Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and first of all I want to wish you a Merry Christmas
full of color, and a Happy New Year with many new creations!
And I want to let you know that I have decided to take a little holiday
and that therefore this coming Tuesday 31st. of December
there will not be a new tutorial, I'm sorry
I just realized that this is going to be my first Holiday eh... Tuesday without
without a tutorial in the seven years of the channel [laughter]
can you believe that?
but don't worry
if you were wishing to draw or paint on that day, please enter the channel
Fine Art-Tips where you can select among about 500
tutorials on many subjects, that are already online.
And for today let's do a new Christmas landscape in acrylics.
I hope you enjoy it.
I will be using watercolor paper and the first thing I'll do is to seal it with gesso,
this so that it doesn't absorb too much the water and the paint.
You can work on the paper directly, but this makes your life easier.
You can give it two or three layers of gesso and smooth it out
and as far as the paint I will be using this set of 24 acrylic colors by Arteza.
This is the brand that I have been using lately and I chose them because there are
high quality, but they are very accessible. Of course, I will not be using
all these colors for this painting.
For the sky, I will begin with a mixture of phthalo blue,
ultra marine blue and a touch of titanium of white
and I tone the whole paper with blue, just because I don't like to have it all white from the
beginning. I feel I cannot cage the colors very well, if that's the case.
Then we paint a zone of luminosity in the area where the Sun is... using lemon yellow
and titanium white
and we blend this into a blue
to the other side
darker and darker.
A very important tip as the acrylic dries so fast: if you want to
blend different colors, like I'm doing, then I use two different tricks or trade
secrets [laughter].
One is that I am using a slow drying medium
but even this is not enough
so the other things I did is that I sprayed, with a spray bottle, the back of the paper
to dampen it
and I placed it on a damp sponge,
I laid the paper down on a damp flat sponge
or you can use a damp rag, so that during
your painting it stays pretty wet or pretty damp.
If you do that it allows you much more time to blend.
I paint a hill with green trees
and then actually I'm taking off some of the paint with a brush and water
because we will have some closer by trees here.
Very good!
Now the yellowish light is reflecting on the snow, so let's do that!
It will be more intense close by the Sun and then it will be less intense. Closer to us
there will be a slope so it is yellow again.
And let's do some blue shadows.
Now let's paint the trunks of the nearby trees
they will be brown and I will later add some shining light on the side.
We will have a group of trees on the right and then, another one over here.
The complete list of materials that I am
using for this painting is in the description below the video.
Let's do also some thin branches.
Excellent!
Now the cast shadows of the trees.
We do this of a grayish blue.
Keep in mind the direction of the shadows
following the position of the Sun to the trees.
Good!
and now let's give them some light
the light shining on the edge, of course it will be lighter on the side
of the Sun
but we can also have a shine on the other side, less intense, less bright.
Very good! ¡excelente!
It's ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo