl series that we're doing we're putting on that paint a lot thicker and we're putting out on like a little bit Messier and more textured so these brushes are great for that but if I was trying to get a smooth blend I would not use this brush I would use my softer bristle brushes you can't get a smooth blend with a stiff bristled brush it's just really difficult but you can also not really push a paint around as much with a softer brush so it's kind of a you know it just depends on the kind of style bit of painting that you want to be doing and that you like so that's what I would get if you know you're gonna be doing a lot of impressionist stuff and that you're gonna want a brush that gives you a lot of texture then I would get the Aspen for sure but if you are gonna be doing like blending and things then I would probably get the 6100 of the Umbria or the Velvet Touch and if your velvet touches actually would be good for like watercolor too because it's soft enough that you could probably use it for watercolor although I would not use the same brushes for both watercolor and I'm getting new brushes I'm starting to kind of DAB dabble with watercolor and gouache and watercolor and wash both use the same base binder gum gum arabic or sometimes funny depends on the brand these different binder than acrylic they don't have the acrylic base although there are acryl they're called acryl gouache and those are acrylic based so in those case I wouldn't worry about the using the same brush but if I'm using a brush if I'm doing anything like oil acrylics watercolor I'm never using the same brush for for those different mediums because since they're using a different base especially acrylics and oil you never want to use the same brushes for that but I'm gonna go ahead and get new brushes for my and just use you just use them for just for a watercolor so that I don't have any issues with the paint not absorbing into the brush right or you know no not performing right it may be just taking plus it gives me an excuse to get new precious try new ones at least okay so using the very tip of my brush to do these little dabs dots now some of these this is the Indian yellow kind of mixture I think I can't remember what I used okay need like another layer of really bright so I'm just gonna use that unbleached titanium and do kind of some bright lights over some of that up in here and if you don't want it to be as fuzzy which there it's really not like necessarily fuzzy except for like over here I'm seeing fuzz but like in some of these areas it's kind of it's just textured so I can use the tip down and just kind of smooth that paint on so it's not going on quite as fuzzy and not tapping with it I'm just kind of smashing it around but I want to go back in and add back in some of my darker areas in there you can see I have no dark areas over here anymore so come back and add in those back in just kind of a matter of layering really you can stop at any time that you're happy with yours you can put any number of colors on here - so corals come in all kinds of different colors so you can get real creative with it if you want to do brighter oranges or brighter yellows or whatever you want to do on here these ones are a little bit more earthy probably a little bit more natural toned which makes me think if it is an aquarium it's it's got it's not fake coral here it's not a it's probably a fresh or saltwater corals here that's attaching to these don't look fake to be okay getting some of the yellow and green algae sticking to these [Music] [Music] again just kind of working my transitions making sure I've got dark darks and light lights that's gonna give me that contrast and give me some depth in this painting okay then let's add purple and I think I'm gonna go ahead and use the quarter inch angle what how did I get that much paint on my finger there and another brush question go ahead how they would like to know when it comes to a fan brush should they use a synthetic or a natural bristle it depends on what you're doing with it i I like there I'm select brushes there select fan brushes they are a little bit they're a synthetic bristle believe I'm not I don't I don't think well maybe these ones are real but these ones definitely feel like since they're synthetics but hog bristles tend to get sloppy in water so they get floppy they absorb the paint and and then they they Bend and they don't hold their shape very well so I think these are synthetic also because they they don't get soft when you get them wet at least not as much so I like their I really like their fan but their bristle fans if you're doing like very thin like you're wanting to do very thin lines then you might need a softer fan brush to just make sure that you're using a lot of water like the same amount of water that you would when you're using a very thin liner brush because if you're not thinned out this brush is too soft to push that paint around and you won't get any separation with your paint it will just clump up on here so I'll use them for different things so if I'm doing grasses or long grasses or like long fur you can use a softer fan brush if you're using it for like shorter grasses or like little meadow grasses and things like that or a little like small stipple textures I like to use these ones that have a little bit of texture to them and you can still get some grasses with the thicker texture brushes too so I tend to use the the the hog bristle type fan brushes more often but since you have to be used so much water in with your fan brushes I find that the hog bristle ones gets aw too soft so I like to use those synthetic ones that Princeton has so that was kind of a so-so not not natural hog but hog bristle synthetic hog bristle is the answer so there's a long answer don't get me started on brushes I can talk forever about brushes don't get me started it's a passion well I've painted for close to thirty years now so I've I know like I've I've had a lot of bad brushes who experienced this so I know I'm pretty particular about what I paint with now and I can tell you that you will not you will have a whole lot better painting experience if you invest in some good brushes do not go out and buy one of those cheap sets of please please please do not go out and buy one of those multi sets of really cheap brushes that you find on Amazon from no-name brands like these burnt these these brands will have starter sets so all of like The Velvet Touch and the Umbria and this summit all three have starter sets of brushes that have like four to five brushes in the starter sets also this the the select also has even more they have at least four different maybe five different starter sets of brushes that you can get those are going to be a little bit more economical than buying them individually usually they're discounted a little bit but I would get those before I would get the no-name cheap brushes because you will not have a good experience with them they will they will not perform well for you and they will make your painting experience a lot more difficult alright so it looks like pretty much straight up from this big barnacle thing down here is our big kind of tuber that's hanging out here so I don't know what this is but it's got kind of opening right here so I'm using the darker kind of purple with the magenta so I mixed up some purple and magenta together and I'm going to use it to kind of tint over some of this coral that's already sort of started right there another orangey Coral and I know going over the darker color it's not going to be able to show up so I'm going to gradually add my color that's got a little bit of white in it and I think I'm gonna dry brush this cuz it's gonna so I put that color down and then I'm just gonna smoosh this paint around where I want it to kind of go so kind of laid it down fairly thickly and I'm just gonna con us smoosh it around I've been something that darker color showin are you doing hon I'm doing good good thinks are hanging out with PA mm-hmm no problem how's Chad doing they hanging in there oh yeah yeah good a little bit of blue here ultramarine my white these ones kind of are knobby they didn't have like little knots almost so I'm just kind of dabbing with the tip of my brush to get those kind of circular and I'm gonna wipe my brush off and I'm just gonna use that tip and you may not want to do this mini because I'm gonna work pretty quickly so you may just do one or two little dabs and then go back and add more paint you can do more you know you don't want this to dry out before you get the chance to kind of blend these out just a little bit so I'm just kind of going around I'm not really dabbing into the center where I have that bright color I'm just kind of going around the outside of it and kind of submission that paint around so that it blends in a little bit blue really helps gonna make that coral look realistic too I like that blue color in there okay then I'm getting some one then now that I've got that lighter color down I can add some of this purple probably pink on top of course if the paint is super thick wet you don't want to do this yet you get a bleep light it let it dry a little bit before you try to cover over but it's drying pretty quickly for me so I'm able to kind of do this here's kind of that pink I'm gonna go back in here with the white get some white with the pink purple color and just add some highlights over the top hair and create some shapes yellow and green and unbleached titanium down here so this area's got some of that lighter color kind of coming down right here and then there's kind of this dark area that meanders right through here to get some bleep Brown just reestablish that dark corridor that kind of goes from here to down there I'm gonna add some either medium brown around the outside of this I'm gonna be a little bit of a quinacridone burnt orange fly landed on my painting here I know there's some kind of connecting little dealies here so I'm just gonna kind of use the edge of the brush to create those little flyaway thingamabobs what this does by having like areas of dark and areas of light it just pushes back any of these areas that are dark air go recede down in and if especially if we use the purples and blues for those areas that really emphasizes it so we're kind of using the cool colors the cooler temperature colors to emphasize that the shadows and then using the warmer colors the oranges or G Reds and things pinks - and pink the this this is kind of on the borderline because it's it could be considered a cool color - but because we're using it with so much of the highlights some of the white colors it's it's acting a little bit more like a warmer color but definitely these oranges and things will come forward at us get in some of this turquoise turquoise here overlapping okay so I think I'm pretty close to where I want to be on all this coral I'm gonna from that gonna let this set this is got a lot more light all the way in here kids on that Indian yellow and then we're gonna put our grasses over the top of all this down here soon yeah pretty happy with that you put a little bit of coral here just kind of connecting all of this together but most of this is gonna be all Anna grasses worried too much about it add some burnt sienna though here just give it a couple other colors in there and this drop off here is not like a solid it's it's kind of got a little bit of other colors in here so we can do burnt umber and their colors pretty I like it mmm right here there's a little bit of a connection so I need to put that back in someone was new is your way to simplify this any they think it looks like it's getting harder and harder totally it's really not it's not if you if you notice the you know the the brushstrokes that I'm using I'm not I'm just using the same brush strokes it's the only reason that it looks complicated is because I'm layering them so much but I'm not doing anything fancy here I am using just little dabs and dots that's all I'm doing so I don't don't be intimidated by this I really feel like it is you know it is corals are one of the easier things to paint I have another I have two other actually ocean reef paintings I've got one that's got a mermaid it's part one and two ones got them are made and the other one the first part is just the coral reef so you could check that one out and then I've also got I'm using the highlight color here now just a little bit of white the color that I had on my brush the and then the other one is a just a coral reef with fish so those those would help to if you want to look at those because there's they're even more simplified than this one maybe less complicated but I really don't feel like this one and this one looks complicated because it's starting to look realistic and I think that people think realistic is hard you know like that's just more intimidating not the more realistic something look it starts looking but it doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be difficult to attain you just as long as you're doing your layers the same way that I am here and just grab in different colors and trying to find a balance between my lights and darks okay so we'll let that dry it's gonna dry a little bit darker then well we have it so like over here are green and dried a little bit darker so I'm going to add a little bit of that green I'm gonna use a little bit of cobalt teal and they look green and my white maybe a little bit of yellow and just highlight some of these green areas here that I would say that this this seahorse is definitely on the more advanced side so this is not going to be necessarily a beginner lesson so when we get into doing the seahorse I think it's going to have a lot of a lot of details this one I'm I wanted to do realistically I have that other one like I said at the very beginning of the show I have another seahorse that is why that is more simplified okay oh I think yes that may be may be where you want to start try that and then and try some of the coral you know in the coral reef paintings that I did there were more beginner level but I don't think that this is all that different it does I think though I can see what you're saying you know it does get kind of a little bit more daunting when you've got this many colors being layered over so much time but I think that that's I think we're pretty much done here and then I'm gonna use a little bit yellow in Indian herb burnt umber burnt orange here so we've already got we're almost two hours in and we haven't even started the seahorse so I probably ought to probably have to do this in this two part don't I like first part is just the coral second part is my girl seahorse but we're gonna keep on going today I knew this was gonna be a little bit more tricky one okay I like that so let's get the round brush here I'm gonna do my grasses before I do much more here then I'm gonna clean off my pallet before I start on my sea horse cuz I need a clean pallet for that and get a little bit of burnt orange and my yellow Indian yellow and my green gonna go a little bit more green and I really probably could use if I had my zinc white out I could use a little bit of zinc white here but I'm gonna use a little bit of titanium white with my glazing medium but zinc white would help give you that kind of translucent look on these grasses i adding more grasses then i'm seeing in my photograph because i cover certain areas they're fun so just doing like layers of the greens and i'm definitely needing more of this color down in here but yeah if you want to simplify this you could just do the whole choral you know with just the stipler and you know just pick a couple different colors as long as you should do in the dark areas you could leave out the this little guy here or just do all grasses if you don't want to have Coral at all you could just do all the seagrass everywhere that'd be fine too get some of the burnt orange there's some of these grasses that are kind of browner than others you don't want a mall to be perfectly mint green man by pulling kind of the from the tip out I'm gonna get a smaller line on there but I'm using a little bit bigger brush and then that way I can get a little bit wider leaf on these grasses than if I was to use a smaller round just make it a little bit easier to get this smaller leaves so fun okay we do one that's a little bit farther in here I'm gonna elongate some of these we go get my highlight color pretty pretty much highlighted these already sort of as I was putting them on I kind of had you notice I didn't when I picked up new colors I had this kind of streaky so I didn't I didn't create clean mixes I kind of just picked up a little bit of color and then run it through the color that I had before and then that way I've got these colors that are a little bit muddy on my brush and I've got different tone so they're creating these kind of streaks of color that are a little bit loose