Acrylic Painting 101 - Building A Strong Foundation

1. Acrylic Painting 101 - Introduction: Hello. If you're seeing this video, you are in acrylic 101 gesagt. What that means, you have started your painted pathway and I am so excited for you because it means that you're gonna be learning all the skills necessary to build a really solid foundation when it comes to learning the painting in acrylic. Now, the videos are not too long. I've tried to make them as in short as possible. Make sure that I get you all the information you're gonna need to be successful as we go along inside of strokes and hope you're going to be able to build skills upon skills upon skills. So don't worry about that. We'll definitely take care of that on our end, or shall I say my end when I am creating the tutorials for you. But I wanted you to be set up with skill-building and foundational type course that this way you would feel more confident about painting. Now I know when I started painting, I was like, well, what if I don't get this right? What I've, what? You might have a lot of what. But I want you to know that's totally normal and it's totally okay. But what I'm hoping is that this acrylic 101 course will help you answer some of the most common question that I get. Now I'll walk you through step-by-step, so make sure you have your paint brushes and everything crafty handy so that you can walk along with me and even create with me as we explore different techniques and also of course, different things that you're going to need to know. Like, how do I take care of my brushes or how do I mix paint colors? Don't worry, it's all included in here. Dive into the first video and if you have any feedback or you would like to see something else added to the videos, Just let me know. If it's something that I'm getting a common feedback about, I will definitely create a video and I'll pop it right in there. So you'll be able to take it and of course build your skills. What are you waiting for? It's time to get started on the painted pathway and get those brushes and paint out. Because it's time to start to have fun. 2. Acrylic Painting 101 - Supplies Overview: Hello, beautiful, brilliant, soulful creator. I'm so excited to have you here inside of acrylics 101. In this part of the program, essentially what I'm gonna do is literally walk you through everything you need to know about building a foundation in acrylics. In this video we're going to go through, well, you can see some of the plethora of materials that you can use. Now, you're not going to have to have all of these materials. However, I want you to know, I won't go through individually, each material as well in it. Much more in depth video. Right now we're just going to overview some of the materials and get you really familiar with what those are and what you can expect from painting in acrylic. So let's get started and we're going to just really quickly go through these because I don't want this video to be too long. Then in each individual video, I'm going to break down for you the individual aspects of each one of these kinds of things that's important to break down such as paints and mediums and what you're going to paint on and those kinds of things, don't worry. You're, I know you may be brand new to acrylic painting, but I want you to be rest assured. I'm going to take you through this course as simply an easily as I can so that it is easy for you to pick up the brush and learn how to paint. Let's get started. Now you may want to have some painters masking tape handy. You would use this if you had, say, a canvas paper and set up a Canvas itself, don't worry, remember, we're going to go through all the different kinds of canvases later. But just so you know, if you decide to start with canvas paper, you might want to have this handy so you can tape it down either to your surface or to your easel depending on what you're using. So that's just painters masking tape. That is really easy to come off of your paper without damaging your paintings. So that's number one. Then I'm going to go through the basic stuff that you're gonna need just because that's going to be important. You're going to need either an old shirt or a print like this. This is just an apron and has a few pockets. These are super handy and mine while I'm not going to open it, but it's very dirty. So don't worry if you want to wear something that you can get dirty. Then I have here your everyday kitchen paper towels except for these ones are the thicker type you want that because you want to be able to use them to wipe off the paint, etc. Now, having said that, if you're somebody like me, sorry for my arms going, reaching over here because this one's up here. You want to conserve. So I do keep this handy sometimes and I usually have a piece with me, but I don't always use it. The thing that I use the most, which you can tell by this towel or old towels. Now, this is actually the best bet for you when it comes to painting. And that's because guess what? You can just wipe it and he doesn't really matter. You can use old tea towels, old clothes, old towels that are just worn and all that kind of stuff. So I recommend this, it's much more environmentally friendly. I usually put one of these on my lap and then sometimes I'll also have a second one handy just beside me. That is that and then of course you're going to need a pencil. And this is a special kind of eraser. It's like a gummy eraser. It's just so that we can pick up. Sometimes you might have gotten a little bit too much pencil or something on your draw under drawing when we're doing the drawing portion and you can use, these are awesome. They pick up the pencil. You can also use just a regular, normal white eraser. I don't recommend the pink ones as they tend to leave little bits of pink all over your canvas. So eraser and pencil. Now a little bit about the pencil, you're going to want to make sure that the LED is not too dark. This LED is a lighter lead. Then also it's a 0.5 instead of a 0.9 or 0.7. So it gives you a really precise line. This one's just called pentel Rowley. And as you can see, let me see if there's anything else on it. No, nothing else on it that I think I should be able to tell you. That's that. And then also you're going to want something to wash your brushes in. And we'll go through this a little bit more when we talk about brushes and brush care. This one's my favorite. And then you're also going to want to palette. So we'll talk about that as well more when we talk about palette. Then let's talk about this. So you're probably seeing this, seeing the image and you're like, What is that? Well, during your tutorials, I'm actually going to be giving you access to things like this. You can see that they're images that you can print. You can use them as templates. If you are not somebody who likes to draw now, if you are somebody who wants to learn how to draw, I'll make sure that it also put how to do this in drawing two for you, I'll put a special little class in here. If you're somebody who's keen on learning how to actually grid something so you can draw essentially anything. So I recommend having just a little duo tang thing with these clear little slips and you can just slip your drawings inside there so you don't lose them and you keep them all nice and clean and pain-free. Okay, so the next thing would be a ruler. This just helps you, especially if you're going to be doing grids to do a ruler. Don't worry if you're like, I don't have a clue what you're talking about with grids, don't worry, I will make sure that I show you exactly step-by-step how to do a painting with grid. And I'll do that in a different tutorial. But just so you know that a ruler is handy, It's also handy for other things too. So ruler, of course, you're going to need paint brushes. We're going to talk about the different kinds of paint brushes in a later tutorial. But you can see here we have all these paint brushes here. And I can put these guys in here too, because there's plenty of room in here. We'll talk about different brush types and different sizes later on. But of course you're going to need brushes. So that is another thing. You also are going to need something to, of course, paint with paint. Now there are multiple different kinds of paint and these are the ones that I recommend. However, you can use the paints that you want to use. I just recommend that you have a color set of five and that color is set would include blue, red, yellow, white, and also either a Payne's gray or a deeper color. So that shows you a little bit of what you can expect for paint. And these ones are texture and effect paints. We're gonna talk about paints a lot in it, then in another tutorial. And then here we have a few different mediums. We'll also talk about mediums in another tutorial two. Then we have JSR. This is what you prepare, your canvas width. And then I'm just going to show you an example of a canvas. This is called gallery Canvas because of this thick part here. And then this is just a standard canvas. And you can see, hopefully you can see this in video. You can see the difference in the thickness. Will talk about canvases more in the Canvas video. But for now, I just wanted to make sure that I go through that. Also, you're going to find a few downloads in the resource areas. So make sure you grab those during those specific tutorials. The other thing that you're going to need, of course, is water. You can't wash your brushes out without it. You're gonna need water. And this is a brush soap. So we'll talk about this and how to use this brush soap inside of the tutorial. Will I talked to you about brushes and your brush care. And then also, you may want to have a spray bottle, just a small little travel spray bottle with water in it. And I'll show you in the tutorials what we do with that water and spray bottle. I look forward to seeing you inside of the other videos and happy creating. 3. Acrylic Painting 101 - How To Read Paint Tubes: Well, welcome back, happy and awesome Creator. You are a soulful creator. That's for sure because you are in here in video where we're going to talk about our paints a little bit more in detail. Now I want to encourage you that if you have paint in your own home or you have your preference of what company you prefer to use. I'm going to encourage you to just use that. Follow your instinct when it comes to your painting success. Now I know some of you are brand new to acrylic painting. And you will see me use these exact paints and the exact kit that I'm going to show you. Now, we're gonna talk a little bit about the paints themselves and then also how we can read the tubes and those kinds of things. In this video, we're not going to talk about the paints exactly themselves, but we're going to talk about how to read the tube because that is actually important. Let me grab these ones and these ones out of the way. If you're not completely inundated by tons of paint. And we're just going to grab a few colors here that I have to the side. Let's see. I'm trying to grab some that have little bits of differences that I'll get to show you. When it comes to reading your paint tubes. There are a few things that you want to take a look at. And you're going to see here, I'm going to actually bring these closer to the camera so you can hopefully see those. It's hard to figure it out. We're going to take a look at this. This is what the paint is called. You can see this one is called raw umber. As we move down on this particular paint tube, you can see it has a light fastness of one. Essentially that light fastness is telling us how well it will be in permanent. I want you to note that any pigments that have IV and V are pigments that are rated poorly and very poorly. They're not used an artist quality paints. So that is something to keep in mind. You're going to see that light fastness right there on this tube. Now, I don't think I actually have any that have light fastness less than one actually. So one is excellent. So essentially what that means is if I painted with these paints and 40 decades later, you would be able to see that this didn't kind of fade away and stuff. That's why we still have amazing and beautiful paintings. We get to look at light fastness refers to the ability of the pigment in the paint to resist gradual fading when exposed to light. It also refers to its permanency. Pigments that fade over time are often called fugitive colors. Most acrylic colors have a much higher permanent rating than oil or watercolor. That was a pretty cool thing. That acrylic has much more higher rating when selecting paint, look for the light fastness information which you can see there where we pointed out. And also the ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, classifies artists colors based on a test that stimulates in 20 years of gallery exposure. So this is part of the reason why we use professional paints right from the very beginning. Now remember, if you don't have the funds to currently get professional paint, don't worry, use what you have, but save up because what I'm going to show you through the tutorials is you will actually need a lot less of this paint because the pigment is so great in them that it has greater pigment than say like a Dollar Store type of paint as an example. Then as we make our way down, we can tell that this one is a series one, which you can see here. And that essentially is just the series numbers. So in simple terms, the lower the series, series number the paint is to purchase, and the higher the series number, the more expensive the paint is to purchase. If this had, say for example, a four on it, it would be much more of an expensive paint. This one is a series one, of course, because it's raw umber, it's easy to make, it's easy to get. But the ones that are difficult to get, You will see that even some of these we could take a look. You can see this one says series two right there, and this is ultramarine blue. And then if, even if you look at Indian yellow hue right here, you can see this is series for, so we actually have all of them, series 1234. And essentially that is what it means. It just essentially is telling you this is a harder pigment to get or pigment to make. It costs more. That is just a little tidbit there that you can see and forgot which one we were holding. This anyway, this is series one and it also tells you how much is in the tube. As you go down the tube, it tells you usually, who is the maker of the tube? So let's just flip this over and you can see on these particular tubes on the golden artist, it tells you right here, is it transparent? And don't worry if you don't know what these words mean because I will walk you through them when we learn the glossary of terms. Here's transparent of the opaque, the opacity of it. Is it more matte or is it more glossy? Is it a thin paint or is it a thicker paint? Is have low tinting properties or does it have high tinting properties? And sorry, that kind of goes in and out of focus for you there. But I'm gonna give you second one here so you can kind of see the difference. It has the little scale there. So you can see this one's less opaque than the other one. This one's a lot more glossy than the one over here. You can see that's more to the mat side. That's how you read those things. And as you pick up each one of these tubes, you can see that they just show them a little bit differently. So you can see this one now is going really far over to the transparent side. And even if you look on the tube here, you can see that those black lines through there. But if you look at the teal as an example, you can't see that. So you can see already that this is way more opaque and this is way more on the transparent side. So that is how you read that side of it. And then just going to tell you about little bit about it's drawing and also all that kind of temperature stuff. It's flexibility. Just ignore all that stuff. You don't really need to know it. And then it will tell you what is inside, what pigments are making this up. So you can see, in order to make this teal color, it has these colors, PwC, six, p b, etcetera, etcetera. Now, these are also abbreviations of what we're gonna see down here, just so you know, titanium white, permanent white six, phthalo blue, which is the green shade, and phthalo green, which was the blue shape. That's what this one's made out of. And you can see this one is natural iron oxide containing manganese. There you go. You can even find out what is inside of the paint when you just look on the back there. Okay. So let's take a little look further down. It just tells you a little bit about what kind of painted is. It also tells you about the conformity to the ASTM standard. And this just basically tells you that it's not poison to you, those kinds of things. Then also if it was poison, it would tell you this product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer. As an example. It will tell you any health and safety things on it right there. So this brings us to a really good question that usually will come up that I want you to think about here because this is really important. Do not eat these. Because when you're painting with them, they're not a concern to you. But if you were to eat them or accidentally drink your paint water or something like that, you definitely want to make sure that you have a glass or a water bottle, which I highly recommend dedicated only to drinking water. Now, I recommend that you paint in an area where hopefully you can have a window open, just lets you have some fresh air. I don't know. I just really like fresh air when I'm painting. Also, make sure that you wash your hands before you eat and don't eat when you're painting. I know a lot of people that eat when they're painting, but I highly recommend for your own. I'm kind of maybe one of those people who's like, Oh, I don't really like anything that might be bad for me. Just in case. I always am super careful when it comes to my painting areas and what I let him my painting area, so I do not eat when I paint, and I also only drink out of a closed water bottle when I paint. After I'm finished painting, I made sure that I wash my hands thoroughly before I start eating anything. So I want you to just understand that while it does have those warnings on the back, the one main concern is is if you were eating this paint, it would be bad for you. Also try not to get too much paint on your hands. If you're somebody who's going to decide to paint with your hands, use gloves. So anyway, that's just some tidbits about that. Let's just make sure we got everything here. Then also it does sometimes have directions on here like if you want to extend or thin it and how to clean it, etc. So that is the lowdown on how to read these amazing and beautiful, wonderful colors that you'll be working with. I will see you in the next video. 4. Acrylic Painting 101 - Brushes & Brush Care: All right everybody, now it's time to talk about your paint brushes. This is the exciting part because you need bees in order to be able to paint. The first thing I'm going to talk about is pink soap. This is a brush cleaner, but it's also a brush conditioner. You're going to use this after you wash your brushes out as thoroughly as you can in the water. When you finished painting, you're going to take this and you're going to use this to wash your brushes with. So it kind of gives you a little bit of information here. It's a brush cleaner preserver and conditioner. And you can use this with acrylics, watercolor and acrylic oil and watercolor. You can use it for all of your painting. Awesomeness. Pink soap is my favorite. You don't have to use pink soap if you have your own favorite brush cleaner, but this one is my favorite. And it's not super-duper expensive either. So I have a big one because I like to paint a lot, but you only need a little bit. They come in small containers too, so you could definitely use that to. What else about this? Yes, if you have any rogue Russia's let me see if I can find one. Okay, this one's perfect. You can see here, Hopefully you can see that on the camera. I'm not really sure. Maybe if I hold my hand under it. So you can see that there's like Rogue brush, brush furrow things. Simply all you would do if that's the case, is take a little bit of this brush soap and you can take it and just kind of bring those bristles together. You can see here now those bristles are all stuck together and then I would put this away and just let it dry like that. And then before I was going to use it to paint again, I would just simply make sure that I rinsed that out of my brush before I paint. The next thing you're gonna need is of course, as somewhere to hold your water. This is my favorite kind of water container. I'm going to bring that closer. So hopefully you can see has these gritty things in it. It's great for getting the paint out of the tip of the brush. I mean, not the tip, the tip up here, this part of the brush where it matches into this part. Sometimes it can, your paint can get stuck inside those, so this is awesome. And then also you can just kind of lay your brushes in here so that they don't get dried out while you're still painting. And it has these cool things all around the side where you can actually put your brushes in. So let's grab a brush and I'll show you. You can have holding your brushes in there. So this one is my favorite, as you can tell, it is pretty used. It comes with these two other pieces with it, but I don't use those pieces. I just used this piece. The next thing we're going to take a look at our brushes here. We're going to talk a little bit about the different kinds of brushes and also some things about the handles. So here we have what's called a fan brush. You can see it fans out. These are great for putting in foliage and blending and really cool things like that. So those are fan brushes. And the next thing I'm going to show you is hopefully you can see this. This one has a four on it, and you can see this one has a two on it. That's just simply telling you which brush is smaller and which one is bigger. You can see that one is smaller and one's bigger. Those numbers there are just handy to help you know, that. Then my favorite ones to paint with are called the filbert. These guys, they're filbert, they're awesome. You can see here that they actually have rounded corners. So that helps you get into lots of cool little spaces. And then these are called flats and you can see that they are flat. So let's compare these two. They're both small, but when you take a look at those brushes, you can see one is squared off and one is rounded off, filbert is rounded off and the flats R-squared off. Then you also have these, these are called rounds. These are great for getting in little details. And Pope Dodds and tree branches and all those little cool things. These guys, which are the flats, are really good for painting in and blocking in large areas. And so when we go through your tutorials, you'll get to see how we utilize a lot of these brushes. And these cases are super awesome because you can keep your brushes in there. They're going to keep them nice. Your bristles are gonna give me kept nice. And then also it stows away for easy storage. You can see, there you go. It also stands up. Your brushes can actually stand up. Let me show you that just by folding that little flap over in the back. And then if we take the Velcro and Velcro it together, there you go. Your brushes now can stand in front of you. Well, you are going ahead and painting. When it comes to brush care. First thing you're going to want to remember is always wash your brushes right away. Don't ever leave them to the side drying because they will dry hard as a rock. And it's very hard to get them to come back to life. It is possible, but it's very hard. So make sure that you are keeping them either inside of here where there's a little bit of water or washing them right away, just so that not too much paint is in there and then placing them over here in the water. And the last thing about brush care is, is making sure that you're using your pink soap after you have done your initial wash and then wash that brush in warm water. Not hot, not on a hot warm side, but on a cool, warm side. So it's not cold, but it's not hot and it's not super warm. And that will help you get and loosen up all of the paint in there. So when it comes to washing your brushes, sometimes what I find is Handy's put the brush cleaner in my hand and then I'll just kind of wiggle the brush, bristles back and forth gently. So don't not like forcefully because you can bend your bristles, but just gently washing back-and-forth so that you can get to that out. There you go. There is a overview of the brushes, the brush types that we will be using. You may see me use some other brush types as we go along. I have some old brushes that are just like tortured. And sometimes I like using them. Never ever throw away your brushes, even if this gets down to half bristles, just keep it. You can use it for something cool. See you in the next video. 5. Acrylic Painting 101 - Acrylic Paints: All right. All right. We are back now again here in the next tutorial. And we're going to be talking about beautiful paints. Yes, we're gonna be talking about paint. So I'm just going to kind of go over a few things you want to consider when purchasing your paints. The reasons why to consider those, and then also what to do to get the most out of your paints. You can see here I have my brand new beautiful kit that you guys will get a link to so you can use exactly the kit that I'm using. This is the color mixing modern theory by Golden artists colors and includes eight professional colors. So you will have your two yellows, as you can see here on the corner. Hopefully you can see that on the video. Let me stand up and make sure you can. You'll have two yellows, two reds, two blues. And this falls even though it's green, it also falls into the blue shades and then white. So you have that with all of those colors, those eight colors, you will be able to mix a plethora of colors. So that's super exciting. We're going to actually go through because when you open your box, this is exactly what it looks like. I haven't pick this one open yet because I wanted to show you guys exactly what it looks like when you get it. You can see here that you have a little glossary of terms. And don't worry, I will have an expanded glossary of terms for you. We will also go through all this color mixing stuff inside. Look at all those barrack book call Earth people. Oh, this is so exciting. Even just opening, this makes me wonder like color right now. Just, let's go paint. I will be walking you actually through some of these mixes. You'll get to see how do you mix them. What do all of these numbers in here mean and all this mean and everything. Don't worry. We'll go through that in another video. But right now, we just want to talk about the colors. So you can see that what I've chosen is professional colors. Now, the very first thing I want you to know is that this is your basic set. We have blue, red, yellow, and white for our basic set. And then what I like to add in for the basic set is Payne's gray. This can be handy when you just want to darken a color a little bit, but you don't want to, I want make your own black and this leads to the blue side. So I find that it gives just, I don't know, this warmness and, and just this depth to your paintings. So this is essentially the basic set. And then if you're going to add one, I would add this one. Then just ignore this color. I just love the color, so that's why I have it in there. Then what you will also see is that there is additional colors that you will see inside of extended Kit essentially is what it is. That would include a raw umber, burnt sienna that gives you your brown so that you don't have them necessarily mixed them all the time. It would also give you your yellow ocher and Indian yellow. That gives you a few different yellows to play with because these ones you can see are really on the bright side. So these are kind of nice if you want to create more of earthy tones, so you can see that we have those. And then also we add two additional blues to that, the manganese blue hue and the ultramarine blue. Now, you don't maybe know me quite yet, but I have to tell you all about manganese blue hue because I just have to say it is my absolute favorite color in the entire planet. And pretty much if you ever get a painting by me, I almost use this color in almost every single painting I make. And that's because number one is my favorite. But I also really loved the colors that it brings. Remember, just to review, this is your basic set. If you don't get any other colors except for these, you will be perfectly fine. However, if you would like to incorporate some additional color mixes, you could incorporate these six colors here, which is the raw umber, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, Indian yellow hue, manganese blue, and ultramarine blue. As you start to build up your kit, you could maybe just get one of these at a time. And then also the Payne's gray. Okay. If you only got the basic kit, you would be good to go because you have the reds, the yellows, the blues, and the white will show you how you can actually make so many colors out of just this color. I don't know if when you saw that little map that I opened up here, let me open it up again for you just so you can see. I don't want you to be worried and be like, Oh no, but this is going to cost me a lot of money. What I want you to see is look at this page like, I don't even know if you can see this whole page, but I'm just going to walk it around here a little bit so you can kind of see there are so many colors that you can mix on this sheet. And they all come from just this small kit. I do love color, so of course I add colors to my collection because I absolutely love them. But if you use this kit and you use it in the way that we use it inside of the tutorials, you will see that what I encourage you to do is just use a small bit of paint. That small bit of paint, I will tell you this small little kit could do u between, of course, depending on how much paint you, you actually use, between 2050 paintings, at least of the sizes that we're going to be doing them. Something like this would probably last me over a year. So that just kind of let you know when you paint the way that I teach you, this kit will last you a very, very long time. It is worth it to put that initial amount out because you'll be able to extend the life of these paints for really long, long extension. You won't have to be buying paints as quickly as maybe some of the cheaper versions. But like I said, if you need to start with something that isn't professional for right now, that's totally okay. I completely understand. But you're going to want to remember to have those for at least and adding the fifth color. So you want a yellow or red, a blue and white, and then the Payne's gray. So if all you can do is those five colors for right now in any acrylic companies paints, then that's what you go for right now. There we go, you have an overview of beautiful paints. I can't wait to use them with you. 6. Acrylic Painting 101 - Painting Surfaces: Welcome back. Now we're going to be discussing our awesome apart. Of course, what are we going to paint on? So I'm gonna go through a few different paintings surfaces for you. Now you can see here that this is a painting that I've already done. This as you can see, is on a canvas board. So essentially it's really thin. You can see how thin that is right there. It's kind of handy, especially when you're starting out. You can definitely use Canvas boards. They come in packs like this. Just let me grab this for a second. I got like a lost I'm here. I just need to uncover them. You can get them in packs like this. So these are actually eight by tens, and these are just Canvas boards. You can see that there's five in this pack. You can also get them in larger sizes just like this one comes in. That is one option that you can use to paint on as a painting surface. We're going to put that aside as we move to the next one. The next one here is Canvas. And now these canvases come in many, many different sizes. And also you'll notice the difference between the thickness of this to these two. So this is called gallery wrap and you can see how it's wrapped around and it's quite thick. And then this is just your regular style canvas. If we put these two together, you can see the difference in the thickness there. So these come in many different sizes and you can use Canvas if you want to paint on as well. Now the other thing about Canvas is you can actually buy the Canvas lumen itself, and then you could prepare that Canvas linen and stretch it yourself. If you are somebody who knows how to do that, we're not going to get into that inside of this specific course, but it is something that you definitely can do if you have the knowledge on how to do that. So those are traditional types of Canvas. You could also start if you wanted to, in what is called a mixed media type of book like this, the paper is quite thick. It's not the best option if you are going to go with an option that is a little bit cheaper, I would go with the Canvas boards, which is the first thing that I showed you. But this is definitely an option that you can choose if you would like to work on something just for practice. So that's a really good option there. Then also another really great option actually is d's and they're called canvas paper. Now this is for acrylic specifically, you can also get these kinds of different pads for watercolor and also for oil. So I'll just open these up so you can see there is a little bit of texture here. And don't mind that. I didn't realize that was in there. You can see there's a slight difference between color of the paper. So I recommend going with the white paper rather than this cream colored paper. Almost finished this one, but not quite yet. So essentially, this is another really great alternative. If you are on a budget, comes in and quite a big pad of paper. You can see here. This is specifically a 20 sheets and it makes sure that it's acid free. Then it says acrylic pad. This is just dollar Ronnie acrylic pad. And this one here is just, I guess it's called Vin Fang pad. Then you can see there. So that is another option that you can use for your surface to paint on. For the majority of the tutorials, you will either see me painting on a surface like this or you will see me painting on a surface like this, which is the traditional Canvas. Now, for the most part, we're going to be working with eight by ten sizes. The reason for that is because these will take less time to paint, but also they're really great size for new beginners because it's less overwhelming. There's not as much canvas area to cover. So if you decide to get one of these acrylic pads, just know it's a nine by 12. So it will be slightly larger as you can see when I overlay that on that canvas there, you can see that slightly larger, but don't worry about that because most of the time, if I do use the Canvas pad, I also tape it down. So it's kind of handy to have it a little bit bigger than what you are going to be painting. So those are an overview of the surfaces on which you can paint. And I can't wait to see what you're going to create on the canvas you choose. 7. Acrylic Painting 101 - Palettes: Welcome back. So full creator in this tutorial we're going to be talking about pallets. Now you're gonna notice here, wait a minute. Christy Lee, that's not a palette. What are you talking about? That's a plate? Yes, you're right. This is a plate. It is a plate that I actually used to do all my painting. When I do acrylic or watercolor, I use this. And the reason being is because this particular kind of surface is super easy to clean, but also you see how it's kind of this shininess to it. You can kind of see how the light that I have here shining on this area. So you can see the things that I'm teaching you is reflecting off of that. And that's because they have that glistening shininess, which also makes it really easy to be able to mix your paint on. I also find that this actually keeps my paint wet for a longer period of time. That's really great as well. And then also what I love about it is when we do add the addition of water, which sometimes we do because if we have our paint blobs here, we don't want them to dry up, so I will spray this and you'll see that in the tutorials. But also if you wanted to put a little pool of water and then bring this closer to the camera. You can see above that pools really, really great. It's awesome. So that's kind of nice that way. Or if you're using any kind of liquid mediums, which we will talk about in another video. Those are, these kinds of pallets are great. Now of course, this is not really a pallet per se. This is actually a plate, but you can pick these up at Thrift Stores, dollar stores, or any other kind of store like that. I also do have a link for you in the resources and supply section where you can get a pack of these and then you can use one for putting your paints on, one for mixing. It's really handy. I love it. So this is my recommendation, however, which I don't have any of these anymore because I absolutely love this so much. You can also use what's called a, It's like a throwaway palette, so it comes in, just let me grab this for you. It comes in and pad like this. Now this was our acrylic pad but it does come into pad like this. And then you just simply tear sheet out of it. And it's like a throwaway palette Essentially. I don't really like to use those too often. I actually only use them when I do oil paints. That's the only time I use those ones. So my recommendation for you is this. There's another reason why I recommend this. It won't stain. So when you put certain colors on plastic, say for example, or wood, for example, they can stain and then you won't have a true color. When you do mix your colors, you might have a say if you have a stain of blue on there, and then you try and mix a color over top That's a lighter color. That little bit of blue is going to show through and you don't have a true color. That's also why we choose white for the plate itself, because our canvas is painted with white JSR. When we mix onto our plate, we get a true color of what it's gonna look like onto our canvas, which is exactly what we want. This also is really easy to scrape the dried paint off if you just have like a little scraper tool or a little razor blade tool, you can get the paint off when it's dried. So that's also awesome Bonus. It's super easy to clean up. And I love it for that simple. This is my personal choice of a pallet to use, but you may have one that is your favorite and it's so then I would love to know what your favorite is. If it turns out to be different than my favorite. I will see you in the next video where we're going to talk a little bit about mediums. 8. Acrylic Painting 101 - Easels: You don't see anything here on your screen right now. But that's because we're gonna be talking about easels. And while this is a tricky subject because it obviously depends on you, your own specific preference. You also might have a medical condition that doesn't let you stand up. So let's just pull in to view here a Canvas. There are a few ways in which you can paint. Now, you could set up a tabletop easel like that would allow you to essentially have your painting like this so you can sit and paint. You can also have a stand up easel. So those you would be able to stand AT and paint in standing now some of them you can also lower so that you can paint well, you are sitting as well. Then sometimes which in the tutorials you'll actually see me do this, but that's because I need to actually show you what I'm doing is I will actually have it laying flat like this. Now, when you're painting a laying flat like this, you're going to want to make sure that you do bring it up this way at some point, just to check your perspective of what it is that you're painting. Because your perspective can be a little bit skewed when you're painting on a flat surface rather than painting it this way. But for the tutorial purposes, I have to paint it this way only because otherwise you would not be able to see what it was that I was creating for you. So that is why you will see me create them like this. But I highly recommend either a tabletop easel or a stand-up easel. I will give you some pictures and resources and links to different kinds of easels. So you can actually see and explore for yourself which one you would like to choose to paint with. 9. Acrylic Painting 101 - Acrylic Mediums: Welcome back again. So far greater here we have our liquid texts mediums. We're just going to discuss three mediums today. And there are plenty more, of course. And we're also gonna talk a little bit about the texture and effects pack that we, that I recommend to you as well. So this is called Liquitex, slow dry blending medium. This is more of a fluid medium which you can see here. It says fluid medium. If you really want to thin your paint out now of course only use it to the back directions. You don't want your paint so thin that then you, your paint has ability of not sticking or adhering to your Canvas. Fluid medium is one of the ones that I use. This I just use if I want to do some different kind of blending techniques or if I need my color not to be so thick. Usually on our first layer when we paint our first layer for the underpainting, you might see me use something like this. And that's because we want that to be a thin layer. We don't want a thick layer over a thick layer over a thick layer for the technique that I share with you. Then the next medium we're going to talk about is called a matte medium. Now, this comes in handy for a few different things and you can see here, it tells you a little bit about, about it. This can also make your paint thinner, but it can also, if you do a drawing, for example, it could set your drawing on your Canvas so you don't have to worry about rubbing it with your hand and then your pencil going all over the place. So that's where that can come in handy. There are other ways that this comes in handy as well, and maybe I'll do more in depth tutorial in each one of these at some point in time. Then the next one is the liquid texts, slow dry gel retarded. The gel is actually you can see like, I don't know if you can hear that, but this is like liquidy. I'm not sure if you can see that inside the bottle when I move it, but it's really liquidy. And you should be able to see that this is really quite thick. It's a gel. This is great when it comes to blending. If you might be used to painting with, let's say for example, oil paints, which are my favorite. Besides acrylic, the I like to use. So I'm quite used to being able to mix my colors on the canvas so that you get a nice blend of colors. This is really awesome for that. So these are the three general mediums that we will use in some of the tutorials, not in all of them, but that you will see and I will tell you when I am using which ones. Then also we have our little texture and effects pack. In this pack you will see that there are five different things, including a tube of gesso, but there's modeling, paste, gloss, gel, medium, coarse sand, I think that I can't read the rest. Course texture gel, iridescent medium. The course texture gel is great for making sand and BCCI things. If you want a course like texture, I'm not sure if you can actually see that, but you can see how textured it is there, then the iridescent, of course, makes cool spark leanness, who doesn't love spark willingness. And then here we have the gloss medium and the modeling paste. And on the back it actually tells you a little bit about each modelling paste the gloss gel. You can just read those and you can also find out more information right on liquid texts itself on their website. So there we have it. These are the additional tools that we will be using in our paintings. Now, if you're unable to purchase any of these right now, that's okay. You can add them to your kit as you go along. But what I do recommend is that you at least choose one of these blending mediums. And that's just because it will make your painting life a lot easier. 