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hi everyone welcome back to the channel00:00:09
well i'm going to paint a bunny that i'm00:00:11
going to be doing this actually for00:00:12
maybe a surprise for one of my00:00:14
grandchildren but a real fun one little00:00:16
cotton tail i see these every morning on00:00:19
my walks and stuff and i thought it'd be00:00:21
fun to do that to show you some of the00:00:22
emulation project00:00:24
process that i use you know for wildlife00:00:27
for paintings like this we have a lot of00:00:29
different looks and stuff coming and00:00:31
some more westerns i have one we're00:00:33
going to be painting right there behind00:00:34
us there now one of the other requests00:00:36
i'm having is how do i go about drawing00:00:39
uh that and i was re i read two more00:00:41
requests on the channel this morning for00:00:43
that so i will set that all up i already00:00:46
have this one on uh here and i show you00:00:50
i show you a combination i use three00:00:51
different ways in which to get an image00:00:54
over you know onto my painting surface00:00:57
drawing is essential there's three parts00:01:00
of a painting that i really say that you00:01:02
need to study and work on one's the00:01:04
technique which i like to show you a lot00:01:06
of here on the channel00:01:08
color theory you need color so color00:01:10
technique and what's very important is00:01:13
drawing in your drawing skills because00:01:15
that tells you when you're off but i'm00:01:17
also gonna i also want to show you some00:01:19
ways that you can get and paint gorgeous00:01:22
paintings without having to a lot of00:01:24
skills as a drawing but drawing is00:01:26
something that you all need to study and00:01:28
so i'll show you that i'm going to film00:01:29
some of that up this weekend00:01:31
and then we'll have it hopefully next00:01:33
week00:01:34
on to the channel i'm going to start00:01:36
showing you how i draw and put00:01:37
compositional work together too because00:01:39
it's a little different i use a lot of00:01:41
different little homemade tools to to00:01:43
help me i use like on this particular00:01:46
one when i put this i use a technique00:01:48
called site size00:01:49
drawing technique and breaking it up00:01:52
into the shapes and stuff and circles00:01:54
and ovals since this and then i use a00:01:56
little tool like this and so what i do00:01:59
is i take my reference photo what i want00:02:01
up to the same size that i look across00:02:04
there's grid message transfer methods00:02:06
lots of kinds of things we'll talk about00:02:08
those okay but this morning we're going00:02:10
to paint a rabbit we're going to paint00:02:12
this and we're going to do it all the00:02:13
prima00:02:15
um and i want to do it a little bit more00:02:17
casual but i really want to capture00:02:19
realistically up in and around this area00:02:21
then we'll let some of this other area00:02:23
out here kind of fade away so we'll do00:02:25
an olive prima quick portrait type00:02:28
technique which ought to be a lot of fun00:02:30
this board that i have here is 16 by 1000:02:33
or 11 i think it is um00:02:36
just a nice size board that i felt i00:02:39
don't like to take the animals and stuff00:02:41
up too much past life size and this is00:02:43
the size matter of fact i had one out00:02:46
this morning when i went for a walk00:02:47
right on the front yard and i went yeah00:02:49
okay he's about that big so00:02:51
there they're out all over here00:02:53
everywhere here and i just absolutely00:02:55
love them now i also so i have it here00:02:58
into this and the photo itself when it00:03:00
prints out00:03:02
is looks a little bit more yellowish but00:03:04
like i told you before i have a big00:03:06
42-inch monitor right here and you can00:03:08
get those really reasonable now and i00:03:11
just put the photo up onto the monitor00:03:13
so and i'm looking at him right here and00:03:15
so area is like right in here where his00:03:18
eye looks really dark on the monitor i00:03:20
can see yeah there's burnt sienna going00:03:22
right around a real dark inside pupil so00:03:25
i see more colors and more tones on that00:03:28
and i do00:03:29
um i do like to00:03:31
to paint from that so you'll see that00:03:34
and00:03:35
for our memberships and stuff i'll put00:03:37
this reference photo in and you can just00:03:38
download that and if you put it up on00:03:40
any kind of larger monitor you can you00:03:42
can uh um you know you could see colors00:03:45
a little bit better but let's go in here00:03:47
and let's work this so i gave the board00:03:48
a coat of the canva the heritage canvas00:03:51
prep medium00:03:52
uh and what that does is just gives you00:03:54
a nice tooth it's not it doesn't have00:03:56
any vinyl or anything in the medium so00:03:58
the paintbrush grabs and that's what i00:04:00
like to do when i do all the prima i'm00:04:02
going to do i'm going to use this00:04:04
palette that i'm going to use here that00:04:06
is you know the heritage multimedia00:04:09
you know colors i designed these colors00:04:12
just made by our company i designed00:04:14
these and so i teach with a lot of these00:04:16
techniques and i show you some of the00:04:18
different things that these colors can00:04:20
do but this list of colors here rather00:04:22
than go through it this is my standard00:04:24
palette where they go through it i'll00:04:26
list all the colors in the video00:04:28
description so look for that right below00:04:29
okay and i use heritage and the00:04:33
the global art fusion brushes i like old00:04:36
ones when i'm doing all the prima i like00:04:38
really old ones so i have a whole bunch00:04:40
of ones that i've used for a long time00:04:43
older ones this is a two inch flat00:04:45
and i use it mostly for varnishing when00:04:47
it becomes old this one's about about00:04:50
eight ten years old i start to use it00:04:52
for fun techniques like this so i'm00:04:55
going to take some water nice dirty00:04:57
water here too by the way00:04:59
and i'm00:05:01
going to take a little bit of medium00:05:02
beige and some gray color i like those00:05:06
and these will pull out a lot of neutral00:05:09
colors that you'll see up here into the00:05:10
rabbit so i'm going to push some of this00:05:13
into the background basically in a real00:05:15
thin wash like this00:05:18
through the through the painting just to00:05:20
give some interest like this this i00:05:22
started doing these00:05:24
stuff like this a few years ago and00:05:28
everyone started really liking including00:05:30
myself and my customers my my00:05:34
um00:05:35
basically my collectors and stuff really00:05:37
like the the the techniques that i do00:05:40
like this and gives it a real00:05:43
um00:05:44
impressionistic type of look to it and00:05:47
more than having just a solid background00:05:49
now i paint a lot with solid backgrounds00:05:51
as well00:05:52
but i do love impressionism and stuff so00:05:55
what i do with that is i kind of00:05:57
simplify the you know the backgrounds00:06:00
and stuff like that simplify the areas00:06:02
and then i look for areas of light and00:06:03
dark like over in the photo there you00:06:06
see that he's going to have some rocks00:06:08
and some stuff up there maybe some00:06:10
greens and some burnt siennas i'll see00:06:12
some of those kinds of tones and what00:06:14
i'll do is i'm just going to simplify00:06:16
this really00:06:17
quick quite easy quickly here we'll just00:06:20
grab i'm gonna that didn't pick up quite00:06:23
enough color there for me so let's just00:06:25
reset that again00:06:27
and we'll pick up some of that00:06:30
right up in here some of that will come00:06:32
right down there into the ground down00:06:34
into that area so this is a real loose00:06:37
watercolor kind of look but see look00:06:40
what it does in through here when you do00:06:42
that now you can come in and focus00:06:44
some of these tones a little bit more a00:06:46
little heavier paint here like this00:06:49
and focus some of those areas those00:06:52
tones you can hit it with water i like00:06:54
to do that if i if i find that a drip00:06:57
and stuff is too um00:06:59
you know too distracting i just do this00:07:01
i take it off just a bit00:07:03
you know and i like that you know00:07:06
there's just all kinds of ways but i00:07:08
like this kind of00:07:09
real simplistic uh kind of look to it00:07:12
here to begin with like this and i you00:07:15
know since there's a lot of warm tones00:07:18
up there00:07:19
let's just do this too let's just00:07:21
because i do i do like a bit of the sky00:07:24
kind of color so we'll take some blue00:07:27
some white here and let's again thin it00:07:30
out with a lot of water and let's just00:07:32
push00:07:33
a little bit of that00:07:35
that color00:07:37
here i'm gonna that's a little too00:07:39
streaky for me so what i'll do is i'll00:07:41
just wiggle my brush here which will00:07:43
cause the color to mix up a bit more00:07:46
and soften out here00:07:48
so we'll push just a bit of that00:07:51
see i like just a touch of that some of00:07:53
that blues and stuff there and you can00:07:55
back it out if you've got it too much in00:07:58
your sketch or you do redo it again like00:08:00
i do just redo it again if you lose too00:08:03
much of it now i don't like this this00:08:06
solid line right here so i want to break00:08:08
that up blues into these colors00:08:11
a bit more00:08:13
and see it's just a real fun way to uh00:08:16
to you know00:08:17
especially if you're going to emulate00:08:19
you know back00:08:20
trees forests that kind of stuff some of00:08:22
the colors you could sit there and you00:08:24
can look at your photo and say yeah well00:08:26
there's some darks art up here that00:08:28
those darks really do help him in00:08:30
advance and so i'd look at this and say00:08:33
okay well that does that dark does help00:08:35
in advance but maybe i'll move that dark00:08:38
right there right up here towards the00:08:40
front let's just do that00:08:42
uh maybe a bit of burnt sienna and green00:08:45
a bit of the blue so it cools it so00:08:48
slightly different color here00:08:50
okay and let's just add some water to00:08:53
this tap some water through this00:08:56
here00:08:57
and let's just look right where that00:08:59
dark is right up there00:09:02
and we'll just soften that out a bit00:09:04
give it a little bit of interest00:09:06
okay that's going to help him00:09:09
really kind of advance see that that00:09:11
work that looks pretty good maybe we'll00:09:13
put a00:09:14
little dose of that right in here00:09:17
as well00:09:19
here so we'll see some of that coming00:09:21
through so you know a lot of this00:09:24
is just really good color theory stuff00:09:26
and learning your color theory and00:09:28
knowing where you know some of your00:09:30
contrasts and stuff will be now i may00:09:33
want to just pull up from this and00:09:35
soften that up00:09:37
give a little bit more of a look you00:09:40
know back trees or something there's a00:09:42
little blue little trees you know00:09:44
sometimes i leave it just00:09:47
just real light pressure with your brush00:09:49
and a dirty paper towel it just does00:09:51
great things and just puts on some of00:09:53
that interest back there now we've got00:09:56
you know rinse this out00:09:58
i'm notorious for getting to rinse out00:10:00
my big brush when i use it so just rinse00:10:03
that out set that down there if the00:10:05
heritage colors ever dries00:10:07
inside one of your brushes and stuff and00:10:09
you have a hard time you never ever00:10:11
throw away one of your brushes your your00:10:14
global arch your fusion brushes because00:10:16
