Acrylic Painting : Easy Seascape Painting

1. Intro: Mother Nature is the ultimate inspiration. When you are feeling sluggish, simply walking outside and getting fresh air can do wonders for your mood and outlook. Often Nature, Beauty can take your breath away. I always feel attracted towards nature, especially mountains, valleys, trees. Hello, creative people. Many of you know me as the art gallery, throwaway, Instagram, social media. My name is more units Anna and I am an Equity card, exist and maintain. This nature level has created one exciting tutorial for you guys that is easy seascape painting with acrylic medium. You will love the outfile if you follow each and every step that I have shown you in the complete in this glass as shared with you guys. What all tools we will be needing for the complete painting. Then the blending of technique to give a smooth texture to the background. Then the detailing of the water using layering method. Then two types of clouds, creating splash water texture. Complete detailing of realistic bumped three. Finally, our painting is ready. This is the painting which we will be creating an art class into step-by-step technique. And I hope you guys like it. I'm really excited to share this painting with you guys. I hope you are also. Don't waste their time and start with it. 2. Materials Required: Hello friends, welcome back. So now let's discuss about the materials which we'll be using for this painting. This is the final product which will be making. So let's start with first the Canvas. This is the 100% A's primed canvas, and this is medium grained. This is of size eight inch. You can say. This is the completely primed canvas. And so this is the palate, which is self-made palette is a glass palette, which I'll be using for this painting. Palette is very nice. It's Beni, we use this glass palette. You can easily remove the colors when it gets dried off. Now, this is the easel, small easel which will be needing for keeping our Canvas. It's not compulsory If you don't have, it's okay. Now let's talk about the brushes. So these are the brushes which we'll be using. Let's start with first the bigger size flat brush. This is which we'll be using for painting the background and the smaller size flat brush for some detailed things. And then again, more smaller size flat brush. There are three different sizes of flat brush than this is a mop brush, which we'll be using for creating clouds than the liner brush. And then this is the Bristol round brush. Then the parrot night for mixing the color. Apart from that, these are the few brands which I'll be using for painting. These are different for different brands which I use for painting. In acrylics. Whatever brand you have you can use. And this is the container which I use for removing the paint from the brush and the clot or the tissue, whatever you feel like you can take it. Apart from these materials will be needing the masking tape. And depends on if needed. Then this is the main painting which we'll be doing. Now let's start with the colors which we'll be using. The first color which is Windsor Blue, Titanium, white, green, purple. These colors we'll be using for the clouds, that is for the background and for the clouds. The next color is Prussian blue and black, which will be using and also the Winsor blue, which we'll be using for the water apart. Then comes the hookers, green, lemon, yellow, and burnt sienna for three-part. If you don't have hookers green, then always you can use sap green. This Prussian blue, black, hookers green, lemon yellow bond embodies all of the colors which we'll be using for the c and the three-part. So let's start with the painting. So default the clouds, these colors which we'll be using, then comes the water part, then the portion blue and black. And for this, these color, we'll be using it. For this drug part. I'll be using that black color and bond umbo, these two colors, which we'll be using. So let's start now. 3. Some Basic Techniques: Welcome back. Let's first discuss about the basic techniques which we will be using here before starting the painting. This is the painting which we'll be doing. Let's plot start with the color blending technique. So here I'm using the flat brush for color blending. The colors which I'm using is Winsor blue. First layer will be benzyl blue and a little bit of white. So the first top layer will be dark. And as we move down, the color when lightened up, exactly what we're doing is we are adding tend to the color. That is, we are adding more whites as we go down. So first clear, then second layer which has more lighter than the above layer. And then as we go down, we will be adding more of white and will be start blending the color. Moving the brush to and fro motions. This is how the blending is done. Now here I'm just adding white, remove excess of blue color, and I've just added wide and I'm just starting to blend the color. Since this is smaller area and I'm using a bit quadrants, paper's wet will not come as smooth as it does. But whenever you are using any Canvas or any, any board, the blending will comes, come perfectly fine when you are applying this technique. This is by using just one color. But when you are using two different colors, you have to use the same technique. But more of white toward especially you have to make sure that when you're using the blue and yellow color because it dawns or greenish color. So in that case you have two blended very carefully. You have to use more of white so that, that both the color does not mix and dance and do complimentary color that is green because we don't want that. If you see that the color is drying up, then you again take more amount of color and then again start blending it. This is the technique which we do for most of the blending of acrylic medium. I'm just what I'm trying is to remove that line which divides the two different colors. You can see I'm just trying to remove that line and making it a smooth finish. Same technique we will be applying on our canvas painting it there also will be using the same color and same technique. I hope you guys got it. But if you feel that the blending is not perfect and again, you apply one more layer on the painting and, and again start repeating the same technique you can use to three layers of painting. But when you're using the layering, makes sure that the color of witches In, used in the first layer is completely dry. And then start with the second layering. Then you will get, get a nice finish off the background. Do three layers are perfectly fine when you are blocking the background. To give it a nice smooth finish. Once we are done with the blocking and we will be doing the the texture, how we are creating the tree, how the lines will be created. This is, you can see how nicely the blending is done with a flat brush. So try to use bigger size flat brush when you are using this blending technique. Let's start with the tree leaves creation. So here I'm using the liner brush and just find liquid color to create fine line. And I'm not pressing the brush, I'm just using the tip of the brush to create the lines. And you can see the tree leaves are of different shapes and in different directions to give it a more realistic tree leaves structure. First we will apply darker color, and then as we will be doing the layering technique, we will be applying the lighter colors. For us. This is black and green mix, then little bit more of green and yellow mixed and again green, yellow and white mix. So this is how we will be doing the complete layering. And this is the process of