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1. Welcome + Intro: As a certified Christmas nerd, I feel like there's no
better way to get into the holiday spirit than
with a fun Christmas craft. So in this class
we're going to do a snow globe painting tutorial. I really hope you'll join me. We're going to paint
this really fun Christmas see, snow globe scene. And I'm going to walk you step-by-step exactly what to do. This is super easy,
totally beginner friendly, and also just so fun if you're a seasoned
painter as well. This painting is perfect
if you want to make your own Christmas cards
and give them out, or if you want to
create a painting and just gift it to
someone this year. Also, if you just want to get
into the holiday spirit and make this painting for yourself put on some Christmas jazz, put the grid on in
the background. And just cozy up with some hot chocolate and
make this cute painting. We're going to have so
much fun in this class. It's so easy and approachable. And I'm just really
hoping you'll join me for this snow globe
painting tutorial. Let's get into the cozy at Christmas spirit and let's
dive into the class.
2. Materials Needed: Okay, Let's go over all the materials that
you'll need for this class. It's pretty simple. So first up, we need something
to create our painting on. I'm using canvas paper. Here's a couple of
different brands. Just make sure that it fits with the type of paint
that you're using. I'm using acrylic
for this class, but you can use any type
of paint really, okay, and then you want something
to squeeze your paint onto the palette paper
here, It's great. You can also use a
glass palette or any other type of palette that works with your type of paint. Next up, we need some brushes. Want a variety. You don't need the
specific ones that I have. You just want to
make sure you have a flat one in round one and then maybe a larger brush and a smaller brush as well. And then I also have this big fluffy makeup brush
for blending, but it's again, not necessary. It's helpful. Next up, because we are
painting a snow globe. I like to have something
around to trace for my globe. So this could be a plant pot, a plate, really anything laying around your
house that's round. And then I also have some
water because I am using acrylic and water helps to
thin the paint and of course, some paper towels or reusable
rag to wipe your paint on, clean your brush with
that kind of thing. Finally, let's talk about paint. You can use any type of paint
really for this tutorial, I am using acrylic, but you can follow along
with whatever you have. And for colors, you just
kinda wanna variety. You also want to have
white and preferably like brown or burnt
sienna if available. Those are the materials.
I'm so excited. Let's get into it. The painting.
3. Layout + Sky: The first step, because
this is a snow globe, we will need to draw a circle. Now you can do this free hand. I like to grab
something from around the house to get
a perfect circle. So plant pot plate, that kind of thing and you can draw your circle for
your snow globe. I just grabbed some
blue and white for a light blue color to draw
out the snow globe width. And with a thin brush, we can just trace our circle
and get our snow globe. Then we can draw
out a quick base for the snow globe as well. Okay, so next we're
going to paint our sky. So I'm grabbing a
larger brush because it will cover more area. I'm mixing up some blue, purple and even a
little bit of green. We really want our colors
to be multi-dimensional. I rarely ever just use like a color straight
out of the tube. I always like to mix it up with more shades so that it has
some purples and greens. And I really looks interesting. I grabbed a little
water as well with my acrylic paints just
to thin them out. And we will just
paint the night sky. I'm also drawing
out a line where the snow will be as well. So next we want to add a little
bit of shadow to our sky. I grabbed a little bit
of white just to mix a lighter blue
version and give our horizon a little bit of light. And then also we
want a darker shadow for the top of this guy. So I grabbed some purples
and greens for that. This just gives us a
gradient of sorts. We have a dark,
middle, light tone. It makes our sky look more
dimensional and less flat. And next, if you
haven't dry brush, feel free to take that in. Sort of blend out your sky just so it's a
little bit smoother. A secret I have is I like to use makeup brushes for blending. They're so soft and there's so many bristles and they're just like perfect for blending. And last step for our sky, I'm grabbing some white with my thin tipped brush
and we're going to add some cute snowflakes all over the night sky and just
judge everything up. Okay, we're ready for the snow. This is where it
gets really fun.
4. Snow: Go ahead and mix up
some white with a tiny, tiny bit of purple. This is just to give this
snow a little bit of color. I never really liked to
use just plain white. I always like to mix it with some shade because in real life That's how
whites are as well. They're never fully white. They're like yellow
tinted or purple tinted. So purple is a great
color for snow, but just a tiny, tiny amount. And we'll just go ahead
and paint some snow. When you're painting,
really pay attention to the direction of
your brush strokes. So when you think of snow, you probably think of hills
and sweeping diagonal hills. So you want to move
your brush in that way. Versus if you did
a bunch of small, tiny brush strokes with a short brush that might
look like for on a dog. So it's really interesting
how just the texture and direction of your brushstrokes
can help you tell a story. So you can see that
I'm using longer, wider brushstrokes versus
like short and choppy. And then we just want to
blend everything out. This next step is
really important. So we want to add
some shadows to our steno to make it look a
little bit more realistic. So for the shadow, I just wanted like
a grayish color, grab some blue, white, brown, a little purple. And now we have a nice
medium gray color perfect for snow shadows. And I'm just kinda putting
a few oval shapes. I'm just thinking about
where the houses will be and just kinda like
putting them anywhere. It's really not
about being perfect. It's just like having some dimension will always
look better than nothing. Then if you have a dry brush, you can blend that
out a little bit. And then I'm taking that
color and I'm also going to put it around the
edges of the snow globe. That also just gives more
dimension to the globe itself and just more
interests to the eye. And then you can just
blend all of that out until you think
it looks good. Next, we're gonna go
on to the houses.
5. Cottages: Alright, so for the houses, I'm mixing up some
burnt sienna and white to get a nice light
brown type of color. You can honestly use any
color for your houses. So feel free to
experiment with red, pink, blue, green, really
anything, use your imagination. That is what art is all about. I liked the light
brown because it's earthy and kinda
Christmas Eve as well. You can also make your
houses tall and thin, or shorter and wider. Just feel free to go wild and do whatever your heart desires. You do want to
leave some room for the trees and snowman
and things like that. So keep your house
is fairly small. You can see that mine
really aren't taking up a ton of the snuggle because we do want to add more stuff. Then I decided, you know what, I will make the houses
different colors. So for one of them, I'm mixed up Alizarin, crimson and burnt sienna for a nice red brown, darker color. But you can totally leave
them light brown as well. And you don't need
to paint the roofs. Roof roofs because we are going to add white
snow there soon. So you can just leave those
blank for my left house, I decided that Naples, yellow and white would
be a cute color. So I just mixed up a little
light yellow for that one. And now let's add some fun snow to the tops of the houses. Things are really coming
together now you can start to see the wintery vision, the beautiful snow
topped land here. Next, we're gonna go to
the trees and snow people.
6. Trees + Snowpeople: I'm grabbing a larger
filbert brush, but really any will
do that you have, I'm mixing up some dark green, some burnt sienna, and even a little blue for good measure. Again, we like to have
multidimensional colors. I'm just mapping out
where the trees will go, evenly spacing them out. You don't want too many, but you do want it to feel
like a Christmas forest. Obviously. In the first
method that we'll try is think about
doing a mustache, like mustaches over
and over and over. And that will give you a
nice, cute evergreen tree. And then another method
is to do the frown. So I kind of zig zag
back and forth in a frowny motion and you get another type of cute
evergreen tree. Make your bottom zags a
little bit wider as well. Swipe left, swipe right. It's also fun to
use both methods because then your painting looks a little bit
more interesting. It's not so like
uniform looking, so I like to mix it
up with the trees. Requests with reindeer ears. Santa Claus. They can show you every Christmas. Okay, it's snow people. Time for this. No people. I am grabbing pure white because it will
stand out on our snow, which is another
reason why doing the snow with a little
bit of purple and shadows is great because now our snow people will really stand out with the pure white. I'm adding a little bit
of Alizarin crimson to create beanies and scarf
for the snow people. Then I just mixed up
a quick purple and green to make like a DIY black. And you can add
that for the eyes, smile, buttons,
that sort of thing. Then burnt sienna is really
great for the stick arms. And then I just kinda added
some white polka dots to the scarf and hat for fun. Now. And now let's add
our trees are dry. We can add some snow to them. I grabbed a medium round
brush. Any brushes. Okay. You just don't want it too small because that makes it harder to get the fluffy
brush strokes that we want. So grab your medium brush, grab some white
and then they hand motion here is kinda
like a tap, tap, tap, almost like stippling, like just repetitive
brushstrokes, tap, tap, tap. But you're going in the
same direction as the tree. So you're doing the mustache
or you're doing the frowny, and you just want soft,
light brushstrokes. And when you feel good about
your snow, don't overdo it. Let's move on to
the house. Details.
7. House Details: We're at the houses again, and I encourage you to do some
fun colors for the doors. I'm mixing up some blue
for one of the doors. I'm feeling pink
for another door. And we'll go for a tasteful, realistic brown for
the third door. For the windows I like
to use Naples yellow. It gives a kind of like
glowing sitting by the fire inside effect or watching
TV or something. It just kinda looks nice. I'm mixed up a little bit
of purple and blue just to kinda give the houses some
shadow just along the edges. Nothing fancy. For the middle house, I did notice that my light brown was a little bit chalky looking, so I just went over
that in a pinkish tone, pink brown color just to add another layer because
acrylic paint can tend to look chalky. Sometimes if you
only do one layer, sometimes you need to go over and do a couple more layers. Also, our snow is looking
a little bit boring. So I decided to grab
some more white, a tiny bit of blue, and I just want to add
more snow to the front of the house is like make
it look like the snow is piled on and falling
on our porch. Just make it look a
little bit more cozy, fluffy, magical Christmas Eve. Then with a dark color, I'm just adding some
window details. I'm a little scared that my houses are starting
to look like churches. So we need to cozy
them up a little bit. They're looking a little
sterile and scary. We wouldn't need
like magic and cozy. But if you want to
church, let go ahead. Obviously. I just want
mine to look like houses. Let's add a wreath. That
sounds really cute. So I'm just grabbing some green for a little wreath
on the doors. Adding a little brown chimney
that also helps it look less like a church or Office
and more like a house. Then for the snow, I'm like, Oh wait, It's probably
piling on the Roof. Let's make it look like it's
really pilot on there and like fluffy and falling
off on our porch. So I just added
more to the edges, make it squiggly and cute. And I feel like
this small detail. It just totally changed
the whole image. Amazing what one small detail can really do for
your paintings. It made it so much
more magical and cozy, adding some red to the wreaths, just like a little
bow, essentially. And lastly, I thought a
walkway would be kinda cute just to also signify these
are houses, not buildings. So I added some pink
brown stepping stones in front of the houses to be like cobblestone essentially. Okay, if things are
coming together, we are almost done. I'm really loving how
it's turning out so far. Next, we're going to add some more snowflakes
and the final details.
8. Final Touches: Okay, We're at the end here. Let's add our final
polishing details. I decided to add a couple
sparse brown trees just to offset the green trees and add a little
bit more texture. And because this
is a snow globe, we presumably are shaking
up our snow globe. So there should be
more snow everywhere. So let's add some more
acute snowflakes and just give it that
shaken up look. Adding some little tree stumps. I then realize I went a little overboard on these
unruly branches. So just covering
up one of those, the magic of painting. That's what we're here for, making mistakes and
then fixing them. And finally, let's add a
reflection to our snow globe. So this is a glass orb. We want it to look like that. So I grabbed a
little bit of blue, just a tiny bit of blue and mostly white and
not too much paint. You want to keep a
light hand so that the reflection isn't so
thick or unrealistic. Your reflection should
look soft and natural. And that one last detail just takes the
whole painting and makes it into a snow globe before it was just
a circle scene. Now it's a globe that's reflecting the
light on the glass. For the base, you can
choose any color. I chose a nice green. You can do red, pink, brown. It's nice to choose
a color that's in your paintings
so that it matches. Just adding some darker
blues for shadows. Of course, if you take away anything from this
painting tutorial, it's to never leave
a color flat, always mix more than one
shade and always have some darker and lighter tones
values within the color. Never leave it just one
color. Ever really. Oh my gosh. We are finished with
our snuggle painting. I'm so excited. This just really got me
into the holiday spirit. Feel free to write on your
painting, Merry Christmas, let it snow, happy holidays, something like that, and give it to someone that would
be such a cute gift.
9. Final Thoughts + Project: Alright, well we're at the
end of our class here. I really hope you
enjoyed and learned some painting tips and
tricks along the way. I hope you got into the Christmas Eve,
wintery holiday spirit. So your project for this class, of course, is to create
a snow globe painting. It can be just like mine, following the tutorial or you can change things
up a little bit. That's okay too. Either way it just
create a project, take a picture and
add your snow globe painting to the project
gallery of this class. I can't wait to see
what you create. I am wishing you the
happiest of holidays. And again, thank you
so much for watching. Hey.
Hayley Hawkins
