Fall Painting For Absolute Beginners! Yellow Birch Trees

Okay for this quick little painting today I'm working on an 8 by 10 canvas panel. Quite a small canvas. I've got a lot of paint left over from my last painting of the big birch tree with some cool shadows and reds. I'll have a link for that one below if you haven't seen it. So let's go through the colors I'm using. I've got titanium white, yellow ochre, phthalo blue, crimson red, and lamp black. I'll be using my five piece set of brushes. I've got a one inch flat brush, one inch mop, number three round, a one inch liner, and a 14 roughly one inch filbert brush. Okay so let's just add a little bit of water to the canvas. This is going to help blend the acrylics out. Okay let's take some blue and we'll start at the top just brushing back and forth. Then let's pick up some white and we'll start adding that where we left off. More and more white making it brighter down here. I'm going to work out that paint out of my brush. We'll have the horizon line right down here, so about a quarter of the way up the canvas. And let's take a little bit of yellow and white, brush that over the horizon line. Then I'm going to take a little bit of white on the corner of my brush and add some clouds. Just adding a few little squiggly clouds, going around in little circles, just giving us lighter shades of blue. Then I'm going to soften with one of my mop brushes. The mop brush is dry. And I'm just going to go really lightly, barely touching the canvas, just letting the ends of the brush just kind of dust and fluff over those clouds. Then I'm going to take a little bit more white and I'm going to add that down here, fluff that up. With a flat brush let's take some blue, red, a little bit of black, and let's pull that across. And let's come in the center with the corner of your brush. You're going to gently push and pull and come down on an angle. We're going to move over about two inches, do the same thing, curve over. Now we have either what could be a river, a lake, creek, a path, or a road. Let's rinse our brushes out. Now let's go over to our mop brush and let's take some red, tap to load, and we're going to tap this over top of the blue, red mixture. Now my sky that I'm painting this on is a little bit wet, so I'm picking up some of that. I'm going to bring this down a little lower. I'm just going to mix up the red with that blue, tap slightly over those lines. Okay, then I'm going to go right into my yellow, tap to load. I'm going to come up a little bit higher and then taper so it gets shorter and shorter. And then I'll come in here and make one that goes all the way to the top, leaving some spaces through. So you can see some of that blue sky peeking through. Let's bring some of this yellow down here in the foreground, tap a little bit along the path. It'll pull and sweep and a little bit more yellow again. Okay, let's take our liner brush now, get it wet. I'm going to pull into some white and add some tree trunks and some branches. Now my paint is very wet underneath. I'm painting wet into wet and that's mixing and pulling in those other colors, which can be really beautiful and give you some really nice results. Some smaller tree trunks back here, making it kind of chunky and patchy-like so it looks kind of like a birch tree. And then we'll take our blue, red, black mixture, a few little dabs in there, top the base of the tree and all around for some extra shadows. And then some more white. I like to go and pull down and across. Let's mix up a little bit of yellow, white, and blue. That'll give us a little bit of a green shade. Adding a little bit more white in here. We have some pretty minty shades of green. I'm going to take my mop brush again, some white and yellow, tap to load. I'm going to use my round brush and mix up some red and some white. I think this color palette is so pretty. Muted tones and soft pastel shades. Let's add a little bit of more of a poppy red in here. And let's mix a little bit of blue. This is going to give us a very muted shade of purple, depending on how much red, blue, white you're mixing together. Your results might be a bit different. Okay, adding more and more white to make lighter shades of this. And then I'm going to go really dark red, blue with just a tiny bit of white. Increase the red. Okay, I'm going to go over and scoop up some yellow and white. Tap and dab with some little leaves and a little bit of pink in here to finish this painting off. Okay, so it was just a quick little autumn study on an 8 by 10 canvas with some leftover paint. I hope you guys enjoyed this one. Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye!