#168. Painting as a beginner ACRYLIC

get a dress and hapless here your curly guru it's time to paint tonight we're going to go back in time well I'm going to go back in time because today I'm going to paint like a

beginner

and there are many

beginner

s that It all started as a beginner when we painted when we started our

painting

trip, so I'm going to paint a

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just a basic beach or ocean scene with the sky in the foreground, but now I'm just going to use the basics for the moment. m I'm not a beginner anymore, so with all the hardware I have here I have paint everywhere, you know, not all beginners have all this, so let's go back to my palette, Ian, and I'm going to take the basic paints. a beginner with me to start, okay, what is blue, yellow and red, your primary colors.

Okay, so the canvas I'm using measures 30 centimeters by 42 centimeters. In Australia we use centimeters and millimeters and we will increase the colors. the screen there now for those who want to know what colors I'm using in this, okay, and obviously you saw the finished process of this painting in the opening credits, okay, so like I said, we're beginners, so I'm going to use the colors basics, the primary colors black and white, so I want to show a beginner what you can do with the basics without all the retarders, glazes, glosses and all that kind of stuff, okay, let's get into this. palette here I have a fluid white paint this is all

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cranek own red magenta which is red cadmium yellow medium and I have a blue you can have a phthalo blue primary blue a blue so we have our main colors and We have some white in there if we want to lighten it.

Well, these are the basic colors that a beginner needs to start with. Well, when I start, I'm going to go to the art store and buy half a million tubes of paint. what I need I need this and I need that and I need this right when you start there the main colors that you need and it will help you create all the colors of the rainbow. Okay, now what I said, let's do a basic. ocean beach scene here, okay, using these colors in the palette, okay, and we'll just use some simple brushes, now the brushes don't have to be big and expensive and scientific.

I bought this at a local hardware store, it's just a two inch paint brush that is flat and is used to apply most of the paint at the beginning of the painting. You can get a pack of these flat brushes, but I'm not going to use this one because I'll be there all day. trying to color the sky with that sometimes you want to get in the business so like I said I'm not using any retarder or anything that well what can I do as a beginner to get a reasonably good sky and not just a good sky , but also paint, have a water bottle, a water spray bottle so you can get water and this will also help you get your paints off the brush, so I'm going to start with some white, my habits and my habits, but I'm going to To start with some whites and I'll start let's say first on the top of the painting.

Now I'm going to paint like a beginner, so a beginner has a flowing white paint. Surely there is no retarder in this. I just put a little bit of water it's up to you how smart you want to be with your paint and think about what water it will flow with and if you don't think about putting water in it it doesn't fly well it's because I didn't put water in it but anyway we only have our white paint flowing there. Okay, now, obviously, clean your brush. I have cleaned my brush. You'll find favorite brushes that you use for many things.

I'm finding this to be my favorite. I apply my paints to the canvas, now I have sprayed water here because I think it will help it flow off the brush. Well, now I'm using phthalo blue, now there's my sky, so normally we have it sky color and pale to analyze and plot, so let me show you as a beginner how you can achieve that down here there's no white on the canvas, okay, so look at that painting, what is it doing, it's very blue and brushstroke II, but at the top I'll start at the top, I'll see that this white will mix with the blue start at the top and then I'll bring it down nice and little by little. little will get lighter on the horizon line because like I said, this is going to be an ocean beach scene now, as a beginner, you have a lot of brush strokes there, look at the end, and heavy dark lines, you can put all that in there if you want to brush it because it's

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now I'm going to give it is a water mist look what this does well I just missed it with water and now I can feel it and I hope you can see the difference what's happening on the canvas here this is just a cheap canvas I'm not a cheap but it's just a panel of canvas, it's not a stretch canvas too expensive, okay, and the sky you don't want is really dark blue, okay, there's our one tone sky, no there's retarder, there's just decent quality paint and the white flux underneath, now.

I'm just going to grab a rag and clean the brush. It's okay, I don't have to go wash it now. I'm going to pick up a little bit of this white flowing on both sides of the brush and leave it here. because I don't want to contaminate everything with blue and from the horizon line I'm going to take that white without retarder in this there are no easy mixes or whatever now I'll put a little more there because with a sky you really want it pale at the bottom and a little darker on top, but not dark blue.

I've made some of my first things in dark blue. It really changes the look of the painting, and you can just stroke that and stroke that. to the cows, come on, that's heaven, do yourself a favor beginners, have two targets, you want whites flowing and you want your white stuff to come out of the tube, which is good quality, has some body and structure, no it is. too heavy, but it doesn't flow either because this works differently on a canvas than this or this is a canvas paper that I'm actually using, which is why I didn't spray the canvas paper first because it will be like trying to paint. in wet plastic so you can see the difference between this blue and that blue that is just painting raw under the canvas you don't want the sky that color the sky is not that color you learned it while painting well now we have We have our simple sky there and the horizon line with your horizon line, the higher or lower you make it, depends on the size of the sky you want or the water, let's say in a beach scene, the water and the beach are fine, so the higher be the horizon line. the smaller the sky and the bigger the foreground will be so that's about my horizon line it's probably a little bit above the middle now I want to blend let's not just have a blue sky and white clouds you've already done that seen. polluted purple color in the sky, let's put it in there, okay, but I'm going to show you the basics, so down here I'm going to take a flat head brush and we're going to use it to blend, so I'm going to take a little bit. of blue flesh, okay, where are we here and a little bit of magenta and let's get a purple girl a little more magenta now you can't see that looks very dark, so we have this white flow that will highlight it now if it's too strong.

Here we go, that's what I'm looking for right there, I see that color, it might be a little strong, so I'm going to put a little more white with it. Lighter is better with acrylics because they dried darker, that's our tainted color on the horizon line. So here I just have basic paints, just a flat head brush. I'm just showing you some simple science. Now that you're older, you know you have this ability, but you're probably not aware of it, which is why I want to show you. In this video, so I'm just going to grab, let's say, a smaller fan brush here and lo and behold, this is where I can tell you what you're also going to need a blending brush ready as you go, so my horizon. lines here, so there's my horizon line.

I want to put this on both sides, okay, so let's put this there, you can move it around, that paint is probably still a little wet, okay, do it a little at a time and take a blending brush. and in the corner of your blending brush, stamp that and try and try to blend it with that blue, why I say do it little by little because if you go too far you'll have a hard line there and it won't blend. So now this is being mixed without retarder without any other medium, just the paints themselves. Now the brush is not as contaminated, so I wet it again.

I have Horizon oil there and I want to find a game up to that point. I'm grabbing the corner of this brush, sticking it in, I'm practically stamping it, not polishing the hell out of it, and we're getting this tainted color in that sky, now this worked because I didn't have it like that and then I tried it. and mix that with that just isn't going to work see what's happening there, it just looks like mud, so we're going to run this through to the end lending brushes like, there's our polluted horizon line. See when I was a beginner, I didn't even do it.

I think about putting that there, so now I'm painting as a beginner, but I want to be able to show you well that it's something you can put there, it's very easy, see how I've done it. I haven't used anything else slow drying. o Nothing, turning it white first under that blue sky helped down here if I just went blue, that would have been silly next. I want to put on some simple clouds now, the clouds, do them little by little, this is not going. to blend like my normal tutorials go because I'm not using ratata but I have some different sized blending brushes here so that small, medium or large clouds blend well so we have our blending brush okay now we want to put a there a cloud there, so let's start with some simple ones, the smaller ones are smaller at the bottom and they get bigger as they go over your head, okay, so let's put some in there and this is where we'll use the titanium. white from the tube, structured things, okay, so let's find any old brush that we want to apply clay with.

I'm coming, yeah, I just pulled this one out, this is a round, pointy one. It's not so clear what the brushes are called, but anyway I roll them in the paint just like a beginner might prop up wood, now come here and see how I put it on the board, so let's put this cloud, go ahead. anything, a little bit of line not too thick and some body, a little bit of line and some body, that's all you need to do for a cloud. Now obviously I'm going to use my little brush to blend it in, so I've done a little bit. at a time and we want to just blend that leaving the top of the cloud, okay, look now you have a wife, as you go, wipe away the buildup that will be left under your brush as you blend that, blending it, give it a a little down and now there is a simple cloud.

Little did I know when I was starting out. I didn't know you. I just assumed we would paint a cloud above, Klaus, it has to be white, but now I'm here to show you. a beginner put a little bit of shadow and depth so that the color that we mixed was the magenta and the blue that we are going to use in our cloud so that it doesn't look like just a flat white cloud, it has something, let's put more there it is a little bit darker than that because this will form the base of that cloud, so you can see what I did there.

I just danced and I'm going to grab the same little blending brush and I'm going to blend them together quickly before it dries because this paint can dry out and we want to put a background on that cloud, so create the dark background like this and I'll put another one on, so I'll pick up that white again and probably put one over here a little bit of body, give that little bit of body, okay, I'm using this same brush and I want you to know that, but there's a lot of paint that I just took off the brush off the canvas.

With the brush now I'm cleaning it up and I want to blend it. I don't want to mix it with the atmosphere. I want it to have a background. Okay, so I'm using good quality paint from the tube. the titanium white now I'm taking that color mixed again and I want to put it under there for the background of these clouds, so let it go up a little bit like this using the same brush because it's a small cloud and we want to blend in the end I'm going to do a series on the clouds and if you're having trouble with a cloud it's something to look at there's another cloud in the distance look at a beginner she'll be able to achieve this now this cloud is going to be a little bit bigger so I'm going to put it there and make it a little bit bigger.

That will help the clouds have that shape. Find that way. If you want your cloud to have, I'm going to use the medium blending brush now because they're getting a little bit bigger, then I blended them quickly, this gives it a bottom, just blend halfway from the top, try to tickle it a little bit on top, okay, see how I have it here, like it's washed out with the blue, that's what I wanted, so when we put our shadow color there, we have to quickly increase it a little bit like this, now we stamp quickly that on target and we give the cloud a base, what does it look like?

There is another simple cloud, now we will put something. here, so I'm putting the paint on quickly, so I'm just using any brush. I have never used this type of brush before to apply cloud, don't overdo it because this is very dry, so I am here to teach. beginner, it's okay, I didn't know I would be happy and I had problemslittle by little and I'm rolling it to get it, we're faded, we've lost it, well, If you want a tight white edge here, that's fine, and then get yourself a small blending brush and a rag, and if you've seen other videos and You want to quickly clean that brush and break this inside top edge into the water like that.

Leaving the bottom white edge, look, I've sprayed this with water, so it's still very wet, but that's all you want. make for the four shal to brush the sand. Now clean the brush as you go and wash it again. and you can probably start there, you're stamping it, figuring out how wet your canvases are, mine is wet because I'm explaining and showing you with the body of the sprayer and you drag it back into the water, look how easy it is, it's subtle but no It has to stick out like a dog's ears, if you want, you can go back to the painting now, where are we hollow?

This brush put a little bit more there, there, but just do that one that's a little thick, leave the bottom part and break the. up top, okay, leave the bottom part and break the top part again in the distance here see what it's doing, better join this one got a little thick on my brushes. However, it is working and don't worry if you are a beginner. All beginners are learning, we watch and learn from everyone. Okay, let's do something with those waves I showed you anyway. Look, it looks like water that just appeared on the scene.

Okay, let's find a flat brush. You can pay to buy different. brush sets an art store when you're a beginner flat head brushes round and all kinds so we have them chiseled on a flat head and I just want to come and I want to stamp on the top of this wave a little bit of white look what It's done, but I tell you what, my board is very wet. I have to stamp it. Look, stamp it. Clean your brush, loaded with more white paint and stamp it. We're just putting a little bit of cover in there and. we're going to get it like this, okay, and then we can put a little bit of this other wash here, put that there and take your little brush that you're using to slowly blend, blend that back into that dark there and blend the dark there.

Also, I'm going to make this drip here because it looks a little weird, so I'm just removing it, that's all I did there. Now the top of the wave is going to stay crisp and white and this is just going to be slowly kissed into the darker color, okay, so I'm slowly kissing it into the darker color of the wave leaving the top of the wave to be crisp white, here we go and that's just a simple wave in the distance. I just want to finish this water spilling onto the beach here, keep everything in perspective, if you go up and down too much it will start to look a little strange.

Look, I'm bringing in the top of this to blur the top of that line. I pretty much just put a line there and blurred it. Back to the water, a beginner can do this and now if you find yours is very dry and breaks, it's because you didn't put water in it like I did to get this surface to go through while you're mixing and we'll just be done. that wave in the distance we will also do it virtually, you have already done your dark part, you get sharp at the top, this is just a basic shape for a basic beginner, you can learn more detailed waves as you go and now the bottom. of that white like I did there, you're just pulling it back to your darker color mode, you mount it there, that will do it and you can even blend that darker color which is just a simple wave in the distance, okay, let's take our tape. off the horizon line there so we can see what our paints look like and we have a decent ocean color and we have our foreground now, when you buy brushes, get yourself a cup of liners or a script lighter, a script liner. it's a little thin like this and we're going to take the darkest color on our board, where we mix some of the sand color with some of the black, but with a writing liner you don't want it to get wet, but you want it pretty wet and then you spread it out and you peel off the paint, see how wet it is, you walk up to the canvas and see what you have to do next, just twist the thinnest line you can do in this handshake dance like you're nervous, there you go, just be it's going to sit, you don't want this jet black and you just want to find the right color and then you find the right thicknesses, you can do this and you will.

He starts to think, Oh my God, this is who I am and what I'm doing is fine, when I take it out of the brush and we sit there. All this is less. It's better, you don't have to make a big thick line of this and play with it and play with it. You just want to put it there and not waste time, that's already done. I probably do a little bit, I lie down a little bit like this, just a little bit, not too much, it's very easy to get carried away and just pick up a little bit of the white. with a little water we have on our platform down here and if you want to get more details early some artists are more detailed than others and if you're one of those get your script and come back here you might want to put the finer things in like leopard spots, in your path, these only indicate that the foam that is there ends up appearing on the monitor, it's not that bad, see if I tried to make those branches looking for foam marks on a Clare honor in a wave how small, it would seem nonsense, so we're getting all the froth there, that's all that froth, it's a long-desired great honour, just for that Flav smoking over there, oh there's another big thick stupid one, now that I know it we have done. a simple Veatch scene with just the three primary colors and black and white, and a beginner doesn't know that you can get all these colors with which they might think, well, I have to go green, I'm going to go purple, I have to go brown I have to get the sand color, this is what I want to show you, you can do everything with primary colors and black and white and a little knowledge, so I want to be here to show you, this is what you need to do.

I can do it as a beginner with no tricks, just a little knowledge, okay, so let's put a frame on that and see what a simple seascape looks like. I didn't sign it, but I can do it later, here we go, that's not bad at all, huh. It's a simple exercise for beginners to learn what they can do with just the basic colors, their basic brushes, and just using the paint, they don't have any other additional mediums that they don't know about, like retarders, and they stay wet longer. The products are good and learn, you can put shadows on the subjects and you can do different water drags on the subjects and less is better so don't be sure to subscribe.

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