making the DRI leaves. Same technique we will be applying on the palm tree, which will be creating on our painting. I'm just showing you one tree leaves structure how we will be creating so that you don't feel any difficulty. Then you are creating the palm tree on the main canvas area. Before starting the painting, make sure that you try this out before starting that canvas painting so that it will help you to make your painting more perfect and more realistic. Practicing as always good. Before starting any painting. You can see how I'm applying the green layers on it. So likewise, we will be applying the lighter version of colors, and we'll be doing the layering technique. Now since this area has dried, we'll be creating the clouds. For creating the clouds. Before creating the clouds, Let's create the water splashes. So this is the blister brush which I'm using an am just using the tip of the brush to create these textures. Just the tip of the brush and dry on dry technique, dry brush technique and dry color and creating dots. This is the technique which we'll be using for creating the splashes. Now let's start creating the clouds. So this is the blender brush which I'm using from Princeton. And I'm just taking very little amount of color. And it's completely dry brush removed excess of water and then started creating, moving the brush in the circular motion. You can see how smoky effect it is creating because the clouds are never very solid or opaque. They always translucent types who I'm just trying to create that effect. And creating small, small or darker shades in between that lighter smoky shade. Not cover the entire area because I have clouds are never off same coloring shapes. There are some Contoso in-between which are quite bold and bright. This is the technique which we will be using for creating the main clouds in our painting. There are two types of clouds. This is one of them, which I am showing you, highlighting few portions of area which is little bright. Now these two techniques we will be using on our paintings. So this is the Cloud which we will be using. And there's another area which is the water area. So let's show how we will be creating that water details. Here also, I'll be using my flat brush to create the water details, just the tip of the brush. And this is the wet brush but or excess of water has been removed. And just taking the dry color and using the tip of the brush and creating those textures. For us, the texture is a little bit cloudy. And then as we go down the texture of the brush, the texture becomes little bit far apart. There will be spaces in that textures. In this texture technique also, we will be using the layering technique. For us, the brighter color than the lighter color and then more lighter colors. So this way we will be creating the whole water formation so as to create some realistic water effect. Look, I'm just trying to show you here so that you don't get confused when you are doing the actual painting. Because this is a little bit tricky and takes time and practice to complete the entire painting. That's why I've created a special section of showing you how we will be using these techniques in our main painting. You can see as we're going down the lines are little far apart and spaces are there. This is the technique which will be applying same on the water area on that canvas. The far away areas bit cloudy and as we move down its bit separate. Just try this on your sheet or paper or whatever you feel like. And before doing the main painting, now I'm applying the lighter color. That is the layering technique which I'm using here also for painting the sea. Everywhere you have to use this layering technique. The darker color and then the lighter color. Just creating some light shadows on the above dark area also just here and there. This is the few techniques which I have shown you and this we'll be using on a painting. This area. This is done. Let's start with our actual painting. Just remove this masking tape. I hope you guys got the basic techniques. So we are now we will be starting our main painting for us. We'll start with blocking and then further, we'll move with the water details and then the trees and the main tree details. So let's start with a painting. 4. Blocking The Background: Hello friends, welcome back. This is the Canvas on which we'll be painting. It's off eight inch around. So I've just placed it on the panel. First, we will just put the masking tape will divide it, the frame into two parts, not equal parts. The water part will be less, I think. 3, fourth part, we will divide it. I'm just using my masking tape and dividing the canvas. This is a pre-programmed Canvas which I have used here. I'm just placing that masking tape. Make sure that this tightly taped so that the color doesn't come out on the other side. Once we are done with this, now we will be doing the blocking of the background. For this. We will be using just two colors. That is to Daniel white and in Windsor blue for blocking the background. Let's start with the blocking. I've taken this color into three parts. First, a little bit more amount of Windsor blue, then little less. And this third part is white. In three parts, we will be dividing the colors. First part, I'm adding little amount of white and your little more amount of white. And then third one, it's complete white. This is the technique and the paints which I'll be using here. Let's first mix these paints with our palette. If you have a brush, you can use brush also for mixing. But I avoid using brush because when the colors sticks to the brush tip, it's very difficult to remove it. That's why I use palette for mixing the colors. You can see I'm just mixing the color, totally all the colors and just mixing it properly. I think the first colored little bit light. So I'll just add more amount of Bluetooth it because I want a darker color. I'll add a little bit more amount of Winsor blue to it. You can see I've just added a little bit more amount of the Winsor blue because I want the background to be darker and as we go down to it'll be lite version. So I'm just adding more of blue and just mixing it. Once we are ready with the colors, we'll start with the blocking of the background as well as the water part. Now we will use a bigger size flat brush does have fringe brush, which I'll be using here. So I've used this a bigger size brush because it is easy for blocking in the background, especially in acrylics, which tries very fast. And you have to take quite a lot of amount of colors too, the background part. So take a lot of color on your brush. I haven't used any water. Have just wash the brush and just wipe out the extra water and just using that raw color. And I'm just blocking it. Slowly. Pause the darker color, and then as we go down, the color will lighten up. Now I'm using the lighter version. You can see how much thicker amount of color I am taking it so that the color remains wet and we can easily blend two colors. It is very important that what background you are using, the base you are using it as an MDF board, or a canvas or a paper. So it's very important to choose the best background that is the base for the any painting. Now, I'll use the lighter version of color. I'm just removing excess of that blue color and using that white color and just blocking the lower part because I wondered lighter. Shade of color on the lower part. That's why I'm using just draw white and that blue is on the brush, so it is coming up as blue. I'm just trying to blend the color with my brush, moving the brush and the twofold