Yes, hello! Today we're going to be painting
and if not, then I don't know why I got all this stuff out here, I digress, I'm painting.
Okay, yes, I'm excited, I haven't painted in a little bit,
so I think this should be a lot of fun, hopefully.
I took this photo recently, yeah, I know,
I didn't realize I was a professional photographer either,
who am I kidding, nature did most of the work here, okay?
My friend was like you should paint that
and I said why, I've got this photo
and then I don't know, just started growing and festering inside me
and I was like, I should paint it, so that's what I'm going to do.
I wanted to paint it on a 9x12, I think that's what my canvases are
but apparently I used them all and then the ones that I have
that have things that I'm like, I don't think I'm ever going to finish them,
I'd have to paint over and then you'd see what I was painting over
and I'm not ready for that yet so I figured I could use what I do have.
I have a square canvas,
problem is, my photo would work really well for the more portrait
so then I looked in my paper drawer to see if I had like one of those thin canvases,
you know, that's like on a board because I don't know,
sometimes, sometimes you find one with your paper,
I didn't, but I did find this wood canvas, look at the grain in that
and I'm supposed to gesso it, I don't think I'm going to,
I had four of these at one point and I think I gesso with the other three
and it worked fine but like you kind of lose some of that woodness
so I figured we could just see what happens,
if it ends up being a huge mistake, we'll both learn something from this,
this won't be a complete waste.
I think I'm just gonna start painting and see what happens,
like you know, it's meant to be fun, it's like a game I'm playing with myself
where I just take goop and I splat it at a piece of wood
and I see if it looks like something at the end, doesn't that sound fun?
I think so, let's get right into it.
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I'm not sure what colors I'll need, definitely a blue.
I'm using Liquitex Basics acrylics and a little bit of this titanium white.
I got some other colors, I'm running low on the yellow
but if you remember last painting video, I kind of want to get a new yellow
and I haven't yet, so add that to my list.
Oh there's something else I wanted to say.
I have these glitters but wait for it, they're little leaves,
[Laughs]
if there's a way to like incorporate that, that could be really fun.
I think it'd be cute.
I also have some of this I thought might be handy,
this is sunset gold and metallic russets.
These are the light body metallic acrylics.
I thought those could be handy, too, maybe.
Which way should I go?
I'm going this way, I like the way it kind of points upwards
and then it's like grounded.
I'm just gonna start sketching I guess.
I usually sketch with my burnt umber and some water,
just blob that somewhere, a little turd, beautiful.
Grab a flat brush, this is a size eight, lots of water.
All right so we grab a little that and mix it with the water.
This just gives you a lot more um, flow, that's probably the word.
So essentially, there's a little island like right in the middle, here, look.
Since it's a square, if it's right in the middle, it's gonna be kind of confusing,
so I'm gonna lower it about here and there's water all around,
there's a little island, it's got lots of little trees,
this tree kind of like hangs down and then there's like a big poofy tree up here,
stems that you can actually see, stems, trunks sorry.
Sketch it out, essentially just trying to figure out
where I'm going to lay everything out.
Even that's too high, I might have to bring that down, well see.
Maybe you won't end up seeing any wood grain at the end.
Now here's where there's actually some orange flowers.
Oh my gosh, what planet am I from?
There are orange and yellow trees down here,
Oooh, look at that, it looks like a little tree.
There's a bunch of like dead stuff over here where all the leaves have fallen.
Oh that's my island and then there's gonna be like reflections on the water
and the water goes kind of back here.
Oh we can actually see a little boardwalk right there,
well this looks so Bob Ross-y the way like things kind of criss-cross,
the composition of it I suppose
and then there's trees back here, come about that high,
they're kind of further back actually,
these trees should come higher.
Some like cattails back here that are really bright.
It's a little edge of the lake.
Now there's tons of clouds up there
and I really wish I'd drawn the island lower now,
let's just move everything down a bit now.
