Dreamy Abstract Landscape: Easy Acrylic Painting for Beginners

1. Welcome to another wonderful class: Hello and welcome to another colorful painting class. In today's class, you will learn how to make this wonderful abstract landscape. This will be a very simple and easy class that will teach you about clean colors and how to build perspective texture and, of course, beautiful mountains and greenery. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over 11 years. In the last five years, I've fallen in love with teaching. Both online and in person classes with more than 20,000 students, I've developed this interesting way of it focuses on exciting projects and having a great time painting while at the same time, having a lot of fun and learning the fundamentals of painting. This might seem complicated. However, you will have step by step encouragement and guidance in order to create and achieve an amazing result. Not only that, but everything that you learn, you can apply to your future paintings as well. So let's jump into the course. 2. Materials needed: Hello, and welcome to another beautiful painting session. In this course, we will be doing a beautiful abstract landscape, very nice and beautiful with some blue and some yellow, but you will need some acrylic paint. I suggest taking big jugs like this. Amsterdam acrylic paint is such a nice acrylic. This is titanium white. This is Azo yellow medium. You can also use lemon yellow or any other kind of yellow you have around. This is burnt umber, also known as brown. Some carmine red. Carmine red is a very good red because it plays very well with the blue. It doesn't make it muddy. It makes it much more of a deep purple. And this is brilliant blue. You will also need a canvas. This is 30 by 40 centimeter canvas. You will need a mixing plate, some water, some paper towels, as well as some brushes, a big flat brush, we will do a lot of the painting with this brush and then a small flat brush and a round small brush. And that's almost all you need for this course. 3. Blue sky and negative painting: Before we start the first step, you should know that this painting requires a bit of courage. It will have a certain amount of time. It won't look like anything. It will look just like an abstract painting, but by the end of it, you're going to really understand how to build up layers and how to create depth, as well as colors, and, of course, the whole entire painting. For that, you will need to start with some blue for the sky. A little bit of yellow. And some white. With a big flat brush, it has a bit of water in it. Take about half of the white and a bit of blue. Mix it well together. Well, let's take a bit more blue and a bit more white. Let's blend it smoothly together to get this surreal color, this beautiful baby blue. Such a beautiful color. And let's establish our horizon line. Well, it is the horizon line is going to be a bit lower, but we're going to try to make a beautiful line. A very interesting way of measuring is by going with another brush, just like that. And it's a bit lower. I'm going to need to also look from above. Okay. And now that we've set the line, we need to set a middle line as well. Okay, a bit too high. And let's go ahead and start making these beautiful lines going up. Let's start on this corner and beautifully add this color softly and maybe break it a bit. Go on this corner just to trick our mind to not focus too much on the brush marks. Use the big brush so you can have beautiful fast paintings. You don't have to use small brushes. Most beginners usually use too small of a brush, and they end up spending hours and hours on a painting. Let's go in the middle over here and create a bit of depth. You create depth by making small little lines like this. Not a lot, just a few. And then making bigger marks as you go further. And let's define a bit of a cloud in this area. And make it like that. Maybe it comes around just over here and it loops like that. Okay. And let's actually make it a bit bigger. I'm just focusing a bit on the edge. Like, notice how here it's such a beautiful edge, and then here it's too jagged like make Jagger. And now over on this area, we need some more interesting edges. Edges are very important in painting. And of course, this is not really a cloud. It's a banana, so no more banana looking clouds. Let's continue like this and make a beautiful splotch. Now, this will be another cloud over here. It's a bit of a hairy cloud. So let's focus on that edge and make it a bit lower over here and maybe add some interesting things. The closer things are to you, the bigger the shapes. Of course, this is not always true. And usually clouds have this interesting, fluffy top and this flat, depending on the clouds, of course, and this flat underside. Let's leave the area like that. You can also brush the paint a bit down just so it creates a bit more of an interesting and beautiful look. And you can also brush it again just so there is a few more interesting textures there's happening on the wonderful sky. 4. Simple line of mountains: Getting more blue. And let's add a bit of red just so we can create a wonderful purple. So taking some of this red maybe too much, I think it's enough. It's fine. Mix it well because you have a lot of paint in the brush, so you need to be mixing it very well. And now let's make some mountains in the distance. Just start with a beautiful