#489 The best brush's to paint believable clouds in acrylic

Good morning, how are you doing? Iannapolis, your

acrylic

guru here. Welcome to this video. I'm going to show you which

brush

es to use to get

believable

clouds

in

acrylic

s. That's what this video is about. We are going to

paint

clouds

that can be seen. credible and I'm going to show you the

brush

es, the

best

brushes that you can use for your acrylic mediums to make these clouds look like this. Here is the size of my canvas that I am using and I will also get some colors on the screen. so stay till the end and absorb the knowledge about the witness.

Ok, let's go. I already have a sheet of premium canvas that I cut from the roll. It's a Fredrick canvas and I'm going to prepare this to get it. our clouds in acrylic and this video is all about how to make it happen that way, what you need to use and like I said, the

best

brushes to get acrylic clouds, believe it or not, are these guys here one, two, three, four that I have. my putter on a brush, a couple of brushes to blend and a brush to stamp the cloud print. I prefer to use a fan brush.

You can use a hazelnut or even your finger, but this is what I use and this video will demonstrate how. These are going to work again here, we have our canvas cut from the roll, nothing has been done to it, it's factory primed, so what do we do to get our acrylic clouds on there? Let's prepare it first, so I have some soft acrylic

paint

here, it's craft paint, I call it craft paint, it's like student quality paint, it's artist quality, it has a very soft body, okay, the I use it because it is a soft body that is not thick and I will put a little retarder on it.

The retarder will delay the drying time of the acrylics. Then I just put my putter on a brush. First I'm going to wet it in the retarder so it doesn't dry out when it hits the paint and now I want to start mixing the paint. the retarder there and this is going to condition our canvas to have a wet white surface, so we put some real colors in there because we want clouds that when people look at them in your painting, you can practice this method and they will look

believable

, that's what try because when we first start it's hard to get clouds that look believable.

Now I'm going to paint the whole canvas with this craft, soft white paint for students, poster paint wherever you are, there are so many different names. So I have people asking me where I can buy craft paint, I just call it that or craft white, okay, it's all there, it's uneven, it's thick, it's important to apply it with this putter on a brush, look how it arrived over there. It's all over the teeth of that canvas, I'm using the sides of those hairs and it's pushed in there, look what I'm doing now, I get to the tip of the brush, this is where it all happens, look, it's all thick and fluid and then you just massage it and even it out into a thin film on your canvas.

Now I'm going to the tip of the brush again and if anything, I'm cleaning up bits, thinning it out and making It's an even surface of that white acrylic paint, you don't want it too thick. I just cleaned the brush because I don't need to wash it because all that color is still on the canvas, so I just cleaned it. I have three other colors here now, the actual colors of the sky to give credibility to these two colors. Here I am using cerulean blue. I have a medium tone gray out of the tube. Mix a gray if you don't have one. a gray tuba and I have some permanent alinsoran, so first I want to take the cerulean blue on my brush and we'll put the sky color in there.

Now it is important that the sky also has a credible color and to achieve this. we're going to start at the top, push it now look at that white paint, if I painted it without the white it will be much darker which will make it a believable sky blue color, start at the top and then I want to bring it down because when I get to where my horizon line is, I'll have a low horizon there because this all has to do with the sky over there, so I'm going straight left and right now look over here, there's something empty. stains don't be shy to just put them there, you're pushing the paint, get rid of that heavier band so it stays there a little bit more so don't be shy to do this, you can do it and knowing what to do it and practice it, you absolutely can do it, okay , now we'll start again and then we'll go from the top and we'll take it towards the horizon and, if anything, the bottom half of this sky has a lighter value than the top half that's what you want because that gives you what I said many times that sphere shaped like the blue is coming over your head now I have cleaned the brush the next part of the sky I am going to pick up the gray the mid-tone gray and this goes right on the horizon line put a little of this there just a little bit just to warm it up here we go, it's not pure gray, I'm just adding bits because now it's going to dry darker this is just the horizon line crossing the horizon line, crossing the horizon so push it in there and you'll get the color there.

Now I'm going to the tip of this brush because this is all about brushes and how they work and this brush is going to degrade that gray into our blues. Now I don't know if you notice it or not, but if you look at the sky at dusk during certain parts of the day, you see this band of haze in the background. of your sky and that's it, I can only use the brush to see, there is no paint on the tip, everything has been pushed up into the hairs and that is why there is nothing, no gray hair rising here.

If I tilted the brush that way, I'd put a big chunk of gray in there I don't want that I just want that haze right in the background of our sky now I'm just going to go to the good quality titanium white, it's got a little bit thicker structure than that softer body craft paint I call there okay so I use this for the actual stamping of the clouds and the clouds are made in the three stamping process. What I mean by this is that I use this to paint the cloud shape, do the blending and then I'll do it.

