Paint Magical Forests in Acrylic

1. MAGICAL FORESTS - introduction: Hi, unclear, Welcome to my class. In this class I'm gonna be teaching you how to create whimsical magical forest paintings in acrylic. And I'm really looking forward to showing you some cool techniques. In this class. I'm gonna be teaching you how to create intuitive, magical, drippy pattern, the forests. These are all made from imagination, and I really want you to push yourselves and two, let go of perfection. It's really important to be creative and enjoy the process. This is not about perfection, it's not about replicating exactly what I have created. I want to teach you steps and the process that you can use yourself to create your own style of whimsical forests paintings. So it's really important to remember that the way that these paintings are made and the whole intention behind these paintings is to work with your own creativity and your own creative intuition. And have fun of playing with layers of paint and seeing what happens when you add different textures on top of each other. Different transparency with paint on top of each other, patterns, repetition and building up lots and lots of layers, taking away layers again with new, new paint layers and really exploring the joy of painting, because that's what the most important part of this process is. It should be joyful, it should not be stressful. So the most important thing to remember is that you don't have to copy exactly what I'm doing. In fact, the list you copy exactly what I'm doing. The happier you will be and the more involved in the process you'll be able to get. I'm going to show you the techniques that you need to use. And you can then recreate those in your own way and layout in your own way. This way of painting, it's very random and it has a lot to do with chance, especially when we're using water and letting it drip. And you're adding layers of paint on top of layers of paint. Strange things can happen and you can't always predict those things. Which means that it's going to be very difficult for you to recreate what I've created. Exactly. And that's good because that's not the point. I don't want you to paint this painting. I want you to create your own painting. And I want you to learn the steps and the freedom and the process so that you can enjoy making your own forests. 2. MAGICAL FORESTS - paint talk: For the first project, we're going to be working and getting familiar with transparencies of paint. Because we're working in a lot of layers with this style of painting. And if you don't understand the difference between a transparent color and an opaque color, you might be a little bit frustrated with the results of your layering. So transparent and opaque refers to how much can be seen through the paint. Obviously a transparent paint, you're going to see what is underneath. So it has pigment in the color, but the color is transparent. So if you're layering on top of other things, you will see through the layers. While an opaque paint, we'll have a much better coverage and you won't necessarily see the layers underneath. So the way that you can tell a transparent paint from a opaque paint is usually on the label of the paint. So I've got two different brands of paint TO most good-quality professional brands of paint. Will you tell you the transparency? So e.g. on Matisse, you'll see on the front, here's all the information about this particular paint. This square, this black square that you can see here. This tells me that this paint is opaque. This is another Matisse paint. You can say the information down here. And you'll notice that this square is half black and half not filled in. This is telling me that this is a semi-transparent paint. Other brands will have sometimes the information on the back, sometimes on the front. This was a Liquitex heavy body paint. And you can see here that on the back of this paint, It's telling me this box is completely clear. This means that this paint is transparent. Sorry, usually that will indicate on the labels whether it's opaque or semi-opaque or transparent. So this is another liquid texts in this brand are on this particular one. It's actually showing you on the front. See this series for it, this is opaque. But usually see it says on the back as well. It'll be somewhere written on the label. It's always gonna be written on the label. I'm even larger jars like this one. It's written here on the label. It depends on the brand of paint where it is written, but you should always be able to find whether it's transparent parent or a pill that you should always be able to find information about whether it's transparent or opaque or semi-transparent. I'll get a piece of paper and I'll show you the difference between these colors. So the opacity, the opacity is referring to the color straight out of the tube without any dilution or water added. So I've got three different paints here. I've got a fully opaque, I fully transparent and a semi-opaque. And so I'm going to show you what happens when I paste them all over this line of indigo. So the fully opaque paint straight out of the tube and with no dilution should cover. More paint, should cover over this indigo. And see how you can't see any of the indigo through that paint. It is opaque. Washed my brush and I'm now going to do the transparent color. This is quinacridone magenta. I'll just get some out of the lead. Okay? And if I paint this dam, even if I get more paint, you can see that it is transparent. I can