Learn to paint this Fall Barn

1. Meet the Artist: 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'll 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. Supplies needed: Hi everyone. Let's go ahead and get started with our colors. So here I have a classic caramel color. Vintage cream, wicker, white, black, a medium gray Barry wine color. Classic red. They get green, chocolate sprinkle, or you can use burnt umber. Skyline, Dutch, Aqua, the pale daffodil, apricot, golden yellow. In Pueblo. For my brushes, we have a two inch flat brush, a half inch flat brush size six round, a three-eighths angle, a 1 eighth angle in a liner brush. Put all of those in your water. 3. Painting from Photo's: We've been going on these beautiful scenic drives. And I've just been taking pictures of different things that I like. There's been barns and grain silos and beautiful sunsets. And I just wanted to put all those together into one doable painting that you guys can have success painting. So here's a photo of a barn that I took on our way to tour the one of the bourbon distilleries that's in the area. This area is famous for its Bourbon Trail, they call it. I just love this black barn and I loved the fence behind it. I saw some really modern paintings in stores that were showing half of a barn. And although they were different colors than the black, but I really like the idea of just showing half the bar and it shows, it gives a little bit of mystery and a little modern twist. So I thought I would take my black barn painting and do what I see selling and stores, which shows me that it's popular and trendy. Ended half of my barn here as well. Also, you'll notice that I'm painting on paper. Again, I don't paint on canvases while I'm traveling just because I don't have the space to store them. So, but what you can do is you can buy any size canvas you like and scale it. So if you want to make this a big painting, you'll just make a big barn and a big tree. And I can just give you dimensions on what these are so that you'll know where to start your painting and where to start your angles and things like that. Another thing that I did was this black bar in painting that I have, you'll notice doesn't have any fall trees in it. Months and months ago when we first started traveling, I stayed in Arkansas for the fall and it was visiting family there. And this state park we stayed in was on the river, the Arkansas River. And it had these beautiful golden yellow, bright yellow trees that were dropping these massive leaves over the size of my entire head. And I would just sit and watch out the window and just watch these leaves fall like confetti, just these beautiful falling yellow leaves. And I just thought it was so beautiful. And although I didn't paint this to be in front of the river, I wanted to incorporate since we're not here in the fall and Kentucky will be leaving this weekend. Actually. I wanted to just kind of imagine what those bright yellow trees would look like next to a dark black barn. And then I just added these pretty red flowers from this picture that I saw. They weren't wild flowers, they were plotted in a plant, but they were super pretty and I loved the color of them. So I just thought it would be fun to kinda just incorporate those elements into my painting as well. So I hope you enjoy it and let's get started. 4. Painting the sky: Okay, Look in my palette, you guys, it's so thick with paint. Rule gummy. And it's kinda funny. I'm just trying to do like a little challenge. See how long I can use this one. Peak, one plate for my paint palette before I have to throw it away, it's silly, I know, but whatever, it's getting very colorful. Okay, so we're gonna start with the sky. So we're going to use, we're going to use this Dutch aqua, this skyline, and some white for our sky. And this is really, really simple. We're gonna be using our bigger two-inch brush, flat brush. So just put some sky colors in there. You don't need a lot. Make sure you can see that a little more than n. We're gonna go about halfway down our page or Canvas. I'll probably need more paint than that, but I'll add some more later. If I do get a considerable amount of water on your brush, I just dip it in the water and then I just scraping. I don't press down too hard because I do want some water in my brush. It helps the paint just kinda glide over the paper or the canvas very smoothly. So I'm going to triple load my brush now you guys have heard me maybe if you've taken other classes, double loading, but now I'm going to triple load. So I'm just going to go into the white. And then I'm gonna do a corner into the blue and then a corner into the aqua. So you can see I have three colors on my brush. Now, what I wanna do for this particular painting is make the darker blue on top here. So I'm going to make sure that I position it up here on my cannabis. And you're going to go back and forth and see how that does. It just gives you stripes. Now, I don't want strikes in my sky. So I'm