Swan Bridge Landscape Acrylic Painting LIVE Tutorial

hello this is angela anderson thanks for joining me for this acrylic painting tutorial in this video i'll be showing you how to paint this scene this is a landscape with a bridge and a swan i don't know what the title is i can't remember but anyhow we're going to be showing you step by step how to do this one from start to finish today i've got my husband mark with me hey there everybody he's been in chat today so if you've got questions while i'm painting you can ask them and i'll try to answer let's get started [Music] alrighty so i got it right there swan bridge landscape very simple i had it didn't even know it all right 9 by 12 is what we're going to be using today frederick's mixed media canvas board they've provided our canvas today so thank you to them it's got a nice solid core so it doesn't warp and it's good for watercolors too so i kind of um i haven't tried it with watercolors but um you can wet it down ahead of time and it's real porous so i have found it accepts acrylic paints really well though uh you're gonna want some sort of a sponge today i've got a sea sponge here that i've pre-moistened it's just damp but not soggy it's not dripping water uh some gloves because it's gonna get messy i'm like literally wrapping this in my gloves so that i don't forget to put my gloves on because i forgot and then we'll forget where it is and then i'll yeah i'll be like where's my sponge [Laughter] i've got a couple large brushes that we'll be using for the background so i've got these are aspen princeton aspen series two inch motler flat i think it's either flat or bright and then this was the angle modeler so and then we're gonna you're gonna need some sort of a and i might not you need a large bright but you're gonna need some sort of a round brush or a long flat brush to do um the branches we've got a lot of branches tree trunks and things like that so i'll be using the round uh one and four uh from the summit series from the princeton uh 6100 summit series and then i've got a four filbert for some of the water and i'm not sure exactly which one of these brushes that i'll be using for everything today so i'm just going to kind of like set aside the things that i think i might need and i may or may not use all of them got a number two op round here as well for some of the smaller branches and then for some of the things like the bridge and different different um smaller details i've got like a script liner an 18 odd short liner and then my two angle brushes the 3 8 inch and quarter inch the red handle brushes are the princeton velvet touch all of brushes are princeton brushes they're awesome they're a brush sponsor so thank you to them and then i've also got my different stipplers and these will be for smaller stippling work we'll be using the sponge for most of the larger areas like on our trees and then we'll be using these for some of the smaller areas and i think i'm going to try out this to do this large cedar tree that's in the corner here um just thought it might be fun to try it with a larger brush may or may not work out we'll find out i guess as we go so i have not painted this ahead of time what i do is just kind of like try to figure out what i think i might um use for colors and brushes and things ahead of time kind of study the image and then um it's it's uh it's a free for all when the live streams kitchen just never know how it's gonna work out so we're fingers crossed we know what we're doing today i don't know we'll see let's go over colors i've got carbon black burnt umber burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange yellow oxide yeah indian yellow hue cadmium yellow medium phthalo green yellow shade i decided to go ahead and put out some phthalo blue green shade just to have it um ultramarine blue doxazine purple and quinacridone magenta and then i've got unbleached titanium titanium white and zinc white and we'll be using the zinc white for that kind of foggy effect in the background it's got very like misty looking trees in the background so that'll help with that because it's a transparent white if you don't have transparent white the zinc white you can use their titanium white instead and just add some water to it to make it more transparent but this one works a little bit better for it if you have it and then i've also got some glazing medium that will just also help thin out the paints as we work okay i'm going to use let's go ahead and use the chalk to start with and i may switch to the to the smaller pencil later this is a pastel chalk pencil you don't ever want to use just like regular graphite pencils like your um you know things like this um with the graphite lead because what the the graphite lead will um bleed through the paint so um it doesn't cover well with acrylics so you just want to use something that will cover well so chalk um pastels charcoal will work um like a white charcoal i i use that maybe not the dark charcoal i'm not sure but anyhow something like that so that you can easily it just absorbs into the paint as you work so all right to start with i'm just going to map out our main areas because mostly this is going to be light colors and we're going to have the dark kind of encroaching it's very similar to the dark the dark river that we did in our beginner series a couple weeks ago um so this one award would be a good companion piece for that one i think somebody was asking about that in chat and i think it would it would actually work really well you could do it this way and just do your bridge across here and just bring your trees in a bit on the sides so you wouldn't have to turn your head to look at it right okay yeah exactly i wouldn't i wouldn't do it this way and hang it that way oh thanks for that pro tip yeah okay check all right so our bridge is kind of right on the just below the half and third mark it's kind of right in this area here so i'm going to just make a mark kind of where the top of it's going to be and then make another mark where it's coming out so it's going to curve down here and it's got another line right here i'm not going to actually draw in the bridge really right now i just want to kind of have an idea of where it goes because our our shoreline behind it kind of goes right up in here so right about there and that is right about on the third so i think we've got it in the right place here and the bridge ends right there okay so we've got our mark here and then um in my water off to the side here i'm going to have like a little area where the bridge comes down so this is going to be dark and then i just want to make sure that i've got enough room for whatever this curve is we're going to mirror it in the water it's going to go kind of like this this is the bottom of the bridge here and then there's that little rail that's what's causing this dark and it should be kind of like an eye shape if we do it right see that space right there should make a kind of an almond shape like that okay so i think that that's good i left enough room down here for our little squigglies our swan is going to live right in here he's going to be like right in there and that's a really bad example of what it's going to look like but it's right in there somewhere it looks i don't know what that looks like right now um and so then this is gonna come out just a little bit so there's a little bit of a v of the land here there's a little bit of the land coming out here so i want to make sure i've got that and then we've got tree tree tree all up and through here large tree coming out and it's actually coming out pretty far like that and then all of our bushes on this side so and kind of come out an ankle like that bushes dark all this is very dark and it's got reflections in the water i think the land is somewhere in here but this is so dark you can't really tell where the reflection starts in the land ends or vice versa okay so somewhere in there like that that's really all i'm going to need because most of all this is going to be just all trees and things back here but i just mainly need kind of an idea of where my horizon line is sort of where my bridge generally is going to be and the mainly just so that i know where my shoreline is on either side of it so it's got to come out just a little bit right here and meet up with the bottom of the bridge right here where it comes down into the water okay i think that's good let's go ahead and go with that all right so i'm going to start with the large 2 inch aspen i'm going to spray my paints down before i begin and i'm also going to spray my canvas that will give it some moisture it'll open up the fibers of the canvas it is pre-gessoed so it's ready to go as far as paint goes it'll accept the paint just fine but um having that little bit of moisture in it will help the paint go on more smoothly okay so it's really looking at this background there's a lot of a lot of different things going on but the actual sky looks like it's it's kind of a foggy um almost yellow not quite so i'm just going to go ahead and go with white to start with and add a little bit of maybe some indian yellow hue just for a pretty gold sky color yeah that'll be pretty so it's kind of a like a nice very very pale though it's not it's not yellow it's it's very pale just kind of whitish gold color and i might even well no i don't want to add blue to it i was going to say it might add blue but i don't want to have a green sky okay and then over here it's very kind of gold where the um and i'm going to go ahead and go right over the top of this bridge i'm not worried about it anymore i just kind of mainly wanted to know where that line right there was where it ended and i am going to have this color down in my water too because water is reflective so whatever colors are up in your sky you're going to see down in your water so i'm gonna go