Hello everybody, welcome to the class today.
I'm Nolan Clark and in this class we're
going to be painting a Highland cow.
But not in a realistic style, rather in
an abstract fashion using brilliant vibrant colours.
Hopefully giving us a nice multicolour rainbow effect
in the final painting.
I think it's going to be awesome fun.
Follow along, I'll show you step by step
how we do that.
So I found this photo on Unsplash.
Looked really interesting.
Loved the long fringe.
I just had to paint him.
But I wanted to do something different.
So we're going to paint this guy in
a lot more abstract vibrant colour style.
As opposed to super realistic today.
The trick to painting these multicolour kind of
paintings and that's what it looks like.
Just any old colour has been plopped down
and that's given you the the image.
But you haven't used any of the realistic
colours.
The trick to using that is it's a
four step process that we're going to do.
So in the handouts you will see that
there's a colour photograph.
Then there's the grayscale one.
And then there's this crazy one over here
which I'll explain later what that's for.
And then obviously a sketch template.
So I'm working on a 16 by 12
inch canvas today which is roughly 400 by
300 millimetres.
And I've sketched this out just using pen
carbon.
So you do your normal sketchwork as normal.
But from here things are going to vary
very dramatically.
So the first thing is is that we're
not really using any of the real colours.
We want to use all sorts of interesting
rainbow colours.
So let's go over to the palette and
let's come put some paints down.
So the secret with the colours on this
type of painting is that you want your
colours to stay nice and neat and crisp
bright vibrant colours.
You don't want them to become dull on
you.
So you'll see today a little bit different.
I've got two palettes simply because my palette
is quite small and I find when I'm
doing this kind of artwork.
Yeah you need lots of palette space.
So I've got two palettes here and I've
also got it for another reason.
The reason is for the one palette I'm
going to put warm colours on this palette.
And on the other palette I'm going to
put cold colours.
So the colours that I'm actually using here
today is I don't want you to look
even at the names of the colours that
I'm that I'm using.
Although I am going to give you the
names.
You don't have to have these colours.
All you want is a variety of rainbow
colours.
So use whatever greens you've got.
If you've got a green light and or
sap green or cerulean blue or french ultramarine.
It doesn't matter.
Use whatever bright vibrant colours that you've got
in your painting today.
So the ones that I am going to
use is dioxazine purple quinacridone magenta cadmium red
cadmium orange cadmium yellow light.
Here I have taillow green taillow turquoise and
taillow blue.
And then of course trust your white can't
do without white.
Alrighty so I'm going to just pop down
a variety of colours.
If you don't have so many colours then
at least if as long as you've got
the three primaries then mix up a little
rainbow of colours for yourself.
Then when you do put your colours down
in in rainbow order.
So there was dioxazine purple this one was
the quinacridone magenta.
Here I've got some cadmium red.
You see I'm putting down a fair amount
of paint.
That just allows me to to do lots
of mixing and stuff.
That's cadmium orange cadmium
yellow and then I'll put some white down
here.
I'm going to keep him close by.
Let's go to the other palette and let's
put on our cold colours.
So I'll start down with some taillow blue
taillow turquoise taillow green.
Then to complete the sort of the colour
wheel.
If we take a look at the colour
wheel like this.
Let's turn him that way.
You've got there's your magenta sort of around
this vicinity right.
Now we've gone up up up around to
there we've worked our way down to there.
There's our taillow blue and the greens and
the turquoises.
Now we want to get back to here.
So I'm going to take some cadmium yellow
and put it over there because he follows
on from the green.
I'm going to take some dioxazine purple and
I'm going to put him there because he's
now next to the blue on the colour
wheel.
So can you see that we've now formed
ourselves a little circle over there.
Essentially our whole colour wheel.
So why have I done that.
Why don't I just use this when I'm
mixing over there.
It's because this yellow is going to be
my warm yellow that yellow is going to
be my cold yellow and same with here.
This is going to be my essentially my
purple and that one's going to be my
violet.
So he's a cold and he's a warm
purple.
All righty so our first mission now is
just to get rid of the white of
the canvas.
So that's going to be step one and
that's getting this whole background painted in.
So to do the background we're going to
do it in a nice abstract effect and
you can do it with a brush.
I actually find it's easier using my roll
of kitchen towel this paper towel and I'll
tell you why because with a paper towel
I can use several of them with different
colours on them and that's going to help
me quite a bit going down the road.
So I'm going to just scrunch it up
like this just so you can use just
a little piece like that.
Now I am painting in acrylics today so
I do also have just a a tub
of water here down the side which I
can just dip this cloth into if I
do need to thin down my paints.
So if you are working with in oils
then you'll have to add some medium into
your paints.
All right so let's start over here and
work around there.
So what we're going to do is we're
going to form ourselves a bit of a
rainbow effect around the cow in the background.
So that'll start off the whole vibrancy so
let's maybe start you can start anywhere you
can start there there there I'll just start
here doesn't matter and let's maybe take some
white work some white into that maybe a
bit of yellow.
All right so now I've got a colour
here on my paper towel so just to
get this to go a little bit further
I'm going to take my paper towel and
just dunk him ever so slightly into there
not so much that it gets totally soggy
just enough so that this paint of ours
can smear on nice and quick and easy.
So just start here in the corner like
this and I'm going to go around and
form ourselves a a bit of a really
rough rainbow effect.
Okay so there's your orange let's go down
and start adding some yellow.
I do tend to stick to quite more
pastel kind of colours in the background but
you don't have to you can you can
play around with it quite a bit and
don't bother about mixing these colours into each
other it's not necessary.
Okay now can you see I've got this
all full of orange and I want to
go over to bright yellows so I just
fold him over now I'm working with clean
paint and I don't have to wash my
brush and that's why I tend to use
the cloth instead of the instead of a
brush.
Now I want to go over to let's
maybe go around this way so to go
around that way we'll take maybe some more
yeah let's maybe add some more reds into
that one start adding some reds in here
maybe a bit of magenta and now
here I want to do just a little
bit of blending so now I can just
fold this guy over again there's a little
bit of little bit of clean paper left
I'm just gonna wiggle and squiggle him like
this I don't want a perfect blend nice
stripes and stuff is good and now I'm
not going to throw this piece of paper
away it's pretty full but he's got red
on it so I'm going to put him
one side so next to me I've got
a one of those just a big plastic
dustbin with a lid so I've got the
lid upside down so he's forming like a
bowl for me and I'm just putting these
guys on there you could obviously you know
just use yourself uh maybe a piece of
table next to you or something like that
all righty so now I've got a new
one which I've just crumpled up let's maybe
yeah what the heck let's go around that
way yeah so we'll continue there so we've
got some more yellows I'm going to get
some more yellows in this vicinity so be
careful that as you work along that you
eventually get all the the weave of the
canvas nice and full all right so now
look here now we're going from warm colors
through to cold colors so at the moment
I've just got this on I can continue
to there but now I'm going to start
using this yellow and I won't never go
back there using this piece of paper ever
again and I'm going over the lines of
my cow I'm making sure that this goes
well into the background so that
was Taylor green now I'm going over to
the turquoise around here let's maybe take some
Taylor blue and white to it so it's
not so dark just give him a bit
of bit of color looking quite cool already
hey look at the palette you can sell
that as an artwork all right let's move
the let's move the palette over to that
side let's maybe
add a bit more white to that just
for some variety over here and also just
to maybe show that the light is coming
from in this picture the light is coming
from the right to the left so we'll
lighten up this area over here now obviously
paper towel doesn't last forever if you rub
with it too long it starts disintegrating so
just if that happens just fold him over
to make sure you you're staying with a
nice clean clean piece right yeah that's cool
there okay so let's continue going down here
I'll start getting a bit more vibrant blues
in here and a bit darker blues let's
maybe go into that corner there just make
sure everything's got a bit of blend there
that's cool I'm happy with that there's a
little bit too too perfect or too too
much of a line so I'll take a
new piece of paper and pick up what
color did I have there they were sort
of cold colors hey cold yellows so I'll
take that and white and let's just get
rid of that hard line over there things
must be a little bit can be stripy
and stuff but it must still be just
a little bit more blended you know you
don't want really hard edges so April's asking
will the cow be in its natural color
will it will be be rainbow too he's
also going to have a rainbow kind of
colors but there you'll see how it works
in a second all righty so now I
want to just continue over here just to
make sure that this looks like he's going
around so from the blue he's got to
go back to here so let's fold up
this blue paper just to get a cleaner
spot if no that's not possible he's just
too dirty now all right I'll get a
new cloth so I'm going to pick up
some blue and a little bit of dioxazine
purple maybe a touch of white just so
we can see it let's work that in
here like that okay here I'm working a
little bit into the cow because we can
rather just make sure we can get bring
the cow out over the background that's cool
okay now we want to make this look
like he's also blending into that so let's
turf that because now I need to work
with warm colors again so that's new paper
and now we take our dioxazine purple from
the warm side and work that into the
into the magenta and we'll blend him in
over there okay
cool so now we've got ourselves a a
continuous color wheel essentially over there all right
let's just move that okay just out the
way so we can see the whole canvas
here for a second if you're happy with
this guy like he is you can leave
him other otherwise you can also just leave
him to dry and you can continue working
on him and adding as much detail and
stuff as what you want to and as
much texture as what you want to so
here maybe I'm going to bring in just
a little bit of a little bit of
red as well some bright red don't have
any bright red yet there
let's see do the trick and there's also
maybe just a little bit a little bit
harsh though so I'm going to grab this
paper that I was using around that vicinity
and let's see let's get some orange in
there for a bit of a transition color
over there work that in yeah I think
I'm happy with that all righty now we
can move on to step two so step
two is we're going to create the the
shape of this animal over here so what
