Impasto Flowers | Palette Knife Acrylic Painting

1. Intro FIW: Hi everyone, welcome to this class. My name is DeVos three and I am an artist best out in India. In this class, I am going to teach you how to paint this gorgeous flower scene window painting. I have taught this painting to hundreds of my students, and they proudly hang it on their walls. I created this painting on four-by-four feet, and it is the center of attraction in my apartment. After finishing this class, you will also be able to create this painting as big as you want. I will stop this class by teaching you the basic acrylic blending, color studies, and knife walks used in this painting. I will also show you all the supplies I used. And then in a six-step process, you will learn all the techniques to be able to create this painting on your own. And finally, I will tell you how to paint it on a bigger Canvas. So get all your supplies and get ready for this beautiful acrylic adventure. I look forward to seeing you inside the class. 2. Art Materials: Let's go over all the art materials that I will be using in this class. I have used a canvas board, nine by 11 inches. For this class. You need three brushes, flat brush and two round brush. One round brush, a little bit bigger, which is size 31, is a liner brush. So these are three brushes. And a very important thing that you need for this painting is a knife. Now, this is the night that I have chosen for this size canvas, which is nine by 11 inches. You need a plate. Does scale, and Spain pencil for outlining the window. A masking tape. This is actually quite a scotch tape. Some tissue papers, glass of water. Okay. So for the colors, I have used, both fluid acrylics and thick body acrylics in fluid. Actually, it's the colors that I have used, this pink, brown, yellow, blue, orange, and white. And in the pig body acrylics, I have used green sap green, lemon, yellow, quinacridone, red. But if you have crimson red, that's also the same color. Black. Alpha waiter have used both thick body acrylic and the fluid acrylics. If you don't have fluid acrylics, you can definitely use the body actually is Anthony down with water. But for the knife part of the painting, It's definitely mandatory to use the tape body acrylics. So all the peat layer of the painting, which is like the background, the wall texture, the leaves and the flowers. For those, I have used the thick body acrylics. Alright, so I have a link on all the products down in the description box below, so you can have a look at them and get whatever you need. 3. Exercise - Acrylic Blending: Let's go through some acrylic blending. The color really doesn't matter. I have chosen two colors that I really like. You can grab any colors you want, your favorite colors and you can start practicing with me. So I have taken a kilo blue and yellow ocher, these two colors, and I'm going to mix it with black and white and show you how we can blend one color with black and white and also with each other. So this can be done with multiple colors. But for the sake of this exercise, I am just choosing two colors. Grab any brush, small size brushes spine, or a little bigger results, so good. This is size two that I'm using. So I'll start with a pillow blue. So I have on Barkers chosen a very dark color so that I can blend it with white and show you how the blending watts. So for blending, you first take one color and then gradually start taking another color and you keep blending into it. Now, if you take too much of the second color, what happens is my first color is almost not visible. In blending, what we want to do is we want to move from dark to light or one color to another color. So I added little bit more color blue to get the duction. And I just went up and down a couple of times to get the gradation of dark to light. So this is the very basic of actually blends. Okay, now there are two types, two ways you can do the same blending. So in this one, as you can see, all these jokes, all my strokes are visible here, right? So this is the kind of blend that I like. But if you don't like it and you want to go over it a couple of more times and give it a smooth blend. What you can do is you start off with one color. You move to the next color. And you want to keep a very smooth one. So all you have to do is just go over it multiple times. Here. I didn't go over it a lot of times. If you go over it a lot of times up and down, you are going to get this kind of smoothness in your blending. Or you can use a little bit of water also that also helps in very smooth blend if that is what you'll want to do. Okay? So this can be degradation of the sky or the leg, whatever you want it. Now let me show you by mixing different kinds how this looks. So for this one, what I'm doing here is I'm taking little bit of black over here. So mixing black and blue first. And then I am mixing white with it. Blending or means you just move from one color to another without, in a very smooth way, in a gradual way rather. Okay, So this is, this is another kind of blend where you use multiple colors with black as well. Now, all the three that I have done here, you'll see I have done it in horizontal strokes. So not necessarily it has to be horizontal stroke, it can be any stroke. So let me use the yellow ocher little bit now to show you what I have taken. This one. And then I'm taking a little bit of yellow, blue. And you'll see look at my brushstrokes. I'm not going in horizontal direction, rather going in a random direction. And I'm mixing these two colors. How we did the horizontal blending similarly, you can do a vertical lending, maybe dark to light however you want. But this is a very different kind of blending that I'm showing you now, which is in a very random fashion. You are not blending in a horizontal or vertical way. You are mixing the colors all into each other. So I generally like doing blending in this way because it shows the strokes. Also. It fun to do. So try this out. If you have not done this. And you can see the colors are blending into each other. Now, let me do one more type of blend. For that, I am using the yellow ocher, moving from side-to-side, mixing it up with black. Remember, like I said, blending can be done with any color, whatever, you know, whatever your painting and whatever color you need to. It's totally fine. I'm just for the demo purpose, I am using these colors. How beautiful shades by blending two colors. So try this out and see what color you are getting by mixing two colors. And you come up with so many variety of color by, by being able to blend two colors smoothly. So you'll see here also we are moving from dark to light sideways like this. Let me do one final one. So for the land, normally, I like to do this kind of blending when I'm painting a landscape. Kind of go over each other and blend the two colors. So that's it. Check out how many colors, shades we created and how well we blended the colors into each other. There are so many strokes that are visible. Like I said, if you don't want your stroke wants to be visible, you can add little bit of water with it while you're blending and you will get a very smooth blend like this. Or if you want the strokes to be visible, don't use water, just use the paint and blend into each other. So practice this little bit. If you're new to acrylics, this will give you a very good confidence in blending two different colors and give you a very good convincing painting. 