line, purposefully lower and leave the white band over here so you can add the bottom of the sky later because then you can also edit the mountains. The mountains will be very small try to let's actually use the smaller flat brush because whenever you want to have more control, you can change to a different brush. These are the shapes of the mountains. You can make like pyramids, triangles, or you can go a bit more crazy in a staircase. Try to vary them and make them as interesting as possible because Mountains are not like this all the time, like beautiful triangles. You need to make some variations. Be careful on the edge. Try to make it as nice as possible so you don't have to repaint it later. Let's go with another beautiful line from here to there and control these mountains shapes. You can also use the corner of the brush to get more interesting looking mountains. And then going and filling them in, maybe connecting some of them and go slower because you don't really need to go very fast whenever you have a brush that is a bit bigger than you need. Notice how these three look the same. Let's break that up by making this one a bit bigger. And more tall. Let's go like that. Maybe like this. Don't focus on the bottom edge because you're gonna use another color on top of that. Okay. So mountains in the distance. And now let's paint the bottom of the mountains a bit just to lose some of that color that you have in the brush. Just brush it like that. Okay. 5. Purple Horizon: Now let's go a bit darker by adding some brown. And with a small brush, let's go and take some red and some blue, making this beautiful purple. Since you already have this beautiful purple, you might as well just use it. This time, you're going to cut like some shadows underneath the wonderful mountains. You can raise them up a bit. You can do a lot of things to create some more interesting stuff. Don't make them like this, just a line. Try to vary the line a bit and add some weight, some texture, not too much texture, but just a little bit of weight. Maybe make a bigger one over on this side. And now let's go a bit lower just to make it a bit more interesting. And then over here, maybe these are some hills or some shadows or something like that. Okay, and another smaller one here. Sorry, sometimes I just end up making things without talking, but yeah. And now you can add another beautiful line just here, take some brown, add it over the purple. Just to make it even darker and add it in some areas to better accentuate this shadow, maybe clean up some of this edge. Let's clean up the brush and go back to some blue to make the wonderful underside of the sky now that it's a bit more dry. 6. Atmospheric perspective: Don't need to be dry. You need some red, a tiny bit of red, some blue, mix in a bit more red, and then take some white to make that color a bit more interesting. It's going to be a bit grayer, just so it adds more variety in the sky. It adds more color variety because color variety is actually the secret sauce of painting. If you put just paint from the tube or only two colors together, it's not really that beautiful. And now with the brush the other way, we need to focus on creating and making these edges even better. Notice how you need to really be careful about not going into the blue, below or above too much and go slower so you have more control. I'm going to go like this so you can see, and barely touching the edge, doing a centimeter or two, and then going and editing some of those edges. You don't need to focus on making them perfect because it's okay if they blend a bit because things that are far away tend to have softer edges. That's another way to create depth. I think this purple is way too dark. We need to make it lighter. So take some white, add some white, and then start right where you left off. You can go back a bit. Now, it's better. I think it needs even more white. Let's find another clean area to add more white to this grayish purple. And you can go back inside the shape and continuing. But this adds more color variety because you are now creating more textures and things that are blending together. The 23 colors you've blended are now playing together. These are analogous colors, so they are very friendly to each other. If they blend into each other, they are not gonna fight over who's the boss and trying to edit that shape. Notice how this area is too calm. Let's add a bit of another ridge. And over here, Because you've added this color onto the beautiful bottom of the sky, just so we balance out the whole composition. This is how you create compositional balance. You need to take some of this color and add it in the sky. So take it and just brush it over the blue. The blue is a bit wet still. You can go like this, as well. Just blend it a bit into the sky. Not too much, just a few touches here and there. So here, notice how they are a bit more vertical, just because it creates a bit more of an interesting look. And here, maybe they push towards the cloud. Perfect. Now, let's make a cloud here. And as you blend the color, if the blue is still wet, it will pick up a bit more of the color. So you can go a bit and take more color to add some of this grayish tone over the top. Making some more marks on the left side, and I have a bit of a white spot over here and over here. And that is all for this step, and you don't need to let it dry. We're just going to go into