Sunset Inukshuk

Hey guys, welcome back. We are doing a maple leaf with a sunset inside of it and then we're going to add a stone figure called an Inukshuk. Just so you know, an Inukshuk is actually a stone humanoid figure. It looks kind of human that Inuits have used as landmarks so that they mark areas that have good hunting grounds. You can see them all over the place in northern Canada. You can see them all along the highways here in northern Ontario. I've built them before and it's really really cool. They're very very cool. You've probably seen them in a lot of Canadian photos. So I'm not measuring anything out. I'm just using my ruler for straight lines. Basically with a quick maple leaf, there's three points at the top, then there's three points on the left and three points on the right and then they all join up into a leaf. You'll be able to see it a lot better when I paint it white and then you can pause it and get the shape that way because what I'm going to do is I'm going to prime it white with white acrylic paint and then we're going to colour it. We're going to prime it white so it's going to be nice and bright to start with and then add some nice colour to it. So this is to celebrate Canada Day which is coming up July 1st, the beginning of my holiday week with my husband. He's going to be working still on call but we're going to be at a campground in a trailer and I'm going to be painting and the kids are going to be happy and it's the first week of summer with kids not in school so we're super excited for this week so I wanted to celebrate Canada Day and of course this is for all you Canadians as well as anyone else who thinks this is gorgeous when it's done. You are all welcome to paint an Inukshuk in a sunset sky inside a maple leaf. Nothing more Canadian than that except for the raptors. No I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I am proud of our Toronto raptors that's for sure. I remember buying a t-shirt when I was in grade 10 or 11 and the raptors were pretty new but I just liked the purple dinosaur that was on it. The purple, the colours that they chose, so I bought the shirt and I'll never forget it now. Anyway on with my beautiful maple leaf here you can start seeing the shape of it a bit better. This is just a quick maple leaf like this isn't exact. If you go look at our maple leaves on our trees, leaves on our trees, you will not see this so I'll just let you know now. This is just a quick sketch of a maple leaf because I'm not going to get all technical on everybody. It's so we can all paint this. It's not too hard. Of course there needs to be a little stem on it so make sure you add that little bit at the bottom. Now I've done two coats of white because my stone is so dark and it's going to go even darker when I when I seal it. So I did two nice thick coats of white paint in my maple leaf and I'm just picking sunset colours. So there's going to be a little bit of blue, a little bit of purple, a little bit of pink, a little bit of orange, a little bit of yellow. It's just going to kind of be the most beautiful colourful sunset you could ever see especially on Canada Day. Now I was going to do fireworks or something as well which you can definitely add but I decided to do fireworks on the July 4th tutorial that is also coming out today. As long as editing goes the way I want it to it will also be coming out today for those of you celebrating the July 4th holiday. Independence Day I believe or I could be wrong please correct me and I apologize but I believe it is Independence Day. I used to sing that song when I was singing in country bars when I was younger. Independence Day was one of my favourites to sing by Martina McBride. So I am starting off by just kind of outlining the leaf a little bit so that I don't go overboard and and mudge up my rock on the outside because you can only fix the background if you plan on painting the background right. Sometimes you can take a little bit of nail polish remover and get rid of some of the paint that you've accidentally gotten on your stone but it doesn't always come out and stones are kind of like a bit porous and they suck up that color so you have to be careful not to go outside the lines when you're doing this kind of painting. So I've started off with blue. I'm using a sponge as usual. I'm adding a different colors of blue. There's like a dark blue and then a teal blue and then I'm going to add some purple and pink. Now you can choose whatever colors you want. If you want it to be more uh even more Canadian you can do like a pink or not pink sorry white and red um just kind of blend it in like it's a red and white sky um and that will make it a little bit more Canadian even just to throw out some ideas there um and you don't have to use these colors at all you can make it more like um Northern Lights like my Northern Sky tutorial um you can make it kind of look like Northern Lights and you can put trees in there and and an Inuksuk so it's completely up to you. I recommend you look up what Inuksuks are because they're really cool they're made of rocks they're made of stone so why wouldn't I do this on on this Canada Day rock today um they're just made up of giant pieces of rock and stone and pebbles and they're all balanced so that they don't fall over and they're used as landmarks and they're they're all over the place um they're all over the place up here in Northern Ontario so you see them everywhere you go and uh it's a big part of our our artwork up this way as well so I thought I would try it myself I don't think I've even painted one before so this might be my first Inuksuk or Inuksut I'm not sure I think if there's more than one they're Inuksuk um but I could be wrong you can correct me because I am not I'm not the brightest crayon in the box um I'm just painting for you and giving you some ideas so try not to be hurtful um I'm trying to look it up actually Inuksuk in the shape of a person signifies safety hope and friendship and they're used as directional markers and landmarks yeah so that's pretty cool you got to learn something about uh what we're painting up today and it's it's going to be really neat you can make them any shape you want as long as there's like the a humanoid shape to it so I've made my own shape with mine but you're welcome to make yours any shape you want and we're just doing the silhouette of the Inuksuk so it will be all black on top of the sunset color so I have done a couple of silhouette type stones in my tutorials before so you're probably familiar with it um you just want to make sure that once you do the black part the silhouette part that you are careful of what you're drawing on there because you don't want to mess it up because it's really hard to fix a sunset really hard really frustrating especially if you've covered