4. Exercise - Color Study: Now let's go over all the colors and see how the mixed with each other. So I'm going to start with all the fluid acrylics that I'm going to use in this class. Starting with being. Now, if you don't have pink, you can always use cream sundried and tone it down with white. If you mix it with white, you'll get this beach. The mixed colour we used is white, yellow, or this is chrome yellow, but you can find it as cadmium yellow in your stash, probably because the name chrome yellow is not available on this in all brands. So this is Chrome Yellow and this is the color it goes to once you mix it with white. Now, let's see how this two colors mix with each other and what is the color that we get. So this has been this is yellow. And when you mix them, you get a beautiful orange. Now you can vary the proportion of the pink and the yellow that you have and create different shades of this colour. So let me start off with the absolute dark. So this is the absolute dark colour. And now let me start mixing it with white. And ultimately you come to this beautiful piece of ****. So these are all the shades we're going to use in the background of the painting. Now, this is morphing. Now, if I add more yellow to it, let's see. What is the color that. And it is. Just like mixing these two colors. You can get this color or this color. So this is even more pinkish orange. Okay. So I hope you got the understanding of how this kind of speaks. Now, let me show you. So this is actually very much similar to Orange. So you see that orange color over here is just a little more vibrant. But if you don't want to use orange, you can just mix pink and yellow and get this color. And also let me show you, if you don't have a feeling, you can use a crimson, red and white to see that exact same shade. All you need is a lot of white and tiny bit of crimson red. And you see, we just get the exact same shade of pink and now you can mix it with yellow to get the desired shade that you want. So it's exactly the same shade that we got in the previous exercise in this area. Right. But this is done using concentrate and not the big. Similarly, if I use less of claims in red and more of yellow, we get again this same ****. Also in the in the flowers, they shouldn't be going to use just creams and red and white. So let me show you the colors that you can get. So this is when you use the direct creams in red, which is what we're going to use for pineapple and red. That is also very similar to creams in pain. And then we're going to mix it up with the white and we're going to get this beautiful color in the flower. And we can mix it up also in some places and have a mix of white and speaking our red. And this is the color we get. Now, let me show you how to create blue. So teal blue is a color that I always get as that. What if I don't have it? So this is a color that I get directly from the particular brand, and so I like using it directly from the bottle. But if you don't have this color exact, you can create it very easily. The ways of creating it is one is turquoise deep. So if you have this color, you can use this. And this is very similar to Halo Blue, so I'm thinking a little bit of blue as well. And blue is just a little lighter version of the same color. So let me start with Blue first. So this is Halo Blue and mix it up with white so you can see this is a little bluish. All you have to do is take a little bit of viridian hue and this tiny bit of it. You can adjust the color a little to stick a little bit in to it and pinning down with white. So you'll get this exact feel blue shade that I have right. Now let's do it with the dog with deep calories then. So this is the claw. Mix a little bit of it in here with it. So this is the absolute dark shade of pale blue, you could say. And now let's add light to this. This is a little bit more greenish, but it's very much similar to the. Til that I had to go. Okay, so that's how you can create till the next colour composition that I want to show you is by mixing the tea body acrylics of black, soft, green and yellow. These are the colors we're going to use in the leaf section. So let's start with that. So this is the black. Now you can use lemon yellow directly with the black, and you can get a very beautiful olive green. So this is the colour that we want to be using a little bit by mixing black and yellow. And then I'm going to mix a little bit of sap clean and here as well. So you get a brighter version of the dream. And now let's meet all the three corners. So I will use Black Sabbath cream to it. Lemon yellow to it. All the three colors mixed up. So we're going to switch between these colors to get the different desired shade of the green that we want in the paint. Okay. And one last thing I want to show you is mixing the colors, brown and black, that we're going to use in the center of the in the of the window. So this is the brown that I used, which is from the Fiddlehead. Now, if you don't have it, you can use Valencia. So I took out a little bit of bones here now. And let me show you the difference in the color that happens. So this is black and this is my brown. And when I mix black and brown, this is the color I get. Okay. And now let me mix one Sienna and black. This is the color. So honestly, it doesn't make a difference. What I would use the same shade you'll see in the center of the window, because it's going to be more black and very less of the brown **** that's showing through. You can also use if you don't have either of these colors, if you have orange, you can use that. Also, so this is black and if you use orange directly with it, you'll get this brownish shade as well. And you get this trauma visible quite a bit. So just to understand so this is the one we did with Orange. This we did with the top row and this one we did with the buttons. Sienna. So that's all about the color study. Look at all the beautiful colors that we created. And these are all the colors that we're going to be using in this class. So practice this or you can just watch it to get an understanding of all the colored pretty. 