Part 2 . Painting a Boat On Sand Part 2

Welcome back to part two my friends. I hope you're all enjoying the tutorial so far. This is how far we've gotten and I'm quite happy with this. I think it's quite eye-catching and we did some lovely work with the clouds and I'll zoom in at the end and show you in detail what we did. But if you watch part one you can see it was just nice and kind of flowy and just putting stuff on with palette knife as well just at the end. So it's looking quite nice. I'm very happy with this so far. We have to come down now and finish our painting to our sand and we have a lovely boat coming up here at a bit of an angle, a boat stuck on the sand. So this is going to be interesting and fun so stick with it and stick with me and we'll see how it looks in the end. Thank you so so much for your support and please do subscribe if you haven't done so already you're missing a lot of great tutorials. Okay don't go anywhere I'll be right back Right so let's start by taking off the masking tape. I am just going to move this for a moment and take off the tape leaving behind a lovely clean line and there we go you can see all that okay yes you can. So the sand, now it's quite simple you can complicate this if you like but you don't really need to complicate the sand too much. I am first going to just do a very quick Sketch. of the boat, just the outline of the boat, so let me grab a very small pointy brush and I think I will take some, let's go with a little soft colour, let's take some burnt sienna with some Naples yellow, just enough that we can see the outline, okay, it's only a small, small little outline that we need, I'm going to start around here, you can see the bottom of the boat there and I'm going to come across down slightly and it kind of swoops over then and disappears over to this side and it comes up take a little bit of darker shade just so we can see on the sunset side on the sky and um okay so it turns it comes up here like this doesn't it it turns and it goes up at a bit of an angle like so it goes quite high up into the sky doesn't it and this is how we create the perspective so it needs to be very high at the front and very small at the back I find that's the easiest way of creating a perspective. So it comes right up like that and goes very, very high. So there's a very, very high angle on this line here. And that should give us a decent perspective. Now we can make this bigger as we go. It's completely up to ourselves. But for now, I'm just going to kind of keep this very loose, really. Just nice and loose. I'm very rough, you see what I mean? It's just a quick outline so I can leave this sand. I don't have to go painting that section. Let's paint the sand. I'm going to go for like a bluey grey undertone in this. I'm going to start with some phthalo blue and what I'm going to do is oil the sand just ever so slightly, all right, with some linseed oil. I think we could benefit from just Just a little linseed oil. on the sand because the canvas is quite dry today i'll be honest it's very hot in the studio and the canvas is very very dry so i'm just going to take a little linseed oil and just cover this area with some linseed oil on its own just very quickly it's only just to give us a little bit of a base to help our colors flow nicely okay phthalo blue a little lamp black a little bit of white perhaps Again, we're going to make this a nice opaque color and a little touch of magenta. And I'm not sure now yet if this is going to be the right color. It needs to be the browner, doesn't it? Let's take some magenta and some burnt sienna. I'm going for like a gray, browny hue, cool, a cool color. The burnt sienna with magenta will really make all the difference here in this. Let's try this. Now, I'm going to go with that for now. It's like a soft gray for all the world. A kind of a soft grey and let's just come along here along the horizon line and straight across the other side and this doesn't have to be absolutely perfectly straight you know you can make it slightly varied if you like down around the boat and we just fill this in just a little bit anyway and kind of sit back and take a look at your shades make sure you're happy with the colors before you continue. I'm happy enough with that. I'm going to get some more magenta and burnt sienna and maybe a touch of black. So probably a little bit on the pinkier side, it's like a pinkish grey hue. And remember this really now is only just a filling in stages. Alright, this is all early stages. I'm taking some Burnt Sienna with some Naples Yellow. I'm going to pop that in over where the sun hits the sand, just to warm it, just a little bit over there. As I was saying, this is just filling in really, that's all I'm doing. So I'm filling all. all the sand in and you can see that it's quite wet as well it's not very a very dry mix so it's nice and wet and we'll take a little bit of naples yellow into that and my objective right now is just to get the white canvas covered that's all nothing else get this canvas covered and then once we have this covered on we can start putting in some depth so some darker shades let's get some burnt sienna black for example a little bit of burnt sienna black and we can just flick that Through here and there. And I'm simply going to just go in this sort of criss-cross motion now, right the way through the sand, okay? And I'm going to just keep adding layers and layers and layers. A bit more black perhaps, a touch of blue. It gets very, very dark down here, doesn't it? And we worry about detail later. I'm not concerned right now about getting detail in the sand, if you know what I mean, to getting it look like sand. You know, sometimes you could be