Painting with Freedom Acrylic Abstract paintings and Vibrant Colors

1. Welcome: Hi. My name is George and I've been an artist for over 10 years. I've studied architecture in a high-school and then moved on to six years of art school in sculpture and painting. I've been part of many exhibitions, both group and solo shows. During this time, I've developed the passion for teaching both online and in-person. Working with both adults and children, I've developed a very special method of teaching that focuses more on the project and the experience and joy that the student feels when painting, and gradually going into some beautiful, well-placed guidance in order to create this wonderful painting. In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about color and color harmony. This might sound complicated, however, with some well-placed exercises and tricks, you will learn how to play with colors with freedom. This class has some big goals, is meant to teach you more about painting and color than four years of art school, in just one hour and some minutes without feeling like a boring informational course. Everything will be fun, free-flowing, and with a lot of laughter. If that sounds exciting to you, let's start playing with colors. 2. Materials: For the course, you will need a few materials. You can use any size canvas. This is a square canvas. It's a 35 by 35 centimeters. Also a mixing plate, a palette knife to mix those colors onto the plate, and a medium round brush. It's a very simple and beautiful brush to make wonderful shapes, and a big flat brush. This is from the hardware store to make flats big shapes. You'll also need some Amsterdam acrylic paint. This is white, this is yellow, some blue, and some reds, and of course, some neon pink. You'll be using the primary colors in order to learn more about mixing beautiful and wonderful colors. That's all you need for this course. Let's go into the project. 3. Before you start: Before you start, there are some key concepts and ideas that are needed for this course. You don't need to make the exercises, the information is enough to get you through the process. However, if you wish to play around with the exercise, you will get a deeper understanding. Now let's go and play with a few compositions. 4. Simple and fun color tricks: After simple and fun color exercise, you will know more about color than 90 percent of people. Now let's play a little bit with colors. Let's first talk about analogous color contrast. We have here a white, yellow, and then we can put an orange. We can put a darker and less saturated orange. We can also add a light brown and the dark brown in order to have a beautiful array of analogous colors. Of course, this is going towards the warm side of yellow. You can also go towards the cool side of yellow by going towards the green. This is what we are going to do in the painting. Now you know that when it comes to analogous colors, you can go towards some warmer tones or some cooler tones, depending on what color you choose. 5. Make your own color wheels : For this exercise, you will learn everything about shapes and how to position them in the right order. Let's have some fun with shapes. This time, with some green analogous colors, you can start to position the big shapes first. If you put the big shapes first, then you can have more freedom in putting down other beautiful shapes. This is called big, medium, small. But when it comes to the order, you don't always have to put it like this; big, medium, small. You can have it big, small, medium. You can vary the shapes around in order to create more interesting compositions. Let's add another big shape, this time, a little bit more green, lighter in tone, and also add some small shapes onto the edges of the big ones that you've put first. You can already start to see how easy everything becomes. Going further and introducing a little bit, since we moved so much in the cold area of colors, we can now introduce a little bit of blue over here. Let's put a big shape just over here and some smaller ones just to make it more interesting. If you want, you can now go towards the orange as well to learn a little bit more about color. Let's place a big one here, and then let's find another small one over here, and add another medium one just over here. This brings us to another beautiful lesson, which is to have clean colors. Don't worry, you will get specific details on how to have your clean colors in the actual project of this course. Of course, you don't need to have all of these colored papers around to understand colors better. You can just play around with your own colors, make them, and paint on a canvas. Much simpler to do. This is just a teaching device. Going into another beautiful exercise about color, let's start seeing how we can create our own color wheel, and from an analogous contrast, move closer and closer to a more complete color contrast. Let's start working with some orange from here and create this beautiful analogous color contrast. From orange, we can create it towards the green as well. Let's put the lighter version first. Perfect. Then you can continue from the brown towards the red. Let's move them a little bit lower, and then you can add a beautiful pink and a lighter version of this pink just over here. From the green, you can go towards a blue and a more turquoise version. I think they are the opposite way. Turquoise is much closer to green than blue and a darker, beautiful blue. We can also add this wonderful color, since it's closer to the blue, it will seem more purple if we add it on top. You can start to see what a beautiful color wheel we have. Some people tend to stay away from different colors, for example, browns, but you can start to see how beautiful browns look if you integrate them in an analogous color contrast, as well as add some