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1. Nest intro: Hi everyone. My name
is Dan and I've been creating art since
I was a little girl. When my daughters
were old enough, I opened a small arts and crafts instruction studio
for home learners, where we could paddle and
dabbled to our heart's content. This is when I realized
I really loved teaching. I truly believe that
with a little patience, the right instruction, and
a lot of encouragement, anyone can be an artist. I now teach classes in-person, online and in tutorials
just like this one from my studio in the coal mocks Valley
on Vancouver Island. They may not look at, but these paintings really are designed for the
terrified beginner. Today we have a touch
spring with a robin's nest nestled in green leaves and surrounded by some
lovely flowers. You won't believe how
simple this painting is to create using two brushes, some Mac TAC and a
simple kitchen sponge. Consider me the training
wheels on your first bike. I'm here to show you
where your feet go, how to keep your balance, which way will take you home? It won't be long until
you feel confident to explore and write on
your own mining exam. And I'm inspiring the
reluctant to artist.
2. Finding the eggs: Alright, let's
paint ourselves and just take some white and
some blue and some yellow. I'm going to mix myself up. Puddle of turquoise,
Robin's egg blue. We go a little bit
of yellow in there. Little bit of white, little bit too much yellow. It's more blue in it.
Dirty brush here. That's getting to be
felt the right color. Dark though. So I'm just going
to lighten it up. It just a tad there. That should just about right. I'm gonna wipe my brush
off here on my sponge. This is just one of those
dollars door kitchen sponges. Script myself a bunch here. I'm going to make her like a dot in the center here
or a circle in the center. And I'm just
balancing my sponge. Nothing fancy here. Like that. Maybe a
little bit bigger. You're going to think that
this is just one big egg. Well, it's not, it's gonna
be more than 18 for sure. I've taken some water, bring it onto my plate here. I've taken a bit of brown
paint, watered it down. Sometimes it's better
actually if you tap it off onto your page, on your pencil like this, then I'm going to
tap it onto here. My dad's gonna throw up all
these lovely little dots that Robin zigs
have dots on them. I'll wash my brush and give it a bit
of a dry off here. I'm going to dip it into dip
my brush into watery white. And yes, it's probably
gonna get brown in it, but that's definitely
going to get brown. Let's give that a
tap off again here. Give it a tap off
onto the plate first because it does
throw a lot of dots. Do something like that. Then I think I might just do
a little bit darker as well. I'm just going to
put a little dab, little tiny dab
of black in here. Just a little one like that. Square move at
around in the Brown. Got a little bit more contrast. Tap it off. Always tap it off. I like to hold it right at
the very end of my team. My toothbrush here too. It's a good balance. We go, oh, there we go. I'm going to say one
giant Robin's egg. But really it's going to be
as many rather than zinc. So as you want, you've got
all those little flex in. Give it a dry
3. Masking the eggs: Take a piece of mat tax, just tap from the dollar store. I'm going to draw myself
an egg shape on it. Should do me take that. Cut it out. When cutting a circle or cutting something that's gonna smooth
edge like this. Turn the paper as opposed to turning the scissors and you get a smoother
edge that way. There we go. Now,
what I'm gonna do, hopefully it won't
be too difficult. This is the hardest part
of the whole painting. And take the back
off the map pack. We go Save this piece. Take this piece of mat tack. I'm going to stick it onto
my painting just like that. And then I'm gonna
take this piece, this egg that have cut out. I am going to trace around it as many times as I want.
I'm going to have a3x. Once. There we go. Now I can cut these out. I have three eggs that are
roughly the same size. We're going to use this mask off our eggs and
center our nest. Super duper. Easy. There we go.
I'll do this one. Now of course, you could just
draw these on if you liked. Just a little bit more fiddly. I think. There we go. Then peel the backoff. Peel the front half,
that's sometimes easier. Your other egg squished down. A little bit hard to see. Clear men tack, but you
can get colored man. I'm just going to give
that a little heat up. Just a gentle heat and then give it a little rub like this. Really adhere to the
mat out to the canvas.
