Learn Acrylic Painting: Design and Illustrate a Still life Pear easy

1. Welcome: Hi, my name is George, and in today's course, you will learn how to make this wonderful still-life would appear in this course, you will learn everything you need to know about acrylic color mixing making this painting will feel very enjoyable and relax. You will play around with layers and different brushes and colors to create a wonderful acrylic paint. If you have never painted before, this will be very easy to follow. You will get step-by-step encouragement on doing everything from the drawing the block into the finishing touches of the paint. And with all of that being said, welcome to the course. 2. Materials: For this wonderful still life painting, you'll need a canvas that is 18 by 24 centimeters. A big flat brush, as well as a small flat brush, some paper towels, a cup, a mixing plate. You can use a ceramic one or a plastic one as well. Some red, some yellow, and some blue. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint. You'll be using some brown as well as some white. You'll be using the three primaries in order to create very beautiful colors and learn about color mixing. Let's go into the course. 3. A beautiful orange wash: Okay, with some yellow and some red creating a beautiful orange for the underpainting. This will be just a stain in order to cover the harsh white of the canvas. Why are we doing this? It's just so you don't have such a harsh surface to work on, white is a very misleading color. So instead, you can use some orange, some warm color, some brown to wash down the white in order to have better accuracy of color. Starting from the middle of the canvas with a very great deal of water, as well as some color on the brush. You can start to go ahead and spread that paint around very freely and fast, almost covering all the canvas, going and making a little bit more color. You can vary the color a little bit. If you want. Just to have a little bit of a more interesting thing to look at. It's very important here to cover the sides as well. And once you do cover the entire canvas, you can start to go from side to side and top to bottom in order to make the beautiful wash just a tiny bit more spreads evenly. Okay, like that from left to right. And once that is done, you can leave it to dry completely. It will need to be completely dry to the touch before you paint anything else. And there you go. This step is done. 4. The ledge: Once the canvas is completely dry, you can add some brown to the mixing plate with the small flat brush, you can grab some water and mix it in right next to the brown. Taking some brown as you mix it, you can start to add a very straight line going from the left to the right at just about the third of a weight down. And after that, you can go ahead and double that line. Once again, even lower. And then mixing some more color in order to fill this space that has been created with the two lines just over there filling it in with the brown going over and over from right to left in order to create this latch. Once you've done that, you can go and take a little bit more brown and add another underside of this ledge with a deeper and darker brown just below the line you have drawn. The second time. You have now created a place for the pair to set on super simple. 5. Drawing the beautiful pear: Now you can take a little bit more brown and straighten that edge in case it's a little bit crude kit like you see in the video, just making that right corner a little bit higher. So it's a tiny bit more straight. Perfect. Once that is done, you can start to add a beautiful angle. Pointing. For an axis. This is a broken axis of two lines. One goes like that and one goes the other way, slightly on an angle and then building up across like that and pointing to a middle section. Okay? Once you do that, you can start to create the beautiful body of the pair. Would angles, round objects tend to look way better when built with angles. This is a very simple shape. In case you want to add more funkiness to your pair, you can always double the line and go outside for the top of the pair. It's a very simple and easy way to do it. It's a little bit angled, so two lines almost going towards each other, imagining a point higher up where they go towards each other. And then two more lines connecting together. And for the small little tail, quite straight and going the opposite way of the angle of the head of the pair. Now you can go ahead and we find a little bit of the edges and corners that have been created just to give it a bit more of a round shape. And there you go to drawing of the pair is done. 6. The shadow: Now that the pair has been drawn, you can go ahead and take some water and some brown and start layering some color over it just to fill it in to have a different color than the background to work on. It. Just going with straight lines and covering this pair from top to bottom in color. Just like this. Rubbing more color and adding more lines. This is just a simple wash of color. It doesn't need to be fancy or thick. Discover it from top to bottom. And once it's done, you can start to load the brush with more color and start going a little bit over the edges in order to accentuate them on the right side. And the bottom, just to give this bear a little bit more weight. Now, this arrow you don't need to draw. It's just for demonstration purposes in order to show you where the light is coming from. The shadow is just going to stop at this line. And you can start to already block it in quite nicely by following the edge of the pear and going a little bit down as you approach the side of the light, it becomes thinner and thinner, just like a slice of shadow. And then at the top, it just goes straight. And then as you go down, it becomes thicker and thinner as you go further towards the light on the left. Just adding a little bit more color to make it even more visible. As you can see, it just follows the contour of the pair. Except at the ends, it becomes a little bit