okay I'm just gonna connive use the tip of the brush and draw in these little there's all these little Wiggly squiggly things happenin off of there probably you know that kind of mucusy stuff that you see in the ocean so just kind of doing that to sort of absorb some of this color here and grab some yeah white and turquoise edit down here see I got a little bit darker than I intended for it to be but that's okay get some of the green do some dinner green doing what Bob's down there and I'm gonna call that background pretty much done I might add some stems to the Lee or like some center lines to these leaves but for the most part no leave them okay sterner seahorse like and two more hours to go now hopefully you won't take too long we'll see famous less words right looks like I'll believe it when I see it just spray this down mix the paint easier just grape off my glass palette using a razor blade dealing here go ahead and scrape off this area where I've been pulling the paint out from to just get right up to those that wet line of my paint and that way I can paint pull fresh paint out they're still wet you can see I only pant pull from the front side I never pull from the back in because anytime you're pulling paint from your paint puddle you're introducing air and so if you're pulling paint from the middle of the paint puddle you're gonna be drying out your paint a lot faster so man that poor thing is just getting that razor blade out you have to like break break it out all right here we go [Music] really the only colors I'm gonna be using for my seahorse are kind of my golden colors my highlight colors my gold a little bit of the blue but obviously these colors in here all right so I'm gonna start by kind of covering over some of these areas that my green got in here so I'm gonna get a little bit of the cobalt teal and my white yellow oxide here and this now is transparent so we're seeing the blue through it so I think I actually didn't get my turquoise out far enough over here on the nose area this looks like really needed it to be a little bit further in here so I'm just gonna kind of clean that up why don't you kind of blend out that edge you can add oops not there though this background is so blendy did we can get away with gonna clean up around it and then put it that turquoisey blue a little bit more of it right in here in the middle in this amount a little bit around the outside forehead he's the unbleached titanium a little bit of white with an eye area a little bit of that somebody's did a question about your palate mm-hmm they wanted to know is the glass pellet II game-changer from your styrofoam pleats um in some ways yeah I mean it's really nice to be able to just like I did you know like not having to the waste of throwing away a palette and being able to clean it up and still use the paint that's still wet on here you know because when you're using a plastic palette once the paint you know starts to dry in the mixed area you're pretty much stuck with either dumping the whole thing or you know trying to transfer your wet paints over to a new palette which I've done and doesn't really work very well so yeah that it's really nice to have it the only bad draw is that it does dry a little bit faster than the and the other paints so that is kind of a bummer the plastic palette gives you a little bit more time to drop to dry and work so the Warrens are kind of above and below the eye here coming out things lighter grasses in here that I didn't do some just adding some in this canal hide her color on here I like the coral I like how it turned out it's really pretty really fun to paint gonna add a little bit speaking of I'm gonna add a little bit that darker turquoise right there now this is dry can see where I need to add you know just a little washes of color I can add this turquoise II color darker to darken up some of the give some of these corals a little shadow some of these brighter corals a little shadow let's go back you see I'm going to mix up a pretty good amount of the yellow oxide or I'm sorry Indian yellow and burnt orange and then I'm gonna add some burnt sienna over here with some yellow oxide they're gonna be kind of some of our main colors in our seahorse and I'm seeing some areas that are just the yellow oxide so I'm gonna put through that Indian yellow so I'm gonna put those in first those are this is a transparent color and this will go on I'm gonna get a little bit of that burnt orange add a little bit of that in in some of these areas so like right here there's a little some of these spikes that are sticking up right here so I'm gonna put this dark color right behind them on the backside of the neck underside of the neck getting some of that transparent color and our some of that white that we mixed up earlier and putting it in here where that green has gone over the body again if you've painted your background in first and then this is where you're going to grab your yellow oxide with some white and just fill in the body of your seahorse over the top of that dark it'll cover it nicely let it dry completely and then we can move on to this what I'm doing here okay grabbing some wipe here gonna add some white to the front side of the building the males are the ones that hold the babies - just be nice if humans figured out how to do that I hopefully you I held all our kids oh well they don't know the babies that other part is too much work and um if you've ever watched a video of of them actually birthing the babies is so it's very typical male style they just like basically they just kick I'll just kind of burst out of the belly all at once they're just like okay done kiddo get out everybody out out just like these clouds of baby it said that there's they birth two thousand babies and out of those only two usually survive statistically imagine Wow yeah I know it's a rough world for horses I guess [Music] okay kins Scimitar mm-hmm darker so we want the nose to be just a shade lighter than the background around it so I'm just kidding I'm just slowly kind of darkening up this middle area here right there and just adding a little bit of it to the forehead too that's gonna make it look translucent okay and then all these little spikes off the back are also have a the transparency to them so I'm going to start putting them in [Music] [Music] so several people have been talking about you know alternate things for the class pellets and so forth and and I've seen you know before today also people saying well you know you can go and get a picture frame and you know use the class out of it and then use it for your yeah which which is good but be careful because the posh palate that Angela's using I believe is tempered right so if it breaks it's gonna go into a million little pieces kind of like a car windshield and it won't get cut but the panes of glass that are in the frames are not and so if they crack they'll be very sharp so being carries yeah yes true yeah so if you're using those knives on him or the the blades might if you're pressing down too hard on it you could crack the glass yeah for sure will you find me a picture of a seahorse with the little fins on the back because I feel like I want but I don't know I'm trying to think I know I have them in my tablet if you'll grab me my tablet I have it you have something on there I believe I have one that I saved it was similar to this grabbing some of yellow I didn't realize you didn't have its back fin so which makes which definitely makes me think that it might have been photoshopped yeah that's what I'm thinking it could be just the angle that we're seeing it at talk amongst yourselves take a break we're looking for pictures yeah I'm looking for a picture but see Mercer that I know I saved somewhere come on of course we prepare super slower now the tablet is like oh you wanted to see something okay yeah so it starts right in here comes down I just I don't know why I wouldn't be showing on there maybe it's folded up it looks like it could be folded down right here there there's like a little something that looks like it's folded down right here so I might just kind of do like that but if you want to the spin comes out in like a fan shape so it comes out like angles here and here and it's real low on the body right about across from this bulge right here so comes out here and here and comes out I like that I don't know see part of me wants to put it in just because it's part of that kind of classic look you