Yin and Yang ☯️ Painting Tutorial in Acrylic

Hi everybody, welcome back for another painting tutorial. If you're new, my name is Joni Young and welcome. I'm so glad you guys are here today I'm gonna show you a lot in this video This is something different and never done before and it comes as a request from one of my dear patreon members GJ So thanks for requesting this GJ. I hope you enjoy what I'm doing today with your idea of painting a yin-yang or yin and yang and creating a landscape Fantasy painting within that so I'm gonna go over the canvas the colors we're using and The brushes and then we'll go ahead and get started. So first off I've got an 11 by 14 stretched and primed canvas I pre-painted it with black and I have the following colors here and I'll have a full list below this video as well in the description box So I've got Mars black titanium white Aqua green turquoise light olive green sap green phthalo blue Luminous lemon yellow luminous pink opera or opera and I've also got luminous neon rose So the first thing I want to do is create The circle shape for yin and yang and I'm gonna use a dinner plate So you could paint on a bigger canvas, but I'm just gonna use this. I think this is a decent size on an 11 by 14 okay, so we've got a number 14 filbert brush a 20 flats a number 3 round a number 2 rigger and a 1-inch mop brush So the first thing I'm gonna do is load my filbert brush before I place my plate on the canvas I just want to start with gray. So I'm gonna take a little bit of white and black here And I have a little bit of water in my brush as well, but it's not dripping so make sure that you don't have too much water and Take your plate. This is a standard size dinner plate and Place it where you want try to Center it and I'm just gonna start by going around And because I want to create a bit of a glow Around this the end and yang. I'm gonna make this a little wider Okay, and I carefully take the plate on we've got a nice Circle there to work with now. What I want to do is come around and add a little bit more gray Creating a little glow around the outside here, I Don't have a lot of water in my brush The reason being I just want it to look really soft and sort of misty and glowy like And if you have too much water in your brush, it's gonna end up looking really streaky Okay, I'm gonna continue around all the edges So I love to free hand. So I'm just gonna go ahead and free hand and I'm gonna take That light gray again Now you can sketch yours out first with painters chalk if you want However, you guys know that I really like to free hand. So I'm just gonna go Not from the top right a little let's say pretend. It's a clock. Here's 12 o'clock We're gonna start in between 12 and 1 so I'm gonna go from here Then we're gonna bring it over It's like how you would paint the starting of a figure 8 except you're gonna just do this part You're not gonna follow through with a figure 8 so what the I didn't read too too much about the yin and yang, but the basic meaning of it is balance and harmony So light and dark cold and warmth and it's probably a little bit more in-depth than that, but that's What I know about it and if you guys have any info that you'd like to add Go ahead and leave that in the comments below to start off with Adding a little moon here. So we do have the circles one here And then we're also going to have one right down below first And then I'm gonna take some white and I'm just gonna twist around for the white circle and Then inside here is going to be Our lighter area. So I'm gonna go around The outside of the circle with my white Leaving the inside dark for now And I'm just gonna add soft little ring around Some little clouds, so I'm going to take a little bit of white on the tip of my brush and I'm just gonna start Creating these little half circles using this filbert brush The shape it is and what it's for and then a little a little bit more water on my brush Along with some of that white and we'll just add a little Swirl here side to side go back over to our number 14 filbert brush those same colors It's a little bit darker lighter than this. That's fine, too And we'll start I'll start with this one here With a little dab tap tap tap now turning my brush this way Pushing and tapping down making it wider as we get to the base of each tree Okay, I'm gonna come in front of this one adding a little bit more white so I'll just take a little bit of gray first no water on my brush at all and Because these are far away. We're gonna just make them a little smaller Just on an angle pull and then Almost add a little Curve as we get flat down here. Yes, and then I'm gonna just try to add a highlight on part of this gray and Not push very hard. We want to just be really really light and just Catch the side there And make it kind of patchy looking Leaving a few spaces for shadows And then drop And then again make another layer And have it come from this side and down And add a highlight here you want to have those little lines and then corner of my brush ease into it You can have it just spilling over the edge too and then we'll have it kind of just Okay now Next step I'm gonna be using my mop brush set a little bit of black here first up top tap No water on my brush at all Don't overload your brush and I'm gonna add a Little dark bush here and there Okay, and then right away a little bit of white we're just gonna tap on the little highlights Use more or less Okay, so I'm gonna add some more clouds on this side using a little bit of Gray to start We have that mid-tone Darker or lighter than this is just fine And I'm just gonna Start some clouds in here same way pushing and smooshing Just a tiny bit of water here on my brush And see the difference it makes Over to my number three round brush I'm gonna get a little bit of white on there just a little bit like this and I'm gonna start adding some little scoops That are gonna get bigger If you're ever having trouble keeping a steady hand place your pinky down on the canvas Obviously you want to do it on a dry canvas. Otherwise, you're gonna ruin Whatever is wet that you just painted Tree, so I'm just going to Start adding Some interesting branches here coming down here inside Going with that shape Pushing and twisting and rolling for just like the base and all those little roots at the base of all trees I'm not gonna take some white Just make this stand out a little bit more and I'm going to Tap in lightly Reload my brush just add a Little bit down here I'm just gonna start adding them here And have them come down and go above Clean my brush slice into So it's a little wiggle first just to get my bristles nice and together again and then come in with a little bit of black or in between Those stairs Okay, I'm gonna come up and over here I want to brighten up this side a little bit before we come in with some color because this is the bright side of the Yin and Yang So I'm going to take my black add a shadow Maybe we'll add a little figure in here. Let's just start with It's the side of perhaps a little little scoop like this Half circle on the top We're not going to see a lot of detail We just want to create a figure We'll have her hair coming down Shoulder And we can have her dress Just coming down and flowing And how we're just resting our hand on her leg Want a little bit of a shadow back here Over the gray Back over to some white and add a little bit of Highlights to her dress The highlights on the railing Okay, everyone now it's time that you get to decide if you want to add color So I'm going to show you and demonstrate what it'll look like by adding color So we're going to filter over and I want to start by adding some blue Over the night sky. So hey, well, I hope that you guys enjoyed this one and I want to wish you guys all the best I'll see you soon in another video. Bye