you can always bring those back and i00:10:18
use the hand sanitizer the hand00:10:20
sanitizer will remove the color out of00:10:22
the brush even after it's dry so and00:10:25
it's safe for your hands it's for you00:10:27
made for your hands so00:10:29
you know there are there are some really00:10:31
nice um00:10:33
things you can use to00:10:35
you know to help00:10:36
take out color that has dried just a bit00:10:40
now of course i've taken out some of my00:10:42
drawing and stuff here so what i can do00:10:44
is just take a little light bit of water00:10:47
here and bring some of it back00:10:49
where i can get some of my at least my00:10:51
little first reference marks i don't00:10:53
need the whole drawing here just my00:10:54
first reference marks so i can find him00:10:57
a little bit there but you can see just00:10:59
a little water on there you can bring it00:11:01
back find some of his uh00:11:03
find some of him here you could take you00:11:05
know it doesn't matter to make a00:11:06
difference but see you can use i call00:11:08
this it's almost like a negative00:11:10
painting you know use your paper towel00:11:12
and kind of redraw like here's going to00:11:14
be his back while still leaving some of00:11:16
the colors and stuff in00:11:18
you know in those particular areas so00:11:20
you can just refine him a little bit and00:11:23
it's uh00:11:24
and you can see how he is just a ghost00:11:26
of him starting to come through before00:11:28
we even start painting him now00:11:32
let's paint okay so what i'm gonna do is00:11:34
i'm gonna start out here with like my00:11:36
number eight and i'm gonna follow uh00:11:39
basically when i paint something like00:11:40
this i really like the premier coo00:11:42
technique starting with the darks and00:11:44
working half tones lighter sometimes00:11:47
i'll go the darks and then i'll jump up00:11:50
several times so in other words when00:11:52
you're looking at your value scale if i00:11:53
put it in here in dark i would jump up a00:11:56
half tone00:11:57
you'd say this is a four and this is a00:11:59
ten a half tone would be right in here00:12:01
about a seven halfway between your dark00:12:04
and light and so you each time work up00:12:06
towards your light that way and00:12:09
but the big thing is i like to put out00:12:11
the darks and there's some really neat00:12:13
darks on him like and i can i pick out00:12:16
those colors really easy burnt sienna00:12:18
and a little bit of blue00:12:20
and you get these nice darks let's find00:12:22
and you know he'll have these nice darks00:12:25
here this little cottontail up here onto00:12:28
the tips of his ears and i don't want to00:12:31
use like you'd see kind of a rounding00:12:33
stroke up there like that but i want to00:12:35
paint him a little bit more00:12:37
all the prima and a little bit more00:12:39
brush work to it so i'm gonna00:12:41
relax and and relax my strokes here just00:12:45
a bit and not use uh00:12:48
perfect so i use the corner sometimes a00:12:50
little bit of the flat of the brush to00:12:52
kind of pull along i want to paint him00:12:55
more impressionistic here now see that's00:12:58
the darkest tone then it lightens up a00:13:00
bit matter of fact you can just grab a00:13:02
little bit of beige and00:13:04
and gray right here if we since we just00:13:06
want to use a bit of that tone00:13:09
right in here and we can widen out and00:13:11
lighten up his ears you try to when00:13:14
you're painting impressionistic like00:13:16
this00:13:17
you try to set those areas those tones00:13:20
as quickly and efficiently as possible00:13:24
without brushing too much and if you00:13:26
notice my long handle brush i'm way back00:13:29
here onto the brush and i might just00:13:31
scumble a little bit that just means to00:13:33
move back and forth real quick00:13:36
as i just kind of fill in that area00:13:38
there and it all got it's all up to you00:13:40
how much detail i want to put a little00:13:42
more detail on that dark right there00:13:45
um00:13:47
let's just restate that a little blue00:13:49
and the burnt sienna00:13:51
it's all up to you the individual artist00:13:53
you know how much work you're going to00:13:54
put into uh you know a particular00:13:56
element and stuff like that and that you00:13:59
know each one of us is a little00:14:01
different but00:14:02
i i really like the simplicity and i00:14:06
really like that a little bit of blue00:14:07
came out there on that so that worked00:14:10
out kind of nice let's take some of that00:14:12
a little bit of that beige and some of00:14:14
this and let's just kind of stumble that00:14:18
a little too much blue there so i'll00:14:20
back that out with a little more beige00:14:23
right there but i'll leave some of that00:14:24
blue that's just a nice color tone yeah00:14:26
it's00:14:27
cooler and it's a little grayer than00:14:29
what is actually there in the subject00:14:31
but00:14:32
it works it works for me on him right00:14:34
now00:14:36
and you can see there's a nice little00:14:38
light so maybe i take a little bit of00:14:40
the light and the gray00:14:42
right out here this is a00:14:44
a bit too much detail too quick dave but00:14:47
you know i00:14:48
sometimes i'm right into that and i want00:14:50
to get some of that color and especially00:14:52
like his ears i always find the ears00:14:54
here on the cottontails are really00:14:56
interesting00:14:57
you know almost a flesh tone which is00:14:59
basically a light orange00:15:02
here so we take yellow and orange00:15:05
i mean yellow and red and some light00:15:07
here00:15:08
and we start making this flesh tone i'm00:15:11
painting pure acrylic right now because00:15:12
i don't need to do anything else i'm00:15:15
painting just pure acrylic here00:15:18
so we'll take this nice light kind of a00:15:20
flesh tone there yeah that's real close00:15:23
just a touch redder00:15:25
right in there let's just put a bit of00:15:27
that in there00:15:29
and just just a touch of that don't fill00:15:32
up the whole thing just a touch of that00:15:35
looking at the tones this is the color00:15:37
theory part of it the brush calligraphy00:15:39
that i use here to put into things00:15:41
that's your technique and of course your00:15:43
drawing getting your shape of your of00:15:45
your drawing let's go just a touch00:15:48
lighter pink00:15:50
then i'm gonna have to quit painting00:15:51
this and go right into the darks and00:15:53
stuff that's just a bit too much let's00:15:55
put a bit of gray right in there00:15:58
a bit too red00:16:00
but it's kind of a neat tone so i you00:16:03
know i just want to come close to it you00:16:05
know into emulating that doesn't have to00:16:08
be perfect at any manner of means but it00:16:11
just want to get a little closer let's00:16:12
just stumble in a00:16:14
little bit of light right there which is00:16:16
right on the edge of that00:16:19
just a couple of00:16:21
quick strokes with a little bit more00:16:23
white into it00:16:24
here00:16:25
and maybe just take dirty up our brush00:16:28
here00:16:30
and just make a mark right down through00:16:32
that to00:16:33
kind of break that just a bit there00:16:36
and you can always use your finger like00:16:39
i just did there to soften something up00:16:41
now00:16:42
of course you know and him if you want00:16:43
to get it perfect there's a vein line00:16:45
running down there a lot of other things00:16:47
going in there but that's especially at00:16:49
this part of the painting that's just00:16:51
too much but there is a little burnt00:16:52
sienna right down here00:16:54
so i'm just going to capture that real00:16:56
quick00:16:57
right down there like that maybe this is00:16:59
a bit more sienna00:17:02
just a little brushwork just a little00:17:04
brushwork right through there will give00:17:05
him a lot of interest00:17:07
you know moving your brush in you know00:17:10
when you're when you're painting on a00:17:12
primer you look at the what we call the00:17:14
calligraphy of the brush the movement of00:17:16
your brush how is that you know how is00:17:18
that working how does that go let's go a00:17:22
little bit darker around here and and i00:17:24
also use this which is like a little00:17:26
sketching technique so it's almost like00:17:28
a little drawing00:17:29
sketching kind of technique00:17:31
take some of these darks00:17:34
run those right in there that's just a00:17:35
nice tone okay so00:17:38
now let's not so basically you could00:17:40
start like that there's a lot of00:17:42
wildlife artists that would start like00:17:43
that and work down through most and00:17:46
you'll hear me say this a lot and then00:17:47
hardly ever do it but00:17:49
most00:17:50
wildlife artists believe in starting in00:17:52
at the eye and working out you get that00:17:54
eye you get that center of interest00:17:56
correct then you move out from there00:17:58
i'm six to one half a dozen the other i00:18:01
can absolutely00:18:03
as a you know as a wildlife artist say00:18:05
yeah that's a really good idea but a lot00:18:08
of times i get00:18:09
here's the thing is00:18:11
i love to paint and i get excited about00:18:13
painting an area and i'll just love the00:18:15
ears on rabbits and stuff so yeah okay00:18:17
maybe i'll i'll start out there00:18:19
and work that area a bit and00:18:22
refine that a bit with a few more little00:18:24
tones and stuff and capture that00:18:27
that area00:18:29
and uh you know closer to what i want00:18:32
then i'll move on to some of the other00:18:33
areas there but uh you know it they're00:18:36
all everyone's a little different i'm00:18:38
gonna take some burnt sienna i'm gonna00:18:40
he has lovely orange real quick orange00:18:43
kind of bright colors but we want to00:18:45
start out slightly to the dark and so00:18:48
there's going to be a tone right there00:18:49
there's going to be a tone right up here00:18:52
moving through the tip of his nose and00:18:54
right down through here so it's kind of00:18:56
in the dark side i look a lot of times00:18:59
when i'm painting something like this00:19:00
and painting fur on animals and00:19:02
everything i look for00:19:03
what we call undertones tones that are00:19:07
that you see under the fur that's what00:19:09
i'm looking for so look right up00:19:11
underneath there you'll see some of that00:19:13
nice warm00:19:14
the you know burnt sienna tone we'll00:19:16
start it out uh you know it's a little00:19:18
bit lighter more orange but we'll start00:19:20
it out here00:19:21
with the burnt sienna slightly dark and00:19:23
then we'll work into it so coming back00:19:25
here back by his back of his leg00:19:28
back where his tail is going to be back00:19:30
through there00:19:31
we might take a bit of that blue and00:19:34
dark here00:19:36
to set that real dark that we see right00:19:38
in there as well00:19:40
okay so this is what i do a lot with the00:19:42
premier coo as i set in these kinds of00:19:45
darks that you see00:19:46
i'm going to add a little bit of00:19:48
extender so i have extender medium out00:19:50
here it's dirty from my landscapes00:19:53
you've seen it dirty like this on the00:19:54
last several videos because a cap of00:19:56
extender like this lasts for a long time00:19:59
and so i had some extender this slows00:20:02
down the drying time it also thins out00:20:03
the paint i'm using it to thin out the00:20:05
paint but more than anything else to00:20:07
make this the00:20:09
shadow to make these colors slide now00:20:11
there's also a real good thing in00:20:13
techniques that you know when i say it00:20:15
to you in landscapes that shadows are00:20:17
transparent00:20:18
and highlights are opaque so and you get00:20:21
a lot of interest to your animals here00:20:24
