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hey it's Cinnamon your art Sherpa and I'm going to guide you
through the fun and joy of really simple clouds and sky
for new artists and sometimes even for artists have been painting a little while
sky and cloud and atmospheric elements
can seem really overwhelming actually
they're really easy and there really a lot of fun and we're going to start
which is the most in basic principle behind this
simple blue sky simple white fluffy clouds you can do really quick
we're gonna have a lot of fun make sure you have your heart
open so that you can get to your art
Lets get right into this and start painting them
because i'm really excited to show you guys easy clouds today
alright common, so it got my pallet here
and I love my phthalo
gonna put my phthalo blue out cause i just love me some phthalo
I'm gonna put my
burnt Seinna out because that's what takes it out of those cartoon colors
and put it back into some happy colors I'm gonna take
some yellow oxide ocher
however you like to refer to it and
I'm going to take some of my
titanium white today
I am painting in matisse paint
I'm painting matisse paints thery'e level 3 they're my favorite level 3
right now in this price point
into that's what I'm working with today but you can do these but what you can do
this with a level one paint
level2 paint or level 3 paint it'll all work
all right now the first thing I may get
am gonna get this nice big brush
this is a number sixteen I love this number 16
now you can get these on SALE for the cost does not have to be so
overwhelming
I actually took advantage Jerry's Artarama amazing brush sale
got this just for just a few dollars (shhhh) okay
first get your brush wet and what we're gonna do
is were gonna start putting in the background sky
some to take a little bit my blue and I'm gonna mix it
and I'm gonna get a little bit of my brown I'm gonna put it in there and grey my
blue out
with a little bit this brown just need to great it just a bit
and then add some white to it and i'll get to see right away where I'm at
it's fun to use these big brushes
alright I've. got the value
that I wanna start with I'm starting this upper corner right here
my darkest color on my sky
is going to be at the top of my canvas
alright I'm going to get a nice amount of that in
I making sure .... I love the big brush (cheering)
big brush awesome Okay
now what I do is I'm grab a little bit
more white paint because I want this sky
to lighten up like an Ombre
as I come down closer to my horizon line my imaginary little horizon line
So see how I am grabbing some white paint expect to really go through
a bit a white paint I grab some water right there
cuz my paint was making me work and what's our Hart party rule?
painting is easy if it's not easy
the brush the paint the teacher or the cavass broken
so fix one of those things I'm going to come here and very lightly like CAT pressure
blended the space. Cat pressure you say?
so i'm talking about. pressure I'm talking about how happy is the cat
is your cat just been fed and feeling very friendly? or does your cat just have
a bath ?
light cat pressure it angry wet cat!
this cat does not want to touch it so tread lightly and be respectable or you
can go for the sunburn analogy whatever works for you
grab some more white paint here grab some even just Basic Cause i gotta get a really
go through
my white paint today... get a little more water
go along real fast fast fast
I'll see we've got lighter here
lighter lighter lighter lighter lighter were lightening it up
light-pressure blending blending blending
pull across pull across now
another thing I'm doing it's even though every once in a while i will go
up and down on my brush strokes I'm actually pulling most of this paint
grab a little more brown here ...grab... I'm pulling most of this paint
horizontally
so I might go up like this to get it into the canvas but
I will start to go over it lightning my pressure
Imagine sunburn angry cats wild feral
armadillo where really you have to get your mental state into to recognize that
pressure is a big part
of painting and you have to be able to lighten it up
need to lighten up in life but probably we all need to lighten up in
our lives
pulling this down pulling that softening that
softening that up
very exciting because painted my hair dyer there move that out of the way
for just a second
alright coming down here picking up paint every once in a while
lets go fast fast fast fast
coming up leveling that brush stroke out
some time to the directionality stroke a really impacts your result
skies are one of those the directionality this brush stroke
let you know if there is wind lets you know how settled the sky is
let you know kinda Day is and this is one of those perfectly fluffy cloud days
that we'd all like to paint
so we're going to keep this very placid very peaceful very static
and we're gonna do that with a horizontal brushstroke
alright that looks really good
now I'm gonna get one of my fabulous painting assistants to come in here
and help me dry this painting with the hair dryer so
alright there to be on their way in.... oh wait I hear her right now here comes my
eldest honey her actual name come on in Honey
this is my painting assistant she's a very good artist herself and she helps
me in the studio all the time
I find it's really nice to let the kids help in the studio
are you Honey will you dry the painting for me
beautiful painting assistant that you are
(laughing)and the brushes are down
I think we're okay so I want you to tell everybody you like to paint?