4. Base coat: Now what we're going
to do is get ourselves a good blob of black. Then I'm just gonna
take a sponge, this one over and use
clean side in here. I'm not gonna scrape
across those eggs, but I'm going to kind of dab in there because I
want to make sure I don't run any paint
underneath them. Actually see them. Still see them in they're
getting I need a fact. We'll be taking that. This is masking all of that lovely Robbins AID
column we've got in there. Just going to finish filling
in the rest of the canvas. Give it a good coat. Careful you don't run any any
paint under that mask off. Sure. That comes right down
around the edges too. I think I will give
this blow dry. Come back in with another
layer of black paint. Is coated there. Good cover there that should do is just fine. I'll give that another blow
dry streak right there.
5. Layering the leaves: That's dry enough. Now let's mask in
or mapping where are where our nest
is going to go. I'm just going to use white
because it finish show up a little bit
of water in here. So it's a really watery white. I'm going to put little shorts, short strokes all
the way around here. That's indicating where
my nest is going to go. Now we'll cover
these up with twigs and leaves and things
are going in here. But for now that's
going to give us a where we've got our mat. Scoop that yellow onto this tray and I'm going to
mix my black with my yellow. That's going to give
me a green like that. And I want this quite dark little tiny bit of water in that too
because it's kind of thick. We're going to put a bunch of leaves in the background here. So a little bit more. I'm going to make my leaf, I'm going to put my
brush down and I drag it in a
diagonal, lift it up. When I get to as long
as I want my leaf. If I kind of think of
them as almost like diamonds were gonna
do this all over. The background here. You get really good at these
because we're going to do of quite a few
layers of these. Just putting my brush down, dragging it diagonally and
then lifting it. Little twist. Let me do these. All, these were all
in the background, all background leaves, ones that are way down,
deepen the shadows. Press down. And
then as I lift up, give it a little twist and end up with my bristles
going this way. Let's see if I can make so
you guys can really see it. Press down, stand back
up on your bristle. Got all my leaves are all
going the same direction here to mix them up if you like, I usually just don't make them
going the same direction. Spin my spin my
Canvas as I paint it. Press down, turn slightly
and end up on the chisel. That's looks like lots of
lots of those dark leaves. More there. Now I'm going to go into yellow. I'll skip out some
more yellow over here. Then I'm going to
scoop into my white. Mix this lighter
green, more yellow. I think this is gonna
be a lighter green, but I don't want to
really super light yet because this is going
to be our mid tone green. That's gonna show
up super light. There we go, somewhere
in that sort of color. We're just going to do
the same thing again. So much more that shows up. You can go right on top of
these leaves underneath. Because it would, in nature. This is our second second
layer of leaves going in, press it down sideways
and stand up. Some overlap. Building, building,
building, building. That looks like
enough of those ones. Now I'm going to add a
little bit more white. Lighten it up
considerably more yellow. I'm going to add just a
little bit of blue into it. This will be our lightest leaf. This time as I'm
putting this down, I'm gonna think about
actually putting them into like as they would
be growing on a branch. These are all going to
be growing off stamp. Get rid of that. I'll put
one at the end of the stamp. And then a couple that grow
down the side of the stem. Stick some actual little
indications of branches here. Maybe this will go here. Comes off the stem this way. Just going to keep layering
them in dark to light. Color difference
in this one here. So I'll just bring some of
these over to balance it out. Lovely. To bring a couple of
those ones in here. Just so it doesn't
look really different. That is super fresh looking. Stick that in the washer, then I am going to
give it a good flow. Dr.
6. Stems: Let's get some stems
going in here. Take one of my brushes, just this old skinny
liner brush here. I'm going to stick
a bit of water in that last color we used. Because if I loosened his water, loosen the paint up
with a bit of water. Get a finer line. I'm
just going to do that. Mix it in there a
bit and I'll wipe my brush off because
lots of it gets built up in there and
we'll end up with a big blob and we won't
be happy about that. So I'm going to look at
these last ones I put in. I'm gonna say this one
here has a stem and these leaves me to
join up to something, just giving it a bit of a
stem going in the pool. The stems usually
from in the dark, the black area into the leaf. I'm going to make sure it
just joins up here and there. Doesn't have to be everywhere. Kinda nice to have a little
bit of a fine line in there. So just join as
many as you like. Hello As you turn
this around that you don't end up dragging your hands through something, mirroring it. That's just fine. Let's give that a try so we
don't smear anything.