other vibrant colors on top. Brown and gray colors are very useful to bring out the vibrancy of other colors. If you have a bedrock of gray and brown colors, whenever you put a vibrant color on top, it will seem even more vibrant than just on its own. Well, of course, the table is a little bit brownish, so it will seem vibrant as well. Another very important thing that people get wrong about colors is moving too fast towards more interesting colors they like. Whenever you move towards a color, try to gradually move on the color wheel in order to not find yourself having gray or brown colors if you don't need them. Analogous colors move very easily in-between them. If you go from this orangey color, towards this green, it will move nicely and organically. It will harmonize very easily together. But if you move from this orange to this pink, you will obtain a gray, muddy color that is not pleasant to the eye. When it comes to analogous colors, you don't really need a lot of changing and cleaning the palate, and waiting for the painting to dry. You can work through them and continue until things get a little bit too gray or too muddy, but they do move and harmonize very well together. Problems can arise whenever you are moving from the warm to the cold or from the cold to the warm side. That's when you need to clean your palate and your brush in order to have and keep those colors vibrant, and then let them harmonize with other beautiful, warmer colors as you gradually apply them. As you can see, there are a lot of things to talk about when it comes to colors. However, for now, this is all you need for this course. 6. Fun composition secrets : Let's now play around with a little bit of compositional theory. It's just playing around with shapes. It can be very easy. You can just draw around some analogous colors, small and then big, just draw them around. Try to think just a tiny bit about big, medium, small, and grouping the colors together. Also, try to add some breaks into the shapes. You can position it like this and break the shape. You can start to see two beautiful shapes that are the same. Just one more shape over here and it breaks that wonderful illusion. Over here, you can start to see two shapes that are very big. If we overlap them a little bit, then this is a big one, this is a small one, and we can add another smaller one on the other side. Group this a little bit more, so it instantly becomes better. We can also add some more long shapes over here. Maybe move this one somewhere over here and add another beautiful rounder shape just over here. Now, this one is quite similar to this one. Let's just turn it around and see if we can make it a tiny bit bigger. We can also position it just over here so it creates some sort flowing. Now we've moved into this beautiful analogous colors, very fast and loose. You don't have to worry too much about it as long as you know that you need to work from light to dark, it's very easy. Now we can make this brown a little bit more warm by adding some red and keep it still as dark or even darker and play around a little bit more with these beautiful shapes. Now we would clean our brush and our palette in order to go towards the cooler side of the color wheel. You can start to see how as we go towards darker tones and more cooler tones, the composition has started to become much more interesting. We've added another element to the composition. At this point, you can go even darker and cooler. Maybe add some beautiful complimentary contrast just over here with the orange and the turquoise. We can also put a medium shape of turquoise and overlap it just over here coming out of the edge, move this a little bit more down. You can start to see how easy it is to just play with this wonderful color. Now we have a little bit of turquoise here, but we might want to balance it out by adding another one just outside over here. Now let's just make this color a little bit lighter, creating the analogous color contrast. This might go well, just over here as well. Let's just keep it very simple and add the dark blue. So we've worked from light green towards a turquoise and then a blue, and now a darker blue. We can complete the beautiful analogous color contrast just over here, and then add another complimentary over the orange. You can start to see how they easily harmonize once you know a little bit of the rules, how easy it is to just find a place for the colors. Now, this red over here does not have some analogous contrast, so we need to add some pink and some smaller shapes. Try to keep in mind big, medium, small. Maybe change it with this bigger one and this one needs a small one as well over the orange over here. This area needs a tiny bit of color and maybe coming out of the shape. Let's throw in some very light pink as well over here coming out of the side of the canvas. To go over the basics, you need first to start from big, just the big canvas, a bit smaller but still big, and then medium, and then smaller. First with some analogous colors and then clean the palette when you move towards some more cool colors. That's how easy it is to move around and play with a composition once you know the rules. Rules in painting create freedom. You first need to know the rules in order to know how to break them in the right way. 7. Order : You can start to see that this is advance. Let's clean up a little bit and start having a tiny bit of fun. When you're taking out the big shapes, the composition looks much more dull, even though it has the same colors. Having so many little things in the composition makes it so much less interesting, less colorful, less dynamic and vibrant. As you can see, you can learn a lot about color by just ordering them and putting them in beautiful piles like this. When it comes to colors, it's a very interesting way of playing and organizing colors and then disharmonizing them, disorganizing them and letting the paint have its own thing. Because if you only use these kinds of shapes and you don't use texture, for instance, when using a palette knife, you could take this color and smudge it and create textures, break the edges, and make some fun and interesting chaos. Too orderly can be boring. Everybody knows this from cleaning their house. For some people, it's fun. Some people might like cleaning their house. This is the same with painting. Everybody forgets that you should have fun and play. Then try to make it nice and beautiful. 8. Synergy within colors : Let's play around with another composition and explain to you a little bit of the thought process and some stuff that you need to keep in mind when painting. For instance, you don't need to remember everything all the time. You can just play around, let the information you've soaked in come through in what you are doing. Throw some paint around like this, papers around like this and then say, okay, it seems like I don't have a really small shape. If I put it over here and I make it like this, it seems like it gets cut over there. It also makes a river over here and over there. Or maybe I want to dis-harmonize them. Then on the other side, make another breakaway. This is very easy and simple. You don't always have to keep in mind everything. You don't have to remember all those beautiful details. You can just play around and see what happens as you go along since this is about having fun. Let's throw some more green over here and now, let's go into the beautiful blues. Let's put some bigger shapes of blue just over here, maybe over here, and one smaller one over here, a bit lower over the edge. This one on this side, just coming out of this edge, and we need a small one maybe over here. Another small one just over here. Going into some turquoise, now you can start to think about where this can fit. It can only fit close to some blue since it will create that beautiful analogous contrast. You can position it first a little bit more to the side and then put the blue over here and now these two feel connected to this one because here they overlap. Now going into another more complex shape, you can put it over the green and create more contrast. You can create much more interesting colors. But when you do, consider the fact that if the paint is wet, it will make a little bit of a desaturated color. So it will be something in-between this green and this blue. Now let's go even darker with some medium shapes of blue. Let's put it over here making a lot of light and dark contrast, but also having some shapes maybe looking like this. Then make another smaller one and we can finish this contrast over here by also adding some turquoise just here, and another blue one over here so it completes this wonderful analogous contrast and we've now transitioned to a dark color. We can clean our brush and our palettes and go towards some warmer tones. You can start with warmer tones if the paint is not dry in the light areas first. So you don't mix too much of the colors. You can start to see that the shapes have become smaller and smaller in order to not go overboard and ruin the big shapes. Let's put this one over here to create some nice and wonderful contrast, with the blue and orange being almost opposites. Now going darker to a brown, let's throw in some shape, group them together just over here, creating a light and dark contrast, and then over the green over here and one on the edge just over here. This will be very nicely once we add the red, and we need a medium red. Maybe very contrasting with the green in the corner, and then moving it towards the other green and another wonderful one just over here, over the green and it also might need a medium shape. Let's change this one with a smaller one and add another medium one over here. Let's take a step back and see what we can improve. The first thing that sticks out is this edge not having anything come out of it. Let's put a beautiful green over here and maybe some orange because medium, small. Now there is a little bit of a mistake over here, since we've gone from very saturated red and not considered the fact that we might need some pinks. Now we need to clean our brush and our palette in order to have this beautiful pink stand out and be vibrant. After we put it around here and over here, the blue and the green, add another one smaller over here, and maybe a medium one over the green and the orange, thus creating a little bit of an analogous contrast and with the green some complimentary. And adding some more white to this pink, adding it over here to complete a little bit of this analogous color contrast and a smaller one breaking out of the edge over here to create it on this side as well. Make a bridge over the ground over here and the orange as well, the beautiful light orange. That's a very simple and easy composition to make. You can do it as fast and as slow as you want. You can also take things away. For instance, if you look around, this area might seem a little bit too busy. Let's group them a little bit more together towards this side and clean up the areas. See another thing that can be improved about this is the flow of things. We've just moved things a little bit around, grouping them a little bit tighter, and the background is now a big, beautiful shape. If you just put things very close together and not have a clear defined shapes on the yellow, then it seems like everything is a mess. We can order it, making a little bit of a mess and then ordering it. Of course, when it comes to painting, it's a little bit harder and tricky, not too much. Quick and easy tip is to decide on some areas that will be calm and peaceful and not touch them until the end of the painting. That's how you organize your composition