Paint a Tropical Beach Scene with Acrylic Paints

1. Introduction : Hello and welcome to the class painting a tropical beach scene with acrylic paints. In this class, I will teach you everything step-by-step, from clouds, tropical water, sand, and palm trees. When you're finished with the class, you'll be able to pay your very own tropical beach scene. 2. Supplies: The supplies I will be using for this class include a blank, prejudice owed Canvas. I am using an eight by ten size. You will also need acrylic paints. I use Liquitex basics bread. I would tell you which colors I use as I am using them in this class. You will also need several sizes of flat brushes, several sizes of detail brushes, and around rash. Will also need a cup of water and some paper towels. So grab your supplies and let's get started. 3. Sky: The first step to painting the sky is to put down masking tape where the ocean and sky are going to meet. Make sure it's straight. And then press down to make sure that no paint is going to leak in between the cracks there so it keeps a straight line. This is completely optional. This is just a personal preference. I like crisp fresh line where the ocean is going to meet this guy, but you don't have to do it. In fact, if you do want to do it, this is just put the masking tape across the campus. Let's mix the paint. For this guy. I'm going to use cobalt blue hue. Put some of that down on our Padlet and mix it with a very tiny amount of titanium white. It actually first I'm going to use some cobalt blue straight out of the tube for the very, very top. Before I started adding a lighter shade. So let's, let's put a little bit of that cobalt blue hue. The top. Personal preference. Again, if you have a canvas like this painting, the edges are not. I like to paint the edges. You don't have to. I'm just using our standard, just a flat brush to do this. I think fancy. Now let's mix the white, the cobalt blue. Well, start laying that down. But first we're going to get most of that paint on our brush before we start blending upward. Once the paint is mostly off of that brush, blending upward. You do this when you still have a lot of paint on your brush, it will completely get rid of that first layer that we just painted, which was the street cobalt blue color. But if it's pretty dry, the brush is pretty dry. So we want to dry brush up into the darker blue like that. Now, we're going to add some more white to the palette and mix that color you had before. And now you have a lighter shade of blue. And that is going to go with the very bottom of the horizon here, where this guy is going to meet the ocean, usually in nature, that's lighter. We're going to emulate that. Make the bottom here where the ocean touches. And even lighter variation of the blue we just mixed. Again. We're going to get that off the brush until it's pretty dry and we're going to brand new truck crash. That is, it. Makes sure you fill in any blank spots that you have on the cameras. I had somebody that is it for this guy. 4. Clouds: Now that is dry. For the next step, we're going to paint in the nice, fluffy tropical clouds. Just another small hand devote acrylics for the clouds. I'm going to use a round brush. And I had previously used this, but I washed it out very good, but it was kind of steps. So I just I just put it in water and then dab off the excess water and then that makes, that makes it much more pliable and supple. Which that's what we're gonna watch. What aware, painting the clouds. I am going to use white. And I had some leftover from when I was mixing the paint before. I'm going to use that. And it has a little blue tinge to it, but that's okay because they're glad they're not pure, pure white. But we can go in and highlight later. But we're just going to get the basic shape of the clouds that we want right now with the round brush. Just go in and start making fluffy cloud shapes. Now, trumpet, tropical clouds are usually flat at the bottom. We're going to emulate that, but let's the top part. Again, I paint on the sides. That's like I said, a personal preference, you don't have to. I liked to. The bottom of this, tropical clouds is going to be kind of wispy. We just use the brush. I am going to put another small one, maybe right here. If you want to look at reference photos on Google to get an idea of how tropical clouds look. That's always a good idea. I just wing it like the bottom of that one. Then we are also towards the horizon. Where are these guy beats the ocean? Going to add a street. Like it gives the illusion of wispy clouds like off at a distance. Just keep blending that white. I'm okay with that. And now I'm going to wash out this brush and I'm going to get a smaller brush and I'm going to get pure titanium white. That gave that also a little bit of time to dry. And I do have a very, very tiny detail brush. And so I was able to look on my palette and get that pure titanium white offer there. Now I'm going to use this small detail brush. Go back. Put some highlights on the tops of the clouds, where the sun would kind of blended down. You can also create inside of these shapes that you've created. Then you can also add more of a rounded cloud shapes. Give it dimension. I used to struggle with clouds at first with acrylics, but after a while I just kind of relaxed and just not put too much thought into it and just kind of just go with the flow. I guess. That seemed to work out better for me after that and not put so much emphasis on thinking they have to be perfect. Just kind of let them naturally come out. As I'm painting them. Again. Use the pure titanium white to add more of those cloud shapes over that really light blue that we had put down earlier. You can also use bit of water and dab it off. That can help you blend. Also. If it seems like it's getting too thick, the paint on the canvas doesn't want to spread. That's how I do that. And honestly I'm going to leave it like that because like I said, I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to make clouds perfect because clouds aren't perfect. And also we're going to have palm trees and ocean and plenty of other things that our eyes are going to be looking at. And the clouds are not the main focus. So keep them simple. Keep them just flowing. And they have some tropical class. 5. Ocean: The next step is going to be the ocean. So now that we have this part dry, we can very gently remove the masking tape. And that gives us our beautiful crisp line between where the ocean and this guy is going to be. I am going to now use a pencil. And I am going to draw the line where the shoreline is going to be now you don't want to make like a straight shoreline. I try to make Let's see, Let's get this started over here. I tried to make organic, wavy type of shoreline that helps emulate movement. Like the waves are coming in. That just gives us an idea for the ocean color. Tropical ocean. I still have some blues on my palette. Let's grab some bright aqua green. Let's try that first and see if it makes a nice tropical ocean color. Let's see if we need to add anything else. Let's see, I'm going to use probably this smaller brush. I'm going to mix us up some nice tropical green ocean. Yes, yes, yes. Turquoise. We start with our dark first because at the horizon, as always, the darkest shade of ocean. We're gonna follow along a crisp line. Putting this darker aqua, turquoise ocean beautiful color down here. Again, the edges, you're going to do that. Let me see that. Now that you have that lines marked off, we can use the flat brush paint. Now to the paint that I already have on the palette, we'll start adding white, getting lighter and lighter, blending the color that we just laid there. You see I'm not blending up there yet because my brush is still pretty loaded with paint. And if I start going up into the dark color that we just put down, what kind of blend away that dark. And we don't really want that. We want to keep that dark up there. So I used the downward motion, kind of get the paint that's loaded on their off the brush first. Now, you can see not much paint on the brush. Now we can go back up and blend the light and the dark. And it won't blend away the dark color completely. I think I'm going to take some of that dark color, fill in a little bit there with a brush, kind of picked some up. Now, I still have some white right here. So we're going to make an even. It's lighter, really light. That's where it's going to be closest to the shore. Really light. Aqua. Aqua green, blue will go to where pencil lines are. Where the ocean meets the sand. Again, this doesn't have to be super perfect because we're going to be adding sand and we're going to be adding this ego, the waves. So don't stress too much about perfection right now. Can be loose at this point. Okay, so paying attention to the brushstrokes, you can see I started to move downward. Kind of want to go the direction that the waves would be coming in. This way. You can also add a little bit of water to the paint. Starts to feel too thick and Dr. rough. Like it's like it's not going smoothly onto the canvas. Add a tiny bit of water. It'll smooth write out too much water though, unless you're doing what's called a glaze and we're not doing that just yet. You need to fully cover the canvas with the paint. I'll explain the leaves later. But for right now, don't add too much water. Because we went to a nice plan. Sorry, we want a nice coat over this campus coat of paint. That color into the color violet. We're going to let that dry. The next part is to add the light like the ripple effect of the tropical oceans. So I'm going to get some titanium white. I'm going to mix that with the lightest color that we had over here. To make a really, really, really light, light blue. We don't want pure white because honestly nothing in nature is really, really pure white. So we'll make it like an off aqua colored off white aqua color like that. And start going in there with squiggly line strokes. And