direction. If you see that your color is drying off, take again extra amount of color and then start blending it. Whenever you are blending two colors. But don't use water in this for now. When the color is semi dry, otherwise, color can break. So don't use water when it is semi dry. The background can be completely dried and then start doing one more layer of code of background. I'm just blending it properly since my background is wet. So I can blend it easily until unless I'm completely satisfied with the background color, still blending it, taking little amount of white and again, moving it in the upward direction and blending the colors. This blending part comes with practice. The more you practice blending with any color, the more it will be finished. Now we will do the lower part. Here. We will use the darker color to completely blocking the Bellow area, which is DC area. Here. I'm just taking one color and just blocking in the entire sea area. As you know, that acrylic dries very fast. So it's better to take thick amount of color so that the dryness of the color decreases. When you use thick color. The color doesn't dry very fast. So take, take amount of color and then do the blocking. And you will see a very fine blocking effect with acrylics. Now we are just done with the blocking, and now we will be creating the clouds. So let's start with the second part of it, where we will be painting the clouds. Let's start with it. 5. Creating Clouds: Hello friends. Welcome back. Now this base has, this background has completely dried off. So now we can start with the cloud painting. For the cloud painting, I'll be using the blender brush. And there's one color which I have added apart from the three color which were, which we were using earlier for the background is the DAG seen purple. This Gallo will be using for the clouds and rest three colors which we were using for the background. This is the blender brush, which I'll be using. This is a very nice brush from Princeton, size six. So let's start. I'm just taking very little amount of white color and just very little amount and very light pressure. And you just have to move your brush in the circular motion. Just circular motion and very light pressure. You can create a smoky effect of the clouds. If you feel that there are very excess amount of color is on your brush, just remove excess amount of it and then start moving the brush in the circular motion. I think my color has dried off, so I'm just adding little water to wet and removing excess of color. Then again, starting with the quantiles that is just moving the brush in the circular motion with very light pressure. This is the best way to create clouds. Just take very little amount of color, then start just creating small, small circular motions. You can see how just bit off-color am just taking. And I'm just moving the brush. In the circular motion. Very light pressure, you have to apply very light. You can see how that smoky effect is coming up. This is one type of cloud which I have done, this painting. That different types of clouds. I'm still thinking of creating one cloud painting, some cloud challenge where you can learn seven or 15 different clouds. Let's see. When we published that glass. You can see how the contours are coming up. Just very light pressure, very light pressure and just moving the brush. Just removed if there's a little darker, just remove it with the finger. And you can see that smoky effect coming up. Trig cloud plays a very important role when you are doing any landscape painting. Really, it's important to create, it's very difficult or hostile to create other realistic clouds. This is just the basic Cloud which I'm teaching here. We can see how nicely that smoky, translucent the clouds are coming up. So this is one of the technique of creating these quantiles. It's giving me two little small, small clouds here and there. Just removing the excess of color with my finger. Now just taking little bit of digoxin purple and white. Just very little amount of digoxin purple, very small amount and wide and just adding to the bottom of the clouds to give it a In depth to the clouds. I'm just taking a little bit of blue and not very much mountainous, very little amount of blue. And just adding to it. I think it's very dark. So I'll just add more of fight toward remove excess of color and just start creating again the contours. Now, the clouds which are very far apart, we have to create at the bottom part. So just adding a little bit of just remove the color to wash off your brush. Now for the bottom part, we will be using the different brush. Just digging a little bit of white and adding a bit of dark color. The clouds not everywhere, just to some, to some areas so that it looks like the 3D effect of the clouds. Now once we are done with the just adding little darker color to the clouds, that is just white. Just tearing their little bit of cloudy shapes. Spit off some shady clouds. Urine, they're just spit off a little bit of clouds, which are small, small, small, small clouds. Now let's begin with the lower part of the clouds. So for this we'll be using different brush, that is the flat small brush, small size brush. This is the small size brush which I'll be using. I'm just using the tip of the brush. And I'm just adding a little bit off or digoxin, purple and white. And I'll be just using the tip of the brush. And we'll be creating the clouds, since these clouds are very far apart. So these will be very small, small clouds which are scattered in the lower part of the sky. You can see I'm just using the tip of the brush and creating lines here also, I'm not pressing the brush very hard. It needs to be press very lightly and you don't have to use any amount of water to the, to the color or a brush. It's completely dry. On dry. It's dry technique which I am using so as to create a smoky effect. And just creating small, small lines and I'm just shading it. These small clouds will create a depth to the sky. You can see how very lightly I'm just pressing my brush and creating the clouds. Just straight lines and just mixing the color. Take very small amount of color and then create small, small lines, shade you in. And then in the shady form. You can see it's giving adapt to the background as it is very far away. The clouds are very far away from us. Just repeating the same technique and creating the clouds. Again, this is another form of Cloud which I'm creating here. One form was above which I created. And the next form is this one, which creates a depth to the background. So this is one form of Cloud you can say, which gives a very nice depth to the painting. Just adding little bit more of depth. Dioxazine purple to white. And it's not completely white. Those clouds there. It's a little bit of tags in purple added to it. Dame, same dry on dry technique I'm using here. Without any water, just the color and the dry brush which I'm creating the clouds on this as almost done, the cloud formation. So I'll just wash off my brush and again, take that blender brush since that part has dried off. So again, I'll add a little bit more of depth to the clouds. So I'm just adding row wide and creating little depth. Just adding row white, not to every part, just to some parts and creating the depth to the Cloud. So same thing I will be doing for the rest of the clouds. Also. Just adding little bit of white planters there and creating the depth. Adding a little bit tough small clouds and a little bit of smoke here and there. This is it. Let's start with our next part of the painting. 6. Water Detailing: Hello friends, welcome back. Now the Cloud partners, Dan, we'll start with the water apart. So let's start now. Here, I have just taken a little bit tough black. This is just adding it to that same background color. I'm just using my flat brush and creating small, small lines. The starting to bit of tags in purple also. Just creating lines. I guess this small brushes not so comfortable. So I'll use a bigger size flat brush for creating the waves of tc. I'm just using the tip of the brush and creating the lines. This color is actually very light, so we need little bit, or I guess, darker version of color. Let's see. Let me add little bit more amount of black and see how it looks. Still not completely dark enough to create. Because we need a little darker color, darker blue color for the C, which is far away. Let's use Prussian blue color for this. So let's take Prussian blue color and then we'll be creating the leaves. Let's take little bit of Prussian blue. And this we'll be using for creating the waves detail. Just a lot of water in this prejudice, remove extra amount of water from your brush. Removing it. And then using the same that Prussian blue color and just applying the depth of the brush. These are just small lines which I am creating. Just creating one line which divides the sky and the sea. Again, taking Prussian blue and creating, dabbing the brush tip and creating the lines. Let me put a little bit closer so that you can see it properly. You can see just dabbing the brush, just the tip of the brush I'm using to create those lines. Just dabbing the tip. It's quite dense. Area over dy see line where it is meeting the clown saw. These lines are very close by. So I'm just creating these lines using completely raw color without any water, using the tip of the brush and creating the lines very close to it. These are random lines, does not in one order. Just filling that area. Just take your time and do it very slowly so that it gives a very nice and perfect look. Dc. Because if you created in a hurry, the whole NRG and the artwork will be wasted. So take your time and do it very slowly. Due to three layers will be doing for this. Does see paintings. So this is the second for us towards the background, and this is the second. Which we are giving the details to the sea. You can see. The third we'll be using the lighter color. Seg fault will be the final detailing. So just just enjoy the process of creating small lines. And when this whole thing will be complete, you will be able to see a realistic view of the sea. The upper area's quite close the lines of men, but as we go down, the lines will be little far away. It will not be so closer. As we're moving down. The lines will be little far apart. It will have more spaces. You can see the upper little area which I've used is, is very close by. And the dot as we are going downwards, the lines at a little bit farther apart. Same thing we'll be doing for the complete area. I'll be leaving little area here because you'll be, you'll be creating the rocks. You can see these lines are now a little bit far apart. Just small lines, just using the tip of the brush and just dabbing the brush, just dabbing the tip of the brush that said to create those lines. So I'll be leaving the area. Just a little bit of waves. I'm just creating it. Just small waves. Again. Whole process we'll be doing on the entire sea portion. It's a very good technique and forth creating some realistic sea waves. This is the one color which I have used here. Now we will be using the second color also for creating much more depth to it. There's the first color which we have used. Now I'm just lightening the color by adding the lighter color, a little bit more light. So I'm just adding little bit more white to it because I want the lighter blue, little bit more white. Just creating the lines. You can see how nicely, how realistic the C is looking. Just putting that small lines to it, Just little bit lightening the color and creating those lines. Now it's more wide, so I'm, I'm just adding a little bit more of blue to it. Just creating small same lines in between the darker ones. So just enjoy the process. You can see I'm not covering the entire year. I'm just using laterality portions, which I didn't between the darker ones. And I'm just applying that lighter color. These are all same colors which we have used for the sky. And I've just added Prussian blue to it. That's it. A little bit of lighter colors also on the upper part. As to blend the color. Again, see that there are some darker lines which have been overlapped by the lighter ones. So you can always overdo with the darker color and just apply it on the top to create some darker lines. Some of the darker waves to it. This is almost done the lines spot. Now we will be doing the rock part and the above area which is being taped by a masking tape. 7. Shaping The Rocks: Hello friends, welcome back. So now let's create the rocks. First. Let's create the shape. This is my flat brush, which I'm using smaller size and I'm just taking the black color. And I'll be just creating the shapes randomly. I'm not creating it with pencil if you want, you can create it, but I'm just creating it directly with black and I'm just adding little bit of white to it to create different shades off rocks because rocks are not all off same color. They are of different colors. Some are brown, some more gray or black. I'm just trying trying to create that rock shapes with different geometrical shapes. You can say, I'm just trying to create it with black and white color. This is a little area which is rocky form. You can see these are not same shaves. These are just random shapes which I am creating. Just random shapes you need to create the rocks. When order to differentiate, we'll be dividing, there'll be coloring, or we'll be doing some details on the rocks as well. But just now I'm just trying to create the shapes and the area which will be for LOF rocks. Now, I'll be using my liner brush. You can say rigger brush and just adding a little white to the black color and creating the lines so as to distinguish the rocks in-between the two. Just outlining the rock shapes you can see you. I don't want it to be completely white, so I've just added black also do it to give it a grayish shade. After outlining, I will be doing the detailing. But first we'll do the upper part, witches taped with masking tape. 8. Shaping The Middle ground : Hello friends, welcome back. So now this painting has completely dried off. So now we will take out the masking tape which we have put earlier. This is the whole painting has dried off completely. Now we will remove the masking tape slowly and we'll start with the middle area painting. So let's first take out the masking tape. And I've also taken a fresh pallet. I'm just taking out the masking tape from the middle area which divides the foreground and the background. Now we'll see you can see how nicely the perfect line has come up. So these are the colors, hookers, green to Daniel, white, lemon yellow, Winsor blue, dioxazine, purple, and black. These are the colors which we'll be using for the middle area. And this is my liner brush or rigger brush you can say, which I'll be using for creating the land in-between the sea and the sky. It's far off lands where it is very, very thin area. So it's not does take black color. Have taken fluid black. If you don't have fluid black, then just make that black little bit fluid form by adding water and then start creating the details. Because we need fine details. I'm just creating a landscape which slides down words and become narrow. So just drawing the outline. You can draw it with pencil also, it's perfectly fine. But I'm directly drawing with the liner brush. I'm just filling this area or with the liner brush itself. But black color. Let's complete black color. Here you can use small size flat brush also for blocking in that black color. You can see I'm also trying to create that line in-between that land and the sea. Just perfect straight line. I'm doing it with. That's why I'm using here the liner brush. Because I want the perfect fine line to be created below the land area. Liner brush plays a very important rule in painting something realistic. So use better quality liner brush or rigger brush. You have it. Because we need a fine quality brushes to create some realistic paintings. So this is the Princeton brush. Much I'm using. You see how slowly I'm just gradually filling the black color in-between that area. Take your time and do it slowly. No hurry. Just do it slowly. If the color dries off, just add a little amount of water to it or add extra color to it. That's it. Just do it very slowly. Don't be in a hurry that my color will dry of how I will finish it. Just do it very slowly and patiently. See we almost done with the blocking. There are some areas which are left white. I'm just covering it. Black. Just creating the lines which are joining the Sea. So now you can see that white area is left. So here I'm using my flat brush. This is the flat small-sized brush which I'll be creating clouds above it. So I'm just taking white and a little bit of the Winsor blue and digoxin, purple, little bit, very little amount of it. And I'll just fill in the area which is white. You can see I wanted to just remove that line which is dividing that sky and that white area. So I'm just making, making sure that that white area comes above that area so that. It mixes with the Cloud and it looks like, okay, it has a nice cloudy effect. It creates. I'm just first covering that area. You can see it's not as straight line. I'm just covering above it. The line is straight but I'm just covering the area above that line. That white line. Just slowly fill in that area because it joins the sea and disease sky also. You need to be very careful. Even if the color comes in the sea area, It's fine, perfectly fine. Who can always overdo it? Now? I think I'll use the liner brush for that. Part. Goes, we need quite a lot of detailing. That is very narrow area which needs to be covered nicely. Just slowly cover that area. I hope you guys are enjoying this painting. I really enjoyed while doing this painting a lot because I really like doing nature painting and I loved doing the greenery part also. But this is completely blue, blue, blue suits. My Most of the paintings are related to nature. Does giving a final touch to that cloudy area. Now let's take our blender brush and create some cloudy fact. Because we need some cloudy, smoky, smoky effect. Just creating that because I don't want that line to be visible. Just adding little bit off dioxazine purple and just adding little bit of details. These are the, another type of clouds which you'll see in most of the paintings when they're far away. Again, I'm using that flat brush, small size, using same color, adding more amount of tags in Bhopal and creating some effects. Because I don't want the clouds to be completely white. Just a little bit of lines I'm creating on those wide-area. Little bit more of white because the scholar has been lightened up. So I'm just darkening it more. Just giving final touch to the clouds. Because Wendy color dries up. The color becomes less dark enough. So I'm just overdoing that area which we did earlier for the clouds. Just making it a little bit more darker, more wide and more bright. Just final touch I'm giving to the clouds. We are done with the cloud part. I'm just give outlining that area because I think the white color has come down also. This is done. So we will now we'll do, we'll do the area of witches, which we have colored black because that is the green part, Greenland visible. So let's start. 9. Detailing The Middle Ground: Hello friends, welcome back. So now let's start with the landscape detailing. Here. I'm using the Bristol round brush for creating the details. It's already hard brush and you can easily create nice small details with it. I'm just adding Hooker's green and lemon yellow and a little bit of white to it. If you don't have hookers green, you can use sap green also. Just creating small, just using the tip of the brush and creating small dots. I hope now it is will be visible to you. I've just zoomed in and just to taking Hooker's green and mix off lemon and wide and creating small dots. I'm not covering the entire black area, I'm just leaving few areas also in-between so that it gives a nice realistic look to the landscape. You can see I'm just using the tip of my round brush and I'm not taking too much of color. I'm being very small amount of color. So now I'm just creating a little bit of texture on the top of the area with black color. Just adding little bit of texture so that it looks like some green. Because the landscapes are never smooth. They are a little bit off textured. So I'm just giving a little texture to it. Just using the tip of the brush and creating small towards, as you can see, look like as if they're small trees far away from the sea area. All let's use the same color and create small textures on the black portion. So you don't have to cover the entire black portion, just leave few spaces in between the dots. That black area is also visible. Just taking more of yellow and hookers green. Just adding little white to it. Again, creating the textures. It's a very small portion of area which is green, which is visible. Now you can see how realistic it is looking. This is how we create the landscape, the realistic way. Now again, adding little more of focus green and more of yellow and white. Just little light shade than that we used for the first layer. This is the second layer which we are using. In this way, I have added more of white and yellow and just adding textures to it here. And they're not everywhere. Just here and there. That it looks. It shows different shades of green. Because you must have seen that reason on, off one shade. You can see that this portion is almost done. Let's create the line which divides the sea and that land area. I'm just using white and my flat brush and just creating the line which divides the sea area and the land area. Just using my tip off the flat brush, I'm creating that line. If the liners take just remove excess of color, just drag that line towards the end. Not complete end, but where that land is falling down till there. I'm just removing blending the colors with water. I'm just removing the excess of color which is there with just my brush, is not having any color here right now. Degree, create a smooth finish. This is almost done the upper part. Now we will be using again this bristle brush to create the rocks. 10. Detailing The Rocks: Hello friends, welcome back. Now let's start with the rock part. Here I'm using Bristol brush and one color which is bond Dumbo. Here I have added in. So let's start just take little model of burnt umber and white mix. A little bit of black, little more amount of burnt umber and just start creating details, just creating lines and blocking in the color. Adding more of white. And creating the texture. Just creating small lines to it. Adding a little bit more amount of white and black. Now creating, again a little bit more details. You can see how this texture is coming up. Some dots on the other rocks. Just you have to create the textures of the rocks. The texture of frogs are not same in all the rocks. Your new tick need to create variety of textures to it. There's a mark somewhere, lines, some dots. This way we create some realistic rock shapes. Now let's create the lines of the rocks. Now with the liner brush. I'm just creating the lines which divides the two rocks. Just adding little bit more of black, creating the shapes, just outlining the shapes. There are some areas which are completely black also. So I'm just covering that area with black. Just creating some area which divides the rocks. And all the rocks are of different shapes, none are of same sizes. Different textures. Just creating little bit of shape. Stuart. Just outlining and creating the shapes. So you can see how the rocks are looking so realistic and, and so on way and not of same size. They are of different sizes and all are overlapping each other. Now let's use a little bit too white and burnt umber and create some textures. Just dots and lines here and there. To create nice texture to it. Does dots. Because when we create these textures, then only it looks like the realistic rock form, just adding white or black also in-between. Now once this rock part is done, we'll create the water splash with our Bristol brush. The same round brush I'm using here. Just the dry technique. Completely dry brush and row white-collar without any water. And I'm just using the tip of the brush and taking very little amount of white-collar, very little amount just on the tip of the brush. And creating small textures, status, small dots. You can see small dots are appearing. There are some dots which are on rocks also. Some water splashes on rocks also. This is a very great technique of creating what does splashes on any rocks or on an EC area. Just creating these flashes. Just using my tip of the brush. This is the Bristol brush. Again, I'm saying that this is the Bristol brush which I'm using here. These are these brushes, completely hard brush. And you can easily create these textures with these brushes. This is from Bruce draw which I am using your you can also get it in rosemary and Princeton brushes also, but I think does booster brushes nice? So I told of using this just trying to create the splashes which are heading the drugs. Just complete white color. Again, taking little more amount of white, creating some more splashes. Don't press the brush very hard, does press it very lightly, then only you will be able to create those fine dots. Otherwise, if you press the brush hard, it will not come up. So try to press your brush very lightly when you are creating such details. Now, I'm using my flat brush for creating little more textures in the water. Just adding Prussian blue. Just adding more details to the water area. Where I can see there less of just creating some more details and layering of the water. Can say, this is one of the layering technique which I'm using. I'm just layering the colors to give it more realistic look. Integral x. The more you layers the colors, the more it brightens, brightens up and more realistic the details look. Layering is very important technique in doing any realistic painting. Whatever you are doing, either it is portrait or landscape or any other still-life. You can see I'm just using that Prussian blue and creating more lines to it. That area which is far away, it's completely dark. As we go down. The darkness. Slightly decreases. That's why the lines a little far apart. I'm trying to explain every bit off the painting so that you don't get any trouble by doing this complete painting. That's why I have created just step-by-step painting, whatever I am doing you, you can see I'm creating random lines here and there. But I see that there are less borderlines. Guys. I'm already loving this painting. I hope you guys all to loving it. Just now adding the little lighter texture by adding just white. That same bigger size brush. And with the tip of the brush creating the fine details. You can see this fine details which are coming up fine light colors which are reflecting on the water. This is the same technique which we have used earlier for creating the first layer. Same technique I'm using here for creating the second layer. This is almost done the water part. Now we will start with the tree, but whenever we're doing any acrylic painting, it takes time. So it's a little realistic painting. So any realistic painting takes at least around one to two hours to complete the entire painting. Half patients drink lots of water and juices and start getting ready. Just blending into the blender brush. This. Finally, the lower part is done. Background foreground is done. Now we'll create the tree. 11. Creating Tree Trunk: Hello friends, welcome back. So now let's create the tree trunk. Now. Here for us, beauty, create the trunk and here I'm using my rigger brush for creating the lines. You can use pencil also for creating the lines. If you have difficulty in directly creating the lines with the color. What I'm creating, the lines with my rigger brush, just using black color and creating the lines. Parallel lines I'm creating. For the palm tree. What we'll be doing is that one side we will create the darker shade and the other side of the trunk will be creating the lighter shade with the grayish and Dutch grayish, brownish touch. Just creating the details first. And then we will be doing the blocking of the colors. You can create with pencil. Also, if you're not confident enough. Just adding burnt umber, white and black McCullough. This is the light color which will be applying on one side of the tree trunk. Whenever you are creating any details with your brush, your rigger brush makes sure that the color which you are using is in liquid form, not in the solid form. Otherwise you'll not be able to create define lines. So whenever you are creating any fine line, make that color in little fluid form by adding, what did I do it? Again, I'm adding little bit of brown and creating the dark shade. That is the light shade on one side. On the other side, I'll be using darker shade. So I'm using complete black, that is the raw black. Creating dark shade on the other side with my liner brush. Just taking black and creating the darker shade. I'll be using my flat brush to blend that color. That's flat brush off small size. And I'm just taking that light color and I'm just overdoing on that black part so that the color is blended. If the color has been dried on your canvas and you can always overdo the color. We can always over apply the colors on it and start blending it. Just one stroke and it does blended. Now just adding white outline, the area, lighter area as defined outline. So again, I'm repeating whenever you are creating any outlines, make the color in fluid form. Just adding white and creating horizontal lines on the lighter area. Again, taking little white and creating lines. So taking a little bit of burnt umber and just create, removing that line because this is the extra line which has been drawn by me by mistake. To just removing that line. We can see you can always overdoing acrylics. Now again, creating small horizontal lines on one side, the top. Once this is done, we'll again creates more lines with black color. Small lines, black color. One shadow area, which is in-between. Again, a little bit more dark lane. White line will be required because that black is coming out a little bit. Just overdoing that white line. Blocking the upper bond. That bond amber, yellow. Just blend