Acrylic Techniques Everything a Beginner Needs to Know and nobody tells you The Art Sherpa

hey everybody am cinnamon cooney your art sherpa and today i'm going to show you every technique and concept beginner needs to know especially in the first years of painting to have more confident enjoyable time when they are painting to help me do this is my husband john hello he is going to make sure that the cameras are pointed at the techniques and am demonstrating today you can paint along with me if you want to practice these techniques in real time and we are going to be going through lot of them we're going to be going deep into techniques we're going to be covering everything from blow to brush how much water all kinds of information about your paint on your palette to core techniques so that you can paint my goal for this course the whole course in general which is part of beginner acrylic painting course which is several videos is that as beginner when you go through it you come out of it really able to do those first paintings and we're building up all those skills now for 10 coming up if you're just here for techniques this really is good video for that because i've been teaching online for seven years answering questions for beginners and really kind of have an idea of the stuff that as teacher we would know you guys would struggle with but only through experience would be able to know that you guys struggle with based on all the questions that you've asked me now john yes the first thing i'd like to talk to them about is the goldilocks zone would you we don't need to demo the goldilocks so and i'm just going to explain to you the concept and then we'll go in and apply how the goldilocks zone applies to painting so you'll hear me if you paint with me if you've never painted with anyone you do want to stop if you're beginner and you've been struggling and because this will explain why you might be struggling hello my head is so big all right so here's the situation in do you guys remember the fairy tale of three bears no no you had kids you absolutely remember the fairy tale the three bears anyways there was goldilocks and the three bears maybe you've heard the story maybe you haven't but the basic concept is there was little girl lost in the woods and she came across bear house and in the house lived three bears papa bear mama bear and baby bear and the little girl went through their house kind of ransacking it eating their food and trying out their stuff to determine what was just right for her now violation of the bear's property rights assigned teddy larceny aside all that aside right the squatting of goldilocks aside of all of that or the fact you know the concept there is finding what's just right and what was just right for the papa bear and the mama bear the baby bear was not uniform my paint your paint my brushes your brushes my canvas your canvas my studio's environment your studio's environment are not homogeneous they're not the same and so that space where the brush and the paint and the water and the canvas all work together perfectly to execute our ideas and our creativity into techniques can be different right so i'm just saying this to you because when you learn online don't know if we say this to you guys enough as teachers is that your experience may be slightly different than mine at home your paint might have different goldilocks zone for water than mine right like if i'm painting and even between paints even in my own studio my golden heavy body paint it it makes little more water than my holbein paint right so it everyone is different every brush is different and what you're looking for is to start to tune in on your art materials your techniques your studio when you're in the goldilocks zone and learning how to do that will make all classes all seminars all paintings thousand percent easier okay we must go on john into how to load brush very important stuff hitting the side or table baby you're getting ready to go to the table here we go zoom to the table and then you get little shirt little me all right so we're gonna start talking about how we load brush my goodness you know what john no moved the water cup so they wouldn't spill while you were fixing the camera that's okay and can't load brush without them yeah yeah they're over there on that table don't worry get it okay he's gonna get that see live live live when go it's live live live you can be like it's gonna be fun today we had actually pre-worked out this video and then one of the camera angles failed and so we're doing it again sometimes technology comes and gets you so loading brush one of the things that what was just talking but yes would love my lower thirds will get you that dude hopefully you guys are having this on the time stamps as we're going through trying to catch some of these time stamps so we're going to be going over how you load brush and we're going to talk first about scoop me over how to properly for the lower thirds how to properly load brush right and you'll know you're properly loaded one of the big questions get from you guys at home is see you painting have the same paint have the same brush have cup of water also same canvas got my humidifier like did everything and my brush load is not working like yours and that's because you may be struggling with how to properly load brush so let's start with i've got number 10 bright here this actually is called goldilocks and the art sherpa line that's kind of fun fact you guys may not know first we're going to get the cup of water when i'm loading an acrylic brush with water don't dunk the whole brush down deep only do that when i'm rinsing out for this i'm going to take the brush to the ferrule in the water and i'm going to drag off the extra right now my brush is thoroughly damp through the filaments i've drug off the extra water so hopefully don't have tons of water in here and i'm going to come from the outside of the paint and flip the brush over and flip the brush over so i'm creating landing strip i'm pulling paint into the brush and pulling it away if want to add more water into the mix i'm going to do that slowly i'm going to get drop right see how i'm getting this drop on just the corner of my brush it just barely goes in that's how i'm controlling how much water is in my brush when that feels when it's in the goldilocks zone when it feels like it's flowing smoothly into my brush then can come to my surface and think bin to paint back and forth flipping the brush over right and all that paint loaded into it let me see if can can go right off the brush and you can see can go quite far because i've loaded quite lot of paint now there's still some paint at the belly you know and you can get that out or you can rinse that out or wipe that out but that's how get more paint for my brush strokes right that's how do that i'm going to rinse this out now when i'm rinsing out guys and we're going to talk about little bit want to make sure that am that's weird don't know how to get hold on second trying to get in there was different screen making adjustments and we'll make this whole like segment but i'm just like showing you that okay dry brushing let's talk dry brushing well there's some clues in the name right i'll get i'm gonna get look at this try brushing dry brushing some clues in the name one of the first clues is i'm not gonna go grab water that's one of the first clues and when go to mix the paint i'm gonna load it pretty dry onto my brush and not too heavy look how light that load is you can hardly see it on the dark filaments of the brush almost invisible and then my pressure is going to be super light right and you can even see if you have canvas texture you can see lot of that texture kind of absolutely coming through so that's the appropriate load for dry brushing your brush is either completely dry or nearly dry and what mean is nearly as like when you're dry brushing you may have to change colors where you'd want to thoroughly rinse out right and then you would dry with towel your brush completely really pulling out that moisture hold on are you teaching them right now how to rinse brush no wasn't but we could we're going to put that up was actually going to do whole thing on that yeah yeah yeah thought always kind of talk about that but we're going to really talk about it okay just want to make sure segment right i'm continuing to dry brush next one is edge load so see how i'm dry brushing over what have this is edge loading when we're next next we'll be edge loading right now we're still dry brushing are we we've still we've changed colors and we're still dry brushing i'm i'm getting nasty dry brushing such uk you guys knew what our whole week was like this week you would be like so amazed we're here today we're still dry brushing let's edge load now not that button though so sometimes in painting you need to load the toe of the brush let's get that set to full screen you want to go to their head yeah just for second and then we'll get in close so it's important to know the parts of the brush i'm going to be talking about the toe of the brush if you don't know lot about brushes please watch my beginners everything they need to know about brushes video but here on the toe is where we're going to be edge loading and as you guys know every brush has toe right that's the end of the filament so i'm going to come here let's do it on the white where you can really see it and i'm going to edge load little blue all right so edge loading means i'm just coming to the edge of the brush it's not deep is it look at that i'm gonna go around the other side real quick you run that to the other side all right look at that there you go so that's just to the end of the toe right it's not lot of paint and i've loaded it just on the edge there so when you hear somebody talk about edge loading let's edge load some red that's very loaded right they're just edge loading it's just it's not on both sides of the brush it's on one side of the brush right and you've just loaded the edge right so you could do that on round brush you know you would be doing it just on the toe right so like you would just be doing just the toe let's see if we can capture that on camera see how that's just on the toe of the brush do now obviously it might be little more on all sides because it's round brush but we haven't loaded it up through the belly see all right we got to talk about how to rinse out brush do we so there's couple things we need to think about i'm going to pull my thing out when you're rinsing out brushes when you're acrylic painting you're going to want paper towels you're going to want sacrificial towel for your paint when you're changing colors and you're going to want cup of water and i'm going to move my cup over here because you actually want your water and your paint all oriented to your dominant side i'm going to get my brush wet and let's