some of it where you shouldn't have with black paint so be very careful that you sketch on with pencil um your design of your silhouette no matter what it is that you want to put here whether it's trees or a moose head even you could put a moose head um with a nice giant rack on its head you could just do a wolf head um anything that reminds you of Canada you could put in here but I'm doing an Inuksuk so but just make sure you're careful that you sketch out whatever it is that you want on there first that way you don't mess up your sunset at all so I'm just going from blue to purple there's a bit of magenta in there some like nice pink um going to orange and then yellow I'm going to bring the yellow all the way down to the bottom even though we're going to cover some of it up um I'm just going to bring it all the way down anyway so it might seem like a bit of a waste depending on what you're painting on here as a silhouette um but I'm just going to bring mine down all the way and then decide from there where I want to start my silhouette from now I'm blending the paint in while it's wet um it does not move once it's dry so you might have to go over bits and pieces to blend again um to get the desired look that you're wanting just in case it dries too fast we have a really hot day today so um my fans are usually on and my paint dries really fast so you want to work super speed it's up to you but you can also um I someone mentioned to me and I hope this person is watching this video a special spray bottle that you can get specifically for artists who are working with acrylic paint and it dries so quickly so it's easier to blend your paint when it's wet but apparently this spray bottle that you add water to will actually spray your painting carefully lightly in such a light mist that it doesn't hurt your paint at all and it's just enough water that you can start blending your paint again now if the person who's watching this knows the name of it please put it in the comments or if you know the name of it as I have not been to school for art and I don't really look for all the technical things that you can get for art um I just do what I can with what I got so if you know the name of it please mention it in the comments so that others like me can maybe possibly look for it and it might be good in these months where there is fans blowing constantly so I'm happy with my sunset it's not perfect but I'm happy with it to me it looks like a sky inside of a maple leaf um now I'm doing like a a little bit of a hill here it's on a slant it goes down a little bit I'm not trying to make like a a perfect line but it's just like my my Inuksuk sitting at the top of a hill in and it's looking out to the sunset so I'm going to paint all of this part in black and just remove all that yellow that I just put in there once again this part is a waste of time if you already know where you want everything to be you don't have to paint all the way down there if you're just going to cover it with black again but I'm just showing you what I'm doing and I didn't really know where I wanted my Inuksuk to be or my hill uh until after I finished painting the entire leaf so that's just my way of doing things um I'm also not going to put my Inuksuk in the center my my humanoid rock figure is going to be off to the left a little bit um and I just think that that's how it's going to look good so here's one of its legs and literally they're just blocks of stone like little pieces of stone that are together in the shape of a human so there's the legs and then the torso and then you do little arm like a thing to go across as arms and then a little head and see how mine's just kind of leaning off to the side but it's all these big boulders um and stones that are all together holding each other up into a humanoid figure um and trust me if you ever come down my way you will see them all along the highways up on the rock ridges and I love them I love them I look for them my kids look for them and I like seeing them I just think it's a really cool part of uh being in northern Ontario and in Canada and it's really cool so I'm glad I was able to paint one up with you guys today and share it with you um I will be leaving the paint colors that I used in the description as well as my fine lining brush that I'm using to paint all of this in um you can add some glitter to the sky I did add some nail glitter but you can use eyeshadow or you can use hologram paint as well along the whole sky and it just sparkles like crazy um you can add stars um I am outlining the whole thing in black and then I'm also going to outline the black line in gold so this time we have glitter and gold on this one we're just going to do the outside uh while our stone figure is drying because he's pretty soggy right now but notice how he's just kind of off to the side a little bit he's not completely in the center um it's kind of like someone took a picture of an inuksuk during a sunset and then they cut it out into the shape of a maple leaf that's basically um what I'm trying to get from this anyway and what I'm trying to share with you guys so I'm just using different colors of like nail glitter there's a little bit of blue a little bit of pink a little bit of gold um and I'm just kind of smudging it on the sunset area I'm not going overboard with it I'm just adding a little bit of sheen I guess you can say a little bit of sparkle to the sky and now I'm going to outline everything in gold I'm going to leave the inuksuk just a black silhouette I'm not going to outline that with gold although that's an option as well you can outline or just highlight areas of the inuksuk in gold so that it looks like there's a bit of sun still left in the sky and it's kind of highlighting the inuksuk up there on the hill so I just want to wish everyone a happy Canada Day even if you're not Canadian I'm still going to say it to you because that's just how I am so I want to wish you all a happy Canada Day I hope it's wonderful I hope your kids are all done school and you are ready for a nice summer depending on where you are it might not be summer but my summer has begun and my kids and I are going to be spending lots of time together this summer hopefully we're going to be doing some painting too you might get to see them on video who knows but you're going to see this resin shortly everything you need to know about what I've used and what I've done and how I'm doing this is all in the description please click the down arrow on the right side of your screen and it will bring you to the description of my video and I will help you the best I can so let me know where you're from if you're from Canada and you're celebrating this weekend I'd love to hear where you are and I'd love to hear if you enjoyed painting this inuksuk with me I love you guys