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Paint with Courage: Create Acrylic Abstract Eucalyptus paintings

teacher avatar George-Daniel Tudorache, Together we will create amazing things.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome

      0:59

    • 2.

      Materials

      1:20

    • 3.

      Background baby blue

      10:03

    • 4.

      Bold blue textures

      9:58

    • 5.

      Courageous Light turquoise textures

      7:16

    • 6.

      Dark turquoise eucalyptus

      12:27

    • 7.

      Light turquoise eucalyptus

      7:34

    • 8.

      Gold eucalyptus. Thank you :)

      7:38

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Do you have an artistic side and want to express it through painting but don't know how?

What if there was a course that could help you learn and paint confidently?

But the thought of having to mix a lot of different colors seems daunting to you?

Take this course and learn how to mix and blend different colors to effortlessly create stunning artworks that you will be proud of.

Learn how to paint with confidence and courage by taking this course that teaches you everything you need to know about analogous colors and teach you the fundamentals of acrylic painting.

From there we'll move onto learning techniques on creating texture, depth and volume in your paintings through mark making.

This is a course that will help you to create beautiful acrylic paintings with confidence.

You will be guided through the process of creating a painting from start to finish, with each section covering a different topic. Each lesson is designed to give you detailed information on how you can better your work, and how you can create paintings that stand out.

By the end of this course, you will know how to make unique and stunning paintings by playing with different types of contrasts and expanding your creative toolkit.

It doesn't matter whether you are a complete beginner or have some painting experience. This course will help you to learn paint with confidence and courage 

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George-Daniel Tudorache

Together we will create amazing things.

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Hello, I'm George

Together we will create amazing things.

Would you like to paint with more freedom or feeling?

You will be finding ways to develop your own way of applying paint and to compose the visual space.

You'll learn painting techniques used by professional artist to create elaborate works of art.