pink. And I did it again. I didn't put my rubber down. 1 second. Let me get my plastic. Okay, now we can paint. What I'm doing is I'm going in a diagonal pattern and I'm going off the canvas or off the page, whatever you're painting on. And I just want to make sure that I am painting all the way to the edges. If you have a Canvas, make sure you're painting your sides too. You don't want to have an unfinished painting with your sides and painted. When I first started painting, I would get just black and paint the edges of my canvas is black. I kinda liked it. Give it a kind of a frame if you wouldn't, maybe. I'm going in this diagonal manner because I feel like the white in the painting can be sort of like wispy clouds. I'm going to add some water to my brush. See how the water just makes the paint glide on even more smoothly. Just helps it a little bit. Now, you don't have to use these colors. If you have blue already and you're like, well, I can just add white to it to make a light blue. That's completely fine. If you have bright white instead of a creamy white, that's completely fine too. If you don't want to use the turquoise color, that's completely fine too. Or maybe you want to make it a gray sky to where it's more, more of a winter look. That's fine too. These paintings are for you. You do whatever you feel like you wanna do. Just make sure that you are using the same direction of your brush strokes. Don't come in your painting and be like, Oh, let's go this way because that'll just mess up your sky. You want the sky to be in that same. The usually the Cloud are typically going in the same direction at all times. So you just want to make sure that you put your cloud's going the same way. Now sometimes you can, sometimes I'll paint with like I'll paint clouds going this way and then I'll paint clouds over it going this way. Sometimes that'll happen. I'm honestly not great at painting clouds. This is typically what my skies look like in my paintings because they're not the focal point on my paintings. It's usually just a background. So I don't really have to pay much attention to the details in the clouds. Thankfully. I need to practice my clouds more. I do enjoy painting them, but they can be difficult. I painted one cloud one time and it looked like a sheep. And I'll never live that down. So we're just going to let that dry for a hot second. I'm gonna put my brush back in the water and I'm gonna get the caramel colors for the background. 5. Painting the grass: So I'm going to use classic caramel. I'm going to use some white again, but I'll just use this white that's on my palette. And I also used some a touch of Pueblo in my original painting. I kinda don't feel like it's necessary. So if you just want to use the caramel and the whites, and in a little bit, we'll put a little bit of a chocolate brown in there. I think that would be fine. But just to stick to what I did earlier, I'm going to do that too. So I'm going to take my angled brush here. And angled brushes are typically used really well for getting super straight lines. My angle brush, on the other hand, has been misused so many times that it's now very fuzzy and this particular brush doesn't give me a straight line. So if you have a new angle brush, I recommend not using it, but rather maybe use an older brush that you have that maybe looks old and you can even use a flat brush, a fan brush. I mean, wow, that was really messed up. You can maybe use an old brush that looks like that and it's just a little, this is a brand new brush. It won't even bend. But just like you just want it to have a little bit of a Frey to it because we're gonna get some texture with those bristles that are all kinda messed up. If you want to use your angle brush, that's fine. This one just happens to smoosh very well and I like the pattern that it leaves in my paintings. So that's the one I'm going to use. Again, you can use an old brush or you can use an angled brush you want to ruin just like I did with this one. So anyway, what we're gonna do is go into our burnt I'm sorry, this is the Pueblo color. And we're gonna go into the classic caramel. And just double load your brush with both of those on there. And we're just going to tap in some colors. Now this is just the background and this is just gonna be a messy grass looking. Maybe, maybe it's an old hay field. Maybe it's an old cornfield. I don't really know. It's just a field. And we'll add some other layers to it so you don't have to worry about what it looks like right now. What I have learned is in my paintings. There's always a point in my paintings where I'm a little frightened. Like I start to wonder, oh my gosh, this is, how is this gonna be pretty, how am I going to fix this ugly painting? And if you just keep going, you'll trust that every layer you add will be good. It'll help it along just like I often think about it like this is crazy, but when you get dressed, right? Sometimes you don't want anyone to see you in your underwear and your bra