before creating it. 9. Let's Go, base colors: In this video, we'll be playing around with the big flat brush and the palette knife in order to create a beautiful background for your abstract painting, you will understand how to better mix colors as well as apply them with confidence with the brush and the palette knife. At the end you will make some beautiful marks with the round brush. Let's go into the step. On the mixing plates. Let's add some beautiful yellow just over here in the left side of the plate. Let's also add some white in order to have some light beautiful pastel colors. Let's add more white. Of course, with the palette knife, mixing it very well together. You can bring all the white to the middle of the plate and mix. You can start to see how beautiful this yellow becomes a very pastel yellow. Looks like butter. Just mix it very well together and it's very important to have colors mixed thoroughly before you apply them. Get the big flat brush clean the palette knife on the wonderful canvas in the lower part. With the big flat brush start making some shapes in the right-hand side corner of the canvas and going in the corner and at the edge. Be careful to cover the edges very thoroughly. Look at how beautiful and buttery this color is. Take a lot of color on the brush and move towards the left-hand side corner. At the top, you can start to see a little bit of a bridge in the middle. Let's put the brush to rest onto the plates. Position the canvas a little bit more. You can add some blue, just a tiny bit of blue in the left-hand side of the plate, as well as some more white just over the yellow. Now combining it over the yellow underneath with the white will make this color much more beautiful. It will green it up. It will make it much more green. Mix it very well together with the palette knife, this is called going on the colder side of the yellow with the analogous, you can also go with the red towards the warm side. Of course that's a very nice and easy way to think about it. You add red, you make it more hot, and you add blue to make it more cold. Now let's make some beautiful greenish color and apply it with the palette knife at the top on the right-hand side canvas. Let's now learn how to make some beautiful marks with the palette knife. The palette knife is very good, because you can make some very interesting edges, right, where the two colors meet. Let's move a little bit more to the middle, take some more color and add it to the right-hand side, just spreading that color like greenish butter. Now in the middle and at the top you can play around at the intersection between the colors and in the corner, on the right sides. Don't worry if you have too little color, you can always make more. In the middle, just spreading that color around, you can start to see it has some blue accents here and there and at the edge. Maybe a little bit over the yellow, just mix it very well. Scrub that paint off the canvas and apply it again. Then moving towards the middle once again to break those edges even more and create more interesting textures. At any stage of the painting, the painting can be finished. This is a very interesting way of working. You don't apply things that you don't want. You just apply color and let it play with texture. Keep the yellow zones and the green zones clean. Some areas you can decide on which areas can be clean and which ones need more textures. Let's add some more white, mix some blue into it with the palette knife makes it very well. You can also grab the plate in order to have it nicely. Still add some yellow. You can start to see there is a lot of color. This is another important thing. Whenever you have lots of color, it's easier to just spread it around, especially if you have a larger canvas. With the palette knife, let's clean it. You can start to see this tiny bit more green, don't worry, it's still in the analogous color contrast, grabbing the round brush, dipping it into the color and on the corner on the left side, just starting to mix it very well. You can start to see that the brush is much, much better at covering a lot of distance and very flat. Then you can start to make some other textures on the bottom corner in the left, just grabbing more color and spreading it around. Very loosely. Just spreading and making a big, beautiful flat shape with this new-found color. Grabbing some more color this time. In this side we have a lot of green. Let's add a beautiful shape onto the right side bottom and a smaller one and an even smaller ones. This is big, medium, small. We will touch on this subject a little bit later. At the top, another shape just like that. Just a flat round the shape and the line. Then on the middle, just a few more breakaway lines. It's important to have a lot of color on the brush when you're doing those marks. They seem flat and beautiful. They don't just blend in the background since the background is wet. When it comes to analogous colors, you've learned that you can go on the hot side or the cold side of the color wheel by also practicing and painting on the canvas, you've learned that you can mix them well together when they are on a side of the color wheel, they don't blend and make ugly colors, but they harmonize and make beautiful ones. Now let's go into the next step. 10. Big medium small: This step is a very important one, you'll play around with some blues and stretch that analogous color contrast in order to bring to life the composition. It's going to be a short step, but you will learn a lot about how colors that are on the same side of the color wheel in an analogous slice can mix and harmonize together very well. Let's go into the step. As you can see, the canvas is still wet. The colors don't need to be dry that's because we are still on the analogous colors. Let's add some more blue and mix it