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1. Welcome: Hi, my name is George, and in today's course you will learn how to make this wonderful abstract painting width, okay, Polypterus, leaves and branches. In this one you will learn everything about confidence and courage when painting, you will also understand everything you need to know about analogous colors and how to harmonize them in order to make a beautiful decorative artwork using just a few simple tools as well as some well-placed guidance from yours truly, you'll make this artwork in no time. Don't worry. If you've never painted with acrylic before, this is the perfect course for you. This will be a very fun experience. All along the way, you'll be encouraged to make beautiful and nice marks on the canvas. Not only that, but you will get tips and tricks to guide you through your next creative adventures. Would all of that being said, Welcome to this wonderful course. 2. Materials: This course you will need just a few supplies. Let's go into them right now. You will need a canvas, a square canvas. This is a 50 by 50 centimeters and a big, beautiful brush. So you can fill in this big canvas with ease. You will also need around medium brush for making the leaves. You will also need a pallet knife for textures and to mix colors very thoroughly and to apply the color on the canvas. Liner brush if you have it in order to make lines. Don't worry. If you don't have the liner brush, you can always use the small flat brush in order to make the same fine, beautiful lines for the stems. For the paint, you'll need Amsterdam acrylic paint. This is white, brown. You will also need some blue. This is brilliant blue, as well as some reds. And of course, some yellow and some gold, as well as some paper towels in order to clean the brushes. That's all you need for this course. 3. Background baby blue: For this wonderful step, you will use the big flat brush in order to cover the whole canvas. You'll understand how important it is to press hard on the brush to make bold and courageous marks. For this, you will use only two colors, as well as around medium brush and a palette knife in order to mix the colors, the medium flat brush is very useful for creating beautiful and interesting edges in-between the colors you will lay down on the canvas. And now let's go into the step. Let's add some beautiful white on the mixing plates. The starting it here on the lower part of the plate, as well as some blue at the top. A tiny amount of loop, since this color will be mainly white. Grabbing the palette knife and starting to mix the two colors together, just adding a tiny amount of blue into the white. Mixing it together thoroughly until you have a homogeneous color. As you can see, it starts to look like a beautiful baby blue. You can also clean the palette knife onto the canvas just to have it nicely and clean. Grabbing the big flat brush and starting in the corner on the left side. As you can see, just going and covering all this beautiful corner width. The wonderful blue. Now going in the middle of the canvas and dragging the color down. Leaving the white of the canvas onto the left part and the top. Grabbing any hairs if you see them. Then continuing to brush down from top to bottom on this beautiful new shape. Let's add some more white to the mixing plate. Grabbing the palette knife once again, mixing the colors over. This time, much more white and light in color. A little bit messy, Don't worry. It's easy to clean. Let's put this big flat brush on the top and mixing the two colors together until they look like it's almost white, but it has a tiny amount of blue in the color. This is a very important step in order to get rid of the white on the canvas, starting with the palette knife, just cleaning it onto the lower part of the canvas, onto the right side corner. Now, grabbing the big flat brush and starting in the same right-hand side corner at the bottom. Moving a little bit higher and going a tiny bit into the shape in order to not leave any white of the canvas. Going even higher with the Scholar, you will cover the rest of the canvas. So wherever you see white just going up and then to the left going into the corner at the top, just brushing the color. It's very important to press very hard on the brush. To make courageous and bold marks. The brush will not apply color correctly if you don't press hard enough, this will come very handy later on when you make the leaves of the plants going lower onto the left-hand side of the canvas and just brushing in a little bit more of this color. You can also vary the way that you apply the color just going from side-to-side from top to bottom. And just covering, making sure all the edges and where the two colors starch are perfectly colored. Grabbing the round medium brush, mixing in some color into it and start dragging towards the right from the blue and making those edges much more defined and nice. Okay? Going and wherever you see some undecided, fluffy edges, you can start to press down onto the brush and take more color. And do this once again, just pressing, focusing on the edges where the darker blue meets the lighter blue. Also tried to break down and make some small shapes. Just Near the edges, just a little bit more into the Blue going to the corner on the top. You can also go to make more shapes into the white. And then you can go and add some more shapes. At the top. You can dance around with the brush, just making some straight lines, some points just making horizontal dots and horizontal lines. Don't go overboard. Just write to focus on where the shapes are not very decisive. And also keep in mind to press hard in order to make bold and courageous marks. Going lower. And continuing with this beautiful color, just cutting that wonderful corner. And then in the middle of the canvas, making some more runaway edges. Perfect. Now grabbing some more blue, mixing in with the white. If you don't have enough white, you can always put more on the plate, mixing it thoroughly. And then right in-between the edges starting to add this wonderful