Let's Draw Van Gogh's STARRY NIGHT PAINTING with Markers!

1. INTRODUCTION: Let's draw Van Gogh's Starry Night painting and markers with Nora Connelly. Hi, I'm nor Connolly. In this class, you will learn about Vincent van Gogh and his life. We will learn about post-impressionism and the painting we will cover, which is Van Gogh's Starry Night. We will sketch an outline in pencil and utilize alcohol markers to render in color starry night. One of Van Gogh's most famous paintings in six easy steps. The steps are one supplies we are using to print the painting. Three, sketch the landscape for different techniques. Five, render or draw out in markers, and six details. So come along and have some fun. 2. PROJECT: In this section, we're going to cover the projects. The project that you can do based on this class is from one of these two reference photos. On the right we have Van Gogh's Starry Night, and on the left we have Van Gogh's sunflowers. In this class. Mind you, we're going to cover Starry Night. But if you feel like drawing some flowers, There's also Van Gogh's yellow sunflowers. You can draw, paint, watercolor or marker, your own rendition of Starry Night or Van Gogh's sunflowers. Both Starry Night and the sunflower images are available as an attachment in this class is profiles section. I have also provided you with a sketch, outline for your starry night for this starry night class to help you get started, which we cover in this class, both in the sketching section and in the marker sex section. Finally, once you're done with your sketch and your marker drawing, or if you've used watercolor or paints, you can take your image and upload it to a site such as red bubble or society six. That's red bubble.com or society six.com. And then you can make a bag out of it. For instance, like I did here with my painting of Starry Night in acrylics. Now in this class we're going to move on and cover how to draw Starry Night. 3. SUPPLIES: Markers can be fun. There are different types of markers that we will be able to use in this class. For instance, these markers on this image show different types of nibs. There's a brush type marker on one end and a wedge on another. Or there are wide tip, median tip and fine tip nips. And there are also refills for certain types of markers, which we don't show here. But if you want to get those, you can. Some paper choices you can use are different types of paper, just from regular paper to watercolor paper to marker paper. And they all cost the difference amounts. And they all have different performance types. I recommend using marker paper. And finally, you will get better with practice and application of using your markers. Next, we will talk about starry nights marker colors. For the trees. In the image, you will use greens and browns for the hills. A light brown or dark brown or dark green, and a dark blue for the town. Recommended colors are yellows, light blues, such as a sky blue and cerulean blue and orange, red and a gray. And then for the skies, part of the image of a starry night, you can use different types of blues, from light blues to dark blues. For the stars, yellows in a variety of colors. Or if you only have one, just stick to yellow and possibly an orange to make the definition details. And finally, for the details of the overall piece, once we sketch the outline of Starry Night, we will utilize black to go over that, those outlines. And if you don't want to do that, that's fine too. This is starry night, the image. It can be found in the description section of the class, and I recommend you print it out so that you have a reference photo in front of you when you draw it on your own and follow with the class. 4. SKETCHING: Starry Night is a painting by Vincent van Gogh. In this painting, it shows a small town called San Remi, under a night sky of swirling stars and the moon. There's a large cypress tree, which I'm drawing now to the left of the painting. In this painting, paint is applied thickly. He painted it in an insane asylum in 18 89. In this sketch, I start out by drawing the cypress tree to give us a place to start from and a point of reference. Then I'm going to apply the background, rolling hills, that feature in the distance. Then I will move to painting, to drawing, sketching. Rather first, the actual town to the right. And above the mountains, I will move to the stars. Sketching is used to set in place things that will be helpful to help us apply the paint, or in our case, utilize our markers and have a place to place the colors on. When we render our colors. Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is a post impressionistic painting. Post impressionists push the boundaries further than the impressionists. The Impressionist movement is an area that is marked by Monet, Degas, and Renoir. Post-impressionism came after impressionism. The error for post-impressionism is 18 85. Up until 1910. What are some of the styles and characteristics of post-impressionism? There are light and shadows, colors in their art that they learned from the impressionists. But their goal was to add new ideas, to try new subjects and techniques, perspectives, shapes, and show their thoughts and emotions through their art. This is the new world of Modern Art opened up by the impressionism impressionists and taken a step further by the post impressionists. 5. MARKER RENDERING (DRAWING OUT): Now that we sketched out a quick freehand drawing, we're going to finish our work by rendering it in color with markers. Here we start out with the yellow marker and start out with the stars. How do you use your markers? It's important to familiarize yourself with the different nibs. Test the colors of your markers on a different paper first, to see what color you are using. Markers may bleed through certain papers. So put another loose sheet behind the one you're working on. You slow strokes like we do here. Short strokes in a circular motion for the stars. And then we move on to the house. Lights. Try to work from light to dark. Next we move on to the cypress tree. We're going to use an olive green. Another type of green, a light brown, and even some black at towards the end to fill it in. To finalize, once you've used your markers, you can end the drawing with colored pencils to enhance details like the stars. But here we're going to finish with our cypress tree. And then we're going to move on to filling out the background of the houses with a light green. We start with a lighter color and also on the rolling hills. The reason why we use a lighter color is when you add a darker color over it, the light colored pops through on the spaces that you don't leave too much with your strokes. Next, we're going to use the different thinner point, the fine point of the nib to draw out some of the hills as well. And we're