together with the same color we have on the plate, the beautiful green. You can also make it by adding some white and some yellow if you don't have it. [MUSIC] It's very easy to make. Grabbing some more paint and mixing it very well together on the mixing plate. Looking at the color and seeing where it can go, thinking a little bit on the canvas. Let's go in the top side and add some textures. Dab this beautiful palette knife at the top, and then move a little bit to the right. These shapes can be considered medium shapes. You've played at first with big shapes, and now you're playing with some more medium-sized shapes. I'm grabbing some more of this color and adding it at the top and in the corner just a few textures. Even though the shapes are very textured, they become one because they are very close together. Let's grab this beautiful round brush, mix the color well together, and start applying some colors, and make some more flat colors. Going in towards the right, you can start to see that the color has changed a little bit and harmonized even more. This is why this analogous color contrast is so special, and then mixing the color once you put some color down you can mix it onto the plate once again to have a flat beautiful color. Let's add some more smaller flat shapes and bring some of this color into the palette knife texture and calm it down a little bit at the top and towards the right and in the middle of the canvas just a tiny bit of a touch. In the middle just two more beautiful shapes. I'm looking back at it and thinking where to put some more, maybe on this left side and on the right side edge. There you go with this step, such a simple and easy step. You're playing around with some more textures, with the palette knife, getting more comfortable with just applying some textures, pressing down, and being confident. You can start to see how much freedom the analogous color contrast can give to your painting process. You first have to know the rules in order to break them. Let's make some fun mistakes in the next step. 11. Expanding into yellow : In this step you'll be bringing some more vibrancy with some beautiful greens by adding some more yellow and mixing it with the blue as well as developing the composition. Keep in mind that you need to have some calmer areas. You have to decide where the calm areas are and where to keep them as they are because the painting needs some space to breathe and some areas and some spaces of tension in order to create a beautiful contrast. Let's go into the step. Let's grab this beautiful round brush, some yellow, and mix it over this white that has some blue. The brush has some blue in it, from the last step some turquoise. You can also add some more blue if you feel like the color is too yellow. Let's add it at the top of the edge, break that edge down a little bit more, and then move towards the left edge and in the middle of the canvas. You can start to see the brush has picked up some blue, so let's mix the color well together on the plate and add another shape onto the left. I'm grabbing some more color, adding a smaller shape, keeping that medium, small, dynamic and another shape onto the right corner. Let's move the brush around a little bit and position another shape just at the edge on the left. You can start to see the yellow is untouched. There are some calmer areas onto the right-hand side corner at the bottom and onto the left-hand side corner at the top. I'm adding another beautiful shape just down at the bottom. There you go with this wonderful step. In this step you've learned how to bring back some vibrancy, but still keep it in the analogous color contrast. This very vibrant green yellow has beautifully brought together the composition. Talking about composition, you've also understood that it's very important to keep some areas very clean and some areas very textured in order to create some gorgeous contrast and tension. Let's go into the next step. [MUSIC] 12. Play between the colors : In this great step, you'll bring forth even more vibrancy. As you can see in this painting process, the painting can be left like that at any point and it will look finished. It's very much like playing with colors, instead of just making a row of colors as an exercise that is very boring, you now make a full on painting and understand much more about colors. The painting is still wet, but you can still add colors as long as they are in the same slice of analogous contrast. Now let's go into the step. Talking about some interesting ideas. Let's make some mistakes. Let's grab some of this color in the corner and make some chaos, make some beautiful textures. Just grab it out of the canvas and put it back again in order to create some organic interesting shapes. Let's add some yellow right over here with the tip of the knife. Grabbing another beautiful pile of yellow. Now, grabbing the brush and mixing it and making it a tiny bit bigger, spreading that yellow around. Right where you've put some chaos let's add some beautiful order. Another shape just onto the right, on the yellow, it will mix very well with the yellow. Now another smaller shape in the middle next to the big yellow shape. Let's mix this yellow into the blue, straight onto the blue, creating a much richer and deeper turquoise. At the top on the edge, just a nice beautiful shape. Going lower and doing the same on the edge. Over this area in the middle, it creates a very beautiful contrast analogous from green towards the darker shades of turquoise and on the left side, on the edge, as well as on the middle, right next to the green. At the top. Higher and onto the left edge, smaller shapes just touching the canvas pressing down. Therefore, you have to press hard in order to make some beautiful shapes. A smaller one, right over here onto the left-hand side. Let's add some more shapes onto the right sides. We've picked some green, so let's mix the color as well before we apply another small one onto the top. Let's find another space. Just over here onto the lower side in the middle. Let's make this shape a tiny bit bigger. There you go with this wonderful step. In this step you've stumbled upon another beautiful painting concept, working from light to dark, even though the painting is very colorful, if you turn it black and white, you can individually see each step, even though it felt like playing with vibrancy, you've actually played with dark, and light. Since you've limited the amount of white with each step. Now let's go into the next one. 13. Pastel before vibrant: What an interesting journey this has been. However, it's about to get even better because you are about to bring in some beautiful red on the composition. Until now, you haven't clean the brush, but now, it's the perfect moment to do it because you are changing from cold colors towards the hotter side of the color wheel by bringing in some beautiful reds and oranges. Let's go into the step. As a rule of thumb, you always need to clean the brush when you're changing on a different side of the color wheel. Let's bring in some red on the plate. You can notice it's right next to the yellow so we can already make some beautiful oranges. Let's add some more yellow to the mixing plate. Once you've done that, you can also add some white onto the right side of the plates. Just a beautiful big lump of white. You can see the colors, stay away from the side of the plate that contains blue. Now, over the green, you can mix very well. The painting is still wet. Don't worry, we're not going too far away from the contrast. Just bring that color and mix it very well over with some yellow and some white getting this beautiful orange color. Let's make it more light since it needs to be worked from light to dark or in our case, from light to more vibrance and even more whites. Let's create this beautiful light, pastel orange because it will harmonize very well with the yellows being very close [inaudible]. Let's think a little bit where we should put this wonderful color. It seems like right over here in the middle over the yellow, we're positioning it at over the yellow because, of course, it harmonizes very well. Let's find another spot, this time, a little bit over on the lower side, still on the yellow, so it doesn't mix yet with the blue. Let's make this shape a tiny bit bigger. Now, let's go a little bit closer to the blue. Mix the color well on the pallete. Since we've touched a tiny bit into the blue, we can now go into the green area, adding more white and mixing it very well on the plate going even lighter and going on the side of the canvas, onto the right and onto the left edge, as well. Look at how beautiful this newfound color looks on the composition. Let's find another spot for this beautiful light color. Right over here on next to the blue, on the right side, and at the top, let's find a beautiful spot displaying with the brush [inaudible] and right next to that one, make another smaller one. Onto the right, you can see there has been just a little bit of blue touched, but mainly, the color has stuck to the yellow and greens, so it doesn't go very muddy. In the middle, let's add another beautiful small shape. Let's grab some more yellow and add it to this beautiful color, bringing the color towards a beautiful orangey yellow. With this color, we can go even more into the blues and the greens since it now has so little reds. But still it makes that transition in-between those light pastel oranges and the harsh cold blues. Let's add another shape into the middle of the canvas, smaller this time. Onto the right, look at how beautiful and vibrant this color is. At the top, another smaller one on the edge and tiny one next to it on the right. Going and adding some more yellow to bring forth even more vibrancy. Going onto the blue just in the middle of the canvas, trying to keep the color clean. Let's mix it very well together in order to put it back on the canvas. Now, going and mixing the color well on the mixing plate in order to have clean, beautiful colors so it doesn't have streaks all over. Going in the left corner and touching it a little bit more, since the color is a tiny bit more green now. Playing around with the brush and deciding to put a tiny bit more over this turquoise. Mixing the color again so it doesn't leave blue marks, just makes it flat, beautiful color right onto the right-hand side, lower corner, three beautiful shapes. Going towards the left and making some more over the green, touching the blue. There you go with this wonderful step. In this step, you've played around with some beautiful pastel oranges and yellows. You've now expanded the analogous colors to include some warm pastel tones. You've also learned how to integrate those beautiful warm tones by adding a transitionary color, in this case yellow. Let's go into the next step. 14. Darker complementary : Now that you have some beautiful warm pastel tones, you can add some more vibrancy to them by adding some oranges. It sounds complicated, however, it's a very easy process and a very organic one. Let's go into the step. With the brush still having some of that yellow just to integrate the color, grab some reds, add it over the yellow and mix it very, very well together until you have a wonderful orange color. You can start to see it's closer to the yellow than it is towards the red. Trying to find a space for it right next to the pastel pink. You can start to see how pink it is after you've put the orange. Let's find another space for it over this wonderful blue. Just press hard in order to make a flat, beautiful shape. Mix the colors well together once again and add it over the pastel pink in the middle. Thus expanding