ahead and put this down here as well okay so just blending over that you can see the chalk kind of adds a little color to the paint but that's okay i'm not worried about it okay then over here you can get a little bit more water and i'm just dipping it in the corner there so i don't over do it you can see how much water it picked up just with me dipping the corner in i'm gonna get the and the the tiniest little bit of the um quinacridone burnt orange just a tiny little bit there we go it's not going to take much to tint this guy oh how pretty okay very pretty so we're going to bring that all the way down into our bushes right there and up in our sky that yellow is still wet so it's going to blend with it let's go ahead and put it down in our water over here too just a little bit of water that's going to be peeking through most of this down here is going to be dark but there's a little bit of it peeking through look how pretty that is just a slight blush of that pink up there okay so this is pretty dry already it's it dries fairly quickly on these canvases which is nice so you can work you know pretty quickly from between colors i'm gonna go ahead and put some of this in the water too okay and this this brush is pretty much done for now so i'm just gonna get some water and wipe it off on a paper towel to try to get the paint out of it before i try to clean it because it's it's got too much paint still in it for me to try to clean it out in my water you can see how much paint's just coming off of it from just touching it in my water there all right so i'm going to leave it on my damp paper towel just to set and we'll once it's dry we'll or not dry keep it wet so it doesn't dry out and then we'll clean it later okay sorry i'm thinking three three things at the months and saying the wrong thing [Laughter] um let me see i think i want to what do i want to do let me go ahead and do some of the you know i'm going to do this i need to just pull some of these colors away from the thing though the sponge is so big i need to just grab some color and pull it down here so i'm going to get some of the yellow and this this scene is kind of an autumn scene so if you wanted to turn it more of in like a spring scene you could use more like brighter greens for this part um i am going to use a little bit of green here with it and mix up my yellow green there we go let's go ahead and grab some more of that yellow and i'm going to get some of the so this is indian yellow and the burnt orange use some of that it makes a really pretty pinkish color you can see right there that quinacridone burnt orange does how are you doing today i am doing nasally nasally i know me too my sinuses are not happy with me right now yes it is uh allergy season here in arkansas yeah everything is blooming and my all our vehicles are turning yellow and so is the inside of my head apparently because yeah so we'll be sounding like this for the next couple shows yeah it will be for about a month and then it'll get better i'm going to add some pink to it i have some pink hair added some white i didn't clean out my brush so it's got some of this green in it too we're just gonna use all these different colors back here just want all kinds of different colors happening um let me go ahead and clean this off i'm gonna mix up some blue for my trees my tree trunks so those are going to be kind of a gray blue i'm going to use blue and i'm going to use a little bit of black and that's probably too much a little bit yeah even that was almost too much oh that's pretty close okay so i've got that i'm going to scrape some off to the side there and i'm going to add some phthalo blue to some of it so i've got like a ultramarine blue and then i've got phthalo blue on this one here so i've just got different blues to use for my tree trunks back here but they're all going to be in the same kind of value range they're all going to be kind of muted i haven't added the white to these these two yet but i will here so i've got a nice couple nice blues let's go ahead and get a little bit of the white here i'm just gonna leave this blue on here it's not gonna hurt anything and add it to my green here but what i want to do is have a bunch of different colors just so you know just different colors but that are all in the same value range and then what that will do is kind of mute everything and make it all sort of soft and and look like it's farther away back here this may not be light enough we may have to add more of our light color because you can see how light our our background is and that on top of that is going to be pretty obvious so but i do want to go slightly darker because we're going to go ahead and put that zinc white over the top of it too so it can be a little bit darker to start with and it'll be i think it'll be okay so all right let's go ahead and add some of this to this yellow oxide burnt sienna ornaments are burnt orange and and indian yellow hue i don't know why i said that burnt sienna indian yellow hue this one is the yellow oxide and i think these three i'm not sure with green it's green with yellow honestly doesn't matter it that again these are all just going to be you know slightly different tones it it honestly does not matter that much you can play with this but the main the main thing you want to do is just make sure that these all are about the same pastel kind of color that's that's what's important it's not necessarily the color itself it's just the value of the colors making sure that they're the right lightness okay let's glove up here see i remembered dr angela is now preparing me to measure my hands yesterday because i was trying to order some gardening gloves online and didn't know what size i'm my hands are large apparently very manish sized hands i did not know that they're like off the charts large [Laughter] better to paint with exactly i guess they work i don't i'm not complaining um all right so we're gonna use the sponge and i'm just gonna lightly sponge it over um and just add some you know different stuff in the background here i'm going to start by adding some white to my sponge so i have kind of a base of this lighter color in here and then i'm going to let's go ahead and over here we'll start with this gold or you know sorry the magenta type color here oh look how pretty that is and we are definitely simplifying this image so um if you're like that's not exactly what it is in the picture that we're we're we're going to take some artistic liberties with it just because i want to simplify it slightly so anywhere where i get something that i don't like i can just take the back end of the sponge and kind of soften it off so i got some of that blue in there a little early i didn't really want that color over here so i'm just gonna dab it off and my background should be dry so before you do this make sure your background's dry um otherwise you can lift off your background colors you don't want that to happen so all right so let's do this get a little bit more i'll get a little bit of this orange as well it's really more kind of a coral color okay there we go this is the color i wanted over here go a little bit darker with it in the corners but mainly we're just kind of adding some modeling to our sunlight we've got all these trees back here that are kind of cutting off the sun and creating different colors so let's go ahead and just add this color all over to this how area that is okay so somebody would like to know turn my sponge and use the back side of it that's clean with the next color somebody would like to know yes how wet is the sponge it's not you um you get it wet fully so i'll put it in the in the water and then wring it out as much as i can so get it fully saturated and then get it so that it's just damp and that's that's where you want to work with it you do not want it dripping water because otherwise you won't be able to control what's going on your canvas here been there done that not fun okay so be sure when you do this though too that you keep these paints wet um as you work so they don't dry out because we need these colors down in our water and we're not gonna add them yet so um just be sure that you're you're leaving some of this to use later don't use it all up right now and if you do make sure you mix some more before you go off and do something else all right it doesn't take long for me to forget what i've mixed like literally two seconds and then i forgot so and just do yourself a favor there all right getting some yellow i want some brighter yellow here getting some ending yellow hue and and the cadmium yellow medium and then my white so gonna use that and there's some areas in here where we've got some brighter sunlight happening and we can't we're going to probably put some color on after we put our tree trunks as well so but this is our main like colors that are in the vat very background there's only a little bit of that sky color peeking through but you know so don't cover it up completely i i pretty much have covered up completely but um all right i'm going to go ahead and use it this way i'm gonna use it in the water this way and i'm just gonna smudge it side to side here to get that color in the water since i've got it on my sponge you might as well use it right okay that's working well okay there we go and now i'm gonna find another spot maybe go back over to that red or the green area and get a little bit of that blue and get in that ultramarine blue one maybe a little bit of the phthalo blue too and we're just gonna use that over here and there's some trees over here that a little bit darker okay yeah let's go ahead and put some of this in my water trying to keep it side to side as much as i can that's our horizon line right there so just trying to work with that there we go smudge that out a little bit you can use a brush for this too but just since i have it already on