by using transparent shadows so you'll00:20:28
see how i'll make that kind of mark00:20:30
lift up the pressure here move through00:20:33
especially on this little bunny and00:20:35
let's just move some of that tone00:20:37
through00:20:38
right out through there because we want00:20:40
this back edge of him to kind of recede00:20:42
back here as well so i'll just work that00:20:44
tone a bit that looks pretty good let's00:20:47
take some of that00:20:49
which we're going to have we might paint00:20:51
a few of these rocks and stuff like that00:20:53
up here00:20:54
as well00:20:55
okay so we have that there's kind of a00:20:58
burnt sienna blue little grayish kind of00:21:01
tone we'll pick up a bit of that right00:21:03
up here00:21:05
right up on the underneath his nose00:21:07
there right up there top of his00:21:09
and then the top of his mouth his upper00:21:11
lip and then his00:21:13
lower00:21:14
right there you'll see it see it right00:21:16
in there just a bit of it we can also00:21:18
transparent this up00:21:20
here00:21:21
we could also add a little bit of gray00:21:23
maybe a little bit more blue here to00:21:26
change the tone just a bit00:21:28
we can see some of that right on the00:21:29
transition between his neck00:21:32
here and his body and we'll just brush00:21:35
through like this00:21:36
don't00:21:37
sit up don't leave your mark too much00:21:39
remember shadows and dark colors are00:21:42
more transparent and stuff so00:21:45
we just want to vary this tone a bit00:21:47
here00:21:49
just leave a few little marks of that00:21:51
there'll be a00:21:53
bit of that coming right down so i'll00:21:55
just stumble it on like this this is00:21:57
called scumbling00:21:58
i try to follow though00:22:00
the contour so like here so i put that00:22:03
on that's a nice rounding thing and then00:22:05
his back00:22:06
the back basically the haunted the point00:22:08
of his thigh there's this kind of rounds00:22:11
this way a bit00:22:12
this part of his body pulls down a bit00:22:15
so i'm looking for those undertones you00:22:17
know what you see here where do you see00:22:19
that tone00:22:20
how do you see it pulling down00:22:23
a bit of it pulling down00:22:25
okay up here to the top of his head00:22:29
a bit of that there a bit of that right00:22:31
down here causing it to round a bit00:22:34
here right up over his eye00:22:37
just use the tip of your brush gumble00:22:39
some of that in there00:22:41
like that maybe a bit right in there00:22:45
now this was and see this is where it'll00:22:47
change so right here you'll see his00:22:50
and i put a line right under his eye so00:22:52
actually a little too close to his eye00:22:54
now that i look at it there's more of a00:22:56
little bit of a space there so i'll just00:22:58
move it down a bit00:22:59
that's your drawing skills you know your00:23:01
drawing skills help you because when you00:23:04
sometimes during a painting after you're00:23:05
applying the painting and you're00:23:06
focusing in on the area you can see a00:23:09
subtle place that you might have been00:23:11
off just a bit on your drawing00:23:13
and that really works let's pull00:23:17
so you're always working on your drawing00:23:18
skills00:23:20
so let's pull this way00:23:22
okay00:23:24
and pull down that way like that00:23:27
and let's pull this one down just a bit00:23:30
so i'm looking at that hair see what's00:23:32
great about painting00:23:34
you know it's like you're telling about00:23:35
painting bunnies painting elk painting00:23:38
some of this painting dogs you know00:23:39
painting your animal portraits is the00:23:42
hair can tell you that the calligraphy00:23:44
of it just like painting the birds so00:23:47
i'm a big advocate and believer of00:23:49
painting all different kinds of animals00:23:52
elements stuff like that so that you can00:23:54
learn all the different parts of00:23:56
calligraphy and stuff how it all goes00:23:59
so that goes in there really nice that00:24:01
actually worked in pretty nice for a00:24:03
nice undertone and i'm gonna go work on00:24:05
his eye up here now i usually have00:24:09
right here00:24:10
yes it is00:24:11
i have a usage small this is a synthetic00:24:13
number four filbert um00:24:16
made by global water same one that makes00:24:18
the fusion but the synthetic is a little00:24:21
bit stiffer and i use this a lot00:24:24
whenever i'm painting around the eye and00:24:27
and eye details i also use a stick00:24:29
to rest my hand most of the time with00:24:31
dirty paint on my hand but i'll use that00:24:34
now when i go to look at that when i'm00:24:36
looking at the bunny right there and big00:24:38
i see more of a00:24:40
it's a little darker burnt sienna so i'm00:24:43
going to take a burnt sienna and a00:24:45
little bit of blue into that00:24:47
i'm going to add just a touch of00:24:49
extender here just to thin it just a bit00:24:52
you could use water as well00:24:54
and i want to come in yeah that's a good00:24:56
color so it has a little bit of burnt00:24:59
sienna undertone here00:25:01
and i'm going to shake the eye the eye00:25:03
is just it's very easy to go00:25:06
round but it's not the bunny is just00:25:09
slightly oval here00:25:12
and00:25:13
so we'll tap some of that around there00:25:15
like that let's go now a little bit more00:25:18
burnt sienna00:25:20
a little bit heavier burnt sienna so00:25:23
it's got a little more color into it00:25:25
that'll put some more color in one area00:25:28
let's go a00:25:30
bit more blue into that in other words00:25:32
what i'm doing is yeah these are the00:25:34
common tones but i changed the tone00:25:36
slightly and this is what gives so much00:25:39
interest to the eye00:25:41
as that tone00:25:42
kind of changes around the eye there00:25:45
okay now into his center is a very dark00:25:48
color and i'm going to take a little00:25:50
blue green and violet i know from this00:25:52
pilot this is one of the darkest colors00:25:55
i can make on this palette it's almost a00:25:58
black00:25:59
and i'm going to just touch in the round00:26:01
pupil of his eye right in there but i'm00:26:04
not going to do a perfect round i'm just00:26:06
going to touch that in for right now00:26:09
and little touches of that color00:26:12
can come up here right around his eye00:26:14
ring and stuff his eyelids right here00:26:18
there'll be some darks and stuff00:26:20
here let's just pull some of that nice00:26:23
up like this i'll go right down to his00:26:25
body a lot of times you see me i always00:26:28
tend to paint stuff too big and then00:26:30
paint it back into position that00:26:32
crossing back and forth this gives you00:26:34
so much interest okay so i'll leave that00:26:38
in there for a second i want to00:26:39
reinforce that burnt sienna00:26:42
right here00:26:44
right up into that area there so you see00:26:46
a bit of that let's just take a small00:26:48
little mark of that00:26:49
up onto the front00:26:51
now let's go let's pick out like a color00:26:54
that can we can work a lot of his body00:26:56
in which is one reason why i have the00:26:58
medium beige out here there's a lot of00:27:00
him there but i i'll use some different00:27:02
colors uh with that medium beige and one00:27:05
color that i did not put out it's on the00:27:07
list00:27:08
but i did not put out is and i'm almost00:27:11
out of it here so we'll give it that out00:27:14
some yellow oxide00:27:16
here and so i'll change this00:27:19
burnt sienna sometimes a little green00:27:21
you'll see me use a little green which00:27:22
grades it beautifully00:27:24
warm burnt warm yellow oxide we can00:27:27
lighten that up and see that's just a00:27:29
real nice00:27:30
light bunny color00:27:32
if you want to clean off some of your00:27:34
pump just take a damp paper towel00:27:37
and wipe through even though the paint00:27:39
is dried00:27:40
in some areas you can just run it like00:27:42
this real quick and it'll clean off the00:27:44
area save some of it save some of that00:27:46
color so you can only see where you were00:27:48
let's just take some of this light00:27:51
let's just work that lighter tone right00:27:53
up around his eye that we see there00:27:56
a bit of it pulling back this way00:27:59
okay a bit of it underneath00:28:03
here like that00:28:05
okay00:28:06
and let's just lighten that up a bit00:28:08
more here00:28:10
and we'll work just some touches of it00:28:13
so i'm working a bit of the detail of00:28:14
the eye here00:28:16
just uh you know just to set it back in00:28:19
now there's lots of areas here that i00:28:21
will come back in a little bit00:28:23
more light a little bit more yellow00:28:26
slightly different tone00:28:28
and you know hit some of those areas00:28:30
again i'll do this four or five times00:28:33
as i'm each time my brush mark that i00:28:35
make is going to give a little more00:28:37
interest to the eye so00:28:39
i will do this several times as i start00:28:41
to build00:28:43
this little bunny here00:28:45
and00:28:47
use those tones back and forth like that00:28:49
so that's a that's a good start right00:28:52
there to set that in but you know we got00:28:54
a lot more to do i'll set a few of that00:28:57
light colors that are right in there so00:29:00
that eye is going to help me a lot and00:29:03
i'm going to take a bit of that burnt00:29:04
sienna blue right here and00:29:07
just kind of with the corner of the00:29:09
brush draw through that again00:29:11
right there00:29:13
and so i'll go back and forth several times00:29:17
this is what's so important guys i got a00:29:20
little bit of that light with that made00:29:22
a lighter blue it's not00:29:23
keeping the dark so i'm going to rinse00:29:25
that back out of my brush00:29:27
reset my brush and pick up some00:29:29
burnt sienna blue here00:29:32
keeping it slightly darker00:29:34
and work that the roundness there of his00:29:37
eye again00:29:39
back and forth a few times00:29:42
each time focusing in a little bit more00:29:47
on that let's just put a bit of that00:29:49
right up there00:29:51
and00:29:53
see i like to work that that eye is00:29:55
going to be very important there's a lot00:29:56
we still have to do to the eye because00:29:58
we got these beautiful little shines and00:30:00
he's got a little wetness in the corner00:30:02
of his eye there which we will pick up00:30:04
and stuff00:30:06
and it's not it it just takes a few00:30:08
minutes to do some of this stuff00:30:10
i'm going to relax my brush so i'm not00:30:13
going to use my stand to steady my hand00:30:15
i'm just going to let my hand just kind00:30:16
of pounce around there a bit00:30:18
and that gives00:30:20
a little more see it's a little more00:30:22
crossing of the colors here that's what00:30:24
gives you a lot of00:30:26
beautiful looks to the painting where00:30:28
the object is not absolutely perfect so00:30:32
what i do is i let my handshakes kind of00:30:35
take over here and i step way back on my00:30:38
brush and i just blur those edges just a00:30:41
bit00:30:42
here that makes the softer eye which i'm00:30:45
going to be looking for here you know00:30:47
and let's just go ahead and take a light00:30:49
gray00:30:50
we'll put the first00:30:52
low light here00:30:54
of the the shine of the eye here but you00:30:57
know we can reset this we'll set just00:31:00
that shine of that eye there00:31:02
and00:31:05
again like i do everything i make it a00:31:07
little too big and then i'll tap into it00:31:10
tap right into it there to00:31:12
take down the size and it's00:31:15
it's uh severity there just a bit so00:31:18
okay so i've got just the beginnings of00:31:20
the idea of the eye but see this nice00:31:23
little blurred line that's right in00:31:25