Tell every body. I like to paint
How does it make you feel when you paint? it helps me express
how i feel. tell them
It helps me express how i feel. well thats important is'nt it?
all right we give me a hug thank you for being with me in the studio Honey
okay
all right that was Honey
I'm gonna start cleanest beautiful sky it's got beautiful atmosphere
feel to it it's darker the top it's lighter at the bottom
a grayed it a little bit with that Sienna
so that's a really lovely happy blue sky blue
the next thing and I'm gonna do. it I'm going to put in these clouds
and I'm gonna do that with the helpof
this wonderful old round brush
I can't even see the size on him right now
I think he's probably in that 16 to 20 range
he's old he's abused he's got kinda stiffer Bristol
in sometimes in this case is your
most battered most heavily used brushes that really help you get that cloud in
but as long as you got a fairly stiff bristle brush
and you can do a good dry brushing technique with that you're going to be
able to get this cloud it's the first thing and I'm gonna do them to come over
to my palate
and I'm gonna go in and mix a little blue into my brown
and this time I'm gonna be a lot stronger in the brown because I want to
be
gosh almost gray i come over my canvas and tap a little this excess off
on my paper towl I'm gonna come in I'm gonna make these little circles
make these little circles into the canvas
little circles
up and down and you're like oh my god it's like this crazy brown that's
okay you want it to be a crazy brown
you do you want to be this crazy crazy little brown
are clouds well
their highlighted at the top and they're gonna be darker at the bottom
and that's a little something you know WE think a clouds as being white
or gray but they're really very reflective creatures
they have a lot of personality I
light this is where we are like "ooh my canvas is very sunburned" or
My canvass and this is very very
angry crazy
armadillo whatever it takes to get you to lighten up that pressure on your
canvas this is what is really important
and some getting its first layer in getting my first little layer in
fabulous gonna be wonderful I'm gonna take a little bit at this across the
whole canvas
clouds are often about layers
and when you're trying to just get a really wonderful set of clouds in
you got it sorted commit to a few layers of paint
and an odd stage You needed just accept there's gonna be an odd stage
there's going to be an awkward moment you know
but you gotta get the paint on I am
using today for reference you should really try to look at something when
you're trying to paint it so I've got some pictures and some clouds here I
like
I like to use Pinterest as a resource
thank you to all your fantastic ans talented pinners out there
your PINTASTIC!
and yeah we do have a Pinterest board in you can check it out and you can follow
it
and these lessons go up on the Pinterest board as well
we incurred you to pin our stuff alright so I'm getting this nice
really really dark dark layers going down here
my I know what a nice amount of this and I want it be quite dark
I'm quite grayed out
ohh just little circles were going to come back
there's gonna be a whole buncha layers here you will be able to get this in real fast
now I do not even rinse out my brush
at at this point try did not do that my crab some just white paint
I will come come up here
very lightly am gonna start adding
all my pressure is getting so light some of this soft
fluffy top of the cloud thing ahh fluffy tops of the clouds
Just working down coming right into my gray
because I know a lotta thats can disappear into the upper cloud structure
what i am trying to do is break up my patterns here
see that trying to break up my patterns
and make sure that that
you know you can really really see that the patterns are breaking up
there's another new lighter layer coming in that gives us some depth in shape
have a little light coming here and a little layer
that some other dark peek out...... up and down we go
no patterns make this wonderful happy fluffy cloud bank every once and a while
to have to come in and dry with out hair dryer
see that? there you go
having come off the side coming what's more fluffy the cloud bank
little bit lighter little bit lighter
and really once you sorta
get this !Some times artists refer to this as scrumbling almost
actual term that they use this sort of rounding
soft twirling brushstroke
you know and you can do this with different had some brushes
I just really like to do it with either broke down brush
come up here and break up this
just like that needs to be broken up a little bit
now I'm gonna dry it with a hairdryer and
I'm going to pick that up with my foot
I am going to dry with my hair dryer it will be a little faster this time
all right now that that's dry
bring in and some white paint
we will get some more white paint going
I mean add some this today get a nice amount going
brush up on my paper towel over here him I'm gonna get some
just white paint but I have it rinsed my brush i am going to dab it off
to have too much
Excess i coming here work my little
I am going to come in with a nice little bank of
much Whiter fluffier little area here little area light pressure
letting some of the blue of the canvass show through now its just starting to become
just starting to become what it is in my mind
it's coming here
some highlights breaking up that space
just wanna break up the space what break these clouds up and make up fight like
they're on Bravo
yeah get these clouds flipping tables
flippin table mad these clouds aught to be
these these can be happy clouds today I'll oh we've said happy clouds now
invoke the Bob Ross
whenever you invoke the Bob everything gets better in your studio