my my sponge here i'm gonna go ahead and use it all right so i think that that's pretty good this is gonna be that large cedar tree right here so i'm not really worried about this little area over here too much it's going to be really dark but i think that's pretty good and again if i get too much of an in any one area what i can do is get some of my white on my sponge and just kind of go through and kind of pick up some of this color maybe soften it up blend it in a little bit i can even use a wet or a damp paper towel and dab over some of the areas and just kind of blend in those colors a little bit so that they're not so sponge-like just kind of softens everything up and some areas you want it a little bit more like you know obvious tree texture in some areas you can you know use it to kind of smudge it out and blend it in okay that's good let's go ahead and i'm gonna add some of the white back in just in a few areas okay and then i'm gonna use that dark dark side i'm gonna get some of the orangey color add just a few little areas just kind of going over this top that area that i smudged out just adding a few little areas just having all these different layers of color really helps add depth to the painting all right i think that that's good i don't really want to overdo this too much or at all [Laughter] i've got a lot of colors going on here so i think that's probably good enough let's go ahead and switch to and i want to get you know i'm going to get a little bit of water on here just on that paint side and set it off to the side of my sponge if i have to use it again though i'm going to have to get that water out before i use it let me go ahead and take my gloves off and we'll go ahead and start putting in our treat trunks so i'm gonna go ahead and grab this blue a little bit of glaze just to make it more fluid and there's a tree right here i think that's probably a good color i like looking at it looking at a reference just trying to see if that color is similar to what i'm seeing on there and i think it is and what you can do is add some of your background color to your which we've got this color in our background in our trees a little bit so it should be kind of in here but if it seems like it's going on it's like a little too obvious or a little bit too dark what you can do is add some of your background color to this and it'll fade it out into the background a little bit more which brush are you using right now it's the number six no for four round in the cement summit series it's actually kind of a little bit big for the smaller branches so it's good for the little little branch or the big ones but i'm going to be switching to a smaller brush here in a minute one thing with trees is that like i kind of made a large branch there so i had to go back in and match it up to the bottom part of the tree you don't want a thicker branch at the top of your tree so you want to make sure your trees are always tapering to smaller branches as they go up away from the base tree trunk okay and then as i get closer to the sun area i'm gonna get more of this reddish color and do something like that okay you did it what you brought out the brush what brush with the mod kit on it i don't know what you're talking about so explain to everybody what the tape's all about with the mod kit on it um it's just because of the i cracked the handle this paint the i probably left it in water too long and it cracked so i just add tape to keep it i don't like the texture of the of the crumbly crumbly handle so i just tape it plus the little crumbles can get in your drop off while you're painting it's no fun and of course you have to use cute duct tape well yeah that's that's a given if it's not cute i mean why bother i'm gonna get smaller brush now i'm gonna go ahead and get my script in there that'll make that's the thinking i took when i chose my wife what it's not cute white wine [Laughter] i like it i have no comment on that sorry okay so just adding some smaller like leaves and and branches and things here just using the script liner make sure when you're using a script line or any liner brush you're adding lots of fluid to your paint so that they can flow otherwise they will just paint really thick uneven lines they don't yet you've got to have fluid in your paint will not work without it just water and just paint in different little branches crisscrossing them so and doing some smaller ones in between little sticks and things sorry didn't catch it in time there sorry mark was trying he saw the hand going up he did i tried i caught the last part of it so somebody wants to know would hockey tape work i don't know is hockey tape cute i'm not sure it's typically either black or white well i guess so i don't know i told him that i didn't know i didn't think you would know it that it even existed true right she's from the desert of southern california and hockey wasn't a big thing out there no i never saw a hockey game until i was i had a boyfriend at 15 that took me to his hockey game oh please elaborate i need to hear about this wasn't you well i know [Laughter] we didn't go out for very long i was kind of fickle at that age i met mark wasn't much before mark he was the last one yeah exactly no i was only 15. so all right so again kind of just moving from this blue to this gold on this side this these yellows are not yellows why can't i say the right color today oh my gosh it is wet peach yes thank you peach peachy pink colors over here those are the colors so we've and i've mixed up a little bit of this blue into them so that they've got a little bit of that color just and these are the very pink ones that are very very far away these aren't the ones that are in the foreground so here i printed it out here so we could talk about it what i'm painting right now are these ones so like all these ones that are very far back here that you can barely see that's what we're painting right now all this stuff and i kind of did these ones um a little bit darker here these ones in the in the foreground but then the ones back here i kind of added a little bit more of the lighter color to make them a little bit more faint so that's what we're doing here so do you think this one is beginner friendly i think it could be yeah i don't think that um i don't know i mean i think it may be well i mean there's a lot of simple techniques individually right bringing them together might be a little bit so right i mean if it's your first painting i would say no no but if you've been doing you know a dozen or so paintings if you've done my other beginner series things i think this one that would be one that you could tackle and i almost did it for the beginner series but i thought it would take too long that's why i didn't do it because i just figured that it would be longer than two hours and i try to keep the the two the two hour ones to you know saturdays hopefully not longer than two hours but you know right around there probably i'm guessing i don't know we haven't gotten very far today yet so i can't really tell i don't know what i'm what is happening with that branch let me take that out because it looks weird and like octopus branch there just kept growing arms okay i guess that that's the hydra that i'm thinking of right it keeps you take them take a branch away and it keeps you just keep adding grows back it's kind of wet all right i don't know what i'm saying just keep on going here mark's not talking to me so hi everybody hope you have a great saturday all right so i'm gonna get the deerfoot stippler this will give me a little bit more control and i'm going to go ahead and use a little bit of this blue that i have going on here i'm going to get a little bit of the white at it yeah i've got a little bit of green here too and i'm just going to use these these trees here that i've put in here and just add a little bit of this color we have a little bit of it in the background but i kind of smudged most of it out so i'm just going to add back in a little bit of this color in just a few areas here what that'll do is kind of it kind of breaks up the line of the trees just a little bit softens up everything slightly so smudges it all out and as i get mo most of the paint off here i'm going to use it in this area over here so that not full strength and just kind of blend it over okay i think that's pretty good so kind of got this soft blendy background of trees and things and if you need to you can add more to this background area but i think we've i think we've done okay um so let's go ahead and use the filbert here and i'm gonna grab some of this blue and i'm gonna use it on my shoreline here this is just the background area that's just barely peeking through our bridge so i'm going to use it up kind of smudge out this area here just at the base of my trees so pulling it up just a little bit and then pulling it down too so i'm just kind of adding this smudge of blue all along that area there and it should kind of just disappear that shoreline a little bit and get a little bit lighter color and put it in here and if you need to make it look like bushes or whatever you can but most of this is going to be covered up by our bridge so only a little bit of it's going to peek through this is all going to be bridge area here it should be if we place it right so i've placed it right i know i got a little too much of that blue up too high so i'm just gonna take my paper towel and kind of dab it off see how that works just kind of pulls off excess paint there we go okay and then let's go ahead and use the white and i'm gonna get some of this indian yellow hue that was our sky color right and i'm just gonna kind of hit the water with what oh i i put it through my blue paint over here i had blue right here my paper towel picked it up when i wiped it okay kind of clean spot there okay there we go so i'm just gonna go on my water