There's lots of shadow in here because like the sun is over here
so these trees are casting a lot of shadow,
we can probably just pull this down.
I like the way this soaks into the wood,
that's probably what the gesso is supposed to stop.
Just kind of finding the shadows.
Let me see do I need to pull down this.
Everything over here is way brighter so I don't really want to add any shadows.
That's, that's the island location
like all the shadows end up on the right side of things,
these trees are actually the front of
whereas the right side of them would be behind them.
I don't know what I'm trying to explain,
so the shadows are on the right side of the island.
Now there's some trees that kind of come up to like here.
There's lots of like cattails and stuff here
and then they kind of join a new group over here,
kind of making it up on the edges because my canvas is square,
did I mention that? I dunno if I did.
Cattails here.
Just like a log here, some sticks.
The only problem is, I don't feel like this looks quite as far away as it should.
If these cattails get really small on the edge.
The kind of problem is like you can sort of see in a sketch.
My dog, why are you so active all of a sudden?
Why are they so cute?
I'm trying to do something.
Let me make it look more dense in the back so it's like thick
so it looks like there's a lot.
Find some of the shadows there, too.
So then the water over here is actually really dark too with some reflections.
Just gonna keep horizontal motion so I don't like lose track of the perspective
because it's really far back there compared to here
and I feel like I'm having a really hard time conveying that
but I think it's time to start adding in a color.
I would love to do the sky I think just because it's simple
and it'll help get rid of some of this sketch where I drew too high.
Do you think just white and this would work?
Figure it out as we go, that's obviously not the right color though.
Hopefully if I add a little white and I'm going to use my liquid acrylic
so it's going to just make it a little less thick and it'll be easier to swoosh around.
I need a bigger paintbrush as well.
I got some newer paintbrushes here by newer I mean never used them before.
This one's really fluffy, it's not going to mix paint very well though.
so maybe I'll have to use a palette knife.
Look at the way that cuts.
This is really close to the color I want actually.
There's so many clouds that I think I don't have to get
a super consistent color if I mess it up, you know.
Oh this is from Blick, I really do like shopping on Blick for artsy stuff.
You can actually get it cheaper than amazon usually.
All right, let's see, start - Oh I never sketched in the trees.
Wait, wait, wait, don't dry on me, paint.
There's a tree that comes out of this, it comes straight up.
Kind of forks and this one goes up even higher and there's a little tiny guy .
So that's one tree then there's another one right here
and he comes up even higher and then there's a tree over here
and it's got a lot more action.
I don't know how to draw a tree, again, it's not exactly the fullest looking tree,
some branches thicker, one here, more branches kind of stemming around,
kind of fills up around that, there we go, we got some trees.
Okay now I'm ready for the blue.
I love this color, it's so pretty, add a little water, soften it up a bit.
Maybe show some of that wood grain a little better.
Maybe make it even more transparent so that my sketch shows through.
I haven't sketched any of the clouds in yet
but I'm thinking that can come later.
A little too opaque, we're losing them trees.
Although if I want to draw like those swishy clouds.
Probably should do it over top of everything
because the blue is absorbing into the wood,
it looks like it's turning a little green.
Again, maybe gesso would solve that problem.
It's also just like crud building up and it's not from the brush.
I don't know, maybe it is from the brush or the brush is like becoming sandpaper
and it's kind of like getting eaten away by the wood
so we'll just have to redraw that, that's fine.
Also, I like that the wood is stiffer than when I paint on like a cotton canvas
like because it like flexes under your strokes whereas this is solid
and I really like that.
That's actually a little darker here so I'm gonna add a little more blue
and actually a little bit of the brown
and I'm going to color in the water with this.
I don't actually know what I'm doing,
I'm just kind of winging it for like the reflection areas.
Again we'll probably end up painting over them
so it's not that big a deal but you know,
looks like water just kind of building up slowly.
It definitely doesn't really look like water.
