Creative Painting: Paint This Lovely Moon on Leather!!

1. Welcome to the class: Hello everyone, welcome to this class. I hope you're all having a great day. My name is David and in this class I'm going to show you how you can make this moon painting out of another piece. This project is fast, easy, and fun to make. And you don't need to have any previous experience on letter crafting. For this project, you'll need some vegetable tanned leather. I run object that will be the diameter of your moon. A pencil and exacto knife, some acrylic paints, a brush, and as an optional but helpful material, timecode sealer, as well as a small piece of cotton cloth. The project for this class is for you to make your own little moon using the techniques you'll see in these lessons. So I hope you have fun with it and without any further ado, let's begin our project and prepare or leather in the next lesson. See you there. 2. Preparing the leather: Great. So to begin our project, we're going to need some vegetable tanned leather. I'll be using a four millimeter thick piece that I have from previous projects. You can use any thickness you wish really and can easily get one small piece of two or three millimeters on eBay. Just make sure it's vegetable tanned leather. You do need to work with this type of others since other letters like Chrome tan one work well with the acrylic paints. So to begin with, I'll seal the back part of the leather with some timecode. Since the backside of the leather is full of loose fibers, this healer will make the surface smooth and protected from any moisture. This step is optional since the backside of the project won't be seen. However, it does feel good to have that other sealed and protected. Use a small piece of cotton cloth to simply apply it and spread the liquid over the surface. Always make sure you're applying the tank goes on the backside of the letters since the acrylic paint won't work over it. When you're done, let the code dry for around 15 minutes and then use a sick or object to draw the diameter of the moon. In this case, I'll be using a protractor and a pencil and simply plays a protector over the leather and trace the outline with the pencil until it's fairly visible. It doesn't need to be very visible since we're going to repeat this step later on. Just enough for you to have an idea of where the paint will go. Then finally, with your pencil, trace some large spots where the darker areas of the moon are. In this case, I've traced five large areas and are mostly on the upper part of the liver. When you're done, we can start painting our moon in the next lesson. 3. Painting the base color: For this project, I'll be using this Angelo's acrylic leather panes. These are great paints to work with leather. If you're looking to make some project with strong color tones, I'll be using gray, dark gray bone and dark bone color paints, as well as white acrylic paint later on. For now, let's begin with the dark gray color. Mix your paint well, before using it. When you open the paint, you'll notice it has a small brush in the cap. This is actually a great feature and a very useful one as well for your project. Grab enough paint to start painting inside the areas you just marked. These are going to be the darkest areas of the moon. When you're finished, leave them on to rest for around 20 minutes until the paint is dry and then we'll continue to add the rest of the base color in the next lesson. 4. Painting the intermediate color: So when the dark gray paint is dry, you can start painting the rest of the base color which are dark bone pain. For this unit, apply more paint since it's a larger surface, but the process is exactly the same. Now when you reach the edge of the circle, you can make some small strokes with a brush just to see where the line of the pencil is. Similarly on the edge of the darker paint. You can press your brush so that the hair is open and then push the paint to the side. As you can see, this will make the band in-between look more realistic. Make sure to cover all the surface with paint. If there's a spot in the dark section on the moon and you wish to paint it later. Go ahead. Don't worry too much of how it's going to look since later on we'll add even more details with other colors. When you're done, leave your piece to drive for another 15 minutes, and then we can continue to add the details on the surface. 5. Painting the details: Now that the base colors of your moon or dry, we can begin adding some details to the surface. We can start with a bone color paint to make some greater effects. First, with the brush of the bone color paints, you can make a large stain like the one you are seeing the video. This is going to be the largest stain. And to make the effect of the crater, we need to expand the colors for the surface near the stain in a circular pattern, almost like following the circumference of the moon. So you can use your brush and make long curved strokes to make this effect. Start inside the large stains adjusted and move your weights for other sites. Play with different lengths and pressures so the strokes look more natural. You can turn them on at your will if you wish. Repeat the process in other areas of the moon. In this case, I'll be doing another large stain on the upper side of the circle. We're a small strokes in the right side and the larger one on the left. Then I'll continue to add more stains and stroke on the size. And the larger one near the center as well. When you are happy with them, you can add some random small things over the surface. They don't need to highlight a lot just enough to make some contrast with the base colors. Then we can continue with the gray color paint. However, this time, I'll be using a large brush to make some splatter effect in the surface. I suggest you grab some paint with your brush and in a piece of leather or the edge of your vegetable tanned leather aside your painting. Tab your brush until you get a drip effect. You want to have as little pain as possible in the brush for this. So you're painting doesn't look overloaded with gray paint with this detail. When you are happy with that, tap your brush throughout the entire circle, again in a random manner. You can do this with your Grey bone and dark gray paint. The ADA is to give the effects of the smaller craters that are on the surface of the moon. Finally, you'll say white acrylic paint as well. To repeat this process. This time, however, tried to be more subtle. And if you feel there's a space that needs some of these effects were another paint. Feel free to repeat the process once again. When you're done, again, leave your moon to rest for around 15 minutes. And we can then proceed to cut out the circle. 6. Cutting out the moon and finishing the side: One of the plaintiff that either is dry, we can proceed to occur at the Moon. However, since we've painted all over the surface, the line that we previously drawn may not be visible anymore. If this happens, you can once again draw the circle using your circle or object and your pencil. This time, make sure the line is a well-marked and visible. To go to the moon, use your exacto knife and carefully follow the line you drew with your pencil. When you're doing this, go slow. Don't rush and don't apply too much pressure. When you pass your knife, the leather will start cutting itself little by little. You might need to pass your knives on three or four times to separate the circle from the rest of the letter, but don't try to make it in one single pass. If you tried to make it in one pass, you will end up using too much pressure and this can be dangerous for you. Also notice how my left hand is right at the very sight of the leather. Never plays your hand or fingers right in front of her. The knife will pass. Remember that everyone is responsible for its own security. So please be aware of when using these tools. You can make some cutting entrances, so to speak, if you wish to start separating the pieces, this will make the P is more manageable when the leather becomes loose. And there it is. The moon is now cut out. Now the only thing left to do is to finish the entire edge of the circle. And to do this, you can use a 227 grid paper and start taking out those excess of fibers. When you're finished something, you might notice the edge of the moon to be slightly more sharpened done before. There is this tool which is an edge Babylon. And what it does is that it takes out all the sharp edge by just gently passing it through the edge. You can get yourself one of these tools you wish or are planning to work with leather quite often. However, if not, you can use the same sound grid paper and start removing the edge by sending it in a diagonal manner, as you can see. When you're done, the last step is to paint the edge with one of the panes you've already used. In this case, I'll use the dark gray color. You can always make a test on a smaller section of the circle and see if you like that color of not for this project, I like how it looks with the dark gray and we'll finish the entire side with this color. In the next and final lesson, we'll see how the moon ended up looking and discuss the final project. 7. Final project: Great, So this is how the moon looks at the end. In this class, you've learned how to make this fun and fast project and it's now time for you to make your own moon. Get yourself some vegetable tanned leather and some acrylic leather panes to start your project. Then when you're finished, don't forget to upload it so other students can see it as well. Thank you so much for watching this class. I hope you have enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one. Have a great day.