darker blue. It doesn't have to be this dark. As you can see. We can make it tiny bit more light by mixing it into the white, right here onto the left. Mix it together and now breaking the edges towards the white, you first broken the edges from the white into the blue. Now you're breaking the edges from the blue into the white. So there is a play. And as you can see, if you don't have enough color, the brush will not make very decisive marks. So make sure you grab enough color onto the brush. You can also start blending a little bit of this color into the blue just to give it more texture. Grabbing some more color and going into the blue as well as into the white. To break those wonderful edges. Of course, let's do a tiny bit of a shape just going down from the top on the right corner. This is a very simple shape, as you can see, it's a square and then it has a medium, beautiful square onto the left-hand side, a beautiful rectangle. Just going and filling it in width, the color, and then going lower and making a runaway brush mark as well as going onto the right, Just making the shape a little bit more complex, even though it's almost entirely made out of rectangles going towards the corner and connecting it. It goes outside of the canvas, going even lower and creating another shape just going down. Let's blend a little bit into the middle over the blue, just to make those first few marks a bit more integrated, going higher and integrating a tiny bit of those edges as well. Pressing down. And then going lower to make those edges maybe a tiny bit more fluffy. And grabbing some more blue to make this shape on the right side just a tiny bit more interesting. Just a few more touches. There you go with this step. In this step you'll learn how important it is to press very hard on the brush and have enough color in order to cover the canvas. One of the most common mistakes that beginner painters make is not having enough color on the palette as well as in the brush. And another one is to not press hard enough on the brush. If you follow these important tips, your paintings will become much, much more beautiful. Now let's go into the next step. 4. Bold blue textures: And now that the painting is dry, you can start to play with some beautiful turquoise. In order to make this beautiful turquoise, you will need only three colors, blue, yellow, and white. This is a very important milestone in your painting. You will learn that confidence and courage when applying colors is a very mechanical thing. What this means is that you don't really need all the knowledge in the world to have confidence to put color on the painting, you only need to press hard enough and be decisive. This also applies to life, whatever you do with courage, even though we don't always have all the knowledge in the world. And now let's go into this step. Make sure that the painting is dry. Once again. Adding some yellow to the mixing plates, as well as some blue over the blue that you already have. Grabbing the left knife and starting to mix that blue and adding a tiny bit of yellow into it in order to make a beautiful turquoise. Mixing it very well together and adding some more yellow in order to make the turquoise much more beautiful. As you can start to see, the turquoise is emerging out of the blue. Just mixing it very well. And then separating two piles, one on the bottom and one in the middle. Start applying with the palette knife, pressing it hardly on the canvas. And making a beautiful square. As you can see, these are very simple shapes. It's actually a beautiful square. Once you've done that, you can grab the big flat brush, take some color and start mixing in that color just going lower and lower with the brush. In order to create some variety. Try to rotate the brush 90 degrees in order to make different marks. And don't forget to press on the brush in order to make bold, courageous. Marx, going onto the left side, starting to add some more lines, just going horizontal. And then pressing even harder, grabbing some more color to make this wonderful turquoise stand out even more. Going a little bit faster onto the right sides of this shape and then lower. And then going on to the top side corner onto the right and starting to add the beautiful color just over there. Grabbing the round brush, taking some color and going on the bottom side of the shape onto the left, doing the same exact thing wherever the edges are fluffy and undecided, you can press harder with this brush in order to make them much more visible. Going even lower a tiny bit outside of the shapes, just as you did in the previous step, just breaking that edge and in the middle of the Canvas, some runaway shapes then moving towards the top corner. In order to add some of this, I'm taking some more color and then going on the right-hand side, shape at the bottom and making some runaway edges going lower and adding some more edges, adding some white to the mixing plates, and then starting to mix it with the palette knife over the turquoise. This is why the turquoise at the bottom is very important. Now you can mix it into the white. So you'd now have to make it once again. It needs to be a bit darker than the blue that you've applied. In the last step. Look at how beautiful and interesting this color looks. Adding some more yellow into it. Not a lot, just a tiny bit to make it nicer, just a little bit into this corner. Now you have two colors that you can play with. One is more yellow and one is more blue. Getting the palette knife and cleaning it over the shape in the middle, right side, at the top. Grabbing the round brush, filling it up with some color and making some bold. Marks on the same shape and going towards the middle of the canvas a little bit. Then going to the right and lower to create some more of these interesting shapes and colors, super easy to make. Just go horizontal or vertical with your brush marks. Grab any hairs if your brush has left some on the canvas, going into the left side and straight into the middle of the shape, just applying some more of this color, going a little