Paint A Tree Silhouette.
so here we are today and we're going to be painting
this tree as you can see in the photo here so that's our reference
photo of a tree in sort of winter autumn fall time
so i've been asked to paint this picture for a lady's 90th birthday which was
last thursday the 25th of june so it's the
30th of june today so we've got our paint selection
there which is yellow blue white and orange and we'll just use
combination a combination of those colors i've got a
drink there which is rum and coke and some water
to clean our brushes and add water to the paint so of course as always don't
get your drink mixed up with your water i think we've probably all done that put
our brushes in our drink so here we go i think that's ultramarine
blue there so we're gonna use some ultramarine blue with some white and i
think that i remember what the white is it's called something but any white will
do
um yeah come on what it's called and we got orange there and a cadmium yellow
and we're just mixing up a combination of blue and white
for the background so we're going to do is create a background
here to represent our sky and kind of blend in a lot of colors
and try and make some cloud and light effects
for our background and once we've done our background
we can then put start painting in the tree and try and
emulate the silhouette look from the photo so building up some
layers here with our paint and you'll find if you
build up some layers let the first layer dry and then put
another layer on top it will kind of give you some depth
to the colors you apply to the canvas i think i left that all night but i
can't remember i might have used the hair dryer i did use a hair dryer
in certain stages just to speed up the drying process
so as you can see we're adding some colors there so alongside
the white and blue we're adding some orange and some yellow
i'm just mixing in the colors just to give a kind of
light and sunlight effect with clouds and blue sky
so continuing building up the layers
to get to our desired look using a combination of big wall
paint brushes as you can see kind of like putting the paint on and then sort
of fluffing the paint in emerging with the other
colors and as you can see they were putting
some clouds using white and just kind of fluffing
out the whites into the canvas and on top of the other
colors and using a hair dryer there as you can see
to speed up the drying process and have on a sneaky
sip of rum and coke
build another some more white for the clouds
drying the paint on the canvas uh when we get to doing the silhouette
we'll mix the orange yellow and blue together to give us a darker
color it's not quite black it's more like a very dark brown and
as you can see there i'm just penciling in
some branches and a trunk shape just to give us an idea
where we're going to be painting so paint in the trunk there
painting in the main trunk tree and branches and just basically refining
that as we go building up the branches and kind of
making it getting a rough shape from the reference photo but also
going with the flow to where you want your branches so i suppose this picture
sort of ends up being sort of a slightly realistic
representation of the photo but also a kind of abstract
arty farty whatever you want to call it to the
photo also
so you see like the building at the branches and we got a little bit of
terrain on the ground also other bushes
grass and so on so in a way i sort of think the
background kind of gives you a stained glass
effect with those colors peering through the branches of the tree
just basically just building up those layers building up the branches
to get something that kind of resembles a tree
and trying to stay a little bit faithful to the photo also
and i'm just basically adding some more uh
branches thinner branches and areas and going over the original paint
for the tree also just to kind of solidify
the uh color of the tree and the trunk
and i actually kind of subtly put a little border in around the edge as well
so that'll probably look more effective
once it's framed which in this video we won't see it
framed we'll just see the finished painting and uh that'll be done
so this is relatively straightforward i thought i'd put this video up for
anybody that's interested uh like pretty straightforward drawing
painting and hopefully you know like some
relatively simple but effective effects also
it's also decided to kind of put a sun behind the branches to peer through kind
of get sort of a glowing effect which we'll get to in a moment and what i did
there was to put some off whites just some
very light white wires light of course mixed with a little bit of yellow and
then i just kind of dabbed around
our sun to create a glowing effect so you'll see that coming up
why did that as you can see i just put like a kind of
border in just as a kind of arty um thingy i can't think of the word like
all i've got my head is an arty farty
artistic license decorative so it's decorative i suppose you could say
for this particular painting so there you can see the putting the sun in there
so just dabbed in some off white mixed with yellow and then just kind of
blurring around the edges to give the kind of um
glowing light effects i signed a picture drama 2020
and there we are job done so once that's dry we can give that
to a joan for a 90th birthday i should have took a photograph of this
um picture to uh so that everybody could see the colors
easier but i didn't take a photo because once i painted this i actually
gave the painting away the next day so i paired this on the tuesday and the
wednesday and there we are that's given to jones
daughter and she's holding it there in the photo and that is actually the
party on the thursday afternoon
so anyway thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed the video and we'll see you soon
over and out for now
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