How to Paint 🎨 Happy Snowman ☃️ Acrylic Painting Tutorial

Hi everyone, you're watching the condensed version of Happy Snowman. To watch the full-length tutorial, head over to Patreon. I'll have a link below. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoy this video. Hi everybody and welcome back to my channel for another painting tutorial. Today I'm really excited to show you how to paint this fun snowman. I'm going to be working on an 11 by 14 stretched canvas. I'll use the following brushes. This is my five-piece set of brushes you can now purchase. I'll have a link below if you're interested in purchasing a set of these. They're cruelty-free, wonderful brushes. I designed them myself and then the company Craftmo put them all together and distribute some. They ship worldwide. So starting off with this one here, this is a flat brush 20, a 1-inch mop, 14 filbert, a 3 round, and a 2 liner rigger. Starting off with the background and my number 20 flat brush. The first color I'm going to be adding is my warm yellow and I'm going to take some white with it and I'm just going to create these little wispy crisscrosses around the background. Okay, so the next color I'm going to pick up and I haven't washed my brush out. I'm going to take some more white and a little bit of neon red. So I'm not mixing it on the palette to make one color. I'm just picking up a little bit of each and I'm just going to start to mix this in, still applying that gentle wispy crisscross. And the next color I'm going to take is a little bit of white and just a touch of that phthalo blue. You don't need very, very much. It's a pretty strong color, very saturated. I'm going to mix that up with white and I'm going to start adding a little bit around the canvas and about it down here as well. And now I'm going to take a little bit of my burnt sienna and I'm going to add a little straight up and down brush strokes like this, just to create some wispy looking trees in the background. So just flicking up like this, up and down, bringing it up higher on one side. I'm going to go over to the other side here. Simple, simple brush strokes here. Anybody can do this. If you're just beginning, you can go ahead and paint along. And I'm going to be using the burnt sienna again. A little bit of water. You want to just kind of twist and roll and then start to just come in and gently pull and wiggle. If you're having a hard time, pick up a little bit more water and a little bit more paint. Ease off on the amount of pressure you're applying and just very lightly, notice where I'm holding the brush too, really helps on the closer to the end of the handle. You'll naturally use and apply less pressure if you hold the brush towards the end. Okay, I'm going to add one over on this side. Add this one on the angle. Just wiggle and roll. For the next step, we're going to be using a filbert brush. This one's a number 14. I'm going to get my brush just a little bit wet and what I'm going to do is pull into a little bit of phthalo blue, green, and a little bit of burnt sienna. Mix them all up, get it on the tip of my brush, and I'm going to start adding some lines in here for tree trunks. The top of the trees, little tap, push as the tree gets a little fuller as you work your way down. A little tap on the top of that one. I always like to leave a little space for the new growth on the top of the tree, make it look a little spiky on the top. Then I tap, tap, tap that way, come back over to the center, left to right. Okay, now what we're going to do is take some white without washing your brush off. You're going to go lightly over that wet paint. By doing this, we're going to make it look like snow and we're going to pick up those other colors and create some softer shades of those. So we're creating some highlights and shadows instantly and then we're just going to sweep down a little bit of that color. It's up to you how much white you want to add. If you want it just to look a little frosty, then you're going to let off on the pressure and you would just add little bits here and there in the space. Not a lot of pressure. Now I'm going to push a little bit harder down. Let's move on over to this side now and come in and add a little bit of that violet with a bit of blue and white. I rinsed my brush out. I just want to change up the color tones a little bit in this gorgeous color. So now I'm going to add this color over top of that wet paint. So I'm going to be picking up a little bit of that white, a little bit of black. We'll make a gray color and I'm using what's left of that light purple shade that we made. I'm just going to add a big fat circle right here pick up a little bit of white, hold my brush up, and take a little bit of white and add this head right here. Okay, now for our mop brush. This is a one inch mop brush. We're not going to get this wet, no water at all. It's nice and soft and poofy and I want to make the snow look soft and poofy on his body. So I'm going to go and just ease into that white, a little bit of the warm yellow, a little bit of the red, and I'm going to start to tap lightly, turning my brush, and then we're going to start working on his hat. So what we're going to do is add sort of a rectangle here that's lopsided. So we're going to go up a little bit higher on the right and then down a little bit lower on the left. I'm going to take a little bit of white, soften the inside, I'm going to go back to the blue, a little bit of black in there with the blue and the rose, then I'm going to start from here, push, wiggle, twist, and go back the other way. Okay, the next step, a little bit of white, a little