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Sunset acrylic painting for beginners - Easy step by step guidance

teacher avatar Damini Sargam, Artist and Instructor

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:15

    • 2.

      Materials

      2:25

    • 3.

      Painting the Sky

      7:24

    • 4.

      Sea

      2:45

    • 5.

      Reflection

      3:26

    • 6.

      Grass

      3:38

    • 7.

      Mountains

      2:03

    • 8.

      Trees

      4:05

    • 9.

      Final Word

      1:04

    • 10.

      Connect with me

      1:33

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About This Class

Do you want to paint beautiful sunset in Acrylics? Then this class is for you.

In this class, I'll show you my process of painting a sunset and teaching you the techniques of creating sunset reflections on the sea waves. It's a really easy process once you know the techniques, using which you can create any painting with sun reflection.

I recommend this class for everybody - no prior art experience is necessary. If u haven't painted in a long time and wanting to brush up your skills or if u haven't found anyone to mentor you in your creative journey, or if you are not sure you will be able to paint, or if you just want to paint pretty landscapes just to feel good - this class is for you.

In this class, you will learn about:

My painting process from start to finish

My favorite paints and brushes to use

How to create shadow and light in the waves

How to create the sun reflection on the waves

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About This Class

Do you want to paint beautiful landscapes in Acrylics? Then this class is for you.

I recommend this class for everybody - no prior art experience is necessary. If u haven't painted in a long time and wanting to brush up your skills or if u haven't found anyone to mentor you in your creative journey, or if you are not sure you will be able to paint, or if you just want to paint pretty landscapes just to feel good - this class is for you.

In this class, you will learn about:

My painting process from start to finish

My favorite paints and brushes to use

How I create realistic textures

How I create perspectives and depths in a landscape

Materials:

1. Acrylic Paints (listed below)

2. Canvas board

3. Brushes - 1 flat brush, 1 medium round brush and 1 small round brush for detail work

4. A plate - something to mix paint on

5. Water

6. Tissue paper

Colors I used in this class:

1. Titanium White

2. Cobalt blue

3. Crimson Red

4. Black

5. Brown

By the end of this class you should feel confident in your ability to create this kind of paintings and if you have followed along you should have some physical proof! Do share it with the class.

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Damini Sargam

Artist and Instructor

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Hello. My name is Damini Sargam. I'm an Artist and an Art Instructor from Mumbai, India.

As an educator, my work is to help people identify their inner artist, guide them to acquire painting skills & create beautiful artworks, which helps calm the mind & brings a lot of confidence.

Painting doesn't always need to be serious, it can be simple and playful. I break complex concepts into simple easy steps. I make acrylic painting tutorials that are easy to understand and apply. So whether you are a beginner with no prior art experience or if u have been thinking of painting for a long and haven't got a chance to start - you can start painting with my tutorials.

I have been professionally teaching painting since 2018, and after teaching thousands of people in physical w... See full profile