there and i can now i can come in00:31:29
and or i can do this later oh got a00:31:32
little bit of blue in there boy the blue00:31:33
is dangerous it'll cool everything out00:31:36
real quick00:31:37
i don't want to do that burnt sienna00:31:38
yellow and not burnt sienna but medium00:31:41
beige and yellow00:31:43
i like those colors00:31:44
let's uh pick up a bit i had a bit of00:31:47
water in my brush00:31:49
a bit more light a bit of white00:31:52
tap that into the brush and see i can00:31:55
use that00:31:56
don't destroy all of that edge just come00:31:58
in here with a few other little marks00:32:01
and that'll start bringing up more of00:32:04
the the eye see the little detail that00:32:07
you can get in there like there's a nice00:32:09
little mark right here pulling back00:32:12
here with this tap right along that00:32:15
and when you're using that model brush00:32:17
like that see that's what starts giving00:32:19
you that that interest00:32:22
when you're a beginner painter or00:32:23
anywhere that you are in the painting00:32:26
and especially for me i used to when i00:32:28
was a realist because i was realist for00:32:30
a long time in painting and you know i00:32:33
forget to look for that blurred edge i'd00:32:34
get those edges perfect transition of00:32:37
color perfect but that blurred edge just00:32:40
helps so much and so you know what i do00:32:43
with a lot of my students is i tell them00:32:45
you know we've gotta we've gotta first00:32:47
paint for that blurred edge you know00:32:48
that blurred edge is so important that's00:32:51
what i do a lot in my00:32:53
roses and other things that you see me00:32:55
paint00:32:56
i paint for that blurred edge and then i00:32:58
come back in and start now i'm going to00:33:01
be up just a little bit careful right00:33:03
here to put the upper eyelid on00:33:06
and let take out some of that blurriness00:33:09
and then let that blurriness come back00:33:11
here again00:33:13
here00:33:15
as i put that on and see that gives you00:33:16
this more that especially leaving little00:33:19
areas of that blurred line give you00:33:22
more00:33:23
uh of a real look to it here00:33:27
into the painting in any kind of00:33:28
portraiture really00:33:30
that you're doing00:33:32
it's really fun it's just you know00:33:35
figuring out where you're going to leave00:33:36
the blur line where you're going to00:33:38
break bring in00:33:39
some of the um00:33:41
you know the detail now that i have some00:33:43
of that around there i might even tap00:33:46
just a little bit of that light warm00:33:48
color right in there too a little00:33:50
different than what he is on him there00:33:52
now that's more of a dot let's move it00:33:54
just a little bit more to the line00:33:57
and it is just a touch heavy but that00:34:00
warm color is just a touch different so00:34:03
let's just put that in so this is the00:34:06
type of thing00:34:07
you know that i look for and do00:34:09
here00:34:11
let's just lift that up just a bit00:34:14
there see00:34:15
and that starts to give you a nice a00:34:17
nice little eye on your bunny and it's00:34:20
really a lot of fun so you're looking00:34:22
for the blurred areas in here so we'll00:34:24
we'll apply some of that technique as i00:34:26
look for some of these tones more of an00:34:29
orangey kind of tone which is going to00:34:31
be my burnt sienna00:34:32
some medium beige we'll work up here00:34:35
into the front of him here medium beige00:34:37
i can gray that a beautiful gray you get00:34:40
by the the and we you learned this where00:34:43
do we learn these grays where have i00:34:45
showed you these grains grays like this00:34:47
before those you that watch a lot of the00:34:49
channel the southwest paintings this00:34:52
bunny00:34:53
is really the southwest paintings that00:34:55
we've been doing on the channel here so00:34:57
i know how to emulate and find his00:34:59
colors from southwest landscapes that00:35:02
i've painted with you00:35:03
and so i recognize those colors and i00:35:06
know how to get to those colors pretty00:35:08
darn quick and easy00:35:10
you know on this uh bunny because we've00:35:13
done them all together let's put a bit00:35:16
of that darker gray00:35:19
green and a tiny touch of blue like we00:35:21
did in the southwest to cool it just a00:35:24
touch here00:35:25
a little too much blue there00:35:28
let's just get that back yeah that's00:35:30
perfect right there00:35:31
blue green burnt sienna00:35:34
and that makes a real nice00:35:36
tone right in there we're gonna put on00:35:38
too much00:35:40
and then i'm gonna take back it back out00:35:42
here00:35:43
let's put on a bit coming around his00:35:45
little lines for his whiskers right00:35:47
there00:35:48
so i'm looking at the undertone here00:35:51
where do i see the undertone00:35:54
the colors underneath then i'll look at00:35:55
the colors are on the top up there see00:35:59
you see like a little almost like a00:36:01
little line outlining his eye there00:36:03
almost like a little stroke and we can00:36:04
do that we don't maybe not quite that00:36:07
perfect there though dave so00:36:10
take just a bit of that out now let's go00:36:12
back00:36:13
to our medium beige00:36:16
and some yellow and some burnt sienna00:36:18
just a touch of green to help gray that00:36:21
and let's just work a few smaller00:36:24
and i'm using just my smaller00:36:27
stiff brush here00:36:28
just to apply the tones and so i'm00:36:30
letting these tones actually start to00:36:33
suggest his fur so if you look right in00:36:35
here now we're not at these little00:36:37
highlights as you see there we're right00:36:39
down there that's what i'm looking at00:36:41
and look at the direction so here on his00:36:44
nose00:36:45
it curves up this way a little bit let's00:36:48
go just a touch lighter00:36:50
maybe half a value here00:36:53
and let's pull some of that right down00:36:55
here00:36:57
and if you wipe out too much of a tone00:36:59
you get the opportunity to go back and00:37:01
put it back in00:37:03
and then tell yourself don't paint that00:37:05
much dave00:37:06
you have to go back and put some of that00:37:08
back in there again so there's that one00:37:10
coming in there00:37:12
let's00:37:13
lighten this up just a bit we'll have a00:37:15
little bit of fun with the bunny here00:37:17
we'll put this warmer light00:37:19
that we see right in there00:37:22
just a bit it's a bit different this is00:37:25
all good like this little bunny guys00:37:27
those of you that want to paint00:37:28
portraits and stuff with me and want to00:37:30
paint some of this stuff with me00:37:31
paint this bunny because it's00:37:34
just like going to paint watson i made00:37:36
the golden retriever with you00:37:38
go paint that one because i talk about00:37:40
these tones and this is what you've got00:37:42
to do if you want you've got to be able00:37:44
to you know color is part of it00:37:46
technique is part of it and here we're00:37:48
using color to help shape our bunny up00:37:52
okay00:37:53
and so you know not only the light and00:37:55
shadow planes but to do the fur here so00:37:59
let's warm this up lighten this up00:38:02
and let's just drag our brush like this00:38:05
which gives what we call the fractured00:38:07
edge which will give a little fractured00:38:10
edge on him there00:38:13
let's put a bit of that fracturing right00:38:15
up here see the fractured edge now the00:38:18
fusion brush does this this little guy00:38:20
is doing it really nice and it's kind of00:38:22
nice to00:38:24
do it with a small little brush like00:38:26
this so i have a lot of control over the00:38:28
bunny00:38:29
here i feel00:38:30
so i kind of like that and so i'll look00:38:34
at that and i'll say okay you know where00:38:35
i have here and00:38:38
you know okay i see more of a tan right00:38:40
there so let's just go back00:38:42
make that this is where i was i'm gonna00:38:44
make it slightly darker and maybe take a00:38:47
different type of stroke right in there00:38:50
and that'll give it see that'll loosen00:38:52
it won't be exactly the same as what i00:38:54
have over there on the bunny but it's00:38:56
pretty darn close00:38:58
here so i set up a light i set up the00:39:01
set up a dark i set up a medium value i00:39:03
go light then i'm going to come back00:39:05
with some of this other value you know00:39:07
i'm going to come back00:39:08
and i constantly brush you could sit00:39:10
here and make a pile of these colors00:39:13
and your bunny will all be the same so i00:39:15
just kind of change the tones a little00:39:18
bit as i do this00:39:20
and that will give him more interest on00:39:23
boy so i could tap in some more little00:39:25
darks where i see so i start to look at00:39:28
him00:39:29
as opposed to how light he is there to00:39:31
how light he is you know in the painting00:39:34
here i could have a00:39:35
little more light up a little higher his00:39:38
eye his eye socket there00:39:41
and uh00:39:43
just work small little bits of the tone00:39:45
and that'll make him look like he's all00:39:48
you know00:39:49
bunny haired up there okay00:39:52
let's uh00:39:53
let's just move on now this is also00:39:56
great me open medium is fantastic for00:39:59
doing some of this stuff because it's00:40:00
also going to add a little bit of00:40:02
transparency and so it gives you some00:40:05
great00:40:06
great calligraphy here for working areas00:40:10
especially on the bunny here for hair00:40:13
so and so and if you put some open00:40:15
medium in some of this some of these00:40:16
tones will stick around for a long time00:40:19
but you do want to i'm a big advocate00:40:21
for constantly00:40:23
changing a little bit see putting some00:40:25
of those tones in there00:40:27
is what's constantly changing him you00:40:30
know i could take a bit of this tone00:40:32
right up here we can reinforce that dark00:40:35
just a touch here00:40:37
on him right there00:40:39
maybe down this00:40:42
and00:40:43
i'm painting too long i i start to paint00:40:45
too long with the same tone so i change00:40:47
it a bit here00:40:49
let's change that up because yellow this00:40:51
one up a bit here00:40:53
if i feel again see that's a nice warm00:40:55
slightly different tone00:40:58
so i don't i try not to paint too long00:41:01
with the same tone because you'll make00:41:02
him all the same00:41:04
that's pretty good let's lighten that up00:41:07
warm that maybe even just a touch of00:41:10
gray00:41:11
here00:41:12
push that in and that's good it can go00:41:15
lighter00:41:16
here00:41:17
so this is how i go about it here00:41:21
yeah that's good and see it starts to00:41:24
get that now that's a00:41:26
little too curved and his others pull00:41:28
across the front of his nose a little00:41:30
bit so i'm going to come right in here00:41:33
like that and pull across the front just00:41:35
a bit to capture that calligraphy a00:41:37
little closer to what he is00:41:40
and yes i get i start to get as i'm00:41:43
looking at these tones you start to get00:41:45
that finite now a lot of00:41:47
a lot of painters ask me and stuff you00:41:48
know how do you get to be able to see00:41:50
like that just doing this00:41:53
you know just painting like this and00:41:55
doing this and having a reference photo00:41:58
and stuff so close you know what's00:42:00
really interesting is i can barely see00:42:02
here up there on the monitor boy that00:42:04
the change and the blue that you see00:42:07
into the color up there00:42:09
is uh00:42:10
quite stark now another if you're going00:42:13
to paint the bunnies like this or paint00:42:15
a lot of animals like this another00:42:17
really great color and boy i'm almost00:42:20
