Painting with Yovette, Deep Forest Falls, Pt 1, Gesso

Painting With Yovette, Deep Forest Falls, Pt 1, Gesso Well Good Morning! Is everybody ready to start on a waterfall painting today? I've been waiting to do this one for you. Anyway I wanted to thank everybody for all the wonderful well wishes, and the prayers, and everything that's been coming my way. I'm fine. It's a member of my family that needs my attention right now. So anyway, I just I do thank you. And anyway so are you ready to get started? Let's go! Okay now I want to show you what we're going to use first. We're going to be using a white gesso, I'm out of Ross product right now so I'm using another product. But any gesso will do. So white gesso, gray gesso, and black gesso. Those are the colors that we'll be using on this. And as you can see I've already primed my canvas and it is just a solid black gesso all over. I also want to have a sponge, but if you don't have a sponge you can use a paper towel. I've got two sponges here, I was debating on which one to use, I'll make a decision in a couple of minutes. Okay. You're going to need a little container of water, you're going to need a liner brush and a filbert brush, and a paper plate, well no, it doesn't have to be paper. I use a real plate because it's a lot easier to handle. It's more sturdy than a paper plate. So anyway, that's the supplies. Oh! I forgot to show you this. I was just doodling on paper, and as you can see I did some rocks here. I love the way these rocks turned out! I can't wait to show you this. So anyway, I thought that was kind of fun. You can practice on paper, it's a good way to do it. Okay I'm ready to start! I decided on this sponge because I like the big openness of it, but you guys can use a paper towel, a sponge of any size or kind that you want, just use your imagination. And as you can see here my canvas has been covered in black gesso and it is totally completely dry. Now I let my gesso's dry at least 24 hours before I start working on them, so you might want to do that too, it really makes a big difference in how the paint works. So anyway as you can see here I sort of drew out a little waterfall, and here's where my little rocks are going to go from the waterfall, and then all this is going to be bushes and stuff like that. So, the way I'm going to start is with my pa, with my sponge, I'm going to dip into white gesso, because I want to get some foliage, some brightness started up here, and some foliage. So I'm tapping into the white gesso, tap just so it gets kind of diffused here, and then I want my lightest part to be here. But I'm going to spread it out some. So we'll just start tapping, and I kind of go around in a circle. I'm not making it real thick, but just thick enough. And I do want to come down over the waterfall just a tiny bit. So back into some more white gesso. Like I said I want this part here to be the brightest, and the white gesso when it dries, it kind of dries a little bit darker, so I like to put that on heavier. That's going to be a nice glow right there in the center. And I think I'll do that one more time. There, that's good. And then I like to just blot on a paper towel a little bit of that white gesso because next, without cleaning my sponge, I want to go into some gray, just a little bit of gray, tap-tap-tap, and I'm going to go on these outer edges. I'm just changing the color ever so slightly. Tap on the paper towel, go into more gray, I like that gray color, that's pretty cool. I want just a little bit like a foliage look down here, so I'm going to just put a little bit there. Okay and then tap on the paper towel again. See it when I'm doing this, I'm just getting the most of the, most of the paint out. Not every bit, but most of it, like So. Okay, and I think what I'm gonna do is just go into just a tiny bit of black, like a very very little bit, and tap on your, on your, whatever is holding your paint, and go into just ever so slightly in the corners, just to darken that, tiny bit, little bit in here. I want it to look like a little, just a little bit of foliage down here, yeah. I think that's good, because that's got a nice light color in there, I like that! Okay, now when you're using it be sure and put this sponge into some water right away so that the paint does not dry in the sponge because that will absolutely ruin it. Okay now while that gesso was drying up on top I'm going to move this down so you can see what I'm doing down low here. mmm Excuse me. Now comes the fun part. Oh, this is so fun! Okay, so I have I have a filbert brush, and what I'm going to do is just go into some of my black gesso, and just kind of spread it out here a little bit. We're going to actually double load the brush. So we've got black on one side and let's do some grey on the other side. So I've got black on one side, grey on the other. And then where your stones are, I'm going to take this and just wipe that chalk off, I don't really need that anymore. Okay. The light side up and just come in and make little rounded pebbles, kind of stones, and way in the back here, make these kind of small. More paint. Excuse me. A little bit of black, a little bit of gray, and when you're doing this, hold your brush, don't hold it like this, because it makes kind of, I don't know, not very pretty stones. But if you hold it this way on the edge it works a lot better. And make some of them larger, and some small. And these don't have to be perfect, I mean this this is just pebbles in the water. More black, more gray, and we're going to do different things with this also. More black, more gray, and just keep repeating this over and over. Sometimes little teeny ones, don't forget those little itty-bitty ones because they are important. This waterfall is so popular! I mean people just love waterfalls. I don't know what it is, maybe it's just because it's nature, everybody loves something about nature, I know I sure do! And just be creative with this. This will look so pretty once we finish it. You, you will not believe the transformation! So now so far this is just all blacks and grays. And up close, up towards the bottom here, you want those to be a little bit bigger because they're closer to you. And you could go over some of the ones you've already done, that's not gonna hurt anything. We'll probably go over this a couple times. So that's kind of interesting! Okay just take and wipe some of that paint off on a paper towel, there you go. And now I want to go into a little bit of