know just go ahead and do it real transparent like and if it looks funky sorry that's what I get for trying to try and do something that's I don't have a good reference flow for never goes well for me too green I want it more blue turquoise this is trying super funny and airs on getting some white and turquoise here mm-hmm yep no that's good that gives me you knew that some reference yep yeah I feel like he's probably just got it got it since he's not swimming he's probably just got it folded up [Music] it's white hair my what a lot of transparency here something I use that turquoise in between that maybe a little bit I think it's a little higher here like it went a little bit low with it okay again you don't want to do this you can leave this part out your beanie is there not blue but I'm just Bingaman blue right now just reference them so I know where they're at yeah you know if you're in Atlanta ever go to the aquarium you'll be so glad you did it's a world class we didn't even know we were just traveling through to go to Jordans are you middle son when he when he was in basic training the army he he used in South Carolina right South Carolina I think yeah South Carolina and so we had to travel there and Atlanta was like halfway so we stopped for the night there and we're like you know we had time the next morning and we lit we literally were hotel was directly across the street from the aquarium like well they had like a ton of you know yeah we had extra time that day and and like let's check it out and just on a whim and oh my gosh it was amazing so unbelievable has like whale sharks full-size whale sharks like four of them in this gigantic aquarium is one it's the I think it's the western hemispheres largest tank in yeah largest water tank in the Western Hemisphere and unbelievable just think Dubai the only place that has a bigger one okay hmm want to grab a ping one round let's start to put in my little I definitely think I should have had I think what you're going to drop it because I'm just seeing lots of you need to for it it's the transparent white it'll just give us a little bit softer look on some of these translucent areas mix up with my transparent colors I'm going to use the titanium white and I think white here to do the stripes and the nose so I'll kind of right down the middle there's a large one yeah lover and another one above it and then right around that eye there's some highlight and then each one of these little parts that sticking out it's got a little bit of a highlight I'm gonna go kind of right from the middle and go out and leave a little bit of that blue showing this one back here is darker because on the backside of the body so I'm gonna just leave it and a highlight in front of it on the okay when you get our dark areas in here and it's good to contrast I want to grab my four round I kind of got these colors that I've already mixed up like sure that keep them wet u s-- let it dry out I got distracted so this is the burnt umber and burn and yellow oxide colored no make a little bit darker I've got a little bit of white in it too I'm gonna use it I'm just gonna dab it on fairly thinly begin with the body's got a lot of speckling so I'm get some burnt umber here I'm gonna put this on kind of almost like glazes so just kind of laying this on the body is like I said translucent so if we can't lay this on these these even the the darker areas on a little bit of translucency it'll kind of help that effect it's really dark area right in front so I'm gonna get that darker front aren't burnt number here and outline the eye with that fill in the eyeball there's a little spikes around the eyeball too so there's like a little spike right here I mean shadow under this little side agenda somebody wants to know how do you get that translucent look the glazing using thinner paints here so using having that light color underneath and then just doing these darker colors in thin layers will will give it that translucent look that's why we're kind of building up our layer slowly here also having that blue makes it look transparent so I've been here you that will help I'm gonna get my guide a little bit of purple there to darken up some of that and I'm gonna grab kind of an in-between color so now I'm just using a little bit of the white with this and I can go back in and add my highlights so I'm not really too worried about covering up I'm covering up most of my highlight areas here just trying to get these darker areas dark enough so that they look there's good contrast and then I'm gonna add a little bit of length medium here in this area in the nose is very subtle so I'm just going to very lightly add stripes here they actually don't have a stomach they just suck the food up through their nose they don't have teeth they just stuck its Freedent into their bodies and then I don't know how to dissolves but said they have to eat very often but they're really good hunters they like 90% of their have a really high kill rate for a predator because they don't move a lot they just sit and wait they're still hunters and they just kind of sway kind of sway and get closer and closer to the thing and before they suck it up how much the video you can explain to me don't we have to eat constantly way back and forth just suck it up so it must be a sea horse anything gars parts yours I think I see a little tiny veins now there with that darker color and now I'm just going back in with a lighter color maybe a little tiny bit of blue I just added some weight to what I was doing it and I'm gonna go back in here and shapes here and this this line here I don't think I have right I think I need to bring that in a little bit so I'm gonna grab and clean this out a little bit I grab some that turquoise which was basically the color that we've got going on behind this cleanup right there so there's more of a dip right here like there's a dip here this mmm gets a little bit that highlight color had some highlight sure I can see outline of it a little bit that reddish brown okay I think that's not was pretty good I need to work on the I like that this little guy here help and then there's black think that's where I'm gonna use the black there's a little black tips on all these that black well you really kind of need the dark dark dark black to make it stand out with all these other dark colors back there right outside the engine just barely touching and pulling in so I'm not ready to do him anywhere else except for around the face right now though so you see even at the purple my white a little bit of the brown there we go you know I'm gonna shadow underneath the eye just a little bit so make sure it's light enough and then I'm gonna grab some white and just kind of reestablish the lighter tones in the eye there there's just like a little shadow underneath it'll set that down in to this socket I suck it the NEBOSH already got it kind of outline with the darker color - you did the turquoise color me pop this right here what turquoise bit of white [Music] it's really fun to paint marks laughing you're laughing at me no I'll just take your did it you will never know looks like you're having enough fun for two of us you stick this next portion of the show got that all right let's keep let's keep on moving I keep getting kind of bogged down on the face although it's one of the main focal points so you know it's fine to give it a little extra attention but I want to get too too detailed in it okay so I've got the purple I've mixed it with this burnt sienna and yellow so the yellows gonna tone down that purple make it more Brown this yellow oxide them and the burnt sienna right here though I grab that with purple and I [Music] need to get that purple again and do this really dark right here the contrast it's all about the contrast you won't be able to see depth so okay set this color down bright and wipe my color off and then just tap it out push it around and if I have too much of it I can get a little bit of water a little some of it back off or tap onto it to dab it off a little bit this area here is dark and then there's some dark kind of faded I'm gonna get a little bit of clay kind of faded like purple all the way down here just dabbing it on I'm going to use this color in my in the back hair into the tail I did some more thought one G yellow Indian yellow color I'm just gonna kind of use this over here there your wife stripes and put the white stripes on top I'll just make it easier to have this