put some paint into it let's say we're painting all right let's say we're just painting away that's easy to pretend right and i'm painting painting painting it's so exciting here go but need to change colors and need to rinse out my brush and i'm going to go to my yellow want my yellow to be very yellow have to properly be able to rinse out my brush to accomplish that i've got round brush this will demonstrate something that happens with all brushes first thing is i'm going to take my brush let's do it on the clear water so you can see it you can see the bottom of the cup there take your brush down to the bottom and i'm going to use little bit of pressure very carefully i'm not scumbling i'm brushing back and forth to get the water out of the brush the paint out of the brush now when come up notice let's see if the paper towel will show when come up there's drips and all on the handle is water because had to go deep so have to wipe my brush and then you're going to want to check on paper towel see how i'm checking on my paper towel here check that out don't have any pigment on here which means can safely go to yellow from red and have that be pure yellow now you can imagine this is an important skill if you have limited number of brushes and you have to change colors and you don't want your colors to get muddy i'm rinsing again you heard that vigorous swish i'm wiping off you don't always see myself other artists wiping off the handles of our brushes but we do it you may not see us wiping off our brushes on paper towel but we do it and those are important things to know the last one is that you've got to be able to control the amount of water in your brush some techniques you want to use very little water like dry brushing some techniques you want to use little more water right if you don't drag off right and control the water and you come here to the yellow look how wet that suddenly is so when come here it's really wet if come here look how wet that is didn't control my water now have too much water on my palate right for any other types than wet techniques and don't want to be doing wet techniques on canvas would only do those on paper so you know for the most part for the most part for the most part i'm kind of pulling this up because really i'm going to be working dryer wet pallets today have so see if i'm controlling my water have to know when have more we'll let these drips it's super me go over and look at drips but that is how would get drip technique right cut to drips so you go from this to dry brush to this by controlling your water and when do these three techniques again from paint to paint it's different amount of water and every brush have holds different amount of water so that's real kind of skill set that you develop through experience those drips are pretty cool they are pretty aren't they all right how are we doing how's everybody doing think pretty good but am all on the buttons today think are you all on the buttons what's the buttons let's talk about paint drawing is this how to watch paint dry yeah see if we could do that we can watch paint dry knowing when your acrylic paint is dry is big deal it's really important to your success so when we put out the paint i'm going to put out some blue here nice little run of blue let's grab some red right into that and make little bit of deep purple well see if we can capture think we can kind of see it on the overhead and maybe if turn it do you see how the paint is shiny yeah now some acrylic is glossy and some acrylic is matte but that's relative to its dry state right it's all pretty matte compared to when it's wet unless it's varnished so to know that my paint is dry it's going to be flat and matte see how these aren't shiny but this is still shiny can't move this but if go here can move this yeah that's because this is dry and this is what so you want to be able to this by sight recognize when your paint is dry if need my paint to be dry to do technique have to be able to tell when it's dry if need my paint to be wet to do technique have to be able to tell when it's wet see you guys lot of times at home on like three color blend gets stuck where you have stripe and stripe and stripe and that's because you're having trouble managing and knowing when your paint is wet enough to blend so this would be when is paint dry when is paint dry and sometimes where is the nothing everything's fine you know what we're not spelling channel the hairdryer let's have quick talk about the hair dryer see we're on spelling channel so it's fine we really are not how are you guys doing okay so sometimes we have time for the paint to dry when acrylic paint dries it does thing called color shift most paint has color shift it's the state of color when it's wet versus the state of color when it's dry have you ever picked up river rock and put some water on it and the river rocks colors were suddenly revealed it's basically like that so good paint tries to give you some sense of what color the river rock would be when wet but all paint as it dries has some change of color acrylic paint for the most part dark darkest so if you paint watercolor with me you'll notice that the paint lightens little bit acrylic paint darkens some paint some inexpensive paint darkens lot you will need to identify in your own studio if your paint has completely changed whole value that means getting darker from when it was wet because you'll have to paint lighter value than what you're seeing in your reference or in your classes okay i'm going to dry this with hair dryer before do i'm going to tell you couple things we always tell students the first thing we always tell students is that you want to put this on the low setting there's variety of reasons why we do that excuse me i'm going to have little yeah you're muted muted you you may have okay you're back ate really fast before the class you don't need to hear that no that's why we got buttons so we talked to this about our students you'll hear talking about in class and want to give you the kind of good and bad and ugly of this put this on the low setting for two reasons some paint is temperature sensitive and even the warm setting on your hair dryer will absolutely make the color shift worse good paint it won't really change or alter that inexpensive paint it might which is why we always error to the the worst possible situation you could be in that's what we try to arrow to we don't error to that you're using professional paints we don't err to that it's cadmium yellow pigment we air assuming that you're going to be having the challenge you know at the furthest beginning level of error does that make sense so that's what we're leading to if you're painting on gold and you don't got to worry about this but if you're painting on an off brand who knows where craft paint you may see significant color shift so you put this on the lowest setting and let's do it okay okay so while she's doing that will say this is where you sometimes hear me make my you know color my color shift don't use heat public service announcement that's what's been sort of joked about it's you know it is and it isn't big deal so it's just one of those things to be aware of the big thing is is that not to use heat because it is plastic and it gets sticky and can be all sorts of just heat is not something you want to add to paint okay so and was just as unprepared to talk as always am so that was great all right so it looks dry can you see how this looks dry it's not wet shiny anymore except this this paint here so you can can you see how some of it's still wet you can see what's wet and what's dry can't you now some of this paint might look dry and not be dry so we're gonna i'm gonna test it to see if any of it okay do you see here i'm able to lift the paint up from the surface as get it wet with this technique and i'll pull some up now paint that's thoroughly thoroughly dry cannot lift so when it's all the way dry you can't lift it back up when it's dry to the surface but not cured you can this is big deal with water drips this is big deal if you're doing dry brush or rough technique over what you think is dry paint you know there's lot of times when the paint will lift up on you see you guys you'll think it's dry and you'll paint over it and it's like the whole underneath lifts raise your hand if you've had that experience you thought it was dry and it was lifting so acrylic paint has state where it's cured that means it's going nowhere you can fix mistake on this paint versus it's sort of dry dry enough to paint over dry enough to dry brush on but it's not fully cured so it's not fully bonded to the surface yet and understanding when you're here or here can help you make decision on how you would fix mistake or do technique all right we're doing pretty good if you guys have questions put them in caps the moderators i'm not in chat today so the moderators are gonna try to help you find those answers and then i'm gonna go through them if it's an important question put it in the comments after the show if you're here on the replay always put in the comments after the show go back to old videos and answer questions all right the other thing i'm going to talk about paint drying is you should not use extreme heat with acrylic paint even at the temperature of dryer it starts to off gas formaldehyde it's not something that happens in regular air studio conditions it's like hot car or your hair you're like like heat dryer or torch would do it so you do want to keep that in mind that you don't want to get anything to high temperature my toes like the new high temperature of my toasty toes do they yeah you like that do like that are you ready one last thing i'm gonna say if you're doing hair dryer into wet technique if it's not stable enough you can move drop where you don't want it to go so just be aware that your drops have to be dry enough to hold shape that's that's everything you have to say about hair dryer it's lot though that's it yeah that's what have to say think we get to we get to go to mixing paint on the palette like what said every beginner painting technique that you need to know in that first year meanted it you did all right now have my primary blue my primary yellow and my primary red out and you'll notice that they are put to the sort of outer edges of the palette right when put my white out which is the color i'm going to use the twice twice the amount of i'm going to put it to the center now on these types of pouches and sometimes in tubes you can get an air pocket so you've got to mix real close to the palette and i'm going to press off that's tube or pouch to release the paint so that's how get that there i'm going to put my white in the center because i'm going to use it the most with the colors that have hold on zoomed the wrong one give me second assume this and we're going to do this with black will be using black but it's going