you can go back and forth with your brush size with depending on which one has the most paint on it. Or if you want to blend, you can use the other side. I'm just going to very lightly add a line. And then I guess I explained it, kinda making a motion like this. Make a semicircle. You can do that both ways. So you have some going that way. And so I'm going that way. You can see how that creates tropical ocean effect. Again, going the direction that the wave would be moving. Which will be this way. You don't have to worry too much about detail on the sides, but we do want it to be congruent with what's going on on Canvas. So I do try to carry it over a little bit onto the edges. Now. We can take the tiny, tiny detail, brush a little bit of water, dab it off. Again, use some of that light, light, light aqua green that we just created. You don't want to overdo this too much. Just started to bring out a few of those wave highlights or another reflection. Whatever that would be called that makes, makes the squiggly lines probably the light reflection. Again, like I said, we don't want to overdo that, but we do want to add a few do straight lines, the semi-circles, complete circles of variety, variety of different shapes. Sparingly. Even out here further. Because usually there's not just one wave. There could be several out there. So maybe we can try to make this color and detail brush that's almost at the shoreline but hasn't quite made it yet. Over. Don't do not overdo the detail. Brush to bright lights on there and starts to look a little hokey. You just kind of keep it congruent like that where you got the nice shades of the darker, the lighter than the lightest. Alright, Next we will work on the sand. 6. Beach Sand: The sand, I'm going to use unbelief, titanium and burnt umber. We'll start mixing. Find a clean place on my palette over here. Start mixing mostly bleached titanium. Little bit of the burnt umber. We don't want it too dark, so let's, let's see how this goes. My bath, just our first layer of the sand. There's going to be more so you don't want it too dark and you don't want it to say just just want an in-between. We're part, start putting that color onto the canvas and nice sandy layer here. On the edges. Again, on the shoreline. We don't have to be super perfect, but we can start getting a better idea of how that line is going to look. Now we have a good foundation for the sand area. Now, this is where it gets into a technique called glazing that I had mentioned earlier. We're going to utilize that right now. For that. I'm going to use a round brush. What we're going to use it for than the basic idea is you use a lot of water and you mix it with the paint color that you want and you're going to just lightly glaze over the previous dry layer. So it's going to sit well, you'll see because in an ocean situation like we have here, where the sand and the water meet, there's going to be a little bit of sand color because that water is gonna be so clear in real life, you know that there's going to be some sand colored in the water. But if we put down a straight color, it's not going to look very realistic. So the glazing is the answer. So you get a lot of water on your brush, put down the canvas, pick up a little bit of paint. You can see how watery that is. Then you started going over the blue color. And you can see that it adds the blue I mean, I'm sorry. That's that's the brown sandy color. Without over saturating a doughnut still leaves the blue underneath. It gives the illusion that the sand is underneath the water. If you added too much, it's very easy to blend out. And also even if you added too much water and get a paper towel and pick that up off the canvas. You can see that I picked some of this sand color up, but that's okay. Once it dries, we can add there's gonna be waves there anyway, and darker sand color. So it's not gonna in a matter of water even more so you could see how it dissipates. Okay, so we're going to leave it like that for now and let some of this dry out before we start putting on the next layer of the sand, this is completely dry. We can continue building up the texture of the sand. For that, I'm going to use burnt umber and bleached titanium mix, some of that together. And we want this pretty dark because this is going to be the sand where the water actually comes and touches the sand. That doesn't look dark enough. Add more burnt umber. We get the shade. That looks like it's gonna be dark enough. Yes, that should be good. We'll start putting this along the shoreline like this. I'm using this round brush for this, but you could use a flat brush also. Now we have the dark area and I'm going to add a little bit of water and rinse that brush out a bit because I'm going to blend it out like this. We don't want a sharp line and sand and water there. There would be no sharp line or that will blend it out. Don't get your brush too watery. Need to have some water on there to blend it out a bit like this. What