out of this one too to have00:42:22
to have out is let's see if i can get a00:42:24
little bit out here is the sapphire00:42:27
the sapphire and the burnt sienna are00:42:29
fantastic00:42:30
grace where did we do that before00:42:33
the southwest paintings you want to see00:42:35
how to get some of these grays the00:42:37
southwest paint look at these beautiful00:42:38
grays here00:42:40
and you'll see those grays especially00:42:43
leaning just a touch more sapphire here00:42:46
here you get this kind of a bluish gray00:42:49
right here just a bit more and that's00:42:51
the color that you'll see right in there00:42:53
on him00:42:54
see it's just a bit more bluish of a00:42:57
gray00:42:59
and we can emulate it pretty quickly00:43:01
here a little more sapphire here00:43:04
where you can add a touch you vary it00:43:06
with a touch of that phthalo and some of00:43:08
your burnt siennas and stuff we'll do it00:43:11
as well sometimes a little bit of violet00:43:13
because the theta is more of a00:43:15
blue-green00:43:16
these are all just really great little00:43:18
tones see the slight difference in there00:43:21
but you pick up that and that's a good00:43:23
tone really to have in there also with00:43:25
him i'll be the artist here for a minute00:43:27
it's a good tone because we're carrying00:43:29
some of that into the background and so00:43:31
that'll push him right there into that00:43:33
as well okay00:43:35
so00:43:36
work a bit of this tone00:43:39
you can even gray it00:43:41
warm it with that burnt sienna00:43:44
change it up here00:43:46
a bit see slightly warmer00:43:49
there leave a little bit of that other00:43:50
blue00:43:52
some of this tone will come right down00:43:54
in there00:43:55
i'll just pull through that in a bit00:43:58
that's a good tone we could have a bit00:43:59
of that00:44:01
right up in there00:44:02
don't really see it too much like right00:44:04
up in here but i'm gonna add it a little00:44:06
bit of artistic bit there i'm going to00:44:09
add it00:44:11
and i'm going to00:44:13
touch a bit of that that center line of00:44:16
his nostril there00:44:18
touch some of that down00:44:21
here got that just a a hair bit too00:44:25
big right there so i'm just going to00:44:27
pull down with a little medium tone00:44:30
see i like00:44:31
i like to you know i paint stuff i00:44:34
generally paint stuff too big or00:44:36
too much and then paint it down into00:44:39
position00:44:40
of where i think it needs to be00:44:43
and00:44:45
that's that's how i like to approach a00:44:47
lot of things from flowers to you know00:44:50
to bunnies here to00:44:52
wildlife00:44:53
good grays burnt sienna00:44:56
yellows00:44:57
and00:44:58
the greens make some nice warm ones the00:45:01
blues cool it off a bit there's kind of00:45:05
a nice warm that want to restate that00:45:08
then down below that slightly yellower00:45:11
and lighter00:45:13
right down here00:45:16
coming down this way that forms that00:45:18
lower part of his mouth i got that a00:45:21
little too perfect there00:45:23
so i'll put that tone in there see and00:45:25
then i can come back00:45:26
and shape some of that up let's cool00:45:28
that off a little bit of the00:45:31
darker tones here00:45:33
and just put it make a stroke real quick00:45:36
for that lower part of his mouth there00:45:39
there like that00:45:42
and then he goes into some of these00:45:44
grays and some of these grays get00:45:46
a little lighter here00:45:49
so i'll pull some of those through i00:45:51
don't want to go too far without00:45:53
changing it warming it a bit see the00:45:55
difference00:45:56
see how pretty that is when you just00:45:58
you you change that tone a bit let's go00:46:01
a little lighter00:46:04
change that right back here like that00:46:07
pull that down00:46:08
okay00:46:10
change the tone00:46:12
here let's pull this down a little00:46:14
lighter00:46:15
so here i'm just taking this same brush00:46:17
now i can do this with any of the00:46:19
brushes and i like to00:46:21
but i'm just using the side of the brush00:46:23
so i don't always use the point of the00:46:25
brush here i'm pulling down like this00:46:28
and i'm looking for that side of the00:46:30
brush there that gives me that00:46:33
bit of that you know00:46:35
different look to that texture now00:46:37
i don't have that00:46:39
quite dark enough back in there a little00:46:41
bit of blue burnt sienna back into here00:46:43
and let's just restate a bit more of00:46:45
that dark right in there and see i can00:46:48
go back and forth once i set the tones00:46:50
like that i can go back and forth00:46:52
you know working and refining those00:46:54
tones00:46:56
and i'll look for areas that can00:46:58
slowly go a little lighter like the00:47:01
front of his00:47:02
head right there00:47:04
maybe a few little marks there00:47:06
he goes up00:47:09
and uh00:47:10
let's work00:47:11
now again this is start it starts to dry00:47:14
up on me if i want to keep it wet i just00:47:16
add some open medium or a little00:47:18
extender but i'm a tone painter guys i00:47:22
and i love to paint with the acrylics00:47:23
because i love the colors to dry00:47:26
i found when i was an oil painter and00:47:28
when i you know did a lot of other00:47:30
techniques i'd paint with the same color00:47:33
over and over again and i would worry00:47:34
about that color drawing on my palette00:47:37
and by doing so my paintings all became00:47:40
the same they didn't have the interest00:47:43
you know i'm going to take some of this00:47:44
warm tone right up in here as well00:47:47
it's going to carry that up and it's00:47:49
going to get me closer to that00:47:51
little bit of bunny up there00:47:53
and that's what happens as well after00:47:55
you get into a tone like this and you're00:47:57
watching this your eye starts to see00:48:00
more and more differences00:48:02
of the colors and the tones so you start00:48:05
picking up more and more00:48:07
you can start to see colors better00:48:10
as your eye starts to perceive it better00:48:13
you know it's it's kind of like this00:48:15
have you ever you know come from a light00:48:17
room and and this is very true guys okay00:48:20
have you ever come from a light room00:48:22
into a dark room and when you're first00:48:24
there it is so pitch black that you00:48:26
can't see anything but then after about00:48:28
five minutes you start seeing things00:48:31
and they start coming clear and clear00:48:33
and clear that's as your eye is getting00:48:36
justified to seeing00:48:38
you know00:48:39
what's going on the rods and cones in00:48:40
your eyes are becoming leveled to what's00:48:43
there and your eye it has something like00:48:45
a thousand times a second white00:48:47
justifies white balances but you can see00:48:49
that kind of stuff and that same thing's00:48:51
going to happen is once you start00:48:52
working this area your eye is going to00:48:55
start getting fine-tuned more and more00:48:57
and more to little subtle00:48:58
changes in tone00:49:00
and you as the artist are going to start00:49:03
picking them up and seeing them00:49:05
and00:49:06
that's if you if you work in tones if00:49:09
you just mix it all up and put it on00:49:11
your palette you won't see it00:49:13
so here i'll put a little bit of that00:49:15
light i like that light00:49:17
let's come back and reinforce that light00:49:20
right there on the top of his eye00:49:23
i always go back and revisit some of my00:49:26
interest areas here to see if i need to00:49:29
do that again and see i look for other00:49:30
things like there's a little bit of a00:49:32
light spot00:49:33
stroke that goes up like that off of his00:49:36
eye00:49:37
and then it comes down right down00:49:40
through here through the corner00:49:42
and it joins almost joins up right down00:49:46
in there00:49:47
and see by taking that stroke there00:49:50
after some of that has dried i can get00:49:52
even more interest in there00:49:54
and i can now because my eye is becoming00:49:57
more sensitive to everything that's00:49:58
happening on this little bunny00:50:00
i can00:50:02
see i could have a little bit more00:50:04
smaller light00:50:06
right up there as well especially check00:50:09
that one up there00:50:11
that's the best way a little more light00:50:13
right in here00:50:15
up on the front of that00:50:17
each time i do this00:50:19
i take the bunny a little closer and a00:50:21
little closer00:50:23
to what i want here00:50:25
into the painting now i'm going to00:50:28
just darken that just a bit but i like00:50:30
that00:50:32
light stroke00:50:34
we'll call it the light bunny stroke00:50:36
here00:50:37
down this side push some of that in him00:50:41
right there00:50:43
and i lost just a bit of that burnt sea00:50:46
and a yellow tone that i had in there00:50:49
so i'll go revisit that a little more00:50:51
yellow00:50:52
let's just lightly revisit that right in00:50:55
there that little tone00:50:57
there we go00:50:59
so you see that i'm not exactly there00:51:01
but boy howdy it's close enough you know00:51:04
it's close enough00:51:05
and00:51:06
i always say don't ever put your00:51:09
don't ever put your reference photo next00:51:11
to yours00:51:13
you know when you're all done this is00:51:14
all framed up he's gonna look like a a00:51:16
great little bunny now i'm gonna take a00:51:19
bit of blue00:51:21
and some burnt sienna here00:51:24
and just00:51:26
darken back through here just a bit more00:51:30
that's going to cause him to come00:51:31
forward a touch more let's just blur00:51:33
that out00:51:35
here00:51:36
so that pushes little bunny forward here00:51:39
and00:51:41
i do that before i do this light stroke00:51:43
because of simultaneous contrast this00:51:46
makes the light tone look lighter so i00:51:48
want to make sure that i get some of00:51:50
that tone right there00:51:52
before i come in and judge just how00:51:55
light i want to make the back edge of00:51:57
these little strokes here on him00:51:59
there00:52:01
because that00:52:02
that will change it now there's00:52:04
so let's go up here to the top of the00:52:06
head we'll go right over here let's put00:52:07
a little open medium in this so a little00:52:09
bit of transparency which00:52:11
really works nice for00:52:14
putting in the little fur here00:52:17
so that little bit of warmer will go00:52:19
back00:52:20
just a touch of the darker00:52:24
through there if you work these back and00:52:26
forth and smaller and smaller touches00:52:29
you get some really nice looks to your00:52:32
little bunny fur here00:52:35
you can see that okay00:52:38
there we go let's put uh00:52:41
just a touch more on the burnt sienna00:52:43
then we'll go down now as i go down so00:52:45
i'm putting a lot of work in here around00:52:48
his face and stuff and then as i go down00:52:51
let's put that darker little tone right00:52:53
down in there00:52:54
and then as i go down through his body00:52:57
here i'm going to get up just a touch00:52:59
more simplistic00:53:01
here let's just let that light i do like00:53:03
to leave the light sitting on top the00:53:05
dark but it's not that necessary00:53:08
in other words i like the light for00:53:10
sitting on top of the shadow but it's00:53:12
not all that necessary00:53:14
i'm going to make a little bit more of a00:53:16
dark blue green burnt sienna00:53:19
that kind of stuff and let's just add00:53:21
just a little bit of that dark00:53:25
right there it's a little darker than00:53:26
what is on him but that's okay00:53:29
and so now i can come in here and look00:53:32
to that yellow00:53:33
orangey kind of00:53:35
lighter tone here00:53:37
right on the tip of his nose right00:53:40
there let's tap through some of that00:53:44
