Acrylic Painting Tutorial 💙 Step by Step 💙🎨

Hi guys, welcome back to my channel I'm Joni young and I'm going to be showing you step-by-step how to paint the landscape today Here are the colors that we're going to be using on this 11 by 14 double primed black canvas deep magenta cadmium red cobalt or ultramarine blue phthalo blue sap green lemon yellow And we're going to be using titanium white or any white that you have or any variation of these colors I'll list all of them down below in the description as well as the brushes we're using today. So let's go ahead and get started I'm going to begin with my large blending brush. I'm going to get a little bit damp and dry it off. You take some yellow and some neon orange So we've got a few other colors here that we're going to be incorporating And i'm just going to start Dusting little circles like this creating a cloud effect Now you can see the yellow over top of the black give the green tone but when we add some white That's going to change a little bit I'm going to pick up a little bit more of these two colors So i'm going to go this way then i'm going to go this way mainly using the corner of my brush to push and turn around with Now i'm going to take a little bit of white Just get a little bit like this I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to start to layer over really soften this up So we're working wet on wet and applying lots and lots of layers to really build up An interesting cloud effect now that we've added a little bit of white over top of that I'm going to take some more orange and some more yellow And do another layer So i've got a clean dry brush now. It's just a little bit damp And i'm going to take some cobalt blue a little bit of white Tap the two together And i'm going to start Doing some circles Starting here right into part part of the yellow and the orange Pick up a little bit more blue this time more blue than white So keep gently Making light little circles Then I want to take before this paint dries I want to take a little bit of white and some phthalo blue I'm going to go ahead and just start partially on that cobalt blue Little circles like that a little bit of white I'm going to take my magenta A little bit of white Start layering a little bit Look how pretty that is a little bit over the blue now to make it show up a little bit more Very lightly This way when we layer over part of another color, we're going to make a whole new tone and shade Okay, I think that looks Really nice for now all right, so I was able to get just a little bit of neon pink out of my almost empty tube really pretty color Take a little bit of white to that I've got that gorgeous color And maybe Maybe we'll add a little bit Right from the top here a little bit like that. How pretty okay, so Let's now switch over to the number eight filbert brush I'm going to take a little bit of white And a little bit of yellow That might be too much yellow. Let's add a little bit more white to that And I think I want My sun to be right here But it's going to be peeking in from the clouds So I won't do a full circle. I'll just have it right about there Leave it like that for now and then I'm going to pick up more of that color I'm just going to start making little peaks on these clouds Just like we did the other day I'll have a link for that video below if you guys missed it It's called stairway to heaven and it's mostly in blue And i'm going to take some white with some neon orange Right on the tip of my brush Barely touch that canvas Just little soft peaks So this is where our staircase is going to be coming from so i'm not going to do really any Peaks in there lots of little ones When we make them small like this It instantly makes something farther away So we get that perspective going Of this is closer to us and that's further away And we'll do the same thing with our staircase we're going to make little tiny stairs little lines and then they're going to get bigger and bigger and bigger That gives us that feeling that we're going in and up those stairs, which is a really nice Uh thing to be able to do in a painting. It's nice to look at I'm going to take a little bit more of that yellow and white And just add a few right in here I'm going to keep the tones that we have here, but just highlight them. So i'm adding a little bit more White to my brush into those colors And if your paint is a little bit too wet underneath Um, you'll know if it's too wet when you go to put the paint there and it kind of just takes off the layer underneath Then you can just kind of move on to something else and wait for it to dry or you can use a blow dryer So I like to have a hairdryer really close by on hand just to just give it a quick dry off in order to apply the next layer I'm going to take a little bit of that neon pink And I come right in here Just add a little bit like that A little bit more Right in here On an angle like that Okay, then i'm going to go over to my magenta Wiggle my brush get it nice and flat again And i'll start adding some whiter ones now My brush is a little bit too dry. The canvas is a little bit too dry in that area So I just need to loosen My paint up a little bit with some water Back mix a bit more color up and slightly go I want the colors to blend into one another so you don't really know where one starts and ends So i'm going to go and bring this magenta slightly up into the orange and the yellow slightly into the phthalo Okay, now i'm going to go into the phthalo blue and white So let's take a little bit of white a little phthalo You know what? Let's take a little bit of that yellow We can take white yellow and phthalo and make turquoise And I think that'll look really pretty right in here Let's make this one a little bit more yellowy Still got that into turquoise in there It's almost like a rainbow effect, isn't it? Okay now back to Just the phthalo phthalo and white Let's do some bigger ones now Just keep layering and layering. This is such a simple technique All of you guys watching whatever level you're at if you've never painted before you can do this Take a little bit more white Make some lighter ones Right here now. We're gonna go into a little bit More of the phthalo still have a little bit of white on there Let's start using that cobalt blue so cobalt Mix the two up a little bit darker first And Remember we want them to Start to blend into one another And add a little bit of it right up there the peach Orange and cobalt are complementary colors Well, sometimes I say cobalt sometimes I say ultramarine blue. It's because to me They're pretty much the same So whatever one you have You can use it'll work Gives you more of a purpley blue one of my favorite colors now, let's make some Bigger ones so I want to take this is this paint is drying quite quickly, so I'm able to pull in some sun rays here. I'm going to do a few little sun rays I'm going to take some white And a little bit of yellow a little bit of orange like that Pretty peachy color and Maybe right from here Actually, i'm going to switch over to my flat brush. I thought that one was big enough, but it's not Except that color again We're just going to do a few of these right now and then We're going to come in with our staircase Now depending on how wet your paint is here. You might accidentally pick some of that up So check your brush and I see that I picked up some blue so i'm going to Quickly wipe that off or wash it off if I have to So we're just taking a little bit of water a little bit of that white yellow and orange Okay, i'll leave that for now Back to my filbert take a bit of white right in here right there like that Actually, I think this one looks like it has a little bit of a bow to it so we don't want that And straighten that out That looks a little bit better Sometimes it's hard to get the right angle when i'm filming Haven't mastered that quite yet That is fine for now So I want to take I'm going to do Let's see A little bit of phthalo blue and a little bit of white Maybe even a little let's add a little bit of that sap green. We haven't incorporated that color yet a little bit and Where do we want our staircase going? Let's start right there little ones Little ones like that Then we'll take a little bit more of the blue and the green Where it's a bit harder to see The lighter color there, so we're going to make it darker a little bit more green Grab a bit of water on your brush If you need to help that paint come out A little bit more right there Another one right there I'm gonna wash my brush out and i'm gonna take a little bit of turquoise, so Yellow and phthalo blue with some white I want to Put my pinky right here Just to steady my hand I'm just tapping at this point because they're so small Now as they get bigger I can begin pulling I'm going to pick up a little bit more white more white this time and I'm going to add a little bit a little bit more like that Now i'm going to add a bit more blue And you can have Let's maybe put another stair right there. It looks like there's too too much of a gap Now as we get down here To create that perspective of more of a foreground we're going to make these wider Take a bit of blue white yellow So just like that Add a little one down here Leave a shadow under here. So let's go back to our green and phthalo blue And we'll just add a little bit right there Maybe a little bit more. Isn't that a cool effect you guys? They're so fun to paint. I love painting stairs I just want this to kind of look a little bit fuzzy down here and then I think what I want to do is add some foliage On either side maybe of this staircase going up Maybe we'll add some pretty flowers a little bit and then at the very end when we're all done. We'll do a nice soft A few streaks of sun rays coming down for our foliage i'm going to use If you have a really small mop brush, that would work great. I've got a really small one right here So this is my smallest. It's not numbered. Sorry guys. Actually it is it's a half inch It's half inch right there you guys can see that's really small And I believe this is the artist loft Brand i've had these ones for years. They're so well First of all, they're really cool because they look like glass and they have pretty colors on the end And they have this little rubber grip here that kind of has an indentation So, you know if you paint for hours on end like I do you can develop sore fingers from holding the brush for so long But this is really nice and soft, but it's artist loft and it's a really nice brand. So i'm going to begin Working on some foliage. I don't want it to take away too much from the painting I just want to enhance and make this staircase more inviting and beautiful and kind of heavenly looking So i'm going to tap into my sap green. This is my go-to green for landscapes and foliage. It's a yellowy green warm not cool cool would be more of a a blue green Okay So I think i'm going to start Adding a little bit right there And then kind of just have that stop and just disappear right there Now as these get smaller As the stairs get smaller and farther away uh your foliage Needs to as well So you're going to have to switch over to a smaller brush. But before I do that I'm going to come in on this side And i'm going to follow through You can even make it look like There's some moss dripping To get into these smaller areas here. I'm going to use my number eight filbert brush Okay, it's the right size I'm, just going to soften this up a little bit because it's farther away And when things are farther away They're a bit more faded and blurry Okay, so Start doing some little ones here And then they just disappear You can make this look a little bit higher in some spots Put more shadow in there It gets closer You can do a little Railing and now all you have to do is just slide your brush Like this and then smaller and smaller and smaller So that's