i've got the tree colors now in my water here thankfully so i've got all this nice color happening back here and i'm just gonna add keep picking up other colors here add my white on my water side to side it's mostly just up in this area back in here that there's some highlights so that's all i'm going to do just want to kind of highlight a little bit right there and get some more of this blue hair and make sure that i have the blue down in my water right below where that tree line is so we go okay and make sure that i'm going far enough in on these sides here too so that i need to bring some of this blue over here because you know my bridge is coming all the way out to here so i want to make sure that i have color in my water down here so the one i put my my bridge in there's stuff down here for it to behind it makes sense yes good i think you're talking to me anyways okay good because i was listening for once good i think i appreciate it hey no problem i'm here for you babe i appreciate it thanks for taking time out of your saturday hanging out with us today everybody i know it's pretty outside today here in arkansas so we'll be getting some sunshine we have people from all over the world in today nice i'm gonna put some of this blue down down here just tapping in kind of off from here let's go ahead and just use it kind of under here just to add if that brush didn't work which mine didn't really do a great job the this one will do a better job of kind of doing that light foliage look so let's go ahead and just do it all the way across here on this side too let's just why not right it'll kind of sort of peek through our tree over here okay so now we've got our background done for the most part let's go ahead and work on our foreground um the technique that you use here for the background can be used as the base for a lot of different things oh for sure yeah i mean you could leave it like this or just do a couple trees here you didn't even have to do the bridge right right yeah there's all kinds of we have done this on several paintings we've done something very similar to this on several paintings so so you could do this one and then do the tank in the front in the foreground you know it's a good setting [Music] that's about all i've come up with so far i'm working so far so far okay all right so i want to make sure my top of my bridge is right here or i'm sorry bottom of my bridge is right here somewhere ish that is not working i don't want anything that's going to be too hard i don't want it to rub off my paint let me try this white chalk here i may have made this a little too dark we'll see this eye or just eye shape there okay and then the top of the bridge is a little bit less curved so it's more like that and then the top railing of the bridge is matching this so it's somewhere in here more like that okay so there's our bridge i think that's about the right size i might bring it in a slight bit i feel like it's a little bit wide let me see let me let me do the railings and see one two three four okay one two three and then this should know that's about right i think because the greenery is going to come over this whole area right here and come out into the thing so i think i think we're pretty close all right let's go ahead and do the greenery that's going to be behind it just slightly so i'm going to get the deerfoot stippler and let me keep these paints wet that we've already got mixed because i might need them later but i'm gonna go ahead and mix up some dark green i'm gonna use the green and the ultramarine blue zayla blue make a dark teal and then i'm gonna add some burnt umber to it which will just make it kind of burnt umber and the blue makes gray so basically you're just adding a dark gray too our green hair and let's go ahead and use it in our background here so i'm going to tilt it so that just the tip is touching and dab that out into the water and don't be afraid of doing it really dark because we really want a good contrast here and so go ahead and kind of dab our line of foliage it's going to go all the way down here and this is probably not even dark enough so i'm gonna go ahead and grab some purple use the purple down here really dark all the way along the bottom of that bridge right there and should come up to just about to where those trees are so go ahead and bring it up i'm going to use a little bit of the lighter color maybe grab it even grab some of this lighter green and use that up in here this is catching the light it's kind of turning it a little bit lighter and then there should be kind of a diagonal right here from this let me see if i'm getting that angle right that looks about right okay and then yeah there's like an angle of some of these leafies coming out get some more of that green on the very tip of my brush maybe a little bit more of the brighter green and use the very tip of it and draw it out in a couple places just kind of draw some borders on our bush here okay we'll add highlights to it later and there'll be a nice bright uh bush right there so that'll be good so i'm gonna go ahead and get a little glaze and add it to this green i'm gonna use it down here in my water i'm just gonna somebody would like to know could they add red to green to darken it yes yeah you can use red it's opposite on the color wheel so it works great for that is that a trick question [Music] yes you can did you just say that or something no usually when you say that you had just talked about it no it's just being silly no yes you can and um there's all kinds of um you know here i'll show you the we don't have pure red out right now but we can use the magenta with a little bit of yellow to make it red and then add it to my green it kind of makes it brown you have to have more of the green than red and it depends on you know your green and the red that you use but yes you you can make it darker that way i i prefer purple just because purple's like darker already on the color wheel it's you know one of the darkest true colors that you can use so it works well as a i'm gonna pull down to do my reflection for these little bits in the water right here and then i want to make sure that i don't do my reflections of my trees too far in because this is going to be my bridge here so this the bridge is kind of what we're seeing on this reflection here but they come out right in this way and this these bushes back here are a little bit less than in the photograph we've kind of cropped our photograph the edge of it off a little bit in our in our case the really from the split of the two trees right here is this whole part is cut off so we're kind of condensing it over here let's go ahead and use it over here we're gonna have to mix up some more of this green for over here burnt umber so just kind of making the water the same darkness as the trees there okay and the same thing goes here that darkness goes all the way down to here this whole area i'm just making sure my edges are kind of blended out like this and see how i'm kind of doing these lines in the water that just kind of gives it that reflection feel go ahead and do all the way dark all the way to the corner there okay we'll be bringing this out again here right now it looks kind of lopsided but we'll be bringing it in and won't do the bridge all right i want to do the reflection of this tree though before i get too much farther so i'm going to use the glazing medium and my same blue that i used here and just very lightly wiggling it side to side to do my little tree here i need a little bit less wide than i did there and i did the angle wrong okay hold on let me do this again i had it tilted i wasn't paying attention the angle so it's angling this way so i need to angle it this way i kind of came it straight down with it i'm going to use a smaller brush too because that brush was a little bit big uh let's see let's go ahead and use this one this is the two flat it was the right color though so i need to see all right right here we're about right there so i want to be about that distance away you can kind of measure it just to get your angle right so you know kind of where to end up so i should end up right about here and i kind of placed my finger there i should have done this to begin with sorry like that i'll forgive you and then this one is going to be the opposite so it's going to come this way and then go back out so it's only about like that far in before it changes direction so come this way and then it's going to kind of come back out this way so i'm going to change it it doesn't have to be exact you know but just kind of get sort of the same ish just this major trees here that's all let's go ahead and do this one with the same color as we did up here so get that and this one's going this way so like that so it's going to end up right over here let's go ahead and just going of put in some random little bits there's little trees up in here so i just do some little random blips on here just kind of wiggle i'm kind of blending it out a little bit too so that it's soft okay and then let's go and do these big trees right here so these ones i'm gonna go ahead and use the blue and the burnt umber i'm gonna i grabbed a little bit of green but it's gonna be more brown let's go ahead and get the burnt orange there too just got a lot of colors here just kind of brown blue dark tree trunks okay so go up this way with it and a little bit of the water here so it's a little bit easier for it to go flow off my brush here i got i got some of that white and specks in it i need to clean that off it's flaking where it dried so it's adding little white flakes to my paint i don't want that to happen well while you're scraping i'll remind everybody about patreon.com slash angela fine art where all the cool kids hang out no but seriously i have to be cool for that to work i don't think that works well you're the leader i know