you're going to use, a very, very small detail brush. We're going to just start stippling, dabbing the brush to make tiny, see if I can zoom in on that. Tiny dots. Going to help give the sand texture. Now you can't use the flicking method, which you use a fat brush, load up a flat brush, and load up the paint and then just bladder it on there. But personally, I don't like to do that at all. I don't like the mass, but that's just my personal preference. I'd, I'd rather have control of it and use this method, just stippling, adding tiny dots. And you can put some water on your brush gently. If it gets too dry. To make a variation of dot sizes, they won't all be the same size. So that gives it even more interesting texture. I am going to do this for this whole, entire area. And I will come back when that's finished. This is what it will look like after you have the darker other stuff bolt on to the next, we're going to add a little bit more of the bleached titanium. Going to make a lighter color. We're going to repeat the stippling process. The sand. We're not gonna go too far into this dark area because that's we could put a few here and there. But most of it is going to be in this area down here. So I'm going to do that with the light color. And I will show you what that looks like. When I'm finished. That's what it will look like after you add the lighter color sand. Now, notice that I didn't put it everywhere. I just picked some areas to add a little bit of those highlights. And also I found that the color that I mixed wasn't quite light enough. So I use just some of the pure unbelief titanium to make those highlights stand out even more sparingly. Here's what it looks like up to this point. Next, we will start working on the falling edge. 7. Foliage : The next thing that we're going to work on is the foliage that is down here in the corner at the base of the palm trees. Now there's going to be a few phases in this. So we're going to first start with a dark green, cobalt blue, cadmium yellow. We might need a little burndown word to make it a little darker. But let's start with the cobalt glue. We don't need a lot here because it's not a really big area. So what does put up it squirts each one of those. I am using a very small flat brush for this cat hair. I will mix those two together and see what kind of green we have so far. That's not bad. That's a pretty, pretty dark That's a pretty dark green. Let's mix just a tiny bit. Over here. It's pretty dark. So we'll take they're above the burnt umber and we'll take some of this green. Will darken that up a bit. Because like I said, this is, this is going to be the base layer and we're going to add brighter greens on top of that. Some of that will happen after we finish the palm tree. So this is just the first, the first step for the foliage. So we're just going to go in and start painting leaves that are coming out. Paint some other shapes. There will be other leaves. Like I said, don't stress too much about this because this is just the base layer. Just to get an idea of where this voltage is going to go. I paid on the sides and the bottom of the campus. Welcome back. Then leaves like grass growing from the base of the palm tree. I'm just going over the lines that I painted earlier to darken them up. Now, we have our foliage right here in the corner. We're going to let this dry completely. And then we will start adding some of the lighter green on top of this. All right, now that that isn't dry, we will use, I'm going to use a very small flat brush for this because we're going to start creating leaves and foliage with this lighter green color that we created earlier. Right here. I wet the brush a little to make it not so stiff and pick up some of the green paint. And you can start making leaf shapes. And also some of the thin grass shapes, like we did earlier. That beside the darker shades or have them on their own. Either way. You don't want to completely cover up the darker area because that's what's going to show through and that's what it's going to give it some depth. There. Could use, use at least three colors of green. We've got a darker green, a little bit lighter green. Now, I'm going to put some more yellow over here. Then we're going to make lighter yellowish green. Presumably went to let that dry a little bit. If not, it will blend in, but that's not so bad either. Now we have some more highlights here with the lighter green. I think that will do it for the foliage for right now. Because we have to put the palm trees and then we can add more foliage on top of that so that the palm tree trunks look like they're inside the following. So this will be like that. The background foliage. Once we put the palm trees in, we'll do foreground fall edge. Next we will do the waves because the palm trees are going to go on top of everything. So we want to have everything back here finished and then the palm trees can go over this area. So let's do the waves next. 8. Waves: The waves, I am going to use this extra super tiny detail brush. Very smart, very little bit. Titanium white. We really don't need a lot of this. We are just going to begin dotting the shoreline. Very small dots, the titanium white. And this is what emulates the C phone waves that get created. Just dot like that. You don't want like perfect dots. They could compress down with your brush. They don't have to be perfect. Circles like we did with the sand, even those aren't perfect circles. We don't need perfect circles, but we do want to just very small dots that represent this sea foam waves. I am going to continue. I will do this entire shoreline and I will come back and show you when I'm finished. I have finished dotting the shoreline with the white paint and this is what it looks like. Now I'm just going to continue kind of building on that where there would be maybe more sea foam hearing. They're in different places just so that it's not all one size all the way across the shoreline there. So what kind of dot sum to make different shapes with the sea foam hearing, they're just give it some more emotion. Sometimes the bubbles kind of stick in the sand like that. We just give the shoreline and little bit more character. And then now maybe we will see more pure white into some of these waves out here. That also gives it movement. Add another layer of great here. Just to give the illusion of these small gentle waves coming to shore. I don't want to overdo that, so I'm going to leave it like that. Next we will work on the palm trees. 9. Palm Tree Trunks: Now we're going to begin with the palm trees. I am going to mix some bleached titanium with burnt umber. Going to get a nice light brown. Make sure everything is dry on the canvas. And I'm going to make two palm trees. In this picture. You can make as many as you like, one or three or however many you would like. But I'm going to make two for demonstration purposes. So I am going to start in the college. I am just going to move upward into the ocean, into the sky and see where I want it to end right about there. And then I can go back and fill in nice stump base with this light brown. Now I'm going to add my second tree will be over here. Much straighter. I'm a little tall. Again, go back and fill in any gaps that may have been created to read this a nice solid color. We will let this dry and then we will make darker brown and start adding detail into the trunk. Now we're going to begin to add detail to the palm tree stumps. I'm going to hit the burnt umber. My very small detail brush. I will add little bit of this, light brown and some of the burnt umber mixed together. It's a nice variation of this, just a tad bit darker. Add some water anytime you feel the paint is getting getting too thick and that's spreading, you can dip your brush into the water and then add that to the paint and it sends it out of bed. We're just going to use the tiny detail brush. And you want to decide where the sun is going to be coming from. It's coming from this way. The darker areas would be on the right side. If the sun is up here coming this way, the darker areas are going to be on the left side. And that's what I am going to do here. I'm just going to start adding some palm tree looking texture onto the left side of the tree, get the right color. The darker. I'm just going down the edge and then carrying it across with a triangular shape. Just periodically, every now and again. Pull it over. Doesn't have to be exact. I mean, make as many of these as you want or as few as you want, but this is what creates stretch, creating that palm tree bark texture. I am going to go off camera. Use this technique to add the texture to this tree stump and to that tree stamp. And I'll see you back here. All right, now the first part of the palm tree stump texturing is complete. It will look like that. You just have some texturing going to look like the bark of the palm tree. Next we will use, we're gonna make a very dark color. So we use the burnt umber and just pull a tiny bit of that previous dark color and mix that just so that it's not pure out of the tube, burnt umber, that it's got a little bit of character to it, but it's going to be very dark. Then we can continue, continue making the texture on the palm trees. Using the dark. And just using what we've already painted as guides. Just start adding some of the dark color into there. You can add some on the left side completely and just carry it over into the actual trunk. Like almost just exactly like we did with the other color except with the darker color and more sparingly and you don't want to cover up the other brown color that we just put down. We went to let that comes through so that we can see color variations for the different shades of brown. Notice that I'm putting the darker brown under the lighter brown because again, that's where the shadows would would be produced. Underneath of the bark that's kind of peeling up. Would be darker under the bottom. I'm going to continue with that