still see that line of indigo through the paint with the opaque color, it's disappeared. Transparent. I can still see through it. Now. I half and half semitransparent, semi-opaque color. You should be able to see a little bit over it. But sorry, a little bit through it. Again, I'll get some of this. And we will paint some over like this. And you can see that it does have a bit of coverage, so it paints a little bit thicker. I will cover over the indigo. But it's not as opaque as the balloon. So it's a semi-transparent color. Now, this is important to remember, important to note. Because when you're laying colors on top of each other, if you're working with transparent colors, whatever is underneath is obviously going to affect the color. Because you can see that this area in here is now a really dark purple because we had the blue underneath and the transparent red on top. And so now we have a purple. This one doesn't affect it at all. You can paint straight over and it will cover underneath this one here. It starts to affect it. It's not quite dry yet. But if I kinda smooth that out a little bit, you will say that this square, where the blue meets the yellow has gone green. The color underneath that now looks green because we're layering colors on top of each other. If you have a lot of colors that are transparent, then the painting is going to look very wishy washy. Alternatively, if you have a lot of colors that are solid than the painting is going to look very flat. So we're going to be working with a combination of acrylic washes, solid colors, and some transparent colors as well. Now, you can make a opaque paint and more transparent just by adding water to it. If you dilute the paint with a bit of water. So I'll just get a little bit of it here. I'll dilute it down with water. Okay. If I dilute it down and then painted over, I can make this color transparent just by adding water into it. However, I can't make the transparent color opaque. It's always going to be transparent as it is out of the tube. I should say. Even if a paint another layer, It's going to still be transparent. Okay, it'll be a little bit of a darker transparency. But it's still transparent. If I want to make a transparent color more opaque, I need to add another color into it. So e.g. I. Can lighten it by mixing it with white. And then because what isn't opaque color, I can turn it into an opaque color, but of course it's going to lighten the color. If I want to change the color to transparent, sorry, I want to change the transparent color to an opaque color. I need to sort of mixing colors that are similar. So e.g. I. Might be able to mix a little bit with the salmon pink into this color to make it less transparent. Sandwich after a little bit down on my table brush. So if I add a little bit of this in here, it is going to change the color slightly obviously because this is lighter. We can mix some of that in there. And that should help make it more opaque. So I can make it a bit darker by just having more red. So you can make it a bit more opaque by adding in another, another color that is opaque into the transparent colors. So we can play around with that. But this is an important thing to understand. So the first lesson that we're gonna be doing is we're going to be playing around with some transparent colors and opaque colors on paper and layering them on top of each other and playing around with seeing what happens. 3. MAGICAL FORESTS - exploring paint transparency : So for this first little demonstration, what we're gonna be doing is playing around with transparent colors and also practicing a little bit with paint consistency and getting the paint from a very thick, very thin and seeing it Romney and doing a few application techniques to start with, we're gonna be working on paper. You can work on a canvas if you wish, but paper is just cheaper and easier, especially if you're just practicing some of these techniques. This is just an A3 paper. I've just taped it up to this board to keep it nice and steady. I have a selection of transparent and opaque colors here. You don't have to use these colors. These are the ones I'm just using as an example. So the important thing to remember with transparent colors is that you want to be making sure that your water is very clean because any contamination in the water is going to then contaminate your color. Because this is an equalizer, yellow, which is a very transparent color. You can see that, you can see the paper, throw it, and it goes on really transparently. So all I'm doing here is dipping my brush in clean water and allowing that water to let the paint drip down. Another way that you can help the paint to run down is to use a spray bottle and just spray spray down your surface. And that will encourage the paint to run. A transparent color is not going to get any more opaque than what are these at the moment, unless I add white to it. If I was to add white to this color, a little bit of white and mix it in. It now becomes opaque and it's no longer transparent. But I'd like it to be transparent for this stage. So I'm just gonna blend that in Ruby. And I'm just going to add a few of these around. So we're going to practice with that thick and thin layers as well. So this is quite a thin layer of color because it's a thin layer and it's transparent. It's really, the transparency is really emphasized. So now I'm gonna get a different brush. And I'm going to put down and opaque layer on top of this. So I'm going to use some of the, this beautiful salmon gum. And say when I paint over the top of the yellow, you can't see any of the yellow underneath it. It's going to add some some blotches accommodation. Again, I can use the water to help it move around. This is a nice big brush. I'm gonna commit to what I encourage these colors to run down the page and blend with each other a little bit. Now we're going to experiment and see what happens when we start combining different transparencies of paint on top of each other. So I'm going to add some transparent paint. So a transparent color on top of that opaque. So I'm going to use that, the quinacridone magenta. And I'm just going to get a little bit of water to make it flow a bit easier. Because say that this is a solid color because it's an opaque color. And if I add a little bit all of this on top of it, you can see some of that color underneath. Especially if I go over to the white area, you can see the color change and the color difference that's happening in here. It's going to add some pattern on here. As I pass into the transparent. You can see that this pink color that I'm using, which is very magenta pink, suddenly starts to have a bit of a yellow undetermined because it's picking up the color that's underneath. Same I pulled up over here. Now, if I was to add some of the magenta to the salmon pink, we now have more of an opaque color. And if y was to go over, so this area here, you can see that the color I put down is no longer affected by what's underneath it. Because it's opaque, it's no longer transparent. So it doesn't matter what's underneath it. I can cover it and it's not going to show through. So you can see this magenta. You can still see quite a bit of the white paper underneath it. This you can't. So by playing around with them, you can create some really interesting effects. E.g. let's get a bit of this. I'll get a bit of December pink. And I'm going to spread it on quite thick. So it's very opaque because it's very thick. Maybe even some that are just spray some water on it to help it move around. I can completely cover over what's underneath it. I can weed the magenta. I pick up some of that and I spread it over here. A little bit more water because it's a transparent color. Let me just adjust the camera a little bit so you can see what I'm doing. Because it's a transparent color. You can still see some of these lines from the orange underneath it. Whereas this is opaque. You can't see what's underneath it. I'm just going to keep playing around with layering. These colors. Some of them are paying, some of them transparent. And just having a bit of fun creating a bit of a random composition. So I'm going to cover either some of those spots. That idea is let these drip down like that. 4. MAGIC FORESTS - paint transparency part 2: Okay, so this is dry it off a little bit more. So now I can again start layering different transparencies. So I'm gonna get some more of that. That left glute. And this is a very opaque color. So I can cover over areas of the painting quite thoroughly. The same. We are this indigo. It's going to be very dark, but it's, it's a very opaque color. So it's not going to show through anything underneath that. You can make a opaque color transparent by adding water to it. So you can see how I've added water and scraped it back. So now it's no longer opaque. I mean, now it's no longer okay. It gets a little bit transparent. So you can manipulate the paints to work for you in that way by adding water. So it trades for those that are familiar with watercolor. Transparent acrylic paints work in a very similar way to watercolor. That while opaque, acrylic works more like wash. So it's very versatile though, because you can make them transparent by adding more water and scraping the Mac. I do want you to play around with just some scrap piece of paper or in a sketchbook. Don't take it too seriously. But I do want to play your play around with different variations of thickness of the paint. Applying it in interesting ways. So scraping it on, painting it on letting it drip and just playing around with layering. The quicker you learn how to layer the paints and play around with these opacities. The easier it will be for you to paint this forest painting. Because the whole technique of painting in this whimsical forest style is playing around with different transparencies of color. So I want you to experiment with making some big marks like this. Making some little marks, making your color very opaque. And then making it very transparent. Alternating the two and seeing what happens. And layering paint in fun ways. So I'm not, I'm not planning this, I'm not thinking about where the colors are going. I'm just randomly putting down elements and building up layers. Because this is just a piece of paper, you'll probably feel a little bit more relaxed in what you're doing rather than painting on a canvas. Okay. Let me just get another color. So I've got this kind of creamy pink color that I'm going to use. I'm just going to fill in some space around. Again, this is a very, with painting in a very abstract manner. Fill in some of the ******, create some negative space. I can add some water to this to make this transparent. So some of these marks from underneath stay dark color. Just have fun playing with the paint for awhile. Make some marks. It doesn't matter if you end up throwing this whole piece of paper away. Just have fun playing with it. So I want to sort of emphasize this shape to have