color underneath and then I can go quickly add my white stripes on top of all this so just toning the body a little bit of a darker tint can I put it on dry brush like so it's got a little bit of a texture it's not super solid and it little bit transparent a little bit place well I think I'm gonna take this part out I don't like it I just he did not do that I did I was tripped myself up when I'm trying to add things that are not in the reference photo so I don't like it it looks fake so fix it it could have been the equivalent to a week yeah I've been a Finn wig F in what wig what do you pay or something myself and eBay yeah that's pretty much what it's looking like okay so I'm just puttin my little spy kiss back in well we'll fill in around it it'll be fine [Music] can I use the yellow and my white here to do the nubs on this side so just starting right in here there's a little Nubby's mm I already have these ones in there some white start mapping out where these ones are a little bit more that purple a little bit more glaze and a little bit more that to the body here can that burnt orange color some glaze you had somewhere that again just dabbing in one so what's going on kind of goes like [Music] okay it's pretty good and then the front side it has some too but it's lighter excuse what's left on my brush to brighten up those areas okay let's grab the white and something quite conniving 50/50 so if you have mixing white that's basically what I've made here a little bit of unbleached titanium slightly yellow color can add a little bit of my indian yellow even to brighten it up i don't want it pretty light just lightly yellowed and then a little bit of glaze don't want it to go on fully opaque i want to be able to see through the under layers just a little bit we'll add a couple layers of this to make it you know increasingly Marchant more covered it's all gonna be a her starting point here this is this so this white color on top of the darker color will really push that translucency look and then I'm going to use it with the very tip of my brush and do little speckles right here little dots right there there's some dots down in here too and then there's some more dots this area though the dots that are dark so I'm gonna have to put them back in with dark dots [Music] I'm gonna make that kinda line that goes from share all the way down the tail stabbing this is gonna angle back a crisscross so every place where this kind of sticks out right here gonna it's gonna gonna continue all the way down and then there'll be a little spike sticking out right in here and then it kind of continues but these these the side is not as is obvious those stripes just light at first so you can always kind of fix it if you make too much you don't get too much but I'm gonna keep it kind of soft at first you know just kind of blend out your edges once you get that kind of bright color on there and then you can kind of smoosh it around a little bit so it kind of goes over some of the dark area in between so it doesn't look like it's pasted on you know blend it in a little bit all right I'm gonna grab something that brighter color and just wear these spikes happen I'm gonna darken up just that tip of the spike someone's asked if they don't have clays what can they do just add a little bit extra water the glaze just helps the paint stick a little bit better than regular water and it also gives us a little bit of working time cuz it's got a little bit of an extender in it but it's not necessary water will also make it translucent like this but with a with heavy body acrylics you just have to be careful adding too much water because they are really highly pigmented so they're not as much binder in them as cheaper acrylics when I first started using heavy body acrylics and went from went from Kraft acrylics to heavy body acrylics and it it took took a while to get used to it because I was used to adding a lot of water to my paint to create glazes and it was causing a lot of under binding issues because when I go back over so say like up in here like when I want to add another wash of color over the top because I use glazing medium in here I can do that I can go back in with some with another color very lightly and it's not going to rub off that color underneath it's still gonna stick there it's gonna be it's oh I just it it's gonna be stuck to the canvas so of course I just wiped that all so I'm just fixing this if you're but if you if I was to go in and and try to glaze over the top of a paint that is just water and heavy body acrylics that's painted on really thin it will lift it'll come right off it'll basically wash it off the canvas because the there's not enough Snyder sticking that paint to the canvas so okay so that good that and that one is this one right there and then this one is back trying to make a sense of all these little guys that are sticking out in this area hey Deanna what Yuma call it over that the fin over that and then took it off I'm trying to remember where am i drawing yes yeah don't do the fin if you're watching this replay I'm sorry I mean if your opinion ting a little in real time should when I go back and like mmm put a little notation sometimes I wish I could do that on my videos like I wish I could go back they used to let you annotate your videos afterwards you could go in and add words into your video after you recorded it but they don't let you do that anymore this is really helpful so you could go back and if you had something anyone like don't do that or oops or you know something you can add little commentary to what you'd done that then let you do that anymore okay starting to take shape somewhat what time is it where okay I figured four hours that's what I I thought self making decent time I don't think we're gonna be four hours I think we're gonna be less than that but we'll see famous last words I I told everybody from 2:00 to 6:00 so that's we're doing our family game night tonight so I was like I think we're gonna be going til 6:00 today I just wanted to take my time with this though I wanted to do it more super realistic I haven't done one like this before so and it was gonna take some effort to get it just so but he's coming together pretty quickly not too bad it helps it he's not very big to him what a huge amount surface area to cover compared to the rest of the what we did okay so some of these are coming straight out at us right here these ones are kind of just doing it like a dot almost and I'm I'm using this blue again cuz I'm seeing some of it the tail is twisted so there's you're seen the two rows of spikes but as it's going around here they're they're kind of you're only seeing a little bit of them cuz their cuff more facing straight at us almost missed I missed a stripe in here I think three or no I did it I did right okay just like Maria I'm gonna put the black little tips on these grabbed a little bit of purple do it [Music] yeah there's all these little spikes everywhere he's got his face darken up this fin here I'm darken up right there if I need to again having that dark contrast is really what's gonna make this look realistic so it's really important I'm gonna get a little bit of the white tiger color do of some of these spikes a little bit bring him out I didn't bring him out as far as I was going to cuz I knew I was gonna put the black on there but I'm noticing that the black shows up better if I put it just on the inside so I'm gonna do this zoom in a little bit I know shy when I'm talking I do I couldn't about leave it a little bit of that I know just waiting for you to get out there just on the inside so I'm leaving a little bit of that dark or that little bit of that white tip there and trying to get just like right in the middle of it and if I cover it all together I may need to go back in it jet add just a little bit of light on the outside of that tip see that that'll make it easier to see against that dark and I see it on all of these so I'm gonna do that on here too so just a little bit of white at the very tip of these so you can do it after the fact or before either way let's see how that's making them show up a little bit better my my autofocus is not working right now I messed up the settings kissa I was messing with it when I was doing my Thursday video and I meant to go back in and fix it again but I forgot so adding a little bit of turquoise today's we're sitting out here let me get more my purple here a little bit of black now that