10. Acrylic Painting 101 - The Colour Wheel: I bet that you sold will creator are ready to start creating something. Well, I have this file for you. You can download it and print it. Or if you feel like it, you can also draw it. If you feel like drawing it. And so you'll see that it's labeled with all of the colors that we're going to be creating. We're going to create our primary colors are secondary colors and our complimentary colors. Now, I will kind of sort of overview this again inside of the glossary of terms when we go through that. But you'll understand it more when you get into that position of the glossary of terms because you will have already done it. Now it's timed out fun and I want you to grab your paints. It's time to get painting. I don't know about you, but I think I've learned enough and now it's time to actually get into the fun of it all. What I want you to do is go ahead and put on your apron, which is exactly what I'm doing right now. You might hear a little muffled audio there. Sorry about that. But I forgot to put this on before I put my mic on. So labored anyways. So you're going to want to have something to cover your closing That's just so that we can protect our clothes. Of course. I'm just going to do mine up here. And I do have my brush in here still sitting in here from one, I showed you how to prepare your canvas. I'm just going to show you, I thought I would keep it in there so I can show you how to wash your brush. You're going to drag it across those bottom things down there. You can hear inside of there, you can see most of it is out at the top, but we have a lot in the bristling part up there. Then this is when I it'll take a paper towel and I will wipe that out. So now there's nothing in there. You can see the brushes clean on your paper towel. And then I will set this aside and I will use the pink soap after I've finished painting to then go ahead and wash all of my brushes at the same time. Now, I could leave it in the water if I wanted to, but I don't really want to for what we're particularly going to be doing here. For this particular tutorial, I'm going to be using my awesome friend here, which I love. And it is the number one. I don't know if you can see that. There we go. The number one, filbert, I have that also in the list for you, in the supply list and on the website page where I show you all the supplies so that you can grab the exact ones I have. Sorry, there's something sticky on it that's bugging me. There we go. That's better. I'm going to use this just because it's gonna be a lot easier for me to get into those squares. And then it's time to crack open your paints. So I'm gonna move my water just above here so you're not staring at my water. We're going to start creating our colors. You're going to need this printed now this is just printed on regular copy paper. Don't need anything fancy. You're going to need your if you're using the plate version, you're going to need the plate. And if you're using a different version, you're going to need your palette. You could also have your sprints or bottle handy. So I'm going to keep that handy. And we're gonna take our basic colors to create our color wheel. For this tutorial, we're not going to use every color inside of our little thing. We're going to pick one blue, one red, and one yellow. Then what I'm gonna do is encourage you to try it out with the other colors. You can print a second one of these and try it out with the other colors. So we're gonna grab her white just in case we need it. Sometimes we do. I think what I'm going to use is so you can see here that when you get your kit, There's two yellows, two reds, and two blues. So let's use the first one of each of these, and we're going to use those ones to create our color wheel burst. Then if you want to, you can use the other ones to create a second color wheel. But for now we're just going to use these ones. So what you're gonna do is open your lids. Like so and you're just going to put just a tiny dollop of color on your palate, making sure that if you get any paint around the edge that you wipe it off. Because otherwise you could run into the problem of being able to open your paint tubes. Yes, they do get stuck. That's a beauty red. Okay. So just in case you're wondering what the colors are actually called, we're using benzimidazole. That's a really hard word. Yellow light, nap thought red light, an aqua. Ok, off rook, winnowing blue. So I didn't say I was the best, I pronouncing the colors, but I do love using the colors. We're gonna be experimenting with colors even more in some of the other tutorials that we have coming up. Don't worry if you have extra paint on your palette, you can just jump to some more of the tutorials. So the very first thing we're gonna do is we're going to paint our primary colors now your primary colors are exactly what you see here. Yellow, red, and blue. So let's paint those in. You don't have to get fancy, just fill in the box. There we go. There is our yellow. And then you're going to want to switch off your brush and make sure you clean it really well in your water because you don't want any of that yellowing because then guess what will happen? You will contaminate the next color that you're going to paint them. Let's paint our red. Following it along. Here's primary red. Go ahead and paint that in. Just so you know, the paint is going to feel a little funny. Painting on copy paper. Definitely smooth, much more smoother on your canvas, but this is easy for practice and then you can keep this once it's dry. And you'll also be able to see the colors you can create with it. So cool. Make sure you have fun while doing this. That is number one. Make sure that you've got the red out of your brush now, just so you know, sometimes you'll see your brushes. If you have white bristles, they sometimes get died. The color, because these colors are very vibrant. Okay, so now here's our primary blue. So let's go ahead and paint that in. This is the fun part. I can't wait till you see what we're going to create. This is so awesome, okay. To do. You may hear the geese outside my window. They've been visiting across the road for a few days now. Okay. So now we have our primary colors. Repeat it with me. The primary colors are yellow, blue, and red. You just created your first primary colors in your color wheel. Now, let's create our secondary colors. Because once we create our secondary colors, we can create our tertiary colors. I'm always not very great with that word, but I'm pretty sure that's how you say it. Okay, so let's grab our yellow. Since we just worked with blue, Let's grab some blue. And we're not going to need very much blue. You will see you just created secondary color and that secondary color is green. You're going to see what's going to happen when we add some additional stuff into this color. And don't worry, if you run out of the color, you can just mix some more. There we go. We have our secondary green there, as you can see. That is our first secondary color that we've created. Now if we add weird bit more yellow into it, I'm just going to mix that yellow in there onto this side. And then if we scoop that up and put it here, this will give us a yellow-green. So this is really great for grasses and trees and shrubs and all those kinds of awesome things. You can see we're not using very much paint, just make it go the best as you can. Now you can see that we have the territory color, tertiary color, which is the in-between. Now if we add a little bit more blue to this pile, might have been a bit too much blue. Mix that in as best as we can. You'll see that what that's going to give us is going to be a bluey green guys that actually worked OK, good. Sometimes it's just about playing and seeing what you get. Just paste this in. Now I'm going to bring this closer to the camera so you can see that. Look at what you've created so far. You know how to get your yellow and blue, and how to get a yellow green, a blue-green, and also your secondary color, which is green, just by some simple mixing. Okay, so let's move on to the next set of colors, which is going to be in-between the blues and the red and the yellow and the red. Since we don't want to mess up the yellow with these darker colors, we're actually going to do that first. Okay, so now we're going to take some yellow. I'm gonna put it over here. We're going to mix it with red. Now we don't need very much red because red is the vibrant color. Let's mix that in. You can see you now have your second secondary color, which goes here. And guess what, you just created. Pumpkin, orange, great job. You're doing amazing. I'm so proud of you for practicing this. And you might be saying, Oh, I don't need a practice that I already know all this stuff, but actually painting this out, you're learning a few really key skills. You're learning how to mix your learning, what your color wheel is like. So if you want a color that you want to lean more towards the yellow side, a green, and you have a different color of green maybe. I mean, do you have a different color of yellow and blue that you have? And you're like, Wow, I want it to be more towards this yellow-green. You know that in order to get towards that yellow green color, you need to add more yellow. So these are key things that if you take the time to actually paint them and learn them, you will see that you're actually learning some really important skills. Now I'm going to add in just a bit more red here to this half, and we'll add in a bit more yellow to the other half. You will see that we will now have a ready orange. You can adjust how much color you put into all of them to give you those colors. If we lean more towards the red, we now have a ready orange. Now, let's see if we lean it more towards the yellow. So let's put a bit more yellow in there and we just have a smidgen left. Hopefully this will be enough. Nope, it looks like we're going to need just a tiny bit more. That's okay because we will definitely use it. You'll get to know that I basically never waste any paint whatsoever. I think it's so important that you use your supplies wisely because they do cost money and they do kind of sort of have an importance to them and you want to use them. Just nice. So that's just me. Okay, there we go. So let's put that up now that we have a bit more yellow in there, you can see, look at that change that's occurred. How cool is that? You have just created a yellow orange. There we are. I'm gonna bring this up to close to the camera for you so you can see that now you probably won't be able to see too much the difference in the red there. But if we put a little bit more yellow back in there, it would be a little bit more in the Orange family. Then here we have our secondary color, which is orange, and then our yellow orange. So great job Now it's time to mix. Who knows what's gonna be? Does anybody know what color we're gonna be mixing next? I bet you you're sitting there at home while you're mixing this with me in Euro thing, purple and purple or violet is correct. So let's pull some of this blue. We need blue and red to make violet. So let's grab red and the blue there. And this is going to be quite a dark violet. That's okay. We don't mind. I want you to see that actually, if you have dark colors like this, what other color does this look like? It kind of looks like black. You're actually learning how to mix black by mixing this color. All you would have to do to mix that kind of blocky colors actually to make a dark purple. That's pretty cool. Let's grab a bit more of this red. We're gonna put that on this side. Like so make sure you mix it in real nice and good. And that's going to go over here. You can see how we're getting some of those earthy tones now. Just by mixing the blue and the red together, we have more of an earthy purple as you can see there. Okay, so now let's grab some more blue, maybe not that much. Mix it into this other side that we have here. You can see how that will change that color for you. Okay, So let's paste that here. You can see that it's got a lot of blue undertone underneath it. There we go. Okay, let's bring this up to the camera so you can see your last creations. Hopefully you can see that good enough. But there we go. We have our red violet are purple, and then our blue violet. You have your completed color wheel. And I encourage you to actually experiment with your color wheel if you have a different color of red like we do inside of the kit, you can go ahead and see what happens when you mix that red with this blue or that red with this yellow and what kinds of colors you can create. So there you go. You have your primary colors, your secondary colors, and tertiary colors. I hope you've had fun and I'll see you in the next video where we're going to go through a lot more about color. 11. Acrylic Painting 101 - Colour Mixing: So you're gonna notice I still have a dirty palette there, but that's okay. That's just because of one of the other videos. I don't waste paint, so I still had this paint handy and I'm going to need it to show you how to mix additional colors here when you open up this little thing, this is also available for download online. If you don't have it in your kit, review decided to use a different color paint. You can definitely use this. Most of the paints usually will have similar or the same kinds of names. You should be able to use that. Here you'll see it says color number. I'm going to open this up and I'm going to show you what that refers to. If you look at the top here it says the colors that are inside of your kit. These are all eight colors that come inside of the kit. As you can see, that's what it's referring to when it says the color number, you can see here it has a color number there, number two and number three give you this particular color. So let's go back to the legend. That's what those numbers mean. And this is a visual right here. You can see, I'm just going to kind of open it there so you can see right there that little visual. And then here is the ratio and proportion. So 25212 right here, number 55, parts of number 41, part of number eight will give you this color. And this color right here. If you tinted, which we'll learn in the glossary as well, tinting essentially means to make it lighter. If you tint it with your white, you will get this color at a ratio of ten parts white to one part of this color. That is how you read this little legend thing. Let's choose a color that we can mix quite quickly. And I'm going to show you how to mix a few of these colors. I'm just going to fold that up there for you so that we can just pick maybe just a couple. Then you can play around with this and just sort of do your own thing and see how you, how you can mix all of these colors. Once you understand what this essentially means, you'll be able to mix those kinds of colors. So this is number two in it, which is the yellow that we were using to mix width, so we'll use that. And then it has number three, which is the naphthalene red light, which is also the color that we have here that we were using for mixing. So let's do this guy, since we already have those colors available to us, since we took them out. And you're also going to need your titanium white. So let's put a little bit of Titanium white now on our palette. Perfect. How to mix this is how you mix a color. We're gonna use this as a guide, but you could mix colors any other way. And I will show you how to mix some, just playing and seeing different colors. You can come up with this if you don't have Indian yellow. Now remember, I showed you Indian yellow. If you don't have this, this is how you can mix it, or at least get close to it anyway. So here we have 100 parts to one. So we know number two is the Bezier Medina yellow. So here we go. This is the yellow that we're gonna be using. So we need a ton of that color and then we only need a tiny bit, a little tiny bit. Let's just do. So. I just dabbed my brush in there, you can barely even see any of it. Let's just dab that on there. I'm also going to just switch that off so we don't have too much on there. There we go, That red anyway. You can see pretty much if we take our brush and just scoop some of this up. We take our brush and we bring it to that. We bring this closer to the camera so you can see we have pretty much mixed that color. So that's pretty awesome. That was pretty easy, right? It's just really following the recipe. Then wait a minute, it has something beside it. If we want this color, we need to put a little bit of white, so it's ten parts, this color to one part white. Let's just add a bit of white in here. We will just mix the white as we go along, see what we come up with. I think we're pretty close to that color now. Scoop it up and bring it to your color. And you can see on my brush at the tip, because that part of the darker part that we have now mixed that color. If you want to also test it out, you could just do a tiny little swatch to see what color it is that you have mixed. So that's a little bit browner still then what we might want. So I'm gonna pick up a lot more of this white. And you notice I just didn't clean my brush, but I also didn't add any paint to it. I'm going to paint that swatch beside here. And now you can see we're getting much more closer to that color. Needs a little bit more color in it. I added just the other side of my brush. There we have this color. And then I'm actually going to wash my brush off and I'm going to scoop up the original color that we landed with, which was this color. Then I'm going to tell you a quick trick. There we are. That was our original color there. I'm going to show you this guy. Let me move that out of the way. Okay, so here we are. This is our cool little color swatch that we made. Here's our initial color. We added a little bit of white to that. We added a lot of white to it and then we were like, Oh, let's add a little bit more of that color back in. So you can see that if you play around with your colors like this, you can start to create some really cool swatches. Then what I suggest is that you take a pen, you write down what it is that you did. So this is a lot of white with a little bit of base color. This is, and so on and so forth so that you can remember what colors you used to get that color. So I would write here the, I'm just going to put B, yellow plus the red. So no, That's naphthalene, red, light plus white. If you write that and you've created these colors, you now know how to get that color mixture again, because you will have written down exactly what you used to get those colors when your color mixing. That is one key thing that I recommend that you do, especially because sometimes you end up coming across a color you absolutely love. And then, oh, you're so sad because you've actually forgot what color it was. Let's take a look here and see if there's another color that we can mix with the colors that we had, 335. Let's see if there's a 35. There's actually a 25. Let's do that. 25. This color says green gold here. This is number two and number five mixed together. So that's our yellow and our blue. And you can see here that it is 20 parts yellow to just once mentioned, blue, what's due. And it's okay, we're just practicing. So if there's a little bit of red in here, that's alright. Then just a tiny, very tiny little dollop of blue. Just start with the tiniest dollops because you can always add lot harder to take away and figure that out. Okay, so that was number two and number five. It's not white. As you can see, it's not quite the green that we wanted to be, but I actually really like this color, so I'm gonna save that. And then I'm going to have a little bit more blue because we know this is really to the yellow side. Now, this is where your color wheel comes in handy. Because if we look at this color, we can bring this up here and we could say, oh wait, yeah, that color is a little bit more to the yellow side, so I need to add more blue if I want to make that a deeper green. Let's just add that blue and you can see, now we have a much more deeper green. Let's paint that color here. That's much more grassy green as you can see. Then what happens if we add white? Well, let's see if we add just a tiny bit of white. Let's see what happens. This is the fun about color mixing. Let's add a little bit of white. There we go. It's going to give us that color there. Now let's add a lot more white. Let's put that here. So pretty That's like a mint green. I'm going to put the brush in and then I would write down here just like I did before how I got those colors. So take a look at that. There you go. You can see those green that we ended up mixing. That is how you utilize your colors in a way to color mix. Now this little chart is just a handy chart. Of course, it's painted on paint, it printed on paper. The colors are going to be a little bit different that you end up creating, but that's okay. And I encourage you to just play with your colors just like we are right now. So go ahead, keep using some of these colors and mix up some more different color combinations. 12. Acrylic Painting 101 - Common Terms: Alright, now that you've learned a little bit about color combinations and your color wheel, it's time to dive into your glossary of terms. Now, you can print this and you can read through them. I'm not gonna talk about all of them because some of them we have already talked about and some of them I'm just going to review for you, but have your paper handy, your little test your paper so that you can come along with me in a creation journey because we're actually going to create some of these. Hue refers to one of the six primary and secondary colors. Here you can see the primary colors on this color wheel, as well as the secondary colors are the hue. So essentially that's the color, that's the underneath colors. So any of those other colors we made, we either had the green in it or we had the blue in it, or we had the yellow in it. So just remember that he refers to essentially one of the colors that are your primary and secondary colors as an underneath layer. And it refers to the original, the origin of the color that you actually see. Pure black, gray, and white do not contain a hue. Hue is basically the dominant color from either the primary and secondary colors is essentially the dominant color from the primary colors because in order to get the secondary, you have to use the primary to make them. Okay, So tone color theory defines a true tone as a hue or mix a pure colors with only gray added to the mixture. So let's do that. We're gonna make gray so you can see what that essentially is telling you. So let's get your paints out. We're going to use actually a little bit of are going to use Payne's gray, but you don't have to actually, I'm not going to use Payne's gray. I'm going to use white. We don't have black because what we're going to mix them, I'm going to put a little bit more of that on there. And then I'm going to take a little bit of my blue, a little bit of my red, and a little bit of my yellow. And I'm going to mix that together. And that's gonna give me essentially a black color. Then I'm going to mix a little bit of that with my white, which in this case is kind of on the purple side. We need a little bit more yellow that we can create the graininess of the color that we want. I had a little bit more of that yellow. Okay, So let's add just a tiny bit more yellow. I don't think they'll need very much more in here. But essentially it will take away that purpley color. There we go. That's better. You can see that's now turned into sort of like a brownie color. So if we add more white, we get that grayish color. Now if we take gray and we mix it with a pure color, so let's say we take this gray that we've created and I'm going to bring my palette closer so you can see that. So it's sort of a brownish gray that we've created right there. Now, if we take that great, and we add, let's say white to it. I mean, not whites or a yellow to it. Let's add some of that yellow to it because this is a primary color, right? You'll see paint these side-by-side for you. There we go. And I'll make these a little bit bigger so you can see them have that color. Now, usually a tone is just black and white, but because you don't have black in your kit, less you purchased black separately. This is the only way we can make certain kinds of tones. So there you go. You can see that it actually creates, hopefully you can see that like a golden color if you add more yellow and then you can see that's the gray that we initially made. Normally. It is no additional pigment included except for the black and the white. It's not really good to mix your tone this way specifically. But when you don't have black, you have to make your own black and then mix it together so that you can create the tones that you are looking for. So let's talk about a shade. A shade is a hue that is made darker by adding black to the mixture. If we have black and we add it to this mixture. So let's take a little bit of our fake black here. Just make your brush wet. If you're black isn't working, then if we put that into this mixture, if you have black, guess what that's gonna do. It's going to make it darker. Let's just paint that here. And you can see that's made that a bit darker, can add a little bit more in there. You can see it a bit better. Now normally, I would use actually black, but that doesn't come in your kids. So I'm showing you how to make things without your kit. A shade is made darker by adding black to their mixture. They don't contain white or gray. Because you don't have black, you can improvise and create darker colors by adding in a mixture of your own version of black. So you can see that we've got, hopefully you can see that. I'm not sure, but you can see that is a little bit darker. Okay. A tint is now the opposite where we add white into it. We've already experimented with some tints. So now let's just mix that and I'll put that here beside and look at what we have. You will see that dark gray that we mixed is now a really nice light gray. That's pretty cool. Shows you how you can get those colors without necessarily having those tubes of colors. The value is the darkness or lightness of a color. So the value of this color is darker than the value of this color. Pretty simple. That one's really simple. The intensity is considered the brightness or the dullness of a color. You can see this one's much more bright and this one is much more dull. Now I'm not sure if this is showing up on the camera very well. So I hope that you're painting along with me so you can see those differences as well. You'll also see, look at this, this is much more bright. Then even this one, this one's kind of dull and this one's kind of doll, right? And this one seems much more brighter. So that's pretty cool how that works. So intensity and brilliancy and saturation is same. So brilliancy is the intensity of the brightness or the lightness. And the saturation relates to the hue. And then it tells us how the color looks under certain lighting. So here's how the