and stuff like that. So you got to put more layers on, right? So I kinda feel like that's what it is to whenever we're painting. The first couple of layers are like private, don't show anybody. But trust that it's going to look better when you're all finished. Anyways. Sorry, it's kind of a strange way I look at it, but That's me. I'm kinda strange that way. So I added a little bit of white to my brush. And I'm going to just keep going with this brown color, these caramel color. And I'm just going over what I just did here. And don't worry, we're gonna go over it again. So you add multiple layers will give it dimension and shadows, and it'll be fine and we're not even going all the way over because I know this part is going to be covered in black paint. You'll notice too that you can still see a little bit of the blue, pink and back here, that's okay. Just keep going. What you don't want to do is keep adding to that same area. You want to let that dry for a few minutes. It doesn't have to be completely dry when you add the next colors. But if you keep going over the wet paint is just going to move wet paint. Wet paint on wet paint, just slip and slide around and nothing really gets covered. You need to let it dry and go over it with another code. Just a little tip for you. What I don't want is patches of white because then it'll start looking like ice or snow. And that'll just kinda change the whole color theme for the painting. So if you see white, just go over it with the brown and mix it in, make it a light color. You want it to be a light color, brown. You don't want it to be white unless you're doing a winter scene, which you would want whites and grays in that sense. Okay. So that has been drying for a few minutes, so I'm gonna go back over it with my lighter color. Notice I'm not doing a straight line, which you absolutely could if you really wanted to go over it, make a straight line background in the back if you wanted to, but I don't see that much here in the country. It's all just fields and bushes and grasses and things like that. So I wanted it to have some layer of some, I don't know, just some texture. I'm gonna put a little bit more caramel on my palette and I'm going to start adding in a little bit, a little bit of the chocolate brown because as it gets closer to you in the foreground, it does get darker. So I just want to add a tiny touch of that. This Carmel will add more and more as we go. You can also add a tiny touch of that orange just to give it the same warm warmness. It's probably a little bit too much, so I'm going to add a little bit of white just to kind of bring it in a little bit. I'm going to keep adding that white because I feel like it's just a little too brown. I don't mind. I do like to see this variation in color because, you know, there's hills and as things get further away from you, they get to be a more muted tone. And as they get closer to you, they tend to get a lot darker. So this line right here isn't bothering me too much. I will blend it in a little bit like I'm doing here. I think that looks much better. Again, most of this is gonna be covered up in a background anyway, so it doesn't have to be perfect. You're just adding interest. I'm going to add a little bit of water to my brush. The paint over here. How much more paint came out? Okay, now I'm going to add a little more of my chocolate brown because I want it to be a little more brown in this section. 22 brown somewhere. I see. Can you see that? Just a little a little darker? For me, that's probably a little too much. So again, I'm going to add a little bit of weight to them. That's better. Now right around this area is where my barn door is gonna be. So I'm just going to leave that flat. I don't really care about putting anything there because most of it's going to be painted over anyways. I do want that to look less grassy because it is the entrance to the barn. So we're going to change our brush stroke and make it a lot smoother, less texture right there. A little bit of water to my paint just because I'm running out and I need a few more blotches of color here. Okay? Again, keep in mind, this is just the first layer. We'll add some more texture as we go along. And I think I'm going to add a little more right there because I'm going to rinse my brush out and because I have all that dark paint, I'm going to grab some white and some caramel. What I've last little bit I have left and I'm going to go over this little area right here just to make sure I cover up that blue. So what I'm doing here is just going back over this spot right here because I can still see a bunch of the blue underneath. And I'm just lightening it up just a little bit to help blend it back in with the colors that I had used before. Alright, so the first few steps of our background are complete. And we'll get, we'll let that dry for just a minute before we carry on. 6. Painting the barn: Okay, so now what we'll do while this dries is we're gonna go ahead and paint on this barn. So I've got some black paint on my palette. And I'm going to take my one inch flat brush right here. Make sure it's got some water in it. Dip it in your black paint. Okay. So we're going to start about right here. It's about an inch, maybe an internal corridor from the corner of your top corner of your canvas. And then come out about, let's say, a quarter of the page. Let's go a little further. Okay. Then you're going to deepen your angle a little and you're going to stop right above the grass. Then you're gonna give it a little angled roof right there. And then you're going to come down and just come straight down after that. Now my paint is still pretty wet right here. But I know about where I'm going to finish and I'm going to put the end of my barn with a bottom of my barn about right here. In that area. Okay. So let's get that paint it in. Alright, so I'm going to start in this corner. I have too much paint on my brush, so I'm just going to drag some of it off. I made a really crisp edge with my paintbrush and I'm just going to paint up. You can start and come down. That's completely up to you. Okay, now I'm going to use the edge of my brush again to paint in this line. Make sure you cover your pencil line. We'll have to wait until it's dry to go back and erase it. And then you hit run the risk of making smudges on your painting. Alright, and then just come straight down from here. And then painted in solid black. So you'll notice it's just half of the barn. I see these paintings in like Hobby Lobby or even Wayfair that have half of a barn on the painting. And some of them are at different angles. I just thought that was really kind of a cool modern look to it. To put it only half the barn, just like I don't know, it just leads a little bit of mystery into it. I really like it. So that's what I did this. Alright, I'm going to paint the bottom of my barn and this does not have to be perfect because it's going to have some dead grasses growing over it. So your final strokes of your bar and you want to try to make sure you're going in a vertical pattern because, believe it or not, you may not realize you see it, but your eyes see it. If you're just painting all willy nilly, you're gonna be able to see those brushstrokes in your painting. And it, it, it confuses. It's kinda like, oh, okay, I see what it's supposed to be. But if you go up and down on a wooden barn, it will show the up and down strokes in your painting. And it'll be like It's actually would make it look more realistic. Okay, I'm going to switch brushes. I'm going to switch over to my liner brush and fix this line because I don't like that. And I'm going to move my painting. Don't be afraid to move it just because I don't want to stick my hand in wet paint. So I'm gonna come over here and just fix this. Give that a little more, a little more prominent. Okay, Now what we're gonna do is add in our green roofs. We're gonna take our dark green. I'm using a color called thicket. Oh goodness. Open. You don't need much again. And I'm just going to load up my liner brush is clean. And I'm just going to follow the roof line all the way down to this little kick out. I don't know what that's called. I'm actually going to turn my painting upside down. Start down here. So you're just going to follow your roof line. Going slightly above it. Keeping your sharp roof corner right here. Here we go. Alright. Now we're done with our barn. Well, the first step of our brain. All right, so let's let that dry and we'll move on to our trees. I'm just going to put in some dead grass whisper was be grasped here on the barn. I'm just taking my liner brush and dragging color upwards. Getting less and less as I get towards the center. Just want it on the corner. Alright, and I think that'll do this. Just some fun little entertainment for you here. We'll call it a, an accidental blooper. Maybe. As you can see, it's all in time-lapse and that was done. I guess my camera accidentally recorded this whole, entire section of this painting and time-lapse, and I couldn't undo it, so I had to repaint the painting and record it with a different camera and to ensure that didn't happen again. And so that was the barn painting that I just finished with you. This was the original one section that I do believe was kept in time-lapse was the painting of the fence. So go ahead and paint your fence. I just did super easy black stripes using my smart 1 eighth inch angled brush. Again, it's super easy. There's just for horizontal black stripes and then the posts that go vertical down into the grass. So it's super simple. And I have confidence that you can do this again on your own. I know you can do it. Then of course we just need to let the painting dry so that we can move on to our trees. 