but like i'm saying that's my point oh you're cool anyway there's we have traceables bonus contents more teaching of things like that so yeah levels so check it out different stuff we appreciate the over 3 500 supporters we have right now on patreon we thank you so much yes for that support yes makes these free tutorials possible it does 100 it also helps buy some chocolate sometimes just so [Laughter] i want it more blue than this okay and then once you get the kind of the main tree trunks on here then you can switch to a smaller brush to do some of this finer branches and just do as many or as little as you want you know it doesn't have to be exactly like the photograph but i'm going to go ahead and switch to the script liner here and use that to do my little branches that kind of go off and over the bridge just wiggling and just pay attention to the width so just making sure that my the end of my branches is thinner than where they start and right here where it connects to the tree too there's usually a little bit of a thicker area just right there you can press down a little bit harder to get a thicker line and then as i go out just varying my pressure on my brush bringing it up so it's not pressing down as hard and getting up in airline it takes practice but the more you work with the liner brush the i think the easier it is the more it's actually pretty meditative i find especially doing things like these tree branches because you're not having to do it exact you know you can just kind of let it wander where you want it to go and as long as you kind of get the the right you know shapes and things you can be pretty creative with what you do with your branches they're all going to be different and which brush is that again this is the script liner i find it's easier to use a script liner for these longer branches they just it they come off a lot easier and smoother thickening up some of these branches here and there's some little little trees out here i don't think i'm gonna do all of the trees i'm just gonna do these main main ones here you can do as many little branches as you want there's a ton of little branches on this one just going quickly and kind of doing some little smaller branches make sure they have a branch to stick to obviously but hmm all right let's do one more big one right here this one i'm gonna add again my brushes fell into the paint there i'm gonna get some water on this large brush that's been sitting out for a while just make sure it's not drying out on me okay all right this tree here i'm gonna go with the more golden color so maybe use the burnt sienna and add it to this blue that we had for the other tree burnt sienna burnt quinacridone burnt orange and then this blue the ultramarine blue with the brown and stuff here just whatever color you use here just add some burnt sienna quinacridone burnt orange to it i'm gonna split this tree a little bit differently than it is in the picture just to give it a little bit different look i like that it was going straight up so i'm just making it a little bit more wiggly why not we go kind of combined a couple trees here into one just to simplify the scene a little bit and then using that dark green at the base here to blend it in so it blends into my foliage down here okay i'm using the script liner adding some water to this let's just add some more branches across how's it going hon it is going good anybody here are they all outside enjoying the weather today oh well the we got several people with us nice some of them may be outside enjoying the weather while enjoying painting but it's a good idea phew i've been doing that this week i've been sitting outside on the back porch plus the stuffy nose but it's worth it i am so ready for a garden we are so close we are within i think next week we're going to start putting out our putting out our tomatoes and stuff got them all oh the baby lined up out in the back porch today on back deck we killed some this week don't i know i was really sad about it still mourning it it's still too fresh don't i'm not ready to talk about it so i don't out of my two cauliflower in two broccoli plants one plant lived not sure but we don't know which one we don't know which one it is well there's a second one that's trying to hang on but we'll see yeah i doubt i'll get anything out of it onions are doing great onions are yeah you can't kill those things blueberry push is doing well yeah and the two strawberries look like they're starting to try and some of them are coming back trying to two of the lettuces that are like the 30 someone that i planted lived so here at the anderson horticultural hospice we we're trying to grow gardens it's uh yeah too true i don't really know well the tomatoes it was our fault i was like it's not gonna get that cold well first i put them on this they don't know what they're talking about well yeah that's true i put them out there we had it we transplanted them and then i left them in the sun too long the first time yeah so they're already struggling from that then the frost got some of them yeah then we left them out oh well live and learn there's still time to plant new babies they might they might grow lit later in the season but oh yeah i mean last year we wound up with a ton of tomato plants even the ones that we didn't think were going to live did really yeah so yeah they did they they bounced back okay i'm mixing the white with my quinacridone burnt orange hair i'm adding it to this brown that i've just used i'm gonna put it in a tree just kind of back in here just a little a little bit darker than what i had just do kind of a couple of like mid ground trees here back in here okay they turned out to be because it twinsies didn't they so let's like change it up so they don't look like twins okay i just did the same exact thing on both of those okay let's just take this one out okay here we go all right and then on this tree here i don't know if we want to do it or not there's like the sun the sun is peeking through the tree making a bright spot on it so we can do that like right in here and we'll just do this quinacridone burnt orange right here with the white kind of just turn this tree trunk brighter right along that edge right there and then get a quarter inch deerfoot stippler let me get a little bit of white a little bit of the zinc white and i'm just gonna tap in right here we have a question okay now the person said that they had thought they heard that adding water to acrylic paints is not a good idea because it would cause the acrylic to flake off that is um that that is i've never had that happen what can happen is it can under bind so when you do your upper layers they can it'll wipe them off that that i've had happen but i have not had the paint flake off so um and water is totally fine to use with acrylics just don't use too much of it that's that's the main thing you just don't want to with with craft acrylics craft acrylics are like way more binder than than acrylic paint color so craft acrylics you can use just about as much water as you want and they're not gonna under bind with heavy body acrylics there's more pigment involved and in less binder in the paints so they do say i think that the i think that the recommendation is like 30 don't do more than 30 with that you see the 30 or 40 with water so which is still like if you think about how much you know how thick the paints are you know you've gotta add a lot of water to make it under bind so it's not it's never never been an issue for me um the only time i've ever had an issue like i said is if i have tried to um i'm what i need need to do here now is let this dry i'm talking and not letting this dry i keep adding more layers and i haven't let the under layer dry and i'm just scrubbing off the layer that i just did but if you put paint down and you don't and uh with too much water um too thinly would what it just it won't stick to your canvas well and so what'll happen is when you put your next layer on if you scrub over it too hard it'll just lift off the cam the color that you've got on there so that's all and then how do you know when to use water versus glaze medium i use a glazing medium if i know i'm going to need to use a lot of water so you know when i'm when i'm thinning down my paints um i'll add a little bit of glaze if i want my paint to be more transparent i will add the glaze um i'm adding this this burnt orange color to some of my trees over here just to add some of the color to my foliage back here um let's go ahead and do over this with my zinc white before i get too much farther along because i want to have that background done um i think i'm going to use my larger brush for this let's use the let's use this one the 10 bright so i'm going to use my zinc white and some glaze so i want my cl my color to be transparent the glaze also gives me a little bit of extra drying time versus water but i'm adding both glaze and water and usually when i'm thinning out my paints i'm doing that i'm adding both glaze and water not hardly ever am i just adding one okay so actually this is my i'm not having to add too much of this here but i just want these kind of rays of light coming through they're kind of coming at a diagonal which i don't really understand since my sunlight's down here but whatever and maybe just the way the sun is filtering through i'm going to go ahead and just go over all of this with a little bit of the zinc wide all of this should be dry before you do this so just make sure that you wait for this to dry completely before you do this part i really want to get a lot of this ink right around this tree here where that white is coming through the lights coming through and then do some streaks through my trees here which these aren't really needing too much i think we got a pretty good color going on with with what we did so not worry too much about this