and everything gets better you paint better because he comes in and
he inspires you if you don't remember Bob Ross he was a
lovely man on Channel 8 that encouraged people to paint for years and years
and had a really wonderful spirit about and we just
think he's wonderful here. Some more white
come in
work this shadow back just a little bit
fair shadowing and we want some shadow here we do remember when you take
something out in cloud if you take out too much you can always
put-back what you take out in the cloud
you can come back with darker and you can the shadows in
you can put those shapes back in which is scrumbling along lightly here
shrumbling along softening these edges because clouds have soft edges
they're not s sharp they're not made of knives
their made water droplets of with soft edges they like
a little gasp of air they're really fun to paint their just
I'm telling you what
we weren't talking right now I would practically be meditating
now
it looking working good
nice layer going there
it is thin there its thin I am letting the paint be thin
thin allowing the blue to show through
that's where the magic is just when your paint
does the work you just remember what the rules are
you let your paint do the heavy lifting
how's that for that how's that working thing now at getting cloudier
and cloudier and cloudier and these are a little stormy
we're gonna
brighten them up and listen i want you to know something
I got a Facebook page and as you do these if you have questions
send me your pictures tell me about what your doing
Tell me about what your painting if you want some help some advice or some tips i am here for you
Were happy to help you out that's literally what this is all about
is getting you guys painting getting your remembering that your just awesome
and you can trust that you can be treated with kindness and respect
I I love when anyone brave enough to paint so I will take good care of ya
now we are going to get our next later going wipe the excess paint on the brush on the paper
towel get another layer just white
get the just white come here
lighten up some of this this yeah lighten it up
it's some just white we are lighting up the sky we want this to be
much more we want to be cheerful
want to be happy just a happy little clouds paining
thats all were doing today happy little clouds
happy little clouds happy little clouds
kid love to learn to do this
Got some paint on my face. they really want to learn how to paint clouds
they really understand this once its explained to them
and they can really learn this it helps them
get this technique this language under their belts if you've got kids that are
interested in painting
this is our real good thing have them watch in paint along with
they can do this on this on a smaller canvass and with smaller brushes they can do this on
an eight by ten
this a 16 by 20 to just you know
have it downsize have them work on an 8 by 10 have them practice
and that's really what you gotta do for skies as you get the basic technique 0
either skies down about how you get the paint down and you layer it
and then you find other ones that you like
go on vacation take some pictures paint the skies that you see
you can paint on a cruise ship
may get seasick but you can do it
somebody want up (shhh)
(baby in background) somebody wants us
so many things are wonderful
really really brighten this area up i go right into the white
bringing it up creating highlights here
children!! (kid noise)
I have a bunch
I have three I like them their noisey though
when I decided to do this I just gave up on it would be just like this quite film
studio where nothing was happening and I realized is probably most of you
have the same thing happening at home were probably living in the same amount
of noise
with the same a crazy that's why have them in here helping me sometimes with
my Hart Party Step by step so that they understand
you know that they're part of this but they matter
(Laughing)
theres dad... dad says no
we don't mind were painting clouds today and its all good
there when I get right into
tap it tap it tap it
tapping tapping tapping we do not mind
free cloud video
Wow that cloud bank thats getting
to be a set of clouds getting to be fluffy
its feeling very light and doesn't it seem easy and possible for you
you can do these clouds
you can actually! all in this research is coming back
on drawing and art and these are all really learn able skills
now I can teach you to be you i cant tell your story for you and thats really where
talent, expression, and creativity comes from but I can show you
the little languages that we have here in art you can do to
day to start putting this in your life
to start making as part of your world
you can do this you can you can be fluffy like a cloud
you can be fluffy like a cloud today lets get some more white paint
lets be fluffy fluffy fluffy
Oh so cute and fluffy
oh people get so impressed when you can do clouds I love like
you know in the different locations i get to teach art
artwork morning at you get a student to really do their first real clouds scape
and they realize that they
they can totally do clouds and it's so exciting for them
exciting for me too very exciting
just getting here in doing this or clouds were just coming to the end of this now
our little cloud banks taken some shape it's got some
got some layers and dimensions these are floating past each other now they're
they're having their moment
lovely now I'm gonna get a paper towel
I like to keep a roll near and I am going to wipe of my brush
but I'm still not gonna put water into it not yet
how is this looking to you is it feeling fluffy
are you thinking I could totally do you that!