to go to the outside edge over here i'm going to squeeze slowly because there could be an air pocket and if there's an air pocket it might explode if i'm squeezing it off then can put it close to that and kind of scrape the paint off the edge of my tube so now have my colors to the outside edge and my white in the center there's always variance of this but this is just good place to start paint management think about where your colors are don't just put them any old place because you've got to have room between them to mix colors all right have room like right now have some room here and have some room here and here and here and here and here and here and here all through here to mix colors have lot of room get asked all the time by students how do you control your paint palette this is where it starts did you get the color placement we did okay the next one that we want to do is is it the wrong way to mix yeah they're wrong lost my place took notes so don't so that we're together the wrong way to mix see this all the time and i'm gonna explain to you why it creates problem and it's something that feel started in the painting party industry and just because so many teachers like came on from there including myself it sort of carried over into online art education it isn't something you would see in traditional art class in general so here's what it is lot of times people will come in and they will show you the scoop the scoop from the center of the plop and then they're going to come over and say they want little white and they're going to scoop but do you see what's happened here in my white paint it's submarined right now yeah maybe i'll get nice little technique here yep that could do for the little party right that's very cool that was cool that was actually like you kind of double loaded it double loaded it all the things that you've got to be able to do but now you sacrificed the paint none of this paint and i'll show you why let's say take some of my yellow out and want to make some lightened yellow no the green will suddenly come out i'm not going to get ducky yellow i'm going to get bright green and as long as that blue is there and it's so polluted it's so polluted you can't mean it's this white pollutes so quickly well it all pollutes so quickly so if you do few of those little center scoop mixes pretty quickly your paint that you put out on your palettes fairly contaminating it becomes harder and harder and harder to get colors now if let's rinse out remember we're talking about paint management and water quality okay and i'm wiping it on my paper towel just to make sure if come from the outer edge of color wait is this the right way to do it this is the right yeah let's do it the right way right way hate to say things like the right and wrong lane art but sometimes in the beginning you need those guard rails and you can break them later but this is for just right now so you don't have miserable time we can safely say this is not the wrong way depends for the most part now so there's only two absolute rules at art and and none of we're not going to cover any of them today because you're not going to run into one of them is don't say fire to your paint and of course there's an artist that breaks that rule but they do it with safety conditions right don't eat your paint but then again there's an artist that eats their paint goes so there's there's rules there's there's there's hole there's like holes in holes in art there's holes in holes and holes and so there's what i'm telling you is what's going to get you through the first couple of years happy paper now so if take my yellow from here in that landing strip like do right and come over and get little blue from the outside edge look how all my blues stayed very good and bring it here right i've got green now can come in and very easily add little more glue if want to darken it but just from that one little place where you where you got the blue from you didn't like still have my yellow but if had gone in with my blue in the middle of my yellow well phthalo blue or any of the blues rolling all of them are very staining which means all of the area where that blue is couldn't use it and if it got into any mixes boom it doesn't take lot all right like if were to demonstrate to you notice that still have yellow on my brush which is why see that wiping out let's just take the smallest smidgiest amount of blue it's just on hair pretty green pretty fast isn't it it is it was one hairs worth of blue it's very staining color that's why the water makes difference that's why your water makes difference exactly speaking of we'll have to switch out pretty soon that gray water you had there yeah this would be the merc the merc you need to move the merc want to know how we dispose of water we have whole video on that and studio set up because you do need to think about how you're disposing of water okay we did the wrong way to mix the right way to mix let's do the idea of thoroughly mixed thoroughly mixed so in paint colors and you've been kind of seeing me thoroughly mix color this may be thoroughly mixed don't know like doesn't really spell too spell even less so that's where we are yeah okay when want to thoroughly mix color what that means is want the two colors combined folded in integrated until they become third other hue right so if were to take red right and were to take white and mix and mix and mix and mix and mix until remember that was like the it's through rural they mix thoroughly mixed thoroughly to get so many notes from the internet it's two paints diverged on palette do you see how that's pink see the pink right whereas you know this is maybe they've got little straight streak in it right so i'm not getting that even pink tone if i'm trying to get an even pink tone have to thoroughly mix it and you can see that i'm incorporating i'm swirling the brush around what is not happening the paint is not creeping up my ferrule haven't done the dip i've taken small manageable amounts of paint that i'm mixing on the edge on the edge of the brush and because do it this way look what's not happening it's not climbing up the ferrule how many people have had it climb up the ferrule on them it's very hard to control it feels like it's just everywhere thoroughly mixed if can thoroughly mix paint and understand my color mixing can make color again and again and again an infinite number of times don't have to buy every color that isn't every tube of every paint at the store only need to buy few colors for my palette because can make the other colors or can make their hues at least all right shall we do loosely mixed we can now in painting we have thing that we do and it's loosely mixed paint and what this is let's say i'm gonna make an orange and i'm gonna take little yellow and little red and i'm going to loosely mix it notice how it's loaded on my brush see if we can get up close onto this you see that guys see it it's not orange it is little orange and red might come and get little more yellow but it's loosely mixed you can see the streaks in it if were to get some white into that and it's mixing on the canvas isn't it it is now that's something that we do in variety of our techniques and so understanding when paint is thoroughly mixed or loosely mixed can really alter your result often am loosely mixing things and allowing them to happen on the canvas but then other times that very specifically if they're only mixing will always try as teacher to let you know when that's happening but you knowing by sight what's going on will really always help you you know there's lot of wonderful time lapse videos right tough for lessons because you don't know what's going on if you understand these concepts you start to see what's going on and you can paint along with those without difficulty all right there was last one how to lighten how to lighten so here's the thing it takes very little of color to tint your white right so let's say put some white out here and want to lighten my blue don't want to bring lot over it's easy for me to know this is silly thing to explain but if you don't know it you don't know it it's easy for me to darken it would be hard for me to lighten this blue would have to use lot of white look how much white i'm having to use to lighten the blue it takes very little for me to darken so when i'm trying to lighten paint say have third color green and want to lighten that green i'm not going to take my white to the green and mix it in i'll show you why i'll compare the two so let's say took my white to my green and mixed it in all right i've used lot of paint one it took lot of white to lighten it but if take small amount say just want tinted amount of it take it over to the white can have much more control you can get little bits of it see how much more control have over the lightning process yes okay so you don't want to take your white to your color that you're lighting you want to take small amounts of color to your white know that's crazy thing to explain but it is problem and if you don't know it you don't know it all right let's dry everything so it doesn't get away from me you do the and maybe could get some fresh water in coffee warm up i'm sure we could probably do something like that in the live lesson because that's what we do in the live is we multitask right thank you guys for joining us do see everyone out there it's really nice to see see elba and corey and lubella and terry and karen and someone earlier thought it was so funny they someone's what they're asking questions about what's going on love seeing you guys just chat chat chat thank you hello lindsay hello phyllis hello everybody okay i'm back you're back yes i'm back i'm gonna flip my canvas around so that have nice area to work and i'm not dragging my hand through paint remember to move your canvas not your body and we'll do water and the coffee yes so we're gonna do we need to move on to the next painting techniques painting techniques i'll monologue like villain for minute and then we'll get into it monologuing like villain okay guys so painting techniques i've some techniques you've kind of been introduced to like dry brushing you saw the load for dry brushing but how to use that load in painting might be confusing you know you've got to be able to make an even background when you start out painting you've got to be able to dry brush you have to understand how to layer acrylic paint the word would be like sometimes an alloprimo where everything is wet or how to layer it when everything is dry and when you need to use that you need to know when to glaze those are transparent colors you need to know when to be painterly and expressive and you need to know when you need your lines and your contour and your brush direction now blending i'm going to put in whole different segment because blending is really hard in acrylics that's probably for acrylic one of the areas that everybody struggles and we're going to go through that in its own section but first we're going to cover those primary painting techniques and the 10 paintings we're going to do in the class it's going to be based on the techniques that you're learning today so if you're wanting to do those 10 paintings coming up these are the techniques that you want to be kind of comfortable with remember you can warm up before every painting you can practice techniques before every painting and i'm going to try to talk about the techniques that we're going to use in painting so you understand what we're referring back to let me go and see if can take question from the live well john is gone and that way you guys are not the boarded i'm gonna turn my volume down so that my channel and here am kind of live as you are all right will these beginning videos be in mining book says coney houston yeah they will be in mini book beginning videos will be in mini book how do prevent blob my blob my paint is how do prevent blob my paint is transparent think that yeah that may be question about the your if you're was gonna ask that if your paint is sticky and getting blobby is that more likely to be the paint not the so what's happening in your paint if it starts to become sticky or blobby as it's beginning to dry and cure and the environment in your studio may be too dry and your paint may be prone to drying out quicker and i've got some fixes for that at the end of the video that's good question we do we still doing an even background we're gonna go yeah was just letting him have minute to get there we're gonna go let me get back into my form so i'm on the we are working our notes together today so we don't get lost so you guys have this like boom boom boom boom little organized class is it we have in the background graphics backgrounds you got to be able to paint them you got to be able to paint an even background seems like that should be easy isn't always an easy thing to do yes some of that is about the load all right i'm going to switch this dirty water out for this clean water because again paint water management right so i'm controlling the amount of water on my brush we have yellow here so let's pull out blue you want to be able to paint background where the paint is even what you're looking to do is to cover all of the canvas with color you don't want pops of canvas showing through you're looking to completely cover you can see on the outer edge here it's kind of like opening up to the underneath and here we want to cover all the white sometimes our canvas resist that we talked about that and everything you need to know about canvas and some fixes for that but that's what you're fighting right sometimes you will want to do like compound color in the background right which is maybe two or three colors mixed not just one color so you've got to be able to either mix enough of that color at the beginning i'm going to actually take this into brighter color that you can really see let's get an orange going right you've either got to make enough orange at the beginning to do all of the background that you have or you're going to need to be very confident and confident at remixing that value that's why this class we're not only doing secondaries and not deep tertiaries and we'll explain in the color mixing class what those terms mean but what that means is is that you've got to get good at mixing colors and mixing them consistently so that you can make background that isn't patchy you know if wasn't good at that right and had some like this you know some like this and maybe too much white right wouldn't have uniform background have to be able to mix the same color again and again and again if want uniform single color background lot of people just go to the tube of paint they just find the paint in the color they want but you can really save money if you get better at just mixing your part your colors and again we're going to do that in the color mixing class that's on saturday we have brush stroke class between us and that all right so even background it's weird thing to cover but honestly if you were having trouble with it if you're feeling frustrated you are not alone right where's that even background going wrong you may be having trouble consistently mixing the same color or making plan making strategy of mixing enough of the color to go through the whole painting when you need it all right dry brushing let me dry my canvas so can do some dry brushing okay i'm gonna grab my hair so this is going to be an in-depth video where we cover quite few different techniques as you can see those first painting techniques are pretty important which is we're about to cover little bit more of and you can clearly see that was not prepared with notes on what to talk about while she was hair dry but luckily she's done so here we go i'm done i'm always done all right let's put out little wet paint so you can kind of see do you need wet paint for dry brushing well no but want to show you when it's gone wrong you can use dry paint to dry brush okay stop won't don't put i'm putting out this wet paint to demonstrate concept to you okay let me take little of my yellow and i'm going to make some green and thoroughly mix green now to make that paint it's little bit too wet for dry brushing so i've got to make it and dry out my brush with towel if your paint's wet enough to mix the paint it's too wet to do the dry brush now i've got my brush dry color so you can kind of see it all right the first thing about dry brushing is my pressure has to be light and the surface underneath has to be dry see how that is yeah if take my dry brushing into wet paint it starts to blend that's pretty cool so what you need to know is when you're dry brushing dry brushing works on dry surface and that your brush needs to be dry and if you've been mixing paint it may be holding secret water messing up your dry brushing you need dryer brush for craft paint than you do for heavy body paint heavy body paint has an easier time doing dry brushing because it's already pretty heavy in the body craft paint's got lot of moisture in it so you're going to want to do your driest brush and your driest surface and your lightest pressure to get the technique all right layering so in paint we have to layer paint right you have to layer paint to create value and shading and and and to create depth and dimension but when we layer and how we layer is very important now when our paint is dry pretty easy to layer on there isn't it come right in however we can layer right i'm going to get pretty thick load over our wet paint if it's still really wet and your pressure increases it starts to become blend on the canvas so this is wet and this was wet but by light pressure was able to keep the white paint wet like white on top of the red paint pressed too hard got pink pink so this is the challenge of alloprema whether you're doing it in oils or acrylics painting went into wet is that if you want the color to sit on top you can't press very hard does that make sense explaining that okay the other thing about layering it would be tough to come up on this very thick white paint and get good layer see how it picked up the white yeah so can layer wet into wet over thin coat but will start to see intermixability as soon as go over very thick wet definitely stuff to know that will happen this is an issue for you as beginner because as i'm teaching and i'm using terminology term can mean many things in single process or technique on the canvas knowing what's happening in your own painting keeps you in that goldilocks zone shall we glaze think we shall we should we should glaze so glazing is transparent and thin coat of color right and that's where there's color underneath and the paint is so transparent on top the color underneath is coming through and showing through now some pigments are naturally transparent and sometimes you have to thin the pigment to help it be transparent the red here primary colors are often pretty transparent but sometimes i'm going to just demonstrate thinning it so you know that that's what we're doing come here notice that as paint the thin glaze of red here right it almost visually looks orange yeah because it's thin and transparent because it's thin and transparent it's like having little cellophane sheets next to each other let me grab some of my blue and then transparent green here's where glazing bites you in the butt sorry is that okay patootie it well you already went there already went there i'm sorry it got you bum bum if someone's gonna get bit it's gonna be you it's that serious you come here so what happens to lot of people is they're paying student paints it's more economical paints they're painting colors that are naturally transparent and they want to do something like have dark green background with yellow flower on top can we get in that and see that i'll do that again i'm trying to paint little loose yellow flowers on top but what do see is that look brightly yellow no it looks kind of greenish looks kind of greenish so what have to do is recognizing when my paint is glazing because wanted to which showed you earlier but when in my paint is glazing when don't want it to when it's glazing when don't want it to what have to do is take bit of white get bit of white so you can really see it happen and maybe i'll even kind of intermix it here and it will dry and then you see me do it you'll be like what okay pretty good right yeah now we're going to try that when come back i'm going to show you the difference of the yellow could be red could be many other colors but the yellow between the yellow over the blue where it's transparent and yellow over the white when you made this step let's try it okay little quick dry dry think okay let's see all right everybody here today if you chose to be here today you chose to have better painting experience you made that choice this moment here if nothing else makes your painting experience better this moment here will different yellow isn't it how much brighter are these yellows that are glazed over the white then these yellows glazed over the green wow sometimes this is the difference you know i'll say to people you know they're are professional artists that paint with student paints the difference would be is that artist just knows to put the white underneath they adjust to the reality of the paint paint isn't good or bad your paint has temperament it has qualities it binds easily it doesn't bind easily it dries slowly it dries too fast it's little transparent it's got personality you need to get to know yeah your pain has personality in your studio yeah and everybody's paint behaves differently in everybody's studio because acrylic paint is so impacted by humidity and temperature conditions of of these of the studio so even if we have the same products and the same everything you may be having different experience than am all right glazing guess what we get to do now john you we get to be painterly and expressive you guys want to be expressive you were okay was like thought we had already glazed we're now on to being painted it's really inexpressive how's everybody doing good now even though we're live and i'm hoping the mods are getting your questions and i'm gonna go through and what we'll do is we're gonna try to collect the questions and then i'm we're gonna answer them over on the facebook live cindy was just asking that like got in here late how long after the show can ask questions like all the way through mods are going to try to get it we're going to go to facebook and as long as sony entertainment has turned down its content id craziness we should have facebook live that goes just fine it's just even if it gets us and you guys get booted out counter claim in about seven days it's released because don't actually use any video game footage or music in my videos nope so the claim is crazy okay painterling expressive let's switch over to say i'm gonna get into my number four just to show you guys this now in the world i'm gonna go here in the world sometimes we have very smooth brushstrokes right smooth and then sometimes we have these loosely mixed expressive energetic brush strokes now there's an artist that we're all very familiar with it's kind of known for his expressive way of painting things i'm doing curved strokes that are open and staggered i'm not being neat and tidy right i'm trying to just let them be paint you can see that they're paint let's get little more orange into it i'm coming around the toe i'm weaving back in it's kind of linear paint depression notice that the brush strokes are not organized into tiny little rows they're not rolling them up wonder if you guys already know what we're doing how many people know what we're doing so this artist really made whole career of this expressive impressionistic process of painting and painted the night sky in this way characteristics of this style painting are again brush strokes that are sort of free and and not regimented right often you're using the brush in very light methodology you're not putting lot of pressure on it there's free spiritedness about it have they identified it have they guessed you guys guessed right someone's coming i've guessed now when we first started that this way of painting right charity guessed it did you guess it when i'm being you know expressive with something and painterly might be energetic notice that my brush is energetic some black into here it's very energetic that would be an expressive way of painting going from like dry brush and everything into that versus when you're doing something maybe that is considered okay and slow and methodical might go over those areas the same time would you say that this is about lines not yet no okay now we're going to talk about expressive and painterly and sometimes like to show the opposite of that just want to make sure i'm not like you know this is unrehearsed we have no net all right now when it's there's white showing through it's kind of expressive and painterly but when i'm making an effort to control things and be tidy right might not be painterly this would be painterly i'm just telling you this so that when you are painting with someone and they use that term what kind of action are they expecting of you at home yeah what are they asking of you so that's what painterling expressive would be about i'm gonna turn my surface again let's work on some lines we can do that new water soon all right lines gotta be able to make lines with all your brushes so the first thing i'll tell you when i'm doing my round brush i'm going to come over here and bring some water and notice that i'm thinning it and swirling it and rolling it that's because i'm going to have better lines from fluid paint now you could have separate paint many artists do i'm going to load to the toe of the brush lines let's say i'm going to line this how fine line is flying along here have this little drip and let's say want to line it and how thick something is would be entirely about how hard i'm pressing okay we'll wait for john for the side view because he's giving me fresh water fresh water clean we'll go over it again so if have brush and press very hard look at that line that's not good line just also broke the heel of my brush didn't now might want line that was sort of thick and even like that right if want fine lines i'm going to have to lighten up i'm going to want to light load at my toe yeah well like not don't actually break my brushes know how to push it to the to the limit and not break it notice how fine that that line is find that much like have you guys ever done thing where you remember the old timey cameras where you would like click it but the film speed was like slow enough that you kind of had to hold your breath so that you were little bit more like tripod there's lot of things that we can do to improve the steadiness of our lines sometimes holding our breath even though don't encourage that in painting in general but even steadying your breath and slowing down you're not going to get fine lines going fast notice that my overall painting speed has slowed my breathing will slow down the pressure in my hand will slow down everything lightens right then then mellows swirling swirling roll roll the reason thin and roll is to pull the paint from the belly down towards the toe more so it's not creeping up the ferrule thick inner thick center right now if wish to have thick line that's like kind of going from thick area to point which we do for petals we do for all kinds of things could do an upward brush stroke can even pull it down if go fast in my line making and randomize it it starts to happen notice that my fingers are moving looking forward i'm up the brush controlling it i'm not in the back being expressive and painfully i'm up front you should be able to do solid work and fine work on the same thing like we're dry brushing and doing little tiny lines you should have this type of versatility in your work if i'm pretending to kind of like write in calligraphy and i'm doing compound lines lot of lines are an stroke then that is fine lines and thick lines and how you get your brush to give you thicker thinner you can do that on your you can if you're going to do line on bright let me just show you real quick if you need line on braid if you go on the flat that's pretty thick wide line right you go on the edge my mic was off that's finer those are some lines you can even paint with the corner okay that's what's happening there i'm gonna dry my canvas and we're gonna come back i'm gonna paint pair and show you contour okay paint pair and contour that's good thing to do because pears have contours they're not square because you wouldn't want to eat square pair although hear square watermelons are quite popular in small refrigerators which makes lot of sense but we're here to paint so should probably not wax philosophical about fruits and vegetables so let us go before the carrots get us okay she's taking longer than thought that okay i've run out of dad puns we gotta run out of deadpool you gotta move on you're an infinite dad punter how can you run out of dad puns it's been many late nights just go did drop it on the floor what did you drop feel like dropped my round brush but couldn't tell you where the round brush is it on the floor don't know i'll come back can you look look don't see it on the table all right but was drawing vigorously there it is it's in my lap don't laugh that's okay it's not behind here so what are we on contour we're gonna do contour let's do some contour all right let's do some contour so let's say now i'm painting along and i'm going to paint little hair here here like little kidney bean shape we'll start with yellow there's our interesting little creatures anytime you paint them they have so many colors and so much personality some blue and yellow into it to kind of make some green let's have some green pair this time doing little kind of stippled short strokes here kind of imply the texture on the pear how we're doing it's also sort of covering brush directionality which we'll do in second guess i'll get back into it with ball you can kind of see the shape of that little pair kind of coming up right got parry shape kind of got pear shape we're going to take little bit of our orange i'll go little more into the yellow you know get into my green not banana not banana are you sure it might pass as squash if you squinted little stem here will be artful we'll give it little dots and everything for some texture you know we want our pair to have little personality of some kind suppose contour lines so when you paint an object and just its value its texture shape in its form you know you're expressing that through lot of different atmospheric techniques when you think of contouring and going around lines lot of times we think of that in terms of comic all right but that's when we anchor something with structural line right so notice that i'm kind of going around this object and notice it became stronger art piece the use of the line because use contour lines it's lines that are going around it to express it know it's thing unlock my own thing when it does this it just makes them so mad but it doesn't recognize my face with makeup so need to do something about that all right so we've done contour we've just got to talk brush direction now that's bumper did you have it the brush direction yes sorry didn't no it's okay you want that all right let's come up into our yellow brush direction tells us lot about an object if am going to try to imply that something has kind of curved shape the directionality of my brush strokes can kind of imply that for me all right be tough to paint curved shape if all the lines are straight uh-huh you know when you're painting water you have to have very thoughtful brush direction because depending on whether the water is in motion or flat or light's going to be reflecting across it those brush directions or implied line or implied texture can tell your eye lot about what could be happening in particular painting the direction of these brush strokes around the star down here if you can go over to the van gogh star there we go notice how that curving energy implies radiation of light out right yeah when we curve the brush strokes on this pair that implies that the bottom of the pair has round shape doesn't it it does so on top of the color value hue technique that we're using just the directionality of technique and can be really really impactful i'll do something you can almost feel wave happening here the brush strokes change their curve and direction you feel the wave do see it that's what we're talking about when we're talking about brush direction my goodness so much still to do fresh water