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1. Introduction: Hey everyone. My name is Sonia and I'm an artist and Bay
Area, California. Welcome to my acrylic
painting class. This class is perfect
for those who have absolute 0 experience with the Barstow painting technique. But also great for those who
have experienced going to cover all the basics you need to know for a basket
painting technique. Let's hop onto the next video
to see all the details.
2. Getting fimiliar with art supplies: Let's start by getting to know all the supplies you'll be
needing for today's class. The first color is Mars black. You can use any
darker black color. The second is burnt umber, or any brown color which
is available with you. The third is yellow,
basic yellow color. Here I'm using
Liquitex brand colors, professional heavy body. You can use any acrylic
color which is available. Next color is, we
would read orange. Then comes the brilliant blue. Last but not least,
titanium white. We also need a knife
for this painting. You're basically, I am using
a very smaller knife-like, triangular shaped my evalue
give more details in the description box
about the knife. The most important thing
is extra-heavy gel gloss. You're, I'm using
golden heavy gel gloss. You can use any brand
which is available.
3. Preparing impasto paste for painting: Let's add the preparing a color for painting impasto sunflower. First, we are going
to prepare shades of orange and yellow as sunflower consist of
these both color. I'm taking 5050 mixture of yellow and as well as the extra-heavy gel
paste over here. You don't have del
pais handy with you. You can always use
molding paste. But the reason I use Jell-O, whereas it gives that extra
glossy look to your base and your painting look more
glossy and more bright. The thing that gel
gloss medium as you need to make a really nice and consistent
based on the year as the gentleman
consist of some lumps. So make sure you do this space very nicely and
you store that these really nicely till the affine based
of color and gel is formed and you can no longer make the difference between the
color and gentlemen memorial. Here I've prepared just
based of orange, yellow. And I'll go ahead and mix it a little orange
and yellow to give because a sunflower is not
exactly bright yellow color. It's a mixture of orange
and also a little Gallo. Make sure you're taking
tiny amounts of colors. Gel mediums over you
because you might not need much molding based
or gel over here. Mixing two colors, make sure you are mixing those
color really well. And the colors are
not separated out. As you can see, like
really made a nice feast of yellow and orange where you cannot differentiate
between those two colors. If you have a bigger
knife and handy, or you can always
use a knife to mix those colors because
the more bigger than I, the more easy it is to manage. The gel medium and gallo. Always use knife to mix color, as it's more easy than mixing
the colors using brushes. Here I'm creating similar base that we have created earlier, just with a little
brighter yellow. This time. Mix the colors nicely. There are no lumps left behind. Because if there are
lumps left in your color, it won't look good
on your painting. Now we're just
preparing a ballot. We are adding some
blue, some yellow, some white, black and burnt umber. That's it for this video. Let's hop onto the next one.
4. Background: In this video, we'll start with doing a background before we decided to
actually painting. I'm using the combination
of titanium white, basic yellow, light blue color. You are welcome to go ahead and choose any other background
color if you've, if you want to. I basically briefer
these three colors because it gives a nice warmer look to my painting and my sunflower really
pop-ups with this color. I'm using knife year to
color the background. You are free to go ahead and use brushes if you're more comfortable using
brushes than life. But I personally
feel that it's way much more easier to
color background using a nice because it covers the entire area of
GAN was really very fast. As you can see, I've just
randomly taken some white and very little yellow and
blue for the background. I'm just randomly
going ahead and mixing and it's forming a nice dark, noisy in Boise or
maybe a green color, a lighter green color over
there in the background. I'm just gently moving my knife over the
background so that the entire canvas
discovered and there is no white or blank space
left on my canvas. I'm just making sure
I'm scraping of color from my palate from
one end of the night. And then using the
same technique with my lighter hands to just go on the canvas and spread the
color throughout the canvas. You can see in the
background is really nice. I usually like to beat my
background and a lighter color, a little warm color. If I have to do in Barstow. Because emboss dose always look good on much
warmer background. And your flowers or
whatever you trying to draw really pops up nice
on that background. On important that, that I forgot to mention before is like, whenever you are trying to
do an ambassador painting, make sure you're always using a canvas for an
impasto painting and not beeper to paint
it because of Barstow paintings are really
heavy paintings and they need a stiff
surface to paint on. Here I'm using a six-by-six
gallery wrap Canvas. You can use any canvas
of your choice. We're done with the
background here. Let's hop onto the next video
to see how we can bend in Barstow sunflowers
using violet and life.
5. Part 1 - Painting Sunflower petals: Okay, so let's move
on to our next step, which is we'll actually be doing a sunflower using
impasto technique. My background is still
a little wet to wear. What I am doing this, I'm using the tip of my knife to just randomly
draw a circle so that I'll get an
idea there where exactly I need to start
painting the petals away. If your background
is completely dry, you can always go ahead and
use a watercolor pencil or just a goal pencil away
or do make a rough circle, which will give you
an idea like fair, you need to start doing it. Will be filling the
center of the sunflower but burned downward
and black color. Your observed carefully
that I'm just using the tip of my knife to color in the center
of the sunflower. I'm just dabbing the
color randomly throughout the circle because I don't want my color to be even aware. I just wanted to be random. I wanted to look like the center of the
sunflower. Actually. If you're not comfortable
with using knife, you can always go ahead and
use a brush to do the step. Make sure that your
center bar this little uneven and that's a mixture of burnt umber and Mars Black. Just relax and
enjoy the process. Stress-free and make sure you're having fun value
creating this painting. And you're not
stressing out yourself. Because the more you
will enjoy the process, the more beautiful you are
painting will come out. Now I'm starting with painting. The petals have just randomly done finishing the decentered, but we'll redo that again until you're
done with the petals. I'm digging, I'm starting with a little yellow and
orange color mixture which we had created earlier. B, attention to the way
I'm scraping of the color discrete bugler of
from one end of the naive and make sure
you clean your knife. As shown before you go
ahead and draw the petal. While you're drawing the petal, make sure you're gently pressing your knife towards the canvas
and not firmly pressing. While drawing the petals, you mess up a little urine
there and your shape better, it's not fine, don't worry,
it's absolutely fine. We can always go ahead
and draw more petals on top. Cover that. Moving the canvas so that
more comfortable painting the petals because you can move the canvas and
the way you want. Make sure you're
gently dabbing it towards the canvas and not
putting much pressure on it. I'm using just shade of
yellow and orange initially. Then we'll go ahead and
use other sheets also. This for simplifying it and just playing with
one color at a time. It's more important while doing palette knife or
ambassador painting. You stay more calm
and more focused. Enjoyed the process. You can see because the base we've made was very consistent. The buttons we are
making a turning out to be really beautiful. And even I'm just covering
up the sunflower in a random manner with a
mixture of yellow and orange. Less than blank
spaces and medulla. So that covered
those blank spaces with other shades of yellow. One to a next shade. I'm adding a little origins in that sheet to just match up. And I felt that the yellow
was little more brighter. So I'm just diluting
it a little and aren't going to use the same
technique we used before. To use a knife. We're just going to place
a better just next to the orange petals which we had
created this random urine, there is absolutely fine. This comedy focus on the beauty of the textures
you are creating. A mountain being in the
fields of sunflower. Beautiful bright. Depress your knife against
the cameras. No pressure. Because if you apply
more pressure, it will turn out
and scraping off the color from the
canvas which we had. Initially go out the patterns. Make sure you're being very gentle with your
hands on the Canvas. Get the beautiful composites
have already formed. I ended up not using
the bright orange because I really thought
I didn't want to do BPD, orangeish, yellow and orange. You can use whichever
conic combination you find it more beautiful. Cover up the
remaining space using the same technique and the
same category combinations. If you think you're
not satisfied with the number of patterns, you can always go ahead and
paint more on top of it. Look how beautiful it looks.
6. Part 2 - Painting Sunflower petals: Trying to add more. Wherever lighting
Canvas has little visible behind the background
of the canvas is visible. You can stop at any point
of time if you feel like your sunflower look absolutely
complete, beautiful. You have covered the
entire background nicely. He had done you with gobbling up better than doing
the impasto petals. Now, what I'm doing
is I'm taking black and burnt umber and just dabbing the
tip of my knife. The center of this and travel. You can use the same life which we had used
for the buttons. I'm just dabbing the
knife gently over the canvas and making
sure that I'm not touching the beliefs
or the leaders of the sunflower urine. In this part I'm using more of black and less of BAD Dunbar. I was painting this
centre of the sunflower. I realized that I'm just
using the colors and I have not added any gel mediums in the center of the sunflower. So I somewhat well that
adding a gel medium would give it a nice
3D and textured look. Instead of adding two
scholars to the sound flower. If you're comfortable, you can just add some gel mediums at this point and use the same dabbing technique
and using right now, I'm just adding a
little of orange layer because I forgot to add
the gel medieval view. It wouldn't matter if you add any color which already
has some gel medium in it. I didn't because anyways
it's black and it will just end up being
black with the color. You can absolutely skip
this step of adding some other gel medium
colors and the black. If you have already added
gel medium in the black, make sure you're gently dabbing the center
with just the tip of your knife so that
it will give you a spooky texture of that seed
of the sunflower over you. You will need to use
a knife to give this a spooky texture of
seeds of a sunflower. Because it's very difficult to create the same texture using a brush done with painting the sunflower
over the stig. A moment to appreciate the
painting you have created and see you in the final
video. Thank you.
7. Finale video: Welcome to the finale of
sunflower and Barstow glass. First of all, thank you all
for joining me on my journey. It really means a lot to me. In today's class, we have
learned to create them past or sunflower using
extra-heavy gel medium. I would love to hear your feedback and
see your creations. So being things. So don't forget to share your paintings
on this glass. And don't forget to leave
a feedback or review for me so that I can improve
in my upcoming glass. And also let me know what you would like to learn
in my next class. I would definitely consider it. Thank you so much.
Saniya Sayyad, Acrylic Saniya: Artist and Instructor