I'll do now is I'll choose what is
the overall color the majority color of the
the subject going to be so it could
be any one of these colors be green
it can be blue it can be red
it can be yellow in other words you're
going to have a rainbow effect but it's
going to have one overall color which will
create harmony throughout the entire painting then it
doesn't end up looking like a Christmas tree
so that's one of those little things that
you that you need to look out for
I just want to touch up that little
spot just something that I'm seeing there now
just looks like it is going to give
me assholes a funny little edge over there
so in this case our cow's brown right
so I'm going to go for a bit
of a warmer color and you can actually
even use a bit of browns in here
as well and we probably will shortly so
I think just to be safe I'm going
to start with a a new sheet of
of paper towel and then what I'm going
to do is let's just take say some
some ready kind of colors maybe something like
this the color that we started with let's
start with say something like that yeah that'll
do the trick and now what we're going
to do is we're going to look at
the tonal values of this guy so we
from now on we're going to throw away
the the color reference we don't need him
anymore we're going to be using this guy
so what you're going to be looking at
now is looking at which areas are lighter
and which areas are darker so this initial
color that we've got is going to be
sort of our lighter color so I'm
going to be putting him down here where
all these where I see the lighter colors
and again remember all we're trying to do
at this stage is get rid of the
white of the canvas now as you're going
along you're going to put some of these
colors down so for example this color here
is I'm looking at the tonal value of
it so now I'm seeing this that same
total value sort of in this area around
here so I'm putting it down there and
I'm seeing some of that tonal value just
a touch of it over there and there's
some of it over here in this vicinity
and then I'm seeing darker colors so let's
maybe take some add some red and maybe
some magenta into that to get a darker
tonal value so if you're battling with that
what you can do is each color here
let's go to the let's go to the
palette on its own just for a second
I want to show you something quite interesting
each color has its own tonal value can
you see that you've got dark mid-tone
light dark mid-tone light let me change
that into black and white you can see
it can you see there each color has
its own tonal value so that's what you
want to do is you want to get
those correct tonal values in the correct places
I just want to see maybe I can
put down a um maybe I can actually
do that I can put down that guy
as a as a black and white so
let's go to there for now and let
me just quickly change the color of that
to black and white and you can and
you can do that yourself as well you
can uh turn this guy your your palette
into grayscale simply by looking at your palette
through your phone your phone will have the
phone's camera will have that um sort of
feature one of its filters it's going to
be able to change your um change what
you see through the camera to to grayscale
if your
paper gets too soggy just fold him over
get a new spot and if it's easier
for you to do this with a brush
go for it like I say the only
reason I'm doing it now with uh with
a paper towel is simply because I found
it easier just quicker I don't have to
keep washing my brush so often because in
a minute we're going to be washing our
brush often so it does not take quite
a bit of quite a bit of paper
okay over here you've got lots of different
little tonal values can you see that so
what we want to do now at this
stage over there is just get ourselves a
darker tonal value down there so for example
around this side it's really really dark so
I'll put that darker tonal value down over
there but then it goes lighter around to
that side looks
like quite a mess there this is one
of those things you have to just trust
the process for a minute but soon the
the canvas will be full and then all
this will make sense all right so there's
that edge of the the cow over there
that's quite light over there so I'm going
to just take say this so
just now remember every now and again I
am dipping this into the into the water
all righty cool that's too fine that's too
fine and that's too fine I think that's
got us got us going all right so
let's let's get a brush closer and and
just for for just to reassure you if
your hands don't look like this painting this
painting you're doing something wrong all right so
I'm going to stick with this uh sort
of color scheme now at the moment these
little pinky ready kind of colors now there
and here and here there are little um
things that make you recognize what you're looking
at and that's where this guy comes in
what I've done here is I've just completely
increased the contrasts of this so that you
can see the darkest darks and the lightest
lights but it's also the most prominent features
of this of this cow so we've got
the nose this mouth area over here we've
got the ears and the horns and and
then this little silhouette formed here by the
um the shaggy hair those are the kind
of things that make you recognize that you're
looking at the cow and not just something
else a mop or whatever so those are
the few things that you're actually still going
to put in the effort to paint so
we'll start off and we're going to paint
this um this mouth area the nose area
and this is where I'll often use a
um an acrylic marker pen like this because
you can often just outline the eyes or
you know the nostrils and so on today
I think I'll just paint them okay so
we're going to paint this so instead of
using the the marking pen today because we
need to do shadings with it I'm going
to use the the colors and I'm going
to paint it so the darkest color I've
got here is my darks in purple so
I'll put some of that down there now
it's like blues and reds so I'm going
to add a bit of orange into that
and that should get us close to a
black so this is sort of like a
like a brownie black and I'll stick with
that let's maybe go closer in on that
and on that okay
let's just fade that out outwards there okay
now we need something lighter so I'll just
stick to these these ready pinks and stuff
that we've got and now I'm going to
look for the same tonal values and I'm
going to put those same tonal values in
their correct places I've got some of it
there I've got some of it here and
then it does go darker towards that side
over there that side goes lighter so he's
good I'm happy with that yeah there's maybe
something a little bit lighter around this vicinity
here he's not quite as dark and I'm
literally going to shade these guys into each
other do full on shadings if you're
at any stage find yourself with uh like
there I accidentally put some codacodone no dioxazine
purple into this orangey bit over here so
now instantly I've got some blue in there
and I've lost my vibrancy so I'm going
to stop and clean that off you don't
want that whatsoever that's got to go you
don't want opposite colors going into each other
here whatsoever okay so let's mix up some
of that original color there again so
I'm just using light little taps and stuff
you don't have to have perfect shadings but
just because it is a semi-abstract painting
at the end of the day let's go
over to some yellows so I'm washing the
brush just to make sure that he's nice
and clean so he's
quite bright over there and over here over
here it's just quite quite wet at this
stage so we'll just blend him as good
as we can and then when he's drier
we'll come back in and and fine tune
that at
the top of those nostrils it needs to
be a nice sharp line because that makes
you look into the into the nostril but
here on the outsides on the bottom needs
to be a shading which then basically shows
it curls out outwards like that all
right so this is probably about as good
as blending we're going to get done for
now we'll give it a gap to to
dry let's go
back to this dark and let's get this
mouth in over there like
that they can just we can pretty much
block that in over there for now and
I'm going to leave myself just a little
bit of a gap where the the lighter
bit belongs we'll
add that in later and you see I've
left a little bit of a piece over
there open as well that's going to tell
me where the mouth comes but all that
now needs to dry before we can really
put that in properly let's
get these edges in over there as well
that's fine all right let's move up so
wash the brush and let's get just some
of that bridge of the nose also popped
in so here's a mid-tony kind of
color which is this guy over here let's
get that all blocked in over there first
yeah cool so most of this canvas is
now covered over here there's some darker bits
in the center so we'll go for the
darker guy just
a rough little shading there this here's darker
and then
there there's some highlighty bits which for now
I'm going to just suggest just with a
few little squiggles like that just so I
don't know where it is yeah
that's cool that's good enough over there that's
that yeah I'm going to just add a
few little flicks and dabs just to suggest
that um the hair effect over there yeah
that's good enough all right let's stick with
that where's the next important bit the ears
so let's get some some more of our
brownie black mixed up so
I'm just going to block it in really
quickly just to get rid of that canvas
over there yeah that'll do all
righty so what we're going to do now
is now we're going to really work on
getting those those contrasts in these contrasts here
those really dark ones and stuff because that's
going to give us that that full-on
definition so let's see if I can bring
up that picture for us that one that
one over there all right so I'm going
to step back and I'm going to use
this nice large brush yeah so I think
just so that I don't have to mix
too much paint too often I'm going to
just mix myself a fair little pile of
that over here just that I can dip
into it yeah
that's really cool it's quite warm here by
me today so I must also just spray
my my palette with some water so that
all these paints don't dry on us there
was some there we go there's a nice
pile of of shadow but as I paint
it on you're going to see it's far
from black and it is quite a quite
a ready kind of color all right so
let's take a look we've already done our
ears down here the side and down here
so you here you'll now see lots of
definition appearing quite quickly and as
we do because I'm using this uh full
bed brush I'm also going to start just
once I've put that in there I'm going
to take a look and see in which
direction do these hairs grow and stuff and
I'm going to just start just flicking these
guys out that's going to start giving me
that that hair effect that we're looking for
so take
your time with this step because this is
a how would you put it you're creating
definition now everything you do from here on
out is going to be built on from
what this little stage is now okay over
here some over there not too much that's
fine I'll put it in you can always
go over it and soften it back up
again and lighten it up if we need
to that's over there and this ear bit
it comes down to around that vicinity over
there there's some over there yeah that's cool
and here here we've got some shadows and
stuff being cast by these these hairs so
I'm going to just start creating myself some
shadows and things and some idea of of
the hairs now can you see where I'm
holding the brush nice far back don't work
fine detail like this stand up stand back
and hold your brush nice and nice and
loose and free no need
this to you're never going to get this
looking like that you're just using that as
a as a your darks and you know
if you if you don't have that now
you can also obviously just use the the
reference photo as well just look there and
look for your dark areas and put them
in here on this side there aren't too
many darks because this is now a highlight
side so I don't put in too much
over there and
this is now also going to just create
tell you how other directions of the hairs
flow as well you're going to start working
that out in your mind as well as
you go along yeah that's cool and then
here's another little dark almost like a little
triangle piece in seems to be around that
vicinity yeah somewhere like that okay there's
no darks over there awesome I'm going to
wash the brush can you start to picture
and imagine the cow there now okay nice
clean brush now what I'm generally going to
do because now we're going to move over
to using more bright colors and stuff to
paint the rest of the cow so we're
going to be using these guys again so
look what's happened here we've got a warm
side and you've got a cold side as
far as background is concerned so what you're
going to do is you're going to put
your warmer colors these guys more on this
side of the cow you're going to put
these guys more on this side of the
cow so that you've got that opposite you've
got your warms against the cold cold against
the warms and you know what happens when
you've got warm and cold colors playing off
of each other when you've got complementaries they
make each other look more vibrant hey so
orange makes blue look vibrant the blue makes
the orange look vibrant and same with all
the other guys all righty so
let's maybe do those those horns over there
so like here I've got a warmer area
so I'm going to start using cold colors
so I'm going to take a nice dark
blue darks in purple a bit of tailor
blue in there just dip my brush in
some water just so that I can get
this to flow and now I can see
here let's go back to our normal photo
again we don't need that we're done with
him we don't want color we want our
gray scale let's see
if I can move this guy up a
little bit yeah you can go to there
now we're done with the background all righty
so can you see it's dark over here
at the bottom so I'll put that dark
in over there it's dark over here let's
get some white the rest is quite a
bit lighter so I'm adding quite a bit
of white into that I'll put this color
next to there he goes there more white
maybe even a bit of maybe even a
bit yellow and green and our
super light color maybe even just a touch
of yellow into that lots and lots of
white cool I'll just do a very quick
blend just to get those guys into each
other very quick okay
let's top up our white you can see
we've used quite a bit of white on
each one already and I'm going to use
just some neat white that's
fine don't get perfect shadings we're adding all
sorts of other colors and stuff on there
in a minute it's just to get that
basic rounding so that in the end of
the day after we've added our other colors
he looks round because he's got those contrasts
that we need fabulous so that was our
cold side this is our warm side hey
so I'm going to have to wash the
brush again and this also makes a good
case for using two different brushes a warm
brush and a cold brush you can do
that as well all righty so let's see
on this guy we've got quite a bit
of dark on the end over there okay
and then this little piece is also dark
over here I'm
just making sure what I'm doing is I'm
not getting any little little bits of exposed
canvas I'm covering them in the same time
okay then things lighten up so let's see
let's take some white let's maybe add some
magenta into that one for just just because
we can have that over there then we'll
go even lighter let's take white let's maybe
into this more
white maybe into a bit of yellow just
like that okay all right let's bring these
colors into each other really quickly that's
a rough little 3d effect there that'll do
as you can see it's not perfect that's
good enough all
righty now we're going to start adding all
this um hair effect so again it's back
to looking at the tonal values so like
here for example this little edge so I've
left that whole body piece out oh it's
just up to that little highlight piece over
there so this is my warm side so
I'm using my warm palette so I'm going
to use yellows and oranges and reds and
stuff like that and as I do because
I'm using a 4-bit I'm just going
to use like a tapping effect like this
like a chopping motion you see there and
that's going to give us that that hair
effect that we want now this
stage does take a few layers so don't
try and fill everything up in one go
and don't have to use all the same
colors all the time every now and again
mix up a whole different color as long
as he's made from those initial colors that
you've you've used and he's the correct tonal
value yeah for a while so if it's
red or orange it doesn't matter as
long as the tonal value is correct you
you're sorted so what
I'll often do is I'll put some of
similar colors in between each other colors of
similar tonal values for example like here you
can see I'm putting a bit of reds
and magentas in between each other it just
adds to the interest okay and now I'm
starting to move into the cold side so
I'll stop there for now what
I'll also do now and again is just
wipe the brush off just to get rid
of that excess paint when you when you're
changing colors because you can see there see
that in the minute you you've got another
color but you're dirtying the the other guys
that are here and eventually you end up
with some really dirty colors on your palette
so every now and again clean your brush
wipe it down or wash it and so
on reasonably bright
over here so I'll add a few little
whiter bits as well see
like here I'm taking some reds and I'm
putting it in between those yellows that I
put down but it's the same tonal value
okay I'm
washing the brush again because here I want
to get that nice dark in so I
need to go back to the our initial
dark color again yeah
it seems like he's around there yeah
there we go now I'll look how nicely
our nose is standing out there now awesome
wash the brush again because we're done with
that dark okay let's maybe work a little
bit here on this mouth let's go closer
in so can you see there aren't very
there aren't large different tonal values over there
and contrasts for us to work with so
I'm going to take these kinds of colors
quite quite darkish ones let's add just that
little bit of a you know what I
just think I'm going to use a smaller
brush that little piece that you left open
that's the the lip so you're going to
put that in like that and then from
there here you've got that little highlight so
all just little quick flicks and things that's
going to suggest his like that okay so
now that was on the warm side so
I'm having to wash the brush because this
is now the cold side of the of
the cow so I'm having to use cold
