so here we are together again
I'm working on this nice little 12 / 12
here a woodland thing now I've been
working on the trees here the last day
I'm now going to start working on the
foreground here and I'm going to show
you exactly how I'm going to do it so
this at the moment this is a blocked in
stage it's just had one coat of acrylic
obviously that's now dry and I am going
to show you how to do the bluebells in
this nice wooded area here and an
obvious path here but that has just been
blocked in and it's like a middle middle
time but let's get going on that now
I'll show you how I'm going to do it so
first of all the first thing to do is to
add the darker tones now there are blue
bills all the way across the front here
but as it comes closer the bluebells
become a little bit less dense and you
can see a lot more of the grass through
so I'll put those in afterwards now I'm
going to use liquid to this and I'm
mixing it with some ivory black so I
like just a darker glaze it might also
mix in a bit of cobalt blue and touch
that dial clean purple only a little bit
let's see how that works
fine for this bit here I think and I'm
just going to go roughly just over this
or distant area probably bit even a bit
more blue and dioxin yeah that's a bit
better so the brush I'm using here is a
trio texture rush from rosemary okay and
this is five 3/8 of an inch
I'm going over the light of it and the
dark bits with this just going over all
of it just dabbing it on there this
brush gives you quite a nice sort of
spotty textured look which is perfect
for these bluebells
okay now so we move forward I'm going to
do exactly the same thing if I'm going
to change the color then I'm going to go
with a green SAP
permanent SAP green
so I've changed the brush just through
this beer the foreground here this is a
comer brush I'm using now for those of
you that are interested in using the
same brushes that I use if you now go to
Rose Mariko's website which I'll leave a
link in the description you'd be able to
buy a set of my brushes and they are the
exact same brushes that I'm using here
so
now before I start working on the
highlights I'm going to do and while
I've got this brush out I'm just going
to war a side wave motion here on the
path what you seem to have in there is
of lots of little dead leaves and sticks
and things that and on the on the floor
going on some of the greenery in here so
what colors are we going to use going to
use Windsor lemon it's quite light the
the greenery in there until you come
right down to the foreground where it
becomes a bit more richer so we're going
to use that we're going to use phthalo
yellow shade see if we can sneak that
over here and I'm using this fan brush
here which is theories 27 and its size
and medium also from rose Mariko and
also in the set so just in the lighter
area just going to tap it on not using
any liquid and I haven't pinned it down
with white spirit or middle school or
any you want to call it I need a little
bit more paint mix there
doing his a I'm putting on they're doing
a slight slight downward motion
which is all giving you a bit of a
into the you know grass texture wouldn't
use this when I come right down to the
foreground because it just won't look
quite right but also cling some of it
into that blue there just off here and
there
sometimes when doing this the best brush
to use is the is the oldest brush I'm
using here is just a fan in fact it
would have looked something like that at
one time
precious Oldham haven't been cleaned
very well isolate a little bit bit more
sometimes that works better
good idea to experiment with the brushes
you're using so I get a light effect I'm
going to do now is a little bit more
detail just in the the greenery in the
foreground just put in more of an
obvious sign of the and our foliage that
you get with bluebells
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doing these bluebells the highlight of
sunny areas here we got the sun shining
on the top of those bluebells color
changes from a purpley blue to almost
like a pink and that color is really
difficult to get I'm using titanium
white and I'm just mixing in with it a
little bit of magenta just a tiny bit
just to give it that little bit of color
base a very difficult color to get and
even this isn't isn't quite right this
is it's one of those few colors that
it's just very difficult to get right
help mixed around with a couple of
different techniques to try and get it
right and I've settled on using a fan
brush here series 20 55 and it's just
allowed me to get some really tight
little blobs of color
just using the very corner
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okay so now I'm going to get started on
this path here doesn't require a great
deal of work really it I'm just
suggesting the detail that there's not a
lot on it I think you got quite a few
dead leaves and things there but it's
just got this or stiffled look so I'm
going to do the shaded areas of this or
mozi brownie color here which I've mixed
with the magenta yellow ochre in there
what we've been going with a bit of that
burnt sienna
tricky bit going to getting these
highlights right in a really quite light
all right so coming to the end now I'm
just going to add a few darker bits to
the path and then we are pretty much
there so just using burnt umber I'm just
going to stipple it on in particular
around the edge of the path here where
we've got you know leaves dead lead
leaves are more likely to gather and it
just makes the edge of that pathway look
a little bit less regular as well
you