here forever trying to get it to look like actual sand. I'm just going for a very sort of a loose impression of a sandy beach so the focus point really is the boat on the sand that's the focus and it gets quite dark up around here doesn't it so let's take some phthalo blue and some magenta and put a little bit of a bluey purple in around there like that and we can put that colour down in here as well then we can pick up a little bit of black and put a little bit of black in there so this is going to be like a shadow for the boat The boat is going to be sitting on the sand and there's bits of shadows and stuff like that around there and I'm going to soften it back out then over on that side and I'm simply going to just go like this throughout the sand. Okay that's that's all I'm going to do. I might even take a bit of cadmium red in the mix. Why not? Let's warm it slightly. It's our painting we can do what we like folks isn't it? You don't have to copy a reference photograph exactly. You really don't. You can put your own little twist on it, your own little colours and make it your own. Now, touch of Sienna, a little hint of brown will help convince you that it is actually sand. I will kind of fill in a few details later on and you know paint some little crevices and stuff like that with a fine pointy brush but I just really want to kind of get this filled in at the moment, Just very loosely. Like that. Okay, now I'm going to start darkening. down in the corners with some blue and some black i'm just going to go along i just want to create this dark kind of effect down in the corners where it fades as it comes out into the rest of the painting so i just want to kind of create this soft faded look first coming from the corners out into the main area of sand so it just gets nice and dark then down at the bottom here A little bit of bonsai in there. So you can see it's kind of starting to take shape just a little bit, isn't it? Just a little bit. Now I am going to switch brushes. I want to go to a small pointy brush. I'm going to mix a light blue and you'll see why now in just a moment. I'm going to take a little bit of titanium white, a little bit of blue and I'm just going to go, if I zoom in on the photograph there now, you can see it's just like lots of little ridges everywhere. There's lights and darks throughout the sand. And painting sand like this is difficult. But you can make it difficult if you want. I'm just going to create a very loose impression. Just a very loose impression of the lights of the sand. Okay. And I might even use a fan brush or something as well later on. So I'm just going to keep going along like this. A little bit more white perhaps. Just very kind of sporadic with the brush. Just letting the brush kind of hit and miss. the surface of the canvas here and there and you can see you're kind of getting that hint of that effect aren't you just a hint of it that's all you know you're never going to get you can sit here for five hours if you like and paint individual little mounds of sand um but that's kind of that's not how i paint i find that um i won't say boring but i don't seem to have the patience to paint like that you know sitting in one spot for four hours painting tiny little details. That's not the type of artist I am. You know, you might like to go and look at someone like that and just watch them methodically painting every single detail. I prefer to just dance around on the canvas. That's just the way I paint, you know what I mean? Everybody has their own particular ways of painting and that's just how I like to paint and I find that it kind of helps me become much looser with my painting. Now I'm just going to add a little light in under here. Suggest just to suggest a little flat area just in around there maybe a touch of burnt sienna and i'm just kind of very loosely now just going along and they're going to take some burnt sienna black and i'm just going to kind of go in and pop a few of those you see i'm not using the pointy brush you can use a pointy brush for this if you like i find using a pointy brush it just it takes so much time and you kind of get You're focusing on the tiny little details a bit too much for me. It's a little bit too much. So I prefer to just kind of, you know, go like this and just dance around. Now, you can go with a small pointy brush as well, just for one or two. Maybe just get one or two little details. And for me, it's all about suggesting details. So it's just suggestive. You know, a very famous artist once said, you know, it's about... tricking the brain into thinking that it's actual details when it's not it's just little small brush strokes but it's giving the illusion of detail without painting detail and i kind of practice that every so often in my painting so i like to just put little marks and suggest that there may be little details so i'm going to stop at that and i'm going to very gently kind of soften a few of those away as they go off into the distance And you could even dab as well. That just roughs it up a little bit more, doesn't it? So just try different sort of techniques until you see you have the impression of a sandy beach. Now I'm going to start the boat because the boat will take a little bit of work as well. And we can come back to all of this and add little details into this as well later on. So let's start on the boat. You can see there's, in reality the boat is white, Because it's a sunset, I want to paint a sort of orangey soft yellowy kind of shade first and pick up a bit of white and pop a bit of white into it because when you look at a boat or something like that your brain is telling you it's a white boat the boat is white but when you sit back and look