colors so I'm going to dig into that
let's maybe even go for a green this
time instead of a blue let's go for
a dark green there like a turquoise green
so we'll flick
him in there just little flicks to get
that here kind of look that that's great
happy with that maybe
even just working a little bit of green
on that edge there as well while I'm
at it all
righty let's go back out again it's starting
to get some character all right back to
the big brush all right let's maybe work
here because there's a lovely little highlight running
along there yeah now I think let's put
that highlight in why not let's see let's
maybe use some some reds here this time
let's just get something down here just to
clean to fill up some of the the
canvas maybe it is darker around this vicinity
over here all the while I'm running along
the direction of the hairs it's really important
that you don't just do your own thing
as far as the directions are concerned make
sure you're following the directions of these anything
like that all righty let's give the brush
a wash again and let's go over to
some more it's maybe some orangey yellows this
time something like that that's
I'm going to use that just to sort
of plot out for myself where does this
go and make sure that the canvas is
sort of full at this stage there's no
little bits of canvas sticking out there anymore
so that's cool and
here's that little dark bit so I'm using
a bit of purpley version there now while
I've got that purple I might as well
put a little bit of texture in here
yeah that line is ending a little bit
sharp so I'm going to flick a little
bit upwards and that'll break that that line
that you've got there so it just becomes
a shading instead of a line awesome so
here we've got lots of sunshine so I
think I'll start off just say with some
orangey colors we can't go over there those
colors are too dark now so we'll have
to use these guys at at worst that
and lighter so I'm going to just flick
them in and then every now and again
I give a few of them a little
little bit of a wiggle and a squiggle
let's bring
it down a fair amount almost to the
nose so by
having some straight days and some squiggly ones
you're stopping yourself from just having squiggly ones
because if you do that then they all
tend to look you tend to make them
all the same squiggle so now by adding
a few straight ones in between it just
varies things up a bit all right now
what I'm doing is I'm taking this orange
way further than what I what I anticipate
is going to end up at so I'm
going to take him sort of three quarters
of the way into the other guy like
that okay clean the brush I'm actually giving
him a wash because now I'm going to
go over to some nice yellowy colors some
more intense yellows okay so
same thing with this and
be bold with the paint don't be shy
use lots of paint and
now this yellow because he's lighter I'm not
going to take him quite as far as
the orange I have to sort of stop
you at halfway make sure you give yourself
a few nice little wiggles and squiggles on
the end over there and let's see this
here needs to go lighter so let's I
can see that now so I can start
adding some of the yellow which is brighter
than the previous guy and let's see where
else can I add some of this color
maybe around here there seem to be some
of these tonal values around this vicinity here
as well and
just touches of it around here all right
so now I'm going to use a white
just just not pure white there's a little
bit of yellow in it all right that's
not too wet I was hoping to do
it in one go but he's still too
wet I'll see you the minute as soon
as I put it on he uh he
mixes with those oranges and things that are
there so I'll stop there with for that
for now maybe I can use some of
it over here I think this paint here
should be dry yeah yeah now
add maybe just a little fly away here
doing his own thing as well come
on let's maybe add just something that's really
light but a color we haven't got yet
maybe a bit of light purple just in
here as well all
right now let's move on to working on
the other side so now it's back to
the cold colors so I'll start over here
and we work our way up let's maybe
start with some nice dark blues so I'm
going over those dark initial dark guys because
it's not adding color into that let's
maybe take some greens it's also quite a
dark green so all
righty let's go to a lighter tonal value
ah so we're busy with a green so
what the hell let's let's stick with it
so for now I'm avoiding there where they
meet the cold and the warm side we'll
work on that I'm bringing them together shortly
there let's just stick to doing the one
side first yeah let's maybe take some mid
-tone blues that's
in between all the while I'm gradually filling
up that that lighter background that's still shining
through there yeah
let's add a few little lines over there
as well why not just to start getting
some texture there all righty yeah I think
our car is slowly starting to come together
in our way now that we've got some
detail on this side we're starting to get
some definition okay so it's back to washing
the brush again just so we can start
off with a nice a nice new color
again let's maybe go for some turquoise where
can we put it down there yeah I'll
stick with the mid-tone for now all
righty so as we head on this side
over here we've got that line can you
see him the hard line over there so
we're going to break him so I'm going
to take some of that initial color and
just flick him upwards just here and there
and that'll break that that line okay let's
work over there so this side here is
dark but it's not dark it's not that
dark right it's more like a mid-tony
kind of color so I'm going to start
with the mid-tone over here so at
this stage I've got the blue let's get
these little flicks in some straight ones and
some curly ones so now at this stage
that there should be dry if he's not
you're going to have to wait until he
is dry yeah straight lines curly ones some
straight lines some curly ones because now that
this is dry now I can go over
it without in with the opposite color without
these guys mixing and now you're getting that
lovely juxtaposition from the one
opposite playing off on the other the complementaries
okay that's over there I think I'm pretty