7. Painting the tree trunks: Next step we're going to do is we're going to paint a series of tall, thin trees right here. So we're gonna get our burnt umber or dark brown or a chocolate sprinkle or whatever color it is that you might be using. We're going to take our six inch round brush and I put my hand here so it doesn't drip water. I'm going to take off some of that extra water. And I'm just gonna go straight into the brown. And trees are one of my favorite things to paint because you don't have to have a steady hand. You don't even have to make a straight line. In fact, the, the more organic and cricket and gnarled it is the better. So we're gonna start with this tree here in the corner, and we're just going to press firmly with our brush so that it spreads out a little bit. And we're just kinda paint tree. And as it gets appear, I'm letting my brush, picking it up a little bit to get a thinner line. And then as we come up further here, I'm going to pick it up even further and make it a really crooked line. Then we can branch off that way. Even branch off from here. And then I know that looks terrible right now, but you can just come in and just add more as you need to. Then of course some of them are gonna go this way too. Okay? Okay, So that'll be good for our first one. And for our second one. Let's go in and just start right here. And don't be afraid to overlap your tree branches because they, they do just like tangled little webs. They do overlap quite a bit. A little water to my brush and put it in my brown paint just because I feel like it's getting kind of tacky. One thing I do want to mention right here is you'll notice I just came in from the outside of the trunk and I painted toward the trunk. Sometimes that can help make your tree look a little more organic. If your branches start to look a little repeating or like you're kinda doing them all the same way. If you change the direction in which you're painting, you can even try turning your painting upside down because you don't want them all to be matching, matching. You want them to be kind of chaotic. And just, it'll just help it look a lot more organic that way. So if you noticed that happening in your painting, there's a few tricks that you can do to help that. If you are having trouble with these thin lines, you can move over to your liner brush. If you want to move over and make these branches a little. If you're having trouble getting the thin lines from this big thick brush, feel free to move to the liner brush that can sometimes help. Okay, so I'm gonna put just a little dead branch right up in there. And I'll probably put another one right over that way too. Alright, so let's see, my original painting. I had four trees. This one, I might only need to have room for three. Let's put one. Make this one a little straighter than the other two. See, I don't like that, but I'm not going to worry about it because I know that my leaves that were the flat yeah, the leaves that we're going to put on here, I'm going to cover most of that, so I'm not going to worry too much about it. You don't want to put too many branches because you are going to see them in the final. You'll see them through the leaves a little bit. And if you put too many, it's just going to look unnatural. So I'm going to stop right there. I'm going to put another little branch, dead trunk thing right here. Trunk a little thicker. I think those little bit more natural. Okay. So we'll do that and you know, what I'm gonna do next is I'm going to put a little bit more white on my palette because it'll dry now. I'm just going to take a little bit of this. I'm going to use the same brush. I just put it in the water, but that's okay. I'm going to use this to make some highlight colors. We want to highlight these trunks before we cover them up in leaves. It's just gonna take a very small amount of paint. And just click on some click. Just said click. Give some areas of highlights to your trees that you don't have to go all the way down. You can make some breaks in it. Put some light on the tops of these little leaves out here or stems out here. Just highlight some areas you don't have to do it. You don't want to do dashes because that's not know wouldn't look normal. But you don't have to do the whole entire thing either. So you can see that just by doing this, your tree just kinda starts to come to life. That's what's great about trees, is you can have shaky hands, which I do most of the time. It doesn't matter. There's not there's no such thing as a straight line on any tree I've ever seen. So just go with it. Alright, so that's good enough. I'm happy with that. Most of it's gonna be covered in leaves anyway, so I don't have to worry so much about it. 8. Painting the details on the barn: Alright, the next thing we need to do before we put the leaves on is put some texture on our barn. So let's do that actually first, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put in some little grass for some, some variations in the grass right here. And just to cover these, you probably will barely even see them. But it just gives it a little, a little detail. Okay? Then you can just do some random ones out in the middle so that it doesn't look like it's all just