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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Taren Brennan, and thank you for joining
me in my class today. I am originally from
Zimbabwe, Africa, and I've been in
America in Virginia actually for over 20 years. And I just started recreating my art business from just a couple of years ago
in the beginning of 2022. I've just grown to love experimenting and
trying new things, and I wanted to share
that with people. Especially if you're
just a beginner and not really knowing
where to start. I don't think I have a
specific style in art. I don't know if that will
change over the years. Because as you are an artist, you learn and change
all the time. But I get inspiration from different artists that I see something that I feel that day, something that I see
outside in nature. I love flowers, I love
plants, I love animals. So it just depends on what I'm in the mood
to do that day. And of course, my mediums change a lot in
everything that I do. So even if you check
out my Instagram, it's not going to
be one theme and one type of painting
the whole way through. It actually mixes and matches and hops
around quite a lot. And that's fine. In this class, I'm going to teach you
a little bit about color theory and what
traditional color theory is, mixing your primary colors
of red, blue, and yellow. This class we'll use the
modern primary colors which are magenta, which is a little bit
more pinky, purply, a cyan, blue and yellow
like your printer ink. This happens to just give
a livelier mix of colors. But I will also show you
together how to neutralize them a little bit so that you have great balance in your painting. Once I've shown you
how to mix the colors, you will choose which
colors that you want for a limited color
palette for your painting. This could be four
or five colors, maybe with an accent color, something a little bit neutral
to pull it all together. Then from using
inspiration around you, you will paint a beautiful
whimsical landscape, even just from your mind, which is what I
often like to do. And you'll see how
beautiful it works for you. If you are interested at
the end of the painting, which is often
what I like to do, I like to add embellishments
using mixed media, which could be crayons, oil pastels, pen ink. Just different things to make different textures and make your painting more interesting.
2. The Class Project: For our class project, which we'll find
more information on in the class resources. I'll give everything
you need in a list of supplies and some ideas. And maybe some places where
I found some ideas from. Even though great inspiration is just looking
outside in nature, what we'll be doing is
choosing the colors from the colors that
we've mixed and created our own unique colors that everyone's will probably
be a little bit different and creating a beautiful whimsical
landscape with them.
3. Supplies: Just to show you before we
even start on supplies, this is a basic color wheel. You can get them for a
couple bucks anywhere, any art store online. Mine has paint all over it. But as you can see, your primary colors are red, yellow, and blue, red,
yellow, and blue. Anytime you move this around, if you add red, yellow,
you get orange. Add red to blue, you get purple. Add, you get the picture. Same as add yellow,
blue, you get green. These are the basic things. What I wanted to show you is the modern color wheel that uses almost what
your printer uses. Like your inkjet
printers, it's Cyan, which is just a medium
blue, yellow, and magenta. Now of course we always
have a lot of the white. You can add darks afterwards
when we embellish. Then for fun, I always like
to get a tele aqua as well. You do not have to do that, but it's just very
fun to add pops of bright color when we're making
a vibrant mix of colors. Supplies, I have,
the supplies I have with me today are just basic, like student grade Blick brand. But you can get Michael's or whatever country you're from. I'm sure there's very basic. I chose Matt Acrylic
just for fun. Again, you can get the glossy basic one if you
want to as well. Just depends on
what you like and you are the boss, you
can do what you want. I have brilliant magenta
in the black acrylic, yellow bright in
the black acrylic, and blue medium in
the black acrylic. Obviously, I also
have a lot of white. Then just for fun,
I added apple, which is like a tally color, which of course you
can make yourself. And it's also just nice to have one out of the
tube if you use a lot of it. Then I have a mixing
plate that I'm going to show you some things,
a color wheel. I just have very
basic artists left, which I believe is from
Michaels or Hobby Lobby. I can't actually remember, but they're just
very basic brushes. Square brushes in this case, size six for one and size ten. And these are the
Royal and Langnickel. Um, also inexpensive brushes, and I'm sure I got
these at Michael's. And one is size
8.1, is size six. I may grab some other brushes. I've got a bunch of
old different sizes, you never know what you
need, just collection. And we'll go from there. And of course I have
water, which is a little bit off to
the screen here. Water for washing brushes. Let's get started. We're going to start by, I will put these out
of the way for now. And we're going to be using our three modern primary colors. And this is going to be our
mixing plate, very basic. Just want to do some
experimenting over here. I guess I also should have
mentioned that you can have a piece of paper on the
side to test colors. I mean, you can test them and see them
right on this white, I made sure I had a
plain white paper plate. But let's just see. Right, so the first one we're going to do, magenta, is acting as our red. And we're going to
mix red and yellow, red and yellow, red and
yellow make orange. Let's see what type
of color we're going to get this orange. Depending on what you want, you can mix more or less of the color to get it the tone
or the shade that you enjoy. I think that's a
very bright color. And then just while we have
this color on our brush, you can experiment and see what adding a teeny
little bit of white will look like
to lighten it down. And look at that coral color, that is our first color mixed. Now we're going to do
the blue and the yellow. And of course we know
blue and yellow. Blue and yellow give you green. There's our green. I'm going to ad a
little bit more yellow, very pretty vibrant color
and a little bit of white. And look, we can really
pel that down for a beautiful variation for the highlights on our trees
or whatever we are wanting. I should have my
paper right here. Always good to have paper
towels as well on your side. I forgot to mention that
it's a habit. Okay. The last but not least, adding blue and to our red, which is actually magenta, in this case, blue and
red make a purple. So let's see what
type of purple this makes. Oh, I love that. It's almost like lacky
add a little bit of white to it. Very pretty. We can go further and mix colors together to
make secondary colors. This will show you we've just
done red and yellow, Mac, orange, yellow and blue, Mac, green and blue and
red, violet, purple. We can go ahead
and mix even more, the blue and the violet to make different colors like that. Then another experiment to do mixing all three colors to give you a combination of what all the colors would be. And it normally gives
you a very neutral gray. Let's do an experiment,
three colors together. What I like about
this type of gray, this may not be what you like, you can always add, okay, I want it more bluey
or a little bit more pinky to get it to
the gray that you want. But what I love is that you
can also add a tiny touch of white to make a pale color
again, something different. But what is great about creating a gray
with the colors that you have is that it goes with
every color on your palette. Because it is literally
created from those colors. You're not pulling a
random gray from the tube, which is also fine if you
have a bunch of stuff. But the whole point of me showing you this is
that if you have a limited budget
or limited colors or just want to create something that's not out of the tube, it's very fun to create your
own colors that actually, I don't even know what
they're called sometimes. I don't even know how
to recreate them. But I know I created
them myself. And they're unique,
no one else has them. And then they go great
in that painting. Um, whatever I'm
feeling that day, look how beautifully this goes
with all of these colors. Then another thing, I think, I am going to grab one
of these teenie brushes. Maybe not that teenth brush. Anyway, another thing to do is if your green
is too bright, you can go to your color wheel. Or if you know it in your brain, how do you neutralize a color
on the side of the wheel? You go directly opposite and add a touch of what's
on the other side. In this case, green is
on the other side of our pink or magenta. You can add a tiny bit. Now you've made, I don't
have a ton of paint on this, like a neutrally green. See how that neutralized it
a little bit and makes it not so luminous and
vibrant and saturated. That's what it's called,
desaturating your color. Let's try it for all of them. Orange, you would
add a touch of blue. Same here, and I'm
already drying up over here. There we go. Not the most vibrant color, but that is the whole point. Because you may not always want a vibrant orange
everywhere you go. You may want some background
colors or distance colors. But look how easy that is. I may have put a teeny
bit too much in this one, but I still actually really like the color that
it turned out. And look how good your
neutrals are going together. We've done this one,
we've done this one. Now, how do you
neutralize purple? You put a tiny touch of yellow. So let's take a tiny touch of
yellow and put it up here. Again, that was maybe
a snitch too much, but can get my point and see how that
neutralizes that a little bit takes
away that saturation. And again, that could be
distant mountains or something, or something in the clouds. And again, your colors go
beautifully altogether. Let's create next
a color wheel with these and see and paint
them on a piece of paper.