another step. 7. Color harmony: This step, you're going to basically use the same colors, but you will need to clean up the brush a bit. The big brush, you do that by swirling into the water to get the paint out, dabbing a bit, being careful not to spill some of this water paint onto the canvas. I intentionally did that. You can do it as well, just to have a bit of a wash and to make it easier for yourself to paint and clean the brush. Okay. Once you do that, you are going to need to take some yellow, just on the corner. Look at how small it is. Take some yellow to make a bit of a turquoise. You are basically creating a bridge of colors from the sky colors to more different type of color palette. So you first need some of this turquoise, this yellow turquoise. You can go a bit more textured with a big brush this time because you're just having a bit of fun. You can also take some of this turquoise, whiten. It basically is white and blue to add some of this color over here. And let's add a beautiful think of this as a line connecting and making a parallel between the sky and the ground. Let's take some of this purple, white. If you don't have it, it's easy to make. You just add blue, white, and a bit of red, a lot of white, actually. This just adds a bit of color variety. Let's take some of that white blue and add it over here. Trying to blend the colors, you should do as well and make this line. Notice how flat it is on the top. So let's make it a bit more interesting. Okay? And now let's take some more blue and some more yellow, maybe a touch more blue, just to make a beautiful turquoise and some white to make this turquoise a bit more a tiny bit more dark than this one. Okay? Just dabbing a bit of color in between the lines and over this to create a bit more depth, color contrast to make them just a bit more interesting. This is not a seaside, but we are building that bridge where maybe there is a lake or something in the background. Let's take some more white and add it over. Things in the distance tend to be a bit more foggy, a bit more light. So you can accentuate that by going and adding a bit more white Mm. Notice how it's very important to try to keep the things that you've painted so you don't have to go over them again or lose something. But you don't have to really pay that much attention. Let's build some texture over here. And on this side, just cleaning up the brush. This all I'm doing right now, cleaning up the brush over this area, taking some more of that purple, just to add a bit of contrast. 8. Turquoise conundrum: And as soon as you do that, you can also take some yellow, put it over here. So brown. And a touch of red. Not too much. Make this beautiful green, earthy tone. It's going to blend together quite well with blue that you put in the turquoise because it's a mix between the blue, and you also have a lot of blue in the brush. So that makes the colors really more interesting and blending together is a breeze. Take some water. This is going to be a very runny type of wash. And start thinking and covering almost all of the canvas that has splotches of white, and it doesn't have the turquoise blue. Take some more of the paint, add it. Haphazardly, if it creates. The goal is to go over the areas that don't have very thick paint and have small little white points like this. And you can also think about edges, like you did with the mountains. You can think about edges on this side as well. You can make some of them soft, some of them harsh, like right over here, and making them a bit harsher on this side, on the left side, and then blending the other side. Going outside of the canvas, painting this beautiful corner, loose and fast, it creates a bit more abstract painting. This layer is basically for covering up the whole Canvas. You shouldn't cover it all. You need to change a bit colors before you cover it all completely because you now build a little bit more of the bridge, so you can go a bit more towards the green, earthy tones. Let's take some red, just a tiny bit of red, and some yellow. Mix it over the paint that you already have here. This will make it a lot more interesting. Another beautiful green. It's creating green because there is a lot of blue in the brush. And notice how beautiful this sits on top of this color and also blends with the turquoise. It brings it down a notch. Some water goes a long way to just do a bit of a wash. And it also lubricates the brush to be able to glide. You can go closer. So notice how big these brush marks are. And the more you go towards the horizon line, which is over here, you need to go a bit smaller. If you really need it, you can use the smaller flat brush. I don't recommend it, though, because whenever you use a smaller brush, you tend to stick around with it for the whole painting. So do the majority of the painting with a big brush so that you understand that the big brush can do small things as well. And finishing up this area, there is a lot of white in here, but I don't mind it that much. Let's blend it a bit. And just because we have yellow so close, let's add a bit more yellow this time just yellow to make it a lot more green and saturated. The more you blend over the areas, the paint becomes polluted. It takes some of the paint off of the canvas, and then it creates that thing that we were talking about earlier, which is color variety. 