one thing. And another thing that you can do while we have this brown here, is, let's put some grass on the edge of the barn. Now remember this is dead grass because it's fall. You're just wanting to put some just something they're probably will end up covering that with some red bushes, but at least there's something there in the background. That's about it. Alright, so now we're going to put some texture on our barn. Okay? So I'm going to put a little bit more white on my palette. Oh, no, I'm going to use the gray. I'm going to use this timeless grade. Because I think white would lighten my black just too much. So I'm going to take my half inch round brush. I want a black, but I want just a tiny bit lighter than this black. So we're going to take a bunch of black and we're going to come a leader, the gray, and just start adding in a little bit at a time. We want to really, really dark gray because you can always lighten it, but it's a lot harder to make it darker. So let's start with that and see how it goes. Now. You'll see I have a lot of paint on my brush. So what I'm gonna do is take this color and just white most of that paint off. And I'm gonna come over here and start making vertical wood grain lines in my barn. Now, I'm noticing that that's not enough of a difference, so I'm going to add a little bit more gray so that it's a little more visible. We don't have to do the whole bar in this color or this pattern. But you definitely want to have some areas where you can see some wood green are some things, something that will make it with green. And you'll notice too that I'm not going all the way up to the roof line because I do want some shadowed areas, so you're going to leave this area dark. So watch. I'm just going to start down here and that's much better and see how that is a stripy look. Once I come up to the roof, I'm just going to let go and see if you can see it. My dark paint is still there. I don't have to go back in with the shadow color. So this is a dry brush technique. Okay, cool. Okay. We can do the whole barn and we'll go in and put on our windows in our door a little bit later. One thing I'm noticing is I'm getting blobs of where I stopped. I don't really want that. So what I'll probably have to do is just go back in my pure black and just mute those so they're not noticeable. Alright, so what I'll do is I'll go in now with that black and I'm dabbing off the excess paint and I'm just going to come in and just make those spots the blogged out of my brush. I'm just going to mute those other and less visible and it'll just look like a fade. So I had very little paint on my brush and I'm just fading in that shadow back in there that I took away accidentally. You can see that. Okay, so next we're gonna put in our Windows. I'm gonna put in this window up here. You want to go in with your pure black and just make a square. You're going to decide how big you want it and just make a square, leave some room for shutters if you want shutters. And I'm using the edges of my brush to make clean lines. Okay. That's good. I can always go in there and make that darker when I need to. Now I'm gonna go in with the same black and make my door. So my window is gonna be a little the window in the door or the same height because it's on the first level. So I'm gonna come over here and make my door about that tall. I'm going to start here and just decide if I want it to be bigger than this window or more narrow than this window, might need more black paint. I'm gonna go a little, a little bigger, a little wider than that window of time, just to make it a little different. Barn doors have to be big, I guess, to let tractors and I need a little more black paint to clean up that line. Want this to be pretty solid black. Okay. I'm gonna go back into this gray color. And I'm going to make a lighter gray than the graded before. Alright? So we're just gonna go all in and make a gray that's lighter than the gray was before. And if I have to, I can even come in and add a little bit of white. Just because I'm out of green, I'm lazy. Alright, so what we're gonna do with this is very simply, we're going to, I'm going to add a little bit of water, then. We're just going to make the shutters for our door in the window. And the window. Actually. Let's just make these shutters real quick. I'm just going to take one brush stroke to make my shutter door, my window frame, I guess I should say. Then I'm just going to take my brush and just make a frame for the window. And then again on this side. Well done. Then I'm gonna do the same thing for the door, a septum to make my yeah, I'm gonna do the same thing for the door. We're gonna go across. You don't have to do the bottom of the door because the door is obviously open. Okay, and now we're gonna do this little window right here. Just decide how big you want it. And I think that is good enough for me. I'm going to add a tiny bit more gray. To that color. So you can see how blobby that is. I'm not going to use this