7. The nest: Find our tray that
has some brown on it, put a bit more brown on that. We're going to mix base
color for our nest. And so I like to use some brown, some black, because
this will be a shadow. Shadow, darkness in our, in our nasty little bit
darker than that maybe. Alright, now I'm just
going to start laying in these strokes like this and thinking of these
as little sticks. And they'd stick out
over into the leaves. Cross some of the leaves. Go ahead and come down. Close in. In this area down here, where are our eggs are protected and not have to worry about painting over them. You can just bring
your sticks down right into the center of the mass. They're a little bit here. Now, I'm going to
add some more brown in there. Like that. Most goop, a white, lighten that up a little bit. Here is our next
row of branches, or sticks and branches. I guess that these will
start to really show up because that much later. Remember, keep this
outside edge quite choppy. Can always turn your Canvas. Trying to wrap these. Wrap these, I'm sticks
around the mast. Still quite dark here. A little bit of that in
there and that's okay. I'm not painting with the chisel off my paintbrush here and I'm painting very messy actually, I can see all sorts
of splatters. I'm getting everywhere here. My worried there. That's that. Now let's add a little
bit more white to it, maybe a little bit more around. Slightly different color here. I'm going to do the same thing. Now you see these
starting to show up more. Try to keep this an interesting, interesting organize, organization of sticks
coming out here. Also be careful you don't
get too carried away. Make your nest
absolutely massive. Cover-up all your leaves. Going to see how I'm
just kind of going at different angles around here. Keep turning it. Go. More, starting to
look like and asked. Now, add a bit more white. Really going to show up now because we've got
dark underneath it. You get a depth to it. It's not just a flat,
flattened, nasty. You can see layers
of sticks in it. Just kept adding a
little bit of white. Get a little bit
brighter each time. Kind of nice when we get
up into this stage here. To add a little bit of
the color of the eggs. That one there. I will just so many plates here. It's going to mix up something that's sort of similar
to the egg color here. Take that my brush now, gonna stick it in here. That's a little
bit. There we go. It doesn't look like
it's blue right now, but it will, it will really compliment
the eggs in the nest. Once we've the peeled off sticks. Holding my brush right
from the end here. More than blue. Little bit more in there maybe. How are we doing? Little splotches everywhere,
but it looks at things. Let's be dripping
off something here. Here we go. That's our nest
looking pretty good for now. I'm going to give it a blow dry.
8. Blossoms: Now if we thought we were messy, we're going to get messier. We're going to give
ourselves some little finger painted flowers here. Getting a nice little green
patch of white there. Stick my finger in here, and I'm going to stick
a flower right here. I'm going to make three
petals like that. Then I'm going to make
three petals over here. Turn my canvas like
three over here. Carefully. You don't, you're
not to completely, even when you do this, try to stagger these. They're not perfectly placed. Always pull this
towards the center. So cute. I'm not done. Not stamping my finger. I'm actually putting
it down. Pulling it. Maybe one more right in here. We've got all these
three petals flowers and they need to be
five petal flowers. But I find that it's
easiest to do on one side and then
the other side. So I'm not going to sniff around and fill the two
pulling towards the center. Don't be tempted to
try to go sideways, to reach across and see. Maybe do this one,
pulling it up. Never get an as nice a flower. Unless you're full
to the center. Keep turning your pianos. Tell you for all of
your flower petal song. And then we'll try it. Put some centers in there. Did I miss any? I
don't think I did. That looks like almost
like little ladybug there, which makes me think we should
put some ladybugs on here. Why not? That little
dot there would take I've got these on and
I'm going to give it a dry
9. Flower centres: Going to take a bit
of my yellow here and my smallest brush,
make a little, little center on these flowers. Super-simple,
nothing fancy here. Just like that. That will do just fine.
10. More flower centres: Now, take this brush
and I'm going to give these little yellow
ones, another coat. Bit of brown, and then this time just a little bit of brown
like this yellow brown in it. I'm just going to
kind of skip that on the bottom half of the
center, the flowers. And that's going to
give them a little bit of dimension there. That off back on top. One more code, yellow. On the very top of them. Some dots on those
little little lady bugs. Wait for it to dry
first. There we go.
11. At last the eggs!: We can now for careful, don't stick your fingers
in anything that's wet. And go up here and
find our eggs. One comes another one. Here comes another one. There we go. There's three lovely eggs
sitting in that nest. But they're common
like they're sitting right on top of it. What we need to do is in
our small flat brush again, go back into that liquidy black. Make myself a little
bit more here. See how thin that is. Super thin. Let me see right through it. I'm just going to try to avoid dragging my
hand through here. I'm going to put a shadow
right here on my EG. My finger a little bit here. Same with this one right here. Given a bit of dimension. This one, the shadow
will be on this side, always be on this bottom edge. Law was beyond the, the same edge of the egg. We go, I'm going to go back into my little tiny bit darker. Down here. Very bottom edge. We're just sort of fading
out into the nest. Darker along that
edge. That edge. I'm just going to rub off
my finger a little bit. Go blending a bit more. I still stand out a lot. So we're going to help
to bring some more, Some more brightness into the nest to make it
all makes sense. We're gonna go back into
her nest this time. But it's really lightened it up. Yellow, little bit of brown, little bit of white. Bring some more top
sticks into it here. That will make our
eggs make sense. Last little bit of
white for light. Browns disappearing.
12. A bit more shadow: Alright, that's brighten
that up considerably. I wanted to just go back
right in here one more time. See this little edge
that's showing here. I wanted to get that
a little less harsh. I'm just going to put a little bit more of
my blacks down here. Going here just on
the shadow edge. We're, our shadow is showing
bit more watery black. I'm just going to run over
it with my finger bed that and take that down so it just gently
disappears into the dark. They're not, we'll tuck those down
in there quite nicely. Along this edge here too. Let me go. Now
that's talk to them down quite nicely into the nest. Little bit more shadowy color and just a sliver on
this side of the egg. Just give it a bit of a
wrap there to, there we go. This is just that
watery black again. Just a tiny sliver of it. A little bit more
dimension on that side. There we go. Now these eggs are really
popping up from the Nast. More right there.
13. Rustling up some ladybugs: Let's see if we can wrestle
ourselves up a ladybug here. Little bit of red
paint on my palette. Way too much. Way, way, way too much. I need to paint brush
that has around it and this one's got around it and it's got a
different white into my red. And here's where there's a dot. So I'm going to put a dot on
top of that just like that. Slit it dome up. The one that needs a dot. Anywhere you think
might be nice. There's one over there. This is a great way
to cover stuff out. That's for sure. If you have any blobs
there. One right there. One in here to probably
off camera, one in here. Keeping fairly round. Dry them with dots on them. Nothing, nothing
really complicated. Central painting. It's going to take a bit of drawing because there's a lot of
paint on there now.
14. Ladybug dots: All right, That's
looking quite good. What else do we need? Let's
just fix that right there. Got a dip right back into my white paint again and give it another little touch
up over anywhere. We might have caught it
with a bit of yellow. There we are. It's quite good. Let's get some little tiny
dots into our ladybugs here. I want to use some black. Just going to use
Santa, my pencil here. I'm going to put
a couple of dots, three little dots on that one. And I'll put three on this one. More paint on it. On that side there, too. Miss any hoops. That's a big one, That's okay. Those will read as little
lady bugs that are disguising anywhere that might have been just a little bit
messy with our painting. Great way to disguise it. Can get my pencil and just make, I'm just going to draw that center line
between their wings. Tipping it into, whoops. There we go.
15. A few more dots: That's looking quite good. I think I have one last
thing that I'd like to do on here that is give a little
bit of I don't know, just a little bit of
excitement on these, on the centers of these flowers. I think it'd be quite
nice to take some brown. There it is right
there. Take my pencil again, dip it in there. And I'm just gonna
make some little dots. Centers of these flowers.
16. The final touches: We're just going to
nip right in here. Make it that little bit
darker because it kind of lightens up a little
bit as it, as it dries. A little bit more of that, more of that shadow in there. Tuck it in and we might as well do a little bit more
on this edge too, just taking that harshness way. We go a bit more there. Flip it up this way. Because this is going to be up, at least this is what
I think it looks like up. And I think we're all done. There's your little nest.
Anne Clarkson, Inspiring the reluctant artist
