Portrait Painting - Acrylic painting of Britney Spears

1. Introduction: In this course, I will show you how to find a picture online of your favorite artists and then turn it into your own painting. You can see the editing of the image in the course, how to paint personal portraits of your loved ones. Hi there and welcome. My name is millimeter and I'm a Danish probe artist. I've been teaching since 2009 in my own art school over the years. I have exhibited at some of the next largest galleries, and I've had four paintings go through the recognized censorship in Denmark. But for many years, I've been most passionate about teaching ordinary people all my techniques so that they too could become their own amazing artists. In this video, I teach you how to paint this painting of Britney Spears. Remember that you can paint however you want, and then whatever colors you want. I'm just teaching you the techniques here. First we'll build a background, then we edit the image, then we'll trace it onto our canvas. And finally it must be painted, and then the background must be dimmed a little bit. This course is for beginners who want to start painting. You need a projector. And if you don't already have one, I would recommend that you buy one as they don't cost much anymore, unless they are a fantastic tool that can give you a lot of creative freedom. The class project is about keeping it simple. Very simple. I want you to use only two stencils, one color and one neon color, as well as a single contrast color. I'm attaching the edited file of Britney, but remember, you can edit whoever you want yourself by seeing the edit part at the end of how to paint personal portraits of your loved ones, and thus have the freedom to choose another motive. See you in there. 2. What You Will Need: In this class, I want to teach you how to paint this awesome painting of Britney Spears. All you're going to need is some kitchen sponges, some stencils, and I2 protector, acrylic paint, a canvas, of course, some brushes and the Posca pen. And of course you need the image I want to paint in this class. I will provide you the materials for this one. Please upload your projects for others to be inspired from. I'm so looking forward to seeing your beautiful paintings, see you in there. 3. Starting up the background: This tutorial, I will show you how you can take a picture you find online of your favorite actor, magicians, or maybe Formula one driver edited and use it in a painting. Paintings you can use at home decor. I'll give away as a gift and make others happy. You can also take orders and so your paintings. Now, let me show you just how easy it is. As you can see, I'm already well on my way to mixing my colors together on the canvas. I just used a cheap kitchen sponges for that. I worked a sponge from one color to the next. And when I have filled my entire canvas with the colors, start with a clean dry sponge, which are then used to work the colors together. I put no pressure on it all. I let the sponge do the work for me. As you can see here, the sponge makes us my colors super nicely together without any great effort on my part. It almost looks like pink clouds. If the colors had been in the shade of blue, it would have looked like a rainy sky. The reason I have chosen the pink colors is because I think they fit well with my image of Britney Spears. But it could have been any color. It's up to you what you like and who you're going to paint. When I'm happy with my mixed colors, I spice it up a little bit with the pink neon. It creates supermarket life and the background and the color suits each other really well. There's a lot of life in the colors. Now. I do the same as before. Once I have laid out the colors, I use a clean sponge to pull my colors nicely together. I work in a little different places around my canvas with the pink neon to get a little balance in the background. It only takes a little bit of color to go a long way. And as you can see, I also spray a little bit of water so that my color is getting a little more transparent. And I can drag it a little bit more onto the canvas. 4. Making runners in the background: I want to make some runners in my background. Therefore, I put a blob of paint on which I've pulled out well with my sponge, the paint must not sit in a thick cake because then the water cannot dissolve the color when I sprayed on. Therefore, I pull the paint out well before spraying my first coat of water. When I spray the water on, I can control how long my runners should be a tipping my canvas backwards or laying it all the way down on the table again. When making runners, you have to spray water twice to get the pigment into what is running. The first time, it just becomes a watery mess. But the second time, they'd become beautiful and vibrant in color. As you can see here. The second time I spray the water on, much more pigment gets dragged down into my running water drops. This looks so much better. So remember always to spray water twice. 5. More awesome effects: When I have finished spraying on my water, I lay my canvas down again. I let the water sit for a moment so that it can dissolve my paint, which is still not thoroughly cured underneath. And now lay a piece of paper sucking all my runners. It can also be a club that can soak up the water. And then I press lightly in small circles until I can see the lines on the paper. I take a cloth and wipe off the rest of the paint. In fact, I got all the paint off. I did not think it looked very nice. So in reality, I didn't have to put the color on. But I will show you in another video how to take advantage of it and make super exciting effects that way with the color spread, as you can see, I got my color washed away and that was what I wanted. In this way, you can make inverted runners. So instead of it being the color that runs, the color is washed away. Instead, I could have preserved a bit of both, but that must come in another video. 6. Stencil effects making life in the background: Now I'm done with my runners and now I want to play a little bit with my Mandela. Since this tension is one of the larger ones I have, I usually only use fragments of it because it feels as much as it does, but it's also super good for that. I still work in the same colors that I have been doing all along. However, I told it a bit with white and some places. So there is a slightly different from a bottom color and make it a little bit of contrast color tool with a light green. I could have made it even more green to, you can always play with the colors and find out for yourself which colors you think complement each other. Well, I moved my stencil around here and there and make several different fragments with it. It's fun to work with. It always gives a lot of fun and background, so it does not get too boring. I finally woke my neon pink on top of the tinted color that lies at the bottom, the pink color is not opaque and therefore, it will only stand out properly if it gets a lighter base color. Now I want to work with another stencil. I really liked working with multiple with multiple stencils. I really like working with multiple stencils layer on layer, and make effects on top of each other. It really provides a good and exciting background that you can work on when you lay the paint, your portrait. In this case, would Britain, for example, it gives some really funny effect and the head, before I make the background less visible, show you all about that later in this tutorial. Here. Again, I moved my stencil around on my canvas, make slightly different colored dots here and there. I love it. It looks really cool, I think. Now I have both runners, Mandela and dots, all in basically the same color. So there's nothing that completely stands out. And still the focus in my painting, as it is Brittany who is my main focus. Finally, I worked my contrast color in, as I mentioned earlier, it makes just a little bit of the effects that out again without doing the whole picture. 7. Drawing Britney And Painting Her: Okay, so now I have to protect Britney onto my canvas. I use a black Posca pen to draw all the black. Along the way. It's always a good idea to draw small crosses so that when you sit with your nose deeply buried in painting, you do not paint the wrong areas. It tends to look pretty silly. Sometimes I stand in front of my projector so that I can check if there are any areas I have missed. When I'm finished with the drawing, I sit down and paint within the lines. It's almost like painting by numbers. And when I get to this point, I think it's pure meditation and I really enjoy the piece that lives in it. Okay, so now it looks like this, and now it's time to paint within the lines. And when that is done, the background needs to be cleaned up a little bit. So you get a little more music while you can enjoy watching the painting of Brittany step into character. 8. Finishing up and framing painting: Now the background needs to be cleaned up so the Brittany emerges even more. Sometimes the background can be very messy and then it's a good idea to dim it a little bit with a transparent layer. We can still see the effects of our background through the paint, but there's more calm as we do not have a very busy background anymore. I use neon pink as it is transparent in itself. All neon colors are transparent. They have no coverage at all. So they are super cool to work with when there are areas to be covered just a little bit without being completely opaque. I give this to coats, and in the second code, I use my sponge to walk the pink nicely together. As neon Carlos can be a little bit jelly-like and lumpy. However, this is not a problem at all. Now I want to show you how to frame your painting. We just punch in a little black paint, a dip my sponge in my paint, and then I run it along the edge of my canvas. I let it roll a little in over the edge to give some patina. Then my image gets framed by their color. It creates more depth and it gives a more finished look. It's a super easy and free way to frame your paintings. Now my painting is done, and I just need to put my signature down in the corner. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed the trip and I hope you will like and subscribe to my channel. See you in the next video. Bye for now.