9. Slow changes: Okay. And now let's go the opposite way, take some red and some yellow and make it a bit more orange. Notice how immediate it is. With this color, you might as well just stick around in the greens because they tend to go better with the color. But if you go over the blue, nothing happens. It just creates chalky colors. So basically, chalky colors, they have too much cold colors in them and not enough to be a blue or a purple or something like that. And muddy colors are too brown, too red, actually, too too warm and not warm enough to be distinguishing them. And as you go towards the horizon line, you can start to edit slowly these shapes. Notice how easy it is to just make some lines over there, over here and just create this beautiful greenery. Okay. Now, for the next step, you will need to let this dry completely and have a cleaner brush, maybe the medium brush, the small flat brush because let's actually clean it right now because you're going to work onto the clouds. You're going to make the clouds and also with those colors, you're going to add them over the green. The problem is not the blue of the sky. The problem is the green because you are going to enter with the brush onto the green. So you're going to pick up some of that green. So that's why you need to let it dry. We let the paintings dry usually whenever we change to a different color on the color wheel, a very far away color. This way you create color contrast. And you also do it in order to really create a lot of contrast, even if you have the same colors like harmonious analogous colors, but you want to create sharp edges and also a lot of contrast. So you want to jump from a very dark color to a very light color without them blending together, you need to wait for them to dry. Let this painting dry. If you have a hair dryer, you can dry it very fast in a few minutes. So I recommend just taking the hair dryer from the cupboard or wherever you keep it and blow drying it very fast so you can pay it faster. 10. Yellow clouds: Okay, now that you have your brush clean, let's actually clean it a bit more, just so it doesn't have any blue inside of it. Even though the water is a bit blue, it doesn't really matter. You will need to put some white paint in an area that is dry. Like, for instance, here next to the yellow, it's important to be close to the yellow and have some space to play around with the white. It's gonna be some white, some yellow. That's too much yellow. Let's take some more white. Even though the paint the green on the inside is not really dry, you can still pick up some of that white because it's enough color to make it nice. So that's just about it. That's the color. It's a very, very light yellow. And you're going to start right over this blue. And make some beautiful shapes. This is not the finishing color, don't worry, and add it a bit more to the bottom, creating some edges, try to make them not very fluffy. This is not a fluffy painting. Make them straight, but not entirely fluffy. Clean up the brush, even though it has some blue, that's fine. Can even go pollute. I cannot say that word. You can go add it towards this area, as well. Let's go over this blue. Don't worry if it's a bit transparent. You're going to fix it later. And start adding some of this color onto the clouds, the white areas that you left. Okay. And once you do that, you can take some more white this time focusing on the left side of the clouds on the top left side, notice how it's much more light. But because you have the yellow underneath, you also can blend them very well. Now it's time to really fill in those areas and then focus on the edges later in the next lightest color. Okay? Let's take some more white, blend it over the yellow. Over here. You can also add another bridge just like that and press down to add some of that blue on the bottom. In case you don't have the blue, you can just take some of the turquoise or blue and add it at the bottom, just so it creates a bit of a softer edge on the bottom side of the clouds. So it's not so harsh. Just taking some more, just to add it right underneath the clouds. And just the touch is enough to blend those clouds together. Now taking some more white, very, very carefully touching the red. With the corner. Notice how small it is. It's tiny, and I'm still going to take it away and put it next to it so that this beautiful pink is not too intense. Slowly add a bit more. Well, let's actually paint with this. First, it's just a small hue variation. Don't be afraid to put thick paint. It makes your paintings look more luxurious. Okay, going on the edge. And over here, on the top side, notice how this color stands out a bit more than it's not only because of the white. It's also because of the tiniest amount of red. If you can notice the red, then it's not good. You shouldn't be able to notice it. It should feel as if it's a lighter color and going underneath and on the left side over here, maybe adding some more clouds on this side, just going in because they are not really connected. The areas are this area is a bit stunted. It hasn't grown properly. Okay, making the white lines a bit more disappear, taking some white. I accidentally took some blue, but that's fine, for this area is completely fine. Adding some finer lines. Notice how they blend so well together with the purple, small, beautiful lines, smaller and smaller, long and beautiful. And taking some more white Okay, adding it to the left of the clouds over on this side, and maybe on here, blending some of that color, not too much, keep them a bit separate and adding some more runaways around the other clouds. These are the most important parts of the clouds. They just give them that fluffiness because they are broken by the wind just like I am. Wow. I'm broken by the wind because it is cold the cold wind of the summer. Okay, notice how this beautiful line has been created. Let's actually accentuate another beautiful, small one. This is just playing with big, medium, small. You're just playing with bigger shapes and then smaller shapes. And then even smaller shapes just to break things, break the monotony of the whole cloud. I'm adding another highlight on top of this because it was too yellow. And don't blend everything together. Don't feel the need to blend everything together. Let's take some red on the corner, as always, just a touch of red. It's too much. So we need more white, more white, and some yellow, too much yellow. These colors need to be so white and so beautiful. Okay. And going over the clouds with this beautiful pink, let it get blend a bit with the yellows. Notice how beautiful it becomes. Just adding it over. Don't worry too much about the placement. This is just to add some of that color variety. Okay. And after a big stretch, I'm going to do some lines on the bottom, maybe a few dabs as well. Just a few dabs and then a line, a few more dabs and then a line, maybe that line is too big. You can go over with a finger to blend the whole thing over the blue and over on this side, a few lines. Now, with this pink, let's start creating on this area some beautiful patches of color, cleaning up the brush and creating some of this interesting reflection. Maybe it's a reflection, maybe it's just grass or some patch of sand or something else. 11. As above so below: Now take some yellow. Too much yellow. Let's add some more white in the corner over here. I touched a bit of red. That's fine. And let's add it. Notice how it is more yellow, and it really shines. And let's add it to the clouds over the pink a bit. And under the clouds, maybe connecting these two is a very should have broken up this cloud a bit more, but that's fine. The more we know, the more we learn. The more we do, the more we learn. Taking some more paint and focusing on this area, leaving some of the other colors. Notice how these colors have a very beautiful life on this pasture, because they have that brown. So it's not so distant in terms of on the color wheel. Taking some more yellow this time. Now it's good to have a lot of yellow. Well, not a lot, but as you can see, to bring back to bring the bridge closer towards the Let's take some water. And some more yellow. To blend in and bring the bridge closer towards the green and just creating a beautiful color. Notice that the yellows usually are very transparent, so we are playing with that. But if you wanted a very opaque yellow, you'll need to do a few passes over. Okay. Maybe some textures over on this side. And some of them on here. Let's take some more yellow this time only the only yellow, there is a bit of white in the brush and create a few patches, just slowly inching your way towards the greens. But because yellow is a transparent color, you don't even need to recreate those greens. Let's also try to make some lines over the white. Let's take some white. This time, it's important that with the yellow that you have, blend it together, and it's important to build some texture. You've played only with small amounts of texture. Now take more of this color, more of the white, and just play over it to build some texture. Just put your brush on the side and let it do abstract shapes over, especially over the yellow, the intense yellow sides. Notice how beautiful it is. If you don't have enough textures, take more of this white and put it over and blend it over. You don't have to blend it, actually. So going on to the left, Okay. Now, taking just a touch of red on the corner, maybe that's too much and making a beautiful pink with some yellow or orange, rosy pink. This will be such a beautiful color. Let's first add it as a texture over this yellow and then put it in some areas. Notice how much more warm and beautiful the painting looks immediately after you put this yellow pink over it. In fact, this rosy pink is so beautiful that you might as well just add it to the clouds, creating some more cuts. Notice how these are not blended. They are very they are like the mountains. Like you created the mountains and don't go to the edge of the cloud. Just focus a bit on the middle, lower side, especially on the right, middle, lower side. You can go a bit higher if you want. But these are not blended, yes. So it's a beautiful color. And it's gonna dry a bit darker as well because acrylic dries a bit dark. Okay? And underneath here, notice how much more beautiful this color is this rosy pink that made the clouds so much more interesting. I picked up a bit more of the edge of the pink just because it was a bit more interesting. Not too much. We don't want to overpower the whole painting. And now let's clean up the brush. The sky is done. We're not going to touch it. If you want and you have to change it a bit, you can go back with some white, take some white and add a few more textures on top. You can do this exact thing. Just straight up white and add it over. It really creates a bit of texture because they are a bit, but just on the middle one, just so it's more interesting. 