there that gets pretty close to where he00:53:47
is there00:53:49
maybe a bit more00:53:51
burnt sienna a few touches of that00:53:54
through there00:53:57
that works out pretty nice just a little00:53:59
quick now00:54:01
so i like and you know what i like00:54:03
everything that's going on on that eye i00:54:06
probably will put that smaller little00:54:10
part of the lower lid right there00:54:14
which really pulls his eye00:54:17
there we go just a little touch of that00:54:19
gives just a bit more sparkle to his eye00:54:23
okay overall he's a little darker like00:54:26
right in there on the side of his face00:54:28
that's an easy thing i can just take00:54:30
some of this over medium and the light00:54:32
color00:54:34
and just pull through that and i like00:54:37
the open meeting because it leaves a00:54:38
little transparency so i can get some00:54:40
lighter tones on him there and i like00:54:43
i like the sides of the brushes00:54:46
like this so that i don't uh00:54:49
get uh you know perfect and cover up00:54:51
everything00:54:53
and let's put a bit of that right up in00:54:55
here00:54:56
a few little touches of that00:54:59
there that gets him a bit lighter he get00:55:01
a bit more and i need to develop bring00:55:03
out the front of his cheek here so a00:55:05
little bit more yellow00:55:07
and some white can even toss in a little00:55:10
medium beige is nice let's go slightly00:55:12
lighter here00:55:14
let's take a look at this one and build00:55:15
up that cheek00:55:18
here00:55:20
that's00:55:23
yeah right in there and that's that00:55:24
cheeks i'm looking at there and he's00:55:26
actually has two stages to it we could00:55:28
do a little lower stage to it but then00:55:30
i'm gonna i'm gonna paint it back since00:55:32
this is up in his face i'll paint it00:55:34
back00:55:35
with some dark in here again00:55:37
right back into there and then reset the00:55:40
light again back and forth a few times00:55:43
here00:55:47
there just get some of those tones in00:55:49
there like that00:55:51
and um not exactly the same but not bad00:55:57
and i could see it's not exactly the00:55:58
same and there comes a point00:56:00
you know i give a lot of advice and00:56:03
mentor a lot of artists and stuff there00:56:05
there comes a point you're not exactly00:56:07
the same you've got to let some things00:56:09
go otherwise you work on it so much and00:56:11
becomes stiff and it's just not as00:56:14
pretty00:56:15
so you know there's00:56:17
yeah okay catching the likeness that's00:56:19
very important now my little blue burnt00:56:21
sienna dried up there so we'll just go00:56:24
grab a little bit more of that gray00:56:26
see and that's a great thing it's a00:56:27
slightly different tone00:56:29
yeah see that's00:56:31
just a beautiful little tone right there00:56:34
and00:56:35
let's take that burnt sienna00:56:37
and blue00:56:39
maybe just a touch of that phthalo00:56:42
touch of green sometimes i'll even add a00:56:44
bit of that red00:56:46
it just makes a slightly different color00:56:48
tone00:56:50
wise00:56:51
see a bit of that dark just helps really00:56:54
pop out some of him there00:56:56
okay it's a little darker than what he00:56:58
is there but that's okay00:57:01
and uh00:57:03
maybe a00:57:05
bit more of that right back down in here00:57:08
again stating some of those grays so00:57:11
each time i do this he's slowly building00:57:14
a little more and a little more00:57:16
there00:57:17
i'm getting closer and closer to what00:57:20
the bunny is and at some point in time00:57:21
you just got to say okay that's enough00:57:23
you know00:57:25
this we're not painting the mona lisa00:57:26
we're painting a quick little cotton00:57:28
tail00:57:30
here we're getting a nice little look to00:57:32
him now and what i'm gonna do is that was my00:57:34
number four i did all that face there00:57:37
with that number four same one i did his00:57:38
eye with i'm gonna go back to my number00:57:40
eight here00:57:41
and i'm gonna use some extender and00:57:44
stuff as i start to put on some of these00:57:46
other tones because i wanna stay a bit00:57:49
more transparent and a bit more00:57:50
simplistic i wanna leave see what00:57:53
happens i'll start to put this in your00:57:55
eye really focuses in here on his eye00:57:58
and i want to i want to leave that so00:58:00
i'm going to use basically the same00:58:02
types of tones here a little gray00:58:05
i'll thin it with some extender00:58:07
i'll do some um maybe a bit of the00:58:10
yellowish00:58:11
there as well i see in this area00:58:14
kind of follow00:58:16
what i see on00:58:19
the bunny's fur here00:58:21
and try to state it00:58:23
everything that i do very simplistic so00:58:26
here's some let's go just a touch darker00:58:29
a little bit of00:58:30
burnt sienna and green gives you that00:58:32
beautiful warmer gray which is kind of00:58:35
in a warmer area here00:58:38
so we'll stay kind of some quick little00:58:40
stabs like this00:58:42
colors are a little bit more transparent00:58:45
than what i was opaque up there in those00:58:47
lights00:58:49
here like that00:58:52
okay00:58:53
and uh00:58:54
then we'll come in we'll lighten up00:58:56
we'll we'll go to the warm00:58:59
some light some yellow00:59:02
here00:59:04
some whites00:59:06
here with this00:59:08
okay00:59:10
and00:59:11
we'll add just some quick00:59:13
and see if it's wet like that you get00:59:14
this kind of a blur look and sometimes i00:59:17
hold my brush this way00:59:19
here00:59:20
so i get some of this real quick00:59:23
fur look00:59:24
so that extender keeps it wet and this00:59:27
just tap that around now the thing is00:59:29
when you're emulating stuff like that00:59:31
don't don't do it don't hang around00:59:33
there too long and don't use the same00:59:36
tone too long00:59:37
you'll just make him all the same00:59:40
so just quick little00:59:42
touches here00:59:44
like this00:59:45
and it takes a lot of bravery and if you00:59:47
get something too light we just come00:59:49
back and push push it back in again00:59:51
there so we'll push some of that00:59:55
in so we're back over here we're00:59:57
thinning out some burnt sienna some00:59:59
green some of these colors and tones01:00:02
we'll push that in right there i like01:00:04
that red01:00:06
that burnt sienna there let's go burnsie01:00:08
in a little like yellow it's a01:00:10
beautiful01:00:11
little bright see that warm that01:00:13
basically captures some of that tone in01:00:15
him01:00:16
some of that can go right over here01:00:18
dirty like yellow is a beautiful01:00:20
painting undertone and we can and i'm a01:00:24
firm believer if you use it someplace go01:00:26
touch it someplace else so let's just go01:00:28
touch a touch of that01:00:30
around our little bunny01:00:33
in a few areas here01:00:36
you know just to uh01:00:39
to get just a bit more of that color01:00:41
carrying around this beautiful color and01:00:44
then all your beautiful grays burnt01:00:46
sienna greens here you can add some01:00:48
medium beige some grays you can have a01:00:51
touch of blue01:00:52
all these various01:00:54
beautiful grays here01:00:58
and work with this add some extender so01:01:00
this stays wet for a few minutes01:01:03
here01:01:05
work some of that follow the calligraphy01:01:07
that you see on your bunny01:01:09
let's lighten that up a bit01:01:13
and we'll just take some real quick01:01:15
little01:01:16
touches here01:01:18
that will help01:01:20
you know01:01:21
give his01:01:22
feeling of his body and stuff but i01:01:24
don't want to get all this little hair01:01:26
detail that i did i don't want it back01:01:29
there because01:01:30
that will01:01:31
tend to flatten him out just too much01:01:33
interest so i want to01:01:35
you know i want to play the01:01:38
larger strokes a little bit of hair and01:01:40
stuff out through here but i don't want01:01:42
to get01:01:43
wrapped up in too much detail i want it01:01:45
to be quick01:01:47
here01:01:48
i want the center of interest to be down01:01:51
here in01:01:52
into him01:01:54
around his eye and stuff where we have01:01:56
that so01:01:58
we'll be a little careful01:02:00
let's lighten and warm it a bit01:02:03
we'll be a little careful how much01:02:06
stroke interest we give some of this01:02:08
around here so if i hold the brush real01:02:10
fast see i can get that01:02:12
that look of some of that fur and hair01:02:15
set a bit of it over your dark01:02:17
don't forget the structure of his leg01:02:19
here so01:02:21
maybe a little heavier here pulling down01:02:23
which is kind of the structure of his01:02:25
leg right there01:02:27
okay01:02:29
and01:02:30
a bit of it pulling01:02:33
down in here now if you make if you get01:02:35
too much which01:02:37
generally happens a lot uh if you get01:02:39
too much then you just come back in and01:02:41
restate your darks as you go to his back01:02:44
legs here darken them down01:02:46
here01:02:47
and go simplistic just some color01:02:50
movement here that's all it needs01:02:52
there stay simplistic we're going to let01:02:54
it kind of fade away let's go01:02:56
yellow medium beige01:02:59
a bit of light01:03:01
here let's stay simplistic here01:03:04
we're putting in the front see that01:03:06
we're going to let some of these areas01:03:08
just kind of01:03:10
this is the fun part of the painting for01:03:12
me it's the part of the painting where i01:03:14
do it real quick i'm going to go back to01:03:16
my extender now see when i paint this01:03:19
area here his foot's going to come here01:03:20
this is going to be his body and so i'll01:03:22
look for some of the darkest tones i see01:03:24
there not very much so i'm going to use01:03:27
some transparent01:03:29
basically medium tone of him push that01:03:32
in01:03:33
and then i'll come back over here to01:03:35
where i was doing some of this light01:03:38
and just pull through a bit01:03:40
leaving a few brush calligraphy streaks01:03:43
there and that's all it needs01:03:45
let's darken this a bit so you can go01:03:48
back and forth01:03:50
just gonna push some of that back01:03:54
that looks good i want to build his01:03:56
shoulder a bit more so let's get some01:03:58
lights01:03:59
worms01:04:01
here maybe a bit of that yellow01:04:03
model that into the brush here01:04:05
let's build his shoulder a bit more01:04:09
see quick i touch and lift off and that01:04:13
gives the look of the fur here01:04:16
now don't play too long there dave01:04:17
you'll be all the same01:04:19
let's pull a longer stroke down01:04:22
here which gives the look of his leg01:04:25
okay01:04:26
to be a little heavier01:04:29
here01:04:32
there we go something like that gives01:04:34
the look of his leg there01:04:36
okay01:04:38
there's just a bit slightly darker01:04:43
coming down the hair right down through01:04:45
there01:04:47
and01:04:48
you can lighten that up and create a a01:04:51
bit more of a fur look just by01:04:55
smaller taps there01:04:57
but that's pretty good there okay01:05:00
and01:05:01
maybe i like some of these like little01:05:03
stutters01:05:05
here that01:05:06
to show some of his fur this way01:05:10
like that01:05:11
so i'm just picking out some areas now01:05:13
we can go there can be some darker there01:05:15
let's get some01:05:17
burnt sienna green01:05:19
right there01:05:21
you could get a bit darker01:05:24
and a bit more01:05:25
and maybe even a touch of that fatal01:05:27
blue which really helps you gray out01:05:31
here01:05:32
right like that01:05:37
here get some of that other grays in01:05:39
there little spots of them so see you01:05:42
can go back and forth painting this fur01:05:44
but i would advise01:05:47
and i'm having a lot of fun painting it01:05:48
that's why i'm continuing to do it but01:05:51