colors look under the lighting as they are now. So we're talking about saturation now watch, I'm going to turn off the light I have in the room. And you can see how those colors changed. Now, did the colors actually change? Or did your eye perceive them to change simply because of the light? That's essentially what saturation means. Now, opacity, or opaque, is said to be opaque when it's able to hide a color underneath, essentially covering it up. So if for example, you can see here that we have that color. Now if I took this blue, I painted over this, you can see that light gray color that we had underneath there. You can no longer see. That is essentially because we can hide that color by painting this color on top. So transparency is the amount you're able to see through a paint onto the bottom layer. So how can we make something transparent? Will I'm going to show you I just added water to my brush. So say for example, we wanted to use this same blue, but we don't necessarily want to cover up that color. We want it to maybe enhance that color. Just dash off your brush as much as you can so it's really watered down and we can go over top of this. You see how that gives a completely different effect. I hope the camera's picking this up, but you can actually still see that gray color underneath that blue color. Whereas here, when we were talking about opacity or opaque, you can't see that gray at all. So this is transparency, this is opacity or opaque. Then a highlight is the lightest spot in a painting. So let's use this guy since we have that guy handy. And let's just grab our white here. And we're gonna put white and we're going to just dash into that little bit of blue that we had there. And we're going to go ahead and use that and we're going to highlight this area in here. Let's just give it a few little highlights here and there. Just so you can see that now hopefully I'm hoping the cameras showing that to you. So a highlight is the lightest area in a painting, then a shadow is actually the darker part of a painting. Now shadows can be Blues, they can be purples, they can be dark brown, that can be blackish graze. They can be tons of cool different colors. Essentially. I wish you could see this one better. Let me turn off the light and see if you can see it better. A little bit better. Here in this particular piece that we sort of painted to practice this area which is darker compared to this area, would be considered our shadow of this little thing that we're doing. And not really know what this is, but it's just a practice sheet. So you can see this is our color here, this is our awesome color. Maybe this is a sky or something. Then you can see that this is right in here, our little shadow that we have. So that's pretty cool. Shadows don't always have to be black. Just so you know that shadows can be purples, they can be Blues, they can be dark greens. They can be so many different colors because essentially, I really want to encourage you actually to start looking at some shadows outside. What you're going to notice is your eye will start to pick up, oh wait. You read that shadow actually has quite a bit of purple tone to it or maybe really nice deep brown tone to it. So don't get confused when it says shadow that you have to just add only black to make a shadow. That is one key element that I really wanted you to take away with. That shadows can actually have a warm or cool side to them. They don't always have to be like this sort of sad looking thing. So I hope you found that helpful, going through that guide a little bit and actually having a little bit of a walk-through that painted you through those parts. You could see exactly what we were talking about. Now if you have questions, please feel free to ask. I would love to be able to answer them. And I look forward to seeing you in the next video. 13. Acrylic Painting 101 - The 5 Step Easy Peasy Painting Process: I thought it might be handy to give you an overview of the five-step, easy-peasy painting process. Just so that when you start getting into the actual painting process itself, you will find it easy to understand exactly what's going to be happening in each tutorial. Now, they are broken down into those five easy-peasy steps, just to make it easier for you to create your beautiful works of art. So step number one is to lay down your foundational drawing. That's when you're going to either utilize your carbon paper, your graph, whatever it is that you want to utilize to be able to lay down the drawing. Now, if you're not a drawer, that's okay. Don't worry. I provide you with all of the templates. You can simply and easily have carbon paper, your template and your not your palate, your Canvas or your canvas paper, whatever it is that you're going to be painting on. And you can put that carbon paper down, put the image on top, and simply trace over top of it. If you are somebody who really wants to actually draw out the image and say, for example, you do that through a graph or a grid. You can definitely do that too. I provide you with that template so that you can draw it out in whatever format you want to. So that's number one. Step one of the easy-peasy painting process. Step two is to then do the underpainting of your image. So that's when we really just start laying down the colors and getting that underpainting completed. Then step three of the easy-peasy painting process is to begin to add layers. The layers are what starts to really bring your painting to lie. Step four of the easy-peasy painting process is to add details. This is when your piece of artwork does blossoms and you look at it and be like what the yeses, I created this, this is so awesome, so excited. Dress me. That's exactly what I get. Well, you go past the ugly stage and then all of a sudden you're in this magnificent stage. In stage number four. Step number five is to finalize your painting. Sometimes finalizing means you go back and you see some things that you just want to add into your painting. Sometimes it means just simply adding your signature. With each different painting. You'll see that it's going to be different depending on exactly what step you're in and also what we need to do to complete that painting. I hope you found that video helpful. And don't worry, I will walk you step-by-step, literally stroke by stroke. So you ain't gonna miss anything. When we create our paintings together. I look forward to seeing what you create and I'll see you in the next video. 14. Acrylic Painting 101 - Preparing Your Canvas: Hello and welcome. It's now time to prepare some paper because of we are about ready to have some fun and jump into actually using your paints before we can do that and before we can practice some of those skills that I'm going to walk you through. Just grab one of your papers. If you have a paper version, if not, you can definitely use copy paper as well. You can feel free to use copy paper instead of if you don't have this kind of paper, just feel free to use copy paper for these exercises. Next, you're going to need your gesso and I have my guest, so here and I'm going to open that up. This is how you prepare your canvas to be ready for painting. You can see here the Jesu is just white. Then what you need is a brush. You want something that has like bigger bristles on it. Sometimes they'll just kind of dusted off because sometimes you get dust in it. So dusted off. And then use this one I'm using is a ten flat. You can also use a larger one if you want to. And then you're going to also need a jar, which I have over here with water so I can wash my brush out right away. Also, if you have a brand new brush that you've never used before, you're going to want to make sure you dash that up first and rinse it in your water and then don't forget you're going to need your cloth. And that is all we will need for that to this tutorial. You're going to take quite a big glob. You can see how gloppy that is, and I'm just going to start to lay down few globs here and there. And yes, that's the technical term. It's not really the technical term. It's just what I truly made up. Then you're just going to literally just started to spread it onto your paper. You direction is totally fine, whichever direction you want for right now. Because eventually we will put this all into one direction. But right now we just want to spread the love of the gesso. There we go. Already spread that out. Now you want to work quite quickly. You can see I'm not really working super slow with this because it will dry really fast. And we want to make sure that as we paint this, that eventually we all go in one direction. So now I'm going to go in one direction. Just because I have enough paint on here. You can see them flowing in one direction. It's going sideways. By what I mean by one direction. We're smoothing out any big craziness lines that we have. And make sure you go all the way to the edge and then move my water over here so you can see going all the way to the edge. You can also see I always cover my table with just scrap any kind of paper you can use whatever you want to cover your table with. But this is just my choice. If you have a table that you don't care about, you can definitely paint on it if you want to. I just personally use this as well as my from my computer desk. So I want to make sure here we go. Then I'm going to just go nice and lightly. This is very light pressure so that we get rid of all those. We could delete lines that you can see. I'm not sure if the camera's picking them up, but you can't see them when you start painting, you'll be able to see them. There. We are just wanted to make sure that we have beautiful, nice blended in lines. Then we're going to go nice and white again this direction. So it's like a feather holding your brush, barely even touching. Now, you can see that any of the lines that were in there are now smoothed out. Then going to put your brush in the water, close your ISO lid so it doesn't dry out. Because of that would be bad. Sometimes I forget to close it. There you go. Now you have prepared your Canvas or your paper Canvas or whatever it is that you're painting on, you've prepared that. You're going to let this dry and then you're going to do a second coat on top of this code. That's going to make sure you have a nice smooth surface to start with. It's also going to ensure that your paint will stick properly. And it's going to also ensure that you have a nice even color all the way through to paint on. Your paint. Paint doesn't look all wonky and certain you're painting doesn't look all wonky in certain positions. So that gives you a really great foundation to start building your painting on. So go ahead, let that one dry and you will know when it's dry, when it stops being really shiny, if you move yourself around it, you'll see that right now it's kind of shiny and wet looking. But once that shine and wetness looking goes away, you will then be able to paint the next coat on top of that, then let that second coat dry. And I generally whenever I can, I usually let this dry overnight. So what I often do and I'm just going to grab this here, is I actually can see the difference between this and that one. See how that looks like that. So this has its two coats already on it. And you can see that this one's completely dry. So what I do is I paint several of these at the same time. Whether you're painting on canvas, paper or canvas, or whatever you're using to create your painting on. I will paint the gesso on first, then let it dry overnight. And I will do sometimes eight to ten of these. And then I always have them ready for me to paint on. Whenever I get inspiration, then I don't have to wait for the JSR to dry. 15. Painting Project: Part One: All right, It is your very first painting tutorial, and I'm so excited to have you here. We have a few little housekeeping things we're going to need to talk about. One, you're going to need to print your image. That is the drawing template. You'll find that in this section here where you are watching this video, I try and label everything as best as possible so you can easily find what you're looking for. You're also going to see that there is a reference image that is so that you can actually see the colors that we will be adding to this. Now, I want to give you a word of caution here because this is your first painting. You will enter into a stage that is called the ugly stage. Now, when we do enter that, I will explain to you what that is and also what's going on. So don't freak out. You're going to be just fine as long as you follow these five simple step tutorials, you will be able to create a beautiful painting just like the one that you see in the reference image. Now the other word of caution that I have is don't feel constrained by the color. You will see that the image that we're going to be painting, they'll be using the yellows. If you want to use purple and paint your flower purple, or you want to use pink or green or whatever color you want to paint your flower. Feel free to do that. It's not about being in the stuffy box of following everything that I'm showing you. But I do highly recommend that you in the beginning try and use the same colors because it's just going to help you learn how to mix the colors and then also how to blend the colors. That can be handy, especially if you're an absolute new beginner. So let's get started. So the other thing you're going to need is your carbon paper, which you can see. And also you're going to need what you're going to be painting on. Now, I am going to be using an eight by ten canvas. And this is not a gallery wrap. This is just a regular one. This is generally what will I will be using to paint the tutorials for you. So that's an eight by ten. Then you need a pencil. You may need an eraser, sharpener, sorry, if you need to sharpen your pencil. Of course, your carbon paper, that is everything you're going to need. So let's get started. Gonna be laying down the drawing here in this first step. Now because this sheets a little bit bigger than my canvases, I'm actually going to tuck that Like side underneath there so I don't have as much movement to worry about there. You can see this covers my whole entire Canvas. Hopefully you can see that. I'm hoping that's in the middle. Then we're going to lay this image on top. I'm going to match up as best as I can with the edge of the canvas. The good thing is, is that because we're painting this, it doesn't really matter if it accidentally has like this. We have a lot more here, but that's okay. We'll just carry this color up. Much easier to carry that color up than it is this down part. So that's why we're doing that today. And I'm going to just test and make sure that I have my carbon paper in the right space because we want to make sure without taking this hand off, we want to keep it in the same spot. We're just going to quickly peek and yet we have it in the right spot. And you're just going to simply trace. Today, I am going to share with you a little reading from winged life and it's on page 70. If you have that book, it says if we are willing to make a clean sweep without any reservations or exceptions, then the Savior will gladly give full victory. I thought it would just be nice to be able to start these with a little positive message. So each painting tutorial, we'll start with one of those positive messages. I really like. I don't know if you've ever read the book on Heinz feet, but most of the things coming from that, I'll show you actually weren't getting them from getting them from this little calendar thing that I have. Let me just flip the page. You can see it's a daily meditation from Hannah, her narrowed, and the book is called Heinz feet on high places. So each time we have a painting, alread you the message that's on there. And then I'll read you the bottom part. When we start painting because there's actually show you actually two messages on there. So I read this part in the beginning and then I'll read that part only start painting. I like starting off on a really positive foot when I start creating. Sometimes just reading something positive like that is helpful. Now, question that usually comes up is, how do I know that I have everything taken care of that I've drawn everything that's in here. Well, that's a really good question. What I recommend is concentrating on one specific things you can see we concentrated on that middle part and then we went and we did this and we did this part. And then we went down here and we did this guy. And then we did this circle, and then we did this. Then I moved over to this side and I did the same thing. I did the circle and the goofy thing. Try and just stay in one area. Now, obviously, I've already used this template before, so it's full of red. And I've actually used this more than once. First is full, filled with pencil, now red, and now I'm going over it with pencil. Sometimes I use different colors if I want to still use that template. Because sometimes I just like painting different things that I've already painted before. This helps you just build your skillset. Practice is an awesome thing. You don't have to feel like you need to practice doing these over and over. But if you want to, this is a way that you can, you could create a series. So let's say you created maybe three of these that you want to, maybe you decide you want to create them in different colors. You would be able to totally do that because you will have this outline that you can simply and easily follow. And you can see, I don't do the lines exactly. Sometimes. That's totally okay. I'm going to bring this up a bit more than this little thing. Pencils DIE. Next step is to make sure that we have everything completed. So again, you're going to hold your hand on one side, lift up your page on the other side, and then just kind of peak little back and forth, just double-check that you have everything you need to be able to paint this successfully and it looks like we have everything we need. So that's great. Okay, perfect. So we have everything we need. So then this is the scary part, not really. It can feel a little scary, especially if you've done the first time. And then voila, there you have it. You can see hopefully the camera will focus in on that for you. You can see that now you have your painting template. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and lay down our initial layers. I'll see you over there. 16. Painting Project: Part Two: Hello everyone. It is now time for painting time. This is the most exciting part because now you get to start putting your colors down on your canvas. In this video, we're gonna be doing the underlying painting. This is gonna be the underneath portion, so don't worry about adding any details or anything like that. We're just going blocking in the color. Here are the colors that we're going to use today. We're going to use NAP fall red light. So you can see that they're all red light. We're gonna be using titanium white, phthalo blue. This is the green shade. Benzimidazole lean, yellow, medium. Benzimidazole, clean, yellow light. And don't worry if you don't know how to pronounce all the words, that's okay. I totally think I just made those words up anyway because I don't actually know them. They're very long words as you could see. Then we're going to need a number for flat. The number for flat is this is from the art advantaged set, but a number for flat and any set will work. Then I have a number one filbert. Then we have here three slash 0. Hopefully you can see that. I'm not sure if the camera will pick that up, but it's a 43 slash 0 and this is a liner brush. You could also use like something like round brush as well. So this is the 0 round. So if you have a 0 round and you don't have three slash 0, you can also use that. So I'm going to put that with our palette as well. Then to help with mixing, you can either use the slow GI gel retarded or the slow dry blending medium. Today we're going to actually add just a little bit of this slow dry blending medium. And that is the only thing that we're going to be using besides, of course, our water bucket. So you're going to need a water bucket with water in it. Make sure that you're wearing your apron to protect your clothes. And then of course, your towel or paper towel, if you're deciding to use paper towel, just swash your brush off when you're finished. Let's get mixing the colors that we're going to need and then just put my paint brushes here to the front. And then I'm going to just put these colors over here on the palette in the order that we have them. So here's our red. Remember this is naphthalene red light. You don't need very much of the red because we're only actually going to be using that to create some of that brown color for the middle of the petals there. Then titanium white. We're going to put that over here on this side so that stays clean and crisp. And then we're gonna need phthalo blue. This is going to help us make some of those orangey colors that are inside the flower that we see there. You also need very much of this. It's more like for just mixing with the thing is, is you can always put more on your palate if you need to add anytime. We're actually going to be using two yellows today. And of course there's more yellow than anything else in this painting. We're going to be using the yellow medium and then the other yellow is the yellow light. So we're gonna put medium first and then we're gonna put light. You'll see that there's barely any difference, but the light one just has that bright color that we're looking for in some parts of that flower there. So I'm gonna actually put a tiny bit more on here to dollops of the yellow and just one small dollop of the red, the white, and the blue. And let's get to mixing. The first thing we're gonna do is put in the flower background area. For that area, we're going to just use yellows pretty much because the ready orange stuff is on top of that layer. We're not going to paint that layer yet. We're just focusing on that underneath layer, which is going to be mostly those yellows that are there. And then we'll paint the other colors on top after that's dry. But grab a little dollop of white, just set it aside over there. And then what we're gonna do is grab some of this color and plop that into it. Hopefully you have your reference image handy because you're going to want that. You're going to need to know where these colors go. So make sure that you have your reference handy. Now, I have mine open on my iPad, and I have it just in front of me so that I can quickly and easily see those colors. Then some people will put it on their computer or they'll print it out however you personally want to do it. You can definitely do that. So there are quite a few really light spots in here. We're going to just go in and we're going to paint those first. So there's lighter spot in here. It doesn't have to be perfect because we're going to be going over top of this with our other layers. Also, remember if you decided that you wanted to paint with a different color, you can definitely do that as well. If you want to paint your flour in purple, you can go ahead and paint your flour in purple. You would just have to have what we do like light purple, medium purple, that color. But we're just doing ours in yellow. You can see I'm picking just those very, very super light spots and kind of filling those in. Don't worry about if you can still see your pencil. That's not a big deal. We'll get rid of that later. Okay. Now we're gonna move into that. That spot has a little bit more white. It's not too yellow of a yellow. So we're going to just bring this into here. And I'm going to fill the whole thing. Because as we add, the layers will add more color to that. Just dabbing my brush in that color a little bit more. Just to give this a little bit of a lighter area. Then we're going to now go into some of those middle shades, which are just around here. We're going to take this color, a little bit of this color. We're going to mix those together. Then we're gonna do that again, put on a second pile. Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a little bit of that white. We're going to add that to her first pile. And then we can just mix our second pile. You can see now we have three shades of yellow. We have the lighter yellow, the lightest yellow. And then those two darker colors that we made. We'll get to the darker color because that's mostly on the outside. But for right now we're gonna work with that one. So you want to wash off your brush just so that you don't have too much of that darker color in there. It doesn't have to be perfect. And just all up it on your towel. Then we're going to pick up this color here and we're going to start to go in to where it is, light, but not completely. And try and remember, you don't want to get this level of the painting too thick. So I'm not putting very much on my brush, just working it out. Then remember to go up to the points that you will have already painted so that it's going to be easier for you to blend in after like so. I'm going to carry this color, just sort of fan it out up into this area. It's not going to be thick. You're going to have spots where you're gonna see through it. That's what we want. Then you're going to want to take that down. What I'm doing over here is taking it down onto the canvas here too. We're going to do the same thing. We're gonna just kind of fan it out. I'm just taking that light color that we created there. And I'm just mixing a little bit of water into it. And this area has a light spot in it. So we're going to finish painting that area. And then make sure you wrap that around the corner to you want the whole thing, paint it. Oops, I forgot to put paper down underneath here. Usually I put paper underneath there, but that's okay. That's one thing that I forgot to tell you is you might want to just put bit of newspaper underneath where you're painting, just in case you're painting on say like a kitchen table or something that you don't necessarily want it to get completely dirty and crazy like paint with bunches of paint, because that does happen. So we're gonna go in here and we're going to paint the yellow that's in here as well. Go just paint that in all those areas. And make sure don't go too far down on the edge here because that's actually part of that brown interior petal area. We're just going to carry this out. Then there's a bit of yellow in here, which we've outlined. This is also yellow in here. Then there's this little bit I think that pretty much takes care of that whole area. Then also there's just on these things, these are actually a yellow underlay in their tooth. We're going to just put those in right now. Like so. You can even put some of these. I kind of sort of come up through there a bit. Like so. You might be able to hear me scrubbing my brush. That's just so that we make sure we use all of the paint that we can that inside that brush because we don't want to waste any. Try and make sure you miss those parts that are lighter, don't go all the way over top of them. You want to come to the edge of them but don't go over top the whole thing. I think we're going to have to mix some more of that color because we are running up. I'm going to put some more of this together. So it's just a dollar but V to those and adult of white. Then we mix that together with a bit more white. Perfect. I just added a bit of water from my brush that just gonna make it so that it's not super thick. Just makes it easier for us to apply it a bit as this underlying code. If you're watching my brush and kind of wiggling it back and forth. This wiggling motion. And that's just so that we get that rough edge area at the top. Because we don't want that to be completely perfect because we're going to be blending in those darker colors into it. So it makes it easier for you to blend in those darker colors. Then of course, don't forget to go down onto the edge so that you get that edge, paint it as well. Like so. Just kind of had the thing gleich, how that shape in this middle part would look when you're coming over the edge and you can kinda just shape it however you want. There. I think mine is going to come down like that. And then there's gonna be one that comes through here. Maybe some of this comes through here a bit more. Maybe it comes at an angle. So you can see I'm just starting to paint in what that part would look like. There we go. I think that's great. Now we're going to use the darkest color and we're going to put that in the darker areas of the flower. Just going to scrub this in to the top parts of the flower. Now, some kind of skimming over top of that color that we just did. It's kind of blends into, as you can see over here. Hopefully you can see that on the camera how that's blending in. I also did add a little bit of water to this just to make it a little bit thinner. So we can just apply this on. There's a little bit of a trick here that I wanted to teach you. That is, when you're doing this, you want to go in the direction that that petal or that building or whatever it is that you're painting actually goes in. So you can see as I work, I work around this petal of this interior of this flower in the direction that it would normally be looking in nature. So just keep that in mind when you're painting. You could also use your slow dry medium, but I actually don't want this to dry slower. I want it to dry at a normal speed, so it's not that I wanted to dry slower, I just want to have that movement available and also it not to have a really dark underlying painting. We just want it to be light so that we know where things are going to be going. Now remember you have two circles of lighter paint. Over on this side. There's one there and one there. So just be careful of that when you're going over that. You want to keep that for sure. We're gonna leave this part right here because that's a different color. We're going to paint it, but I mean, we're not going to make it to completely disappear so that we can see that little thing. Watch out for that light piece that we have there. We can always repaint the light Ps in, but just try and keep it as best as you can. Hopefully we have just enough paint for finishing off. There we go. There we go. You have all that part done now we can move on to the next part. I just put a lot of water into that. I think we're going to have to mix a little tiny bit more of this up, actually almost made to the end what we also have to do the edges. One thing that you'll notice, notice about me is I don't waste any paint at all. I use every little stitch I can possibly use. This part is a little bit darker anyway, so it's okay that we have to make it a little bit more paint. Remember, just lightly feathered over that edge that you've already painted. Here we go. So we got the base down. Now it's time to lift your painting up. And you're going to want to paint these edges, but remember the direction that your flower is going in K. Then come through here. You don't have a really hard edge at the top. You're going to paint like this. Stone that edge. Hopefully you can see that paint on that edge. And then come over. Just feather that out. Then you can see I'm changing direction as the flower is changing direction. Or both basically going mostly straight here. Then we're gonna go this direction because that's how that part of the flower is. We're going to start going more straighter as we go along this direction. Then straighten out as you go along. You can also go like this and just fill that in, making sure that you've got all that. Then bring this down, just this edge here. You don't have a hard heart. You can see how that looks right there. Hopefully you can see that well, then you do the same thing on this side. We're going to hold it this way, just gonna make it easier for you to paint that. Then we look at what direction we're going. So we know that this is going to go into this direction. Sometimes the corners are a little tricky because the folds. Then we can just do what we did for just come over a little bit. Bringing that over. The trick is, as you can see, I'm holding the frame underneath, but if you're doing this on pallet paper, you're going to have to just rotate you rather than rotating your, your, your Canvas. Just going to finish off the edges here that we didn't finish off before when we came over here. Then this edge, I like finishing the edges of my pieces just simply because, well, I do. Because then this way, somebody it would give you say you if you gave this to somebody as a present or anything like that, they would be able to then just simply go ahead and hang this up in their house. You wouldn't need any frame for it at all if you didn't want to. Now of course, if they wanted to add a frame, they definitely could do that. It would be totally up to them. Now what I'm doing is just emptying on my brush. And I'm going over into this corner here and with the watery brush, I'm going over top of that so that I can blend in that light and that dark. So we don't completely lose that lightness over there. There we go. Then same thing coming over top of that corner there. Just ever so slightly. Then the tricky part is putting it back down without getting your hand in the paint. We now have our yellow base essentially. Going to move this over just a bit. And then you can see that we've done our edges, we have our yellow base. There's a little something, something on there. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go into this area. This steam, steam is thing I think it's called stamens. I think that's what it's called, has a slight greenish to it. And then up in here there is like some of the brownie color. Let's mix some of the brownie colors and also the, the green color. If we're going to want to mix the brownie color, you could use your handy-dandy chart if you want to. You can see here that it shows some of the colors. And I think the one that would be closest to that inside of that part would actually be this color. It's a 534. And if we turn this around, it's going to tell us what colors those are. Five is anthro quinone blue. Three is the naphthalene red light, and four is Kodachrome. Awkward own magenta. If we're making this 1534, that is going to tell us exactly what we need to put in. Okay, so we're gonna pull out our colors and we're going to show you how to mix this color as well. So do we need the anthro Cornyn and here's our anthro quinone blue and our quinacridone magenta. So we already took everything else out of our kit. So let's just put a little bit of, we're only going to need a little bit these colors to mix this color. And also because we don't really have very much in there, so we don't need that big of a color. And then we'll put this red here so we know in which red is which. Then we need blue and the red. And then what was the last color that one said? For 35? Red. Quinacridone. Red. We already have that on there. Now what I'm going to do is I think I'm just going to take mixing brush. So this one is just the 0 flat. I'm just going to use this as part of my mixing. So I'm going to take some of this red, some of this blue, and some of this red. Let's mix that together. And then we can adjust it as we go. Hopefully you can see it's kind of hard to see everything because there's lots going on here. But you can see that it's given us sort of like this. I'm going to paint it right here so you can kind of see a bit more. It's given us a read. Real Reddy color. We don't really want it to be two reds. I'm going to bring in some more blue. I'm also going to take some of that yellow that we've been using. Just the weeny bit. Just a weeny bit. I'm going to show you what's going to happen when we add that yellow to that color that we just mixed. I'm doing that over here on this side. You can see that's gonna give us a brown color, but that's a little bit too on the green side of brown. So I'm only just taking what I have left on my brush. Just what I have left on my brush. We're going to mix this together. Let's see how much closer we're getting. Okay, So I like that better. I'm going to just take a tiny weeny, more of that yellow. We're taking the darker yellow, not the lighter yellow. We want it to be kind of a brownie color. Going to take maybe a smidgen more. We're getting there. Mixing is all about just testing it out, seeing if it's the color you want, that kind of stuff. Okay, So I definitely think this is getting to the color that I want. Online. I'm going to test it out. I like that color. Now you can see it's not so much on the purple side, it's much more on that brownie color side. Now, what we're gonna do is we're going to test it. We're gonna see if this is the color we want by simply putting it onto the canvas. I think I like that. It's pretty close to the brown in color that's in our image. So that is what we're going to go with. Now. I am going to add a little bit of water and just kind of mix that in just so that it's a little bit less thick for us. Then I'm just using that same 0 brush and add this color. Now, don't worry, if you can kind of sort of still see through it because we're going to be going back over this and adding in other colors that we need. As we do details. Right now it's all about just getting down that underneath layer. Like so. Then you want to work a little bit fast so that it doesn't sort of derive too fast on you. So that you have all of these lines that are drawing together. Instead of looking smooth. When you come to the edges, you can just simply just a wiggle your paintbrush to give it those little edges. Want to keep smoothing it out so everything looks like it's going in the same line. There's not lines everywhere all over the place in different directions. See, that's there. I didn't look beautiful. This is one of the stages we call the ugly stage of a painting. And that's because really all it is is a bunch of colors that you've sort of looked like. You just slap down onto the canvas and it doesn't really look like anything. But don't worry. When we get to step three, you're going to see how much of a difference that is going to create for you. I love that. Sometimes you'll just start to really fall in love with what you're creating. And I am definitely doing that today with this. I love this color that we're putting in the middle. Now remember, another thing is this is not about perfection. This is about process. It's about just being in that space of creating. It is not about having the perfect color or the perfect strokes or any of that kind of stuff. This is literally about having fun, just enjoying the time that you're experiencing the painting. I want you to keep that in mind. That it's about the experience. If you want to experiment with different colors or you like a particular color more than others. Or if your color in the middle doesn't look exactly like mine, don't fret. I'm going to turn it this way just so it's easier for me to get the angle of this one. Just let the process of painting take you away. Allow yourself to do sort of feel like you're drifting inside of the painting. Just being a part of the process of creating it. I've put my finger in the white yellow. We're almost finished with this part. Then we'll move on to doing the darker colors in those little stem things. Then we'll move on to doing the rest of that inside of the flower. Now what we want to do is we need a bit of a darker version of what we created here for those stem things that stick up. So all I'm gonna do is take a little bit more of that blue. I'm gonna put it over here to the side. We're going to take some of this color that we made. Scrape that up. And then I'm gonna take it and put it inside of that blue color. We're going to take some of this red here, not the bluish red, but this red color. We're going to put that into there. That's going to start getting us onto more of a moody color. Gonna take this. Hello. And it looks like we need a bit more blue. There we go. Just to darken that up a bit. Actually going to use a bit more of that, but we want it more on the black side. That looks quite dark. I'm going to do is paint it. Yep, That's perfect. Now we're going to paint these little stem pieces. And we're going to fill those in now. They're gonna look like they're just all kind of flowing in together. But don't worry because we will be bringing them out with our details. When we do our details. Just wiggle your brush around. That's going to create those little fluffy kind of feelings to the outside ones. Those ones we want them just basically straight. It's these guys that we want to sort of just wiggle our brush around. Just going to kind of give you more of that stupidly feeling. More movement on the edges there. Just look for the ones that are like the fluffy ones. You'll see that they actually have the yellow stuff on them, which is pollen, will be putting some pollen on ours when we get to that point. Now you just want to make Louis gooey things were not like paintings, stripy or painting kind of more splotchy Like. You can see how even just changing the way you use your brush gives you a bit of a different texture and feel to something. So I'm just going to hopefully this isn't wet. Sorry. I'm just going to grab this and I'm going to bring this a bit closer for you. So you can see that. You can see here how when we did our strokes inwardly, that already gives that illusion that that's sort of coming out of the middle of the flower. And then here where we've used those more dabbing kind of brushstrokes. You can see that it's already created, that little bit of movement feel into there. So that is one of the ways in which you can already start to create some interests in your painting and just have a little bit of that kind of difference. Your paintings. If you've ever, if you ever missed anything like we missed this guy here, there's actually like a thing that comes out here. You can go back in and paint that in. Because he has one of those stemming things. This guy's stomach thing actually surrounds that yellow little dot. I'm gonna do that on this one to kind of round light yellow dot. Now this one kind of just blends in with this part of the flower because this whole thing is gonna get quite dark. So I'm not going to paint that one in because that's going to be painted in when we do some of the hop stuff, paint it in with the darkness. Now it's time. You almost forgot. One goes, gotta go get that guy burst. We almost forgot this guy. There we go. Now we actually have that guy. Okay. Now we're going to wash out our brushes. I'm just going to only you keep using that 0 because it'll be easier to paint in there with that. Now we're going to paint the greenish yellow to make green. We take blue and I'm taking the Phthalo blue-green shade, and then we take yellow and we want this color of yellow because we know that green is more towards bright. Almost. How would you call that fluorescent D Kind of, I guess. Let's mix that in. I think that is good. The next thing we're gonna need to have is white actually ran out, so I need to get some more white on my palette. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take some of this green, which is very little, and we're going to mix it into this white. You can see that now we're getting that nice, light, minty green, but we wanted more to the yellow side. So I'm actually going to take just a tiny little bit of this yellow and a tiny little bit of that yellow. And we're going to mix that in just on the edge of that. And you can see, if you hold this up to your image that's pretty close to the color that we want, which is this color here. So it's just this nice light greenish, yellowish color. We're gonna do that over this whole area. Just a bit more of that green in there, saying this whole thing together. So we have a bit more of that green color showing through. Now we have sort of green type of color as the base color for what we're gonna be doing on here. So there you have it. We have our very first part of our painting, which is the underpainting. In the next video, we're going to be going over how to add in the layers to this painting so that we can really start to bring this painting to life. 17. Painting Project: Part Three: Welcome back. So you're going to need your painting, of course, your palette. Now you can see that I'm using a clean palette that just so that I can, I don't know, maybe OCD about that. I just like having a clean palette. If you want to have a clean palette, you just simply can wipe off. If you have wet paint with a paper towel, then if your paint is dry, you're going to want to use scraper or something like that. Sometimes they will also just let it soak in water. Then you can use a paper towel to get the rest of it off. So those are some of the ways you can clean that. I wanted to bring your attention to something that I totally didn't think about before. But you get this mixing guide inside of your kit. And then when you're looking at the letters or sorry, not letters, the numbers by 34, you always have to flip it over to look at, well, which one is 12345678? So I did a genius hack for you guys. What I did is you can see here I'm going to bring this closer to the camera. So you can see here on each of my containers, I actually wrote the number that corresponds with what's on this sheet. So you can see there's number five and I wrote the number five on it. What I did is I just simply used one of my permanent markers. This is waterproof. This one in particular is this pen. And I just use that because obviously, you can see that it's dry now and it's not going to rub off. So we want it to stay on there so we can quickly and easily grab the paints we need. So that is a little trick that I thought I would give you. So now the rural foolishly starting into our layers, I wanted to go to our little reading that we have. So we did this part of our reading at the beginning. And so now we will do this part. It says, If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's from first John, chapter one, verse nine. And the word that really sticks out for me in that particular little message that we have there is the word cleanse. I love that. I love cleaning things. I love having things clean. And sometimes we forget that even inside of us, we need to make sure that our mind and our emotions that we let those go and allow them to be cleansed. That's our little thought before we paint. Today we have the Liquitex slow dry blending medium. We have our golden colors and those come from this particular box, which is the color mixing modern theory. Those are the only colors that we'll be using. Then also our little mixing guide, because you might find it handy having this mixing guide near you to create colors that you might want to use in your painting. So let's dive right in to the painting process and we are going to go ahead and create some of our beautiful colors. Okay, So let us, first and foremost, I think we're gonna start with that outside just like we did before. We're going to need those yellows and we're going to need some bright yellows and light yellows and dark yellows. And we're also going to need some of our red and orange. It's mostly orange, so we'll call it orange color. I'm putting benzene, methionine, dull yellow, and then we're using both the medium and the light color. We need quite a bit of that, so make sure you have enough on your palette. I'm going to put a lift and a bit more of that. Make sure you're keeping your lids cleaning. That's really important so that you don't have that yucky effect happening there with your colors. Okay? Then I think we're going to use some of the reds