5. Exercise - Knifework: Okay, let's go over the knife techniques, the basic knife techniques that will help you create these painting with confidence. There are three places where we are going to use the knife techniques. So there are basically three different techniques. First one is in the wall texture, which is in the background. So these strokes, this is the first technique. The second one is creating this green textures over here. And the third technique is painting the flowers. Scope. The colors I'm using for demonstration purpose is just to white and paler blue. And I might use a little bit of black. Alright, so for the very first technique, you pick up quite a bit of white or whatever paint you're using and you see you are not producing the entire paint onto the canvas. What you're doing is you're adding it and then gradually dragging it out. Now let's use a little bit of Taylor Blue with it so that you understand how it's looking. Okay. There you go. We're going to use some black also in this process. So you mix the colors and then you go over like this. You see the peak of the paint has to be visible. So if you're doing this for the first time, it might, you might feel a little difficulty in doing it. So just practice it. Just a couple of strokes are not rough sketch book. And you will be able to do it very confidently on the painting. Okay. So that is your number one. For the ticking number two, this is what is going to happen. So you've got to take the peak body actually acts like this. I am going to use some yellow, blue, also some black. And you are going to push the paint around. In this way. Use your knife to give all these directions. So you see how nicely it is being formed. Again, you take quite a bit of pain, so you need a lot of paint for doing this technique of the lease. So you add on the paint and then you switched it around like this. And you can actually use it like this to create some of the leaves in this fashion. All it needs is quite a bit of paint. And you get to create really lovely textures. Right now what I'm doing is rather than using the back of the night, I am using the site of the night to create some of the leaves that are on the outside. Also mixing off two to three colors gives you this beautiful formation that's forming here. For the lease, we're going to use that green lab, lemon, yellow, and black. So you are going to get a mix of these colors like this. Okay, and now let's create the final thing which is the flower. So again for that, you'll pick up quite a bit of paint and you put a block like this. And then you swallow it around like this. You see how beautiful. And then what you do is with the Palo, you go over it and give this swaddle look more prominent. And that's how you create the blog. So you can alternate the color also. So let's say I am taking the teal blue. I'm swirling it around. Let's use some black also. So we're going to create two types of flowers, right? One dark color, one light colors. So this is exactly how you do. The technique is just the same, just the colors are going to vary. You understand how easy this is. All you have to do is, once again, pick up quite a bit of paint. Would you turn your Canvas? And then with the tip of your knife, just move it around a little bit. And with a different color you can come and add some strokes like this. You'll get them real close and you can see how nice thick creamy texture they look. Look at the leaf part. And this is the one bond. So just practice this out a little bit before we get onto the canvas. And you will do an excellent job with the painting. 6. Step 1 - Background: So let's start with the first tape of the painting. So for the first step, I'm going to take out three colors. White, lots of white, little bit of yellow, and just a little bit of pink. Now I'm taking my size eight flat brush. You can take whichever this is the one I have right now. You can take a little bigger Also. I want to use the smallest size, brush, little bit smaller to create lots of texture. Why? I am on this first layer of painting, canvas. Okay, so let's dig in. The first thing I'm doing is adding a lot of white. Okay? Now just after a couple of strokes, what I'm going to do is a lot with white. I'm going to pick up tiny bit of yellow on one corner of the brush and tiny bit of pink on the other corner of the brush. Alright, and now I go on top of this white that I added and I mix all of this up. You'll see the color that we are forming. So you can take maybe a bit more, come here and mix it up. So you see when you mix it up, this is the color you get. Now, I do not recommend mixing it up on your plate and picking it up. Because then what you do is you create just one shade, mixing all the three colors. Right now we don't want that. So that's why every time you mix an pick up the color on the canvas, you are creating a slightly different shade. Right? You see over here it's a little bit more pinkish. Maybe next time you pick up a little bit more of yellow. So it will be a little bit more yellowish. So you see there are varieties of shapes that are being presented on the canvas. And that is exactly how I like. It gives a little more dimension to the painting. Also, the shade again depends on you. I really like light shade. So I'm keeping it, keeping the white and really a lot, but I will just do a little bit more of it and show you how you can keep it a little darker also. So now I have taught this painting a lot of times and I've seen people create different shades of color. But we showed itself. You can see there are so many varieties of color. You can have variety of color like I have sheets, or you can just choose one of them whichever you like and keep it all same throughout. Okay? But our ultimate purpose of doing this is covering up the whole Canvas really wet. I am going to take a bit more of yellow and pink. You see over here is so much orange-ish. So have fun with this step. Create the shape that you like. The direction does not matter over here. So you can actually go in whichever direction you want to. And for this state, you need a lot of white. As you can see, yellow and pink are pretty much the same amount that I've taken out