closely it might be an off white it might be a yellowy kind of a yellow white it might be a slightly pinky white um your brain will tell you that it's a white so you kind of need to practice on that kind of part of a painting so even though something might seem like just a white boat or a white house when the painting is sunset the colors will bounce off of that shade so i'm going to put a little bit of dark gray look with a bit of um magenta perhaps just on the front here and i'm going to just kind of soften that backwards so you can kind of get the idea okay then i'm going to this dark rich red A bit of black and a bit of cadmium red and even a bit of burnt sienna. So I'm going to just put that in. It just comes down doesn't it and disappears into a point. And that's the problem you see with a painting like this, especially with oils. You have to allow for the fact that it's going to mix with the color underneath. So do bear that in mind. Take a little bit of magenta and sienna just to give us a little suggestion of a ready shade and then we pick up some black. And we just go from the back here where it's in shadow and then we soften that across. Now I cleaned that brush very well and I'm going to pop in a little bit of bright white just along around here where it's sort of hitting the sun. I'm just going to say it's really bright white around here. I'm going to soften a bit of bright white in just there okay and I can even come up a little bit more to soften it back. Maybe a bit of grey up here. Pull that back as well. So it's giving the impression of the boat turning isn't it? The front of the boat kind of turning outwards or inwards away. So that gives a nice little impression as well. Now we do have a nice ready kind of a coloured line up there as well. So I'll take some magenta with sienna. That seems to give a nice kind of a ready browny sort of a colour. I'll pop that in here. Let it disappear off. And you'll see then how it kind of mixes in with the colour underneath with that white. So it gives you that natural light as it goes around the corner, doesn't it? That's nice. I like that. And I'm going to come along here as well. Just add a bit of that pinky colour there. And again, now I'm not going for huge detail in all of this, OK? I'm just keeping it simple. And then I'll just soften a little bit of blacky brown away from underneath the board. It's really just to give it something to sit on, just to make it look like it's sitting on something and it's not just floating in mid-air. That's always a good idea. Just pop a little bit of dark under it and soften it away. And there we go. Folks, just take your time with all of this. OK, there's absolutely no panic. Just take your time. Let's go and do cabin. I have a kind of a bright pinkish shade here now. I'm simply going to just block everything in. With just a kind of a light colour. I'm going to put a dollop of white up there as well. And again, just make it look busy. You see what I mean? And I'm going to make this kind of marvy shade for the front where it's in shadow. The front of the cabin. You can see it's just in shadow there. And you can then just add little touches of colour as you want. And, you know, just making it again look busy. Making it look like there's lots of stuff going on. Well, we do have. bits and pieces like little suggestions of um windows open perhaps over here that kind of thing and a few little small details as well so you can see what i mean um when i say just making it look making it look busy that's all all i'm doing it's all about for me it's all about telling the eye that there's a lot of bits and pieces going on understand it's about Making your eyes see that there's lots of bits and bobs. bits and pieces and you can add stuff that's you know not even in the photograph you can add bits and pieces on if you like um i'm going to put a little bit of black just to separate through those areas there and um now we have a lovely kind of bears going up here as well don't we and it sort of comes at an angle like this and this one comes up almost vertical and then there's another one here so just keeping just simple plain lines and this one is going to turn Like this, and come down like that, and then it turns behind like that, and stops, and comes down like this, doesn't it? So that's quite a nice little effect there, isn't it? And little suggestions of details over at the back. This is all kind of far off in the distance where you're not going to see very much really. Just, again, bits and pieces, is what I would say. It's all just very suggestive. So I'm going to clean my brush, I'm going to do some white for a change and I want to pop on some hints of white here and there as well and that will really give it a lift. Naples yellow and white perhaps and again that will add a little bit more to the painting. Already that's kind of looking quite nice isn't it? I think that's looking quite nice. I'm just going to add a little bit of I'm softening the tone. And you can see now how all these tiny little Details and, you know, I'm going to zoom in now for you because I'll show you what I mean. All these little things are just dabs with the brush. That's all they are, little dabs. So here, for instance, look, just a little rock coming down. Just a little bit of a regal. That's all there has to be. And then add a little tiny bit of dark colour here and there to that as well. To separate. Okay? Just like that. Tiny, tiny little details. Now, we do have little spots of white going up along here. So I'm just again going to suggest very, very small little dots of white. A little bit of light blue, getting one of these. Then we have the sail, the mast coming up. Now I'm going to use for the mast a palette knife. I think that would be the easiest way forward, wouldn't it my friends? Let me get some black and I think just keep this maybe, just keep it nice and simple with the palette knife. A little bit of thinner on the knife, a little bit of black. Maybe add a hint of brown in there as well. Now take a little roll of paint with your palette knife okay, small roll of paint and let's just start and once we start this now we have to keep going. So let's go like this, up like that, right up to about here. Scrape it down. Now if you're If you're not. not confident with a palette knife you can use a brush with a stick. The problem with this is But be careful. If we get this wrong, it's going to be very difficult to fix, because this is pure black paint, isn't it? There may be a bit of a bend on that, but it's okay. I can fix it. We can fix things like bends and stuff, can't we? Let's just bring it a bit thicker at the base, and we'll turn it as it comes up. And then we have a little piece that comes across here, won't we? Again, just little dabs will do you. All you need. And we have a little dab coming out here. And these can be anything, you see, they can be anything at all. Now maybe there is a bit of a bend in the mast because it is leaning over, so maybe it's quite heavy and there's a slight lean in it. That could be okay too. But trying to straighten something like this will be very difficult. Then we have a couple of little wires and so on coming off of that. So let's just go like that and let's just come down like that. A couple coming down like that, that curve around. And you can see there's almost not even paint coming off of the palette knife at this stage. It's just very hit and miss. Sometimes I think that's the nicest way forward. It's just little tiny hints and little tiny suggestions of tiny tiny little ropes. Now let's get a small pointy brush and try one or two of those with a very small pointy brush as well. It is quite difficult because you need to get a very fine line don't you? So you need lots of thinners. Now, I don't think that's too bad at all. I'm then going to add a hint of light onto the mast as well. Now, you may not even see this in the photograph, but I am going to just suggest a little bit of light here and there, hitting the mast, just a little dab. Now, how is that, my friends? It's all very loose and suggestive, you know. I don't like going into huge details with boats and things like that. I'm sure you can understand why. I just like to keep things in a simple way. I just like to put on dabs of colour and let your imagination take over. Now I think that's quite nice. I'm quite happy with that. I'm going to put a light pinky shade just around the boat to suggest maybe the sand is wet or something. Just a very light little suggestion. Could be a hint of a reflection from the boat on the sand as well. Okay, just the tiniest, tiniest little suggestion of some light. And then I go back into some black and some brown. And I'm just going to reinforce the darkness in under the boat as well. We'll bring that across and just leave it disappear like so. Now, I am kind of annoyed at myself for making that too wide at the bottom. There is perhaps a way we could fix it. We took some. cadmium yellow and some white and maybe a bit of naples yellow even you could maybe try and block some of it up that might help it soften out okay that's just one little way of fixing this and i'm also going to just take a small flat brush and up here i just want to kind of brighten that and add some warmth into it as well for some pink a little bit of naples yellow a bit of A bit of burnt sienna. And everything's all just Naples yellow on its own. And soften that away down, look. Leave that come away down. Softening down into the sand. And then go back into some lighter shades. Just kind of merge. Merge everything kind of back together again. I just want this to look, it doesn't even have to look like it's sand, actual sand, but I mean, to paint actual sand is very difficult. There's a lot of detail in painting actual sand close up. I could be here for five hours trying to create that effect. But I think just putting a couple of marks here and there is just enough. Because you can tell already it's on sand, isn't it? And my friends, I think I will leave it at that. I am quite happy with that now. Very happy. It's everything I was hoping it would turn out to be. It really is. Pink there and a bit of black up here. It's everything I was hoping. So I'm happy. And the best thing to do is just leave well alone, I think. That's it, my friends. Our painting is finished. I hope you've enjoyed watching, I really do. This has been a huge pleasure and I must say I really, really enjoyed painting this. There we go and that's it. One painting finished. Thank you so much for watching. I will be back in a couple of days with another tutorial. I'm quite happy with that. I'm going to frame this, put a nice thick double white frame on this and I will show you in the next video how I mount my paintings on the back of the frame and how I make my frames even. I will just give you a quick run through how I make my frames and mount the paintings and I'll show you this frame and I think this will look very very well. Thank you so much for joining me. I hope you've found some interesting aspects of this painting and you've learned a few little hints and tips along the way. Please do comment, Feel free to comment and you can even email me if you have any questions as well. I will be more than happy to answer any questions you have with painting. So thank you, my friends. God bless. Happy painting. Have a lovely day. And I will see you again very soon. Take care.