Acrylic Painting : Water Ripples Magic

1. Intro: Such a small thing, a leaf, yet it leaves a mark, however, briefly, a reminder that even the gentlest touch can stir stillness into motion. When we were kids, especially during the rainy season, we used to make paper boats and float them into the water. Watch them drift away with joy. Some childhood memories are truly meant to be cherished. Thinking this in mind, so I thought of creating these two beauties, one with the paper boat and other with the dried leaves with all the ripples around. My name is Mohiisna and I'm an acrylic artist based India. I mostly do landscape painting and animals and bird portrait painting. Many of you know me as Mohani Art Gallery from my Instagram account. We will be learning these two beautiful paintings. The first one this autumn leaf and the second one is the boat painting. So first, we'll start with the blocking and then we'll put the blending technique after that, we will learn how to create ripples and blend them then the leaf part and the leaf detailing of all the entire process step by step. Then we'll come to the next painting, that is the boat painting, the background. This is the second method which I will be using for creating the ripples. It is a little tricky than the first one. The first one is a little easy. The second one is a little complicated. But if you will follow the process, you will get each and everything. I'm sure you will enjoy these two paintings like I did. So let's start with these two beautiful water ripples painting. 2. Materials: So let's discuss about the materials which we will be needing. So these are the two paintings which we will be doing, and this is the canvas which I will be using. It is six by six inch, and this is doubled primed canvas, but also I have done two times priming of it. So if required, try to at least at two times the gesso. And the color brands which I'm using here is these three brands that is of liquitex, Camel and Windsor and Newton. So these are the brands. Now, let's discuss about the brushes. So these are the brushes. Mostly there are round brushes of different different sizes. One is the mop brush and flat brush. So all these brushes, apart from this, one more brush we will be using, that is the rigor brush, rigor brush for all the detailings and everything. This is the rigor brush which I will be using. So all these brushes we will be using so apart from that, above written materials we will be needing. So let's talk about the colors which we will be using here. So the colors are especially mostly same for both of them for at least the background colors. So let's first discuss about the background color. The first color is the black color, which is compulsory in each and every painting for lining, for detailing. Then the second color is the light blue color. All these colors are the base color, the watercolors which we will be using. Then comes the pains gray. If you don't have pains gray, you can mix Prussian blue and black and make the paints gray. Prussian blue also we will be kneading here. If you don't have Prussian blue, you can use Windsor blue and mix a little bit of black in that. So any type of blue you can use, the sixth color is the turquoise tallow. That is a little greenish color. If you don't have this, you can use the teal color also. And then the so these are the colors which we will be needing for doing the water and the water ripples for both of the paintings. So in both of the paintings, these are similar colors, and also white is needed. That is the titanium white. So let's see how the color looks. So this is the palette which I'm using here. It is a glass palette. So just water on my brush and I'm just taking the color and I'm just putting it. So this is black color. The second color is the light blue color. If you don't have light blue color, you can just mix serium blue and white and you can create this nice light blue color. Then comes the pains gray. So it is a little grayish, bluish color. So this is the pains gray, which looks like black, but it is not completely black color. The next color is Prussian blue. It's quite dark blue color. So all these colors we will be needing, and you can see my palette is the glass palette which I'm using here. Second and second, last is the turquoise tallow. It is a greenish color, and the rest is white. So apart from this, we will be needing some other colors for the leaf. So for the leaf, we will be using these are all background colors which we will be needing, and for the boat, we will be using black and white color. But you can see these are colors, this is black, and this is black and white, these are all background. These are all black and white colors. So for the leaf, we will be using some other colors. So here are the colors which we will be using for the leaves. That is the So three colors we will be using the umber. Then comes the Indian yellow and burn sienna. So these are the colors which we will be using. So a amber and burn raw amber and Indian yellow are similar. And this is burn Sienna. So these three colors we will be using. If you don't have Indian yellow, you can use chrome yellow or cadmium yellow, as well. So let's write the names first. Indian yellow is the first one. So you can see both the colors are very similar and yellow ochre. So yellow ochre is also brownish, yellowish in color. And the last color is burnt sienna. So all these colors we will be needing for painting are leaf. And I hope you will enjoy doing both the paintings. So the paintings are very beautiful and very vibrant, so I'm sure you will enjoy this. So let's start with our first painting. 3. Leaf Ripples - Background Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start with our first painting. So this is a sketch which I have already drawn. I will be sharing the grid method sketch, how you can just take the reference and you can draw it. These are the colors. The first color is black, Talo turquoise, Persian blue, paints gray, light blue and white. So these are the colors we will be using for the background of the painting, which is the water ripples. So let's start first with the outlining, and then we'll start with the painting. So first, I will just outline this whole leaf structure with black color. So let's start first with the outlining with my black color and using my round brush of size two or four you can use. You can also use your rigor brush for outlining this. But since I need a little thicker outline, that's why I have used your round brush. So first, I will just do the outlining and then we'll start filling the background. So try not to make a straight line. It is a little bit of crooked lines as you can see in the leaves. So don't make a very smooth lines. So try to make it a little crooked and a little zigzag lines. Make sure that your color is not very thick when you are doing all these outlining, your color has to be a little fluid form, lots of water is there on my brush and I've just taken a little color so that my color becomes fluid and then I'm using it. There's much amount of water is needed when you're using acrylic. Not too much water is required when they use acrylic. Just I will just first do the outlining to just enjoy this process. So now I will be using my flat brush for painting the entire background. So first I'm taking turquoise hallow with a mix of prussian blue and a little bit of paints gray, and I'll start first from the corner side. So I will first do you can see in the picture that the sides are mostly dark and the inside is mostly light in color. So, likewise, we have to move the brush. So take thick colour, don't take thin colour. Don't mix too much water in your color. Otherwise, your color will dry very fast because the more water you add to the colors, the more it evaporates water evaporates and more easily your acrylic colors can dry. Whenever you are doing any blending process, take thick colors and take very less water. Water is only on my brush, that's it. I'm taking quite a lot of colors, and I'm just trying to now blend with the lighter color. So my dark color is still wet, so we can easily blend that color with the lighter color. You can see I haven't washed off my brush also. There is little color of dark portion on my brush. I've just grabbed that light blue color and I'm just filling it up. If you don't have light blue, you can use any blue, serllium blue, cobal blue and just mix it with a little bit of white to do that, and you can easily get that light blue color. Blending it even if you don't have pains gray, you can just use Prussian blue and a little bit of black mix to create that color. Currently, I'm just focusing about the blocking of the colors, how the colors will be for the water part. Then inside part we will do once everything details and everything of the water is done. Just applying first the darker color and then the lighter inside. This is one of the technique where we make the ripples. There will be one more technique which I will be teaching you in the second painting. This one is a little bit easier one, I thought of starting with the easier one, then we'll go with a little tricky one. This is a little easy for creating the ripples. So I have just applied the first dark color and then the light color. In both the paintings, you can use any of the techniques, whichever techniques you like. So just adding the lighter color and trying to mix it with the darker color. Every time you can see I'm pushing the lighter color towards the darker color. Even if there's lots of color on your word brush, just wash off your brush and just with your damp brush also, you can blend the colors easily. You have seen most of the acrylic paintings. I do blending with damp brush also. You can see starting to fill the colors. Now the center part of the color is left. I'm just adding a little bit of white and thalo turquoise. I will just apply in the parts which are close to the leaves with my round brush. Try to do it carefully so that the colors should not go inside the leaves. It's okay if a little bit of blending is missing. When we will add second coat, more focus on the blending part. Slowly, slowly, the background is filling and just blocking the background. Very simple and easy way to create the ripples with this method. Just enjoy the process of filling it up. Once we are done with all these fillings, we'll now do the detailings also. 4. Leaf Ripples - Water Details: Welcome back. Let's start with more of the water details. Now my background has dried completely. We'll add now the second layer onto it. First, I will add the ripples and the little darker shade first on the sides. Just adding one more coat and then we'll add the ripples. You can use your round brush here, bigger size round brush, or you can use your flat brush, whichever brush you feel comfortable with, you can use those brushes. I'm using similar colors and I'm just trying to add one more coat on this. So that the colors look more uniform and more vibrant. So adding one more layer of this same color. So just adding the lighter color and now I'm more focusing about the blending process because here blending is important. After that, you will not be able to do the blending. You can see I'm doing section by section because acrylic colors dry very far, you have to do section by section, the blending. You cannot do completely the entire thing with first dark color and then light color because by the time you will move to light color, the dark color will start drying where you have first applied. Do it in parts like one part at a time so that it is easy for you to blend the colors. Now here, you can see I'm just blending it with my round brush and just pushing the lighter color towards the darker color. This is how you have to do the blending process. If you're still struggling with the blending of colors and everything, there is a class on Skillshare, which has a complete Bigner acrylic painting classes. You can watch that. Try to follow each and every process slowly and very peacefully, very patiently. Don't do all these paintings in a hurry because whenever we do any such type of paintings which has a lot of details in a hurry, there are chances that we may ruin our painting. Do it slowly, take your time. No need to do it in a hurry. Whenever you are doing the second coat of the painting, wait for the first coat to dry. Don't overdo on the wet coat only. First wait for that to dry and then apply the second coat. So I'm applying the second coat once my first coat has dried. If I would have applied it on the wet coat only, my color would have started coming out, the background color. This happens when your acrylic colors become sticky and when you apply the second coat on it, on the wet part, the colors start coming out. Wait for the first coat to dry, then only apply the second coat. You can see how I'm blending the colors. I'm just rotating my brush in circles and I'm just filling it the first with a darker color, and then I will blend it with the lighter color. Just taking the lighter color and putting it all around and I will blend it with my blender brush or you can use your mop brush for blending it, or you can use your thick round brush for blending it. Any brush you can use for blending the colors. First I'm just applying a thick layer of color onto it, and then I will focus on the blending part because whenever we apply thick colors, the colors will not dry very fast. Try to apply thick colors and then to the blending with your damp brush, and just with a very light pressure of your brush, you have to blend it. I will take my blender brush. The Mbndra brush will be a damp brush, means it is wet and I have removed all the water from my brush, and then I'm just moving the brush in circles and I'm just trying to blend the lighter color with my darker color. So this is how I am doing the blending. If you don't have this blender brush, you can use thick round brush, make it a damp brush and then start blending this. You can also use your flat brush, which has a thick hairs that also you can use for blending. Any brush you can use, just make sure that don't push the dark color towards the lighter color. Always push the lighter color towards the darker color. So once my blending will be done, then I will add the ripples. You can see how the blending has been done. Now I will start adding the ripples with my round brush again, taking the mix of the darker colors, that is the Persian blue and pains gray and just adding some nice circular shapes of the ripples. Tick colors I'm taking. My color is wet. My background color is wet, my above color is also wet and I'm just adding this darker colors of these ripples here as you can see. Once I will add all the ripples thick colors and then I'll start blending it with my blender brush. Very easy technique of doing the blending, first you apply the lines and then with very light pressure, we will be blending all these lines. And see how I have applied the lines all over. You can also apply some of the lighter lines onto the darker area and then you can just blend their colors. Now first, I will blend this color which is in the center with my blender brush, damp brush and W a very light pressure of my brush, I'm just trying to blend the lines which are there. Do it very slowly and patiently. If there is a lot of color on your brush, remove excess of color from the brush and then start blending because sometimes it happens when you start blending the colors, lots of colors sticks onto your brushes. Again, remove all the colors from your brush just by wiping it with your cloth and then again blend it. This is how we have to blend the entire thing. Just make sure that none of the lines are very sharp lines. They should look like blurry lines. Very easy way to blend the colors and you have to make sure that both background and the upper color is wet. Then only this blending process will take place. Otherwise, there will be sharp lines. 5. Leaf Ripples - Water Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start further with the water detailings. So now I will add a little lighter colors. My background is still wet. It is not dry. So I'm just adding more of these lighter colors in between. And those colors also, I will blend with my blender brush. Use thick colors so that you can easily blend it. Don't use thin colors. So do it slowly carefully using your round brush. So you can see how I'm adding it between the darker ones. So a little bit of lines, also, I will add to the darker parts just to add more ripples. And now with my blender brush, I will just try to blend all these. Whenever you are using blender brush, use damp brush. Don't use the wet brush or the very dry brush. Use damp brush, wet it in water and just remove all excess of water and then use this brush. Then you will see the effect which is coming out. It's very beautiful and very neat also. So you can see, I'm just trying to blend all the lines, all the sharp lines which are there just to make it more blurry. The lines. If you don't have this brush, you can use your round brush also. You can use your thick flat brush also for doing this. So just do it very slowly and carefully. One by one, the ripples, the lines which are there. So this is the entire background which you can see. Now we will start doing the middle part. Even if my colors have not dried the background colors, still, you can do the center part. It will not affect the colors which are wet. But again, when you are doing the center part, you have to be careful that your hand should not stick to your background. So when it is wet, or you can wait for the background to dry first and then do the center parts. It's totally up to you how you want to start your painting. So now we will be doing the center part. So for the center part, I will first take the rigor brush or the liner brush, and I'll first make the outline, which has disappeared because of this whole coloring, as you can see, which we have applied in the first part. So I'm just outlining this with Pains gray this time and just outlining all these thick lines. These are not thin lines. So try to make it like thick lines. Don't make it very thin. So just drawing the lines all over. So once you have drawn the lines, now you know where to fill the colors. Wait for that first color to dry. These all colors dry very fast, as you know, the acrylic colours dry very fast. So by the time you will do the painting, the colors are already dried up. So now we have taken three colors. That is the so let's start painting the middle part. So this time again, I will be using my round brush and taking both Indian yellow and raw umber. And I'll first apply it on a little bit of white, also, I will add because these colors are a little translucent. So white makes the color a little opaque. And I'm first trying to mix these two colors, these yellows and just trying to apply first on the background. And the corners, I will be making it a little dark by using this burnt sienna. So these are the corners which I will be making it a little dark, and I will try to blend this color with the lighter color. First, I will apply the dark color, and then I will wash off my brush, and then again, I will take the lighter color and then I will blend it with the lighter color. So this is how we have to move on with painting of this entire leaf part. So you can see I first applied this lighter color. That side is the darker color. So mix of the light and dark color is there. Wash off your brush, remove excess of water and try to blend the colors with the darker color. So this is how we do the blending inside any object or anything. Just rotating it in circles and try to blend it with a very light pressure. So these are some of the techniques which is used when we paint the objects or anything. Just rotate your brush in circles and try to fill it the entire process. Whenever there is corner, I will make it dark and the rest of the areas in the center is mostly light. Slowly take thick colors and try to fill the colors inside this leaf. You can see already this warm color is looking very beautiful inside this cool color. So it's very vibrant color. It's coming out this warm color. So once you do this whole leaf painting, it will automatically this color will pop out from the cool color. So you can see, I've just put the darker color, and then with the lighter color, I'm just trying to blend these colors, moving the brush in circles. So I've just zoomed in a little so that you can see it more clearly how I'm doing the blending of colors because this base painting is important, how you are filling the colors. Somewhere it is dark, somewhere it is light, especially in the corners, it is dark. And in the center part, it is light in color. This is how you have to fill in these whole leave. You can put two leaves also if you want, you can put one leaves. Any like two to three leaves also, you can put. It's totally your choice, how you want to paint your leaf structure. So this is the process, how we paint the leaves. Just rotate your brush in circles and try to fill the paint. 6. Leaf Ripples - Leaf Blocking: Welcome back. So let's start further the leaf blocking. So you can see more than half we have already done, only few is left. So again, the corners will be dark, and the middle part will be light in color. So this is how we have to move the coloring. Fill all the details and do it very slowly, especially the corner parts. Don't especially the color should not go inside the water part because we have already done. Suppose, in case if it goes also just you can remove or you can redo it just by using the same background color, but wait for the first color to dry, then only redo that. So this is how you can correct your mistakes if it happens if some of the colors come out of the boundary line. So every time you have to wait for the first background color to dry, then only try to do the second coating. So you can see how I'm just trying to fill the colors, especially making the corners dark and the centers little light. So this makes the leaf look more realistic since it is a dry leaf, so it makes the leaf little more realistic. So just making some more darker patches to the corners and then trying to fill it with the yellows. So once we are done with all the filling of the things, then we will try to draw the veins of the leaves which are there once this filling is done. So we're almost done with the filling of the colours. Now we will add some details to it. So the details which little bit of more lighter color in the parts which in the center of the leaf especially. Making a little bit more light in color, the areas. So now you can see the whole coloring is filled. You can see how bright this beautiful warm color is coming up on this cool color. So just adding a little bit more lighter colors and taking my again, round brush and making the lighter lines. You can see it is more of white and less of yellow. So just making the lines thicker lines on the edge of these leaves just to make it look more popping out, more vibrant. I will be outlining the entire area. You can see I have outlined the entire area with this light color. Now, a little bit of lighter shades, I will just add to the sides just to make it look a little more realistic. So I'm just trying to make it a little look more real. Just making it a little bit more shiny the above part because the sun rays are falling on that part. So making it a little bit more lighter in color, just by adding some more whites to it. Making it more vibrant and more white and light in color. Do all these processes very slowly and very carefully because already we have done the background. Now I will just make a line, which is the stem of this leaf with my white and this Indian yellow mix, adding one thick line. So we're almost done with the blocking. Now we will be doing the detailing part. B 7. Leaf Ripples - Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start with our final details. So now we have done the blocking of the leaves. Now we will be doing the detailing. You can do second layer of blocking of the leaves also, if you feel that it is not correct, if you want to smoothen up a little bit more. But I feel that in one coat it has come up very well, so I'll not be doing the second coat. Now I'm just adding thin lines in the ripple lines which you can see, very thin lines with my rigor brush mixing this white and this light blue color, adding some of the thin ripples which are there. Also taking pains gray and just highlighting the lines of the stem. Also, I will make a little bit of lines, which I think have a little gone because of this yellow colour filling. I'll just make all the lines a little bit more brighter and more visible using pains gray color. Just outlining it one more time. Now, this is not compulsory if you feel that these lines are perfect for you, so you can leave it. But I feel that in some of the areas the lines have gone because filling off this yellow color. That's why I'm repeating it again. Now, again, I will take my blue color with a mix of white, just make the color a little fluid. Again, we will outline the outer part of this dark line, not the inside part, the outer part, just to make this painting look more lively, more vibrant and more three look. I'm outlining the outer area. Try to use thin colour. Don't use very thick colour, so just outlining it. Whenever I take any reference image, I don't do the exact copy. I just do a little bit more of my innovative steps and techniques also to make the painting look more beautiful and more vibrant. Just highlighting all the areas as you can see, You can see there because of this light blue outline, this whole leaf structure has become more beautiful and more vibrant. Now I will add the lines, that is the veins with my this born Siena and a mix of paints gray. Again, use fluid color. Don't use thick colour when you are drawing lines, any veins. If you will use thick colour, then thick lines will be created. Try to make it very thin and then use this color using your rigor brush. Brush and draw very thin lines as possible. You can see how thin the lines are. So I really enjoyed painting this whole leafy pad and the whole ripples. I hope you too. And if you are trying out this project, do tag me or share this project on my Instagram that does Moni Art Gallery. I will love to reshare it on my stories. And we will be doing the second painting also, that is the boat painting. I hope you enjoyed doing this like I did. I really enjoy doing this painting. It has come out really well. I'm really happy with it. Just a few veins and detailing is left, and we are good to go with this painting. Just a little bit of lines, I will add to the darker parts also, some small ripples and then we are done with it. This is it. Let's meet in our next class, which is the boat painting. 8. Boat Ripples Background Blocking: Come back. So let's start with our second painting. That is the board painting. This is the sketching which I have drawn. This sketching will be there in the reference photo. You can check it out and you can draw it by yourself to the canvas, which is already primed and we'll start painting over here. So let's talk about the colors which we will be using here. Let's talk about the colors which we will be using here, similar colors as we used in the previous painting. So the first color is Prussian blue, paints gray, light, blue, Tallow turquoise and white. All these colors we will be using for the background painting using our flat brush. So we will be moving our flat brush in form of circles like how the ripples are moving. Similarly, we will be moving the flat brush. We'll start from the corners and then we'll do the center part. So let's start first with this color that is the Prussian blue and a little bit of turquoise mix sorry, not turquoisPains, gray mix because we want a very dark color. That's why we have to mix a little bit of the pains gray color, not black color. If you don't have pains gray, you can definitely use black color. But again, when you're using black color, don't use too much. Otherwise, the complete painting will turn out to be blackish. So try to make it a little bit of dark bluish color. And if you are not having the Prussian blue, you can use any blue, add a little more amount of black to that to make it a dark blue color. So you can see, first I just focusing on the blocking of colors. So the sides are mainly dark and the inside is mostly the ripples, which you can see over there. So first I just adding the dark color. And you can see it is a thick coat of color. It is not very light color and very thick color. Don't use too much water. Water should only be there on your brush. And rest are complete thick colors. When you use thick colors, the colors will not dry fast and you can easily blend the colors. You don't need any other medium to blend the colors. Especially when you are living in a dry weather, the colors dry very fast when you are using acrylics. So better use thick color and apply it on the canvas. Now I will be using my round brush, mixing this, put the colors together. And first, I will start making in circles with this brush. I'm just filling it up, taking this blue and the tallo turquoise mix, and a little bit of this Prussian blue also mix and trying to make the ripples with light color. So take your time and do slowly because this is a little time consuming method when you apply this type of method. Now I am just first making the shape of this whole, boat which is there, and then I will fill the colors. You can also put here the masking fluid which comes, and then you can paint it. That is also an easy option so that the color should not go inside the object which you have created. That also you can do. Or you can just create a simply line with your color and make sure that the colors don't go inside that line. Even if the colors a little bit go inside that line, you can easily correct it because these are acrylic mediums. You can always correct the colors by overdoing on top of it. Now I'm using a lighter color and making the circles as you can see, taking a little bit of white, and again, adding the more lighter version. Like this, I will be making the circles, as you can see in the picture. So alternate dark and light colors, I will be adding, and I will try to blend the colors also. Like in first code, if it is not blending, it is fine. But whenever we will be doing second and third code, we will try to blend that colors. You can see I'm just again taking my light color and trying to blend it with the darker color. So this is how we have to do the blending, mixing first the darker color, then the lighter color, and make sure that both the color has to be wet, then only you will be able to blend the colors. So do it carefully, follow my steps, and I'm sure you will be able to do this painting. If you have never tried acrylic painting, you can watch my class, which is for bigness, especially how to use Acrylic, the color wheels, color compositions and color blending. Everything is there. You can see in my class descriptions the link you will get there. So you can see I'm just putting the colors first, the dark, then the light. Like this, we have to make the colors in circles. So this is how we have to paint the entire background coating. Likewise, you have to blend the colors. A little bit white, you can mix because sometimes the colors don't pop out the light colors when you mix this light blue and this turquois. So you can add a little bit of white also in between and slowly just make the circles like this and alternate light and dark color, we have to first make the background details. You can do this painting even in Gauche also. Gauche will also work very well when you are doing this painting. If you are not aware of Gauche medium or something, you can watch my class. There are many classes of gauche landscape paintings which are there, which are very easy and easy to follow. If you have never tried it out, to try it out and check how it looks. So just trying to make these ripples first and just filling it with the dark color, especially the corners of the canvas and just making the circles over here. A, now you can see here I have put already the darker color. And since my darker color is wet, so my lighter color is easily blending with that darker color. So this is also one of the technique of blending the colors. First, I'm just making the ripples. If in first code, you are not able to blend the colors, it's completely fine. You can just use these outlines first, and then in the second code, you can do the blending. It's perfectly fine. We are just focusing on here the blocking part. So focus on the blocking of colors, how the alternate colors you have to do the blocking. So similarly, we will be doing here also below and leaving the area which is the reflection area of the board. The rest of the areas we will be covering like this. If you don't have any of these colors, just use dark blue and light blue and you can make this texture. Any color you can use, there color is not a boundation. You can use ultramarine blue. You can use Kobal blue. You just have to add a little bit of greenish color. Somewhere it is yellowish. When you will add a little bit yellowish to the blue color, it will turn out to be a light bluish color. That is the sea green color. That also you can do. So any color you can use, color is not a boundation. Here, my focus is on how to create this painting. Through ripples, you can use any color background, whichever color you want. Any blue, you can use ultramarine cobalt or serleium. Just if you want to use dark blue, add a little bit of black to it. If you want to use light blue, add white to it, and a little bit yellow to it to make it a little greenish. So this is how you can just make the colors. Here, also, I'm just trying to fill it up, leaving the area which is the shadow area. Just taking blue now. I've just applied the lighter color in between, I'm just adding those blue colours. You can see on top of this dark color, I've just applied this lighter color, and I'm just trying to blend it with the dark color. This is how you have to do the entire ripple parts, leaving the shadow part. Even if some colors go inside the shadow, it doesn't matter because ultimately we have to do that part with dark color, that is the black color. So it is okay if some of the colors go inside that shadow part. This is the whole blocking. Now we will start more of the detailing of the ripples. 9. Boat Ripples Blocking Reflection: Welcome back. So let's start further. So now we will start with the blocking here. I've taken black color as you can see, and I will just do the blocking of this area, which is the reflection part. So let's start first blocking this. So you can use any brush, whichever brush you feel like, but first we will do the outlining and then we'll start with the blocking so that the areas where we have to block in the reflection is clear. I'm just making first the outline of this reflection first. Little bit of area is covered with this color, so I'll fix that I'll just outline it. So whenever you are doing any outlining, make your color fluid and use your rigor or liner brush for outlining it. So once we have done the outlining, then we'll start with the blocking. You can see I have outlined each and every area. There is a part which is left with the blue color. That also I will cover it up and we'll block in this part with complete black color. Try to use mars black or carbon black for filling up this area, not the ivory black because ivory black is a little transparent color. Just using my round brush and I'm trying to block in this entire area, which is the reflection area. Now, whenever you are using any blocking thing, use a fluid color. It should not be milky color, you can say, it should not be a very thin color or a very thick color. And my water is there on my brush and I'm just picking the colour and mixing some water with my brush only, and I'm just colouring the whole area here. Like this, you have to fill in the colors. Mm. We have just done one coat on the background. There are two more codes to be done. Then only this whole background painting will be complete. First, I'm just blocking this up and it's almost done. This is just the first blocking, don't worry about it. If some parts are electro is not even, it's okay. We will be doing at least two more codes and then you can fix it up. Also covering the area, which as you can see, it is left with a darker color, covering it up with the paints gray and a little bit black mix. Later on, we'll fix the ripples. Let's now do the second at of the rippers on first one side and then on the other side. So let's start with you can start with flat brush also. You can use your round brush whichever brush you feel like you can use, but here I will be using a little bigger size round brush that is of size six or eight you can use, depending upon the size of your canvas. If you're using a very big canvas, then try to use a little bigger brush. So it all depends upon the size of the canvas which you are using. My canvas is not very big, so I'm using six and eight number. So making again, same thing, first the light color, then the dark color like this, I will start blocking again. Same way which we did in the first one. So do it slowly, take your time and don't mix too much water in your color. Water should only be there on your brush. When the color is thick, the colors won't dry very fast and you will be able to blend those colors. So try not to use too much water in this. You can see slowly, slowly I am just creating the shapes and now it is becoming more darker and clear the shapes which I'm making. I've just added a little white to this lighter color. Again, I'm making the lines in the darker one also and then the lighter ones also. You can also blend this with your fan brush or you can use the mop brush or blender brush to blend this. If you don't have all those brushes, you can use simply your thick round brush to blend these things. So this is the second type of painting, which I'm showing you over here. The first type is a little easy. This is a little bit of time consuming and a little bit of complicated also. But if you will follow each and every process, I'm sure you will get it. So try to do it very slowly, take your time, don't do it in a hurry. So slowly, slowly alternate colors, one dark, one light like this, we have to move on. Once we have done one side, then we will move towards the other side. So slowly slowly, I'm fixing the shapes also and I'm making it more circular and I'm trying to blend the colors also. You see the color difference between the first one and the second one, it is becoming more and more bright and popping up. So that's why we have to do at least two to three codes when you are using acrylicon canvas. Again, I'm just applying another layer. Again, dark, light, dark. This way, you have to move the colors and simultaneously blend the colors as well. It's very easy way of doing it. It's okay if the colors are going inside this boat. We will be coloring this. We will fix that. It's okay. It's perfectly fine if the colors are going inside a little bit in the boat part. Like this, you have to move in circles. Enjoy the process and do it with full patience. You can see I'm just blending the colors, the dark colors, and the light colors. Mostly, I'm pushing the light color towards the dark color. If I feel that the dark color has gone, I'm again applying it. This is how I am trying to blend the colors. Once we are done with this, we will also do the blending part with a blender brush. So first I'm just adding the colors. And Fully slowly, I'm just filling it up. Take your time and do it slowly. Don't do it in a hurry when you are creating, especially the background because background is very important in this. 10. Boat Ripples Blending Background: Welcome back. So let's start further. So again, we will be doing the part which is on the reflection part which is there. You can see there are lines which are not visible, the ripples, the darker lines. So we will fix that with our round brush. So let's start with first the darker colors. So first, I will apply the darker colors on the sides of the canvas. So slowly, slowly, I will move towards the other side, and I will start filling the lighter colors also with a mix of darker colors. So slowly, slowly, we have to create the nice ripple shapes, the round shape of the ripples. That's what we want over here. So first, I'm just applying the darker color. Then I will apply the lighter color with a mix of taloturquoise, and I will try to blend this color with the darker color. You can see I'm not washing off my brush again and again because all these colors are similar to each other, even if a little bit of mix will be there, nothing will happen. The colors will only change to dark and light color. So it's fine. Every time you don't have to wash off your brush and fill the coloring part because both the colors are similar. It's not much difference. Now I'm just adding little white, and I'm just applying more and more ripples to it. So likewise, we have to fill this entire part with ripples. So you can see how when we are adding the second code to it, it becoming more and more beautiful. So the more time you give to your painting, the more your painting will come out very well. So whenever you are painting this, just check out how it is looking where you feel that there is light and dark shadow, likewise, do it slowly. Take your time. Don't do it in a hurry. I would not suggest to do this painting in a hurry. Take your time and do it. Take your own time, take tea breaks, whatever you want, and do it. Because these paintings take time. So you can see slowly, slowly, I'm just applying the dark and light color alternatively. Wherever I feel that there is only light color, I'm applying the dark ripples, where I feel there is only light color, then I'm applying dark and where I feel that there is dark, I'm applying the light colors. So likewise we have to move like this. Now, size of the brush, you can take any size depending upon the size of the canvas. My size of the canvas is 6 ", but if you are doing on a bigger canvas, use bigger size brush like six or eight. This is the four number of number brush. So you can use bigger size brush when you are using a bigger painting. Even ten and 11 will also work if there is a very big size painting. Like I have done in one of my painting, which is 16 by 20 inch, the same painting I have done, but I have used a bigger size brush in that. And similar painting it is. If you will see on my Instagram, that is Mohini Art Gallery, you will find the bigger painting as well on that. So this is the whole idea. I wanted to teach you guys this painting because I really liked this one. When we were small, we used to make paper boats, and we used to put it in the water, and we used to especially during the rainy season when there was a water logging or something, we used to make paper boats, and we used to just put it in the water so that it swims. So this is how we have enjoyed our childhood. And this is one of the memory which I remember that making of the paper boats. I hope you have also done that in your childhood. So just trying to make more and more vibrancy to these colors, again, you can see I'm just adding the darker color. Then some lighter color also I will add. First, I'm just making it dark just by adding a little bit black also to this to make it a little bit more dark, very little amount of black, not too much because already paints grazed there. So don't add too much black to it. Otherwise, everything will turn out to be black. So just I'm taking thick colour, putting the colors, and then I will put the light color, and then I will do the blending part. This time, the blending part I will be doing with my blender brush, you will see over here, which is a very good blender brush from Princeton. And it's very, very good brush. I really liked that brush when I bought it. It's very thick brush from the Princeton company. So I'm just using you can see the light color now. Already, my dark color is wet, so I'm just trying to put the light color in between, and then I will blend it with my blender brush. You will see the magic when the blender brush works. So whenever we are blending it, I will just wet the brush, remove excess of water, and then I will be using that brush over here. So that means we have to use damp brush for blending the entire thing. Now, once we are done with the blending, then we will move towards the other side. First I'm doing the one side, that is the third coat which I have put. I'm just blending those colors, as you can see with my blender brush. I'm moving the brush in the same direction like I have put the colors. So don't press the brush, do it with a very soft hand. If you don't have blender brush, use round brush, which has a thick edge, not the pointed edge. Use that brush to blend it or you can use the synthetic fan brush for blending it. So any brush you can use for blending this thing. But this brush really creates magic. It really blends the color very well, as you can see over here. Now I will apply a little bit more lighter color to it, and then again, I will start blending it further. I'm just putting some of the lighter colors in the darker color portion, as you can see, and then I will try to blend these colors with my blender brush. Very slowly and with very light hand you have to blend it. There should be no sharp lines of these colors should be there. That's why I'm trying to blend it. My background is also wet, so it is easily blending with the background color. See how beautiful that one side is looking. Now we will do the other side also, the part which is the below part of the boat. So everywhere if you are doing the canvas painting, try to do at least two to three ads of it, then only that vibrancy of the painting will come up. And take your time and do it. Don't do it in a hurry. I would not suggest to do these types of paintings in a hurry. It is not a bigner level painting. It is a little intermediate level painting. So do it slowly. Take your time. Watch first the video, then do it or you can do it with me also. That also you can do. So any whatever is preferred, whatever you feel like you can do like that. So here also, I am just blending the colors. So you can see how it is looking after blending. Oo, 11. Boat Ripples Boat Blocking: Welcome back. So now let's start with the boat blocking. So let's first redo the reflection part. Let's do one more time, the blocking of the reflection. And then we'll start with the blocking of this whole uh boat, little bit of dark lines I'm just adding here and there. So here I feel that there is lots of white lines so just adding the darker colors. And now let's do the little blending, still you can see my color is wet behind, so it is not mixing it with the lighter color, it is becoming lighter. So we will wait for the first the color to dry a little bit, and then we will do, again, a little bit of the darker lines. So now let's take the black color and just fill one more coat on this black part. Again, here also I'm using my same round brush and I'm fixing here a little bit of shapes which has been removed because of these lines. So I'm just fixing the shapes also of this dark black color, black reflection which is there. So doing one more quote on this to make it more prominent this reflection. Oh. So you can see now it is popping out that reflection part and a little bit of lines also, I will add to this reflection part. So just making first the shape properly, and a little bit of lines I will add to the reflections. So a little bit of shapes these some of these are the shapes which are there, which has been removed because of these blue colors, which has gone inside these reflections when we were painting it. Also, some lines I will add to the outer part also a little bit, just to make the reflection more look real. Now, once the reflection is done, we will be doing the upper part of the boat which is there. So first, we will outline it with the nice light gray color. So here, also a little bit is left, so I'm just filling it up. So first, I will just outline the entire thing with gray color. So taking my brush, which is the round brush of smaller size, a little of two or four you can take and take white and a little bit of mix of black in this. We have to make a light grayish color, not very dark grayish color. So I will just make first the lines, the outer lines, also the inside lines, I will be drawing with this nice light gray color. All the lines I will be drawing with this color. So these are quite thick lines which I'm drawing. These are not very thin lines, you can see, because already I'm using a thick round brush. These are all thick lines, which I'm just outlining it. Once I will outline the shaves and then I will start filling the colors, the colors is actually white and gray only. So different shades of gray is there. So I'm just first outlining so that it will be clear that where we have to put the colors and where we don't have to put the colors. So just outlining it with a light grayish color. And then we'll start doing more details in this. You can see already it is looking so beautiful once it has been outlined. 12. Boat Reflection Background Third Layer: Hello, all. Welcome back to background third layer details. So you can see we have already done two layers and my background has completely dried. Now I will be doing the second, sorry, the third layer again with my round brush. First, I will apply the colors, and then I will blend it with my blender brush. So I'm just taking a few more colors because my colors have got finished. So just taking a little bit more of the colors, and then we'll start with the painting. I've just taken the paints gray and a little bit of the Prussian blue. And again, I'm repeating the same process as you can see, same ucular shape and mixing both the colors, both the dark bluish color, and just making the one area a little bit more darker. And then I will blend it with the lighter color. So this is how we have to do at least two to three coats so that the vibrancy of the color is there. The more you will do the layering, the more the color pops up whenever you are using any canvas. So try to do at least two to three layers of coloring when you're doing acrylic painting especially. And if you're using canvas, if you're using paper in one or two layer, it is fine. But if you're using canvas, at least two to three layers is must. So I'm just repeating the same process and same thing thick colors I'm adding. And then I will start with the blending process. So taking the lighter color and applying it everywhere just to make the colors look more bright and more bold. And then I will start with the blending process. Then again, I'm adding a little bit more lighter color in place where there is a darker area, a little bit in the lighter area as well, and just applying some of the colors as you can see, So this is how we have to slowly do the painting of the background. You can see there are so many layers which we have added when we were doing. You must have seen the first layer, and now it's the third layer how vibrant this is looking when the third layer comes up. Now once we have applied all of these colors, now I will do the blending part with my blender brush using damp brush. So do very slowly and try to blend all the colors very slowly. If there is lots of light colors on your brush, just remove the excess of light color from your brush and then again, try to blend those sharp lines which are there. So this is how we have to do the blending of all the sharp lines. It's a bit time consuming process, but try to do it slowly. It's not required that you have to do it in one go. Take your time and do this painting because this painting requires time and requires patience as well. Similarly, I will be doing on the other side also. Just enjoy this cool colour process of blending and try to blend yours too. Wherever you feel there is lots of light color, add some dark color, where you feel that there is only dark color, add some light color. So this is how we have to do the circular part with a mix of light and dark color. Adding some light color in the parts of the dark color also, as you can see, and then I will do the blending as we have done on the other side. So you can see how bright and vibrant it is looking once it has been blended. Also, I think a little bit of color has gone inside this black part, which I will fix it again by adding black color. So try to do it slowly, take your time and do the blending process. This black part, I will do it a little bit more because some of the colors have gone inside this black part also. So taking a little bit more of black color. And just applying one more coat on this each and every process plays a very important role. Even this black reflection should look vibrant and more popping out. So that's why I'm applying again one more layer of it. Also, you can see I'm adjusting the shapes also. 13. Boat Ripples Boat Details: Welcome back. So let's start further. Now we will do the boat detailing. So now we will be doing a little painting of this board. We have already outlined it with gray color. Now I will make it a little darker gray, and then we'll start with the painting. So first, we will paint this area, which is a triangular area. You can see over here with a dark grayish color. And as we will go down, we will make it more lighter and lighter. So transition will be from dark to light. So this part will be like that. Similarly, the other side also we will be doing similar way like we did it over here from dark to light transition. So try to do it very carefully and slowly because we have already done the outside background, and we are doing the middle part. So try to do it very carefully and slowly. If suppose if some of the colors go outside your boundary line, you can just fix it by using the same background color. So you can see I'm doing the other side of the boat using the same color, again, the same transition from dark to light. Oh. You just have to keep one thing in mind that the edges, whatever edges are there we have done, you have to do with the gray color, and rest of the center part will be light grayish and white color. So it is like that we have to paint the entire board. If some of the shapes are not proper, this is the best time to fix the shape of the boat just with white colour. But make sure that your background color has dried up. So you can see I'm just fixing the shapes also and I'm filling the colors from dark to light transition on both the sides. Similarly, all these edges will be in grayish color, and the center part will be a little lighter grayish and whitish color. So try to do it very slowly, carefully, one by one, the area to make it look more real. If any mistakes happen or anything happens, you can always overdo it with the same background color. But you have to keep in mind that the background color has to drive first, then only overdo it on top of it. Just use a smaller size round brush or the liner brush also you can use for the lining. It all depends upon your choice, which brush you want to use, but for filling it, use the round brush. So slowly, slowly, I'm just making the lines and I'm filling up the colors, as you can see. So try to do all these paintings very slowly and very carefully one by one, because this is the main center of point of the painting where whenever we see this painting, we'll first focus on the center point that is the boat. So this has to be perfect. Try to make it as perfect as possible. Especially the lines which are the outer edge lines, it should be very sharp and very clear. So you can see I'm making this area a little bit more dark just by adding a little darker gray color. Similarly, I'm doing it on the other side also. This is how we proceed slowly one by one. The outer edges also I will be doing with the liner brush. First, I will just fix all the areas which are there. Now, just making a simple line with the white and grayish white color and also with a little bit of blue mix with this white. I'm just adding some lines over here also just to give a little edge to this reflection. Very small small things make your painting look more perfect. Now with my liner brush, I will just do a little bit of lining also. So if you're comfortable with round brush, you can do the lining with round brush also. But if you're not comfortable with round brush, use your lineup brush or your rigger brush for doing all these things. So just do it very carefully, and all the edges should be very sharp and straight. So you can see I'm doing it again and again so that the area which is the edge area, it should be sharp and pointed. Now I'm taking my rigor brush and making it more pointed with my rigor brush. So do it very carefully when you're doing the edges. 