but i do want a few like little streaky things coming through normally i would say pick your sunlight and do your streaks that way but i'm not seeing the i'm seeing these rays coming through this way so i'm not really sure why it's doing that it just may be the way the sunlight is filtering through the trees so what were you seeing you know it's kind of weird but whatever it's they may have added this i wonder if they added this as an after effect or something and that's why it's got two different sun sources but i'm gonna go and put some of this in the water too if i need it you may not need it i think it's a uh alien spaceship is that what it is that's glowing yeah so they were taking a picture of that and or they're taking a picture of someone and just happened to catch the alien ship i'm not not necessarily a fan of this sunlight thing happening right here it looks a little bit weird coming through that right there on those trees the way i did it i don't know shall leave it out i would take it out okay i think i'm just gonna take it out after everybody at home just try to put it in three times sorry guys so watch the video first take some mental notes i just i don't like i you know i just you don't like it leave it leave it off it doesn't have it doesn't have to be in there okay there we go i might just add just a little bit of like some leafy things just to kind of hide that there okay good um all right so let's go ahead and add i think that's all i'm gonna do as far as the trees though i don't think i'm gonna do any more on those trees you can do as many trees as you want on yours i'm gonna go ahead and use this brush here now and try to do this cedar tree that's over here water running down your that's right i see that i don't know how i did that it's on the right side did you see it yeah just dabbed it off okay some of this green here some of my green from there some blue a little bit of purple that's a good color i think that'll work okay um get a little bit of water just wanted a little bit more fluid i'm gonna get a little bit of my yellow oxide just to make it a little bit more of a golden green okay so i'm gonna test it on here i think i'm gonna kind of flatten out my brush and then tap it i want those bristles to separate out just a little bit so that i can get some again i haven't really used this brush for this so i don't know if it's going to be appropriate or not it really um normally i would use like a hog bristle brush but i don't have one in this size from princeton so i'm gonna i don't even know if they make them i'm not sure this is gonna work now it's it's not sticking together right for me okay so note to south that one no it was worth a shot it was worth the shot it got a little too clumpy it was like clumping together and it wasn't separating out for me like i needed it to to do the foliage so we'll just use this one this is a number eight blender eight three eighths inch blender i'm sorry whatever this time of year is always fun when we're medicated with our allergy medicine who knows what's gonna happen my brain is i've had a root canal this week and i've been like just dealing with that all week i cancelled my thursday class which i hate doing because that was puts me back a week but oh well it's i do feel better though today than i did thursday so that's good i have a root canal monday and it was it was bad it was bad i've had them before but this one wanted to go for a specialist because it was all calcified and yucky so no fun and they thought they might have to knock you out to do it yeah they did but they didn't but they did it in the end so yeah it was good except for them they gave me a shot through the roof of my mouth if they had knocked me out they wouldn't have to do that so i'm next time i might just ask for this get knocked out yeah it's almost worth it because that shot at the roof of my mouth was the worst part of the whole thing before and after but then i'll have to be there and film you as you come out to see what you say that is true all right so just doing kind of a roughly i don't know egg shape kind of to this bush fluffy egg it's got a the bristles coming out the top here kind of in a line probably could have used my fan brush too now that come to think of it but actually i think i might want to try that i'm not loving this look here get some water a little bit glaze dark dark green a little bit of burnt umber okay i'm gonna set it down and kind of flick it pull it down slightly there we go this is the select four bristle fan there we go it's working better giving me kind of those needle-like but i looked away for a second i looked up at the camera all right don't look up while you're painting hinge kind of like chef john says don't let the painting win what does he say he says don't let the food win don't let the food win when he makes a mistake right i like it don't let the paint win you're you're the boss okay so i think i'm liking that it's almost like a christmas tree shape only thicker there are little bits of light coming through this so you can you can leave a little bit of the light color and then as we get down towards the bottom we're going to kind of merge it with this and bring it in a little bit so it's going to kind of curve back down right here like that so it again kind of egg shaped easter happy easter everybody by the way our son's not going to get to come work on this ad he had a covet shot and not feeling great so he's not coming for easter spencer was all excited we were planning on an easter egg hunt with adult uh prizes since they're you know nathan's almost 30 and spencer's like 29 or no 19 nathan's 29 so i'm gonna give gift cards instead of candy and the eggs but now nate spencer's getting all the prizes i told nathan well he was kind of you said well if i feel better i'll come so the we'll save the other ones for nathan it works he just won't have the hunting fun oh okay well don't tell him that then he won't show up for sure i hope he's not watching hi nathan okay so here's these trees here let's go ahead and do a cross in the water here here and it helps if you just do it like kind of at the same time as you do your trees i kind of forgot to do these ones but even these ones up here you know if you just kind of get that background color in your water first and then you can just add when you add a tree up here just add your reflection in the water blow it oh i'm totally off camera honey i am way off camera all this up here okay [Music] okay you gotta let me know i know but you gotta let me know when you're zoomed in so i know that you're that i'm on it off camera sorry okay let's go ahead and add some i'm gonna get some white and some indian yellow hue and add it to my green here just make a light green color and i'm just going to use that to highlight this side of the tree on the top areas and some of the branches kind of in the middle here and really just kind of tapping and kind of pulling down a little bit tap and pull down a little bit just to get a little highlight on some of these branches most of this is in darkness so we don't have to do all of it but just a little bit of a hint of some some stuff going on there let's go ahead and use it on the top of these two while we've got it i'm just using that dark to blend on the bottom okay let's go ahead and use this with some yellow i'm just mixing it into this green here and i'm gonna use it for this bush right here now if you want to you could add you could add like colored bushes here so if you wanted it more spring-like good to add like pinks or you know whatever you wanted here to make it more like spring-ish totally up to you going to use the same color over here just that kind of bright green there and i'm going to use a little bit of it in the water right there let's use a little bit of in the water okay i'm gonna go ahead and use a little bit of the indian yellow or the sorry quinacridone burnt orange i don't even know why they let me talk some days i swear i'm having so much trouble just expressing colors today so weird all right again just a little bit of whatever color i'm using up there down in the water all right so that's about all i'm going to do for the [Music] for the trees and things i think you could put another big bush right here if you wanted to um we'll see i'll put the version and see if we if i feel like we need it or not but let's go ahead and do that 3 30 so all right so an hour and a half we're not doing too bad not too shabby um let me see what do i want to do my bridge with i think i think this bridge is going to bring the whole painting together i think so too i think it it'll make a big difference um especially the left and right sides thanks alrighty so color of the bridge really whatever you want to do i'm going to go ahead and use like black and burnt umber here i think and i think i'm going to use the fluid acrylic because i think it'll it'll just make it a little easier to do these lines on the bridge especially the small lines i'm going to go ahead and scrape off all this extra paint i got going on here trying to decide i guess i'll go ahead and save some of that most of that is probably getting dry now but i'll leave it just in case it's usable spray it one more time okay so let's go ahead and put out that black and i'm going to go and use the angle brush you could use any kind of round brush but i i think the angle might work for me we'll see if i if i have trouble with the lines i'll switch but i'm going to start with the angle and see how it goes so i've already got my line my chalk line there i'm just going to go ahead and mark that out that's the bottom that's the part you walk on right here the bottom part of the bridge and it actually kind of floats out this way at the very end i need to kind of do that what were you saying people come here for bridge facts so the bottom part's the part that people