Maybe it needs some some white reflections.
Yeah maybe that is the paint brush coming apart.
All right not the best paintbrush, you know, now figuring it out slowly.
I'm gonna have more brown and more white.
That's what kind of the grass looks like here.
The grass! [Laughs] I can't.
Water here by the cattails.
It's a little scummier, you know, so like the trees are reflecting,
it looks more this color, it's also a little greener.
I could add a little yellow maybe, not too much, see that?
Oh yeah, a little yellow, greener over here.
Still kind of watery looking.
Do that over here too.
I think this was a good idea, thank you Becca.
It should probably be darker over there,
so maybe a little more brown to it.
Still technically water even though it's like a completely different color.
Sometimes if we add white to this, we get a nice reflection.
That might be better over here.
I'll use this, we're losing that, it's water, it's looking a little less like water.
Blend it out a bit.
Looking a little murky but also we don't have any reflections yet.
I'm gonna clean this brush.
Oops, I'm doing something. I'm making um another water color.
Actually I want to add shadows here
to kind of help with the depth I think,
All right so for the trees,
we have a variety of like yellows and greens and slight oranges,
so we'll mix some kind of blue and yellow to make a green,
a little brown and some white.
That can start us off over here I think where it's more sunny.
Actually wait, that's this tree.
Dang.
Well we can do the top edges of this.
Start blobbing it, we'll see what stays and what goes.
Okay, it's actually more green on this side of the island.
Just get the illusion of shrubbery on the island.
Maybe I should just color this in and then find the highlights.
I wonder if that'd be easier, whatever it is that I'm doing, it just looks like a blop.
I think some highlight is gonna break up the blob,
probably a smaller paintbrush might be helpful too.
It kind of looks like something over there, it's kind of cool.
I'm gonna redraw in this little tree that kind of like sticks out even higher.
I always need something even darker.
Maybe a little blue to make it green, it's not quite deep enough to be more blue.
A little yellow tree here.
Yeah, I think I'm just going to lighten everything up.
It's a little too dark, just kind of tree blob it.
It's a tree that kind of like hangs down like that.
It's almost like a willow looking tree but I don't think it is.
Lighten up these guys.
Really hard to get these to look like trees kind of blobby.
Maybe that's a start, a little less green.
I need a smaller paintbrush with this same color
Gotta make it look like trees I guess that's the next step.
Well that did make a big difference.
I want to add orange.
Kind of running out of palette space for different colors
but if we mix a little bit of this with colors we're already working
with a little tree in here, a little red tree in there.
Oh am I amazed?
Yes.
Does it probably look like a blob to everyone else but me?
Yes, also.
Trying to make a yellow tree, yellow tree over here.
Oh that one's got like orange and yellow.
Continue on this funky tree here.
I don't know, I'm just trying to find more detail in it.
This little tiny paint brush kind of comes in handy for us
to find shadows deep in this
and this is where it should be getting brighter from all the sun.
A little a bit shrubbage.
Go over the top of some of the trunks I drew.
Leaves break up the bushels and draw some of these trunks.
The paintbrush, reflections, it's my reflection.
The orange, I should figure out the trees over here again kind of lost them in the sky.
Although I still have to do the clouds so. Hmm.
Although I kind of made some clouds appear
by having the paint that wasn't quite mixed that wasn't quite mixed.
This is actually just straight titanium white and look how good that looks.
Little branches as they break off.
I'm gonna put leaves on here somehow.
That's something you probably learned with time
with how many paintings you've done
like what the proper order for things is
because I, I don't know, not there yet.
Leaves.
The colors are looking like my reference,
they're just not that pretty
and now that I'm seeing in painting it's like whenever people do paintings
and they're more like hyper realistic
so they like exaggerate beauty a bit more than I think I did like in painting form,
I feel like it just looks a little dull.
Maybe a little sideways ones. Give more detail to this trunk.
I'm going to tone down some of the white just kind of go over it
because it does look a little too much like snow.