Put another color in there, mix it and then the final color, so there are three steps. Now I like to use my fan brush like I said before, so I'm going to place this on both sides of the fan brush and then stamp on a cloud so along the horizon we see how you got the gray and the gray I want to put the distant ones, very distant in the sky first so that you stamp them anyway more or less at the top of this gray, not right at the top, but Go down a little bit so that you have something to come up and something to mix, that's what is going on in my mind, so we'll do a couple of prints and I'll start to give it some body.

These practically all go. the path along the horizon line, something like that. I can rotate the brush and add a little more paint there. I'll make it almost to the end, stop, now grab one of my blending brushes. I'm going to use this. smaller than an inch and a half and you always need a dish towel, okay, to wipe off the buildup while you're mixing and then you have this cloud, we want to start from about this area here on the cloud and go down, I'll start. over here and this is going to blend in with that gray underneath now I've only done a little bit but look what's on my brush there's quite a bit there I hope the camera picks it up so you clean it up because if you're keeping that on your brush it's just going to you move and hold it as a thick blob you have to get opaque and shiny values ​​inside of it and clearing the build up helps that happen so I'm I'm going to check the bottom first by picking up some of that thicker stuff look there's big chunk there, these are all the little things you need to know to make your art believable and this is all about clouds, we all know how hard that is.

Clouds can be such a simple thing in a painting, but my goodness, the problem they've caused is that I like to give them a little bit of drag, that's something I like to do like that, just look at how this painting below has allowed for that. for it to happen now, obviously, that seems a little silly, so I'm going to keep shaping this cloud, pulling it towards that permanent gray color, as well as that tapping, I'm not just doing this, I'm tapping, going up there, look Look at it, look what you're doing, this part here is still showing a little bit, so I'm going to distort that drag line a little bit.

There we go, now look at the top. I like to tickle them. I call it tickling. the top parts I get on the corner of my blending brush because you can see just the actual brush marks and you want them to look like believable clouds so I'm tickling very lightly on the top, clean my brush and tickle the parts higher than you can get. These brushes from me just message me on Facebook, the link is in the description below and I'll send you some. Okay, we have a section of our cloud there, but these are the horizon clouds.

I can put another one here to Put another one there, I could start the painting and since they are, I don't know what they're called, I just call them horizon clouds, keep them low and long and I'll try to get this. one in front of that, but if not, I'll show you what we can do there because you can see this haze color here, it's adding real values ​​in our sky, grab your blending brush again and just follow the same procedure that I'm blending, pulling from him down. in that hazy color cleaning the brush as I go is very important now you don't want to dance like that all over the cloud don't do that it's okay you squish it too much you need to start tapping and then you're going to get a little shake and twist those drag marks that it is what creates the glow and realism within a cloud the believable appearance of a cloud in a painting is much better than just stamping stamping and stamping you call it agitation you would have heard me use word confusion in the videos before just doing tickled on top, this video is all about how to get believable clouds.

Clouds are not the same shape, so don't worry about trying to make them the same all the time, just use the same procedure. And they'll just take a little bit of this gray with the permanent linserine in there just a little bit of this main cloud. I could put a little more in here like this, so I'm dancing along the bottom and slowly tapping up. the cloud body comes down here a little bit more, so look what I have done, practice this procedure, only each procedure is a practice stage, if you want to master what you are trying to achieve when you know you are having problems, I will .

Same thing there too, just bringing back some of those values ​​on the blending brush, you're just going to smooth it out on the top half, smooth it out, look, everything is still wet from that retarder and craft paint, everything is allowed to stay wet if that's the case. . On canvas, this would not be possible with acrylic paints. Knowing the signs of different paints and how they work will help you tremendously on your artistic journey. Now we'll finish these ones below, you can see how that color works. that I just put there has kind of from the cloud that looks like this, a bottom part there.

I'm just taking plain white again and I want to just put something in, let's say from here, a nice long dyed color that I put in. there I want to leave some of that between this cloud and the one I already put but try to get I don't know that shape of cloud you're going to see how easy it is to stamp it, you might have I've seen people go ahead anyway, but this is control credibility within your clouds, when you know what to do, let's just put something here. Look, I checked how much thickness and stains and ooh, Lars or the painter there, you know?

What I mean is there's one there and I don't know, just for that reason we could put something just linear and long here, like this and maybe right here, grabbing your blending brush, just the background of those clouds, just grab the part bottom of them with your blending brush, pull the stir, twist and it's blending into that hazy gray color. I'm touching it, turning it adding agitation because I stamped it there in a controlled way. I have no problem mixing it up, look at the different things you see. you can learn, you may not have realized that I didn't know you had to do that, but it's knowing when you know these things and the more you do your art, the more you'll learn what will work for you and tickle your fancy too. up a little bit, but they're not too bad because I controlled the way I stamped it there and then down here it's already blending into that misty gray color that I put in the sky, so it created a little bit of realistic depth. bottom of this sky now this is just the kind of lower horizon clouds that I normally like to do in my skies, let's go find some top ones to make it look like things are coming right over our head, so we'll go is like this and now we're going to go a little bit directly over our head, okay, we'll start from here, make whatever shape you want, now I'm going to do that scattered v shape, I've said it before, where it looks like they're going over your face, your head this way, so I have a base of something here creating the base, whatever type of body you're giving it, and then it will gradually form a V-shaped spider over our heads, like this. a big spot there something like that break it up grabbing your blending brush now you can see the difference between the cloudsbottom and the top clouds now look what this brush does I'm going to go to the bottom edge the vagabonds are what's important for these those who are on this above your head have butts these ones down here the butts have been lined up on the horizon are below on the horizon so you kind of figure out where you want some butt I'm just doing it roughly I'm just showing it to you for the sake of it, but now I want to blend the top of these so I'm twisted I see the windows of blue there while I'm mixing it.

I want to be able to have brighter whites and bits of blue within that white cloud blended mix, if you go all out you're going to lose that believable cloud look and since I've applied it like this I'm blending like that too, blending boom I'm mixing it up and finishing it the way I stamped it so you know they're not just everywhere. You can have fun with clouds when you're learning, just paint and mix anyway, but as you progress on your artistic journey, you'll want to evolve. Don't do the same kind of things year after year, you need to evolve to enjoy your art and you can remember your artistic journey just by looking at your paintings, so in any case, with this procedure, what I am doing now is in any case , the bottom parts are tight, but the top half looks like here you just want to the sky passing overhead and you can do so many layers of these types of clouds, now it's here, the bottom part, keep it level with the horizon. line and then constantly clean your brush, that's important.

I have a hair there. I'll remove it later. I'll show you what you do when you have stupid hair trying to bother you. Let's push this cloud up. Honey, come up here, you may not see any paint coming off, but it's creating the behavior. Well, now with the hair like this, just take a pointed knife. Well, don't worry if you scratch the paint, just take it off. Look, I have. I pulled the living shit out of that cloud deliberately because you can go back to the corner of your brush, everything is still wet and that's it, it was done smoothly and now I just want to paint something here, so we'll come, this is like that.

As for the cloud, there will be a big one coming out of the painting and now I'm going to do the same thing I did here. I want some blue windows inside the body of the cloud, you can look at the clouds and study them and work out what you feel like you would like to do, you can even go to the corner of this brush and make them like pillows, but I'm going like this, go down a little bit, no I want it too tapered. in shape sometimes they can catch you doing too uniform a pattern there's that cloud the same thing again mix shaking shaking whisper the tops away that bottom is a little there we go because right now this cloud that I'm putting now is flat it's going to make it look flat on our sky and we're going to make it start to look believable and how we do it by using these brushes to blend it like I do, creating confusion and then adding the other two colors, so now if you look at this cloud, You can You may not have noticed in previous videos, but that cloud is a brighter white.

You can see bits of blue running through it. You need it and like I said, it looks flat. We're going to make it look quilted and lovely, just taking the gray and something. of the permanent Lindsay in there, like I said, don't get it too reddish, this will be the weather, I call it the weather inside the cloud, so they're not just white and we practically get to the bottom of our A cloud like this comes from the part bottom and go up and put your finger in the cloud as if you were bringing fingers of this color inside the body of the cloud.

There I'll do some over here, look at the clouds and find out what part of your cloud you can. put these bits of gray in and maybe I don't know, let's try a pocket in there somewhere like this, grabbing your blending brush, now you want to keep that color there, but you want to leave all those hard edges, so let's go with you. the bottom first keeping it flat and then smoothing those edges down so you can still see the white. You can see this color that you just put there and here, so this is the second stage of our cloud color to give it that believable color. look, turn it, turn it, don't kill any parts you love there, you have the right to love the parts you put there and keep them there.

I'm just making it a little bit flatter at the bottom and just this. a larger body here will put that worn color there, very minimal, so I want to go, I don't know, down here, trace a little bit up there and maybe a little bit there, sit it down, get rid of those hard edges of that color leaving the white still there in the body of the cloud, there we go, that's what I did. I cleaned it and sat there too. The rest of the clouds are too small to contain the weather. Now that we've done it.

I'm going to go back to my fan brush, I'm going to pick up the pure white and this is where we create, as a lot of people know what I call it, the lusciousness, this gives it the final look to give it that 3D look, so we'll start. over here we're going to get bits of white, put them inside your cloud, move a little bit of that gray, bring this section here, you're just adding deliciousness inside that cloud body, I call it deliciousness, it's just because it turns your clouds of that and it just makes it look a little more delicious, that's it, you've done it, it looks a little hmm, but although I want to leave that deliciousness leaving the vibrancy there, okay, but try to mix it in a that way, it's creating those padded sections inside your sitting cloud, don't think about it too much, just go with the flow, you need to practice, join some of them, you don't want them, like nutties, little bits of deliciousness, sometimes you may have to spread like this and really create the shine in your cloud.