walk on well it's not one making sure that they don't think it's the very very bottom it's not oh okay it's the part that's the part that you walk on okay right here okay i didn't draw this in so that's why i'm having to kind of take it out because i made a mistake i'm not drawing in this little bit that kind of curves up okay so it goes across and curves up right right where it meets the shore there flattens out right there okay then there is a little bit of it that curves down right here that continues that arch right here so just kind of continuing that down i need to wipe it away where it kind of goes down into the bushes i'll probably have to put the bushes on top of it again okay so then just right up underneath this i'm gonna do another curve this time it's gonna go down to about right here it's not going to quite touch just make sure i get that curve right somewhere in there do it thin and then i can thicken it out to where i need it to be so i'm gonna come up underneath it and widen that out this part is definitely not beginner friendly right here so this is going to be your hardest part of the bridge for sure 100 okay make sure that this has got something dark right under underneath it for it to attach to right here and then i'm going to use the let's go ahead and use this with the glazing medium and i'm going to mark it with my chalk just so i can see where it goes so i'm gonna mark that by right there and then there's a little bit of the top part so right about there and i'm just gonna go and use that glazing medium with this to do the kind of faint zig zaggy lines in the water keep them side to side this whole area kind of fills in with zigzag lines so i'm just gonna go ahead and kind of put them in now that i've got this color on my brush and there's going to be some lines through this way kind of wait to put the rest in because i'm not exactly sure where they're gonna go so i don't wanna doom and then have to move them so making sure this is nice and dark where it meets the shoreline because i don't want any thing there that interferes with that dark or you know i don't want it to look weird where it attaches so just blend it all in okay there we go and then this this bush here also comes out lift it off color right there it's weird must have stuck to my hand alrighty so let's go and do the top actually let's go and switch to the smaller brush now get the two script liner and gonna go just above this with the railing so go try to keep it about the same distance away that's my dog if it's pickle what you doing you want in all right about halfway there and these are vertical so just make sure that you get these railings vertical there's going to be two more before it hits the tree here so i didn't bring that tree out far enough seeing should be one here and one in between hi puppy okay and then there's one on either side here it's like fine nobody's doing anything fun in here i want to go back out what's he scratching it what are you doing puppy what are you doing go back by the door all right fine i'll just lay here nobody's doing anything fun cutie pie nobody's playing nobody's doing anything fun it's like eeyore why bother [Laughter] okay these somehow i got those proportions off really weird on here so i'm just gonna i don't know i think my bridge is longer than it needs to be because these are separated out a little farther than it needs to be i think but oh well this is this is the best i can do doing it on the fly somebody would like to know what could they use instead of yellow oxide yellow oxide um you could just add some brownish to your yellow it's fine you can some it's just a brownish yellow so all right um about that far away so right in here somewhere and then another one right here somewhere in there like that i don't know now i want to make sure though that my tops of them are about the same height so which they're not right now so i'm going to look at this and try to do my top of my railing about the same distance away somewhere like that okay now i can bring these up where they need to be they got a little bit of a thick something on the tops and there are this there is a second rail that you can see so it separates right in here somewhere but i don't know should we do it i'm trying to decide if i want to do it or not i probably should though it looks it looks better but i think i'm going to do the first part first and then do that later i definitely didn't separate these out right sorry guys oh well i guess i could i guess i could fix it i'm trying to think i can't really fix it and there's these little squares mine's more a rectangle this is where i can tell i did them too too far apart there because these ones are gonna be different sized right here definitely not photo realistic today guys sorry but not bad for free hand well i could have done better but well yeah i mean i wasn't going to mention it but you know i should have used a ruler and measured it out that's really how you should do it but i didn't my free handing is not on point today okay so then coming from the corners in just a little bit and down from the top so it kind of creates this little star shape which really should be more of a rectangle square actually probably could have just come up higher i think that's the main problem is i should have made this higher because then these would have been more like squares instead of these squat rectangles but too late now so it is what it is all right i know 50 that's how i feel too he's like i could have done better mom what are you doing we're working i got stuff to do although i want you to go outside with me and play did little puppy friends come up today oh i know he got he had so much fun yesterday my friend when my friend brought her dog over and he was so excited i could not hold him he was so wiggly he just would not hold still when they came in the door he got to play with dogs twice this week because he got to went to the doggy daycare monday too when i got my teeth done he's had a busy week lots of dog friends doing dog stuff all right not my favorite it's it's good it's good enough but it's i i think i'm kind of disappointed that i didn't map it out a little bit better so we're gonna have to refund everybody the money well i just i don't know all right i'm making the decision we're giving a full refund for today's video okay well it's not gonna go very far all right so if you want to you can do a second set of of the railing i don't think i'm going to this one's already a disaster as far as i'm concerned so i'm not going to make it any worse by adding a second it's fine i'm joking but i'm not really happy with it that's okay all right so there we go we can have a class of that one i can't pronounce yeah i need it all right let's put in our swan here um we can if you want to you can add these little railings in the water too i need to add a little bit of the glaze to it so kind of come down i kind of got that one sort of in the right spot almost it kind of helps things that's a little bit dark i'm not sure what that one's going i'm gonna use the two round two hot round and this one's actually got quite a bit of this yellow in it so i'm gonna go ahead and start with the indian yellow hue and white and do i trust myself to actually just paint it in should we go for it we'll just go for it why not right what could what could go wrong so kind of a curved neck here in body flat ish to the water and then rounded then i'm gonna do the same thing in the water here yeah i'm going to use a little bit of the indian yellow or the the burnt sienna with this to darken up my shadow in the water right here where the neck comes down into the water and then grab my white do the back of its head and it's pretty close to the same values as the background so you don't have to like you know if you're looking at it from a distance from you know my perspective that the you know the little screen that i'm looking at on the you know all i'm seeing is like this little white smudge right in here for it so we can keep it fairly you know simplified in our water here just leave like a little bit of the little bit of the um dark water right there like a little bit of that blue from that tree might get a little bit of the blue and just kind of use it to mark out between where that he's sitting in the water just give it like a line for the water and use a little bit of there we go and then a little bit of the head and that's not gonna do a whole lot more and the crowd goes wild a little bit of black so it kind of curves back like that and then our little beak let's get some of the quinacridone burn orange in the yellow kind of an orangey orangey gold it's honestly really small here get a little bit of black right here and try to do a little diagonal right there the top of the face i'm going to use that gray with i'm just going to make it gray with my white hair to use on the neck a little bit get a little bit of that yellow but i'm just going to use it right up underneath the head and down that neck the front of the body into the water and then a little bit on the feathers do the same thing on the feathers in the water blending out that reflection just a little bit okay and then i'm going to get the bright white if i can get some try to hit the back of the head with that and the top of the beak just slightly and these are just like literally dots so it's pretty they're tiny it's kind of the cheek and then the top tail feathers coming out i'm going to use pretty bright oh come on get too much water coming out of my brush i'm trying to get some of this white that's in the middle here it's thicker all right i'm gonna use some of that thick white and just do my little tail so they're sticking out there and just the highlights on the top of the body a little bit in the water but the water is not as not as bright really needs to come down a little bit more at