12. Light and dark contrast: Okay. Once you've done that, you need to go back to the greens. So yellow, blue, and a bit of brown because you've played with very light colors. Now you need some darker colors, this beautiful, earthy green. And then at the end, just some very intense green after everything has dried. Notice the shadows. Notice how it just goes nicely. And as always, if you go close to a lighter patch of color, it will create more contrast. That's the secret sauce of contrast. Nobody will tell you this secret diet. I'm joking, creating some more lines just so we are focusing also on areas that are exposed that have white canvas. We don't want the white canvas showing. So that's an easy way to add abstraction and composition. Let the painting dictate where you put the actual paint. If you took some white, just like I did just now, don't worry about it. Just go and spin the brush and just paint in other areas. It's going to be fine. Now, taking some more yellow and adding it over this earthy tone just so we can come closer towards the green. Let's add some textures. By dabbing. Notice that it's making this mess dabbing, maybe with the corner of the brush and then blending them with the corner of the brush a bit and then adding some more, blending some more at the bottom of the texture because things don't usually have textures as they go down in the ground. They have only on top. Think of them as beautiful grass, taking some more yellow, adding it on top, getting closer towards the colors you've put the yellows and the white of the clouds that you've put on the bottom. This is way too intense, so let's cut it over. This color is so beautiful, and you're going to need to use it a bit more in case you already got it. It's just a simple green that looks gorgeous. This will need to have some more lines on top with a lighter color with a lighter green or some other beautiful colors. Okay. And over on this side a bit more, let's take a look and see if there are some whites covering all the whites the canvas, covering the canvas colors. Over here, there is a big one, big area, and in this corner, maybe on the edge. Okay. Let's add a tiny bit of white to that to finish the whole thing to get so very close to the color. Notice how close it is. And you've built a family of colors. Let's add a big flat color over here and another one here and continue this line a bit more onto the right by taking some white and blending it into the green, doing the same over here just to make this a bit more round it out a bit more of a line. Let's take some yellow and place it over the white that you just placed over here just to create that same kind of interaction, getting some white over and putting it over the yellow. And since you have this new found color, you can go and add it with small lines at the top. Just a few to fix this area over here. Maybe this is a lake kind of situation or we don't know. It's like a lake that is almost drying out and it shines the whole sky over. Let's take a break. And let's go over the painting once again at the end. For a few finishing touches, it's almost there. Needs just a few more colors. 13. Color variety: That the painting is completely dry, as you can see here, no paint has gone out of the painting. We can focus a bit more on some saturated colors. Notice how the areas are very unsaturated. Plus, we still can see some of the canvas. So we need to focus on that as well. And the way we do that is by taking some water, we have a clean, beautiful brush over here, taking some of this blue, and start adding it in the areas that have some white. It has a lot of water. So it's a watery color, just because we don't want it to be too harsh on the actual painting. We can do it in the distance over the mountains over here to accentuate and build some of that color variety. It just adds a bit more vibrancy to the painting. This is like a beautiful swamp, just adding another line over here, maybe over here, a bigger one. Notice how it's transparent. This builds a lot more vibrancy and the colors are more integrated into the painting, just because you can go and wash over. Notice how the purple is still showing. And if you go ahead and go over some like white over here, it's going to still show up. You can also wipe it with your finger. That's why you need gloves. And just start focusing on some small areas that have certain whites of the canvas, small dots of the canvas and do a bit of a wash with this color. We're going to actually go ahead and add another beautiful color over this just to add more interesting variety. This will be a very green color. It's a very nice and beautiful green. You can go over the blue just to blend it a bit, just so it doesn't stick out too much. Notice how this green is very, very saturated, and it really brings up, let's add some more yellow. It really brings out the best in the painting. Makes everything more vibrant and beautiful. Just focusing on the areas I've touched with the blue, just so we create that turquoise feeling by blending it together and making that blue a bit more soft by softening the color and the edges of it. Okay. And let's go even more yellow and go over the areas you've painted with the green just a bit, noticing that here there is some white and here, maybe in the distance, just