a bit more of a, a tree feelings. So I'm gonna get a nice big brush with lots of water in it. And I'm just going to let it run run down the page. Again. I can use this water bottle to encourage it to run a bit more, to pick up more paint mixed into the paint. So I'm going to add symbol painting. Play around with different brush sizes as well. Sorry you some big brushes and some little brushes. Just to see what happens. What kind of marks you can make. Something like this. It doesn't need to be a finished painting that you hang on a wall or you give away as a gift or you sell. This is about experimentation, about letting the paint run down the page, seeing what happens, experimenting with different thicknesses of paint, transparent or opaque, runny, heavy body and just play around with lots of different marks. And you can also, while the paint is wet, you can use different tools to scratch back into the paint to create different marks and different shapes. You can be really geometric with it, or you can be very natural with it. Play around, okay, I want you to experiment with the paint and letting go and just being free and having fun with some of these techniques. And then once you're feeling comfortable with applying the paint, and this isn't scary anymore because I know it's a bit scary to start with. Once you've reached a point where it's not scary, then you can look at the next class and we're going to work on a painting together. 5. MAGICAL FORESTS - colour palette for main painting: Now firstly, I do need to apologize for the rain noise that you can here. I am at my studio today and I have a tin roof, and unfortunately it is raining is this rain noise is probably going to continue throughout the whole video and I hope it doesn't distract you too much. And maybe you'll find it relaxing on ordinary, but it is what are these? So the first thing that we need to talk about before we get started, their painting is our colors that we're gonna be using. Now for this kind of a magical forest chocolate painting, I strongly recommend using colors that work nicely next to each other. That will be able to be layered on top of each other. Sorry, the easiest way to choose colors that fall into that category is to look at a color wheel and choose colors that sit next to each other. These colors are considered harmonious colors. They right next to each other on the color wheel. So e.g. blues and purples are harmonious. Shifted around here we've got some reds to the oranges or Hyman harmonious. Oranges, yellows. Also, you can consider oranges, the greens, anything that's next to each other, it's considered harmonious. These colors are always going to layer on top of each other nicely and blend together nicely because they are very close to each other on the color wheel, the colors that I've chosen on color scheme I'm going for today is this blue-green through to red violet color range. So I'm going to mix just variations of these colors. And you can see I've worked out a little pellets combination here. And that's done using these colors. So I want you to choose colors that inspire you and that you are drawn to. So if you are more interested in the warmer colors, then maybe choose some colors from this side of the color wheel. Maybe even this side, the color wheel. You don't necessarily have to do the same colors that I'm doing, but just pick something that you find inspirational for you. I do recommend that you have a good variety of dark values and light values in that the combination of colors that you choose. So e.g. I. Have this dark reddish purple, dark indigo, and then I have some lighter greenish blues. That these are the colors that are straight out of the cheapest one is mixed. But these were all out of the tube. And then this is the same color with white added to it. So my basic color palette is going to be made up of these colors here. These are Liquitex, heavy body paints. I prefer using heavy body paint, but, um, that you can use whatever paints you have available to you. At the colors that I'm using is light blue, permanent cobalt, turquoise, quinacridone, magenta, light, phthalo green, and indigo. This color here is a mixture of the quinacridone, magenta and the indigo. I've just mixed those two together because this quinacridone magenta on its own is a little bit too pink for the color scheme that I'm going for. So by adding that the indigo to it, I've made into more of a purple rather than a peep. So I probably wouldn't use this color on its own. I'll probably use it mixed, but I'll see how I go. But this is the basic color palette that I'm going to be using. Most of the colors that I've chosen are all premixed colors. However, you can mix your own colors. If you have a basic primary set of colors, then you can mix up some colors that you want to use based on what you choose. Totally up to you. I really want this to be accessible to everybody, so don't feel like you have to go out and buy new paints to do this project. Just use whatever colors you already have access to in your collection of paints and just make it work that way. But in addition to these, obviously I am going to be using white as well to help change the values of the colors. And besides that, that's all we need to really think about when it comes to the colors. Once you've gotten your color palette sorted out and you've thought about what color direction you want to go in. It's now time to move on to the next step. 6. MAGIC FORESTS - full painting - adding base colours: The first step that we're going to be doing is we need to put down some base layers onto our canvas. So choosing just three of the darker colors. I want you to just randomly add these colors in different areas of the canvas. I want it to look like a patchwork of color. So don't worry about blending it or thinking too much about where you're putting the color. I just want to cover all the wives and get some sort of movement and action happening. So I'm going to mix these two colors together to create that darker purple for a really nice dark color. Here. Wait, this layer can be quite dark because we'll be building up colors on top of it. But I want it to be very patchwork. You might add a little bit of white into this as well, just to lighten up some of the areas a little bit. But don't blame any of the colors together too much. Keep it very 30 Brandon, this is going to create the base or underpainting for your forest. And we're going to walk into that purple color. Just keep it as random as you possibly can. Use a nice big brush. That's actually all the campuses cupboard. So now you have this random patchwork of different colors that are gonna make up the underpainting or base layer of this artwork. So we need this layer to completely dry. So either pump it outside into the Sun or get a blow dryer and completely dry it. So now we're going to have fun building up some layers onto this painting. At the moment, we're not worrying about composition or what are these are painting. This is a very abstract forest painting. So this is the abstract part of it. I don't want you to think too much about where things are going, but I do want you to have fun applying the paint in a few different ways. E.g. we're going to use a combination of brushes. You can use scraping tools as well. This is a catalyst wedge. You could use a spatula, a palette knife, an old credit card, lots of different things to scrape the paint on, the brush the paint on. We're also going to use some water spray bottle to wet the paper, wet paint down and make it run down the canvas. And we're just going to have a little fun playing around with layering the paint. Now you may have to dry each layer in between as you build it up, but it depends on how you apply. The paint will get into that and we need to now was still going to be using the colors. We're now pellet. But we don't want to go too light, too soon. Sorry, most of the colors that we have down here are what's considered a darker value color. So now we're going to come in with some midtone values, and then in the end we'll add some light values. So to start with, I'm just going to add a little bit of white into the cobalt turquoise that I have here. I'm going to get my brush and I'm going to make the paint quite loose. And I'm just going to see what happens when I met marks with this brush. Because it's a square flat brush, I can get some really interesting sort of marks with it. And I'm going to play around with adding this coloring in a few different places. Maybe over here a little bit. So that's one way you can apply paint is just purely with a brush. Now have fun. Sorry, my canvas keeps moving. Try and years smooth at around. Maybe hold your brush from further back and play around with different mark makings and a really loose way of applying the paint. Don't worry about nice and neat edges. Keep them rough and have a bit of fun with it. Another way that you can apply paint ease again with one of these, um, I think it's just a spatula. It's a catalyst wedge. I believe it's called this one's made of silicon, so it's quite bendy. But you could also use, as I said before, I spatula a palette knife or credit card. And what we're gonna do is say maybe we'll get some glue on there. Maybe we use some of the dark color. We're actually just going to mix up a little bit of white into the indigo color that I have here. Okay, and again, using my brush, I'm gonna put some of these color down onto the canvas. And then using this. Spatula. I'm going to spread it around. So you can see how the paint gets scraped off in like a really interesting pattern. You can also put paint directly onto the spatula sprig of the range. Maybe a little bit over here. Actually, you can even blend it in with some of this color. See how we're just building up a nice abstract layer. We'll get some down here. Scrape it around. So you can see I'm starting to build up these abstract tree shapes. This is what we're kind of adding in there. But they're not round, perfect circles. They're quite lopsided shapes and very random shapes. I'm not trying to paint perfect circles. We don't want a whole bunch of lollipop trees. You want them to have fairly irregular shapes, which is why something like this comes in handy. Because it will help to break up that shape and make it less obvious. You can also change your brush shape. So e.g. I. Have this really nice wet mop brush. So I can use this as well. I'm going to mix up maybe a bit of a light purple using a brush like this, you can add in some blobby shapes into your trees. You let the mixing a bit of water in your paint and make it a bit more runny. Especially with a really juicy brush like this that holds a lot of water. You can apply the paint and let it just dropped down and create these really interesting patterns. I'm just going to love it on. Push the brush a little bit. Let that paint run down. Maybe add a little bit more water. Maybe a little bit over here as well. Make this one. I want the pattern to be random. You don't want it to be too precise and even see how that creates is lovely. The rule is always stuck. Look like trunks of the trees. So I'm just going to keep going around and building up these areas of interests by adding paint in a few different whites. I might let this dry and then I'll come back and show you how to use the water bottle to help with these trees as well. I'm actually while it's still wet, actually, you can, if you want to break up this long, sort of defined shape, you can just use a water bottle and spray it directly on your canvas and see how it's creating these little splash marks and breaking up the paint on the canvas. And of course, gravity is doing its job and pulling all the paint down and creating these really interesting random shapes. 7. MAGIC FORESTS - pattern library: So now we come to the fun part where we get to start adding details onto our painting. So what I like to do is I am very much inspired by nature and sorrow because this is a whimsical forest. I like to incorporate lots of marks and textures and details that are forests D, and nature related. So let's, uh, leaves and really simplified repetitive patterns that are easy to do. Small dots, little flower shapes. And these are what I use to build up interest and passion into these forests. Now this is how I do it. You can choose to do this however you'd like. You can have different shapes than this. You can have more, you can have less, you can have much simplified versions. That's totally up to you. Remember this is your painting. I'm just showing you the techniques that you need to follow the steps. But I strongly recommend spending a bit of time with a scrap paper or scrap Canvas, playing around with different mark making and making a bit of a mock library fee to refer back to. So that when you're layering some of these patterns on top of each other, you don't just get stuck doing the same pattern over and over again. If you have something like this in front of you, a reference to work from, then you can remind yourself of some different patterns that you can add into your painting that you have may not have used yet. And it also just helps to practice as well and will help build your confidence so you can do things like this on the paper then when it comes to painting it on the canvas, you maybe wouldn't be so nervous doing it. So this is just a selection of little designs that I spent maybe 5 min creating. I could fill pages and pages and pages of these designs. You can go online and look at nature pattern references or patterns of nature leaf patterns, things like that for inspiration. If you're stuck for ideas, or you can just simply go out into your garden, pick a few flowers, a few plants, and just simplify the shapes that you see in front of you. Because these are the shapes and patterns that we are now going to be adding onto our painting. 8. MAGICAL FORESTS - full painting - adding details: This is what you're painting should look like. Now the good thing about this technique and this method of creating these women school landscapes and the whimsical forests is that you can stop at any stage. If you really enjoy the way that this abstract Connors composition looks, you don't have to add details. You can just leave it as is and move on to another painting and helped develop this as your style. I like to push it a little bit further by adding in at some, at some details of some botanical shapes and some botanical inspired marks using similar colors to what I've already used in here. And I'm also trying to work from things that are further back in the composition that two things that are in the foreground. So e.g. these little teal kind of plants that I have back here, I can use the same color and lighten it up. So I'm just making a lighter version of that TO by mixing these two together. My name a little bit more of that lighter color. I've just got a simple flat brush. I'm just going to come in with this color and add in some marks where I can see this bush shape behind him here. Same thing here. I can see there'll be this in here as well. So I'm just going to come in with some pattern on top of it. To add a little bit of separation and interests. Maybe I can add a little bit in here as well. Some of that teal color in behind here. So I'm going to come in with and adding that same sort of pattern here. This is a really simple, repetitive just to brush stroke. A dabbing motion. Maybe some in here as well. Okay. So that's one cat and that I can do. Now I'm going to create a bit of a lighter, lighter purple color in here. And I've switched over to a round brush. And maybe on this little one back here, I can start adding in some of these long leaf shapes. Remember this is abstract. We're not trying to paint realistic trees. Were just trying to get an abstract interpretation of a forest of trees or lay it on top of each other. Sorry, it doesn't have to be perfect. And it doesn't have to look like anything specific. We're just working with patterns and layers of color at the moment. So I've now added another layer of pattern in here. You can see how the juxtaposition of the smaller shapes next to the biggest shapes, the light and the dark. And these long lines building up these layers is what's going to create the visual texture in this type of painting. Maybe I can come down here and add a few more in here as well. I don't want to cover over everything that I've done. I do want to leave some areas untouched. Let's say there's some of this color up here