an angle there i'm gonna see if i can get some of this blue and put it in the water behind it just shape it out a little bit yeah probably if you do this what i would do is put a little bit of color right here i kind of set it on a a light patch which really needs to be a little bit darker so i might just put a little bit of that darker blue in the water behind your snow swan so that it's a little bit more visible because i feel like he's a little see-through you know he's kind of blending in a little bit more than i would like so you could here i'm going to do this really quick for the top of him if i can get some of this blue there we go this is just the blue from our trees i'm going to put kind of a faded part across my water there there's these shadows coming down from these trees this way and the water didn't do kind of under that bridge right here so that's what kind of crosses past with the swan makes them stand out a little bit more so just do a little bit of that got a little bit of gray here just my water color that blue use it can i dirty up my water just a little bit right there look helps it look a little glassier too get a little bit of that blue a little bit of black some glaze i want to use the same colors that i used up here though so i'm going to add a little bit of that burnt orange that's up there to it too now this is where i'm saying like if my color wasn't um if my color was too transparent what could happen is i could do this and then it would scrub off some of the paint that i've already got underneath you know when i go to do a layer like this where i'm scrubbing a little bit on it so that's where you have to be careful with your water you know application in your paints for the most part it's not going to be a problem though and unless you're putting your paints on super thick i wouldn't i wouldn't worry about cracking either and honestly acrylics are very flexible so i mean there's not a whole lot you can do to make them flake you know like that they're pretty flexible so i don't really again i i may be in sunlight if you if you had it on a on a solid surface that was not um that was not flex or like that was uh it wasn't absorbing well into then it might chip off you know i have had that happen on like a mailbox but it didn't have it to do with how much water was in my pain it was just because of the surface it wasn't able to bond to the surface of the mailbox so really flaking or chipping would have to do which is how it was bonding to the surface it was put on you know all right so now that that dark is underneath my swan let me try again and add a little bit more of that white on top of him there we go now we can see him against that dark background i don't really have to do much to his face i think we're good there so all right not too bad um i'm gonna fix this it's got some stippling here that took came off for some reason so i'm gonna stipple back on there and if you wanted to do another tree right in here maybe let's go ahead and add some leaves with like a little bit more of a orangey reddish tone so i'm gonna get maybe some magenta and some of the quinacridone burnt orange here and add a little white i'm getting black in my brush for some reason i guess it just had black in there okay a little bit of white let's go and use this unbleached titanium since we haven't used it yet okay i'm just going to go ahead and use the very tip of it and run it let's go and get some brown in here too just to make it so that it shows up what'd you say you like it just a little something extra and then let's get some brighter white and do some highlights it's gonna help so hide that weird stuff going on in that tree there and i was trying to do that sunspot that didn't really work out and then let's go ahead and put a few branches in there just for it to have something to be sticking to right okay let's go ahead and put a little bit of this color over here why not give it a little pink over here it makes a little feel a little bit more spring-like don't forget to put a little in your water so come on i didn't need it dark back in here this little there we go kind of a chocolate cherry color there that little bit of black in there with that to make it fit with the rest of it okay yeah i like that why not putting some bright color in the very tops of some of them so [Applause] okay anything that i missed yeah i like that pink potato yeah i like it a lot i like it it kind of tied in the rest of it too it definitely made it kind of springy for sure right yeah it feels more spring-like um you could put a little bit of this color back in the background too if you need to you know um add a little of it just to kind of tie it into the rest of it we kind of used some of it up here so i don't think it it needs too much of it but if you you know if you don't have a lot of it in your background you might add it up just so that it kind of all blends it's not like a new color just stuck in there with you know no other reference to it anywhere else um but yeah i think i'm gonna stop there i i definitely could have done better on the bridge so sorry about that but um hopefully the rest of it made up for it i would just uh yeah use a ruler and measure it out a little bit better or use a traceable either one i think that it probably could have come up a little bit higher as the problem here and i'm probably i squish these two together a little bit more i could have spaced them out a little bit better so that these were i don't know anyhow you get it you can see the problems it's obvious what we need to work on right here right we're moving along it's like the under armour you put it on okay it's obvious what parts we're working on here oh you're too funny and i know you're saying that because i just bought myself an under armour shirt so i'm getting the hands i understand actually gonna while you do that i'm gonna add a little bit of the zinc white to the background here just fade out the bridge a little bit alrighty so we had three super jets today wow the first one was from susie and she says loving this so much happy easter to you and mark as always thank you so much for sharing your talent and time with us thank you susie thank you i hope that was before after the bridge i don't know that was before the bridge so let's see if they want their money back hold on it's okay then for maggie she says thank you guys get some chocolate yes thank you maggie that was right after i was talking about patreon helping support our chocolate habit so thank you thank you and then from andy says happy easter have a wonderful time with your family thank you for the great tutorials oh thank you andy yeah so thank you to andy susie maggie and susie very good so sweet definitely helps with the candy addiction okay so they say it's still worth it so still worth it okay good to know good to know it yeah that's a small that's a small issue honestly i mean it not small for me because you know i can't take it back now but that's something that you can work on huh do do right i'm just rushing here today and didn't take my time on it like i should have too late now but i'm adding some water some highlights to my water too here just with white i'll just remind everybody again about the patreon.com angela fine art when this video was taped it's the third of april so you sign up now you get the whole month and you can check out the different levels two dollars traceables five dollars traceables plus a bonus video ten dollars all of that plus an additional challenge video that angela does through the month thursdays on thursdays and so much more depth so but i know we have a lot of people who are beginner painters also that are at that level to join in and learn a lot more plus you get your own facebook group where you can ask questions and do things like that so check it out okay thanks guys so much for hanging out with us today and then that's going to mention thankfulart.com right you can sign up for the newsletter yeah i would say if you if you're not um signed up um for the newsletter you can also ring the bell um there when you subscribe to the channel there's a little bell icon if you click on that it it will send you um information when we when we do our live streams it'll send you an email but if you want to just get an email from us directly once a week we send out a newsletter blast that just tells you what we're working on sometimes you get extra perks and different things in there so if you're interested in that that's it you can sign up on my website i am making sure that i've got a kind of wasn't connected there so just making sure that it's connected covering up that bridge where it goes down into those the bushes there okay i think that's good close enough right we're uh we're i like it i mean i still like it i i definitely would have done the bridge differently but i i like the rest of it so it's it's 90 percent good so all right thanks guys for hanging out with us today hope you enjoyed it and if you uh want to come back we're going to be back on tuesday we're if we want to come back and see what see more of this i promise i'll do better we're going to do the lighthouse next on tuesday so we're going to be um that'll be part of our beginner series we've started this this year we started a new beginner series and just kind of going through step by step showing you different techniques so this one we're going to be doing some ocean splatter and spraying i think it'll be a lot of fun it's definitely easier than it looks in the picture so i think we're going to simplify it quite a bit and make it very beginner friendly all right thanks for hanging out with us today guys have a great easter and we'll see you next time thanks for watching [Music] you

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Length: 138min 30sec (8310 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 03 2021