let's hope that this goes well
hello my friend's it's nina and we're painting today
as you may or may not know on my channel
sometimes i paint
and today seemed like a day for painting
that is what we're going to do today
by the way this is an americano
an iced americano
just in case i need it
i also do have a bottle of water
always stay hydrated
lots of liquid
we are good to go
so recently on instagram there has been this thing going on
not like all over social media but just like on my account
but lately there's been this thing going on
where you guys are tagging me
in your paintings of skies and clouds
and it became kind of like a little trend
where you guys would send me your paintings of clouds and skies
with a quote saying "when you don't know what to paint, paint the sky"
because apparently i said that in a past video
i looked back at that past video
to see if i actually said that
i said something on the lines of that
but i didn't actually say that
it would have been smart and cool if i did
but i said something like
if you don't know where to start
paint a sky or something like that
it doesn't have measurements, it's very free
i still stand by that
and also you guys kept going with that quote so i was like
i can't stop them
so i decided for this video i would
kind of get in on that trend that you guys made
and i would paint a sky for you guys
i did not invent painting the sky
nor do i claim anything like that
i just thought it was really cute
and i haven't painted in so long
that i kind of felt bad
that you guys were painting so much
and i was just here not doing anything creative
so without further ado let's paint a sky
so i'm going to just quickly introduce my materials
i have this very old easel
she's definitely been through a lot
i have this little baby canvas
and then for paint i got some new paints
these are the liquitex acrylic color basics
i lost all my painting materials from the move
i have no idea where anything is
so i had to buy new paintbrushes
new paints
and then i also had to get a little palette
this was the only one i could find in the art store
and then i got some paint brushes
i don't know the brand
but i got them from the art store, it's a really simple set
my reference photo today is going to be
this one that you can't see
it is a picture of clouds that i took this one day
i put it on my instagram story
but this is, oh now you can see it
this is a picture that i took
now i'm going to go in
i do have a cup of water
for my paint
i just hope i don't accidentally drink my paint water
because sometimes that almost happens
oh that's delicious
so i'm going to use this big brush
this is the biggest brush that is included in the set
i'm going to paint this light blue color
yes
i'm going to need a lot of white
i used to have palette knives
but again i lost all my painting materials
and i didn't think about getting a new palette knife
so i'm kind of just using my brush
this will be fine though
this is a nice color
so here we go, we're gonna go for it
yes it's a delightful cute lil color
we're gonna have a nice blue all over
and then we'll make it a little more complex with different blues
different tones
so we're gonna get a nice even coat right now
someone once commented why i paint skies all the time
and then they mentioned something about how
a person will paint something over and over if it has a special meaning to them
and i guess i just like the freedom of skies
it's kind of something humans haven't tainted yet
obviously there's climate change and greenhouse gases and all that
but otherwise the sky is still up there
you can't really destroy the sky
i mean, greenhouses gases, but
it's just a thing that's up there
and i think that's really pretty
i really like stargazing
and at night i love seeing the moon
i shared on twitter my favorite childhood memory
which was when i was younger
i liked going to the beach
and i liked stargazing and watching the moon
i liked seeing the reflection of the moon on the water
i had different names for the moon
depending on each of its phases
some names were like boris, loris, deloris
all that
when the moon was a gibbous moon, i think the moon's name was boris
but i've always had a fascination for the sky
and naturally it became my favorite subject to paint
not just because it's easy to paint
but there's just a nice feeling that comes out of it
we have a nice solid light blue
you can call it a day
some museums actually display paintings just like this
one solid color
but of course we're going to continue
someone also asked me if i liked sunrises better or sunsets better
and i like both but
i do like sunsets better just because
i don't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to experience a sunset
i do like sunrises but i prefer sunsets just because
there's more color variety
while a sunrise the color is just at one point
because the sun's coming up
and then once the sun comes up
that means i have to do the rest of my day
with a sunset i can just stay up for a few more hours then sleep
which is nice
but i do appreciate a good sunrise from time to time
this happened too fast
now i have to actually do the clouds
so in the reference picture the bottom is kind of dark as you can see
i'm going to add a little black because there are elements of gray
also if you mess up, it's acrylic, you can just paint right over it
ok that looks good, that looks good good good
so if you can see, it's a little darker here
that's what we want
we're going to paint this over with pink clouds anyway
so it doesn't really matter
how far you go
it won't kill me to make it a little darker here as well
painting is definitely a good summer activity
if you don't know what to do during your day
painting naturally takes up a lot of your time
at this point i can go in with the clouds now
clouds have a lot of depth so i'm going to make the blurry part of the cloud first
gonna need a good amount, that's a lot of red, sorry
who did i just apologize to right now
yellow right here
yes just a little bit
so now we're going to make our pink
wow it's already getting there
gonna add just the tiniest yellow
then red here
i'm gonna go for it
how much do i want
a lot?
