Learn to paint EASY Retro Palm Trees

1. Course Introduction: Hi everyone. I'm Krista. I have been teaching hundreds of people how to paint and my in-person painting events like paint instant parties, birthday parties, mom's night outs, and church events. Well, I have taken my family on the road to explore the country and our RV. I call myself a wandering artists. I guess. I couldn't leave my love for teaching people how to paint behind. So I set up a mobile studio to offer you my easy step-by-step painting instructions online. I will provide you with current to trend artwork lessons, holiday lessons, abstract lessons, and even some lessons for the kiddos to my instructions will have a full list of all the supplies you will need, where to find them, how to use them in detailed instructions. On each stage of the painting, I have a unique style and easy approach and I know you will be proud to hang your artwork on the walls and not hide it in a closet. So grab your brushes and follow along and let's go paint. 2. Paint the Background - Retro Palm Tree: Okay. Mike isn't in the way of the painting and it's not. Alright, so we're gonna do this super easy, quick palm tree painting. And we're gonna be using Cabana stripe, antique parchment, thicket and black. And we're gonna be using to one-inch flat brushes, a six inch round. And your teeny tiny minor is tiny. It's actually a 0. This is a liner brush. It's really great. Alright, so this painting is really, really easy. So let's get started. Alright, so we're gonna start with the sky. So we're going to pick up her turquoise and our cream at the same time. You just double load your brush like that. This is a better picture of what it means to double load your brush, dip half of your brush in one pink color and the other half in the other pink color. And then just start painting. I'm gonna go only in the parchment now. Now you can wash your brush or just get a clean brush. And now I'm gonna go into the orange or coral. I forgot to tell you. We're also using flamingo coral. Those colors on your brush. And just start at the bottom. If your paint gets kinda sticky, just add some water. That's two pink for me. So I'm going to add just parchment paper. Just trying to make it look like a sunset without having to do an actual sunset. I'm doing just parchment. Notice I'm not doing a flat line, so I'm just kinda making it different elevations. I tried to do one side higher than the other, but it doesn't always work out that way. Now, I'm just keep adding some parchment because I do feel like it's a great skill. I'm just going to add a little water to my brush. Okay, now I'm gonna go back to the other flat brush that had the blue or the green end pertinent on it. And I'm just going to soften up this line right here. You don't have to blend. But I do want it to be a softer transition. Good. 3. Paint the trunks - EASY - Retro Palm Tree: All right, The magic of editing, and you guys don't have to sit through that boring drying process. Okay. It's still not a 100% dry, but it's dry enough for me to go ahead and just get started on the palm trees. So what we're gonna do is I have black and thicket right here. And I think it is already a really dark green, but I tried it without thicket and it was just a still too bright green. It didn't look like it had that backlit a look that I was going for. So I'm just going to Marble these two together with my six inch round. Yeah. So this is just my round brush and I'm just going to put both colors on there. And then I'm just going to make some cricket level or tall cook good. Knobby, imperfect palm tree trunks. Some tall, some short. Just varying them a little. That I need water on my brush. There we go. There's one. Okay, this guy is gonna be a little shorter and he's gonna do mean like they do sometimes. Okay. I have room for one more. Let me put a tall one over here. Okay. Next I'm gonna go in and add these little wobbly parts at the top of the boundaries. Not too thick. Like that one's a little too thick but how well they look like asparagus. Okay. We're done with this. 4. Paint the Palm Fronds - Retro Palm Tree: Now we're going to use that same green color. I keep moving right into the microphone. Sorry. Make sure your brush is wet but not dripping wet. I'm just going to go into that same green color with her liner brush. I twirl it to make it super pointing at the end. And then we're just going to paint her palm fronds. Okay. So I'm just going to decide which way you want them to go. I want this guy to go that way. The other side can just have these little wispy lines so it doesn't have to do a tone. More water on my brush. We'll do another tone, one coming out this way. One more. The hardest part for me is deciding which way the leaves are going to hang. Okay. So I'm gonna show you something on this painting. I did too many. So just be aware of that. I wouldn't do any more than five prongs coming out of a palm tree. They look better then than they do for so just be aware of that. Okay. Okay. Alright guys, pretty standard cricket or anything. Last one. Remember done, you guys, I mean, how easy was that? You can go in and highlight these chunks. You feel like you need to. That is literally what are we doing? I want to come in and highlight your palm trees. You can. I wouldn't do too much though, because remember they're supposed to be back lit, which means they would just be a silhouette. I'm just going to darken these highlights a little bit. I think I put too much. I'm going to sign it and we're done.