14. Boat Ripples Final Details: Welcome back. So let's start final details of the painting. So I will just add some of the lines with my rigor brush just to make it a little bit more more ripples should be there. So wherever there is the lighter lines, I'm just lighter colors. I'm just adding the lines with my rigor brush. So nice thin lines and thick colors I'm adding. I'm not adding thin colors because I don't want this color to dry very fast because I have to blend also these colors. So wherever there is lighter portion, I'm just adding these dark lines. And I will also be adding the lighter lines once I'm done with these darker lines. So once I'm done with the darker lines, I will also be adding the lighter ones in the darker places and also in the lighter places where there are lines. So just first adding the darker ones, and then we'll start with the lighter ones. So use thick color. Don't use thin color because if it dries, you will not be able to blend these colors. Now I'm taking the lighter color, and I will just do the similar process. And wherever there is darker area, I will just add some lighter. Even on the lighter parts also, I will add some of these lines, and then we'll start with the blending. You can do half of the portion and then blend it and then again, do the half portion like that. As you can do it. But since your winter has started, so my color is not drying very fast. So it is possible for me to blend the colors. But if you live in a very hot and humid area, so do it in parts. First, do the first part and then blend it, then do the second part, and then blend it. So this way, you can complete the whole painting. So if you are living in a very hot and humid place and your color starts drying very fast. So do it in parts and don't sit directly under the fan or anything. Otherwise, your colors will dry very fast. So you can see now I am just blending the colors with my damp brush. This is my damp blender brush. I have wet the brush, remove excess of water, and then I'm just blending all the colors. So this is how you have to blend the colors. If you don't have this blender brush, you can use a thick round brush. We should not have a round pointed tip on the top, it should be a nice round brush, but it should be flat on the top, then you can do the blending. Even with your flat brush, if it is thick, you can blend it using your damp flat brush. Any brush you can use for blending, but it should be a thick brush. So slowly, slowly, you can see I'm blending all the lines which I have drawn. Once we will do this all blending of lines, we will just try to fix the area which is the boat area, some of the pointed edges and everything. We'll try to fix it. So you can see just trying to blend all the areas there. So now we will be doing the little bit of the fixing of this board part, just making some of the areas pointed, just making both areas look more white and more pointed. So especially the edges, the corner edges and the above area, which is a triangular shape area just to make it a little bit more steep and pointed. Try to fix each and every area where you feel that it is not properly pointed and edges are not very sharp. Just try to fix it up. Doing it slowly one by one. Now making the above area which is there a little bit more pointed. Because this area, I feel it should be very pointed and very steep. I should have very sharp edges. So if your edges are very sharp, it's completely fine. But if it is not, try to make it as sharp as possible just by adding white colour and a little mix of black to it. So this is the way we fix all the lining part and everything. If you feel that somewhere the lines have come out, just take the background color and fix it up. So that's what I'm doing over here. I'm just fixing the corner areas. So if you're trying out these both the paintings to tag me or share me on my Instagram, that is Mohini Art Gallery. And if you feel that acrylic painting is difficult and you are not able to do it, first try my bigner lesson, which I have already attached a link in the description. You can check it out, and then you can do this painting. It will be much more easy when you will do that bigner level and then you will start this. So just try to do each and every corners very sharp and full edges should be there. So you can see that edge and making it a little more pointed. So if yours is totally pointed, you can leave that portion, but if it does not, try to make it a bit pointed. Now, just watch your painting at f that what all things you can fix it. If it looks perfect for you, you can leave it here as it is. But if you feel that something is missing, some of the lines are not straight, some of the areas are not properly done, this is the right time to fix the things which are there. I know it is a never ending task. You have to stop somewhere, but try to fix it as possible. You can see I'm just making the outer area more this white, just to make it more vibrant. Just outlining it all over with white color using my rigor brush. So we are almost done with this painting. I will teach you the varnish part, how to do the varnishing of your painting with one of the paintings I will use, and I will show you how to varnish your painting. So before varnishing your painting, just leave your painting for one or two days like that and then do the varnishing. Don't do it all of a sudden. Once you have done this painting, wait for the paint to settle and then varnish it after one or two days. So just the final edge which I'm making. H. So I hope you enjoyed this painting like I did. This is one of my favorite painting which I thought of teaching you guys. And I'm sure you will also enjoy while doing this painting, especially this painting. So do try it out and share your projects. I would love to see your project works. So, finally, we are done with it. And thank you so much for watching this. 15. Varnish: Welcome back. Let's see how to do the varnishing of the painting. Now my painting has completely dried. I will be using this foam brush for applying the varnish, and the varnish brand which I'm using here is from liquid tech, and it is a satin varnish, which I will be using here. So let's take out the varnish, and I'll just sprinkle some of the liquid on my canvas. And then using my foam brush, I will just apply it in one direction evenly, all over, as you can see, I'm not pressing my foam brush, and I'm trying to apply this varnish all over in a very even manner. And then to check if it has applied or not all over, once you have applied all the varnish all over, just pick up your canvas and see if it is shining or not all over. Then you can see that you have applied the varnish. So you can see I've just applied it. I will just pick it up and I will see if it has applied all over or not, and this is it. Same thing you can do it for the other one also, but try to do at least two coats of varnish. So once the first coat dry, again, add at least two layers of coat on it, and this is done. Thank you so much for watching. H.