a small little line. Maybe there are some trees or another part where the sun shines and building layers over the top of these already beautiful colors and some textures as well. You can add some yellow, just a thick layer of yellow. Because it's transparent, it's way better to just grab a big gulp of paint and build some of that textures into the painting. Remember, soften the edges on the bottom and then texture on top. 14. Warm and cool tones: Okay. Now, let's clean the brush. Once again, well, not really. Let's take some red and mix in the palette is dry, so I can mix everywhere. Let's mix a beautiful orange. It still has some green and the brush into it, so it's not a very harsh orange. That's why I didn't clean it. Start by maybe cutting this off a bit because it was too harsh going over here over the blue. Notice how the blue just ended up in the background. It's not visible that much anymore. Let's add some more orange just over here because it created a 90 degree angle. 90 degrees angles are very harsh and they attract a lot of attention. So if you don't want the attention to be there, I'm just going to switch this way, the brush, so it creates textures on the top. Okay. Adding some water just so I can add that beautiful wash over the top of things. Okay. And going ahead and adding some more of this color around here, adding some yellow, a lot of paste, just to break this shape down a bit and this one, and maybe over here just a tiny bit. Now, let's go ahead and make some beautiful textures. For that, you will need some yellow and some white just to have a very light yellow. And let's create some beautiful textures over top, especially this color will be very visible once you put it over something like a dark green. Notice how it's very visible over there. Let's actually do it over here. Let's spin the brush around because it tends to do the textures on top and brushing it over, taking some more texture. Now that you've brushed it to add a bit more color and maybe this angle needs to be cut a bit. With the corner of the brush, you can start to make some more interesting shapes. And over here in the corner, creating some texture and some dabs just over here, brushing it over, adding some more texture, turning the brush around, it has some orange. Now, let's clean the brush and go back to the blue. This time with a bit of a thicker paint, some white and some blue, mixing it together to create this beautiful blue. And now you can go over some areas like this yellow, picking up some of it onto the brush and then going over some areas around here and maybe around here to add some of that reflection of the sky. Remember, as you go further, you need to be a bit more thinner on the brush marks. So try to do vertical motions, just like that. And also right over here, you can go a bit thicker since there is a lot of white of the canvas around here. And let's actually do the same over here just to show this sky as a reflection, since we decided that this is a swampy landscape, beautiful landscape with reflected sky on the bottom and some greenery and some grass. Okay, playing around a bit with some textures here, maybe add some water to do some of those washes. Remember, the washes end up transparent. So you should be using them a bit sparingly. Or depending on the look that you want to achieve, you can use them as you wish. Let's add one here. Okay. And some textures. Maybe add some yellow, make this beautiful green, just so we can add some beautiful grassy textures. With the corner of the brush, we're just creating some dabs, just a few, and then making a line underneath. Over the white, just a tiny bit. Remember, you don't want to cover everything with another layer of paint. The goal is to keep some of the parts and combine them like look over here. Like, this is an area that needs a bit of change because it's black here, black here, black here. Well, dark green. So if you go with this lighter green on top, you can really make it disappear a bit. 15. Final touches Thank you : Grab some yellow straight up yellow and add it on top as a texture, maybe going a bit further. Also over here over this wash of blue. And in the middle, let's add some more yellow textures. But this time, let's use the brush differently. Like on its side, like vertical. I know you can't see, but just making some dabs. Notice how they are very light and textured. Just so it creates some texture in the distance, maybe further away as well, and then lining them up, so it creates a bit more depth. Let's do some more on top. After you go with a line, you can also go back and add some more texture. Maybe I should press. This is a very interesting trick. You can press into the brush so that you have more texture onto the actual tip of the brush. Okay. Don't go overboard. You might be tempted to go overboard with these very high intensity highlights. Let's take some white with this yellow that we have in the brush and go over. That's why you don't need to really go overboard with these highlights. Maybe that is too white. Let's add some more yellow over top because you can all the time, you can add more, but subtracting is harder. Let's take some more white and add it here, just one dab and then start to consolidate another area of these kinds of textures. And over here, and as the paint just goes away, you can add more. And let's add another patch over here and another one closer to the