thinner. And there you go. This is the shadow step. 7. Highlights: With the small flat brush, extremely clean and some white acrylic on the mixing plate. And with this, you will start to create the highlight. And going right where the arrow would hit the pair and adding the highlight. And at the top, it's imagined. It's not just an arrow, but it's more of a cone. Okay. And at a top, making a line in the middle. And now brushing off a little bit of the white and going and adding some nice kinda like glow around on the light side at the edge. This would be just a reflection of the room or any other stuff. And it gives little bit more pizzazz to the pair. Don't forget to give a little bit of attention to the small tail of the pair. And once you are almost done, you can grab a little bit more color and load the highlight a little bit more with thicker highlights. And then you can blend the small reflection just a tiny bit more, as well as go around the highlight and blended a little bit. And there you go. 8. Second layer of highlights: And once it's dry to the touch, you can grab some more of the white and refind the middle part of the highlight, adding the highlight on as a thick layer nicely and on the top, imagining that it's a ball at the top, so it has a highlight as well. And then blending a little bit of the right part of the shadow as well as a little bit of the top with the corner of the brush. Okay, grabbing a tiny bit more color and adding some more paste, shaving off a little bit of a corner, and there you go. The second layer of highlights is done. 9. Block in: For this step, you will need the small flat brush and some blue onto the mixing plate. Just adding it to the mixing plate, you don't need quite as much. And of course some brown to make that blue a tiny bit more dark. Okay, grabbing some blue and some brown in order to create a very dark shadowy color. You will also need a tiny bit of red to make that a tiny bit more purple. And you already have exactly the position of the shadow. So you can start to fill it in with this thick layer of dark paint. It can squeeze a little bit more on the mixing plate if it's too much color. Okay, you can go ahead and make those beautiful angles of the pair. And you can go around the outline, use the brush either on its side or as a thick applying to almost finishing the shadow part where there is a small subtle change in the angle. You can take your time and make it quite nice and beautiful. Okay? Going and covering like that. Once you are done with this shadow layer, you can go ahead and clean the brush. You will need some yellow and some red to mix a beautiful red. Just adding a little bit more yellow and a little bit more red, adding some more red and some more yellow to create a dark orange. And with that color, you can start to go on the top side of the pear, just going around the highlight. And being careful not to forget to go right by the edge even a little bit further to that tiny bit further, grab some straight up red and start to draw in very close to the yellow. And then kind of blended together by just moving the brush a little bit onto the yellow part. Okay, you can go a little bit over the highlights just to give it the shine, but don't cover the main highlights. Okay, Going further, you can grab some more of that reds and make it even more vibrance. Okay, don't worry if the lines underneath still show through. This is just the first layer, grabbing some blue and some reds to make the color a little bit more purple and bore different to give a little bit more variety to the red. Okay, cleaning up the brush so it can make beautiful color just like that. This red is just tiny bit more towards the red and the blue. This purple grab some white in order to make it just more vibrant because it's kind of dark. Okay. And then you can add it to the middle of the bear just going down and up into the last layer you have applied above, just going and filling that color in, turning the brush around to make use of the color that is, on the other side, grabbing some more reds and a tiny bit of white like that and mixing them all together. And adding another layer of this new found red, pinkish color in order to add some small accents. Okay, grabbing the towel and cleaning up the brush, and then cutting a little bit into the highlight, what the brush. And there you go. The block end of the color is done. 10. Reflected light: For this layer, you will need the shadows to be dry, completely or almost dry. Grabs him straight up blue and add a tiny bit of red into it to make a beautiful bluish purple, just a tiny bit, purple and some white mix it in quite thoroughly. And then this works only if you have very, very dark shadows. So you will need to go ahead and add some of this blue on the side of the pair, on the side of shadow on the right. As you can see, it is a little bit more light, exactly close to the edge. You don't need to do it all along the edge, just on the right part and the bottom like that. And then go ahead and grab some more straight on blue. Your blue is a little bit darker. Can always add a little bit of white and yellow to it to become more like the blue end video. And after that has been applied, you can grab some red just straight from the tube and go along with some water, go along the intersection between the light part and the shadow part, blending a little bit of that edge, matte, strong edge. You don't need to blend too much. Just go ahead and blend a little bit. Just go once or twice over it. Don't go too much into the shadow. And then go ahead and mix some of that orange you have used on the top and apply another layer just exactly at the intersection between the shadow and the light. And then you can go ahead and add just a tiny bit more around the color of the head of the pair. Okay, let's clean up the brush just a tiny bit and grab a little bit of that blue, mix it in with some red, making that shadow color once again, in order to add some more vibrancy to the shadow like that. Just a few touches and a little bit of that blue make it not be so violent. And then you can add it once again, just so it blends together with that purple, adding it back again and retouching it can start to see how much like a Jew, it starts to look. Okay, and there you go with this step as well. 11. Brighter colors: Once everything has dried, you can grab the small flat brush, very clean flat brush and straight up with some red, add a new layer of red on top of the middle light part of the pair. Going and spreading that bit of color all around the middle section, right against to highlight. And you can also go a little bit higher on the head of the pair, as well as going and blending a little bit more of that red into the shadow. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and grab some yellow and add it to the head of the pair around the highlight. Grabbing a bit more in order to have something spreads, cleaning a little bit of the brush on the mixing plate and then continuing to move outwards from the highlights, cleaning the brush a little bit in order to take some red and combine it just a tiny amount of red and combine it straight on the Canvas with the flat brush into the yellow. Okay? Just grabbing that yellow and spreading it into the red, creating this wonderful texture and color, mixing it a little bit more thoroughly as you go down, okay, grabbing some more yellow to add it to the top, and then coming down around the highlight to bring that color back to life. Okay, cleaning the brush again and doing the exact same thing you did earlier, blending those edges of the color you just added. And in case you lost and you feel the need to add more color, you can always add more yellow, okay, blending a bit more. You can start to see how vibrant the colors are right now. Once you've done that, you can clean up the brush, add some red and some white to make a beautiful pink. This bank you can go around the big highlight, close enough to the highlight, and then circle it quite well. Clean up the brush once again and do the exact same thing you did with the yellow blended in an around the red that was previously applied going in and adding some more of this color to the left side of the pear. And right next to the highlight. Take your time and blend those colors quite well without losing the main color. Okay? Once you've done that, you can grab a little bit of blue with a clean brush and some white in order to bring back that beautiful reflected light in the shadow. Doing the exact same trick with a new clean towel. Cleaning the brush quite thoroughly and then blending in just the left side of the blue, as you can see, just going in on the left side, keeping the edge on the right side much, much more clean. Okay, and there you go. Look at how beautiful it looks. 12. Cutting in the background: You'll need some blue and some brown in order to create a bluish, dark brown, adding a little bit more red into it, just to cut that color a little bit more. And on the left side of the pear you can start with some negative painting, just cutting into the shape of the pair. Don't be afraid to cut just a tiny amount inside the pair so that it overlaps the pair. You don't need to be very, very close. You can overlap a tiny bit just so it doesn't look like the background is still showing. And going down very carefully and cutting into that pair. This is the way it should be done. So that's why it's called cutting into the pair. Because you're actually cutting with the color over the red of the pair. Okay. Just going at the top and cutting as you can see what a very straight edge and then blending the rest of the color on the rest of the area. Adding some more red to the color just because the right side is way, way bluer than the left side. So it needs to create a little bit of a contrast between the color on the pear and the background. And doing the same, cutting some of the pair in order to create a very crisp edge between the background and the pairs. So the pairs sticks out from the background. You can start to see that on the right side it looks much, much better than on the left. The worry in a few seconds, it will look as good on the left side, cleaning the brush quite thoroughly in order to have just the right space to create some beautiful light pink like that with some water, creating some bank with some red and some white with this color. You can start to create just around the edge and going inside the first circle of the body of the pair, just going a little bit inside, adding that highlights that rim, highlight, that edge, highlight of the defines the shape of the object. Okay, and then going with the finger and spreading that inside edge of this highlight. So keeping the outside edge quite crisp and blending with your finger on the inside of the highlight can also press a little bit harder to pick up the color if it's too much, okay, just adding a little bit more to the corner and then blending it with the finger can start to see how much more character this edge highlight brings to the pair. Okay, and there you go with this simple step as well. 13. Vibrant colors: In this step you're going to bring out those beautiful luscious scholars even more, starting with some red and a clean brush, the small flat brush, and adding some white into that red and straight next to the highlight, you can start to add this beautiful color. And right on the other side, just as well, continue blending it into the other color. You can then start to pick up some red and blend it in with this beautiful pink as well as on the left side. And then blend the two colors you already have on the brush by pressing a little bit harder and then picking up a tiny bit more red in order to create a more interesting look, rounding out those crispy edges of the shadow and integrating it over. Going a little bit higher on to the pair with the leftover paint on the brush. Once you've done that, clean your brush with some water and some paper towels, very thoroughly. Grab some yellow and put it on both sides of the brush. And you can start to add to the yellow on the top side of the pair. On the head of the pair, you can start to see another layer just brings it back to life. All it needs Now, it's a little bit of blending of the edges, of the outside edges. And the bear looks so much better. Okay, going and taking some of that red with white and blending it a little bit to create this beautiful orange just below the yellow. Taking a new paper towel and cleaning up the brush, once again, taking some more yellow and adding it right next to the highlight. As you can see already, the highlights that were so bright. Now look at tiny bit doll. So all they need is a clean brush and some thick white, but a tiniest amount of yellow. Press it down over the highlights. Okay? And then on the lower highlight you can do the same beautiful yellow highlight. Once the yellow highlight has been added, you can start to put some straight up, white very thickly with the brush. Cleaning up the brush. Very nice. And just blending that edge, that right edge of the highlight in order to make it part of the pear. Doing the same to the second highlight. Taking some more white in case you want to make the highlight, the second highlight a little bit brighter and a little bit bigger. Thick, beautiful highlights. Blending some of that beautiful pink in order to add it to the side of the pear, that edge highlight. It seems a little bit too milky, so it needs a little bit of blending with the color underneath, just grabbing tiny bit more white to add to the corner. Just the corner of the pair, just where the head meets the body. Okay, going and adding that beautiful rim highlight. Now I'm going over the inside edge to blend it together with a clean brush, revealing that under side pink, taking some more of that yellow, white you have created and adding it to the top side. And tiniest amount of a highlight under the left part of the pair just to bring that edge. Just looking so much more shiny. Okay, cleaning up the brush thoroughly. And there you go with this step as well. 14. Refinement of highlight: Once the highlights are completely dry, you can start to take some more white, just straight up wide and add another layer of color. As you can see, it's already brighter than it was since you're already applying it on some bright white? No. Okay. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and clean up the brush and you guessed it. You are going to blend those edges on the top and the right of the shadow by picking up a little bit of the color and spreading it thinly, revealing that under side color. Once you've done that, you can pick a little bit of white and add another specular highlight just above the big one, and then making it a little bit longer just so it follows the shape of the pair. Okay. And then cleaning the brush and taking it off, revealing just a tiny bit of a highlight, giving it more character with a tiny bit more white, just small refinements. And then blending that edge on the right side. And blending it even more to have it more subdued than going in and making the highlight a bit more big. Chest. So it pops even more. And there you go with the refinement of the highlights. 15. Darker background: With the flat brush clean and some fresh lump of brown, as well as some blue and some red. You can start to mix a very dark bluish color for the background. Add some red in order to make it much more interesting looking. And not so blueish. Add some of this red, as well as more of the blue, make it quite bluish intent, but not overpowering. And going right next to the pair, you can also cut a tiny bit, but it's not quite need it anymore since you've already cut with that outer layer of color, as you can see, it starts to become quite dark and powerful. Just going and closing in that gap at the bottom of the pair. And as you move forward on the outsides, you can go a little bit more freely, working your way around the tip of the tail of the pair. And there you go with this step as well. 16. Color of the tail: For the next step, you will need a clean, flat, small brush, some yellow and some blue. Just mix it very well together and start adding the tail of the pair. Adding this beautiful green will bring it to life. Clean out the brush, and blend it little bit lower until it meets the pair. Grabbing a little bit more yellow in order to create a lighter version of that green with some white and mixing it over the other color. And then you can just put a highlight at the top of the tail. Okay, for the outline of the tail, you can grab some of that color, some of that brown with the blue and the red and go around it, making a cut on the pair as well as the tail so that they feel much more refined. Okay, once that is done, clean out the brush and pick up some more of that color and go in a little bit more and closer to the tail, grab a little bit more color in order to make the tail even thinner and move down towards the side of the pear, making that edge crispy as well. Okay. Grabbing some straight up blue, some white and adding beautiful highlight to the rim of the pair and just blending that inside edge. As you can see, it looks quite a bit more different since it's closer to the orange than the reds. Grabbing some more red just to put a little bit more vibrancy to the middle of the pair. Not a lot. And there you go with this step as well. 17. Finishing the background: For this step, you'll need the small flat brush clean with some white, mixing it in with some yellow and some blue and a tiny bit of red. Just to create a beautiful light earth dish. Don't just over here, quite light in color. It has red and yellow and a bit of green in it, just so that is a little bit grayer and you can use the brush as a knife on its side. This is why flat brushes are so good. Because you can just cut into somethings and make very, very flat. Okay, just add the border of the ledge at this light. Once you've done that, you can mix the ghetto with some red and some yellow and a tiny bit of brown, some orange and adding it to the ledge just very close to the