brush again. I'm going to put it back in my water and I get my liner brush. And I twist it to make it a nice fine point. And then I'm going to come in here and just give it some texture. Put a little bit of wood grain in my doors here. Not much. I mean, there's not much that you need. We were adding in our textures into the wood here. Now what I did for this one as I just gave it a light frame. Alright. Now, the next thing I'm gonna do, You can choose to leave off or you can go ahead and do. I'm going to add in that green color that I saw growing on these barns. I think it was kinda like moss maybe. I'm not sure. But it was really dark green and there was just a little bit of it. So I'm just going to add some green and black together to get a super dark green. And I'm going to do the same thing. I'm just going to wipe most of it off with my brush. And then I'm gonna come in here and just do some areas of green. And if it's not a green enough, I can go in and lighten it up. Most of it was down on the edges, on the corners from the ground up. So I can't really see that very well. So I'm going to add a little more green, make that a little brighter. And I am still not seeing that very well. So I'm going to add a little bit of white, just a tiny bit. So I've got this gray green color that I actually really love. Take most of that off my brush. Here we go. Just a little dry brush strokes. See how it's like just whispers of color like feathered on there. It's just barely there. If you go a little overboard and you feel like, oh gosh, I've just messed it up. You can just go back over it with the black, mute it down just to touch. Alright, so I'm going to leave that alone. I like that just the way it is. Okay. 9. Painting the leaves and flowers: Now we can do the fun part. The leaves. These trees. For these trees, I started with a, the darker of the yellows because as you get deeper into the tree, the yellows get darker. So we're going to start with our darkest color, which is King's gold. We're gonna take our angle brush that we used before. Make sure it's nice and clean. You don't want any of that blue or brown on there. So we're just gonna go straight into the yellow. We're not going to add any white or anything right now straight to the yellow and make sure all of this is dry and it is. So we're just gonna do this technique watch. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go this way and that way, this way, and that way, and this way and that way and this way and that way, you see how you're just going different directions. You're not really covering. You're not putting leaves on this branch and leaves on this branch and then leaves on this branch. You're just giving some background color to all areas of the tree area. You're going to overlap some branches. I don't know why, but if I work in odd numbers, things look much better. So I'll do 3123. If I tried to do four, then it starts to look like dice. And it doesn't look symmetrical. It looks too symmetrical is what I'm trying to say. So maybe that's a tip that would help you to I really don't like this branch at all, so I'm going to cover it as much as I can. Go all the way out here. And don't worry, we're gonna do lots of different layers. But what you don't want to do is hit this barn yet. We'll do that with some different colors. You just kinda want to cover a lot of the blue areas with this base yellow color. And you don't have to do every branch. There can be some branches that don't have yellow on them like I'm not going to come this far down. Those will be fine without the yellow. What I am going to do though, is put some floating out here in this brown area and even against the black on the ground. Not a lot just yet. And this color, because this is just the base color, we're going to get real heavy with it, with a lighter yellows. You want to just make some small little dots in here. There are some small dark yellows. That would be fine. Okay. So I just put my brush in the water and I shouldn't have just rinse it out nice and clean. Alright, so we're done with the gold. Let's do some golden yellow. This is just slightly lighter. You can see the difference just looks more like mustard. And that's just a brighter yellow. We're going to do the same thing. We're just gonna go straight into this golden yellow and we're gonna do the same thing. See how the difference. And you're just gonna make different swatches of color and there's quite a bit of paint on my brush. I'm not, I'm not making small little dabs of paint here. These are quite defined. You don't really have to wait for this to dry, for the bottom layers to dry. It's okay if they marble each other and get mixed in because there's a thousand different shades of yellow on the trees and the fall. So it doesn't matter if they mix. And lots of times trees themselves are, the leaves themselves are all different colors. Now here's where you can start to kinda go in and put leaves falling on the the barn. You just don't want to have