bit of red, and the yellow. I'm going to use this to add a little highlight and some snow so you can be a little wiggly, and then we're just going to have a little bit of a highlight in here. I'm just going to use my finger to add a little bit of light inside that part of the hat. I want to add a little bit more snow right here, kind of piling up, and maybe have some snow dripping off or icicles. Okay, I think I'm going to add some little branches. I'm going to take some black and some burnt sienna with my little round brush here, and we'll add a little line here and a little line here. Gently pull it, wiggle, turn that off, pull in again, almost like a little point like that. Okay, so the next step, picking up some white and the burnt sienna, mix it up, get it together on the tip of my brush, and I'll add a highlight and a little bit of frost or snow. I'm going to use my liner rigger brush for these areas here that are a little bit thinner, a little bit more white so that it shows up against that background, and also to add a little bit more snow. Okay, so I'm going to start with a little bit of black and my little round brush for his eyes, and I'm just going to place a little dot like this, then one right there. I'm going to add a little dab of white, just a tiny bit there, and one there. Okay, now I'm going to paint the nose, a little bit of burnt sienna, a little bit of black, and we're going to go in between the eyes, kind of just make an invisible V like this, and we're going to start right here. I'm going to make a crescent moon, then I'm going to pull, making it narrower, pull from the bottom, making it narrower, making it all the way to the right side of his face. Warm yellow, a little bit of white, then we're just going to come in and paint the carrot. Then take a little bit of white and just add a few little lines, little curves, just like that crescent moon shape to that black, and we're just going to create a smile, starting off with a little one there, space it out, dab, dab, dab, dab, make a few of them a little bit bigger, so just adding a little bit more paint, a little bit more pressure, and we'll start when we know his scarf's going to be in here. One, two, three. Then I'm going to add a little bit of white for a bit of a shine, the smoky purple, and I'm going to go and add a little sort of crescent moon shape. I'm going to take some burnt sienna, and I'm going to go add a ring right there, and a little ring right here. It's one that goes out that way, and one that goes this way. I'm going to push and pull to join them, and I'm going to bring one end of the scarf down here. I'm just going to gently create that little fringe at the bottom, the other to the scarf, and over. A little pulls and flicks for the tassels, and we're going to create a pattern on his scarf, so just little wiggly plaid lines, a little thicker, and then those thin ones again. and black, my round brush, and just start painting some pointy scoops like this for some holly leaves. Then I'll take a little bit of white, and I'll go inside, outline that, make them look a little frosty. Then with a clean brush, I'm going to take my red to have a few little berries on here. I'm going to pull and flick. You can use, um, I'll show you both ways. I'll demonstrate with this brush, and I'll demonstrate with the rigger liner brush. I'm picking up a little bit of white from the snow down here. Let's start to just pull one up here, a little bit more water, paint, gentle pull, flick, and then I'll add another in here. It's kind of the same way he would paint palm leaves and grass, and then I'm going to go straight into my white, and I'm going to add some snow. I'm going to tap in a little bit of extra snow collecting here. I'm going to go back over to my number three round brush and paint some pumpkin cones. So I'm going to start off with black and burnt sienna, and we'll just make a basic pine cone shape. It's a little narrower on the top. We're going to start right here, so make it a little round on the top, and then wider and kind of round. You can create these little scoops. I'm going to be using burnt sienna and white. We're going to start from the bottom of the pine cone and work our way up in the right order to layer them. So I'm going to start with this one here, and what we want to do is just kind of make them, they're going to look like petals. So we're going to go down, kind of scoop like that, then we're going to add some more. So notice the pattern already that I'm creating. So we've got scoop, scoop, thicker on the bottom, and then thinner around the sides. Where we've got two right here, we're going to layer over with the next top one. So we've got one, two, three. There's two together here. I'm going to bring in one there, one here, one around the side, and we're just going to continue along, making them smaller and smaller and smaller. We'll start on this one. I'm going to start adding some snow, and it all depends on how much snow you want. I'm going to add a few holly leaves, so I'll take green and black, and I'll come just in front, scoop, scoop. I'm going to go right off the canvas, follow that shape. I have a little one here, scoop, scoop. And another little one right here, so I'll take red, violet, and three circles. I'm going to add a little bit violet, red, burnt sienna, and black. I'm going to add a few little berries here, add a little dot and dab. Time for a little bit of white, make them look a little frosty. Well, this painting's all done. This was so much fun. I hope you guys enjoyed this one. Have fun painting along. 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