It's a little too white in some spots,
almost like I just need to go over all the white.
Oh as it dries you see more and more of the wood texture.
I really like that, I don't know, I really do.
Figure out what color this stuff is.
It's kind of like a green.
Let's start laying something here.
Yeah my colors are just a little muddy.
Maybe I should have played around with the colors, it is what it is.
Building up the colors here.
Definitely a little warmer if it hits the top of them.
Blocking out the colors seems to be going pretty well
Now I need to start pinpointing more spots.
Carry this up a little higher.
This color from down here that I used for the reflection actually blend it downward.
Create a little line here... for the water.
I forgot there's like a little log here.
Starting to look a little more accurate.
Kind of change colors as it goes.
A little orange.
I have no idea what I'm doing down here, this is confusing to me.
Just have to let go of perfection, usually where I gotta stop having fun,
you know, when I realize how impossible my expectations are to meet
that will just kind of do whatever happens.
Go over this trunk again.
Painting wood on wood, anyone else get a kick out of that?
Same for this guy.
Did that just end up looking like the exact same tree!?
Not as random as I thought it was.
Can I add some highlights to the water?
It's not really in the reference so we're really just making it up.
Kind of makes the water look like it's moving
but at least it looks like water, that's all you really can ask for.
This trees look more like a train inside some rim lighting obviously on the left side.
I feel like I'm probably reaching some kind of limit here.
That's one of those paintings, those things,
like, you get so close to it when you're working on it that you see all these things
and once you like close your eyes and open them again,
it looks completely different, you see all the errors.
It's like ayeayeayeaye. This needs to go, this highlight is no more.
I wonder if I just added a little like glossy top coat to this what that might look like
because right now, it looks very matte.
I think it's because it's like being soaked up into the wood, you know.
I like the way these cattails look better these ones so I was trying to like copy it.
I like how simple that one is to be honest it just suits everything a little better.
Is that it, do I want to add any clouds?
It's a little late but I could try.
Add a little white, maybe there's a blue that's not dry yet here.
Blend that out with the bigger brush, see if we can blend that,
oop, that is definitely my hair, ew, a little wispy.
I really should have done this before I painted the trees
but I even knew that at the time but I was just like,
I feel like doing the next step. Here we are. [Chcukle]
Just try a little splotches.
It actually kind of makes it look very cloud like, I like that.
Grab some green and kind of solve this problem maybe.
I'm glad I added the clouds, I feel like it needs one thick cloud up here though
which it actually has in the reference, haha, that's funny.
Have one go off the edge for the composition's sake.
Going back there, try and blend that.
I think this might be it, I might have to call it, it looks like a scene.
I feel like if I showed this to literally anyone, they'd be like it's a landscape painting.
I don't know if they'd be able to tell that that was an island
or that these were cattails but I have to take progress as it comes
and keep pushing forward so that it doesn't stop coming.
It's really hard to walk away from a painting because it's never done, you know?
Well I gotta call it at some point.
if I look at any one point, it just looks like blobs
but if I step back, it looks like, I guess that looks like water.
I think I'm just jumping into the picky for my skill level here
but this is what it looks like.
I don't know why I want to do a close-up of any of this but there you go.
Thank you guys for watching and coming along with me
as I tried to paint a landscape on wood, that was pretty cool.
I think I am interested in picking up either more wood canvases
or just canvas panels because I forgot how much I like painting on a solid surface,
it kind of like just suits my preferences
but yes, this is my skill set as of now, let's chronicle it, take a snapshot, boom.
Thank you guys for watching,
let me know if you've ever painted a photo that you've taken
and if you look at it, does it remind you of that moment?
I'll see you guys next week
and I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles. Bye!
Oh I just realized I didn't use these, dang it, next time I guess, next time baby.
Oh is that from, is that an after credit scene?
That might be after credit scene, it's iron man.
Anyway, bye!
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