at the beginning. And why tweet quite a bit. I'm just going in whichever direction I feel like going, It's really doesn't matter much. Also, one more thing about acrylic paints is that acrylic paints dry pretty fast. So I do not take out a lot of paint. While it's starting to paint. I keep taking them out as and when they are home. That way, you don't waste a lot of paint. Also, one more thing makes sure that you are actually covering the entire canvas. Because sometimes if you don't pick up a lot of paint, you can see through some of the canvas is in some of the places. So that's why I'm going over a couple of places multiple times to make sure that I'm completely covering all of the white canvas. Now, one extra, bonus tip for you guys. What I like doing is after finishing my canvas board, if I am painting on a canvas board, which is what I'm doing right now. It says you can see I'm just darkening up some of the places as I like. I like going over the ages, teen age around the canvas board and coloring it up. Because I just feel it gives a really nice mood. Finish the painting. If you're confused about which direction to take while painting. I would suggest if it is comfortable for you just to go in vertical directions because that can never go wrong. Because ultimately we are painting one right now. So this is the wall. So any direction, it's fine because there's lot of elements that want to come on top of it. But you can really go in any direction. But if you need some direction, I would suggest vertigo. That's all. I'm going to keep it this way. So this is in doff your step one. And now I will let it dry completely and then I'll show you what to do in the next step. I think it will take at least five to ten minutes for this color to get dried off. It's pretty wet right now. Okay. And then wash off my brush. 7. Step 2 - Sketch the window: Now in the next step, we are going to draw out the window on the canvas. So my canvas has completely dried. Now. There's no stickiness. I have given it around the ten to 15 minutes by now and scale and a pencil. And we're going to sketch out the window over here. Okay, So before doing the actual mark, I'm very roughly kind of eyeballing the place of the window, so I'm going to darken it a little later. So this is where my lines come down and this is where the Kindle. When I ask them to keep around three fingers space on the side for doing the wall. And this is for a nine by 11 inches canvas. So depending on the size of the canvas that you're doing, you can figure out the space that you want to feel it. I would suggest that don't keep too much of a space. Alright? So I am just drawing the vertical lines at the moment. It just a little bit is here and that is totally fine, nothing to worry about. And now I'm darkening the outline. And there you go. My window is done. Okay. And at the bottom here we are going to just do a straight line. Most of these is going to be hidden by the flowers coming over here. So just a straight line over here is fine. Now, if you have difficulty, because I have noticed my students having difficulty with doing this line, you can get some sort of roundish object, like a bowl or plate or whatever you get that would fit this curve line. You can use it to create the car. And the best part of doing the pencil is if you feel you are not happy with it, you can always erase it off and do it again. We are going to create a few more lines inside. So if you feel like I didn't really like doing it with a paintbrush directly. But I'm just going to give you a little guide or doing a straight line so you can, just, since you have to pay insulin scale, what you can do is just go around it and create one mole. Okay? Your while painting it becomes a little bit easier if we do only for the center one. And honestly, this does not really make a difference because we're going to paint it all black and then we're going to create these lines. But you can just do it so that you know where the lines are. So all we're doing is in between the same two part. We are creating two lines like this. And in the vertical area, we're going to create three lines. So first, you divide it into half and create the center line. Create one on the top, one on the bottom. Now, like I said, we're going to paint it all dark, so all the lines are going to get vanished. But at least you have some rough idea and you know what We'll go where. Similarly on this area also, we are going to create some more lines like this, this, this. But again, they will all also, we are not going to invest our time in creating these lines at the moment. Okay, so that is your second step. Sketching out the complete window. 8. Step 3 - Wall Texture: All right, so now in this tape we are going to do something really interesting. We are going to add some texture on the wall to make it look like brick wall but in an abstract way. So the supplies that you need for this step is pick body pain because the body paint works much better with creating textures. But if you don't have a thick body paint like this, so this is how it looks like. You can always use the fluid acrylics as well. For this. See, my tube paint is almost over for titanium white, so I am going to use it from this. It's the same thing In a bigger quantity. Alright, so I'm gonna take out some of this titanium white. Again. I'll just take out a little quantity. And if I need more, I will go back and take out some more later. This month should be sufficient for the time being. And I'm going to take out a little bit of pick body black as well. These are the two colors that we're going to be using for this tape. And you need a knife. Because I am using this size canvas. I am using a smaller size. That is perfect to go with the size. Now if you're working on a big size canvas, you all you have to do is get even bigger size of knife to do the step problem. Alright, so let's get started. So what I'm gonna do is we're gonna take little by little. I'm just taking, scoping out this much of white, taking a little bit of black and mix it in, mixing it up together nicely. I want to use the complete black because I don't want to darken it too much. So what you do is you increase the intensity of grey gradually don't take up a lot of black and make it too dark. So I think this much is fine. Now I'm scooping up quite a bit at the back of my life right now, like I'm sure. And I'm not trying to put down the entire paint on the canvas. I'm keeping it take popping out from the Canvas. That's the benefit of using the pig body acrylic, right? So again, I'm using one and scooping it all the way to the end. Num. One important thing to remember here is we don't want the exact same shades in all the strokes, just like how in the background, I did not keep one solid color all throughout. Similarly here as well. What I'm gonna do now is I'm taking a little bit more black and adding one line in the next one, maybe I just become just a plain white so that all my strokes are not exactly the same. You'll see what I'm doing. I'm changing the shade of the color. The color is pretty much the same. It's gonna be just white and black, but I am changing the shade by alternating the proportion of black and white. Can you see how the paints are popping out from the Canvas? And they're looking swedish popping out. So again, I am taking one over here, I want to make one. We go on. So okay. Little bit here and there is going to be there. It's going to happen, that's totally fine. Don't get too involved in the nitty-gritty of all the strokes that you're going to take, none of the strokes are going to be same when you are doing it. I mean, even for me also when I do it another time, it's not going to be the same. That's the best part of doing abstracts. You always, you always get different stuff every time you do the same painting. So this painting I have probably done by now at least n times and every time it comes out different. So what I want you to do is now understand the technique. Once you understand the technique, you will be able to do it in your own way. You see there is no particular pattern that I'm following. But still there is a pattern of bricks, of bricks does not come one on top of each other. There is always one on top of two, right? So that is the kind of shape that I'm trying to give you. I don't want to make all of them. So pick some of them, is take some of them because we want it in a very asymmetric way. We don't want so much of symmetry. So now I'm taking little bit more of black because it was too white over here. Taking it all the way down here like this. You see how nicely it's giving the Ralph look of the wall, right? You don't want to cover up the entire beautiful background that you have done. So always remember that. Again, I'm going in alternating fashion, just like how bricks are placed. Displays. I don't want you to do much because it's going to be all hidden by the by the flowers. I'm focusing more on the sides. You see the amount of black eye to copper solid, but that is pretty much sufficient for this ice painting. So you really don't need a lot of black. You don't want to make the Greeks just dark. Keep that in mind. Okay, I'm liking how it's gradually developing. I think this is where I'm going to do my last one and leave it at that. And since I have a bit of extra white, which as you can see, what I'm going to do is check out this part, okay? So I am scooping up quite a bit of paper. Since I have little extra and I don't want to waste it. I'm going to go over Shaw and at a very thick layer over here. So then it pops out really a lot. And I am going to add one on here as well. Which is like really peak. But if I had like a whitish stroke just going on top of it and adding a little extra layer of paint as much as I can. And that's all for this step. We don't want to do too much. I feel I have done a bit too extra. That's totally fine. I think it looks really, really pretty Swedish. Let me show you. I mentioned just a second sequence. Thick texture that has formed on the Canvas, isn't it? So now once it dries, so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to leave it aside and let it dry for at least a couple of hours. But if you don't want to wait that long, you can start off with the next step immediately. It's just that you have to be little careful while you're keeping your hand on top of it so that you don't place your hand on the colors because I have done a couple of times before, so just a word of caution for you. You can leave it aside and let it dry. And if you're working on a big size canvas, like the one I have done on four feet by four feet. It, you definitely need to keep some, give it some time and let it dry. Alright, so that's all for this step. In the next step, we are going to start painting the window. 9. Step 4 - Window Part 1: Alright, so now in this step we are going to paint the window completely. Okay, So this is this part I'm going to do with my fluid acrylics and not with the peak body paint. The colors you need for this step are the little white. I'm going to take out some brown and some black. Right now like Kansas has completely dried. I kept it for at least an hour. I think. So. See, it's completely dry, but it shows the popping out from the Canvas and it's looking really nice. So now I'm going to start painting the window. Brush that I'm using is a number three size brush, so it's not too thin, but it's just perfect for the size of the window that I'm doing. So for the size of Canvas, this is the size I feel is perfect. Now, depending on the size of Canvas you are using, you can increase the size of the round brush or decrease the size depending on the size of the canvas. Alright, so now the best part is I can keep my hand anywhere and I'm not going to mess up this beautiful wall that have created. So I'll start with painting the window seals on this side. So all I'm gonna do is simply go and fill it up with. Here. I'm going to teach you a quick tip for creating straight line brush. If you feel it's a little uncomfortable for you to do this. I am going to Back to you soon. Maybe you can just watch it first and see how things develop. And then this one, I will show you how to do it. Okay, I'm taking on this little bit of white in between also, just to fill it up. Because I don't want the complete dark, the color. I want to add a bit of shades to it, or rather lighten the tone a bit. And as always, I keep saying, rather than mixing it up on the plate, I picked up the colors and I liked it, it up on my canvas. So simple, plain addition of color. There is nothing much to it. The reason I say it about the straight line is because I have observed from my glasses before that. If you're painting for the first time or if you're not super confident about creating straight line with your paintbrush, people actually find it a bit intimidating to work freehand brush and paint. So that is why I'm going to show you this big tip. How to do it effortlessly and not slick. Alright, so that's all. So you will seek some of the moms that are showing through which I'm totally fine with and I'm not going to change them. Okay. So here is that quickly that I will show you. Here is a tip that I have. You can use the any masking tape but you'll get or this is also a masking tape. Just pull out a bit of it. Please sit here, please. Okay, so now you don't have to bother about creating straight line, even if you go a little bit outside, that's going to be totally fine. Again, I'm going to pick up the color separately and go. So you see, I'm going a little bit on the masking tape to show you how it would be. Okay. So you can see how much I've gone on top of the masking tape over here and now, slowly pick it up. You go, you get a nice crisp straight line. And you don't have to worry about. Its trade with your. Now, I'm going to let it dry for a bit while it is drying. I'm going to paint the inner area. I'm going to leave out this border line over here and on the window. And I'm going to go all in. And feeling this up. Just like we did with the blue. This time also, I'm going to pick up two colors separately. I'm going to pick up brown and black and keep doing this. This is this time what I'm going to do is rather than, rather than going block-by-block, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go all out and fill up this entire area and then leader a monogram on top of it and create these slides. Alright, so let's do that. Here also, you can add a bit of masking tape to create a straight line on the side. But now that you know the technique, I am not going to do it anymore. I'm just going to go straight on top of it with my paintbrush. Sure. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a bit orange as well. It's just a bit of orange. To give a little bit of brightness. I'm going all around and adding a dark layer of glass on the bottle. This is going to be visible at the end of your painting. It's gotta be like one of the focal points of your paintings. And you can see some vertical strokes are getting formed. This adds to the texture of the whole painting. So have a look closer. You'll see this vertical lines that are being formed, which is really nice textures to the painting. So we're going to leave it at that and let it dry completely. 10. Step 4 - Window Part 2: Why it is drying? I think this part is dried. It's not completely dried, but it's pretty fairly dry. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my liner brush, size three. And I'm going to create a few lines on top of this window panels. So for that, I'm taking a little bit of teal blue, just adding a tiny bit of black to it became a lot. So I'm just going to mix more of the blue to it. So this is the color that I want, the shade. Now, I'm going to go and add a line. One more of a yellow one. So these are basically the wooden panels added on top of on top of the window patterns. And then I've got to add a bit of lighter blue on top of this. Same thing I'm gonna do on this one. Also. Modify white to lighten it. That's all fairly simple right? Now I'm going to do the same thing on this other side. All right, so that's done. Now. We will take a bit more of this dark blue. And I'm going to create a couple of lights over here. So first we will do a center line. So once again, if you feel you are not comfortable, clean, aligns with your paintbrush. You can watch, you can try at this tip is try using a scale. See how that works for you. But one thing that I would say is that my focus is not on creating absolutely nice straight lines over here. Okay? So even if you see my lines are not absolutely a 100% straight line and that's totally fine. Right? So I'm gonna do the same thing on this side. That's done. Now just a couple of more things, very small minute things. Create some not balls over here, just not going to be visible to match. Did you do so far? Well, I hope so. It's really simple. It's maybe it may take you a bit more time. So take your time and do this much. You're doing great so far. That's fine. Now, I hope you can see the light and shadow on the panel and how beautifully it's looking. I'm just going to create initially bit of that darker ones. Okay. Let's check on the center part. Is it dried? No, it's not. It's a bit more sticky, so I think it'll take just a little bit more time. 11. Step 4 - Window Part 3: Meanwhile, what we're gonna do is add the color on this area. Okay? So for that, I am going to use a lot of white, but I'll just mix it up a little bit on the plate this time. And I'm going to go over it. And I'm using the liner brush because I don't want to pick paintbrush over here so that I can do the light really nicely. And I'm going to take for yellow, just a tiny bit of yellow. This is the time you can correct if there is any line that you need to correct. On either side. Brown or I'm adding just a tiny little brown. They can shade this color that I'm doing. 12. Step 5 - Leaves Part 1: All right, so let's start with the next step where we're going to create all the greens. The colors that I'm going to use, our thick body pins, first of all, because we want to create the similar textures like what we did on the wall. And you can of course, do with the fluid acrylics, but I feel with a thick body paints, it's going to raise up from the Canvas and it's gonna give a really beautiful effect. The colors that are going to use are these three colors, black, sap, green, and yellow. And I'm back with the same knife that I used for the brick textures. So watch it now, just watch the technique. So starting off with adding quite a bit of black on this corner. And then I'm adding the sap green. As you can see, we're not going to add just one color. We're going to add the colors, are the three colors pretty much alternately. Alright. So I'm adding quite a bit of lag. Okay? Then in quite a bit of sap green, Let's get in a little bit off. So really, I would suggest Have fun with it, play with this tape what it wants. Because just watching it once when you give me a lot of idea of how simple this is, even though it looks pretty complicated. I know that. And also one more thing that I'm trying to do with this tape is I'm trying to keep use just the tip of my knife and not the entire back of it. Okay. So gradually we start coming down. And you'll see why I'm doing this. I'm leaving them popping out of the canvas so that they give that Swedish look. More black over here. Again, there is no right and wrong here. So feel free to do the way you feel like if you want to extend it all the way till here, I've seen people do pretty much all sorts of stuff. Have fun with it. Do it the way you want. Don't feel pressurized to to do exactly what I'm doing. Well, I hope you are getting an idea of how to move around your knife. You can just go and tweak whatever you want to, wherever you want to. It's just little tweaking that makes all the difference. So now again, I'll start exactly the same way over. Sure. That I'm starting again with black just the way we started on the top and in some of the places. So this is where I think the lightened shadow comes into the picture. So don't keep it all flat color everywhere. So I am just going to go and add a B24 lag in some of the places to create the shadows. Because once you create the shadows, That's only when the highlights will be highlighted, right? Adding some more black here and there some places. And I'm going to add quite a bit of lag. So in this area. And also watch how I am using just the tip of the knife to create all the textures. Inside a little bit. Not completely. We don't want to cover up all the windows that we have done. So just very gradually just play around with it. It's all about having fun. In this step. 13. Step 5 - Leaves Part 2: The shape of the leaves that you're creating also matters a little bit. So don't go all over. You see how I'm trying to stay only in this area and just radiating out just a little bit over the ages. So don't make it too much. You need to try to keep it a little bit closer to each other. Okay? I'm absolutely loving how it is forming. So after everything is done, just use the tip and just make sure I use up all the paint. The last bit of it, maybe I can add a bit here. As I'm adding all the last bit, I'm making sure that it's kind of popping out and creating a really nice thick texture. The ages of it as are particularly important because that is what gives the definition of the painting. You see now that all the pins have been added, and I'm pretty much happy with how all the place where the leaves have been added. Now you can go a little bit on top of it and tweak it around and give it some desired shape. So for example, I'm pretty much happy with it, but this, I'm showing you that just in case you're not happy with any of the place you can go around and tweak it. So let's see, for example, I go here and I just, just move it around a bit. So there are two things that are happening in the process when you do this. First of all, you're mixing up the colors, so that is giving you a different shade. And also it's changing the shape of the texture. You see I have a lot of yellow over here, so I'll pick up a bit yellow from there and add a couple of jobs over here. It's really fun to learn this technique thing to play with it. Alright, so that's how I am going to leave at that. What are you can also do is just move your ninth little bit through it. In some places, not everywhere. Has to give a little steam like structure. Feel free to keep playing around with this tape unless you are satisfied the way you want it. So what I like doing is adding a few drops around that final data. Alright, so that's pretty much it for this step. Do you realize that over here it's a bit dark? So for that part, I'm just going to add a tiny bit of yellow on top. Because we want to have it balanced. We don't want it too dark or too light in one place. That's starting to look nice. Plato. In the next step we're going to add all the flowers on top of this. And also between this step and the next day, I am going to give it some time for this to dry out because I don't want to add the red and pink flowers on top of this immediately because it obviously will get mixed up with all the strides. So I'm going to keep it in the sun and let it dry for some time. And then I am going to paint the flowers. I hope you did a fantastic job with this tape. I would. What I recommend is watch this tape completely ones that you'll see how the movement is happening with the knife deep and then start doing it what it wants. And then you are good to go. And I'm sure you did a fantastic job. 14. Step 6 - Flowers Part 1: All right, so now we have reached the final step of the painting. And my leaves have completely dried. You can see how nice the textures are looping. They're all popping out from the Canvas and giving a really nice 3D feeling and looking gorgeous. So make sure that you all is a triad completely before you move on to this next step. Alright, so in the next step, we're going to create the flowers, the easiest part of the painting, but there's a little bit of technique to it that will, that you need to learn to be able to create these flowers in more realistic coaches face. So we took us for this painting, for this day, for creating the treating the flowers. I'm using this red quinacridone, red, but if you have crimson red, that's also fine. Alright, so here you go. My boot the colors. So now I'm going to be to two different techniques of creating the flowers. Alright, so one is with the knife, and one is with the brush. Grab any small brush that you have. I got this one right now with me doesn't matter what brush it is, It's just it just has to be really thin. So I'm going to show it with the brush a little later. Let me start by showing with a knife. So all we would do is pick up the paint at the tip of the knife like this. You come here wherever you want to place the flower. Please. A blob of paint. So I'm almost like not touching the canvas. And I'm kind of dropping the paint on top of it. And then I'm going in jammed and non motion trying to create a swatch out of this, which is what is giving me the look of the flower. Now, I'm not just going to do it with one color at this point. A little bit with the same color and picking up a little bit of white. You go, that's our first flower. Creating one more right next to it. Again, you have to chop really big blob of paint to create the thickness of the flower. Then you go around gender roles. So you'll see how the flowers are looking. So gorgeous and realistic. Normally to show exactly the same thing, how to do it with a brush. I think with the brush, you will have a much better idea of going around and creating the texture of the worsening. Look at this. Isn't it? So easy with a brush? With a brush. This is again, the same thing. You pick up a big blob of paint like this. We want to place the flowers come there and maybe slowly drop the block on the canvas and make this wall. I really love the color that is forming, but I somehow feel it. So I, I think I really want to add a little bit of cream. Cedric, do this. But look at the swallow. So just by creating the swatch, you're creating one nice flower, right? Do you see the texture of it? It's so pretty. Okay. Before moving onto crimson, red, let me create a couple of more with just white and easily bit of pink, whatever is getting onto it. That's fine. I'm adding one nice white. I can see again, if you just keep it clean and simple white, it's not going to give the swale look. So you have to add some other colors over here at my leftover. Pink actually helped me in doing that. The concept. So now you can start doing it along with me. I think it's better to do it with the life, sorry, with the brush rather than the knife. Because with a knife you won't be able to give it this nice swollen. It will help you in dropping the blob of paint, but ultimately I think you need the brush. Okay, so let me grab crimson, red. It's nice to have couple of sheets of flowers, but they're not too different from each other there in the same color family. But you see when two colors mix, it creates such a nice look at this one. I think I love this. Look. It's looking almost like a realistic flower right? Now. One thing to remember here, when you're working on a bigger size canvas, you actually have lots of area to play around with these flowers. Because I'm working on are comparatively smaller. Canvas. I can't go much bigger than this. See all the beautiful soils will be visible only if you use two colors together. 15. Step 6 - Flowers Part 2: Pretty took place some flowers wherever you like. I hope you're enjoying the process. It's very therapeutic, it's very meditative. And to get to create beautiful flowers me on Canvas. One thing that I would like to say here is that I have seen my students fill up the entire place with flowers. So you don't want to do that because if you fill up too much, it can look a bit cluttered. I know when you will start doing this process, you feel like stopping and continue doing a lot. But just, just take a pause, go back, look at it and see if you really want to add more. How's it looking? Then add more. Okay. There you go. I think I'm going to leave it at that. Look at the flowers, glows. How nice. One thing. I think I especially like this one. Look at this wall that has happened in this one, if you can do something like this for all your flowers, I think they are going to look amazing. And one quick tip, what you could do is right now the pink and whites are pretty wet. So let them dry a little bit. And after sometime what you can do is go and zoom around the way you want, the direction that you want to give them. A little later ones, they are like half drive. That is the time you will get a lot of space to move around and play around with them. Okay? So it's really, it's really kind of very nice technique to create realistic flowers and at the same time, have fun with it. So I hope you enjoyed this flower techniques especially. And we have come to the end of our painting. Now, I'm gonna give it some time to dry. 16. Your Project | Framing Your Painting: Well, there you go. Here is a painting that we just finished creating. And this is your project for today's class to follow along all the steps and create this painting on your own. Once you've finished creating this painting, do take a picture and share it in the space below. I would love to see what you have done. Now, I will show you how you can frame this gorgeous painting and hang on your wall here is a nine by 11 inches frame that I got custom-made from a local frame shop. But I think you should be able to get it online directly. So find it out, get a frame. And you can hang this beautiful painting framed on your wall. There you go. A beautifully framed, beautiful painting ready to be hand on the wall. I hope you could do this along with me and came up with a gorgeous outcome. I can't wait to see what you have done. So please, please, once you've finished painting this, click a picture of what you did. And if you framed it and hang it on your wall, take a picture of that as well, and share it in the space below. I would love to see what you have done and connect with you. And thank you so much for joining my class. 17. Painting Big: Here is a scene in the living room of my apartment. This painting hangs big on a four by four feet Canvas that I created in 2019. I think it is the center of attraction in my home. And anytime anyone walks in, they fell in love with this painting, wants to have it in their home. So I want you to learn all the techniques and then painted big. You may wish to try it a couple of times before painting big. I have painted this on small canvases for four to five times before attempting big. If you feel four by four feet is too big for you to handle, you can try it on a two-by-two feet Canvas as well. And it is also a very decent size to add beauty to your wall. All you need the right tools for painting big and the techniques remain just the same. So here is a knife that I use for painting the wall textures on this four by four feet Canvas. Just with one stroke, I could create all these bold strokes on the, on the Canvas. This is the brush that I use for painting the background of the entire canvas. Because this was so be it just with a few strokes. You could paint it all around. Now, you could use a round brush like this or the flat brush for painting the window panels and the center of the window because it is a huge space. So you might want to have a big flat brush to create the window. And instead of liner brush, you can use a brush like this to create all the borders of the window. Now, if you want to paint it on our two-by-two Fit to Canvas, that tooth remains the same. It's just a little bit smaller. So here is the brush, which is good for covering up the background. As you can see, it's the same brush, flat brush, just a little smaller in size. And here is the nice that you can use for creating the breaks. I have used both of these knives alternately to create the textures. You can use a flat brush of this size, which is a stain for creating the window panels and filling up the center in between. And then you can use a little smallest size brush to create all the lines in-between the window. You don't need a very thin liner brush like we used in this class. This knife you can use for creating the flowers textures. So for creating the flower texture, you can use these Antonio step pointed, nice to create the soils in the flowers. Well, that's it for today's class. I am so excited for you to create this painting. If you liked this class, I would appreciate you leaving a review. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. If you enjoyed painting with me, feel free to follow me so that you don't miss out on any future classes from me. And thank you so much for joining me in this class.