something as well That's a nice kind of a look is having a little railing like that So a little bit of sap green on the end Just pull straight up smaller oops smaller smaller smaller And then we'll do the same on this side so little railings and fence posts Are a little bit challenging for beginner painters um It's hard to know where to come in and put them especially when you get in the area like this where the stair goes and curves over I just go with that Curve if the stairs in here more then you're going to put your fence post in there and don't worry you have to Go over top If it feels wrong To go over top of your stair or the the post before that just do it. Anyways Okay, there's another one right there, too And then what we're going to do Is without washing the brush take some of our lemon yellow Or any yellow that you want. I just happen to Be really enjoying my artisa lemon yellow lately a little bit of white I think sort of an army green color and We'll begin by tapping A little bit of highlight here Soften this up You can add the highlights On our little railing here, too at the same time You can make it look like Those flowers and vines or we haven't done flowers yet, but the greenery here foliage Kind of just growing across the staircase too and just spilling over. I like that kind of a look Now as we get down in here You want to add a little bit more Of the sap green it's more shadow and subdued kind of fading away down here at the bottom so Remember to keep it darker Back to our light color I don't know about you guys, but i'm really Enjoying the vibe of this painting. It feels hopeful to me hopeful Like we're getting into a beautiful place we're coming down here from the bottom where it's been Turmoil and and a tough time And I say that because I don't know when you guys you guys could be watching this Uh the day I upload this video And you can relate or you could be watching this years from now with the coronavirus long gone, but that's where we're at right now It's 2020 It's april And we're going through a tough time And I want to give hope to people I want you guys to feel positive And hopeful and this painting is just coming to me from out of my head I try not to think too much about Exactly what i'm going to paint. I don't like to use reference photos That's just me it's not wrong And if you guys like to use reference photos, that's fine. If you're painting from this, that's that's fine. That's what it's here for To inspire you guys I'm, just going to dust a little bit of this right on the stairs Give them more of an earthy look Okay now I'm going to add even more of a highlight up top there I'm going to wash my brush out because i've got a lot of paint In it and it's starting to dry at the end I'm going to actually go back to my mop brush I usually don't let paint sit in it like this, but it's only been a couple minutes um, I want to use it for down here, so i'm going to take my lemon yellow Just kind of twirl my brush around a little bit to get those bristles Somewhat together take a little bit of white And add some light and then down here Like I said, you're gonna have a little bit of light but it's gonna be a little bit darker and being on a black canvas, this is gonna All dry just a little bit darker I wouldn't I don't really want it to but I know that's what happens and I can't help it. I love painting on a black canvas I'm just gonna add a few little few little bits of Moss or whatever just hanging down here. I'm going to Quickly go over to a liner brush. This is a longer liner brush. I see that my Camera is getting low Low battery, so i've got to do this quickly. Now i'm going to take white And yellow i'm almost done this painting anyways Add a little bit A little bit of a highlight there on some of those And if it's too bright You can just take finger Just smudge it a bit And add a little highlight on those stairs A little bit there. Let's just take a bit of our Sap green that we made With the yellow to make a darker kind of a shade of sap green take a little round brush A little older one if I didn't have this for years, but it works just fine and Take some of my neon pink here Maybe we'll add a few little flowers Just a few little dabs That's all you need to do just to get the indication that there's some little flowers here We won't make them all the same color. We'll just take straight neon pink And add a little bit of that Then we can take let's take some cadmium red It gets down here. It's going to be darker, right? More subdued orange shadow It looks really pretty Leave a few spots a little bit Then we can take some neon orange and some white A little bit of both twirl your brush Get a little bit on the tip like that a little bit orange flowers I think we need to tie this in have a little railing. So let's do that. Let's take our sap green first And we'll go right from here We'll turn over and up You take your little Railing close off. That's okay. You can go right over that Really touching Right down like that So that it curves over Take a little bit of white a little bit of yellow a little highlight there I'm going to do this a couple of times just to that I just want to blur that up a little bit A bit of sap green here and make it a bit darker Should be darker down. Okay. So the last thing we're going to do Take a large flat brush number 11 I'm going to take some white Maybe a little bit of yellow Really soft buttery yellow there And i've dried this all off I just took a couple of minutes to dry all the flowers and the greenery off So I don't pick it up and Pull in some beautiful beautiful little sunrays Very thin coat white and yellow I think that's a really pretty positive hopeful looking painting I hope you guys enjoyed this one Please give this video a like if you did leave a comment below And subscribe to my channel If you haven't yet And i'll see you guys next time very soon in another video Bye everybody. Thanks for watching