that we see in there and we're going to create some orange with that too. Don't mind. I have a little bit of water still on my palette there. Bc paint kind of ligand. Now what we're gonna do is we're going to mix ourselves a nice orange color. So I'm going to use a little bit bigger brush there to mix that. You can mix a few of them and just see which one you like. So we're going to just grab a little bit of red there and mix that orange. Love that color. Gonna move my water up so hopefully you can see that better. And maybe we should also turn on the light. It might be too dark and here now, hopefully that's better case. Can you see that better? Hopefully you can see that part. Okay. There we go. We have our nice orangey color. A little bit of orangey red in there. I'm going to actually add a little bit more red because if you take your brush, you bring it up to your painting, your reference image, you can see whether that color. So at the top the color is a good match. So now what I'm gonna do is try and make just a little bit more of a Reddy color. Already orange. And then if I bring this color on my brush up to my reference image, I can see that that color matches with the more ready parts. So the more ready parts of these lines that stand out. And then this side, because it's darker over here, has more of a ready, really rich ready tones. And then in here it's more of the orangey. And then also over here it's more orangey. You're going to have those two colors. I'm going to grab. We're going to use this number for flat and number two flat. And I'm just gonna put this brush that I have wet. I want to keep it just here to the side for a second. And then I'm going to take, we forgot our white. We need white and pink or yellow. One brighter, lighter color. What we're going to do is a little bit different than when we did the first time around. We're going to work our way from here all the way around, mixing in that other color that we have. So I'm just putting some blending medium here on my palette. This is going to help us get the ability to blend more easier. Then I'm gonna move that color. I'm going to add some of that yellow to it. We have that nice bright sunny color. Bright sunny color. Then pretty much we could use this color if we want as the darker color in this color for the lighter color. So what I'm gonna do, just take a little bit of this, mix it into that and just take a tiny little bit, mix it into that. That's just so that we have that color harmony going on. This is going to be our middle color. And I'm going to add in just a tiny bit of that medium. Just going to keep this a wet a little bit longer. You can keep your spray brush beside you. If you spray it goes your spray spray bottle. You can keep your spray bottle beside you as well. I'm just going to ever so slightly pick up a little bit of that orangey color. We're going to mix just ever so slightly some of that orangey color into here. There we go. Then try and make sure you don't have any stuck on your brush because you don't want close and have an orangey streak. We're gonna start on this side, I think because it's our darkest sides. So we're gonna start over here, laying in the colors that we need. So down in here is a darkest space. We're just going to start by laying in these colors. You want it to be quite wet. While you're doing this. As you lay in these colors, you can start to mix them together. Don't forget to get your edge. You want that to be able to be blended into. Then we need a little bit of this lighter color down in here. Then hopefully you can see how that's blending nicely. Then I'm just taking my brush, nice light, light, light strokes. You can see how that's kind of making those little bits of lines in there. Then I'm going to take the Reddy color just on the edge of my brush there, just a tiny bit on your brush. And now I'm gonna start laying in some of those ready lines. Like so. So you can see how that's going right there. Now I'm going to pick up a bigger blob and we're going to just keep painting. You can kind of work a bit faster now. That bigger blocked. Going to work on this whole flower petal. Try not to go too far down into that bright spot where we need to have the Brady color. Just going sideways for a second and pick up some of that leftover paint, get that off my brush. And then I'm going to get this edge right here. We want a career that piece, because that's gonna be one of the petals. We round that piece up here. There we go. Now, gathering into some of that red. We're going to start putting some of that red in here. Now when you look at the reference photo, you'll see that there's not really like specific way those are kind of going in there. There's darker spots and then lighter spots. And make sure that you kind of just put the colors in or you see them. Then it kind of has like an up and down look to it. Just picking them a bit of that blending medium. Going to do a bit of some of the orange in here to love it. Now, what we need to do is rinse off our brush so we can get that color that we need in there, the light color. Pick some of that up. Some of this medium color. Again, I'm using my brush really lightly. Just kind of bring in some of those little lines that you see there. You can bring your brush upwards and do the same to the other color. And finishing off that. You can go in and add. Do you see anything that you want to add some color in? You can do that. Like so. Then in here we have like, kind of like a gray color. So how we're gonna do that is we're going to mix our number for one. Let me get that for you. Number four, that's gonna be our quinacridone magenta. Then also we're going to use number seven, which is our number seven is our green phthalo green. And then also our demo yellow medium. These are going to give us that gray color. So we can mix Zachary color and then we can put that gray color where it needs to be. But before that, just leave this little piece. We're going to keep going around and we're going to keep working on that part. So there's a really light piece in here, but then there's also down here where it's more darker. So let's put that in, then put that white piece into there. So we have this part of our petal, I think, done pretty much. Then. We need to do the part that's up here which is in this red color. If you look at this at the very edge of the flower here, that will be read. Just using your pinky to stabilize your hand. And don't worry if it gets kind of thick, that's okay because most of that is going to be covered up. Then it has little bumps. So just using the side of your brush, you could bring your brush up like this and then down like that, up like that. Like so. Then just slightly ever so slightly drying down some of that red color. Over top of I'm like barely touching my brush to the Canvas. Want to kind of give it like the feel of a real flower. It's kind of more like giving it a little bit of brush. Then we have to do this other edge over here. I'm gonna come around and do the same kind of thing that we did above. So this is going to come around and curve, match up with that, making that a little bit softer. Here we go. The first petal. Let's move on to this petal. This guy is going to take a bit of work because there's quite a lot to cover. So let's start in one part. Just lay down the darkest color. Just added a tiny bit of blending and eating them to my brush that it won't dry as quickly. Remember, don't go over that really bright part. We want to keep that bright part there. Gonna go probably halfway through the nice good stopping point right about here where there's that red line. So I'll stop there. Go like this, get her edges. All the stuff we missed right there. Because we already have that first coat. It's much easier getting on in a second coat. Now, we're going to have to add a little bit of white. We can get some of this lighter area in here, right up in here. It's a bit lighter feathering over that so that you can see it but it's not like sticking out like a sore thumb. Right about here we have another really nice light spot. Innovate. Here we have another nice white, really quite light spot. Now remember, don't worry if you get it on something that you already painted on because we're going to have to paint it again anyway. Now we need our medium yellow before this yellow dries because we wanted to get that into mixing. I'm using more of the side of the brush then using the brush flat. That's just gonna give you a put it down this way. First. And then what I do after I get all the areas that are to be painted in there. What I mean then what I do is I use my brush sideways, sort of kind of create that feather effect on the edge. You can see that that helps blend it in together. Like so. And then put your brush sideways. And that just kind of blend those colors together. And then if we go like this and pick up that darker color and put it back, make that one here. Then if we do the sideways thing again, here's what you can see. We can kinda one that'll together like so. And even bring them brush. So we don't have all those bumpy things. Now, we're going to use mostly this orangey color that we made to bring in those lines. I'm just getting a bit of water on my brush. I want to blend this to gather so that it doesn't look so Hartley of a harsh line in there. This part doesn't really have too much of this Reddy color. A little bit here. Hey, now we can move on to here. So we're going to need some more colors. Just saw that whole side of the flower to do. We put just a tiny bit of this, mix that up. Now we can move to this next spot. You want to make sure to kind of overlap that area that we just painted, that it doesn't look like we painted this in. Big wine appears down the middle of it. Next spot and we're gonna do is just up until this line here. Gonna go over top that line. Just a little bit. Make sure you have your brushstrokes. Nathan's. There we go. Then we're going to paint just that top part now. Gets too hard to paint with all the wet side. I'll do this part while we're at. I'm just going all the way down until we hit that white piece that we have to do. The bottom. Come over some of this white bit here. Just so it's not just a stark blob of white. Now, we need more white mix with our yellow. Grab this yellow and thanks, That looks good. I'll bring that in here. Pregnant. Then now using your brush softly, nicely. Go ahead and go over top of you your things if you need to, because we will be doing that anyway. Nice, nice transition blends. So I don't really like this part here, so I'm going to use some of that. I have on my brush. Bring that in a bit more, tie that in a bit more. I think I may have accidentally forgot to paint. Actually. Perfect, I love it. And I'm going to bring in some of this color. And here. Now we need that. I just don't want that tab too harsh of a line in there as we transition. Now we're going to have to mix a little bit more of that orangey color. So we're going to need red and yellow. I'm gonna put that guy in there before he dries. He was there. The orangey red color. Now, don't want too much on my brush and I'm just going to wash my brush off so that it's not going to be really saturated. Now, there's two really defined lines on here which you should already be able to see. Because we did do them on our drawing. You're going to just use the very edge of your brush and you're going to scoop some paint on the edge. You can see this side has no paint, but this side has a little roll of paint on it. And then that's the edge that you can use to just kind of go along. Don't worry if you have wiggly hands like I do. It's okay. Then writing here is another one. This one, this curve all the way around. We're going to add just a tiny bit. I'm going to add in what I'm doing. I don't have very much of that all my brush because we don't want to get to over colored. Just want it to be lightly. So I just dab, dab it off your brush. With your reference photo, you can see that there's some darker spaces. Darker spaces, you can maybe add a little more red into. I just dabbing my brush in water. It had been dab most of the water off, but I kind of want blend these in a bit. My brushes with wet, but that blend in LR easier. And then we're gonna do that same thing over top of that, it's not such a harsh line there. And just paint out myself. Kind of cleaning up the edges of this. So just making it less harsh. Let's move on to this part now. Grammar color. Go to town. Don't worry if you paint over that line, we can always make it better. Here we go. This is gonna be our last petal. We already got that edge painted on that side too. Now we're gonna do the light color. Go into that lake, cohere. More dark in here. Here we go. We're going to do the same as what we did over other areas. Really making sure that you're paying attention to the direction. I hope you're loving yours. Little bit more brightness in here. Just taking a step back from my painting and just kinda looking to see if there's any areas will touch it up. It's important that you sort of stand away from your image. Just really take it all in and see if there's any areas which you can, which you might see like, I was kind of adding in those bright things that kinda come from the middle. If you notice a spot where just doesn't look like quite the way you want it. Go ahead and add in those colors into those spaces. I love that. Now let's do the yellow that we have inside of here. And we know that those little guys there are a lighter yellows. Let's do those. Okay, so we have that. Then let's do this part. Mostly this yellow mixed with a little bit of bring that over here. Put that in there. I'm going to actually add a little bit of darkness to that because it's in the middle, so I need a little bit more darker. Better. We can see that I guess my palette got a little bit more of a mixed between these two width white in it. Durable painting on the purple part because that part will get completely covered. Just wanted to make sure that all those little yellow specs are. Here we go. How is that looking? So I'm going to take a stand up and see how that is looking to me. I think I want a little bit more Salinas notice over here coming from inside the flower. And then we also forgot we have to put the red part right here. Got do that. Then if you notice just over here at the edge of this guy is a little bit of that red color to gonna put that in the very edge of my brush. This part, I'm using just that very teeny tiny corner edge that follows all the way down. So I'm going around the edge and just paying that little tiny, tiny little shadow type color in. Ben, We also need to put my spring because it's kind of like I like that little bit more detail up here, so we'll do that first. So basically getting the edge of my brush, gonna do a nice little light red line here. Okay, So now we have pretty much the lines that we want. Let's start focusing on that middle section. This part, we're going to need our smaller brush. Again, I'm switching brushes. We're going to go to the 0 flat. So that'll be easier for us to work in this part. Let's mix those darker colors together. We're going to use 247. So now you should have written on your tubes the numbers that will make it easier for you to be able to do the mixing. Number two, which is busy Monday, Dean yellow, which I already have some on. We don't eat anymore that we just need the quick DACA road own and phthalo green because I don't have any of those yet. So we don't need too much. Of number seven, we need the least, so we just need to be empty. Empty. Okay, So now we're gonna make ourselves a dark color. Here's 12. 45. So I'm counting how many of each color it's saying to put in, we need five dollops of number two, which is the yellow. We need for dollops of the red color. So let's just do one for dollops, and then we need, oops, that was supposed to be $3. We'll put a little more yellow in it. Then we need just $1 of this green. Okay? So then let's mix that together. Gonna give us our color that we want. More green, a little bit more red. I think I accidentally mix a bit too much yellow. That's why it's so grainy. I'm going to grab a little bit more of that blue. Actually, I'm going to grab some of this blue. Blue because that's a little bit on the darker side. I'm going to add just a little bit of that here. What we should get is a darker color, more quinacridone, because I didn't put enough on here. Sometimes mixing takes a little bit of time to get the color that you want. We'll just keep mixing this until we get color that we want. That's a bit more. That's a bit more on the brownie side, which is great. But we still need it just a tad bit darker. I'm just going to mix a bit more of those two colors. We're trying to come up with that brownie kind of icky color, but I think we have more and more purpley brown. Going to test this out. Not so bad. I know exactly what I did wrong. I make the wrong color combination and we got the color that was supposed to turn out, but that wasn't the right color combination. Sorry about that, guys. So we actually need number 472, but the color amounts is different. Let's just start this over. This is number four or number two, sorry. This is the last one. Then. Number four, which is the red. We'll put that here. This one is the one we need the most of. So I'm gonna put a little bit more. We have that and then also we need we did the four, we did the seven. We did number for number seven. We didn't do yet. We did the number two. Okay, so I'm gonna put that here. Acts funny. Well, you know how to get that earthy kind of color. Now, it was actually arming rain, which this army green color was the green that was accidentally mixing. Okay, so of the number four, which is the red color there, we're going to need the most. So we need 123. We have five of that. And then we need we just need one. Of that. And then one hopes of that because I mixed half the amount. Almost perfect. Going more with that purpley brown color that we had before. Okay. Perfect. I like it. I like that color. I'm going to use this color. We're going to start by painting in. There's not much fanciness we need to do about this area here. Because that will be done when we do the highlighting areas. When we do all the fun of adding details. I want my edges to have a little bit of, like you can see that they have a little bit of feathering miss. So we're gonna do the same thing with just the side of our brush. It doesn't have to be specific way you put that in. Just allow it to come over the edge. Brush. Do some tinier ones and some bigger ones. So I'm sitting in a rolling chair, so I'm actually not rotating my canvas. You could rotate your canvas if you don't have a rolling chair. I'm just going to use my really turned to do it. And essentially I'm just moving my chair a little bit. I love that. You can see what happens as you get more of the details, put in, more of the colors put in, you can see how it comes to whites. Beautiful. I am going to turn it for this one, just makes it a bit easier for me to get at this little bit of a purple, a lighter color. Scoop up. We're adding a little bit, add a little bit of that dirty color that we created called. But there's different colors inside of this thing that we're coloring. So over here it's actually a lot lighter on that edge. Also lighter over here on this edge. Put that in. We're going to put in the dark. Just keep painting moles inside things. Okay, So I'm going to wash my brush off because there is a nice lighter space on this one as well. For that, I'm actually just going to use white on my brush because that part isn't really quite bright. So we want to create that nice light. Keep it at that. Now what we're gonna do is we're just going to leave that and we're going to let it dry. And then in the next video, I'm gonna show you how to do some of the detailing. So we're gonna be putting in that shadow in here. We're going to finish the detailing in here. And finish the detailing inside of the flower. I'll see you in that next video. 18. Painting Project: Part Four: Hey everyone and welcome to part four. Now in part four, we are going to be adding in our details. There's one thing actually, there's a couple of things I wanted to do before we start really giving you this tutorial here. And that is two things. One, what you're going to see is the color that you've put in here has dried a lot darker with acrylic. That is actually what you can expect. You can expect that your colors are going to dry a lot darker. Make sure that you keep that in mind when you are finishing up your painting. Okay, so the next thing is, is I'm going to pull out two colors that I recommend in your additional palette. These are Payne's gray and raw umber. Now these two colors would actually come really handy in this particular painting. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to show you today how to use either of these. If you can only get one, just pick one. And if you can get both, then that's great. Add these to your additional palette in the beginning. So this is going to help you create some of those darker colors that we need that we're just not quite able to create with the color palette that we have over there, because we've gotten a quite dark in here already, but we want it even darker. We're going to need something to darken that up. We're going to use Payne's gray today. Now if you wanted to, you can also use raw umber and you can create some of what we're gonna do inside of these little a, I didn't know what you call them. They're like the things that collect, the stuff the bees come and get. So if you don't have these two, you can just follow along. And I will also show you how to do one just in the colors that you have here. But I wanted to show you this alternative so that you can have both. If you do have these particular colors, you're going to need those today and then you're also going to need your spirit, your bottle. We forgot about this last time. So I wanted to make sure that I told you this time to make sure to have that handy. Now, this is just in case your paint starts to become dry, you are going to want that. So that is that. And let's get started in adding our details. First and foremost, we haven't really added any details into here. Were these little staying, stay most things I think maybe they're called. I'm not really sure. So let's go ahead and add the base paint for those so that when we come to add an even more detailed that will be all dry for us. So let's grab our anthro quinone blue, that's the number 51. We're going to grab that. And we're just now because we don't need very much paint. What I want you to do is just grab your 0 flat there and there's a hair and I don't want that in my paint. And just do a little tiny bit. We don't need much. We just need a tiny bit out of there. Let's just grab maybe two brushstrokes full of paint. Then we're going to grab our red and we're going to use the quinacridone magenta, and that's a number for that we have written on there. Hopefully you've written your numbers. Now here's a little clue, don't dip your paintbrush that you already have color into that. Make sure you wash that off first. And I'm just going to grab my cloth here and we're going to just doll up that off so we don't have that on there. And then I'm going to just grab the same of this. I'm going to put that just beside it. So we're just going to concentrate on making the famous parts first. We don't need that much paint, so you can see I put the same amount of the red. Then we're going to use the yellow, we're going to use the one that has the number two with this is benzimidazole, green, yellow medium. Those words, they just make them so hard to say. Okay, now we're gonna do is we're going to wash our brush off again. We are going to just dry that off so we don't get any water or color or anything into our paint. Really makes sure that your brush is clean. Otherwise, you will definitely be mixing paint and we don't want that. Now that we have those three colors there. So you can see those colors right there. We have those three on the palette. As you can see, we have the blue, the red, and the yellow. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take those and I'm going to mix those together so that we can make our dark color. Now if you don't have black, this is one way in which you can make a really awesome, nice darker color that you will see turns basically like a black. Let's just keep mixing that up there. So we don't have any spots that have just color. Now you can see that that's basically made our brownie black II color that we're going to need. For those stay most I guess that's what they're called out on totally making that up. I'm not really sure if that's what they're called. I am super excited because you don't know actually today while I'm recording this for you, over there on the side, you can't see, but over there actually were live on Facebook this morning and somebody from Wisconsin is actually here. Hi Katie. She's joining us as we are creating this tutorial for you. So they're all saying good morning to you, which is super exciting. This is actually the first time I've done your tutorial live so that other people can see us. So now what we're going to do is we're going to take these little Stay most things that we have here, that's what I'm calling them out. I don't know if that's what they're really called. And we are going to begin to paint the base of those. So we're using that 0 flat and we're just going to go in and remember, we're going to dash not, we're not doing a flat paint because what we want is we want this to be created sort of fluffy like so that you can see that it has those fluffy edges. Okay, so just continue working around at all those little stay Mozi things that we're calling them stay Moses. Don't worry about adding any of the other colors yet. We're going to add those soon. We just need our base first. You can get the music in your head going and you can start singing in your head if you want. Now, I won't sing out loud to you, but there is definitely music that plays in my head when I paint. It's like kind of cool because you can sort of have your own little play track while you're working here. So definitely explore that now. Don't forget to remember. Just be in the process instead of looking for perfection, we want to be in the process. So if you have your, I have my, just for those who are watching, I have my reference image in front of me. So make sure you have that either on an iPad, your computer, you can also print it out if you so wish. Just don't really like wasting the paper. I choose not to print it out and I have it on my iPad instead. We're going to keep going in here and just adding in. As we dab. You can maybe you can even hear that. I'm not sure if you can hear that. On there. There we go. You got that? Now let's move over to this one. It's basically like making just little polka dots. We don't want the paint to Fick because if the paint is too thick, it's gonna take too long to dry. And we don't want it to take too long to dry. Now you should notice that this is going to stand out from that purple that we created before. So hopefully you can see that there's that contrast in color there. So that you can notice that these are a different and they're not blending into your insides of your petals there. We have two more left of these. Let's continue painting now. I hope you're having an amazing day and that hopefully where you live, the sun is shining. I don't know. There's something about a morning when the sun is shining. I love it this morning and inside my window It's a little bit cloudy. And we have actually, well, it's pretty sunny, sunny, cloudy and we have some clouds floating in the mountains. I have to honestly say that I do live in a pretty good place to create paintings because there's an abundance of stuff I can take photographs. I'm really happy about that. Oh, righty then. Okay. Now that we have this all completed, and actually Katie's asking us, what are we painting today? So let's show where what we're painting. She can join in with us. We're painting the inside of a flower. You can see that there. We have already done in parts 123. And now we're working on part four, which is putting in our details. If you want to take this tutorial, just let me know and I'll show you how to get that. So there we go. We have that color. Now, when you look at your reference image there that I've provided for you, you can see that these little, I don't even know what you call those things, the little bottom of this day, most things, they are quite dark. So as you can see, we've mixed up that color, but how are we going to get it the darkness that we need now this is where personally, I reach for my Payne's gray. This just adds that little pop of color, but it also out. So let's get that darkness that we just can't get by sometimes mixing the three primary colors together. So if you have Payne's gray, you can add this into your mixture now. Remember clean your brush and then just a doll up. You're not going to need very much of this. We just need to make a little bit more darker. So hopefully you've added that color to your kit. And we're just gonna take that and we're going to just mix that. What we're doing is mixing that into the color that we already have. So that it gives us just that little bit of a deeper color to set this apart. And then these, they don't have any fluffy stuff on them. So we're just going to go ahead and we're going to paint those puppies in. If you feel more comfortable using a smaller brush, you can definitely do that for this. And then don't forget which I am going to use this smaller brush. So this smaller brush is the three slash is 0. So you can see how much more smaller that is compared to this brush. Of course. I'm actually going to wet it first, then I'm going to roll it. So I rolled it in my towel just to get that nice tip. Then I'm going to roll it in my paint over here. We have it just on the tip because just around this yellow part here, that dark color surrounds it. A little bit easier to paint that with this little teeny tiny brush. Now, normally you put your brush in the water, but I'm gonna be working quite fast. So I'm not gonna need to worry about my brush drying up over there on me. Let's just paint this section and now I'm going to just do the other ones. I have this. I'm gonna do all the small things. There we go. Remember not to be hard on yourself. This is the time in your painting journey that you will notice. Complete difference in your painting as you go along, It's important to just be patient with yourself in this part of the process. That is because this part of the process is going to be what's going to make your painting really stand out because it's those tiny little details that actually make most important impact on your painting. Just be patient. Just relax into the process. Just enjoy being inside of that space or everything else is completely disappeared. I love that part about it. Kind of nice. You might hear the children outside because it is full-time right now this morning. That was already wrong. Getting Started a little later than usual, woke up this morning and I was a little bit had a little bit of a harsh harsh voice, so I'm glad it's not hard anymore. Remember twirling my brush. You can see that hopefully just lightly twirl it in your fingers like this. And what that's gonna do is just going to get just that tip really nice and sharp. But it's also going to make sure you don't get too much paint on the brush. And we're just going to go around those little yellow pieces that we have. Come back in and load your brush up again. We're going to do the same for this one. Then we have one more like that. So same idea. Loading your brush and then coming in. Just painting that round area. Alrighty, then you can see already just how much your image has transformed. Adjust by adding in those little colors there. We're going to show the people who are joining us live that we've added in those colors. And you can kind of see how that's really been brought out. Now, while we let that dry, we're going to move on to this little middle part. We already have our base color. Now it's time to actually use some of that brownish color that we already created. We're going to just grab our titanium white, which is your number eight that has on there. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna just put a tiny little dollop here on our palate. We don't really need that much because it's really just for that. So don't need too much now make sure that your cap is clean so you don't get your tubes. Closed shot. That's never never find when you can't open your tube. But guess what? I'll record a tutorial that shows you how to open them, even if you've accidentally got them stuck. Because I think that's really important to know how to do. So I'm just grabbing some of that black E brownie color that we created there. We're going to grab some of our titanium white. We're going to mix that into. There and that's gonna give us our grayish color. You can see that there. It gives you a little bit of a grayish color. You can either use this color that you made here, this color here, or this is where raw umber can come in handy. So let's just put a little bit of that raw umber on here. And I'm going to show you the difference between that raw umber and that color that we mixed ourselves. What happens if we take this white? And we're just going to make a small pile over here and we're gonna put a little bit of that raw umber and just a tiny bit. And you can see the slight difference in that color. You can see that it's still kind of on the grayish side. I'm gonna bring this closer to so you can see it. But look at how much more lighter that is. So lets out of curiosity, wash our brush off. We're going to take a little bit more of this white here. We're going to mix that in here. You'll see that we continue to get a lighter grayish color. This color is actually going to come in handy for our little shadow that we have here. So we're going to keep that color for that. And then you can either use this little brown color that you just mixed, the darker gray or this color, whichever one you want. Because remember, it's not about being perfect, It's about expressing yourself in your own creation. You can use either one of those colors that you want inside of this portion. I'm actually going to choose to use this darker color here. But I'm I have a wet paint brush so I don't get too much color because we don't want too much color on there. Just want a bit. Then we're going to come in. We're just going to add in the hair on here. We're going to add in just that ever so slight, we want to see that greenish color underneath it because when you look at the reference photo, you can see that it's not completely covered up. You can definitely see that green color underneath. Then we're gonna come in here and we're going to just lightly, lightly tap our brush down. Because this comes down and it does not really solid issue. You can see through it. So I'm just going to add that in there right now. Now what I'm going do is I'm going to completely dash my brush off so it's not wet because we don't want these really hard edges there. Then just keep dabbing your brush off so it's not completely wet. Then you're basically blending in that color so that you don't have a harsh line. You can see, hopefully you can see that how now we don't have that super harsh line in there. Just have a little bit and then we're going to do over here, more shadowed over here, more darker. So we're going to paint that in there. And all I'm using is the watery stuff that we took off our brush already. I didn't I did not dip it into the color anymore. I'm just using the water that we had from our brush that was already colored, that we dabbed off like soap. Then just that very, very corner edge here we need a little bit darker, so we're going to just dapper brush into that dark color, then just dab it off. So all you have is just a teeny bit on your brush. And then we're gonna come in here and we're going to darken this edge of it. So this part also has a little bit of a darker space in here. I'm going to come back in. That's the good thing and you can always add in what you need as you go along. Okay? Now we need to make ourselves a little bit of green. We're going to use the, I hate these words. Visit imidazole, yellow light, which has your number one on it that we've put on there. So we're gonna splat some of this on just a tiny little bit, tiny little bit, basically just kids in the palette. There. We go. Just a tiny little bit because all we need is just for that tiny little part at the top, I'm going to be repainting here. I think I'm going to put a little bit of the medium 12. That's the number two. Let's put that just kids did palette again, just a tiny little bit. There we go. Then let's go ahead. Now, do you remember what color we mix with yellow to get green? Anybody? You're right, we do add the blue. We're going to add actually the phthalo blue and the green shade because that's the color we want anyway. And just again, just kiss you. 19. Painting Project: Part Five: All right, so here is the second part of our adding in the details, a story about the chop off their off my phone rang and one of my phone rings, it cuts off the video, which is super sucky, even though I have it on airplane mode, it still does that. Anyway. Let's get back to it. We're going to be mixing the green. Here. We have our blue and our two yellows. And you know what, I just totally notice. One thing I always tell you guys to do is put on your painting apron so you don't get your clothes dirty. And this is why artists have two kinds of clothes. You have clothes that don't have paint on them and close that don't have paint on them yet. Because sometimes you just want to get started and you totally forget to put on your apron. So I'm just totally putting all my apron here so that I don't get my clothes all dirty with paint. And yes, I do have unzipped painted on clothes. I don't need anymore painted on clothes. So let's get into doing our green. Let's check out what's going to happen if we mix just a tiny bit of this blue here and here, you're going to wash off our brush just so we don't have a blue and we don't get that mixed into the yellow. And then we're going to take a dollop of this yellow here. So this is the medium one. Then we're going to wash that off so we don't have any of that on our brush. And then we're going to take just a dollop of this one. And let's mix these together and see what kinds of green we get me. I love this one. This one's super bright. Just take all that yellow mix it all in. So you can see that that gives us a really awesome, awesome possum, green, a lot of that color. It's a little too green for what we're looking for, but I'm nothing a little mixing can't fix. And then we're going to mix this guy. And you'll be able to see the difference here in 1 second. Pick up the rest of that pain. Now we have these two greens. And you can see that this one here is much more closer if you look into your photo there of what we're using, this one's much more closer to those earthy greens. This one is very close to awesome brightness, Wow, I love that green. We can use it if we want to. Then let's take wash your brush and then let's just take a little bit of that white that we still have here. Just mix just a tiny bit into that section. You can see that now we get this kind of awesome mentee color green. Then let's see what happens with the other one. I don't know if we have any more wet white. We do. There we go. You can see here that the two, between the two greens, we are leaning more towards this color for what we see inside of there. We're going to use that color. Also going to add just a tiny bit more yellow to that because I want it to be more to the yellow side than to the blue side. Remember when we went over our color wheel, how we did that, how we could go from 11 degree to the other and move that and shift that color to the color that we needed it. So remember if you went through that tutorial, you'll hopefully remember that. So I'm just taking just a tiny bit of that green that we already pre-mixed. Now I'm mixing that into this yellow and check it. Now we have a completely third color of green, as you can see here. This one is leaning more towards the yellow side of the scale, and that one is leaning more towards the blue side. So this is the color we're going to use, and I'm going to add just a smidgen bit of white to that so I can get it a little bit more of a lighter color them what we have here. Let's just add the white where we already have the white because I want to make sure we keep our palette as clean as possible to finish this up. Okay, So now we're going to mix that in and I'm just going to take just one side of it for right now. Mix that in because I want some of that darker green too. There we are. Now. We have looked at that with just a few colors. Look how many varieties of green we've been able to get. So don't worry if you don't have every paint color under the entire sun, you can make pretty much every paint color under the sun. You want just that one pack of colors that you have in your kit. Now we want to go ahead and we're going to add a little bit of this greeny color in that area where we already put that brownie color. So I'm going to just take a tiny bit on my brush. You can see that we just dabbed off most of it. We're gonna go over and I'll hopefully hopefully this is all dry. Yep, it's all totally dries. You can put your hand on there. Hopefully yours is dried too. We're just going to add a little bit more some of that green color into here. Like so. Tff, well, I'm just working around that color that we already added. Just kind of feathering, feathering it into those edges so you can see like feather it in just like that. It's just melting together real, real beautifully and nice. I'm going to slightly go over top a little bit of some of that. Now down here on this edge, you can still see the pencil mark a little bit from where we used your drawing template to create this drawing on your palette for you. Bringing in some more of that green in there. I really liked this color so beautiful. Let's bring it in here. You still have a little bit of pencil drawing here to cover up. Going to bring some of that green color and up here, just so we have a little bit more definition in-between. Love it, okay, so now we have that color. Now we're going to mix a little bit of yellow with some of that green into it so that we can get this middle part, the color that we want. All righty, let's put this yellow. We're using a weight that's not the yellow silicon booth. There we go. This is the color. This is the number one, this is the yellow light. So we're going to use this, we're going to just plop it up someone here. Not gonna need that much. So we'll just use a tiny bit. Then let's take some of this green, not very much. We're going to put that in a pile over here. I have just a tiny little dollop of that green you can see there. Then we're going to, with a dirty brush, we're going to use up some of that yellow. Let's mix that in there. We want to bring this even more to that yellow side. There we go. Look at our reference image. Just a tiny bit more yellow. Perfect. Do. Now what I'm gonna do is scoop a little bit of that color and put it into its own file. I'm going to scoop a little bit of the white. We're going to add that in to that color. That's gonna give us a little bit of just a lighter yellow. Perfect. Okay, so now we have that color. Wash off your brush. Dab it off so it's clean and then just take this white, I'm going to put that just beside or yellow and just take a tiny ever so slight that yellow. We don't want this to become too dark. Now, you can see there's a slight difference between that yellow that we just mixed here and this one because this one has the green in it. So we're going to use this more for a shadowing and then we're going to use this more for the light. Now there's a few layers we're going to have to put up on there, but we're going to paint this whole entire thing first with that lighter color that we just created. Makes sure to go over your pencil lines so you don't see those when your final painting is completed. We're taking that light color or just working without light color for right now. You're doing such a great job. I know you are because you're hearing. Just being hears means that you're going to do a great job. Because remember, it's just about the experience that you're having and really creating with what you have. You can already start to see just by adding so little bit of colors and really creating that detail aspect. How much this is already changed your painting. That's why I say being patient with yourself as the most important part. Just be patient. It will come. You will get it. Okay. We're almost finished. This lighter color. I'm gonna just make this a little bit more circularly there. You can see that, but they're going to come back over this just a bit more so we can see that pencil line. Lovely. There we go. You can see how just doing those tiny little bit of changes has completely changed that inside of your painting, It's all about the little things they really do matter, especially when it comes to this. Now that we have our base color, now let's move into this little bit of a darker color. And you can see that over here on this part, we have a much more of that darker color coming in, going to add just a tiny bit of yellow to my brush while I do that tiny bit. Because I want to add just a little bit more sun, venus over here, because it has a little bit more funniness. As you can see in your reference photo, there has a little bit more Salinas. Then we're going to move into that greeny color that we used to just come in here and use that down here just to provide that little bit more of a shadowy color. And of course, remember when you're working with me and we don't waste any paint because paint is awesome and we want to use up every little stitch we can k. So now we're going to come into this side and we're gonna create there's that little T intersection thing. I don't know if you recall it, but you can see it right here. So we're gonna come in and we're going to create that tiny come down this edge a little bit. So you can see that it's giving us that little bit of shadowing this. And then we're gonna do this side over here. So we come in through here. Just this underneath that underneath part. Just maybe a bit more. We're not putting too much paint on your brush because we don't want to make a completely solid line. Just want to give it the feeling of that shadow there. Perfect the window. Love it. Okay, So keep looking at your reference image so you can see where you want that color to go. Putting a bit more in there. Just layer the color on top till you get the effect you are looking for. Now, I'm actually going to go and we're gonna start to dip into, probably didn't need to wet your brush. This gray color that we already made. I just wet my brush just to make this come back alive. You could use your spray bottle if you wanted to make it come back alive. There we go. Now I'm gonna come in here and we have quite a bit of shadow that comes through here. I'm just going to wash my brush off a bit. We're just adding in some of those shadows now. Perfect. Okay, and then we have a little bit of shadow under here, right under where you can see we're gonna be putting the lightest space that comes under here. Now we're just tapping a dry brush like we