alright now before it dry
there's a couple more layers but before it dries
teeny tiny amount of my yellow paint just a small amount
small amount i will come over to my white
mix yellow ocher just a really wonderful Color tap it off on this
paper towel
and couple spots here in the coming in I'm gonna put this
this incredible nice yellow into the sky
we'll come back with some white and knock it back I want some yellow
highlighting along this left-hand edge
have some of my banks i doing little yellow
you cannot believe what a difference just putting here and here
kissing kissing these clouds
but just a little bit of yellow just a little bit as Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss you can just work this sky
all day a when I was a young girl my mom's a professional artist she's really
good's she is Ginger Cook
and their she was doing was doing these two horses this mare and this foal
for 5 years years she changed the sky
it's like these animal lived in weather I actually imagined a child
that they were out walking down the trail forever together and the
weather was changing was showing the passing of time because she just
changed the sky
and then she would be no no i want a different sky
a different sky
and I really have to say as a kid I I love the magic up watching those two
going through all those different kinds of Sky's they did they lived in every
kind whether that mare and foal
kinda wonderful when we live with artists
magical to be an artist's magical to live with an artist
so wonderful experience I do not know my husband
would actually validate that (laughing)
you but it is is we're blessed blessed people
and I hope you're becoming one of us I hope you're becoming an artist
just feeling some of that in your soul
feeling some of that artwork coming in
i love just a little bit of kiss of that yellow
makes a huge difference into
just dry brushing and I love dry brushing
dry brushing means my brush has paint but it's fairly light on the paint
that my canvass is dry and i do not have a lot of moisture on the brush so
that what's happening is the paint is gripping
to the top surface weave the canvas and leaving little dusts of color in it it's
kind of like when you doing makeup in your doing blending
all right gonna really
really dry out my brush
checking it out fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy
these clouds are cute and fluffy you can see how much
paint just exists inside this poor
abused little abused brush poor little brush
poor little brush
from come here do a little hair drying
so that everything is dry
pick my brush back up again it's
pretty dry and doing good gonna get some just white paint
you really get some just white paint
coming in were really lighten up some areas here
I always like to dab of the excess onto a paper towel
to get some nice
this really is all in the pressure under pressure
yet we doing you like I don't really have a license for Queen so
song is not plating but you know i'm talking about. coming in just for this last
little air
thought last little layer
thats little whispies up here
last little layer
we want them to fluff up there
here and here and there is some yellow showing through
lets really define this bank right here
you seeing that there you go
defining that bank right there might need some definition
come down here and give it a second layer where push it up
you hear artists when you go through YouTube tutorials will talk
about the push it up pull it here
they're really just talking about where you're asking your pain to be
and I have to tell you that this is this here
this little exercise will just lower your blood pressure it'll just make you
feel better about the world in general
really just bring some bright white on now and I'm putting this on a little
thicker
I'm really pull some
bright brightness into it it i
There is my some talking I do not know if you can hear them the way i can hear them in here
when you get those mothers ears you hear everything
you guys need cloud tutorials we gotta get out to ya
right we are getting there
make some definition over here let's pull this up a little bit
give this some highlight
some personality
we dont want to have it be one sided
thats fun just fun
fun just fun to do clouds the so entertaining
have them going on in your life
all right there we go thats just a really happy little cloud bank
that you can do
really easily itsa one hoot who difficulty painting
so super simple to get into its just about being
willing to be here in just take some time to play with it I
a little trick I wanna show you before we go anywhere
is say that you took out one of your low lights
that you really like you just go right beack
with your paint here the dark color
come in with it just put that
put that right back right back
put it back wherever you want that darker paint
feeling to be and tell you do that you just come right back
you can always add her dark colors back in and you can always
put those back somewhere in the painting wherever you want them to be in your not
stuck you know with what you got you can
you can keep adjusting all day
all day once acrylic paint is dry
it really takes a lot of adjustment you know I got those
dark-colored right back in there someone's more dark in there that's how
you do that
if you overwork your clouds and are like no no I like had is perfect moment
dry it with a hairdryer go
breath I intend to fix it attitude is everything in art
you intend to do it if you imagine it you can do it
you will be able to do it there is a way to do it
you're not lacking anything essential
to being happy whole person and that includes in your artwork
now it looks like i have some toys to pick up
I want you to go into your week I want you to be happu
be joyful be blessed I hope that
all of your creativity is right there for you start appreciating the world
I really hope that you look at some cloud banks
and some sky and think about how you might paint that and
I want to see you at this easel
really soon all right bye bye