we gotta come back and work on blending we're working so hard today you guys are working so hard so you think blending we're now ready for some blending blending acrylic painting and blending this is the reason acrylic paint is challenging medium to blend because it dries really quickly and once it's properly cured and dried it doesn't really lift up can't come and reactivate this orange once that orange is dry so let's talk about blending i'll use my angle brush here all right blending let's talk about wet into wet blending the bumper just did okay so john's been just like going going going since midnight all right let's blend from yellow to blue let's go over here i've got my yellow paint here and want to blend to blue well i'm going to want to maybe mix half tone right green half tone and then as come between this wet paint and this wet paint i'm going to very lightly draw tile blend sorry what nothing nothing it's all fine just pushed wrong button all right and try to blend there and so this paint and that paint only blend i'm getting the extra paint off of this because they're both wet am blending in the direction of the stroke not against it because that would just bring this green all the way through the yellow as go through could come into the blue brushing into that and blending it in i'll wipe off on my towel because don't want too much paint on here especially as go in to the more delicate color the yellow yeah okay can blend into those colors you can also take soft dry brush if you want to soften any blend all right that's just the basic tendency of blending now gotta get up too all right that's like working it that direction let's talk little bit blending the right way blending the wrong way just to demo that again ready right way so the right way if want to blend from light color to dark color i'm going to go white and then i'm going to have some dark red i'll come from the darker color to the lighter color in the direction softening my pressure as go yeah it just creates that soft transition can go from the light color into the darker color but what shouldn't do is go from this red all the way back through the white because i'll start to carry that color and can lose control over the blend can always add more dark color to the outer edge or more light color to this outer edge but what don't want to do is work that middle with just light color just dark color want to work from the outer edge so that i'm constantly transitioning right so let's come back before this dries and say the wrong way okay the wrong way the wrong way to blend is when blend the opposite direction from the transition so if have vertical transition from light to dark don't want to blend horizontally because it's going to take away all my color if have say light color to darker color going horizontally make one here you see that where it's blending into the white yeah becoming softer and softer and softer horizontally if try to blend that vertically it goes away so you have to blend in the direction of your transition if you have vertical transition you have to blend vertically if you have horizontal transition you're blending wet into wet horizontally if you go against your transitional direction you're gonna lose your your soft blend all right now let's do linear blending then you're blending okay so linear blending is good for beginners to know about because sometimes the challenges of the old masters painting with like egg tempera or gouache which are not really blendable materials can help you in medium that has many of the same challenges so when want to do linear blend i'm going to want to mix three values so if i'm going to go from yellow to like blue green i'm going to want to take some yellow and then make half tone right and then have you know my blue green tone there i'm gonna miss my palette by the way we're gonna talk about this as way to keep things going on your thing let's do it here okay so first i'll take i'm just yellow and i'm going to make little lines and we're going to be doing horizontal this will be line directional dependent too okay and i'll come down and you'll notice as come down open up those lines don't why'd you do that so that can weave in the mid tone okay right because they don't really blend together as much as optically inner weave and i'm doing this pretty open this is pretty big stroked linear blend but if you look at frescoes if you look at old madonnas that were done in egg tempura what you'll notice is this is how everything was blended all right maybe come up here now as get up into the area where want to go into light my strokes become lighter and less frequent so now i've got this sort of yellow to this blue mean this green and i'm gonna come down into darker green this is not the fastest method this is one that's really terrific for water though guys sky effects anytime you're having really hard time going from another color to another color like where they're contrast they're just not giving you break this is good way to maybe get that break you can always come back and transition it nice see how that goes yeah it's linear blending all right last one i've got to make three stripes and then dry them so let me do that here since i've got some color out already okay i'm gonna make this straight what happens to lot of you is that your paint is drying on you faster than you're getting your blends able to happen so you end up with three distinctive stripes i'll try that and talk about how you fix it so how john's got to get up there i'm which one were you at here okay sorry so we had smooth transition blend there but we're talking about have you guys ever had thing where you're trying to paint with me paint with anybody and you were going through several colors and it was like you had stripe and stripe and stripe circular stripes circular stripes circular stripe it was just clear zones it's not transition it's not blend when dry this you and and it's dry right that's why i'm drawing it because you no longer have the option to wet into wet blend something happened you had to walk away the paint was drying fast but it got dry and you don't have the blend anymore okay think we're gonna do that all right okay so here we go here we are now this is how to fix stripe to blend striped blend okay just want to make sure that we how to fix the stripe blend you've gotten striped blend gush dirnit first repair from the lightest side gonna start with my yellow and look i'm gonna glaze back now it's glaze and then i'll come and maybe get little of my green and blending it back into where know the blue is going to be in other words my lightest color towards my darkest color that's in my blend doesn't really matter what it is back to the blue and come back towards the middle softly not heavy pressure saw pressure got little too much dark and because the paint underneath is dry can actually lift up can clean up with this because it's dry underneath so even if have three stripes if just let my paint dry or it is dry can go back and in combination of glazing and blending correct it and sometimes end up with an even better transition this mistake often becomes the best sky possible are you guys loving it think this is pretty fast hopefully y'all feel like you're just learning all the deets this is this is deetful this is totally all right full of those deets how to deal with common mistakes and problems yeah should be end problems but didn't type it so it's common mistakes and problems all right one of the things that's happening now have wet palette so this does slow down the drying of my paint but maybe i'm on paper plate maybe i'm in different situation want to have mister bottle mist paint not lot of water you don't want big droplets you don't want it soaked you don't want to change how your paint's mixing if you have to dry brush you just want to create light mist on the surface of your paint so it doesn't skin so you can have wet palette or you can have mister have both it really does help all right let's do the next mistake the next mistake yes getting up too soon no so for most of you the biggest problem you have in your painting and have seven years of experience and looking at thousands of paintings of facebook group of 50 000 people in it who share don't know 400 to 700 paintings today and i'm in there all the time checking to see what's going on because as teacher that's my job your biggest mistake is you give up too soon yeah you get frustrated you get overwhelmed you start to think that there's some fundamental thing that you're not getting and you're really about two-thirds of the way done with painting but paintings have very long ugly stage often they have just tremendously long ugly stage stage for which you have to have faith it's all going to work out yep and you guys give up before you're almost done it's like you did two thirds of the marathon and then just thought there was no ending in one house and then you have partially completed canvases everywhere so my advice to you is one of the biggest things to help you in that beginning thing is finish it finish it when you don't like it finish it when you do like it the learning and the growth happens through the journey through the process through the connective skills that come together in painting through your brain realizing if layer it this way that's how get the effect your brain cannot make the realization if it doesn't go through the process you gotta do the painting that makes sense so that's big mistake that beginners make you guys give up too soon all right let's do another one common mistakes muddy paint so there's muddy water and muddy paint and lot of times paint starts to get muddy and i'm going to do the quick way to make paint money is to mix primaries together i'm gonna make an orange okay you guys see that there that is muddy pink color there's no amount of yellow wait yeah you can see it all right let's put it here let me go over there okay i'm gonna do this actually on the canvas so you can see this happening all right the same painting and i'm like there's some yellow and then i'm like there's some red that's looking pretty good actually get some blue in there and it starts to go muddy i'm not going to make this paint less muddy by adding more to it when you see your paint go money you're going to want to stop and do one of the two corrections for mistakes that have going on you're going to want to clean it while the underneath painting is dry or you're going to want to allow it to dry and start over if you find that your paint has gone muddy stop wash out your brush wipe it off you're going to want to evaluate your palette is your paint becoming muddy because your palette has gotten messy is it just that there's no clean place for you to mix the color so you're getting red yellow and blue in the same mix every time does that do you understand what i'm saying you need to recognize don't be so wrapped up in this that you miss that it happened here when you see this you stop and you go what has happened is it in my brush did not rinse out my brush well enough between paint colors is it on my palette right was the surface underneath not dry was that paint coming up so was putting an orange over green and didn't realize the green wasn't dry and it went and made my paint so you want to recognize what failure in the paint process and technique is creating the paint don't continue to play with the muddy paint unless you like mud then by all means lean in and notice there's two kinds of bud right and you might intentionally mix one of these colors because you need brown but if you're not trying to get them right you're not going to get to bright purple from here you're not going to keep adding red and blue and white to get to bright purple from mud all you can do for yourself is recognize how the mud happened stop the problem and start over not the whole painting just the in the technique process little part of the painting that you're in you would start over not the whole painting all right next one okay dirty water other place that you accidentally dull your colors is in the water if you're not changing your water the pigment that's in the paint is now in the water floating free it would be very hard in very dirty water to get bright white bright yellow bright blue red any of it these pigments count and when the water mean like this is pretty fine these are pretty fine but when they turn into the merc you gotta stop so if it looks like swamp thing can live in there you gotta stop all right you ready for the next one think it is think this is still wet enough to do this and i'm sorry to do this to you but had to find one to do it where are you gonna do it at we're gonna i'm gonna do it over here because think it's still wet okay and might paint it some more so it is still wet since i've already done it and this is that remove hair no this is the hidden water damage can do that here too know next one is okay so sometimes you forget to wipe off your brush and before everything slides it does that and we're gonna let that have thing can't wipe that away if the paint is wet without lifting the paint so have to dry it and allow it to dry to paint over it right and if have dark color and light color because the water drop removed all the paint underneath to say like this degree can't just come back let me dry this and show you okay just quick try can't just come back with another color because the two tones are going to show you're going to have to do couple of layers you're going to have to like take out i'll take little white and yellow just couple little dry layers think she just wants to get it completely dry so that it can make there it is okay multi-layer two layer effects so that happens when your paint isn't fully cured and you get water drop or spill or splatter or something where you don't expect it to be all right now now are we going to do the now think we can move in to remove the hair remove hair i'll go ahead and do some loosely mixed blue and white if can find it again have you ever been painting and and i'm sorry to do this too just want you to see how it goes and then the hair gets in the paint need better hair does we have pet hair our hairs are just need pet hair don't know can where's the twix maybe can pull one out of one of these have one that's new enough to pull it from sometimes you can get one out of new brush need twix my brushes are not shedding your brushes are not shiny buy quality brushes what am thinking and we need the paint to be wet i'm just going to show you how to remove the hair mix we need hair head hair do you have any hair no she doesn't why is there no hair there you go she's not though she's nothing's getting in there my gosh i'll put this here all right let's see hair got in there don't know if you can see it hope you can see it you're painting and there's hair okay there you go you can see can see it all right you don't want hair that's everywhere in your studio you do have just you need hair it's nowhere so when want to remove hair and it's in there come in with brush and use it to pick it up i'm just saying that because in seven years every time fixed it they were like how'd you do that just come in with the brush to pick it up and then if have to smooth anything out can do that then all right let me show you wet paint fix and dry paint fix let's see here you're right so i'm painting along i'm going to do this like real quick so would like this right and don't know what happened went this paint is wet and this paint is wet have to dry it to fix it did we do wet or dry first this is what paint fixes okay so you guys see that this paint was wet and this paint was wet and boo booed it to fix mistake that you make in wet into wet right you need to dry okay that'll just take brief moment for her to dry that down and i'll make sure we're zoomed in on it so we can see what's going on all right all right now hopefully you guys have been paying attention enough this class that you know can't just paint right over that can that's too much of contrast for the repair can take red in little bit of white i'm using the opacity of the white and the tinting strength of the red now don't have too big of transition in color between my red and my background all right that's much more hidden isn't it dry it and just quick try to make sure say that you know don't really know how long she'll dry but think it won't be too long because it's just thin layer of paint right that's right not too long okay when you try to fix sometimes colors that look like they are fixed will suddenly reveal themselves there's there's an induced discoloration from the substructure okay so you do the same technique now i'm going to go little darker closer to my color that's in the background on this next coat this also works on restoring furniture and walls and things like that this is good skill knowing how to fix something like super crazy is very good skill when dry it i'm going to look to see how much it's showing through okay might have to have another layer until you cannot see just like adding layers yeah just go on layers and i'll just do this because we're here for thing and then you do your code again that color that you want it right so you just go and go and go until it doesn't show through takes three to four coats really but i'm giving the js basic idea of the process and this is the worst catastrophic thing this is sharpie this is this is you did black streak through an area that you had light thing this is how you get that back now want to come back and show you how you can fix mistake over dry paint let's see makes mistake over dry paint things you need to have okay this one's my favorite easiest to do all right i'm painting along and i'm going to all right let's say it's in black right there it goes but didn't want it there did not want it there right i'm going to take clean water before it dries this is dry paint fixing only if the paint underneath is cured and dry which is why we went over when your paint is dry at the beginning every one of the concepts in this beginner technique class teaches you core skill set that you have to have to get through your first challenges in your first couple of years as an artist i've been here minute so know what you guys are up against know what you guys are up against do all right that was pretty cool right that's pretty cool so now we're gonna go guess like did you get the video to show the traceable thing think so okay all right i'm just making sure before we get there all right so we need to do drawing on canvas yeah drawing on the canvas all right so when you're painting and when you start out when you're in the middle of the painting doesn't really matter where you are you will have the opportunity to need to sketch out structural or concept lines on to surface and there are couple things have to say about this lot of people are tempted to get their core pencil out this is just regular pencil and i'm going to make some marks here the issue with pencil let me get some pure white all right are we there is that when paint my white over it the pencil picks up pigment the pigment of the graphite sinks through the white and stains what's above it see that and you can't remove it with water so there's this problem now there's fix sometimes people use sploosh spritz of spray varnish to set the pencil that's what you would see in all the large do or some artists that are familiar with this problem what really ask beginners to do is just switch tools right because there's so many steps to fixing this i've said hey watercolor pencil or chalk let me show you chalk all right this is chalk you can do chalk over the dry paint and the canvas and it lets you make all kinds of important lines right so you could do anything that you needed to draw more importantly with clean water you can easily lift remove or change the chalk whereas the pencil did not this well so if you have to do sketch and then you want to take away your sketching lines you can do that much easier this particular tool is tailoring tool for quilting and tailoring it's dritz chalk tool the reason chose it is it has pure chalk as cartridge there's no wax there's no oil it's pure chalk it's pure clay it doesn't have additives in it you could also use the chalk from box of chalk like on chalkboard or crayola chalk or any of that the other thing that like to use is watercolor pencil like watercolor pencil today earlier someone said how do you write wishes on the canvas with watercolor pencil happy painting tips about the watercolor pencil is that you pick color that will work well with your background so if i'm doing blue sky would pick blue watercolor pencil if what is going above it is predominantly blue or brown if it's predominantly brown kind of think about that little bit because there's pigment right this is corona watercolor pencil but any of them will do this can take water then and remove it but you can see it does have pigment but it is removable so that is why use those tools to sketch on canvas the last thing that you can sketch on canvas with is paint oops that's not you let's see here yeah so if were to come here and i'm i'm little bit above you yep and needed to sketch something out let's sketch out happy face let's say we were painting happy face over colorful background can't and it's happy cat face we're gonna do that right can sketch out those things you know with my paint the thing is is that when the paint dries there's paint right do it all the time in landscapes because you need very few structural lines and when i'm sketching i'm not trying to sketch every detail that see i'm trying to sketch the basic outer contours remember contours from the pair yes we're trying to do the contours not every detail outside structure lines what you think of for coloring