There are so many thousands of types of clouds. I have so many videos on my channel here. There are so many different variety of cloud formations that I have made and that we have created. some deliciousness I would like it to come a little bit from below just to give that. I'll show you what I mean so it doesn't look too two-dimensional down there, hopefully and you can see from this cloud how it now has more of a pulse. the life inside it is the same with this little bit of deliciousness here where you can feel don't overdo it don't overdo it it's very easy to overdo your stuff look at this now like I said if you want these brushes that I use just message me on Facebook or yes You find brushes that work for you, but these are the best brushes for doing clouds and acrylic.

I feel like now I also want to show you something else that I've done quite often sometimes. but I let it go, but I'll show you in this tutorial that everything is colluding with the horizon line, but look at this one, if anything, it looks a little crooked to me, so to fix it I'm just going to put another one. little cloud right in front of it, something there to break that up, but this cloud also needs a bum because it's in that part of the sky, so we're going to go like this in front of it and I'm just going to mix that up and do what I do, I hope that masked that distorted image that I had in this painting here, obviously, a little bit of this color just to help because it looks like there's some rain that wants to fall, maybe you've got that there, we've done it, look at this cloud, it's the other way around, this one and that one, this one, let's bring her now so she doesn't look back, forward, here we go, I'm trying. being a little bit in cahoots with the horizon line there because I feel like it just didn't look right, seeing when they're over your head, the closest ones are in front of the furthest ones, obviously, and then a little bit of delight just fixing that's just fixing the mistake on that one, hope to fix it, the last thing you can do to get realistic clouds that many of us forget about are high cirrus clouds, look at your sky, I call them gap fillers, they are pretty. a lot I'll just go around here little detours like this and ticks like this like that that's all they are they're pretty much the smallest cloud but you can pretty much use your biggest blending brush, you don't leave any edges on those that you just blend Take them to your sky.

My sky is starting to dry out now because it took me so long to demo, but normally it would have been a lot wetter if you were home without demoing everyone. You're just painting for yourself and these are just those tall cirrus clouds that whisper in the sky, twist them, distort them, something like that, if you feel like there's too much uniformity, break them up a little bit, and then we have a little space down here, we could probably just put something like that so we can quickly make these parts a little bit wetter even and you just these are the cirrus clouds and they're good for filling in the gaps, you might have a big area for the sky and you don't want to go to the trouble of putting clouds with too much detail in there, so just put these cirrus clouds in there and if you look at the sky you'll see these types of clouds doing their thing.

Look, I'll just wash it with the color of the sky. there and it's a very busy sky, I know, but it's a tutorial that shows you the best brushes you can get to create believable looking clouds, just these blending brushes that I use and the putter of a brush, which is one of these , you get two inches and an inch and a half and you have this guy here. I'm going to finish that off if I put it on a brush and a little bit more cerulean blue just to go into the background of the painting so it doesn't even show half of it.

That's it, maybe I can use it for some other demo in the future, so let's say this is water for the tutorial, so it starts at the bottom nice and thick and then it gets to the horizon line and it slowly gets becomes clearer. and then this brush on its edge we will find it there, we will make a kind of horizon line and you can see how that polluted haze on the horizon is settled, let's say this is the shape of the ocean. From there you can see how it behaves with the paint. I'm going to get a little bit of this just to make it clearer.

If I can, yes, here we go. I just put a little more craft paint on it. You will turn a little blue because you need this darker, you need the bottom of the water darker and why you need it darker for those who don't know, I'll tell you, let me explain this to you first, okay, in general, when it's a much darker, it makes the water look like that going in that direction. I'm just taking a little bit of that crimson linen just to show you that you can cross over here because this will make it darker and then I'll let this wear all the way to the top. and this is really creating that vibe that I'm just explaining to you, okay so these brushes are the best brushes in my opinion and you can make your own decision from this tutorial if they are the best brushes for creating clouds that look believable.

I put my fan brush on a brush and a couple of blending brushes. They are not tiny blending brushes, but you can still get some small clouds with them. This one is well used, but they are not that expensive, so you can buy them yourself. several pairs if you want, yeah, and sometimes they spread out like that, whatever, don't worry about it, because all they do is say get back in line, guys, and then I've done it a few times and they come back. You're pretty tough and this is heaven, a believable heaven that you can achieve with a lot of practice if you haven't had much time painting.

It's okay, and I know you can do it well. I had a lot of fun doing it. I hope you enjoyed the show, tell your friends if you liked what you saw, but if not, tell everyone, watch this other video of mine, bye, good luck and good for you.