bit lighter, then going a little bit lower as well, just extending this shape, as you can see, it started to have three layers of depth to width, going higher at the top and adding some more shapes. Going also in the middle of the shape just faster and looser, grabbing some more color and moving towards the left side. Then going lower over the white, mixing it in a little bit, just blending. You can also add some blending to make it a little bit more interesting. Then over the blending you can put bold, nice mark, moving higher to the top right corner, adding some more color. Just on the right side of this shape. And then going to the left and lower. Making some beautiful marks. Press it hard and make it beautiful. Now comes the beautiful yellowish turquoise. And going on to the lower part of the canvas, onto the right side and into the middle of the shape. Now in the middle of the canvas and moving a little bit lower, just press very hard. And then you can also blend in a tiny bit just to add some more interesting shapes in the middle, just calm down the shape. And then continuing with the bold moves, just going lower. Now a beta bit higher over the turquoise at the top, making another beautiful shape onto the right side, just going out of the canvas. A little bit higher above the right-hand side shape. Grabbing some more color and moving to the left-hand side, looking for another place to put another shape. And here it is at the bottom of the canvas a little bit more towards the left. Just making a beautiful long shape and with a few runaways, just making it beautiful, grabbing some more blue to mix it into this color just to make that turquoise much more blue. Then some more yellow turquoise over it. Just to adds a few interesting shapes connecting the two shapes together in the middle of the canvas and making some more runaway edges. Going higher. And adding another beautiful shape just over here onto the left-hand side and connecting it to the middle shape that is lower, adding some more blue to the color in order to make that turquoise lot more different. And then some more of this yellow turquoise over it. Going with this bluish turquoise over the shape onto the right middle part. And then a bit lower. There you go with this simple and easy step. In this step you've played with turquoise, you've made horizontal and vertical lines as well as played a little bit with the palette knife. And now you have a deeper understanding on how to make courageous and bold marks on the canvas. Remember, you don't need all the knowledge in the world to make a bold and courageous move. You only need to press harder on the brush after the painting is dry, you can go into the next step. 5. Courageous Light turquoise textures: Until now for this painting, you've painted with blue and turquoise. These are called analogous colors. You've also played width, a little bit of dark and light contrast with the white background and the darker colors on the foreground. If the colors you are using are on the same slice of the color wheel, then they are called analogous colors. For instance, if you take a blue, you could go and add a little bit of red into it and make it a tiny bit purple. Or you can get and add some green or some yellow into it to make it a tiny bit more green. And the colors adjacent to it would be analogous. This is called analogous contrast. Now you will expand this analogous contrast by adding a little bit more yellow into the turquoise and some whites. Now let's go into the step. Now that the painting is dry, you can add some more white on the mixing plate. Grabbed the LET knife, add some yellow over the turquoise encase the turquoise is dry as well. You can make it by adding some more blue into it. Making this beautiful yellow, turquoise. And cleaning the palette knife once again into the middle of the canvas just in this beautiful shape as well as onto the right side. Middle. Just dragging it, adding some more white into the color, mixing it thoroughly to get her in order to have more veins. Just dabbing that palette knife and then mixing it some more. Looking at the color, it looks wonderful. Dabbing the palette knife and mixing it a tiny bit more. Pressing on the canvas in the middle, on the left-hand side. And making some beautiful shapes going down and to the right and then to the left. Just like that, adding some more color onto the palette knife and going higher in the shape onto the right side, going lower towards the middle, grabbing some of that color and putting it back over again. You can also scrape with the black knife and apply the color again. Going higher with this beautiful palette knife onto the left-hand side corner. And dragging the color up. Making some beautiful shapes. Going lower over this beautiful shape at the bottom in the left-hand side corner. Just going and making some shapes and then moving a little bit higher, taking some more color. Going on to the top right-hand side, corner and over the shape, just grabbing and putting some texture with the palette knife, mixing the colors a little bit thoroughly with a tiny bit more white. And then going onto the right side to make some more crispy and beautiful shapes at the middle of the canvas. Just dancing width, this beautiful palette knife. And then deciding where to put this wonderful color right here at the bottom, in closer to the middle of the canvas. And then let's decide to make a little bit more onto the left side, in the middle of the canvas. Then going to the right side and moving a little bit lower from the middle. In-between the shape. Just adding some more of this dabbing motion over the darker colors. Just creating more texture. Grabbing some more color. Looking for a perfect spot. Let's connect this top left shape with the edge of the canvas. Grabbing some blue mixing it over this light turquoise. Just in the middle of the plate, grabbing some yellow and making some darker turquoise. With this darker turquoise, you can add it over the textures in the right side shape and in the middle of the canvas, as well as at the bottom. On the lower shape. Rubbing some more color and adding it into the middle beak shape, as well as at the top of this big shape. Moving a little bit to the right in the middle of the canvas. Just hire and dragging some more of this turquoise going up. Perfect. Some more paste, some more interesting shapes. And then moving lower onto the right-hand side corner and adding some more based and textures. Now in the middle of the canvas, just a tiny bit of color over the light yellowish, turquoise. And some more textures onto the left-hand side, just to break down that darker blue. And on the right, tiny bit more textures. Grabbing the round brush and mixing it in with this color, going and adding some more relaxed shapes so they don't have so much texture going. And also adding some more edges, some more clearly defined edges, press down and then would a few touches. You can make those shapes and textures more calm. It needs to be a tiny bit more calm. That's the beautiful step. As you can see, you've expanded the analogous contrast by adding some beautiful lighter tones. Not only dad, but you've played with the rough textures created by the palette knife, and then you calm them down. Width, the round medium brush, this way alternating between calm, peaceful areas and more texture. Once, Let's let the painting dry and go into the next step. 6. Dark turquoise eucalyptus: This is one of the most exciting parts of the course. You'll be playing with some botanical elements, namely some alcoholic. For this, you'll need only three colors, blue, yellow, and brown, and some brushes, the same medium round brush, another liner brush and a small flat brush. You can either use the liner brush or the small flat brush in order to make the stems. Both of them work gorgeously. Now let's go into the step with some fresh and clean brushes, as well as the plate, you can add some blue onto it. Just at the top. Squish a little bit of blue, adding some brown onto the right of the plate. And now grabbing some of this blue with the mixing palette knife and mixing it well together with a tiny bit of brown. Just mix it together. You can hold the plate so you can press a little bit harder. Look at this beautiful turquoise. Who knew? You can make a beautiful dark turquoise with brown. Brown is basically an orange color. Now, adding some yellow to the top of the plate, just to make this even more turquoise. Going towards a little bit of a green, a very blue greenish color, mixing it thoroughly in the middle of the plate. Then, once you've mixed the colors together, squeeze that color off of the palette knife and grab the liner brush. This is a liner brush, as you can see, it has very long fibers and going from the opposite way, just holding the brush up and going with a beautiful line, just grabbing some more color. And going towards the right over the shape onto the right side. And making it longer and longer as you go. Try to continue with, once you come back to the Canvas, tried to continue it from a little bit lower than the end's. Going the opposite way. Just touch up that beautiful line. Now going from the bottom when another one crossing over the first one and going towards the left, as you can see, it has another beautiful angle. And then going over the textures, of course, over the textures, you might need to press a bit harder onto the brush to make it visible. Going higher on the first line into the white and going towards the corner. As you can see, you can also use this wonderful small flat brush. And going from the left-hand side corner a little bit higher. And going with the flat brush, as you can see, it can make very thin lines as well. Extending the second line. Now going and making another line just coming out of the first line you've drawn. And continuing going on the left side and making that beautiful line extend even more. Then going and adding another line, this time going down towards the bottom on the left corner. Don't worry if it's two a thick going and adding some more color and extending the line towards the left this time with another runaway. For another interesting one, Let's go and add another line at the top, just coming down. Not very long, and then extend it to the bottom just a tiny bit, little runaway. Grabbing the big round brush, the medium round brush, and adding just a beautiful leaf in the middle of the canvas. This is a very simple shape. You go to the left and to the right. You can also add another one, smaller at the top. It doesn't matter if the line that you've drawn doesn't connect them together, you will connect them later. Then you can also make a beautiful leaf just going horizontal, just to cut. A very organic one. For the next one you can make it rounder and bigger. Now going and alternating towards the left bar to making another one. This time a little bit more round and big. Going higher onto the second branch and making another beautiful leaf, just pressing hard on the brush and making it rounds and then adding some more color to fill in that shape. As you can see, those shapes are each different from the last one. The differ quite a bit. They don't seem like they are copy paste shapes. Try to think of how you can vary the lines. You can either make it more horizontal, more big, or small. Let's make another small one at the top. And on the second one on the right, just make one at the end and the small little one, I'm going to the left and one cutting the stem. And in just to the right, a bigger one, just pressing harder. This is where those bold marks will come very handy. And going and cutting the stem at the bottom, as well as going with some leaves outside of the canvas, can also edit those shapes a little bit more so they seem more flat. And going onto the right side and making another round one. And grabbing some more color. As you can see, every time you paint another big leaf, you need to grab some more color. And going into the middle of the canvas with a few small little leaves going lower and then cutting the stem with one single stroke. Then another one just lower onto the right, this time, a tiny bit more round