viewer. Notice how because you pressed on the brush, you now have I took some yellow from here. You now have this beautiful textured brush that makes very beautiful, very interesting shapes. And then brush it over clean the brush just to be able to accentuate this and blend it in a bit. Just put some water over it and blend it in a bit, so it becomes transparent on the bottom and opaque to the top. And certain areas just do a wash with this yellow green that you've found. Start blending just a tiny bit. Don't go overboard. The key here is to not really go crazy with the details and the blending. We want that rugged feeling. Let's add another line on here and another one over here. And let's do a wash over this orange and maybe let's get some more of this watery green to go over this. I'm noticing some whites over here, so I'm going to take some blue, just blue and water. Cover them up. Just builds a lot of color variety. Plus, it blends them in the same on this side. Can also, if you want to build more Mountains. You can start to add some of this blue a bit thicker and over here, perfect. And that is it. So you've learned in this class how to create the sky easily with one color and then harmonize it with the bottom of the sky. You've touched the colors over here, so you harmonize it together. You've also learned that you have to really wait for the paint to dry when you change from a color that is very cold to something that is more warm. Also, when you change, if you want to have very intense contrast when it comes to the dark and light, you need to wait for the paint to dry. It's a very important step for painting. You've also learned how to make washes with the brush and then let the painting decide what abstract textures it needs because of the canvas. You've learned how to create distance by making big clouds in the front smaller as you go further, and you've learned that the edges tend to be a lot softer in the background as they go further away from you and the colors a bit more muted. You've learned how to make mountains and control the edge of the mountains, both direct painting and negative painting, which is going with the top color and editing the shapes. You've learned about soft edges and hard edges. When it comes to the mountains and clouds like this is a hard edge, and this is a soft edge. Simple. Hard edges really describe the shape and they make the painting look very clean. But you need a mix of both to have an interesting painting. Notice how all the textures are concentrated around here and the biggest contrast, as well. You've learned how to do that without even thinking because this is the lightest area and also this one. And it brings the viewer closer because it has more detail, more texture, and you've treated the whole painting around it like here, over here, and over here. You've treated it as more abstract, just as you would look into the distance and you would focus on the grass and the beautiful foliage on the ground. And everything else would just blend together around you. That's exactly how you create this sense of perspective and focus, and you are using this to guide the viewer towards this light, this texture, and this beautiful plane of color. You've learned how to harmonize colors together by mixing the sky color into the beautiful ground, and this goes for everything. Landscapes, still lives, portraits, everything. The background, the surrounding areas, the colors from the surrounding areas need to be found on the object itself. The more reflective the object is, the more it has of that background. If it's water, it has a lot of sky color. But also even grass, as you go in the distance, it becomes more blue. It has this hazy, white, bluish tint to it. Speaking of haze, the more you go into the distance, the lighter the color become and the more together, the less contrast they have, you can also do like a shadow. Like for instance, maybe here, there is a shadow. That's why it's more dark. And also, as you go further, you understand that you can build the texture and build the lines more finely to give this impression of depth. And those are the things that you've learned about painting, but you've also learned about color. You've learned that there are some colors called analogous colors. This is the color, let's say, blue, and it's friends. The friends are just together into a beautiful pizza. You can think of some friends just having a pizza, a slice of pizza. So they are like blue, turquois and maybe green. So you can have red, orange, and a deeper red. Colors like these blend very well together. They just like to play with each other. They don't create any noise, any distractions, they just blend together. But if you want to be a bit more bold, you need to let the painting dry and then change the color harmony to something opposite. But you've also understood that to get to this point on the color wheel, this other point on the color wheel, let's say, from blue to orange or yellow, you need to build sort of like a bridge, an intermediary color, something more muted. You build it, something like the brown or the orange. And then on top of it, you can add the pinks and the yellows and colors that are more warm. And I think that's enough for this course. Thank you for watching. And if you are kind enough, please leave a review. It really helps me and the people who want to watch this course. See you in the next one.