page very simple coloring page that's why traceables are simple right and whenever get them too complicated it just makes you all miserable and love when my patrons give me feedback sometimes they get to see things early and then they're like no this did not work your intentions failed and i'm able to redo that traceable make it more simple so it's important to understand that it's not every line that you see in something it is the lines that are necessary to hold the painting you can't remove hb pencil easily and it can stain the paint above it like watercolor pencil and chalk these are not the only answers they are just good answers you cannot use crayon oiled pastel or colored pencil that is wax based because the paint won't stick to it all right good things to know all right the tracing method goodness gracious this was big class today it really was tracy method all right do we have that video and i'll tell you when to play it so first when you want to do trace tracing method you've got to find something to trace i'm going to tell you about my website because i'm incredibly biased so self-promotion here so say you're doing this class with me and you want to do one of the 10 paintings you don't want to draw don't push it yet you you i'm gonna show you guys how to draw everything in freehanded but also understand that not everyone is in that space and i've been online long time and know that tracing is not cheating it is technique they teach in an art school transferring images you have many ways you can do it you can do gritting you can do projection you can do this transfer method there's lot of ways to get things on so if you're choosing to do the traceable which will provide you'd want to go to the art circle website and find the traceables module it says traceable so that's very very helpful is it playing there it goes okay there it goes so click the traceables module now on the traceables module no think you there it is yes you want to click the traceable that you want it's going to open up right and it's little tiny icon that lets you know to download it i'm sorry for that for some reason icons can't be bigger don't know why the the website team can't explain it to me right this is me accidentally doing stuff doing stuff that i'm supposed to do but situate my traceable now at this stage you could check the size in your image editing files if you have pick simulator photoshop or any of those or preview i'm going to go to the printer though and i'm going to resize from the printer so went to select print and i'm going to select scale so one scale that can do that makes all traceables pretty easy is fit to page right scale to fit but can also present to scale it up and down can't so can do like 50 pages 59 of the size of the traceable if i'm 10 that makes it smaller if go to 100 right it would be bigger so in that percentage you can make it bigger smaller to fit your eight and half by 11 sheet of paper and that can help you resize traceable because sometimes depending on where you get the reference it could be bigger or smaller your downloading service might shrink things down and reduce their size so what have on the website may not be what you get in the home it is in the printing segment and in these settings where you can constrain things and do them that you can change the size of traceable just didn't know if you knew that and wanted to show you that this was possibility if you need to enlarge traceable some printers have poster feature on it or you can go to website it's gonna say it's gonna sound like i'm saying dirty word i'm not hope don't get tagged by youtube raster r-a-s-t-e-r-b-a-r-t-e-r the mods will type it in chat too and that will let you resize traceable so once you've printed out the traceable you're ready to transfer onto your canvas let's talk about that let's see here serial paper versus watercolor pencil yes had to find the appropriate button all right so have product really like cereal paper it's this here it's transfer paper for art contains no wax or grease says so on there erases like pencil doesn't smear washes out of fabric so it's good for fabric and art you can ink or pencil over the tracing and it won't skip and it's economical can be used again and again and again and again in other words the sheet you cut for your traceable can be used for 50 60 traceables your so this is one-time investment there's samplers and then there's rolls but here's the truth like the yellow and like the white found the blue and the red to be little staining and have bleed through this is just kind of like transfer it's like copy paper right the thing to know about this as we go and i'm let's say this is my printed out traceable here look at that isn't that wonderful it's cat it's cat and this is my cereal paper that's been cut and it's been used before right and i've got tape on it have low tack tape let's tape this down now on the serial paper you're going to want to put it the colored side down all right and you're going to want to tape it in two places over where you're going to intend to transfer the image if you don't want to use serial paper you could use your watercolor pencil you would want to take your pencil and rub rub rub rub right look at that i'm taking the pigment from this pencil don't you wanna see the rubbing let's see here oop me sorry was looked away all right and we're gonna rub rubber but leaving transfer pigment from the pencil onto the paper i'm going to want things to be taped in two places here as well and the reason for that is guys is that if your traceable shifts the line can shift on you and the point is trying to get these outer important lines onto your surface right now cerro paper works best if your canvas is completely cured dry and cool same with watercolor pencil in fact all tracing and transfer works better when your canvas is cured cool and dry right cured cool and dry now once it's cured cool and dry can come over and firmly press over the lines on my traceable to create transfer okay now don't want to press so hard that i'm indenting the canvas because can't get that out if press so hard on my pencil i'm making dent on my canvas or board or paper that's permanent so need to find the goldilocks zone of pressing down hard enough to get the image to transfer but not so hard that i've done damage if my canvas isn't wet if my canvas is wet or is little warm it might also make an indent so that's why those things are important now think it's little hard might actually you can kind of see the serial here john gets in on it can you guys see the cereal line here yeah usually that's little crazy i'm gonna move down to some white so you can see the purple okay so you can see how that would transfer out so you can see how it does it's pretty light and it will remove with water both of these removed with water have also successfully used chalk on the back of paper it is not dark line if you have visual issues with contrast you're gonna have to pick method that leaves you dark enough line okay can see the difference between even this crazy visually busy background and my yellow line to get my construct and so could come back in later yeah if had to like you know then come back over and paint that that's pretty easy for me to do can see it well enough to do this okay so can get on to the next part of my painting with that fairly easily and if for some reason any part of that traceable was outside of my paint would just allow everything to dry and when it was completely dry and cured with damp brush would remove any excess watercolor or serial paper residue my goodness guys you got that that's all folks think that we have something like that know this was big class bigger than initially had thought it would be but realized i'm not doing you any favors by not telling you the stuff you need to know take it in watch it twice practice the techniques because it absolutely every one of these things is going to come up in your first year as painting every one of these things is going to be something that you have to know how to do and they are challenges that beginners will be faced with because the truth is whether you're very experienced painter or you're beginning painter having to fix mistakes is something we all have to be able to do knowing how to paint solid fields of color these are all things no matter where you are in the journey of painting are skills you have to have so it's important for you to know them if you want to have confident and enjoyable experience when you're painting but here's the cool thing guys none of this was talent-based it's not some mystical magical skill that you're born with it's just knowledge and whenever you see something it's little bit of work but just knowledge it means you can do it nothing is between you and success there's not some weird genetic lottery between you and being able to paint so if you have been person up until this moment who said well my aunt was really good at art but didn't inherit any of that talent pump the brakes on that for second and think about what we did today all of these things are the things that make painting successful none of them were talent based yeah and i'll tell you secret i've been an artist my entire life and come from family of artists and have friends that are artists and i'm not saying that there is an acuity or that you know some people don't have great instruments but talent what most of us are talking about when we say talent is skill with story life experience what that person brings to the table right so when you have lot of skills and you are able to tell your story authentically people are going to start telling you that you're talented i'ma say it it's totally cool it means it you are talented you put together your skills and what makes you unique special person you told your story so hopefully you realize man ninety percent of what's exactly what said at the beginning isn't it yep ninety 90 of what goes wrong for you guys has nothing to do with you it's about knowing this stuff this is all learnable you can do it and when you can do it you can do all the one who paintings all those beginning paintings you can do them to the point where you're like really proud of it these are the things that you've got to know how to do next week no not thursday soon soon it is thursday we are going to come together and go over brush strokes and we're going to take those brush strokes and make specific objects all right that you've got to be able to do when you're first painting if you can make these objects then you can kind of compose artwork much easier and have better result so we've got these skills practice these if you're here on the replay and you thought this course was well it covered it what you actually needed to know and you thought that was cool hit the like comment and subscribe and do those human things go to my 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