hey what's up all you awesome painters today i want to share with you
one awesome exercise i learned when i first started working in oils and
acrylics and there's no exercises for wet on wet painting so what i'm going to do is take
that exercise repackage it deliver it to you that's going to make you understand
your paints your techniques and make you a better wet on wet painter let's do it
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videos go live for you so if you're a wet on wet painter out there or you're starting to dabble in
wet on wet paintings the only really exercise you kind of do is you watch bob ross and you just try
to mimic what he does and that's more of a trial by fire and while you will learn a lot from it
you need to learn some basic exercises that will teach you really good techniques to make you a
better painter and that's what we're going to do i'm going to show you an exercise that i recommend
every brand new wet on wet painter try hey even some of you veterans out there so let's get going
today's exercise is all about getting the most out of every single color and tube of paint you own
we're going to go over values of paint and how to create them so that way when you start painting
you can add more depth and highlights and details to your paintings out of just one single color
or any color you choose so let me show you how to do this exercise to start we need a color i
recommend using phthalo blue or phthalo green for this exercise because you're gonna see a lot of
different values that go up and down that's easy for the eye to see but feel free to use any color
you want or any new color you want to experiment with you're also going to need a one inch brush
a mixing palette and a canvas that we have marked off with different zones to apply different values
so that way you know exactly where we're moving up in value and down in value now i already went
ahead and marked off my canvas plus i added liquid white to the center column of my canvas
because for most bob ross paintings and wet on wet techniques you will be using a liquid white
base so we're going to start right there now when it comes to this exercise and painting values i'm
a super lazy man so let's just do everything on our mixing palette first and we can introduce it
to our canvas start by putting a nice dollop of phthalo blue on your mixing palette we also want
to put a nice dollop of titanium white and any version or color of black that you have on hand
midnight black ivory black mars black lamp black they all work the same so don't put
too much stress on it the phthalo blue out of the tube is our control now we have to
introduce values that go up or lighter in color in tone or values that go down which is
darker or more muted in tone to do this we're essentially just going to add white and black
let's go to the lighter side first take an equal portion of one to one of phthalo blue
in titanium white and mix it together now take a portion of this new color we just made
and do a one-to-one ratio with more titanium white on a new spot on your canvas and we're going to
repeat this step one more time now you should have three lighter values of our phthalo blue
we're going to repeat the same step with black take a one to one ratio of phthalo blue in black
and mix up a color and repeat the same steps like we did with titanium white now you should
have seven values of phthalo blue let's go ahead and apply this to our canvas on our liquid white
this way you can see how the gradients go up and down to give you a better understanding of how
mixing colors together or different values of colors together will make you a better painter
so this exercise is all about teaching you how you can get different values out of the same color
which is going to add depth into your painting making it really pop off that canvas which is
what i want for you now the cool thing about this exercise if you notice at the bottom of my canvas
it has that big blue strip there you can do this exercise on top of liquid white liquid clear and
liquid black and each one of those will be eye opening for you which is why we have those three
columns there go ahead play around with the colors on those different liquid mediums and that's
going to really really educate you so much on how each medium works and how the color color values
change and how you can use it to the best of your advantages best of your advantage i think i meant
the best of your abilities but you know what i mean i'm getting tired and i'm hungry it's way
past lunch time here very angry right now i really recommend everybody give this exercise a try
especially if you're wet on wet painter or you're dipping your toe in now don't waste a canvas doing
this i really recommend getting canvas paper or pads hey by the way all the supplies we used in
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those brushes wet keep on painting and i will see you all later take care and of course peace