and one at the top, just cutting the two stems. And it's a tiny bit bigger as well. Now let's make this one a bit more different. Going towards the top, changing that one because it's way too small. Just a few touches. So they seem more leafy. Going into the middle of the intersection of the three and adding another leaf and lowering to finish this beautiful branch and another rounder one. And going a little bit lower and making beautiful round leaf as well as onto the right. It doesn't matter that they don't have any stems. If it fits. You can draw the stem later. Let's change it up a little bit and go to the top. Make some beautiful shapes just over here. Don't worry, the color has not changed. It's just a little bit lighter because of the studio lights. And going a bit to the top of the stem and adding some more smaller leaves at the top. You can also add another one just coming out of the edge of the canvas. Going towards the left side this time, and adding another one continuing up on the middle stem. Higher can start to see how if you press, you can also control those brush marks beautifully and then just touch and make a smaller one and a medium one. Very important thing as well. Creating smaller, bigger and medium leaves and shapes going in between those two beautiful branches as well as lower it. It fits quite nicely. A leaf over here. Taking that small, beautiful flat brush and making some more stems, just going towards the leaves. Now it's time to connect those beautiful leaves as well as make some new ones where you can fit another beautiful stem just coming out of the first ones or independence. Let's make another one just over here, going towards those two runaway leaves and make some new ones just coming out of this beautiful stem. And a smaller one at top. And continuing the stem. Perfect. Let's run them out a little bit and make it even smaller. One at the end. Connecting on the right side, connecting those beautiful stems. Just a tiny bit with the leaves. Let's find some more connections right over here in the middle. And making this beautiful line connecting those two leaves. And adding another smaller leaf at the top. And connecting it. Look at how beautiful it is. And an even smaller one just over here, are a little bit bigger. Doesn't really matter. Going lower and adding another beautiful leaf and another stem just going down. There you go with this wonderful step. In this step you've played with some bold shapes for the leaves, but you've also tried to make them much more tame in order to have a leaf shape. You've come closer and closer towards understanding and controlling every mark you make, but also making it with confidence. You've also played around with some lines, learning how to use the liner brush and that you can use a small flat brush in order to make those beautiful thin lines. And now let's go into the next step. 7. Light turquoise eucalyptus: In this step, just to make the painting more interesting, you'll add some more branches of locally. But this time making the color lighter and more vibrant. You'll be guided to understand how to make more courageous marks and brush handling. And of course, expanding some more on the analogous color contrast and slowly building your beautiful abstract toolkit to make many more paintings. Let's go into the step with some white on the mixing plate, some blue and some yellow mixing. A lighter version of this wonderful turquoise green. Don't make it to green, just add enough blue to make it nice and beautiful. Just mixing in some more white width, the big round brush. No stems, you will be creating the stems at the end. It's easier this way. And you'll learn how to think and position those beautiful leaves. Small tip is to put light colors over dark ones. Let's also, let's position this brush handle in order to find the right way where the stem is. So right over here in-between the middle ones. Let's start with a round beautiful leaf at the bottom. And then going to the left and then varying to the right over the intersection of the stems. And even hire a smaller one. On the right side of the stem. You can imagine the stem just winding to the right and to the left and making a bigger one over this beautiful leaf, covering it and making it more contrast. Now going towards the middle with another beautiful stem. Just imagining it. And let's cut a little bit of this leaf that doesn't look proper. And then lower, just making another round beautiful leaf. Then going higher and adding another one. Trying to imagine the stem just going higher on top of it and seeing where the next leaf would be. Then not a one, just a smaller one at the top and knee even smaller one at the end. Going onto the right side, at the bottom. Trying to find where the stem is, just imagining it, drawing it in your mind with the brush and then going in on the right side of this beautiful stem and a little bit lower, just trying to see where this stem fits and a little bit lower making another one just coming out from the bottom edge of the canvas. Now going higher over the first stem and onto the left side with another smaller one. Towards the middle. It seems like this stem will be in the middle. And a smaller leaf and an even smaller one. Look at how beautiful the contrast is. Width this new found color. Going onto the left side of these two beautiful stems and making two smaller leaves this time and making a small gesture going towards the left and making a cutaway leaf, the one-step cut the stem and a smaller one, as you can see, it curves towards the left. Okay, there you go with the beautiful leaves sound. Let's go and get the small flat brush. Take some color onto it. Going onto the left side and adding the beautiful stem and connecting it towards the top. Then taking some more color and adding it over the leaves to make them whole again. Wonderful. You can also add some more leaves if you feel like they need a few more. Going from the bottom, put a curve trying to find that stem where it fits perfectly. It's a windy, beautiful stem going towards the middle of the canvas. Let's accentuate