i would advise kind of against it01:05:53
because we want to01:05:54
keep him kind of simplistic let's just01:05:57
back here01:05:58
take some medium beige and just drop01:06:00
that in there01:06:03
see all those little tones in there01:06:05
really make him kind of cute and so as01:06:08
much as i see you know yellows and you01:06:10
know there's more stuff like you could01:06:12
have a yellow you know stripe of it more01:06:15
right in there on him and everything01:06:18
you know here comes the question to each01:06:20
individual artist how much are you going01:06:22
to show and how much you're going to let01:06:24
just fade away01:06:26
uh i like that darlite too with that01:06:28
burnt sienna01:06:30
so01:06:31
that becomes each individual artist01:06:33
they'll be a little different01:06:35
comes in nature you know how much how01:06:37
much of this are you going to01:06:39
work in there and show01:06:42
on this painting i'm always every time i01:06:45
take a stroke i'm looking back up to his01:06:47
eye01:06:48
which i determined isn't going to be my01:06:51
center of interest01:06:53
and i'm looking really for01:06:56
how much interest i'm going to give him01:06:59
for that eye and i'll do some simplistic01:07:02
stuff there01:07:03
and uh let's take a little bit of burnt01:07:06
sienna yellow darling yellow01:07:08
here01:07:10
some of the sides of his foot are right01:07:13
in there01:07:14
take a bit of the greenish kind of color01:07:18
a little darker right there01:07:21
more of the yellow beige and white01:07:25
up towards the a quick01:07:27
you know01:07:28
touch of color here to the front of his01:07:31
his leg there01:07:33
where his legs going to be maybe i see01:07:36
that nice pull of light here01:07:39
right down01:07:42
here which kind of makes that01:07:44
part of his leg01:07:47
a little bit of scumbling maybe even01:07:49
more gray01:07:51
just gumble bunny color here01:07:54
right there01:07:57
and that works that01:07:59
all works in there maybe a bit more of a01:08:03
down pull right down through here01:08:06
it's just a calligraphy what do you see01:08:08
in the calligraphy there01:08:11
that's pretty good now i think i will01:08:13
put i'm going to bring up just a touch01:08:16
more of my dark01:08:18
so all your grays01:08:20
your burnt siennas greens blues01:08:22
touch more of this darker gray01:08:26
right up through here and through him01:08:32
there we go01:08:34
and it just just helps him recede as01:08:36
well and i really like you know about01:08:39
the rabbits and stuff and01:08:41
and stuff the rabbits in here hey look01:08:42
at that that's camera one those you01:08:44
paint with me all the time that's camera01:08:45
one it's sitting at um01:08:49
sitting back there at uh01:08:51
eight feet01:08:52
so it's what it's gonna look like01:08:53
hanging in the gallery and stuff so a01:08:56
lot of times and i'm watching right here01:08:57
of a monitor that sees the bunny here at01:09:00
eight feet with that camera showing what01:09:02
you're seeing01:09:03
and some of the pit in some of the01:09:04
things so i'm seeing that what that01:09:06
bunny looks like01:09:08
at eight feet and01:09:10
so i judge a lot of that detail like i01:09:12
tell you in a lot of the videos if you01:09:15
don't have that kind of setup like i do01:09:17
here at the studio01:09:18
um what you need to do is just get up01:09:21
every few minutes get up get back take a01:09:23
look at it what it looks like01:09:25
a little further away here's a little01:09:27
bit of our yellows and01:09:29
burnt siennas to give the indication of01:09:31
that back leg01:09:33
i want just a little lighter01:09:36
kind of01:09:39
fuzzy little edges here01:09:42
some of the little hairs that can be on01:09:44
him and you can get that just by tapping01:09:46
it into01:09:47
one size of your01:09:51
your flat and you see how you can get01:09:53
even more little hairs i don't need to01:09:54
use a small little liner brush01:09:57
here which wouldn't really work with01:09:59
some of the technique i'm doing here you01:10:02
know and i'm just01:10:04
so i just kind of do this tap the brush01:10:06
heavier in one side and like use the01:10:08
brush more onto the chisel01:10:11
here01:10:12
and it can give some looks of the hair01:10:14
especially this paint that's underneath01:10:17
here is starting to dry up now01:10:20
and causes it to drag just a bit and01:10:22
that's what i like01:10:24
when the surface and you know it's one i01:10:26
didn't always like about oils is that01:10:28
they're always slippery and stuff and01:10:29
that's fine but i like it to grab and01:10:31
get sticky and when that happens you can01:10:34
just use your brush real light01:10:36
especially like this and create the01:10:38
little hairs really easy01:10:41
here01:10:42
create this little fur01:10:44
very easy here01:10:47
little light strokes01:10:49
get that interest in there01:10:52
here01:10:55
just like that01:10:57
maybe a little light stroke so as the01:10:58
painting starts to tack up01:11:01
i use just a bit of the corner of the01:11:04
brush01:11:06
and some thicker sticky paint and it's01:11:08
really really easy01:11:11
to draw01:11:13
little hairs like that now01:11:15
that right there is totally annoying01:11:19
so01:11:21
we'll just take some greens and some01:11:23
burnt siennas01:11:26
take some of that out01:11:28
here01:11:29
that works pretty nice now he's very01:11:32
vertical and everything and all this01:11:33
stuff i work on my background there it's01:11:35
pretty vertical01:11:37
you know so i'm going to take some of01:11:39
this01:11:41
you know how much more you're gonna do01:11:43
on him i'm i'm not really all that sure01:11:46
probably not too much because i want him01:11:49
to stay kind of simplistic and i really01:11:51
do like01:11:52
the eye and everything and working01:11:54
around the eye plus we're at a minute01:11:56
and ten01:11:57
with an hour and ten so01:12:00
we'll01:12:01
we're getting pretty close01:12:04
let's put a couple of nice a nice strong01:12:06
horizontal here01:12:08
which helps break the vertical sometimes01:12:10
some of those horizontals there01:12:13
and01:12:15
let's give01:12:16
a little more01:12:17
green and burnt sienna01:12:20
here i love those two colors together01:12:24
nice little dark01:12:26
like that's going to be uh the edge of a01:12:29
little plant we can put a plant right01:12:30
back there01:12:31
a little green kind of plant we can put01:12:34
the little rock and stuff that you see01:12:36
in there as well01:12:39
we can take some of this gray01:12:43
lighter color gray gray and green01:12:46
you can push some grass and stuff up01:12:48
here if we want you know i mean01:12:51
there's a lot of things that we can do01:12:53
but if i you know i can start softening01:12:56
out01:12:57
some of the areas of him01:13:00
here01:13:01
to bring him forward so let's take a01:13:03
little bit of this soft blue just add01:13:05
some water here just reconstitute that01:13:07
becomes a01:13:08
softer gray here01:13:11
that we can use01:13:13
this gray01:13:15
just as a light color up over over the01:13:18
color i call it a foil color takes away01:13:20
some of the01:13:22
light dark streak contrast of what was01:13:24
there01:13:25
from the original thought of the01:13:27
painting01:13:28
and01:13:30
here and we'll push some of that back01:13:33
there01:13:34
so there's a big thing in wildlife01:13:37
painting i'm going to do sapphire this01:13:38
time because i did01:13:40
that first with phthalo so i'm going to01:13:41
do a little sapphire white you know a01:13:43
lot of the wildlife you always see me01:13:45
come back and always suggest you know01:13:47
paint back01:13:49
to your subject01:13:51
a little bit of negative painting around01:13:53
there helps bring that subject forward i01:13:57
do it with birds i do it with when you01:13:59
see me paint01:14:01
all kinds of things the antelopes all01:14:02
that kind of look at how much far01:14:04
farther01:14:05
forward he comes01:14:06
and i control that by the value01:14:10
here01:14:11
and sometimes i'll if he is very01:14:13
vertical i'll pull horizontal so i give01:14:16
a contrasting brush stroke01:14:20
here01:14:21
so like i would pull right here a nice01:14:24
horizontal right up to his nose01:14:27
and then let that just kind of fade away01:14:30
here stumble that out01:14:32
and you'll see that01:14:34
right there coming a little different01:14:35
now01:14:37
let's play01:14:40
here let's01:14:41
give the bunny some01:14:43
brighter little greens maybe some open01:14:45
medium in this so it has a bit of01:14:47
transparency01:14:50
let's give a little bit of the01:14:53
you know i see some little touches of01:14:55
green around there that i do like maybe01:14:57
a bit of01:14:59
yellow oxide in that so it's not it's01:15:01
more yellow green but not powerful01:15:04
here01:15:06
yeah i like that and let's just push01:15:08
that like it's a you could put i always01:15:10
thought you could come in here01:15:13
if you want to do something01:15:15
you know for a little girl or something01:15:16
like that you can come in here and put01:15:18
little daisies and stuff like that01:15:20
around there do all different kinds of01:15:22
things01:15:23
you know in your painting here01:15:25
all different kinds of looks and things01:15:28
you can do01:15:29
here but just01:15:31
you know pulling and working some greens01:15:34
like this01:15:35
will help put in some of these01:15:38
nice little light um01:15:42
very impressionistic that's what i want01:15:44
here01:15:46
you know yellows greens01:15:48
some stuff going on there like that we01:15:51
could01:15:52
take a bit of this01:15:54
maybe a bit more pine green here01:15:58
and just put in a little bit maybe a01:16:01
little bit over there crossing around01:16:03
him01:16:05
do you want to put in that little rock01:16:07
there's all kinds of stuff you can do01:16:09
you know do we want to put in a01:16:12
couple of little rocks that we see here01:16:15
you know because he is out here in01:16:17
nature you know01:16:18
and01:16:20
so you can put in a01:16:22
couple little rocks or stones01:16:25
here for01:16:27
for him01:16:28
let's see lights coming this way lights01:16:30
gonna01:16:32
be01:16:34
back up this way01:16:36
so we'll put a little light plane01:16:39
here01:16:41
i'll do it just very simplistic here a01:16:43
little light plane01:16:45
let's take a little green a little red01:16:48
and green they're beautiful grays as01:16:50
well especially there for the01:16:52
the rock complements01:16:54
complement grays01:16:57
here01:16:59
put in a01:17:00
little rock shape a little bit of blue01:17:03
into that change that tone a bit01:17:06
you know if i do detailed rocks i paint01:17:09
them quite a bit but01:17:10
here we'll just do some simplistic01:17:13
little stones there01:17:17
idea01:17:18
here01:17:20
there we go01:17:25
there oh just enough to kind of say okay01:17:27
there's something going on around there01:17:29
with him and looking at that but not01:17:31
enough to uh01:17:33
you know to completely take away from01:17:36
everything that he's doing i want that i01:17:38
don't want to have so much stuff going01:17:40
on up here that01:17:42
you know he is it detracts from him so01:17:46
i'm going to soften this edge just a bit01:17:49
and put in some ideas01:17:52
of just just quick brush work here01:17:57
you know nothing fancy just quick brush01:17:59
works and stuff here01:18:01
and i think i will bring01:18:05
up01:18:07
this side of his body here just a bit of01:18:11
this is uh01:18:13
your call how much you're gonna bring up01:18:15
now that was a bit too much but you know01:18:18
i'm known for that01:18:19
so01:18:20
we'll just back that off just a bit01:18:23
there if you get that better feeling of01:18:26
his uh01:18:28
what's going on but you know little01:18:29
flowers back there or something like01:18:31
that if you want to you know add those01:18:33
in there that's all really great you can01:18:36
make some darker01:18:37
you know01:18:38
by that that01:18:40
burnt sienna and green is just wonderful01:18:43
stuff01:18:45
you know make some darker01:18:47
colors tones stuff going on back there01:18:50
and he kind of blends into it you know01:18:52
it's like the little bunnies here around01:18:54
our01:18:55
our gallery in our building and stuff01:18:57
here they're all over they live01:18:58
underneath our porch and01:19:00
they uh they look a lot like the lawn01:19:03
especially when i forget to water it but01:19:06
they hide down and they get down real01:19:08
low and they hide down fold their ears01:19:10
down you know you can't see me uh01:19:12
they're really01:19:13
really cute but they do they look a lot01:19:16
like their environment so01:19:18
the colors and stuff so01:19:20
you know it's up to you how much you're01:19:22
going to01:19:23
bring him out here01:19:26
maybe i'll bring up01:19:28
this shoulder area here go back to my01:19:31
lights some yellows01:19:33
some of these grays i'm just going to01:19:34
grab some of this even some of this01:19:36
green01:19:37
it's a totally different tone here see i01:19:39
kind of like that kind of look there01:19:42
let's just bring that up01:19:45
a bit more01:19:46
slightly greenish so it's a different01:19:48
not quite as warm01:19:50
but see that's a good tone to what's on01:19:53
him there01:19:55
it's a little bit more green01:19:58
and light here01:20:02
let's just drop that in see that gives a01:20:05
good look01:20:06
just a quick hit or two there on his01:20:09
leg there01:20:11
let's make a quick hit or two of that01:20:13
right in here01:20:17
push that back and forth01:20:22
there that's pretty good01:20:24
yeah that's just all real fun stuff so01:20:28
you can see and you can build him up01:20:29
even after it's starting to dry here and01:20:32
tack up with that uh01:20:34
extender and stuff it starts to tack up01:20:36
you can come back and add more stuff to01:20:39
them um01:20:40
and if you want i mean you can if you01:20:43
find that you really need to work with01:20:45
something you can always go back there01:20:47
and put on a light coat of extender01:20:50
and do it again you know put the light01:20:52
coat of extender on the surface there01:20:54
put some darks in and rework him again01:20:58
you know that extender is great so but01:21:01
if you have to do a lot restate re01:21:03
re-run through your color progressions01:21:05
your shadows your mid-tones your lights01:21:08
if you're doing just a little like this01:21:10
a few little you know touches of some01:21:12
darker tone01:21:13
then you can just do this just touch and01:21:15
lift real quick with that fusion brush01:21:17
because that01:21:18
that's the key to it you know they're01:21:20
different brushes are made to do01:21:22
different things we designed these01:21:23
fusion brushes01:21:25
for these types of techniques that i01:21:27
show you here01:21:28
so a lot of people's you know a lot of01:21:30
people ask me questions and stuff all01:21:32
the time i show you01:21:35
i show you stuff that we you know we01:21:37
designed after all these years of01:21:39
painting and doing this stuff we design01:21:42
brushes tools paints and everything to01:21:44
do these types of techniques that i show01:21:46
you01:21:47
not all acrylics can do this not all01:21:50
brushes can look at the see the01:21:51
difference01:21:52
see that beautiful little work and you01:21:54
can give a lot of work01:21:56
there to your little bunny if you want01:21:59
you know and it just makes it's just01:22:01
great little look um01:22:03
but not every brush is going to do this01:22:05
not every paint is going to be able to01:22:08
paint like this and01:22:11
so you know that's01:22:13
you know you can give it a try and stuff01:22:16
with the colors and stuff that you use01:22:17
but i'm here to show you how to01:22:20
use these and understand these01:22:23
colors these paints01:22:25
these brushes and do some fantastic01:22:28
fun quick01:22:30
stuff i mean look at this01:22:32
this painting here see i'm just building01:22:34
that a little bit more while i'm talking01:22:36
because i talk too much but01:22:38
you know it's we're an hour an hour and01:22:42
20 minutes and you have yourself a nice01:22:44
little painting you know uh01:22:46
and so imagine you know when i do a01:22:49
commission painting when i put a couple01:22:51
days into it how much detail01:22:53
you could actually get into that01:22:55
painting01:22:56
you could get a lot of detail there01:22:59
into that painting01:23:01
with a couple of days of work you know01:23:04
but01:23:05
you know01:23:06
and01:23:08
simplistic too01:23:09
you know simplistic but not everything01:23:12
can do these techniques and so people01:23:14
write to me you know all the time well i01:23:16
tried this with oils it didn't work i01:23:18
tried this with these acrylics that01:23:20
didn't work well yeah01:23:22
because01:23:23
different acrylics are made to do01:23:24
different techniques different things01:23:26
not all acrylics are the same oh i like01:23:28
that i'm going to stop on that before i01:23:31
take that too much now all acrylics are01:23:33
the same you know i you know in all my01:23:36
40 years of this in chemistry as it01:23:38
started out as a paint chemist i01:23:40
designed four different complete paint01:23:43
systems for these different paint01:23:45
companies acrylic systems and an oil01:23:47
system01:23:48
all of them were completely different01:23:50
all of them none of them can do none of01:23:52
them that i did before heritage here can01:23:54
really do what i'm doing here they can't01:23:57
they are formulated to do other things01:24:00
to do other things01:24:02
and excel at other things so01:24:05
you know01:24:06
and so the acrylic you may be using01:24:08
don't get frustrated acrylic you may be01:24:10
using may not be formulated to do those01:24:12
particular things so make certain01:24:15
changes to the techniques or you can01:24:17
paint it or change your change your uh01:24:20
your paint that's just what you got to01:24:22
do you know here i'm just going to warm01:24:24
up that front side of that eye just a01:24:25
bit01:24:27
that looks pretty good i like that okay01:24:30
i'll probably go have lunch here now and01:24:33
then see something else that it needs on01:24:34
there but i think i kind of like that01:24:36
little painting just like that okay01:24:38
so he's a fun little guy01:24:40
well we took about an hour and 2001:24:41
minutes to01:24:42
to paint him01:24:44
um and01:24:46
you know you could add more to them you01:24:47
can do all different kinds of stuff to01:24:49
it hopefully you enjoy that he's a fun01:24:51
little painting okay um and if you have01:24:53
questions or anything just write those01:24:55
questions down in the comments if you01:24:56
look through all my videos you'll see01:24:58
that i try to answer all your comments01:25:01
there i try to we're getting more and01:25:02
more and more so it's gonna be more01:25:03
difficult those you that are into01:25:05
memberships i'll put my final photo i'll01:25:07
put the reference photo one that you can01:25:10
download and blow up and put on a big01:25:12
monitor and you will see01:25:14
those tones and stuff a heck of a lot01:25:16
better than you do this looking at a01:25:17
print thing of the photo there okay01:25:20
and01:25:21
look for this next week where i'm going01:25:23
to show you some of the drawing a little01:25:24
bit more of the drawing because the01:25:26
drawing is very important so that when01:25:27
you notice an area is off on your01:25:29
painting you can go back and you can fix01:25:32
that and there's certain things that i01:25:34
would fix you know like in certain01:25:36
things that i let go let me just show01:25:37
you for example here okay i got his head01:25:40
too wide right here01:25:42
and01:25:43
so01:25:44
but that makes him fuller and fluffier01:25:46
and i kind of like that he's a little01:25:47
cleaner and a little thinner right there01:25:49
so i came too far out on that line01:25:52
and your drawing skills give you train01:25:54
your eye to see those kinds of little01:25:56
things that you might be off but in the01:25:58
videos i'll show you some ways that you01:26:00
can find what might be off without01:26:02
having those drawing skills01:26:04
i'll show you some different01:26:06
techniques and little tricks to that the01:26:08
question becomes do i correct that you01:26:10
know01:26:11
and01:26:12
no i don't i don't think i will correct01:26:15
that the uh01:26:16
you know i could we could take a look at01:26:18
it but01:26:19
the thing is if i think it's not a real01:26:21
big deal to the cuteness of the bunny he01:26:23
just looks a little bit you know thicker01:26:25
there you know with that but i could01:26:28
correct it let's just put a little bit01:26:29
on here so your eye can see01:26:31
a little bit learning here then we'll01:26:33
call the video close but i also had a01:26:35
person right there one time and goes oh01:26:37
you know01:26:38
i painted one of these animal portraits01:26:40
and he goes oh this person he's he's off01:26:43
right here on this and uh you know it01:26:46
just ruins it for me and01:26:49
i sit there and i was like wow you have01:26:51
absolutely no clue because when we got01:26:53
done before i put that on there we01:26:55
imposed it on the original to see just01:26:57
if there are any areas off myself and01:26:59
three other artists and there was not an01:27:01
area that's off so it was like well you01:27:05
know i mean every one of us will see01:27:07
stuff a little differently but watch01:27:09
what happens here so i'll thin this down01:27:11
just a bit we'll fracture the edge a bit01:27:14
so we don't have and then that changes01:27:16
the whole01:27:17
basically the whole look of this little01:27:19
bunny right there see01:27:21
it thins it down things down his head01:27:23
takes him a little closer to what that01:27:24
was there01:27:26
that is drawing skills that in looking01:27:28
at that that's a skill so the technique01:27:31
is telling me what to do with the brush01:27:33
the color is telling me what to do with01:27:34
the tone the drawing skills is telling01:27:37
me where i might be off01:27:39
one you know area or not but there's a01:27:40
lot of times01:27:42
that if it's off a little bit i'll let01:27:44
it go because it's not important to the01:27:46
overall look of what because i'm not01:27:48
doing an actual realism i'm just01:27:50
painting the bunny okay having some fun01:27:53
don't forget to click like to the thing01:27:55
don't forget to subscribe to our channel01:27:57
thanks so much for joining me on this01:27:59
artistic journey we have a lot more i'm01:28:01
gonna do the01:28:02
this i'm gonna do the um01:28:06
the western back there have a lot of fun01:28:08
with some more western also have a man01:28:10
standing up onto a horse gotta do that01:28:13
and uh yeah we have a lot more paint and01:28:15
i still have that church down in01:28:17
louisiana we're going to be painting and01:28:19
a bunch more that we're going to paint01:28:21
dashing through the snow i've got a01:28:23
bunch of them all lined up for us to01:28:25
paint have some fun with it okay there01:28:28
you guys go have fun with it and uh i'll01:28:30
see you on the next one okay all rightDescription:
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