the analogous colors of the oranges, and going towards the bottom here. Another beautiful orange shape and towards the left in the corner over the blue, just to create more contrast. We've now reached the point where we can add some different contrast called complimentary, going with this orange over the blue turquoise, and let's think for another shape in the left edge, and at the top, right next to the blue. Mixing the colors well together on the plate just so you have a flat beautiful color. This is another beautiful secret to keep clean and harmonize together colors. That's fine. Another spot right over here, another small shape. Starts to get a little bit bluish, don't worry, just mix it very well on the plate and add it once again. Let's make this shape a little bit bigger and continue on to the right corner, next to the edge, with another beautiful shape, and there you go with this wonderful step as well. What a simple and easy step this was. However, it was very impactful since you now have stumbled upon the complementary contrasts. You've expanded the analogous contrast until it almost has ended on opposite sides. Now that you have orange and turquoise, you can also add the complimentary contrast into your painting by adding some of this orange onto the beautiful turquoise. You've also learned a very important thing about painting and colors. You've learned that whenever you touch a wet color on the canvas, you need to mix it very well back on the mixing plate in order to have them harmonize well together and keep those colors clean and decisive. Let's go into the next step. 15. Letting go of Perfection and having FUN: The composition right now looks very tame. It's very organized, it's very well put together, it needs a little bit of that chaos, a little bit of that creamy texture and colors blending together in a nice, harmonious way. This is where you let go and embrace the mistakes. Let's go into the step. Let's grab some of this orange with the palette knife. Mix it very well together until it mixes that beautiful turquoise with a little bit more green, and with a little bit of trust in yourself, and a lot of courage. Let's go in this beautiful right-hand corner over the orange and scrape that color, apply it, grab some more, and press even harder leaving that beautiful color, you can scrape it down, put it, take it off, apply it once again, get more color, and put it over it slowly and nicely, creating these beautiful bold shapes. Now going on the opposite corner, on a diagonal on the right-hand side, and now changing it up a little bit. Pressing very fast and loose on the middle of the canvas, just over here, you can start to see where that beautiful turquoise in the background starts to take shape. In the left-hand side, at the middle of the canvas, near the edge, just scraping that color, and putting it back onto the canvas. The canvas is still wet. Those colors have not dried yet. Now, on the right side, just over here at the bottom, creating some more beautiful textures. Mixing them well together, so they get a bit more muddy and beautiful. This is where the beautiful vibrant colors can make a wonderful contrast between vibrant and colorful nuances. Going on to the right and scraping and applying the color once again, just to create more chaos, such a simple and easy step. In this one, you've learned that in order to have beautiful and vibrant colors, you have to have them on a bedrock of grayish, brownish colors that mix very well together. You've also learned how to let go and create beautiful and wonderful chaos. As adults, we tend to lose the pleasure of just making mistakes and letting go of what we think is right. Let's rekindle that beautiful childish happiness of play. Let's go into the next step. 16. Darks: You've added some colors, now it's time to add the order back to calm those crazy textured areas and make them more beautiful. Also, you will expand that beautiful complimentary contrast by adding some violet, some pinks as well as some purples. You will also play with big, medium, small just to get the composition fitting very well together. By adding some blue and some turquoise back into the painting, you will get those colors from the background to the front. Let's go into the course. Grabbing this beautiful round brush and mixing it over the oranges and adding some more red, just to make that orange tiny bit more beautiful. Let's first calm this area in the corner down and a little bit higher. You can start to see with only two brush marks it looks much more calm, and over near the edge on the left another beautiful orange spot and in the corner at the top, going a little bit lower and adding some smaller ones near the edge on the left, and making this one a bit bigger, so it makes the big and medium shape, and another one just here at the bottom. Let's grab some yellow and add it over this wonderful turquoise at the bottom. Grabbing this beautiful color and adding some blue into it to make this color much more green and wonderful, very saturated green. Let's add some white to make it more pastel. Bringing those greens back to the forefront, adding some more white so we can make it even more pastel. We start to work from a beautiful light color. Let's add some blue and now mixing it in with the white and light green, creating that wonderful pastel color of the background, the bluish color. Let's calm this beautiful area in the middle with this wonderful color and on the right side in the corner, as well as even lower. Let's grab some more white and make it even lighter, and add it over this wonderful brownish orange in the middle and on this green orangey patch just to calm it down and in the middle over this beautiful yellow next to it. Let's grab some more yellow and mix it in to bring some of that vibrancy out right over this beautiful green, calming it down even more, and on the orange-brown next to it, making this shape a little bit bigger. We are playing with a big and a medium shape and another one at the top, making it a tiny bit bigger. The same play, we already have the yellow right next to it, that is a medium and lower with two beautiful strokes, and on the edge, on the left, another one. Grabbing some blue, mixing it very thoroughly, and grabbing a lot of color onto the brush. This is another concept in painting, working thin to thick. Adding it to just over here, adding this vibrant turquoise on the right corner and making that shape a tiny bit bigger, so it's a medium shape, and now moving towards the middle of the canvas, going lower and to the left. Adding another one. Look at how beautiful it contrasts with the orangey, green in the background because they are complementary colors going a little bit lower and to the right, making a medium and a small shape, and then in the middle over the green, so the green doesn't stand out so much, and adding some more red into those blues, we are moving slowly towards the violets and the purples. Mixing it very well together so you have a flat, wonderful color, this blue, purplish dark color, and let's put it just over here, over the green. Let's add some more red into it. Mix it well together over this orange, it will fit quite nicely. Right over the first blue, you can add a little bit more of this violet, and in the middle right next to the yellow, since purple and yellow are complementaries, trying to think more about complementaries, this violet also has a little bit of blue, so it goes very well towards the oranges next to them, and another smaller shape right above the first one, and lower next to the edge finding another beautiful spot. There is a wonderful spot for it on the left edge, and now going into some reds, mixing it very well, and then applying it lower on the yellow and then next to the purples, and then next to the beautiful turquoise at the top, a medium and a small shape going towards the middle left side and adding another beautiful shape. Now, right next to the green, since red and green are complementaries, they go very well together. Going and making another shape over this green in the middle, and making this shape a little bit bigger so it keeps that big, medium, small, dynamic, looking at the painting a little bit more to see what we can add. Adding a tiny bit of yellow just to make this big, bold, beautiful, violet shape onto the left, big, medium, small. At the top, adding this wonderful shape, same big, medium, small. Let's make this medium one a bit bigger and look at how beautiful the painting is becoming. You've seamlessly integrated some complementary colors, learning about big, medium, small, as well as some more color theory, or how I like to call it color play. Let's go into the next step. 17. The Special something: Painting looks absolutely wonderful, but it needs that special little something. In this case that will be beautiful, neon pink. Of course, it will be integrated and all that you have learned until now will play a role into applying it. You will be applying it onto the opposite colors as well as onto the analogous colors. By adding this beautiful nuance, you will expand the color palette even more. Let's go into this step. Let's add some beautiful neon pink just over here, onto the top side over the purplish reds. Of course, we add it here just so it fits nicely on top of a color that it blends well with and it integrates well with. Let's just grab some neon pink and dab it over the complementary colors first, just at the top over the purplish violet, and onto the left over the violet as well. Now I'm getting some more and adding it at the top just to expand that shape a bit more. Now, grabbing some more color and thinking a little bit more of where exactly to position this color right here over the green and the turquoise. It contrasts very well since they are opposite. Let's also make a small one. As you can see, you can keep on grabbing the color just to make it thicker and expand slowly the shape so it doesn't blend with the turquoise and the green. Going and having another shape just in the middle, as you can see already, the color has started to shift a little bit. Let's put it just over the blue and the violet. Thinking of another spot where to put it, just a small little shape just over here at the top on the right, and grabbing some more color going back to that idea where you need to mix the color in order to have them beautifully match. Going lower on the edge, making a medium shape. Now let's mix those colors back in and have a beautiful flat color. Once again, let's expand this shape at the top, making it a medium shape, and going over and making another smaller one in-between them so it's big, medium, and small. Now lower, right next to this beautiful pink light color, grabbing some more paint and adding it over this turquoise and orange just over here on the left side. Another one just over the pink on the right edge and a smaller one just to keep that dynamic going. Let's add some white to this wonderful neon pink, just to bring that analogous color contrast even more into the light. Let's position it just over here next to the other pink. You can start to see how orange it looks compared to this wonderful light neon pink and another one just to the left and in the middle of the canvas, and in the corner to the left on the lower side, and at the top on the opposite corner over the orange. Look at how beautiful this painting looks, what a wonderful journey this was. You've learned so much about color. You've learned how to integrate it and create wonderful nuances. You've also expanded your skills on making brush marks and playing with the palette knife. 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