happy with that there let's start adding in
the highlights let's see how about let's go
with that green add more white into it
maybe even just a touch of yellow let's
go with that and let's see where do
we have that tonal value there isn't too
many super brights on this side so we
can't go really super bright the brightest bits
are sort of around this vicinity maybe like
that we can put some of it around
here as well definitely
have some over here especially at the top
because the sun's coming from the top right
so you're gonna have these nice bright colors
at the top so I put lots of
that on this side because maybe this is
now a cold color and then just one
or two going this way in between those
other guys just one or two here and
they're not too many just a few can
you see they're playing off each other now
all right let's bring this a bit further
down some straight ones and some squiggly ones
some straight ones and some squiggly ones all
the way down here so just before the
nose okay let's go to a new color
let's see yeah let's go to a more
yellowy a yellowy green something like that so
I'm checking this tonal value with that one
I want them to be similar I can
feel the paint is a bit tacky when
I pick it up that's my cue to
to give my my palette a bit of
a mist yeah that's great and making
sure getting nice little some more squiggly guys
and some on this side not too many
just to get that sort of a transition
from warm this side through to cold on
that side and not too many lighter guys
over there all righty so
I think what I'm going to do now
is I've washed my brush again now I'm
going to go over to this is now
dry and we never did get to put
our highlights in over there so it's back
to that nice white off-white highlights there
we go you see now they they're lying
on top where before they were blending so
some of these hairs are sort of standing
up so I'm going to just make one
or two of them do their own thing
up top here that will just help for
that that nice shaggy hair look all righty
so now we've got here an interesting situation
where we need to tackle those ears as
well mustn't forget about them let's
just get a few of these guys so
it's too wet over there we can't do
that we'll have to wait for them so
while we're waiting let's tackle the ears and
then while we edit we may as well
tackle that tie in from the left to
the right so this is our cold ear
so we're going to use cold colors let's
take a look it's dark on the inside
lighter towards the outside and then there's lots
of little loose shaggy hairs coming down so
let's maybe use a let's maybe use a
turquoise this time let's give this guy a
bit of a an edge over there just
like that and while you edit just just
flick in just a suggestion of some hairs
here on the inside and that that flicking
motion will give you a bit of a
a hair effect like that nice and rough
okay let's take that and I'm going to
just let me zoom in on this piece
I'm going to turf that reference and everything
for now the lightest touch and I'm going
to just wiggle and squiggle this down there
like that let's maybe get something lighter maybe
just add some white maybe add some green
maybe add some yellow just a lighter version
and I'm going to just pick up a
little bit of water as well on my
brush just to get it thinner so this
is now a lighter tonal value right because
now we're going to add like more of
a highlight so add some up there and
if you need to use a smaller brush
with just very gentle little flicks and stuff
just to add more hairs so some of
those hairs now do come down over here
like this and they hang down I think
that can go even lighter let's add some
more white into that use
this here it's just hanging down here like
this now don't be shy maybe use a
smaller brush if you need to here's some
of this hanging down here okay
now I'm getting quite a bit of water
because I want this paint to be really
thin on the brush now and then we
add some more just little wiggles and squiggles
just to get some more hairs hanging down
around this area like that that's
cool okay let's
do the other side so it's more of
the same let's maybe start with a red
here let's give that areas outline like that
pull flicks in so what we're trying to
do here is just get a bit of
a shading using flicks so it's darker here
on this inside bit and it looks lighter
on the outside bit so just these flicks
all flicking inside towards the inside of the
ear like this just suggesting those hairs they're
on the inside of the ear okay let's
maybe wash the brush and go to a
lighter version let's maybe go to a yellow
bring a little bit of orange into it
just like a mustardy kind of color let's
get a highlight going over there and then
here's here's curling down this way so I'll
have to get some more water into this
mix to sort of can flow off the
brush super light touch just the tip of
the brush is doing
the painting now because I want thin little
lines if you need to go over to
a thinner brush a fine liner even if
you need to that's fine okay and here
I can see that some of those hairs
are here as well there like that and
you know what I think I'm going to
add just maybe just maybe one or two
hanging off the tip of this ear over
here as well maybe not quite as long
there is a cutie pie all righty guys
so all we need to do now is
finishing let's get that tie in over there
so I'm going to take some of the
greens and some of those colors that we've
used here and same as what we did
over there just bring in a little bit
of this over there like that while I'm
at it take that same tonal value put
it just here and there in those places
where I see it over here don't overdo
it just a little bit just little hints
because if you don't then what's going to
happen is you add too many of here
then they optically mix and then it ends
up becoming optically mix and it looks gray
all righty let's get another color maybe a
dark blue let's get some dark blues here
in between these dark reds and things and
over there just a touch here and there
just like that yeah and while we add
it let's put in just little dabs and
dashes on the horns as well so
that we can get some just so we
can get some nice texture into the horns
all right let's see let's get a light
green let's get some lighter green there's nothing