did before, just blending that in. There we go. But now we're going to let that dry and we're gonna go in and we're going to work on this middle part of the flower. We're going to use our zeros are three slash is 0. And we get to put in the fun colors. We get to add in the dollops of you call that stuff, you know, that stuff where it was like Paul in, That's it, pollen. Now we get to add in the polling. So we're gonna take our two yellows and we're going to mix those together that we get. Not just like a hey, that we just took this color out of the tube kind of color. But now we get a color that sort of a mix between the two. I'm just using the rest of that yellow that I had there, but it doesn't seem to be enough. So we're going to put a little bit more of this color. There we go. Sometimes you end up needing a little bit more than you think you're going to need. Let's mix those puppies together. Here we go to dollops of exactly matching this. And we're going to use this as our base color. Then. Now what we're gonna do is we're going to take our tip again. We're just gonna go straight in, circle, circle, circle around. That's going to give you that on your tip. And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go onto those. I think they're called steam houses. I don't really know. I'm good and told me I have to look that up. And we're gonna come in here and we're just going to lightly touch that brush. Small dots, bigger dots, medium dots. We're going to go over those little steam. Oh, see things like soap. Now you can see that those guys, they got some little bits of stuff on them. Pollen. Then we're just going to keep coin on those guys. The poll and over here on this guy. Like so. Then this guy over here, we're just going to continue adding that on to those guys. They're free to add them wherever you want because it's your painting. You can add them more reveal like you can add as many dots as you want, as little dots as you want. We look at that house. Wait. Okay. Now we can do this guy. We have one more up here. You totally did it. Awesome. Next, you can see that we have some of those that have maybe the Became on their, dropped them on the flower there. So right in this guy he has some yellow polka dots of that too. Let's go ahead and add a few little polka dots. What that will be dropped on that little flower for us. I love it. I'm gonna decide that my painting, my guy, he had a B that was just flying around. They're having a bunch of fun. I'm going to put a little bit of yellow dots. My little pedal you guys like so. And I think this guy, he's going to have some over here. Great. Okay, Let's guy, maybe the wind blew some over here. Do some there. Perfect. So now that we got those little guys in, What we're gonna do next is we're actually going to use our brownie gray color here that we had before and just wet it a little bit so that your brush essentially is going to just have it on the tip. And we're gonna go into those little steam. Most guys, I'm going to apply some of that color. Now. What that's gonna do is it's going to give it a little bit. I'm trying to apply it close to some of those bigger circles and that's just going to give it that sort of 3D ish effect on your flower because you're going to have dimension kind of stuff on it. Awesome possum, a couple in here, so we don't have too much, just a little bit. And then we're going to go ahead and I think I'm going to actually just come inside of this brown color here that we have. I just want to make these a little bit more fluffier edge. I'm just wiggling my brush back and forth on just that darker part. Not going to put too much of this in here, but kinda want it to look a little bit more fluffy. One thing I hate looking for five years is when I wake up in the morning, my hair's all fluffy because I had a shower the night before. I don't know if you have that problem, but I definitely very fun. Even though you won't see this very much, what's bringing that into the purple a bit there. I won't do the same up here for this guy. We're just making a little bit more fuzzy like those edges. You're almost finished your first painting. Great. Maybe this isn't your first painting. Maybe you've painted before. If this is your first painting. Congratulation. I could get really into a lot of detail here sometimes because I just like making it feel alive and vibrant in that kind of stuff. So you don't want to do any of these little fine details like I'm doing. You totally don't have to. This, I just find it just makes your painting stand out just a little bit more. Then we got our last one to make some of those wiggle fors. Going to have to give you guys your own little dictionary because I think wiggle for his is totally name I just made up for you. So enjoy it. Go. Okay. Now that we got that done, let's put in those final details right inside of this little guy right here. We got our little dark spots. And now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to actually just go into that same brown that we were just using. This is a raw amber. That's what we're using. That's what that is in case you've forgotten. Now we're going to just do tiny little dots. There's a little too much water on there. Kind of random or brush. That's what your fingers where if you accidentally get a little too much water you drink. And then it will come off. Same idea with the, with the Paul and we're just using DTD, little tiny little spectrally dotty things. We're just going to keep going and I don't have too much on my brush just a tiny bit. Want to watch? Come down here and we're gonna put some in here. I think I sound like that tiger on the commercial for guys like, well maybe you might know how that cereal bowl, I think it's like a tiger serial. Now we're doing the same but with white because there's these little teeny tiny In see a little for guys that come off the edge here. You can see I just tipped into that white. And then now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just anchor your pinkie so I find it easier. If you angry your pinky like that, then you're going to kind of just come down like this. And we're gonna do little tiny fors that come off. This little part here. Too much water again, don't just dump off the water. I think my white is a bit too dry, so we're going to grab a little bit more white. Just to read it. Perfect. Do teeny bit of white. Then we're going to just head in there with our brush, making just that tip. That's gonna be important. Lay down your pinky Barrett. There we go. Very, very little light, Tiny brushstrokes on edge there. I'm going to carry it up into here where it goes as well, like little bowls, verbals. Then we're going to do a little balls over here on this part too. Whatever is. Those top pieces you're gonna think of as putting them fireballs on. We wouldn't see that on this edge here because that's the underneath part. You would only see it on the top part. Just making little tiny lines like so because you liked that little verbal effect. And then same with this one. Just look at your reference. If you need to, this guy, he's gonna come just a little bit over here. And it's going to come now into this middle part, not that edge. So make sure that you're keeping it in this middle part right here. Just like so. I love it. Okay? Now we have one last thing to finish this off. Now remember we have a few people with us here and we are doing this in acrylic. So I'm going to just take this image. I'm going to bring it closer to them so they can see what we've done so far. If he started with us this morning, you can see how much detail we've added into that center area. Now we're going to start to add the detail and the around about area. Righty. So I actually want to add a little bit of purple into that outside area because I think we have this really beautiful purpley color and effect here in this middle. I think it would be so nice if we just add a little bits of that through there. Before we do that, we're going to just add in that little shadow that we still have to add in because we have our gray here. And I've really watered that down again just like we did in that middle section. Okay. And you want it watery, going to dash it off and then we're gonna come over here and we're just going to paint over top of that yellowy section that we have here. Just going to give it this grayish kind of color to it. But you can see that the yellowness is still under because even though it's a shadow, it's still has the color of the flower underneath it that doesn't disappear. There. We are going to let that dry. Now I'm going to make purple. Does anyone remember what two colors we mix together make purple. You got it right? Red and blue. We're going to use our quinacridone magenta as our red. And we're going to use our and through quinone blue. Yeah, that's a big word. Okay. So we're going to use those two and we're going to mix those two together. If we added the yellow to this, guess what would happen? We would have our blocky color again, but we don't need a black color anymore. Now we're doing what's gonna be our finishing touches. I loved this part. This is the part where you've just got to have fun. I don't know. I just love, actually, I love all about painting every single thing. Alrighty, then. Now we have our blue and our red there. Magically we're going to mix those two together are blue and our red color. And you can see this is kind of a pinky red, which is awesome for purple. Let's go ahead and mix that in. And voila, you now have this amazing, beautiful, awesome purple color, which is great. Love it. There we go. Now we want to make sure that we tie that into this area here that we've already done. This purple is right, I would say. We're going to use it to do a width, a bit of detail in there. First inside of these guys. What we're gonna do is we're just going to go ahead and just make some cool little lines in here. Just lightly with your brush, just kind of coming in and adding in some lines into there, like little veins. That's the perfect word. Little b. Add in some little veins of that purple in there. Adding in some more paint in here. One thing I forgot, we need to put our white in there still. I'm not guy. Now remember the direction that these are going in. So you want to add your veins in the direction you're a little pedal guys are going in. That's really important. Let's go ahead and add them into this guy. Now, not adding tons, just little bits here and there. That's going to tie all of this together. You can turn your page. I was gonna say, like we're reading a book, you can turn your painting to make it easier for you to be able to add in those little lines. Feel free to do that if you need to. All righty. We now have our little lines in there. And then what I am going to do is I'm going to take some of this yellow. I think I'm going to mix that into this purple. Now, what that's gonna do is it's going to give us that deep kind of purple that we had here. Not so much that bright. Like whoa, that's like I need to put some shades on kind of color. Okay, so now we have this kind of muted purple, I guess you'd call it just not so bright. I'm going to roll our brush in it, shrink and we're gonna roll it out so that we have just that little tip because we don't want too much, we just want a tiny bit. Because if we get too much, that's gonna be like scary. Then we're just going to lightly, lightly, lightly, ever so lightly add in, following the lines that you already have. Just added in some tiny bit of purple onto that. Like so. Then once I get back in and make sure you're using the color that of a side that you want. We're gonna do the same for this guy. Can come in here. Just going to add in that purple to that red areas. Gonna come in here. You don't want to keep putting too much paint on your brush k, we just have a tiny little bit more, just dashing it here and there. I don't want to do some curvy lines. So I get a little tiny bit more. When you do this ad, the ad, your first stroke on the areas you know you're going to need the darkest first because that will get the majority of the paint off and then you won't have to worry if you accidentally dash a little too much on PR. Just take, actually going to take this brush. One that guy in a bit. That's where you can do if you accidentally get wool to monitor, you can use your brush and then you can just go like this and then just kind of blend it in like that. You don't have to worry about if you accidentally get a little too much, That's okay. You can just always broke with it. Let's get this color over here now. Little bit in there. I'm definitely loving this. It's like fire. So awesome. Okay. Now I'm going to turn it this way so we can get these guys, these here. These are a few come towards yourself that in a bit here. Then I'm going to use this brush. I'm gonna go in and just smoothing that out a bit. Here. It's almost like a shadow color. I'm going to just drag that across there. So there's not that much purply color on my brush at all. Actually. I'm going to drag that across there. We still have a little bit to fix up in there because we have to cover up our pencil line, but pretty close. I'm just adding in just ever so slightly that little bit of this purply color. This is awesome because I almost forgot about this part. Actually we're going to use just that little bit of the magenta that we have here. We're going to go and this is the edge of the flower. So we're going to really make that shine out here. Because we need to do that. We want to make sure that we have these awesome little tidbits go. Okay, then we just need to add a tiny bit more purple into this area. We can get that with a little bit of purple. I'm really liking this one a lot. Right now. I have literally, basically no paint on my brush. You just want it to be able to scrape across top of the Canvas. They're just picking up those little bumpy things that are on the Canvas. And add a little bit, just a tiny bit of this, that little pinky edge that we have here, coming off. My red button. A little magenta down the corner. So we have that. And now I'm going to just finish off that edge of that here where we have to kind of sort of cover up that wind going to come into it. Just using that pure yellow. Use. Dash off my brush for a second. I want to get some more of this gray. And here, you can always keep layering your colors as you need them. You just need this shadow a little bit more darker. Oops. That's dry. Let's go over here. I want to cover up some of that red that we carry this shadow is we can see in our reference image it kind of comes all the way down into here. So we're gonna go yeah. I think that's pretty much it. I think there we have all the details we're gonna put in. Just we forgot one. This, we're gonna need to make that little bit more as you can see in your reference image, we have, we have to get some of this white and put it in there. So I'm just using pure white, but I'm also not, I don't have very much on my brush. So essentially it just kind of getting across the color that we already have there. That you can still see that color sort of shining through. It's not like using a stark white. And then just look at your reference image. And there's a few other areas where you might see where we have this really light like color coming in, right in here, right in here. So now we're just adding in just those little, tiny little bit of lumbar that we need. Last space in here a little bit, we're going to add a little bit here. A little bit on this tip is where I'm gonna put a pin here we have two little lighter spaces. We're going to add just a tiny little bit of their tiny little bit in here. Okie, dokie. All right. I think that is everything for our details. In the next video, we're going to do everything for the Finalizing of our painting. I will see you in the next video. 20. Painting Project: Finalizing : Now for the last part of our journey of this beautiful flower. Now, I don't know about you, but I actually really don't like that part. So when you're finalizing your image, this is where you're going to want to finish anything that you like, that you don't like you can make changes if there's something that you don't like. For me, I just I'm not sure about it's supposed to be a shadow, but I don't really like the way it turned out. So I'm going to just go ahead and my palette is dry here because this was from the last part of the tutorial. I had not watched it yet. We're going to just put some of that yellow that we used in the tutorial. I'm gonna put that on. Now you don't have to make this change if you don't want to, but I'm totally going to make this change. I'm just going to paint over this shadow area that we have here. Because number one, there's a bit too much red that kind of seeped through here, right here. So I'm going to change that a bit like so. And also you could still see that pencil line. I wanted to make sure that I get rid of that pencil line. I'm just going to change the shadow area just a bit because it angles a bit more out rather than how I had it like that. This is just me being a little bit picky but Just wanted to still at least show you how you can. Now I am going straight back into that gray. I didn't mix anymore because it just wet it with my brush. I'm going to angle this a little bit more. I guess I didn't really have to cover up the whole thing, but I just wanted to that line. There we go. That's better. Angle that out a bit. I like that better. Okay, so other than that, I was pretty happy with what we created. So now all that you need to do is sign your piece of artwork. Now, you can use either the small brush, this is the liner brush, which is the three slash 0. And I recommend that you sign fairly close, say somewhere up in here in case you ever take a photo of it and you want to crop it or something like that. I actually still have this really wet here. I'm actually just going to use that paint that I have. Because it's there. You can use either your Payne's gray, your raw umber, your purple mixture that you mixed up there. Whatever it is that you want to use, you could mix up a new color and use that. I'm actually going to, I think I'm going to use that purple. I'm just going to assign it. You can use your brush. Oh, I should actually show you the other way to do it too. Or what I have also done, which I prefer this method on acrylic, you can totally do this, is I have these pens and you can either use, this is a Faber Castell Pitt pen, it's called, and this is a brush version. These are archival, so you don't have to worry about them wrecking your, your image. And also you could use a micron. This is the ones that I usually use and this is the micron numbers is one, 01. I'm going to use that to actually sign my painting. And then you just come up with whatever your signature is. I always done mine with a heart and the date. Like so. And wallah, you now have your completed painting. Great job. Now it's time to post it inside of the community so we can see your beautiful creation. 21. BONUS: Using the Carbon Paper Method For Laying Down Your Drawing: Hello and welcome soulful creator. In today's video, I wanted to go over the carbon method for drawing. And there are only a few simple things that you need when you are going to be doing the carbon version of transferring a drawing onto your canvas. So you can see here, these are the things that you're going to need. You're going to need an image. Whether that's an image like you see here, which these are the kinds of images you will see inside of your course that you can print. And then I go through and I actually will do the drawing portion for you. I'd keep these in I have lots of them in here that I've printed. And I just keep them in this little sleeve kind of thing here. And then I just keep putting them inside the sleeves so that they don't get wrinkled and you can use them over and over and over again. So the next thing you're going to need in the carbon copy version of drawing onto your canvas is of course your canvas or whatever it is that you're going to be painting on. That could be canvas paper, it could be a larger canvas, whatever it might be. Now, just on the caution side, generally the images we're going to be working with will be eight by ten. So these are eight by ten canvases. And I find them really great for just really being able to paint an entire painting in a shorter amount of time. But also it helps when you are a beginner not to feel overwhelmed by the giant blank white canvas. So those are the two things you're going to need so far. You're going to need your canvas or whatever it is that you're going to be painting on. You're going to need your trends for image. So that's two. Then you're going to need a pencil. Now, I choose to use the Staedtler, 0.5 millimeter. This is a mechanical pencil. I just liked that it gives really nice crisp lines, but I have also used the dollar around me. These are my absolute favorite pencils to draw with. So you'll get to know that about me as we go. I do have a link on must have art supplies.com to the specific things that I use. So you don't have to go searching around for what it is that I use. You can find them quickly and easily. Just make sure that your pencil is sharp enough to give you a good line. And then also, I love the Staedtler metal sharpener. I always find those work well. You can get carbon paper in this kind of forum where it comes in like little pouches. But you can also, I have found it also in a pads of carbon paper. Carbon paper is of course, the one of the most important steps of this entire process because without the carbon paper, there's no way you can transfer the image down. This makes it super easy, especially if you're a beginner to paint her or if you don't necessarily like wasting time drawing. Now you can see this one I haven't used. I just opened it up. There is a lighter side and then if we flip that over, you see how there is a darker side. Now, word of caution with this, as you use these more and more and more because you can just reuse this. You don't have to always get a new sheet. I use them until literally they can't make any more lines. Just make sure that when you are working with it, that you know which side is which. So I often get the question about how do I know? So oftentimes, even just when I'm starting to do tutorial for you, you'll see me just go like this and then I'll double-check. And sure enough we know we have it the right way. To do the carbon method. You're going to simply lay down your paper and you're gonna choose your image. So let's just pick an image here. Just looking through my book. How would we pick the image that we're actually gonna be, is gonna be the first image you're going to paint. That makes sense. I'm gonna grab that out. This is the image we're going to work with. The next step would be to put your carbon paper down. And I like to line up the edges. So I have an edge here and an edge here because it's a little bit bigger than the canvas size, so that it's easier for you to then line up your picture. So we're going to want to take that down to here. And then just make sure that your whole page is covered. And then you're going to want to move that over so that the square is, you can see if I push this down, that is what we're actually going to see on our Canvas. So just make sure that you align these correctly because if you align your sheet way up here, you're going to have all this empty space. Then you would simply just go ahead and you would trace the image and as much of the details as you can. And then you would simply remove this and you'll see in the tutorials that then we would have an actual image down on here that we could paint. So that is essentially how you do the carbon method of laying down your drawing. I look forward to seeing you in the next video.