it the other way around. And then connect a little bit of the leaves with the stem with some beautiful small lines going over the leaves that you've passed with the brush over and making them nice and flat. Once again, adding some more color if it needs. Okay, going over to the right, making this beautiful stem in the middle, and then going towards the left a little bit, going over the leaves and making another one just on the left side because it had a small empty spots. Making the leaves at tiny bit more interesting by adding more color. And then going forward the last beautiful stem, right in-between the first one's going down, grabbing some more color just to make it more visible. Okay? Now going and making a small leaf at the top and accentuating the ones lower. Connecting them together. In case they are on the right or the left of the beautiful stem, grabbing some more of that color and making another beautiful leaf with the big brush because we've picked up a tiny bit of white. Nice. You can also edit a little bit of the leaves, maybe add another one a little bit higher up the stem. And there you go with this beautiful step. In this one, you've learned how to handle the brush even better because now you know how to make those leaves and those stands. And you've also learned how to position to make the composition even better by imagining the shapes first and then painting them. You've also extended the analogous contrast by making those leaves little bit more yellow. And you've touched a little bit on the light and dark contrast because those stems and leaves are lighter. And let's go into the next step. 8. Gold eucalyptus. Thank you :): And of course, every painting needs something special for this one is gold acrylic paint. You will use the small flat brush as well as the medium round brush in order to make some more leaves and branches, this will make the painting look absolutely amazing. Let's go into the course. Okay, let's put some Amsterdam acrylic gold onto the mixing plate. Just a little bit as fine. Right over here in the left side of the plate, grabbing the medium flat brush, starting to find where this branch will fit. Right over here. As you can see, the gold is a little bit transparent, so put a tiny bit more than usual on the canvas. Let's try to find where this branch would go. It seems like right over here in-between the dark and the light one. Just another beautiful leaf. Let's see. Let's go with another one just coming out of the edge of the canvas and moving higher with a smaller leaf and uneven smaller, one higher, start to see. It moved quite nicely to the right with a curve and another smaller one just at the top. Going and finding another place for a branch. And deciding to go over it. Onto the very dark green one with another leaf and a smaller one below. Let's round it up. Let's go higher for another smaller, beautiful leaf and another even smaller, one higher. Grabbing some more paint just to add those leaves at the bottom. Now, moving to the left side and trying to find a rhythm to the beautiful branches. And let's go from the side. Just to break those branches a bit more. Over here, let's find where it would go just like this. Going over the dark green one once again and then another one just a bit higher. Another smaller one. Continuing. This time, a little bit more straight. Then lower. Another one right by d edge of the canvas. Forward into the middle of the canvas. As you can see, they start to become smaller and smaller. And let's put more paint on them just so data are not transparent. And make the first one is a bit bigger. Let's dance a little. Maybe we find another beautiful space. Maybe just going up from the first branch on the left, right over here, over the dark leaf and the dark stem. And even higher, again still over the dark leaf, because it contrasts way more with the darker color. And going a bit in-between just to put another leaf. This one on the right needs a little bit more color. And then going higher and trying to find where it continues. Just to put two more leaves and maybe make this one a bit bigger. Let's grab the small flat brush, getting some color. Make of course, the stems starting from the right-hand side connecting them. And also not forgetting to go slowly in order to make the stem very beautiful and put more color on top of the leaves just to fill them up. Once again, if you cross them over. Perfect. Going forward the second one on the left, and continuing slowly loading up the brush every time you need some more paint. And then continuing lower and lower. Let's make another leaf over here on the left, going lower until it reaches that downside of the beautiful edge. Going on the left side, trying to see if another branch fits. And then going and making the stem going to the right towards the middle of the canvas. Going a bit faster with this one. Since it is much more easy to draw a line going away from the body. And of course, let's go with the branch. It's connected to the first one onto the top side just going and making this beautiful curve and adding some more paint to the leaves. Maybe another leaf on the left of this branch. Going a bit higher and filling in this leaf. Just a few more touches to add some more color onto the leaves wherever they seem more transparent. On the left and in the middle. Just adding with the small fat brush. Taking Golf, any hairs that you see and putting in some more color. Perfect. Look at how beautiful this gold looks. Just a few more touches and you will be done with this painting. Let's find another spot for a beautiful leaf just over here on the left. There you go with this wonderful step. What a wonderful and simple course. This was such an easy and free-flowing experience. You've learned so much about analogous colors as well as how to paint with confidence and with courage. Thank you so much for being part of this community and see you in the next course. Bite away in the next course will be connected and intertwined with this one, things that you learned here can be applied in the next one about abstract painting.