i'm gonna wet it a little bit
going for it going for it going for it
yes this looks good
again you really can't go wrong with a sky
you can't mess up
and even if you do mess up
you have a painting in the end, and i think that's all that matters
i think i'm going to go in with my round brush
so i don't have these flat edges
going to get my round one as you can see right here
mayhaps this was not the right brush
maybe i should dry it a little more, this has to be a little dry
so if the brush is a little dry, it kinda gives that wispy effect
there we go
i can go higher with this if i want
this is my painting, i can do whatever i want
there's going to be a lot of layers to your painting
really just be patient with it
so you can see the clouds starting to appear
this is only the first layer, i'm so excited
here i'm going to make a grayish color
i'm just mixing the blue mixture with the pink mixture
as you can see right there it's this purpley color
i'm gonna test it out
you can barely see it but it adds a little element
so i just made more-
what am i doing
so i made more of this purpley gray color
here we go
please dry a little bit
this is going to be my seventh painting of a sky
am i good?
do you see that?
and over here a little bit
and then with a kind of wet brush
not too wet but just a little damp
i'm kind of blending the colors together
it's kind of going off
i love the fact that when you're done with this
you just have a painting
like you made that, that's your creation, that's your baby
now i'm going to go in with a lighter color
this needs like a bright pink color
once i was painting with my friends and
i kind of got frustrated when i was painting because
first off i was using a paint that i wasn't familiar with
and so it didn't give me the colors that i wanted
so i started off with this bluish purpley grey color
it wasn't very pleasant
and it didn't look like my reference picture at all
then i got frustrated so i was like
i'm gonna paint it all black and paint a galaxy or something
and then i was like wait, i wanna paint a sky though
so i painted the entire thing pink
so there were like 5 layers of paint at this point
and i got really frustrated
and then i told my friend, why do i have a painting series
why am i a painter
i'm not even like good at it
or like i'm not even the best at it
then my friend was like
well that doesn't really matter though
the whole point is the experience of painting
and that made me kind of chill out a little bit
because i was like, true
at that time i was really frustrated that
it wasn't turning out the way that i wanted
and usually i'm very lenient about that
so my friend reminded me
that's it's not about being the best at it
it's about the fact that you're with your friends
or you're with yourself
and you're just dedicating this time to create something
that's what really matters
and i just forgot about it at that point
and so i did paint a painting
my friend was like
you don't have to be good at it, you just have to enjoy it
and it made me realize, you know,
in our really competitive society
we just forget to enjoy doing something
everything kind of becomes like a competition
we think we have to be the best or don't do it at all
i try to remember to not approach life like that
i paint because i like it
and i hope you do too
i mean unless, you know, you're in art school
where you literally have to be graded for what you do
or your career is in art
where you literally have to be the best in what you do
but just in the process, remember that whatever you create is something
even if someone else doesn't like it
even if someone else thinks you have to do this or that
or change this or that
in the end it's your life
these people's opinions and all that
won't be in your life in 20 years
you'll be, i'll be, how old am i, i'll be 40, 50
i'm just painting because i like it
here's the painting so far
there's something serene about it
anyway what was i saying?
oh yea, just enjoy painting
when i was in kindergarten and i was drawing
i wasn't thinking about trying to be better than the person sitting next to me
i was just thinking, i wanna draw a house
i wanna draw a sky
i wanna draw a tree
i wanna draw a sun with sunglasses
for the heck of it
and then later we got introduced to society
and then everything changed
but when you can just try to remember that you're doing it for fun
unless you're on a time crunch
and you literally have to be in a competitive setting
to produce a painting or something
i just hope that in your life
at one point you have some peace and quiet
to create something for fun
not because you have to
we're adding little dots here and there
they kind of look like flowers
like little flower petals just floating in the sky
i might need a smaller brush for that though
gonna use a smaller round tip brush
and kind of just blend it out a little bit
this is just a dry brush
and i'm using it to blend it out
like nothing happened
i kind of made a mistake
but like bob ross said there's no mistakes just happy accidents
ahh i keep making mistakes
these are not mistakes these are happy accidents
all good all good all good all good
i actually kind of like that right there
gonna blend it out a little bit
yea it adds a little contrast
that was a good move
happy accident
just need to blend it out a little bit
now i'm trying to make like a hot pink kind of pink
yay there she is
so now we're going to make gray for the bottom of the clouds
we have the gray
we're going to paint under
i could've used a smaller brush
yea let's do it i need more control
gonna use a smaller brush
we're going to go under
yay
blend you out!
there we go there we go there we go
i think this is the part of the video
where i'm going to just do a time lapse
and try to finish this
wish me luck
i'm gonna do a time lapse now
let's go
and we are back, and finished
honestly i think the fun thing about painting is that
you just really never know what you're going to get
i think at the end i eventually just kind of took
a more abstract approach
and it kind of has more personality to it i think
i'm gonna turn off my phone, i don't really need it anymore
this is my new child, i gave birth to it
i'm gonna add it to my collection of skies
is it a painting of mountains and trees?
is it a painting of cherry blossoms?
or is it a painting of a sky?
only i know
right in here
honestly at first i was a little frustrated because i kept messing up
as you saw in the time lapse
i would try to experiment then cover it with more paint
and then more paint, and then more paint
but in the end we have a painting
and i think that is beautiful
this is about two hours worth of effort
i feel like if i had more time maybe it would've been
not better, it just would've been something else
any work of art is a work of art
i don't know where i'm going to put you
but that is it for this painting session
it was quite the ride
but in the end we gave birth to a piece of art
i hope you enjoyed this painting session
i hope it was a nice time
i hope maybe you created something
and if you didn't, i hope you enjoyed watching
thanks for watching this video
and i will see you in my next video!
goodbye my friends :)