as well. I like to look around the painting to see where else this color is. So there's some up here. So I can add this shape up here as well. And I want you to use your own intuition and your own creativity to decide where you put your details and where you put add your layers. You don't need to create a painting that looks exactly like this. That's not the point. The point is really, this type of painting is to just relax and have fun with exploring different shapes and patterns and trusting your own creativity to build up areas of interests. I really liking how that looks now. So I wanted to bring some of these purple shapes than drips that I had out a little bit more. So I'm going to go back and find the brush that I was using before, which is actually quite, I might actually find a smaller version of that brush because I don't want the shapes to be quite as large this time. I've got a smaller round brush and I'm going to mix up a lighter purple color. Maybe we'll have a little bit more pink in at this time just to bring out a bit of a different hue. So I'm just mixing up a lighter pink color. Again, I'm not showing my palette while I'm mixing these colors because it's not really important for you to see how I'm mixing and what I'm mixing. Because these paintings that you're going to be creating are going to be different to this. It's going to be your own artwork. Sorry. I've just got a lighter pinkish color and I'm just going to dab that on in the same way I did with the other brush. And I can also come in with a spray bottle, give it a little spritz, and get it to start to run. To get this really interesting effect. And see how this brighter pink color pops nicely against that purple and add just another layer of interests and pattern because that's what we're doing. We're just layering interesting patterns on top of each other. And maybe we can add a little bit of it over here and drop that down. You find that the paint isn't really running very much. You can come back in and add some thicker blobs. And just keep touching the brush to the canvas until it creates a little bead and then it will start to run down. And you can use the water to just encourage it a little bit. This is set to mist as well. It's not a straight shot of water. It is I missed of water. So it's not completely washing everything off the canvas. A little touch of it. You inherit a little bit as well. Okay. So what else should we do? I think maybe I'll add in some marks on these paler areas of tree as well. I'm just going to use the light. They look green, which is what that is, and a little bit of white just to lighten it up a bit, if I use the same color on top of what is already there, once it dries, it will disappear. So you really need to pay attention to the values that you're creating and make sure that you are making them a little bit lighter than what is underneath so that it doesn't get lost. Okay, so I've just mixed up. But like a really nice thin, fine liner brush here. And I'm going to create some More leave shapes in a different, with a different brush. So there are different thickness today's ones. This is the part of the process that I find very relaxing and meditative. Because once I get into the rhythm of painting these patterns, It's very relaxing to just stand and create over and over again this repetitive natural pattern. Now filled in this area here, I might add some of this on those other patches as well. Just need to mix up a little bit more paint. When doing these fine details, I like to paint to be quite watery, so it comes off the brush easily. I'm just saying whatever done. So everyone could possibly use the lights, don't catch it. It's like a forest of plants and trees and leaves. And some can't just look like a patterns. Okay, so now I'm just going to keep alternating between different colors and different brushes and continuously building up the areas around this painting. I might add some little blue shapes down here. Because I haven't really developed down here very much and I don't want to leave it blank. Sorry. Maybe we could add in some of these shapes. Perhaps we can go to a bit of a bigger brush. Maybe come in with a darker, darker indigo again. Make some big shapes on top of the small ones. I want to create some really dramatic dark runs, I think down in here. Sorry. Still got that indigo color. I'm going to make it quite watery. Let's add it back in up here where it's kinda dry, a little bit too transparent. Dip my brush into the water. Again, a nice bead of water onto the brush. Make sure there's lots of paint on here. See, it's not quite running yet. So I just encourage it with just a little bit of water. See how it starts to run down. Maybe a little bit over here as well. So I'm, I still only working with the same colors that I've been working with the whole time. I haven't added anything new. But I'm just playing around with different versions of those colors. And adding in patches of interesting marks and patterns and layers of color. You can really, I want you to really have fun with it. Don't worry too much about the final result or whether it looks like something or if it makes sense, you just need to keep adding layers and patterns until you're happy with it. I think this is getting to the stage where I need to make it dry again because it's starting to get difficult to work on top of the wet paint. So I'm going to give another blast with the hairdryer and then see what kind of that's smaller patterns we can add in here.