Level: Beginner

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1. Introduction : Hello, everyone. My name is Damini, and today we are going to learn Sunset acrylic painting. It's completely a bigners friendly course, and anybody with no prior experience in painting or drawing can take up the class. This class, you will learn how to create acrylic painting, how to blend colors, how to give various effects, how to make reflection on top of water and make a complete scenery. Don't worry if you haven't held a paint brush in a long time. I'm here to guide you step by step. You can follow the process and make a beautiful scenery painting without having any prior experience. Once you make it, you can show to your friends or hang it on your wall or just keep it as a memory. I invite you to join the class, and I look forward to seeing you in the class. 2. Materials : Hello, everyone. My name is Damini and today we are going to be learning acrylic painting on canvas. Now, this is a very easy, big nurse friendly painting which anyone of you can make. You do not need to have any prior experience in painting or drawing to make this painting. So let's get started. Now let's see which all materials are required to make this painting. The first thing that you will require is the canvas. This is the canvas. The second thing that you would require is the colors. So for this painting, this is a painting of a scenery, and for this, we would require a few colors. Red color, this is red colour. White color. Blue color. Black color. And brown color. Then we would require a few brushes. So these are the brushes. One is the broad brush, which is a flat brush. Then we would require a round brush. This is a round brush. Then I would need a small brush, which has a small tip. This is to make things which require detailing. So we need a brush which is quite thin and pointed. Okay. Alongside, we would also require a pencil, a few tissue papers, or a cloth, whatever you prefer, then a plate, and some water. So these are the materials that we require. 3. Painting the Sky: Alright. Now, let's start making the painting. So taking a pencil, I'm going to split the canvas into half proportion. This is roughly half. You do not have to measure it accurately. I just approximately. All right. Then I'm going to take the colors. I will take blue color. So this is a bottle of the blue color. You do not need to have so much color of the entire bottle, just a bit. So this is how you will take the color on the palette. Then I'm going to take the red color. So this is red color, and I'm going to put some red colour on the palette. Then we would require some white color. So here I'm taking some white color. And this white color is quite liquid. So I don't need a brush for this. I'm just pouring it directly. I'm pouring it here directly. So first, we are going to start with just three colors, and later on, we are going to add different colors on top of it. But for the first layer, these are the colors that we need. In this class, we are going to learn to paint this sky. So I'm taking a flat brush, broad brush, and I'm going to dip the brush in water a little bit. And I'm going to put the brush in blue color this way, and I will start painting the sky. So applying horizontal strokes if you think your color is too thick, you can add some more water to it and then see. So yeah, this feels good. Now, make sure there are no white patches visible. If you feel like taking more color, you can add some more color and apply horizontal strokes. This way. Go easy, go smooth. Enjoy the process. Take your time while painting. There's absolutely no hurry. Now, as we go downwards, we are going to add some white color to the blue color. Little bit. I think this is still dark, so I'm going to take some more and make it like kind of sky color. This way. And just blend. Just apply the strokes. Take some more white and apply. Again, make sure there are no patches visible. The white gaps should not be visible. Okay. After this, I'm going to clean the brush, dip the brush in water. Make sure it's clean, entirely clean. Take a tissue paper or a cloth. H and just clean this way. And then I'm going to take some red color. This is a red color. And I'm going to mix the red color in white color. So it's like a shade of peach. It's more of white and less of red and apply. Oh. Again, these are horizontal strokes. And then just blend the two colors together. Just here, not everywhere. Just here. That's it. So this is how we have painted the sky. Oh 4. Sea: Hello, everyone. Now in this class, we are going to paint the water. Again, we are going to take the same colors. But this time we are going to take the red color first, taking the red color first, slightly white and making peach shade again and applying it over here. But we have to remember that here is the border. Okay? So this is the border. Now, it's more of white and less of red. A And just keep on applying the strokes. Till the edge. Now I'm going to take the blue colour taking white color again in blue and making sky blue colour, applying horizontal strokes this way. Take some mou colour. Take your time, go slow, go easy. There's no rush. Enjoy making the painting. Enjoy the fun. Now I'm going to take blue colour, but without mixing a lot of white. So it's a little darker shade. So it's basically the reflection of the sky. So we have painted the water. 5. Reflection : Hello, everyone. Welcome to the class. Now in this class, we are going to learn how to paint on the water. So we are going to show the reflection of the sun on the water. So I'm going to take white color with a small brush, and here I'm going to make a half circle this way. And this is the sun. And I'm going to fill this half circle with white color. This way. Now, I'll take the white color, and I'm going to paint the reflection of the sun on the water. So I'm just going to paint lines, horizontal lines. Now, the lines are going to be bigger on the top. And as we go downwards, they are going to become smaller in size. It just horizontal lines, thin horizontal lines. This Like this. Okay, so as you can see, here are the lines, the size of the line is bigger, and as we go, as we move down birds, the size is getting a little smaller. So that's how you will have to do it. Okay. So we have painted the sun, as well as a reflection of the light falling from the sun over the water. So this step is done after painting the water. We have painted this peach color here, then light blue color here, then a little darker shade of blue here. After that, on top, we painted these white colored horizontal lines. That's how we painted the reflection of the sun falling over the water. 6. Grass: Hello, everyone. In this class, we are going to see how to paint the trees, the grass, and the mountains. I'm going to take middle size brush and dip the brush in brown color and slight black color, very little and mix both of them together. So it becomes dark brown color. And then I'm going to start painting the grass here. So I'm just going to apply vertical strokes in a very random way. Like crisscross kind of. So this is what you will have to keep on doing. So we are going to do this throughout and a few darker strokes at the bottom, just to show the depth. I will take some white color as well and mix the white colour in brown color and apply some kind of golden strokes as well. This way. You don't have to really plan as to how to make the grass. These are very, very random strokes. This way, a few strokes over the top as well. This way. Okay, now a little brown color. On the edge. So here we use dark brown. We use light brown, and we use some black, along with brown to give this effect. 7. Mountains : In this class, we are going to see how to make the mountains over the border here. So where the sky ends and the water ends and where the sky and the water meets, this place we are going to paint with a brown color. So first, I'm just going to make a line just to differentiate and then I'm going to take some brown along with the little black. So it's like dark brown. And then I'm just going to add small hill mountains, kind of small structures. So this And the same thing I'm going to do here as well. Small mountain like structures. This Uh 8. Trees: Hello, everyone. Now in this class, we are going to see how to make the trees. Now, I'm going to take a lot of black along with brown, but it would be more of black. And I'm going to paint the tree. First, I'm going to make one straight line this way. And a little broader at the bottom. Straight. And then we are going to make the leaves. So just make a few branches first. And then just paint the leaves. So it's like a few strokes of the brush, random strokes. This way. These are just random strokes. Take some more colour and apply the strokes here. Oh what I have done is I have made one tree, and then I added another tree. So first is a bigger tree. We made the bark and the branches, and then the leaves. Okay, so we just flattened the brush slightly, and then we added the leaves. Now, for the second tree, I made a bark again, and without making the branches, I just painted the leaves. I'll just show you. I just painted the leaves this way. So I just flattened the brush slightly. And I just that's how. Then we are going to make the birds. Without birds. This scenery is incomplete. So I'm just going to make birds here this way. Make a V shape, which is, like, pointed towards the end and thicker towards the center two birds. So this is how we have made the trees and the bods. 9. Final Word : So this is the final painting that we have made, and it's looking very beautiful. Once you make it, you can hang it on the wall. So your wall is going to look really pretty, and the painting is all made by you, and you're going to have a lot of fun and enjoyment while making the painting. So here we just use four colors, four to five colors, one is blue, one is red, then white, brown and black. So these are the five colors that we used, and using just these five colors, we made a very pretty scenery. I hope you guys enjoy making this and let me know how it turns out, share with me, and I would love to see the paintings that you make. I hope you enjoyed the class. Thank you for watching. See you in next class. 10. Connect with me: [No Speech]