4. Create your own Color Wheel: We just created these
mixes of colors and explain a little bit
about the color wheel to you. We're going to create
our own color wheel. And I actually just
got a second plate because it's already
circle and it's easy. And I'm going to touch
up a teeny bit of these paints so we can
mix a little bit more. Since some of these
are drying out, that's actually got enough. But I want to remix them
in this way, right? We can have our color chart for access just so that
you can keep on track. Right, Let's start with the, this is just going
to be plain magenta. I'm not even giving
you a stencil. You can do it however you want. You can print something out. But I'm literally
just going to be putting these colors in. Third, third, third. There's three primary colors,
that's why we need third. I probably should have put
a little bit more magenta. This is our saturated
colors, right? Last but not least, a
nice slop of yellow. Okay, beautiful. So now, what is in the middle
of magenta and yellow? It is our orange. So let's create a
little bit more. So I got a little bit of green
in there. That is my bad. Let's get that off and
put some clean one on, 'cause there's blue in my palette from my
previous mixing. But that's okay. Guess what. With paint, if you
make a mistake, you can just paint
over it, beautiful. So that is our orange. Next is going to be
our purple violet, lilac, whatever you
want to call it. Because all of our
colors and paints that we choose to make
our color chart with, as long as you've got
something in the red zone, something in the blue zone, and you may have chosen
a much darker blue. And then it's going to
change your whole palette. You may have chosen a
more orange yellow, or a more browny
yellow, like an ochre. And that will change
your whole palette. And that's what's
so fun about it. This is just the ones that I
happen to choose for today. And this is the results
that I'm going to get. Again, let's mix a little
more of this blue and pink. Look how pretty
look, how pretty. Now that you know how to
neutralize and I want to pinkly neutralize
and add also white. Your options are really limitless for the colors that
you want in your painting. Now we are going to be using
a limited color palette. You may not want
4 million colors in there to confuse you.
You wanted to harmonize. Have a bit of neutral,
maybe two neutrals, and then a saturated. You want your pink pops. Maybe you want to tone your canvas with a bright
color in the background, or even the orange
or something warm. And then those pops
will show through. That also harmonizes
your painting. I'll show you that when
we are doing it together. Last but not least, here
is our yellow and blue, yellow and blue make green. Let's remix a little more
uniform and look at that. Beautiful green
could even do with a little bit more yellow look how pretty we created
these secondary colors. And so I'm going to go
ahead and finish the off, and we'll go from there a little bit more
pink to the orange. Give us this one. You'll
see that in between a little bit yellow
to the orange. See how you can make. These are now called tertiary colors. This is mixing me too. So this is the orange that
a little bit more yellow. Oh, I love this,
like sap, green. Look how pretty that is. If you get the gist of
how we're going here, I would love if you posted
your color charts and color wheels in the
project section as well. Because everyone's
colors are going to be slightly different
depending on what brand, what type of paint. This is a matt acrylic. You can choose the
glossy acrylic, you can, you can have a regular blue, you can have a
darker ultramarine. The regular pink,
you can have a red. You can have ultramarine blue. You can have okay, yellow. It's great. That's
what's so fun about it. Blue and purple. Ple that pretty much does it. Could. I've added a
little bit all these. Yes, but that is perfect. For the sake of the next, what I'm going to do is do speed painting and just show you what these all look
like with white. And that'll give you
the pale tonal value, just to show you your options. And then maybe I'll mix the gray in the middle like I did before now between a combination of these colors that we've created and maybe more that you
haven't created yet. Like you may want to neutralize some of them like we did here. Adding the opposite color
from the color wheel. If you don't want