this is dry I'm gonna go back in now just try to catch it right in the very middle there's just a tiny outline of the dark of the light color and like I said if I cover it up too much I can go back in and add my little white but I got a little white highlight around all those my brush down I'm flicking it towards the middle there so I'm getting a good these ones on the front side are not dark but all these here gonna just be like dots first they're pointing straight at us there's a little one right here that I think yeah baby one right here no I've got to spring my thing so that dried huh but you see my paint over here is still wet so because I haven't been getting that out but all of this that's mixed is gonna thin out real fast so I'm gonna go back in now to these in-between areas and just kind of transition and soften up these areas add a little bit of this yellow oxide and burnt sienna mixture dab it in I still haven't added my white all the way up here so I need to do that grab that white it's got a little bit of that green still my brush there okay so it's been a while these need to be dipped everybody's gonna just in the bath again to keep them wet a little bit of yellow oxide or Indian yellow a lot of white my white after about two hours you really do need to refresh your paints they'll start to get pretty gummy so I'm I'm on the borderline here of usability on my paint still but I'm gonna push it until I can't work with them anymore but after they get too thick you just you don't want to mess with them anymore okay so Hill speckles and then trying to come down here we've got white white stripes oh there's there's a whole row of these sticky out things to write here these little spines right here I missed a whole section of them right there so this back is all speckled she's got dad pile this and then make sure that these spikes are kind of blended out so that they make sense they're not just color on top here and added a little bit of the highlight to the tips sports bikes right here under so this Nook is pretty light here it's pretty light and I grabbed a little bit of that magenta now mm-hmm use it with this light color here seeing a little bit of magenta and some of these lighter areas it's mostly white but it's disco yeah bit of pink gets this pink tie kind of DAB in here in between - and then on the tail most of this all kind of pink the stripes on the tail okay I'm gonna grab some of the burnt orange and I haven't cleaned out my brush I'm just gonna darken up maybe a little bit of burnt umber get some glaze I'm going to add a shadow right here under some of these spikes that are sticking out finish I know a little bit of a dark area right here and then some little stripeys get some of that lighter color again go opposite with the light color don't find anything so I'm gonna do most of them that area with the light I'm gonna go back in with the darken banks getting pretty close I'm looking now at the reference photo so I'm looking at my it's really helpful and you sometimes taking a photograph of it will help you so you don't have the benefit of like doing it on screen like I do so I'm looking at my screen and I'm looking at my reference photo side-by-side so I'm able to see if I've got my values right so I can tell maybe I can go just a slightly darker with my area here and maybe like right up in here there's like a dark spot right here that I've lost so right in here I've got a dark spot and get a little bit of purple and put that in purple in burnt umber quinacridone magenta or quinacridone or orange put that back in there and just make sure that these in-between stripes have a little bit more darkness maybe in some spots and I'm really just glazing and kind of going on them in the middle of those dark areas just to make sure that I'm leaving my highlights intact don't have to do those over again I'm gonna grab my yellow and add that back in because it's not bright enough yet I have I haven't put it in super bright to start with I kind of started out fairly neutral and transparent so that I have time to build up these highlights brighter and my upper layers I really make these upper layers pop and shine you know that I've got my kind of middle value colors middle light values I'm gonna now go back in like right in the middle of where I put those and add mainly around where I've got the spikes happening there's a lot of brightness so there's one like right in here that I'm saying it's pretty bright and then another one right in here and here I'm sure each of these spikes on the floor header highlighted pretty well so I didn't friend the eye right here and like right here and another one right where that little spiky happens right there getting that bright white there's bright wait on these just brightening up my highlights and the white kind of gets absorbed in so it dries darker so you may have to do your white areas like two or three times before they build up right enough they're getting there I think getting pretty close to where I want him to be a little bit bright on top of Sunny's dark tips that's the way you can use a very teeny-tiny brush if you need to do I need them let me let me do something quick here okay tato such an sumit no try zooming in now and see if that works well much better eat to get some yellow some yellow oxide and Indian yellow and I'm just using this white that was on my brush use it in some of these areas and go over my highlight areas and over the giant this is going to kind of glaze and unify this whole look area here give everything kind of a more natural look I'm just blending over everything's just slightly chalky so it's not solid yellow it's see-through so I'm just going over what I've done but not covering it thickly [Music] so I want this one here it's spiked to connect with this back here and then this back here these ones that are kind of coming down I have to redefine the tips on these so weird it covered over I'm a couple times here so I'm gonna get my dark again and just three days I miss one this way out here didn't do his body very good let me do I covered it up when I did my fin I never put it back [Music] it's turquoise here I wouldn't have to be doing this if I had thought that weird sand in there earlier so hopefully you won't have to do it if you did it right the first time okay there I'm just redefining these so that they make sense there and one here here here here talking to myself I do that a lot mark laughs at me I'll be on the couch working on stuff I don't feel like talking talk and he's like are you talking to me I think it would be like the worst co-worker ever cuz I would be talking to myself all the time or mark skin is small taste of it getting to work from home to see my weirdness up close wonder if doing these videos is affected part of that too so don't really remember doing that when I was working in office you know before but I feel like I talked myself through most of these processes so much you know from these videos and I'm probably used to doing that I don't know there's no tellin no telling I'm gonna grab some of the burnt umber yeah burnt you know I'm gonna add my little line down here this is I can't lost my lying down the spine of this guy need to get light color this area here is filled in with little dabs and dots that my color underneath first to be able to do that we add the darker tips to the ones in the middle here well I'm letting that with that dryer there there's one here then here these are just showing up as little dots [Music] [Music] [Music] okay then right in here need a little bit more the brown this area is all speckled little dabs little dots real close together [Music] [Music] there's gonna be dark spots on the body and a couple places there and there I feel like this this these got too far over I feel like they should be a little closer over here but I don't think I want to move everything over right now [Music] I'm just using kind of a layer color here mixed in with that brown that I had him your brush that burnt umber purple and mixture yeah just kind of dabbing over and softening up the thing there see there's a striping here that I'm missing and I'm probably missing quite a lot but this thing is pretty complicated so the the thing with these live videos is you know I love it when people are like you forgot to do well below and I'm like you try painting this live and catching every little every little thing your eye after a while it gets you get kind of tunnel vision almost you know when you're painting and so it's really good to take a break every now and then I hardly very rarely would I sit down to paint something and think you know I'm gonna finish this in one setting and I'm now gonna finish you know not gonna stop like this this whole thing of painting these alive is very unusual like it's not it's not what I would normally do if I you know in a perfect situation that's one of the things that I like about doing these long videos like right now I'm working on the fawn with my $10 group and so we work on it for like a couple hours every week until it's finished so all night long in about three to four sessions we'll finish a painting but I'll have you know an hour or two to work on it and then I can stop and I can look at it and figure out what I need to change on it you know and so like I figured out that the eye needs to be a little bit bigger on these you know it looks good and while I'm painting it it looks fine but I knew that like something was off and it wasn't until after I finished the video and like was able to like look at it later on that day and I realized oh the thing that was bothering me was that the eye needs to be a little bit bigger just a slight smidge so stuff like that there's you know there's probably things about this that I would change if I you know in a perfect world if I came back to it so there may be things that I've missed that that you'll see when you're painting yours hopefully you'll do it right so that you know that's that's one thing that I would suggest to you is when you're painting don't try to you know don't try to finish it in one setting unless it's something you know really simple but for the most part I would just say you know take your time do it over a couple of different sessions you know and in between set it up so that you're looking at it and kind of seeing things differently seeing it from a different angle and a lot of times you'll see things that you missed while you're just sitting right here looking at it for hours and hours you just don't it's just not like I said you're I kind of skips over details that you'll see really obviously later just because it's kind of it's almost like it gets fatigued or something there's so much coming at you visually that you can't process at all in one sitting so just know that you know these these videos that I do you know live like this I'm hoping I'm hoping to do the best that I can in a one you know in one setting but there may be things that you know that you'll see that I don't that you'll want to change on yours and AD or whatever and yours don't have doesn't have to be exactly like mine you know hopefully you know when you do yours you'll see things that I don't or you'll you know do it a little bit differently because it'll be your interpretation so it doesn't have to be exactly like mine if you if at any point you're like I'm think I'm happy with this then quit you know you don't have to keep on going and add more and more layers like I do on mine it you know like on things like the coral and things if your if you get to a point and you're like I think I'm I like that and I think I'm gonna stop you know then then that there's nothing wrong with that how would your interpretation of your painting so I am transitioning this tail shear there's that dark quarrel there that kind of a yellowish coral here and then the tail here coming out of it with some burnt sienna here again I think it actually goes this way I'm saying and you photograph there's like a dark area right here so I'm just gonna add a dark area right here at the base we can't really tell what's happening there yeah then add some of our turquoise II green yellow kind of in front in front of that dark area there I'm going to use this mmm highlighted color to kind of just add some like squiggly highlights to my coral in some places cuz I can tell it's really pretty dark overall so I can get away with kind of adding some really really bright pops of color here and there to it now that everything's dry can see how dark it's dried I can add just a few little squiggles obscene some kind of fold this something right here that I missed kind of burnt orange color yellow green okay and then I'm gonna use some of this color to this yellow cadmium yellow medium and white a little bit of green and I'm gonna add a centerline to some of these they want it to be almost yellow keep it fairly thin so if you need to you can switch to a different brush if you're having trouble getting it they'll thin line on these to use this brush now this is totally optional but all of you along these they're they kind of have these little speckles so I'm just gonna tap in some speckles on this okay make them look give that that fuzzy look that I'm seeing on these and just make sure it's a bright enough color that you can see it if you if you can't see it then just add a little bit more of your light color until you can see this color on top again totally optional don't have to do this I'm just seeing that kind of speculate look on all of these so just add a little bit more realism to [Laughter] and not all of them have to speckly look so it doesn't have to be all of them but several of them do okay I'm gonna just go with this scratch in some fuzzies over the top of some of this other stuff [Laughter] and yeah I didn't even paint in these things Cesar I don't know what this is but it's like these can I raised up little bits right there I'm gonna grab some yellow what what brush were you using for this pickles this is the quarter inch blender Velvet Touch used to be called what willows blender so using some of this to add that pop of orange a yellow into some of these areas just using a corner of my brush here now to dab in some dots dots and things and I think I'm pretty happy with the seahorse it's still not a hunter scent happy with that back area here I think I need to do one more coat on the background to blend him in just a little bit better round up spiky areas there yeah I'm just using a thinned out paint here and so I want to use some of this thinned out maybe a little bit purple with my turquoise here let me get a little day look like cuz that turquoise is dry purple Terk Zilla blue phthalo green and love is that purple blaze mm-hmm when you have a moment can you show how you get that speckly effect with the yeah thank you I'm going to darken up yeah what people want me to tell you that this is amazing oh and that they love you Oh what different people different one person thinks it's a painting the other person loves you so I don't know if the crosses are not so thank you guys that's sweet now I'm getting a sympathy vote they love you too yeah this like it's an afterthought honorable mention oh yeah we love you too forgot about you you're not having to do the heavy lift in here so they don't get the glory okay you're going to use some of this translucent color here and just do another layer over the top here and have some of these plants here but they've got that transparent thing going on so if I go over this but it doesn't cover completely and I can see my under layers then and I get that effect of that translucency and then I need that darker I went in it and added the darker color to the bad bottoms of some of these to like just set them in especially like right in here in the corners you know where they're just getting darker so the the speckle thing was just like my white green yellow really bright greenish yellow pretty bright tap-tap-tap and all I'm doing is tapping and speckling the leaves with the tapping going right over the top of them and it's okay if they go outside the border because if you look at the photograph they're not actually just on the foot the leaves they're actually it's like a it's like the algae kind of is clinging to them to the leaves so it's not like a perfect you know it's not part of the leaf so I'm saying it's kind of attached over the top of it so it's it's it is growing on it growing on it yeah so it doesn't have to be perfectly inside the border of belief it's it's kind of outside the border it's someone and I've got some of this leaf color I'm just gonna I feel like I want this just me I feel like I want a like at all a couple of tall taller grasses coming in here but maybe that's I don't know maybe I don't need that I mean I'm gonna try it and see and I'm gonna do it then so that I can take it off if I don't like it but I feel like maybe like right in here just some just to kind