number and yellow mix. Blocking the upper body. This is almost done. So that tree trunk pod. So we'll start with the next spot. 12. Creating Tree Details: Welcome back. So now let's start with the leaves spot. So I have taken a fresh pallet now. Same colors are there. Let's start with our rigger brush for creating fine leaves structure. These are the colors, black, lemon yellow, hookers, green, burnt umber, and white. These color I will be using for the leaf part. So let's start for us creating the lines that are the details of the leaves. Yes, you can definitely do this with your brush or your pen or pencil, whatever you like. But I'm directly doing with my liner brush. You can also do it directly with your liner brush. I'm just creating an outline of the leaves where it will fall. Leaves are never in one direction, they are in different directions. In order to create something realistic, you need the leaves to be in different directions. Palm tree or realistic painting comes with practice. You can definitely create the basic palm trees with one color. But when you add layers to the colors, it becomes more original and more realistic. That's what we will be doing in this painting. I'm just first drawing the lines there, the leaves will fall. So try to use fine details brush for creating such details for lines. And the color should be in liquid form. Here I am using fluid black. It's easy for me to create the lines. If you don't have any fluid black color, then you can always mix water and make it a little soluble, not much soluble, but yes, soluble. That it's in liquid form and you can easily create fine lines. Once the leaf outlining is done now we will create the leaves that are small, lines which are falling in different directions. This is the first layer of painting which I'm doing. I'm just adding little hookers green because I don't want it to be completely black. So just a little amount of focus green, I'm adding, creating lines, diagonal lines. These are not straight lines. These are some guidelines, some straight lines so that different, different formations of lines I'm creating here. Because you can see that palm tree leaves are not in one direction. It has different directions. Some are torn up, some are more in depth. As far as create this outline area. Then we will start with the layering part. Just enjoy the process of creating lines. Leaves pattern basically depends upon where the wind is blowing. So data also you need to take care. Then you are doing any realistic painting where the light is falling, where there is a bright leaves are falling down. These things you have to take care. Just take your time and do it really slowly. Don't be in a hurry. Just do it very slowly and patiently. Because to create some magic painting, it takes time. You have to keep your patient's level high because you are doing something realistic painting. It's not an abstract painting. So it takes time and slowly you will see the creative creativity within you and you will be able to do this painting completely by our own, someday. Many other classes of palm tree painting, which is already there in the classes. So you can watch that also if you want. Here I'm just creating the directions of leaves where it will fall. And then we will apply the layering technique on those leaves. In this process, I'm not using my brush very hard. You can see I'm just using my tip of the brush to create that lines. Don't press your brush hard, otherwise, you'll be creating thick lines and we don't want to declines in the early formation. Tree actually add beauty to this painting. And it really looks awesome venue, create this greenery in-between those blue sky and bluesy. It looked amazing. This was just a starting off the painting of the three. There are two more lessons. Then we'll be able to complete the entire the street painting. Can see how the different directions I am applying the lines. Because the tree is an evidence same directions as I said earlier. In my class project, I will be adding two paintings of the same project. Whichever palm tree you like, you can draw it and you can share it with me. On my Instagram. It is Mooney art gallery. You can share there. You can share here also as well. This is done almost the first detailing part. And now we will start with our next part. And the same colors we'll be using. 13. Layering Of Tree Leaves: Hello friends, welcome back. Now let's start with the first layering of the painting. Just taking a little bit of lemon yellow and creating small lines which joins the leaves. I'm using same rigor brush for this and dire leaf painting. I'll be using this brush only adding little white to lemon yellow because I wanted to more brighter form of lines. Now, few more lines below. I'm just outlining the area which creates doors leaves that middle area. Muller-lyer, I'm creating fine line for the above and also now adding green to that lemon yellow. Just mixing the color and adding little water to it. Just making a little light greenish shade, adding a little white. Then just overdoing the leaves of which already we have drawn with black. Just overdoing the leaves, I'm not covering the entire black area. I'm just leaving few of them because I don't want it to be completely green. There should be shadows behind it also. I'm leaving some areas of black also on the leaf part. So same thing I'm doing for the upper one, also. Using the same color. Doing for the upper leaf part. Also. Whenever you are doing such a fine line detail work, makes sure that you use fine liner brushes or any liner brushes. Treaty dealing is always time-consuming and you need to have a lot of patients when you are doing this. Because we need to keep on layering the colors underneath unless we are satisfied that okay, fine. This is it because we're never satisfied. So we keep on doing the layering. And layering plays a very important role in creating such realistic painting. So layering is very important when you were doing any realistic painting. I'm just adding a white highlight to the end to give it a nice shine to the leaves. Can see that what I do of colors add the, add more realistic look to the trees or do any nature painting. I have almost 15 to 16 classes on my Skillshare and most of them are related to nature. Adding only few one on two are of different topics. But most of them are related to nature. So you can try those as well. You need to slowly progress one-by-one, taking one leaf at a time and then creating the details. Now here I'm adding bond number and it'll clean to give another shade of green to it. And it'll yellow. Greens are of many shades. There are Sap Green, Hooker's green. They are permanent green than tallow green and differentiate some greens are there. The more differentiates of greens you use in your trees, the more realistic your painting looks. You have to decide which Greenville suits that tree which you are painting. So color choosing is very important when you are doing such paintings. Now for the lower part of the tree, I'm just creating some dry leaves, so I'm adding little bit of bone number and wide to that. Below drip leave area. Some leaves on the above leave also some dry leaves. Mix of dry leaves, bright leaves, some yellow leaves. You have to create a mixture of different shades of leaves. Slam just trying to capture that realistic look of that palm tree. Just applying layers and layers of colors to make it more realistic. Still, the other side of the leaves are left. We haven't touched that and we're just doing these one side of the leaves. Let's take more of a yellow and little green. And then again apply another layer of lanes. Again taking little Hooker's green and black color and then again applying, just mixing the color properly. Just creating lines. That's some green lines because this is really very dark black. So I'm just adding little green texture to that black part. Now actually the little tree shape is coming and the leaves are coming alive. Just adding little bit more of green texture to the other side of the painting. Now I'm using the lighter color, that same light color, yellow, white, and green is already there in my brush a little bit green on.So I'm just creating lines. Feel color is trying of just added water and make it fluid and against start creating the lines. It's almost coming. In this process, you don't need variety of brushes, just few flat brushes and liner brushes and bristle brush mix the painting perfect. But whenever you are using the brushes, please use good quality brushes. Then only you will be able to create such beautiful painting. So I hope you guys are enjoying the process. And if you have any doubt, you can always ask me or DM me on my Instagram, that is Mauritania gallery. I'm just creating small fruits in-between. Blonde Dumbo and wide and again adding more of bond amber, do it. Now you can see how different textures or four colors and coming up when you are doing the layering technique off the leaves. And one of the best advantage of this acrylic painting is acrylic medium is that a dries very quickly and you can always layer the painting. You don't have to wait for default layer to dry and then you need to start the other. There's always a chance of getting spoiled up. When you are using oil painting, you have to wait for us and us to layer first layer to get dried up. But when you're using acrylic painting, you don't have to wait for it. It dries so quickly. Every medium has its advantages and disadvantages. Saw this. I feel this is the best advantage of acrylic medium. Again, I'm creating one more leaf that is coming from what the top off the lower leaf. I'm trying to create that. The back areas black, so I'm not using the black color, I'm using the lighter color so that the lines are visible. Here. I'll not use or completely black color. So you can see here I'm using little white and yellow mix and adult create the lines. Now after that, we can always overdo an overlap with the dark colors. But first I have used the lighter color. When we are using the darker color am not overlapping with the light color in-between spaces. Then there's spaces in between that line. So I'm just filling those line with with a darker color. I'm trying to explain each and every step to you guys so that you don't feel any difficulty when you are doing any painting. So I hope you guys are understanding the whole process of painting. Just few more detailing and fewer more final Dutch up is left, then our painting will be complete. So just enjoy the process of entire leaf painting. The middle area, I'm just creating more bright so that these fruits are visible. Then we'll do the outlining also off that DO area for us. I'm waiting for it to dry and then we'll start with the outlining of the middle one. 14. Final Detailing: Hello friends, welcome back. Let's start with our last part of the fin painting. So just final detailing is left and we are done with the complete painting. Here. I'm just adding a little bit of green to yellow and white color. We will be doing same layering technique. I'm just adding a few details on the leaves which are still left. You can see there are few leaves, we're just still black and colors. I'll just add a little bit of layering to it. Just enjoy the process of painting. And leering happens sometimes that you don't feel like repeating the same technique and again and again. If you are, if that happens, then just stop painting right away. Take breaks, watch TV, and do whatever you like the most. And take a break. Don't complete the painting in one go because it's rarely very difficult when it is a one to two hours of painting. If you're not in a habit of doing two to three hours of painting, then take a break. Go out, enjoy with your friends or family members, and then start again. Don't be in a hurry to complete the entire painting. This is my personal experience. I also sometimes feel like not doing the painting, so I'd take a break and I stop in-between that painting. And then again, after doing my favorite work or doing some dancing or some watching TV or binge-watching, or meeting my friends and family members, then I start doing it again. Because depends highly on what mood you're in when you are doing the painting, your mood, your painting is the reflection of your mood. I can say that it's better to take your time, take extra breaks, have a cup of coffee, tea, and then start with the process. Most of us have nature to complete the painting within an R or within 30 minutes. We don't take we don't want to do the paintings which lasts for more than a week or more than two to three years. So it's completely fine. It depends upon your choice, what you are doing. If you are doing some realistic paintings, keep in your mind that it will take time to complete the entire painting. But when, at the end you will see the output, you will just feel, what did. Trust me. This also, we are finally completing the painting. Only few little details are left in-between. Also have to create that outline. You need to take care of what all is left and what you need to create. So just adding more of white highlights to the painting. I have drawn this painting on the canvas which isn't so glow form. You can take any Canvas, any MDF board, or any square canvas, rectangle Canvas, whatever you like. And you can do this painting. It's not necessary that you have to do it on a circle. Circular canvas or some shape is required. So it's not necessarily whatever you feel like you can do it on paper also, but makes sure that you use thick paper when you are doing this painting. And if you're using any MDF board, then make sure that two primate with JSON, then you start painting. This acrylic painting. You can also use paper, but on paper. Jesu is not required, so you can directly do it on paper also, but use better quality vapor, 300 GSM and above paper is recommended. So try to use better quality paper. Finally, this class is already ending up and we're doing the final details. So this is your project work to paint this beautiful seascape and share your project with me. On the project section. I love to see your project work because it keeps me boosted to create more and more creative things. I love to see your project works. If you have any doubts related to anything, you can always feel free to ask me. I'm ready to help you here. Once you are a complete, I'm done with this painting. You can protect your painting with the varnish. You can use any one niche, sat in one niche or mad varnish or gloss varnish, whatever you feel like. You can use the varnish. But varnish is necessary because it protects your painting from dust and from being damaged. So it's better you want your painting completely after doing, after doing this painting. But your color should be dried then only you apply varnish on that. Guys does painting is almost complete. I hope you guys enjoyed this painting. This beautiful seascape painting. Because I really loved making these. I hope you guys also loved it too. Thank you for having patients and watching this entire video. Step-by-step, waiting for you guys to share your project works. So this is the complete painting. And thank you and have a nice day.