any like really huge ones. Just here and there. In my painting, I'm going to come, my leaves are going to float this way for falling this way. And I've noticed I didn't put any gold or very bright yellow over here. So we'll do that. I think for now we're good there. So now I'm going to bring my bright yellow, pale daffodil color and I'm gonna do the same thing, but I'm gonna get my little angle brush again, the small one, this one. And we're going to just dip it right into that bright yellow color. You see the differences. There's a dark yellow and medium yellow, light yellow. So we're gonna go in with a light yellow and we're going to do the same thing, but we're just going to make smaller leave patterns. And maybe more frequent. Just all over the tree. In the sky and on the barn. Want to do too many. Less is definitely more here. But make sure you're going in all different directions. You can go pretty crazy up in the tree if you want to. So just going back and forth using quite a bit of paint on your brush. And we're also going to add a tiny bit of white to this bright yellow to make it even brighter. Okay, So I'm going to add a little bit of white to this little section, a yellow. You don't need a lot here. We're just wanting a really pale yellow. And we're just gonna do that again. We don't want it to look white, you still want it to be yellow. And you're probably not going to put very many of these. Definitely want to be sparing with the bright, bright yellow. Go off your page. If you feel like you're painting is looking a little framed. Sometimes that happens. I'm not gonna put any more on my barn. I don't want him to be that covered. So definitely just pause and look at your painting and think, do I need to add more or is what I have good? Because you, there is such thing. There is such thing as doing too much for my painting. I feel like I'm right at that point where I just need to stop. Okay. Now, I'm going to work on these bright red little flowers that I have here. I'm going to use the same small little angled brush. And I'm just going to decide where I want these and how tall I want them. I think I do want them kinda just poking their heads at a little over these corner of the barn. That's way too much water. That's okay. It'll dry. So I'm just making these little binds. They don't have to connect necessarily. I think I'll put some right here, but not that many. So now we're almost done. You guys, I'm gonna go in with a berry wine or the mulberry. Some, some brands is very wine. It's just a dark maroon color. Plum. With the same little brush. I'm gonna come in and just, we're going to just put some polka dots. Not polka dots, but just dots of color. You want to cover the, the stems. Stems are just there so that it connects it to the ground. If you don't put in the stems and it just makes it look like you have flowers floating in a field and it doesn't make sense to your eyes. You want it to resemble actual plants to give the impression that there's plants there. Right now, I know it doesn't look like much. We'll see what I mean by the grass and the background being covered mostly. Okay. We'll come over here and do it. Give you some color. Notice I'm going right over my trees, my tree trunks. Okay. Now we're going to go into the red, the bright red. And we'll do the same thing. But focusing more on the tops of these little flowers. So basically what you're doing is with this dark mulberry color is you're putting in the shadow layer. And now you're going to put in the vibrant layer. And there's just a tiny bit less of it. It gives it depth and makes it look like there are flowers behind the flowers. Now what I'm gonna do here is totally optional. I'm just going to mix a little bit of these two colors together to get a whole new color in there. Bright purple. Purple is a great fall color. You can add some of that on here. It's like a vibrant purple. I think it kind of mutes down a little bit that red too. Okay, now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a little bit of this white. I have a tiny bit of white here. I'm just going to add this right here. And then we're just going to make a highlight color and you want even less of the highlight color. You're going to stick to the very tops. If you feel like there needs to be a few anchoring it down. Alright, that you guys is the painting for all done. I think it looks fantastic. I love the vibrant colors and I love the fall. Look to it. And look how different they turn out. And this is the first one I did as my test painting. And this is the second one. My trees look completely different. I love that. Same person can paint the same painting and still get a completely different look. Alright, so that's the painting and we're just gonna let this dry. And I would love to see your paintings in the Facebook page, so don't be afraid to share. No one's going to criticize you. It's all about encouragement and growing and getting better and better. So I'll see you in there. Thanks guys.