of stop the eye from going off the cliff you know like kind of maybe just three yeah I kind of like that better just kind mmm just like that on it so doesn't because it's all leaning everything's leaning this way and that kind of maybe stops it a little bit I could even do one up a little bit higher yeah there we go just like but I still want this dark in here so I don't want it to be all the way up against him because then it crowded out but I think that that just helps kind of pull the eye back in a little bit compositionally okay I don't like that pretty translucent cuz he's pretty transparent just tuck it in down here somewhere to make sense okay I think I'm pretty much done here just gonna adding a few little last-minute details just some of these a little bit of highlights with this cobalt teal blue white make sure here okay there is a little bit of really bright green over here though so anywhere where I want this coral to stick out I want to go back in with like a little bit of bright white and just pop it out towards us I've done this two or three times now but you can see how that white just kind of absorbs down in so you may have to do it two or three times before that gets bright enough and I think I want to do it with the pink and then I'm gonna be done I'm gonna do it one more time over the top of this pink mostly white a little bit of yellow or a little bit of the pink mostly white maybe a tiny tiny bit of the watch me okay mmm get the darker medium color and just blend out around it and I think we're pretty much done get that brighter magenta here and just kind of glazing it getting around these in what you think um just watch where you go get some dinner yeah what's our dinner I don't know guess we should have planned that out before the show huh let's go late now I'm yellow Indian yellow here good you know if you in though this you know have lost your dark dark areas which soup very easy to do like in here I think my dark is not quite dark enough anymore I don't want my brushes in the water so I'm gonna just grab make sure I've got a clean brush and just grab my dark purple and brown glaze maybe a little bit of ultramarine blue and then just go back in here and you can see when you do it now light your background has gotten you know when you go back in and add these really dark areas like oh wow and you can glaze over some of that area is to get at shadows too so it doesn't have to be just the dark pink and if we do this transparently you can add some shadows back in just be careful you know because now that we've got everything kind of set in there you wanna cover over anything important but you do need these dark areas in here grab a little bit of white use it with the purple and burnt orange here make kind of a middle just light white cuz I guess it's just gonna make it more opaque and I'm gonna kind of go over the border of these dark areas that I just added and just kind of settle them in a little bit because they can look kind of stuck on so if you're looking model you can do this push it back a little bit I'm pretty happy with that I think I'm glitched titanium here I noticed right here I don't have my there's like an area of green sticking up in front of this thing right here so I'm just gonna do that just pushes that back same thing right here [Music] [Music] you can go ahead and start talking if you want to him I'm pretty much done I've been saying I'm done for like five minutes on getting some yellow here I'm just making teeny tiny adjustments it's a perch at a yeah that's me I'm super chat from Laura earlier show and she said love this painting Angela thank you for going over the brushes reminders of new and a new info is always appreciated thanks to you both for being here with us and for us oh thank you Laura we love you love doing this so yeah thank you glad you guys enjoy it a little bit blue right here my keys make them look a little bit more translucent he kind of lost it when I added my white it's just gonna go back in here and add that blue just just they love blue and white we're gonna get some white I'm just noticing that this is like a little bit hmm on this body here just once a little bit brighter white on these spikes I'm gonna call that good this fun actually I see one more thing mark knows me you know something else I'm not done and I say I'm done you notice that when you said that took place I didn't even move yeah no I'm just fine it still doesn't mean anything this is like just what I said before there's you know if I see things differently as I'm you know closing it down it's almost like I don't know I start to see things that I hadn't seen before so all right I'm gonna sign it stack it here so I want to leave about a quarter inch at the bottom and I'm just using a small round like this is the three round I found those shorter liners are easier to sign with and added lots of water to my paint a little bit of glazing medium I can write with it almost like a pen all right I think we're pretty good I was looking at up in here see if there's anything I want to change but I don't see anything I feel like I wanted to find this little guy just a little bit more and get some more white and this guy right here needs to be brighter because I can't tell where he starts and stops so here oh and I see some something here too so like right on this bike here coming down there's a line coming down that spike maybe not that thick let's try that again there's a line right here almost connecting these two Angie's have a little bit of a line and if I need to I can do and on these ones too if you like they could use just a little tip oh oh a [Music] little shadow coming up [Music] so people want to know that after we cut do you go back and mess with the paintings or no I do not very very rarely maybe once or twice only if I have like done something really stupid and left out something major but no I don't I pretty much as is at that point if you know like if I was selling it and I saw something major than I would you know maybe but most of the time I you know most of the time the things that I would change or are very minor you know they're not anything that is like a deal breaker because I mean obviously I'm gonna see it if it's super obvious I'll see it now you know before I quit but a lot of times they're just like small small little changes I just don't feel like it all right I think that's pretty good I'm gonna stop you how long was that yeah almost four hours so that's kind of what I thought but you know it takes time to get the realism you know if you're going for realism that's that's you know just gotta have to know it's gonna take a while to get there but I think it's worth the effort so hope you guys write this one and if you do you can share it with me on my social media got links down the description to all the materials that I used in the links to where you where to buy them your purchases help support our channels doesn't add anything to the price of your items but it would get a little bit of a commission off of the thank you I was thinking of the word Commission off of the sales so fear if you're interested in buying art materials any time you go through our links that are down in the description of our videos or I get the brush guys you have to use the code Angela fine-art to get the for us to get the my commission but it's just an easy way to help support our channel so we appreciate those who do that take the time to do that I'm just adding some yellow gold yeah yellow green so yeah and we'll be back on Tuesday night with another video for you guys so I hope you join us for that and we'll be painting what am i painting on Tuesday night during a dandelion so that'll be fun just one so we can take our time and kind of really focus and I've done down the line before but I'm voicing this to darken up this area that's kind of going into the shadows here just adding a little bit of burnt umber um I've done Danny lines before but there were several of them so this time it's just gonna be one it'll be a little bit easier and we'll kind of focus on now fun bokeh effect in the background with the little dotted things so I think it would be fun I hope you guys join us for that yeah we'll see you next time thanks for watching be careful take care out there and we'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Angela Anderson

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Length: 222min 52sec (13372 seconds)

Published: Sat May 23 2020