something so pink, you add a tiny bit of green. If you don't want
something so yellow, you add a tiny bit of blue, and vice versa, Blue,
yellow, orange, u. You get the idea. Again, grab one of
these if you want one. I'll put a link in my supplies because they're very
handy if you're just getting confused or
you really want to know exactly what colors you should be looking
at and look now you know how to make a
little bit of teal. Anyway, what we're
going to do is using pinched pinters to find
different color palettes. Or looking outside at nature or your favorite flower
you can choose, right? I would love orange with
maybe a complimentary color. Maybe you want a
pup of pale pinks with it and a little bit of pale green and then
neutral in the background. I'm just giving you some ideas, but there's a lot of ways
that you can pick a palette. None of them are exact signs because it really ends up to
be what you want, if you want to use all
the colors you can. But it just is not as harmonious and easier for the eye to understand as when you use less. I guess less is
more in this case because you want to
have colors that pull your eye around the canvas and show the same in several
different areas. Instead of just having 1 million
colors all in one place. I will put some links in the
projects and resources also, so that you can find different color
palettes that you like. And also some books
that are out there. I also have used this book, which I'm going
to just show you. I'll put the link in there too. This has ideas of
what may go together, but also ideas of how to mix
different colors as well. Here for different skin tones, for landscapes, for faces. It's quite interesting and has a lot of information for it. Like look at these
landscape recipes and it really goes into detail. Are they the perfect color? No, because it's printed
as opposed to real life, and that's very hard to
color match exactly. But I have used several of them and it does
give me a good idea, especially when you want
to go further than this, obviously making
this kind of color, we're already on our way. Maybe it needs a
little bit more pink, and then maybe it's like, oh, you need a specific type
of yellow for that, or a specific type of crimson that maybe we
haven't used today. And so it's hard to create
exact colors when you haven't got the paints that
you need the exact paints. And that is why it's going to
be very interesting to see everyone's color
palettes because we're all using
different supplies.
5. Sources of Inspiration : These are some examples of landscape that I've painted from either inspiration outside, like this is from our
road outside our house, or just from my mind, lasing just different mediums, mixing acrylic paints or gouache before and then adding embellishment with
pencil or pastel. These are just from my mind, just for fun, just to
show you some ideas. One of the places
that I like to get some images that are free
stock images are unsplash. And I actually downloaded two different landscapes
simple but very different. This one has a little
bit more detail in like the fence and the
ocean in the background. And then this one just
has trees and just neutral really gives you like
a blank slate to work from. And really go crazy
with your own ideas. Like you don't have to
do these exact colors. You can pick literally
what you want. But I just wanted to show you that I think
I'm going to pick this one as my starting off point and we will
see where it takes us. So I will put these images
in the resources as well.
6. Our Whimsical Landscape - Part 1: I am going to be putting some paint on my
homemade palette. I actually have a glass
palette and a ceramic palette. But sometimes it's just
easier to mix a lot of things together on one
place and one plate and then throw it away when I actually put some
white in the middle. We'll add to it as we need to. I'm not even going
to add the tal yet. We'll see if we may use it. We don't, I haven't quite
decided my color palette yet, but what I'm going to do is tone my background paper that I've taped nicely onto my art desk. Hope I think I'm going to
tone it like a warm orange, y neutral to pop through
on our painting. Let's get started. I think I'm going to choose
a bigger brush. I see I'm adding quite a lot of water because for one,
I don't want it to dry. This is a matt acrylic. It dries pretty fast, but you can get it on quicker and gives it a
cool texture as well. Use water to your advantage.
And look at this. I'm leaving some brush
textures in there. It does not have to be
perfect. Look at that. If you have an angled easel, you can even get
drip marks in there. Obviously, I'm painting
flat on my table. It's a little bit
of white in there, but pretty look at that. Now, the picture I showed you of the landscape, the
sky is lighter, maybe I'll get a little
bit of white in there, could be some cloudiness
coming through. Obviously, We are going to
paint a little more water. We are going to be painting, I'm not even going to
sketch my landscape and I'm going to be
painting on today. This is what makes it fun. I think I want a little
bit at the bottom here. Do you like painting
with texture or would you prefer smooth,
which is beautiful? Also really just
depends what you like. I'm going to let that dry and then we'll
go on to step two. Now that that's pretty
dry to the touch, I am going to move on to adding
my first layer of color. I forgot to tell you I used the size ten to do
the background. Obviously, when you're
trying to cover a big area, the bigger brush is better. I have even bigger
ones that I could have used like up to a 12. I didn't. Anyway,
then I actually also pulled out
an old fan brush. And this literally, it's like an old grade
school craft brush that I just randomly have that's
going to be great for grassy tree and
texture like that. So we'll see. First
things first though, I'm going to mix up a green. We see the finger in the paint. I'm going to mix up a green. And I think I wanted a
more in the background. Remember the image
that I am doing? And I'll post it on the
screen and in the resources, but there's a hill
in the background. Let me just do a
little sketch of it. This, I'll cover a
hill in the foreground like this and then more
like greens down here. This background hill is a
little bit more neutral. This one is more
light and vibrant, has some light shining on it. This one in the back
is a bit more neutral. How do you neutralize
your green? You add a tiny bit of
your red, a tiny bit. Just put some over here
is what I want for my see how that pushes it
back a tiny bit of your red, which in our case is the magenta that pushes
that back a little bit. And I actually want it
paler because again, things that are up front
are more saturated, brighter, darker in color. Darker meaning you can see
the color more visibly. This back hill is pushed away. It could be a little bit in the mist and it is a
more neutral color. Let's add some more blue now. My blue is not as
dark as I want it to be for the sake of this class. It's the only blue
that I'm using, because in my theory, this is the only
blue that I have. Of course, I have a
bunch of other blues that I could ideally use. But I may take pencil and darken and create some contrast
when we are done painting, because I want to stick with my limited color palette
for the sake of this class. This is just some texture
in the front and actually, but more, this lighter
one or a medium one. Let's do that. This medium, it's fine to have
a little bit of your background showing through. I quite like that. You
can also draw into it, there's some bushes over here, I don't know if I'll keep this. There's some lines
like pathways, here's some little paths on
the hill all the way up to the back actually path
goes all the way here, pass over here, pass down here. And then there's trees which again I'm
going to paint over and paint over and multi mixed media, I should say, on top of it. Let's focus on the sky. I want quite a lot of white. It's not really blue,
it's more gray. How do you neutralize a blue? Let's check our color
chart with an orange, since you've actually
got orange background going to neutralize anyway. If we just mix this
with more water, so it's more translucent, you'll be able to see
the orange underneath. Do you see that? Let's just
start with a watery blue. And then maybe use some paper
tiles to dab a bit away. Does not have to be perfect. This is supposed to be fun. This is supposed to
be just a challenge. Look at this cloudy. I've got little bits of stuff
everywhere. Look at that. That's a neutralized blue. Maybe you want a darker blue at the bottom or brighter,
I should say. Even a bit of white, like
a cloud or something. And then I'm just
going to paper, toil it down a little bit
because that's the look I want. Just blend it a bit, see all the textures,
you can read. This is the fan brush. I'm going to it when it's wet, it just different marks. You can dab it in
whatever color you want, actually a brighter color and just really makes
some cool textures. It's probably better
when it's dry, but I do want to add
some light white, whitey blue, pale blue to the sky, wispy clouds and some texture fun. Okay, we will let this dry and then we'll add another
layer on top of it. Actually, before we let it
dry and add another layer, I think I'm going to
add a little bit of pink into my greens, but maybe more of
a orangey coral. Let's see what we come
up with with our mixing. There's a pale, maybe
a little yellow. It's similar to the
background color with white and pink added to it. I just wanted to put
some textures Again, I'm just using a brush. I'm not really going with exactly what this
painting looks like, but there's a lot
of like patches in the grass on this hill, that is what I
wanted to portray. My green paint is not even dry. It's mixing a little bit. That's okay. It
neutralizes a little bit. Let's do a little
bit darker pink. In some spots
there's actually a, it's like a muddy color, but on the top of this
there's quite a lot of pink. That'll be a good focal point and maybe even put a bit
of saturated up there. I know that is supposed to
be our hill in the distance. And I did neutralize
the background colors. And it may not stay like this, but I just felt like I wanted a bit of pink with my green. And because it's my
painting, I will do that. Yes, It pushes a
little bit forward, but when I'm looking
at my photograph, it's not like it's a huge hill, mountains in the distance. It's just this background hill. I want a little bit of
that color in there. Let's just see how it goes. It may change by the end of the painting and
that is also okay. Let's put in these paths again now. We will let it dry.
7. Our Whimsical Landscape - Part 2: So I'm still waiting
for this to dry. And of course, enough time
to have a quick cup of tea with milk if
you are like me. Anyway, what I think I'm going to do while
I'm waiting for some more of this pink
to dry is I think it needs a little
bit more neutral. So let's mix up a little bit
of the neutral gray that I showed you how
to do because we haven't done any of that yet. That is, including
the three colors, yellow, blue than magenta. I am going to add a
little bit of white. That's why I put it
right next to the white. To mute it down a little bit, it's still very greeny. I'm ruining my
pile of pink here. I'll have to put
more. I call it pink, but you know what I'm saying? Magenta. And make it
till how you like it. See how this one's a
little bit more bright. I think I like it a little bit, but more pinky. But
we're getting there. I can't wait to see what great grays and
stuff you guys create. Because like I said, literally every supply you
use is different. And actually while we're at it, I also have this acrylic
gouache which dry, permanent. These can be
reconstituted with water. You got to seal it
when you're done. But these per, these are also
matt and work really well. But you see the blue
is a brighter blue. It creates different colors. And even the yellow
is a little bit of a darker yellow than the
one that I'm using now. So it is very interesting. Here is our gray. I think I want to push back
this hill a little bit. In some areas, look, it even pulls the
pink beautifully. It a little bit
of that pink garn then a little bit of
neutral in the corner. I wanted, there's like a
row of trees over here, a little bit of trees
in the background here. Then I wanted to
push behind here a little bit back again. Who knows if it'll
stay like this, but this is just
just another layer and then I want tree
texture to come in. I think I'm just going to
scribble some stuff in it. I always like to use
the back of my brushes, so I always have to remember to paper towel wipe them off. Otherwise, it ends up getting on my shirts and my
hands and everything. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. So I did a little bit too much there as far as the dark gray. But look, pulling a little
bit into here for the sky, try to use a paper
towel that's clean because I'm just putting
green in my sky. But as we all know,
happy accidents. But that's a bit of a
darker cloud there, which I quite like. I love a rainy day. And it pulls the sky
in a little bit as well and we haven't decided yet if there's a bright area of the sky like where the
sun's coming from. I do always like
to add a bright, in my case that would be, let's just say I don't
want pure white but maybe an area of so I'm just going to
put some light there, but I'm going to water
it down and spread it so it's not so severe. And then I'm going to
use that same yellow to a little bit of light here. Do you see how you're building? And building for me, I'm
going with the flow. I'm looking at that image, I am getting
inspiration from it, but it is definitely not exactly
where my brain is going. See, there's a patch of trees
here that's dead giving. I want a more scratchy brush
giving a bit of texture. See this old brush? Do so much stuff with what? Just different things that
you find at your house. You don't want to go everywhere because then you
lose the effect. But that's kind of
the bright area that I was trying
to capture. See. May need a little
bit more white on my palette running out. Okay. And I am going to
add, once this is dry, I think some, some, sorry, I can't think in paint. At the same time,
I'm going to add some colored pencil and
maybe some oil pastel. And I will show you
that in a minute. Now what I'm going to do is reassess if I want to add
any more layers of paint. Like you could almost mix whatever color you want with a lot of water and do a glaze. If you even want more
color in the sky, just say you want
the sky a little bit pink or a little
bit more yellow, or even just more white. Remember not to scrub because
this is not quite dry yet. But yours will hopefully be dry. This is acrylic though, so even though it's
matt like a gouache, it will not reconstitute once it is dry. So
that is a good thing. And then we are going to
take some oil pastels. This is the brand that I have, the gallery oil pastels
by mango and I will put a link below for you. This is I've got them
separated it into warm and cool and these are
actually waxy, oily. If you did paint something
over on top of them, they would resist, which is actually a really
cool technique. Then also, I have a
whole selection of different brand
watercolor pencils and then also regular
colored pencils. So we're not going to be using the pencils for work technique, we just want different colors. I like a lot of these colors. I like a lot of both of them. I will use mix and match. Whatever I find from both of them that goes in
our color palette. What I wanted to talk about
is that in our image, there's sections of this
where it's very dark. I think even though
the colors are very pretty, it's missing contrast. So you've got to think,
what is my painting missing so I can call it done. Well, For me, it's missing a bit more texture,
detail and contrast. I learned from my
amazing art teacher in high school to not
use black for shadows. Black sometimes deals down
a picture or a painting. Now, have I used
black in the past? Sure, but I normally go for more of a dark navy blue or purple. This is a royal blue. We'll experiment. I'm just trying to pull
out some things now. Even this is like a blue
gray or dark greens. I'm looking at dark greens now. Maybe neutral olive. I
don't really know yet. We'll see what we
go, but I'm still trying to keep in
our color palette. Maybe some extra pink and
then something for the sky. I'm not really sure yet, that's too early,
which we remember. Didn't use the teal even though some tear sort of things
popping through there. But look at this pretty e gray. Anyway, here are
a few things for us to try and we
will go from there.
8. Our Whimsical Landscape - Part 3: These are the colors
that I ended up pulling from my little jars over here. Does that mean I
won't pull more? No, I'm even doing
it as we speak. I don't want to go overboard, but that may be very pretty. And see, I'm already
getting pink in my sky. And these colors, dark blues, dark greens, a
little bit of pink. We'll see what we use and
maybe some texture for the sky or some
highlights we will see. Let's keep going. Now that
we're a little bit dry, I'm going to add some oh, yeah, I like the screen. I lost my image. There it is, okay. There's
a bit of greens over here. Push this back a little bit, but it's still high light. And then there's back here, we'll see if this is, maybe I'll use that neutral and
a bit of big bushes here. Again, it does not
have to be perfect, but this is just the
look I was going for. Maybe the bushes
have a highlight, our lights coming
from this side, and now we've also got
this line of trees. So look at that contrast area. I don't know if it
will remain like that, but that's what we're
going with right now. So there's a big
line of trees here. I'm just going to get it in. I don't know if it'll stay
like this or what, I'll add, but just to add a little interest
right now and there's even some trees over here. Let's add some of this neutral. This is the um, olive which
I absolutely love, love. This doesn't look so
out of the box green. Just while I am playing here, I just wanted to
remind you that this may not be a masterpiece. That's something
that you can sell or hang on your
wall or whatever. This is what I do quite often in my own process of
discovering new supplies, trying new techniques, trying to create something beautiful just for myself with
colors that I like, does not have to be real. It helps relax, um, in a lot of areas of life, because now I'm like, oh, wow, I love that pink and
that olive together and I maybe never would
have put that together. And now I'm discovering things. And also discovering
what I may not like, I may not know, I don't know. Just different things.