gonna go over the rolling hills as well. Starry Night can be seen at the moment, which is the Museum of Modern Art here in New York City. Here on the cypress tree, as I mentioned, we're going to make short strokes in the downward motion. On the cypress tree in black. We're going to use some of the black also to outline some of the hills as well as the background mountains. We make an outline on the houses, the church and the other houses to the right of the painting. Van Gogh lived from 18 53 up until 18 90. He was Dutch. Yet afterwards he moved to France. He's considered one of the greatest post-impressionist artists of all time. He is striking colors, emphatic brushwork, which we are imitating here, and contoured forms. His work powerfully influence the current of expressionism in modern art. The houses can be outlined with the roof and the base of the house in black. Here we use black for the rolling hills as well in the background. So that they can stand out. If you need to refer to the painting which I have provided in the details of the class. Next we move on to the clouds, adding yellow for the background. Inch short brush strokes. As you can see here, I'm using a brush marker, which we have described previously. There are different types of markers, Starry Night details. These are the stars and you can see that the glow of the moon is also very apparent with the circular motion. Some facts then go discovered painting after many failed professions, such as art dealer and even preacher. Most of Van Gogh's 800 plus paintings were created in the last ten years of his life. He aimed to express his thoughts and emotions in his art. Hence, the emotion can be seen by the short brush strokes and the swirling motion of the clouds and the stars. He worked tirelessly day and night with little money. Van Gogh's paintings are filled with color and swirling images portraying an intensity of feelings. Starry Night facts. Then go painted Starry Night in Saint-Remy, France in June of 18 89, well played with depression and at St. Paul's asylum in southern France. And yes, he did cut off his ear, as you will see in one of his paintings later on in this class. He did do that after an argument with Paul Gauguin. Were, they were trying to build an artist's commune in the countryside of our old friends. Yet he committed himself to an asylum afterwards as he could barely care for himself. Next, we use some dark green marker on the rolling hills and also on the background of the, of the mountains. We try and fill in as many of the brush strokes. Here we see Theo, Vincent Van Gogh's brother, who he was very close to. Next, we use some light blue or Cerulean blue in the sky. And we go over the yellow brushstrokes with blue so that we fill in some of the blank whitespaces. As you can see, it's starting to come together. The painting, this image is a very famous image. What is the meaning of it? The meaning of Starry Night can be derived from the large cypress tree. It's a symbol of graveyards, morning and death. The stars on the other hand, are symbols of dreaming heaven and yet also death. We keep filling out the sky with the light blue following the short strokes. And in the motion of a circular motion, following the clouds in yellow and outlining the stars a little bit as well. To give some definition to the painting. I will also use some light blue on the mountains to give some context and some depth to the painting. Mountains. Finally, I utilize a dark blue on the background of the mountains. And going over the light blue that I used previously to fill out some of the whitespace. Short brushstrokes are again used. You can use as many different colors in blue as you have, maybe two or three, so that it can give some different contrast to the color scheme. Starry Night was painted from memory and not outdoors, as was Van Gogh's preference. This might explain why this painting in particular so powerful. It's so much more powerful than some of his other works in this time period. I go over again with a different type of blue with a nib that has a brush marker. This will give this will give a little bit of depth. Finally, I choose to use some light-blue on their rooftops of the houses. But I'm going to go over them with a gray as well. At some point. This video was sped up so that you too could see what was going on. I pick up an orange marker in order to define the stars with a little bit of strokes, circular motion strokes, and make the points in the center of the star where it's hotter. And then one house has a red rooftop, like I'm Van Gogh's painting. Finally, I use the dark blue and even darker blue on the sky. And some of the outlines of the dark of the lighter blue. And on some of the lighter blue outlines. I also trying to find the clouds in a circular motion. It is noted that upon completion, then go deem the painting to be a failure. He wrote to his brother Theo. He never expected it to become famous like it is today. He also wrote to his friend Emile Bernard, where he called the painting of failure, believing that he had made a mistake in going too far astray from nature into abstraction. Although Vincent van Gogh wasn't famous during his lifetime. Today he is hailed as one of the most greatest artists of post-impressionism, with over 800 plus surviving oil paintings and over 1,000 watercolors and sketches. As you can see here on the left is a self portrait of Van Gogh and another self portrait of Van Gogh with his ear cutoff. Here I use a grade blue for some of the rolling hills to give a darkness so that they are pushed more towards the back. But I don't want them to be darker than the cypress tree, which I used black on so that the Cypress Street comes forward. Then I use a light, a darker gray on the rooftop houses and I put some lines on so that they look like thatched houses because it's a small town and I use another gray for the rest of the houses. If you choose to use markers or watercolors, or even painted with acrylics. This is the best way to do it and make yourself an outline. And then you short strokes, even with pink brushes and follow the outline of the painting. We're almost done here. Just a few more lines on the mountains. And we should have a finalized complete version. This painting. We're also going to add a little few touch ups on the sky. To get rid of some of the whitespaces. You don't have to get rid of all of the whitespaces. I use a gold on the moon because I want it to stand out on some of the stars as well. This is my interpretation of starry night. If you choose to make Starry Night and other colors, you're welcome to do so. But here I tried to follow Van Gogh's inspiration and make it my own. As you should do the same. Make it your own. Please feel free to attach some of your paintings to this, to the description down below.