hey everybody's Michael James Smith here
seems a bit strange saying hey everybody
considering we only got a dozen or so
subscribers but what the hell today we
are going to have a look at painting
grass now it's pretty important thing to
learn to paint if you're going to if
you're going to be painting any type of
landscape at all so I'm going to walk
you through it here my video stops there
we go start it again you twat we start
with the blocked in stage
I'm going to first using a fan brush I'm
going to be painting the shaded areas
over the blocked in portion of the
painting and the colors I'm using our
ivory black SAP green and it's actually
quite runny I'm using a lot of liquid so
you can actually see through the paint
it's quite transparent and we're just
going to go over pretty much the whole
area there's no real you know not been
that careful we're just putting the
paint on roughly where it's supposed to
be one of the things I do want to say is
it's important not to go too overboard
with this because it's quite easy to
darken it a little bit and then you go a
bit darker and you go a bit darker again
and eventually you're left with
something that is almost impossible to
bring back to life again so you just
want to be put in these darker colors in
areas where there is obvious shade in
the photograph so once that's done we're
going to start putting the lighter
colors over the top here we're just
using a rigger brush and we're almost
drawing the paint on I think the key
thing here is randomness you don't want
all the blades to be pointing in the
same direction this isn't all you know a
manicured lawn this is this is a you
know some edge of a meadow by a river or
a lake so you just you know you don't
want to be too precise with it we're
using a slightly more opaque color here
which is going to sit on top of the more
transparent darks we've just put in and
that's really going to help the the Lees
that they have leaves the idiot
the it's really going to help the blades
of grass stand forward once again
there's a bit of liquid used in this but
not nowhere near as much as when we did
the shading because we'd want this to be
a little bit more punchy and to stand
forward stand forward
Stanford means standouts probably a
better word let's use that
you
and we're just going to continue to
build up over the whole area obviously
it's important to bear in mind that the
as the grass is further away sounds
obvious but you want to be using smaller
brush strokes you're keeping the
randomness but they are smaller as you
come into the foreground as you can see
the blades of grass are bigger and that
gives you the the feeling of more of
depth
you
this step might seem a little bit
strange we just spent the last hour or
so adding highlights but now we're going
to pick up a fuse or darker blades of
grass and it probably doesn't seem as if
it's going to do a great deal booty by
the sand when that's finished you really
will see that it's it's added a new
dimension to it and it's all these tiny
little touches that seem to take an
awful long time but really do make it
look realistic
and you can keep going over
over and over it and adding more blades
and the more realistic you want it the
more time you're going to spend on it
but you know we're trying to get this to
look as real as possible in the quickest
time possible
so we just keep building it up and also
we want to be careful that we're not
going too mad with this dark because we
don't want to undo all of the work we've
done we're just trying to give it a
little bit more depth
we're certainly starting to get
somewhere with this it's beginning to
look like grass which is a good thing
but there's still plenty of work to do
yeah but we're just going to go over the
probably the majority of especially the
foreground with these darker blades here
less important with the grass at the
edge of the riverbank there because as
the as the grass does recede into the
distance you do see less details anyway
so you're not going to pick up on some
of these darker areas it's going to look
flatter there's no doubt about it it
will look flatter so you don't need to
worry too much about that most of the
work you're doing is going to be middle
to foreground
you
another reason not to go to
first stage where you are using the fan
brush and putting darker colors in ease
you can actually pick bits out to darken
up later as you can see I'm doing here
it's not terribly time-consuming and
actually it's quite effective and once
again it's just you know you're just
coloring in this that's all you're doing
using the same brush the rigger brush
and you're just coloring it in it is
quite effective but you're only going to
want to do this in the very foreground
just to give you that added depth
you
in the video here it does look as if
those dark shades are drawing in there
are it looks as if I'm using black but
I'm not it's it's I'm using black mixed
with I think the SAP cream and there's
probably even some cadmium lemon in
there so it's not it's not black it
looks darker on the video than it
actually is that's not to say you can't
use black but if I really use black neat
straight from the straight from the tube
in fact I think the only time I really
do is when I sign my name because you
just don't get that black in nature you
get near to it but you don't you don't
get pure black so just bear that in mind
you
we're going to keep building it up now
putting on lighter greens you're
probably looking at sap brain you've got
a little bit more cadmium lemon in here
and probably a bit more white as well
and that really does help to give it
some pop you don't have too much wax
don't it's a bit too chewy but just a
little bit extra and then as we go on
here we're adding highlights you know
how you get it when the sun is shining
on it perhaps there's you know the
grasses is it's a little bit damp and
you get just these tiny little flecks of
white and it's just little things like
that that pull it out give it that pop
and it just really does help make it
look real it's really really important I
can't emphasize just enough how the tiny
little details the tiny little details
help to give it that realism and it's
not neat white I've got to say I'm using
titanium white and it's just a touch of
yellow cadmium medium in there just a
touch but you're not doing full blades
here you're literally just doing tiny
little blips because that's what you're
going to get just that light shining
just on the on the top of the blade of
grass there and that really does make
you look effective
you
just throwing on a few more
is there because we could remembers this
is just the well you know you're gonna
have sticks you're gonna have twigs
you're gonna have dead leaves you know
this is you don't want it to look too
neat and orderly so you know sided
really get all sorts of crap drown you
in in the grass you'd be stepping over
and what-have-you so you know be sure to
put all that in as well because it's
you've got so many different colors in
there as you can see it's just you've
got bits of dead grass and all sorts of
things so you know thrive it all in it
does help when in facts you know putting
in some bluebells here as well just to
give it something else just to finish it
off but it is looking good I think I
think I think you'll agree it's it's
looking pretty good and there's no
reason why you can't do this too so we
just put those in we're going to add a
little bit of detail on that but
essentially that's pretty much it I
think we're pretty much done there and I
hope this lesson has been helpful to you
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watching and we'll see you next week bye
bye
you