under for both of these stumps. And I'll show you what it's like when I'm benefit. This is what I have now with the first color of brown that we painted this dumps width and then the second color to add some detail and then the darker color to add even more detail. Now I am going to use the and bleached titanium. Just put a tiny dab of it straight. Then going to load my brush up with water and this will be more go wash will make the paint pretty thin with water. And with the tiny detail brush, just start adding. See that's not done enough. We want to predict. Just start adding some highlights. Every now and again. Very fan bleached titanium. The trick is you don't want it too thin and you don't want it too thick. It's kind of experimental to get that perfect consistency for a wash. You just have to play around with it to get the feel of it. Again, just sparingly adding some highlights in some details. They can be various shapes. They don't have to be lines. They can kind of be knots in the wood. Like that. Can be lines. Kind of rough. Highlight texture. I'm going to do that to both of the tree stumps and I'll show you what it looks like when I get back. 10. Palm Fronds: Now we're going to begin to work on the leaves of the palm tree. So the first step is to do the darker the details down in here. If they're coconut palms and then also the froms, they're going to be this dark brown that we created earlier. For the tree. We can, we can utilize that. I'm using this very small fan brush. And we can just start adding some shapes like this that represent like the dried leaves that are underneath palm trees. And then also kind of fill in because this is where the coconuts would be or this is where all of the dead fronds would kind of be stuck right in there. Now we're going to create the actual spine. The palm fronds that are going to get the green leaves. So we're going to use the dark color. And we're going to very carefully start placing where we want the leaves to be. This is going to be the spine of that frond. The leaves will come out from there. Decide how thick you're going to want your trees. What shape or direction, if there's any wind blowing or anything like that, you can decide that. I like to just meet very even nice. Make sure that there's no area that is not going to have any leaves you don't want like a bald spot. Start with the leaves will come over here over the stump or the trunk here. That should be fine for that one. And I will do the same for the other tree. First we will make some of the dead leaves. Coming down from here. The coconuts or other dead degree from the leaves would be accumulating here. Then again, we're going to decide where the leaves are going to be, the branch, branches from whatever they're called. And palm trees. Debt is the beginning of drawing the palm fronds. So next we will start adding the leaves. For the leaves, the first thing you want to do is determine which trees in the back and which is in the front. For me, this one is going to be in the back. So that is where I want to do the leaves first on, on that tree in the back. I'm going to use this green that we had from earlier. Should be fine. So little water if it got a little dry, not too much because we wanted this isn't a wash, this is going to need to be thick paint. Then I just start using the detailed brush. Start painting individual leaves onto this stem that we created earlier. And you want to be mindful of the size as it gets down towards the tip was the leaves would be smaller. Ones. Closer to the trunk can be longer. We're just going to go with one color of green for now. And we're gonna add and build up from here. Let's start, start with his medium shade of green. First. As you're doing this, you're gonna be like an addict going, Oh my gosh, what am I doing? This, this looks horrible. There's looks like a third graders doing it. That's okay. That's, that's perfectly normal. That happens. There's different stages of progression that you're painting is going to take. And unfortunately, one of those stages, it looks like a third grader. But don't worry, it won't for long. Just keep adding these beautiful leaves in here. Again, getting your paint consistency just right. If it's too thick, add a little water. You don't want it too thin. I am going to do that all the way around this tree. And also on this tree. Once this tree is finished with the basic foundation of leaves, I will also do it. This tree. I will come back when that is finished and show you what that looks like. I have added the green palm leaves with our first medium shade of green. And this is what it looks like. I know you might be thinking, Oh my gosh, this looks horrible, this looks terrible. Well, you're right. It does, but don't worry, it's not going to look terrible for alarm. We're gonna keep working on it. So don't don't be upset or frustrated at all. This is part of the process and that's one of the magical things to me is, is watching and watching things take shape that at first look kind of silly, and then then they start taking shape. The next thing that we'll work on is filling in these leaves with different shades of green. 11. More Fronds and Foliage Details: Now we're going to start adding the darker and lighter leaf colors, the palm trees. So I mixed up some cobalt blue and cadmium yellow light and got a nice green. But then I am going to use, I'm going to divide that in half because we're going to want to darker shade, the lighter shade. Since we already have our in-between green color. Now we're gonna do darker and lighter. That's a lot of black. Let's just get ivory black mixed in. On this side. For a darker green side. We're going to use a little titanium white, but let's get some of that off of there. First. I got a lighter green here, darker green, and then we still have some of that medium green if we need to work with it. That aside. Now I have a very, very long sand detail brush that I'm going to use. And I'm going to finish pretty much the, the tree that's in the back because I want those leaves to be in the background. And then once it dries, we'll be able to paint the leaves of this tree that's in the foreground and it will go over. So let's do that. Let's do the dark and light and finish everything on this tree in the background. So we'll just go ahead the darker shade and start creating some froms like we did with the other color. I'm just going to keep going around all of these in the background here, not this tree yet. We're just going to do this backward. So I am going to paint the darker leaves. I will show you what it looks like. When I'm finished. Just a quick tip. Anytime you start to notice that your brushes dragging, leaving spaces in the paint on your Canvas. There's like you can see through the paint onto the canvas. Just dip the brush in water, debit and mix that wet brush into the paint. You don't want to add too much water, it will be too watery. Just takes a little practice and experience. You'll be able to judge how much water to use and how much to dab off onto the paper towel, you'll get used to it. So again, not not not too watery, but you don't want it so thick that the paintbrush or just drags across the canvas. Because you want to be able to make very nice thin lines for the palm leaves like that. I will finish this and I'll be bad. All right. I have now the dark green in the back palm tree here. And I'm going to let that dry. In the meantime. Going to use this dark green also down here in the fall edge to remember we added in the background and then we added the palm tree. Not stamps what he gathered the trunk. Now we're going to use some of the paint here and paint foliage so that it's now going on top of the trunks. Paints a little thick, mix a little water, collides. Just add some small reads of seven quarters or call tropical grass. Since we do have this thin detailed brush, we can add some more over here. Just to add that right on top. For the light green, we're just going to do exactly like we did with the dark green that into our leaves. I like to use the light green a little more sparingly. It's just more like where the sun would hit the leaves. You don't want to do every single one like we did with the medium green and the dark green. So just very sparingly, some of that light green in there. Actually now I have some different color, medium green here, that I am going to add a little bit of fat in here too. Just to kind of fill in those. Give it some color variation. Alright, I am okay with that. I have going to let that dry completely. And we can then begin to do the same for the front tree. Now that that one is dry, I'm going to use the same technique to paint the darker leaves. The lighter leaves on this front tree. Same technique or just using the long thin detail brush and making long thin strokes for the leaves. Just make sure that your paint is a nice consistency, not too thin and not too thick. And you can do that. I dipping your question water. Either dabbing it on a paper towel if it's too wet or just adding that into the paint. Nice consistency. Glides. To create these thin palm fronds. I am going to do that with the dark and the light like we did on this one. And I'll show you what it looks like when I couldn't. Okay, so we have the darker green tree and now I am just going to go in with the lighter and add some of the highlights sparingly it onto this tree. We're going to use this light green now, also, the foliage. Down at the bottom. Just added a variety of a different leaf shapes and textures. Along with him. Grass. Here we have our final tropical beach scene with acrylic paints. 12. Assignment : Your assignment should you choose to accept it, is to create your very own tropical beach scene using acrylic paints. You can use the techniques that I taught you in the class. Make your very own paradise. Be sure to upload your project to the project section. I would love to see it. Thank you again for watching the class and as always, have fun.