So it's just a way to, to learn and to grow and to
relax and to just have fun. It's a little bit
more highlight here, but I think I need a paler one. See, I'm grabbing more things. So that is, this color
isn't that cool. And this is actually
quite white up here because we did put it
a little bit of highlight. So I'm pressing very lightly now so you can
see the pink underneath. And look at that texture. That's the water
color paper texture that I absolutely adore. Let's put, I don't even know, and I haven't even
used pencil yet. Let's see if we can get some. Oh yeah, Look, this is
just, I want some trees. This is trees. So I'm
doing a bit of scribbly. We're trying to give
the impression of a forest of trees, branches, and even just down here,
is this what you would do? Probably not, And that's why I'm dying to see
what you guys create. Because look, I'm drawing into the oil pestle here
because I didn't want those big chunks here. There's quite a few little
trees down the hill over here. My point is, let's go in
with this darker blue. Oh, this needs a bit of a
sharp and midnight blue. That's good enough for now because this will even
make more contrast. Not to be funny,
but just to show you that the
reconstitute with water, you can create different
techniques like that. This is what's fun
about mixed media. I'm using my wrong hand here, but look at that and then if you don't love it, dab it back off. But even that creates
some cool effects, or if you just want to
put a bit of wet like this and then draw into it, it's very fun as well. I actually love to do
drawing onto a wet paper. Of course, this is not
a watercolor class and you do not have to do that. But this is part of
the fun when you can embellish and see
look at those shadows. Now, my dark, I think I'm
going to do just that. I want shadows here.
I want shadows here. Actually, the lights
coming from this side. So the shadows
would be this way. See, look at that. Shadows
coming from this way. Little trees. Let's do some more water and
shadows on here. Oh, I quite like this is
the door went blue gray. That's quite nice
'cause it's not as, um, let's next some
into here too then. It's not as bright as this one. Even though I love that color, I'm going to neutralize
it down a little bit. Play, have fun. Then I did want
to show you this. I don't use these all the time, but they're one of
my favorite things. I put my own acrylic
paint in these. I actually put paints gray in this one,
white in this one. And I have some
Asonickel gold, I think, and antelope brown acrylic ink. I do have white over
here because white always adds pops of high light. See, you don't need a lot, you don't want to
overdo it and make it so bright that now
it looks like you are lights shining everywhere on the tops of some
of these trees. Maybe in some of these dead
trees. Even that is great. But now if you want
a liquid thing, this adds amazing detail
which I'm about to show you. Hopefully I don't squeeze out. Just test it over here.
Do you see the dots? Maybe there's some little
flowers on the front here, but also because
it's liquid ink, I can just say I wanted
to do a little bit more of a bright wash over here. I put a little bit down. And then using a watery
brush as a water color, I'm doing a wash now. I've got some more bright in
the sky. Do you see that? Maybe I just wanted the sun
to be coming more over there. If it's too much, push it back. But that is also another
cool way to use these inks. But of course, I'm
what a bit more us. But I think for now I am done and I cannot wait
to see what you create. Once it's dry, the
last thing that you need to do is
sign your work. So we look forward to seeing
you in the next class. Thank you so much
for joining me.
9. Thank You!: Also, don't forget to post discussions in the
discussion section on the skillshare platform, because that's where
you learn a lot from your peers and the teacher
and other teachers. There's a whole
community of people in skillshare that
are so talented and it's just a
great place to get to know people and to
learn from each other. Reach me on Instagram
or Facebook, whichever is your favorite. Definitely in the
discussion section on the skillshare platform, that is where we can
talk about things. And feel free to ask me any
questions that you have. Thank you for joining
me and happy creating. I cannot wait to
see what you make.
Taryn Brennan, Artist