over there so we've done with that just
here just get some just touches of that
light green over here can you see how
that light green really or these opposite colors
really jump out at you and that's why
you mustn't overdo them we've already added in
over there so that's fine let's maybe add
just some of this over here so that's
more in the central bit and you can
see I'm just using really rough dabs and
dashes maybe I can go to there you
can see so what I'll tend to do
is just dabs and dashes and stuff because
you've got that texture let's get that photo
here can you see there's like a texture
it's not smooth one color so just by
adding these different little colors and stuff it's
creating that texture because now you've got lights
and darks and warm colors and cold colors
and all sorts of colors in between each
other so when I do put that down
as well let me do let's do one
over that side just so that you can
see what I'm doing I'm making the these
little marks follow the contour of the horn
so let's maybe pick up some orange so
orange is sort of a this kind of
a total value way so I'm going to
put down a mark or so but you
can put it down in a curved motion
like that you know what let me get
a piece of paper there's a great piece
of paper to demonstrate it on if you
had to draw if this thing was full
of lines the lines would do something like
this in fact yeah can you
see that to show that it's round so
you've got to do those same little angle
lines here when you're doing these marks so
it's either going to run along the length
these marks or it's going to run along
that that curve
fab let's go back wide again now that
you know what I'm doing okay so what
do we have there orange let's get it
just a touch of orange and so on
in here in between here we likely we
already have that initial initial color down eh
so I'm just adding little touches very light
little touches and it's
this here that also confuses the people they
don't know how on earth you did it
because there's all these colors are lights and
darks and blues and oranges and all sorts
of colors in between each other but you've
actually followed it with a a distinct um
pattern oh what the heck let's maybe put
in a bit of orange over here as
well a few orange hairs in between the
maybe just stay on the top maybe we
can go for some lighter ones over there
why not just because we can get a
bit of sunlight on that little bit over
there yeah
that's cool okay let's see what color have
I got you now some greens let's get
some green tonal values in here and
we've got enough greens let's go for some
yellowy kind of colors like a mustardy color
I think I'll just put the palette there
I'm not going to bother with the picture
anymore we know what our picture looks like
and let's see some of these colors are
in this vicinity all
righty we are so close to done it's
ridiculous let's get a bit of a cold
yellow because we haven't remember we didn't put
our highlights over there because it was still
wet so we've got our cold yellow there
now maybe just a touch more green into
that a little bit too much like that
one I can't really tell the difference I
still want him to be cold and not
too far down there because that is not
a cold sign but here you can come
down a fair way are you
keeping up and are you enjoying the class
I'm loving it this is so awesome okay
so I've got a little bit of that
green running around that side as well just
for that tie-in and let's see here
yeah that's not quite light enough yet so
I'm gonna I know I'm gonna have to
put some of these guys in there so
let's do that and here so I haven't
quite fully worked on this guy yet so
put some that's over there and a few
little dabs on this side let's get
a lighter yellow let's put that in here
and a few little dabs on this side
as well for tie-in to get them
together and now let's so that all this
is dry so we can also now add
the highlight over here I think
I'm gonna go over to a smaller brush
just not getting in there with this massive
big brush and those tiny little curves I
don't want to muck it up now we've
worked so hard and it's nearly done there's
that that nice little hard edge over there
all right yeah and I think while we've
got that small brush in hand let's clean
him again and let's just add some of
our we added a little bit of green
in there let's let's maybe add just a
touch of green over here clean the brush
let's maybe take a bit of orangey color
tiny tiny tiny amount on your brush and
let's just add just little reflections of these
other colors yeah maybe a bit of a
crimsony color you use you'd be unique we
haven't used that in this there we go
all right
nice bright yellow so this highlight over here
still needs to just be finalized this little
highlight needs to be finalized there
we go all right so we just need
to finalize that guy over there and then
we're done so we need to get some
warm colors in there let's get some red
let's get some orangey yellows
you can put some in this side as
well and
a nice beautiful sunlight let's take this one
over here so let's get that sunny highlights
in over there flick these marks down that's
cool and same
on this side all
right so i'm just checking out to make
sure this it's textured enough there's just a
little bit of a boringness hey let's maybe
take a bit of a greeny a bit
of a greeny color yeah i'm
happy with that i think we'll call it
a day on this guy what do you
think oh yes just over there sorry guys
two seconds we didn't add any texture over
there just no
hair effect we added sort of shading but
no hair effect so just a few quick
little just a few quick flicks there on
that side and that's where we get something
definitely darker than that maybe a bit of
a greeny color let's add some flicks in
over here you can see i'm using a
small brush because it's just a tiny little
area there we go now we've got some
texture over there and it's it's joining up
there you
go one rainbow highland cow so i hope
you enjoyed that lesson lots of fun just
a nice little four-step process do your
background get that monotone shape of the cow
right do your lights your warm side and
your cold side and then flip a little
bit around that's all there is to it
good luck with your cow see you next
time