edge, refining and making that edge of the ledge quite thin. Just mixing it together and blending it towards the bottom. You don't need to cover at the bottom as well. You can leave it a little bit rough because it will give a tiny bit more texture. Okay, going back in with some more light, with some more of that lighter color and adding some light to the edge on the left side, as well as a small highlight, just as a dent in the wood of the ledge, grabbing some brown and putting it onto a place that is quite clean. And going under the ledge to accentuate the shadow beneath the cabinet, let's say where this bear is sitting or the table. And you can also rough up just a tiny bit of the shape of that ledge, as well as adding some lines for where the word is chipped and damaged a tiny bit, making it quite vintage. Okay, just a few scratches and then and also just below that one highlight in the middle of the ledge, grabbing some water and blending that brown shadow until it reaches the end of the canvas. And it just blends in quite nicely. Okay, grabbing some blue and some brown and mixing it straight on the Canvas. Some water to add to the backgrounds. Let's finish up beautifully, that background. As you go towards the right of the canvas, you can add more and more brown. Okay, quite thickly applied. Don't go too close to the pair, just stick to the right side. Only go as far as you need to on the inside, closer to the pair, just to make it feel like it's part of the background. And not just a different layer. Grab some red, grab some blue, and just play around with colors and textures on the outside. Blending them quite well. A bigger brush can be very helpful here. Just add that water and start to do this very beautiful motion where you go on one side, then on the other side with the brush. First applying a small little wash. And as you go you can add more blue, more brown until it feels nice. You can also add a tiny bit of white if you want. Just be sure to blend it all together nicely until it feels like a very beautiful background and not just color. Okay, blended, get a bit more on the sides. As you can see, it needs a little bit more retouching on where the two layers meet. So a touch of brown, as well as on the edge, just a little bit more brown covering that white. That always picks true somehow. Can also grab this beautiful color that you have on the brush and add it just below the ledge, cleaning up the small brush with some water and a fresh paper towel and grabbing some more of that white to accentuate the bottom and adding some more that don't have that shadow. Okay? And going in and adding some more of that light to the edge just on the left side. Okay, going with some yellow and some red to create some of that orange. In order to add some of this beautiful orange just to give some variety to the latch, making it quite more colorful and vibrant. As you can see, that yellow just brings some earthy tones to the orange, going even darker at the bottom under the alleged just to accentuate that there is a difference and a shadow over there. Okay? Blending it with the small brush width, motions from right to left and from left to right. Grabbing some of that brown in order to cut that highlight a little bit, making the edge quite more crisp. And there you go with this step as well. 18. The small leaf: With the brush clean, some brown and some blue, makes them quite well together. And start adding some of this color to the edge where the two layers of background meet, just blend those edges together and make them seem like one. Make them seem like they lose themselves into one another. And going in on the right side would a more brownish color. Just add as many refinements to the background as you want or keep it as rough as you want. Okay? And once you clean up the background as well as the brush, you can grab a tiny bit of green or mix it in case it's dried and add a small little shape that is kind of like a teardrop, but longer. And then grab some blue and add it to the mix on the right side as well as some brown in order to create the shadow side of what's going to be a beautiful leaf mixing in some of that lighter green just to add it to the underside edge of the leaf. And for the topside, you can add another section of the leaf, making the shape a little bit more complicated, let's say. And with the touch of a beautiful, nice, clean brush mark, you can make a tail. Okay, going and adding just a bit more color to the bottom of the leaf and making the tip a little bit longer. It's quite the onion shaped leaf, but it looks quite nice. When another touch of the corner of the brush, you can add a highlight on the top of the tail of the leaf, rubbing some straight up brown and cleaning up the outside areas of the leaf, as well as maybe a little bit of the tip. Just to integrated a bit more into the background as well as the painting. Grabbing some more of that brown with a little bit of red this time just to contrast it a bit more onto the leaf. And then going in with this color over the background, once again, just tire as long as you have color. You can also add a little bit of this color on the underside of the ledge. Okay. Cleaning up some more areas and the underside of the ledge just to clean off the brush. And there you go. You have finally officially finished this pair painting a leaf. In the next step you'll learn how to apply varnish. 19. Varnish Thank you: What the varnish and a hand, this is Amsterdam acrylic varnish. It needs to be completely dry first. So if it's completely dry, you can put it on some papers and start applying a coat of varnish from about 15 centimeters. And there you go. The painting is varnished and it looks awesome. Congratulations for finishing. Get another painting, be proud and continue creating in case you feel gracious enough, you can leave a review. It will be much appreciated as well as if you want and if courageous. So you can share and post a picture of your beautiful pair. Thank you so much once again, and see you in the next course.