black and white. This time I want white on the top so this is really gonna make it glow. And and my light source is gonna be here, so I probably want lighter rocks right in through this little area here. So we'll just put my, whoops! Yeah there we go, right side. I need more black. There, so I want the light, the white to be up on top. And I want a few light ones here and there. See, I'm kind of tilting my brush just a little bit like so. Remember those little ones. I don't want to many, I want the edges to be a little bit darker, so I don't want too much light out there. And you can come in now if you've got some that are too dark, I mean excuse me, too light, you can just come in with some dark paint, and just fill in every once in a while. Wipe my brush off, I've got too much, to many, clean my brush because I've got too many colors on here. I'm just rinsing in water. I don't know if you, I don't even know if you can see my dish, I've just got a water dish here. That's better. Now it's all clean. Now I want to just go into straight black, just for a few, some really dark ones, dark areas. Oh, we are having a hot day here today! Just excuse me just a minute here. I just had to take a second out here to show you that it's a hundred and five today and it is really really warm! Okay, I'm back. Warm-warm-warm! So a little more black. Now I'm just sort of like tidying up a little bit, and if you see some spots that you want to change, if you want so, like, let's put a little gray in here. I want some gray stones. Oh yeah, that's nice! Just gray. No black on it, just plain old gray. It just changes the tone, the value a little bit. This gesso all seems to gum up your brushes, so every once in a while it's really good just to give them a cleaning. Just rinse them out in water. So I think that looks good! Wiping off on a paper towel, I'm still going to go into a little bit of white. I still want to highlight a little bit over here, because remember the light source is coming down this way. And just play with this. You know, and every once in a while just stand back and look at it, and see what you think. You know, does it look good? Is it anything you want to change? Is there something you want to do different? Anyway I think I'm liking this right now, so I think I'll stay with this. So what you're going to do is just clean off that brush. You don't want this paint to dry in it. And next we're going to go into just a solid black. Now this should be dry up on top. Let me check it here. Yeah that's dry. Okay. So now we're going to go back to the top again and we're gonna make some trees. So I'm just going to go into black, both sides, load the brush both sides, this is the filbert brush, and I can't remember if I mentioned or not but all my supplies will be in the description list down below so you can check that out. Ok, let's have a tree here. I want just a gnarly little tree here, maybe a branch coming off, a little bit wider here at the bottom, and I just, I get, I'm loading frequently. Okay, how about just one on the other side. How about right over here, let's have this one coming in a little bit. load it again. I want to go over this just a little bit more because I can see my white is coming through. How about maybe just a little one here. That's good, right there, that's enough. Okay now without clean, well just wipe your brush off a little bit, then go into gray, because now I want just a couple on the edges here, a little bit of gray. How about one over here. And they can cross over each other, that's fine. And these are just little trees. I'll come through with the liner brush in just a minute and we'll take care of that. Maybe a little one here, maybe one coming off here, and wipe your brush. And now, you can clean your brush if you want to but I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to go into my white, and let's, let's have one coming out here. This is fun just to play with these colors. They are very cool Hope my hand is not getting in the way. That does happen doesn't it? When you're pouring this gesso out, it really does not take a tremendous amount. I've got way more here than what I need. It's hard to, it's hard to know exactly how much. But it's better to put probably less out, and then you can always add more. Okay that's probably good. I don't want it to be too too busy. Okay now I want to just squeeze that excess paint out of your brush, out of your filbert brush, and make sure you clean it in water. You definitely don't want that paint in there. Okay next I want to take my liner brush and we're just going to wet that brush, because now the paint needs to be pretty thin to make these little branches. So I'm going into black first, and I almost want this kind of watery. Okay and then we're just going to go in and just make a few branches, little ones, you don't need to do a whole lot, but just just a few. kind of looks pretty. Sometimes you want these branches a little bit thicker than what, what I'm doing here. just a little bit. You can look at it and kind of tell which branches need to be thicker. And you can always go in, and you know, the neat thing about these, working with these gesso's, if you don't like something, just wait till it dries and then go over it again. You can do that as many times as you need. So now I'm going to go into a little bit of gray, clean up these edges a little bit here. Make this kind of runny, almost, not quite like an ink, but almost like an ink. Hope you guys are having a fantastic summer! It's been a very hot summer here so far. Oh my goodness, the ah, we've been up in the hundreds, hundred and four, hundred and five, almost all this week. So I am, I'm thinking about Alaska again and going back to the snow! Joking of course. No, Alaska was nice, I enjoyed, I really did enjoy Alaska for the time I was there. I went up there when I was fourteen years old, very very young. My folks took me out of school and drug me up there, and I fought and screamed all the way, but it was really a wonderful experience, one that everybody should go to Alaska at least once in their lifetime. They'll be on scenic overload, it's just so beautiful there! And let's just go into a little bit of white, a few white branches here and there. I graduated high school in Alaska. That was an experience! When I first went up there, I remember my very, when I got off the plane the very first time I was thinking in my mind, oh my gosh, I'm going to be walking through an igloo to get into the airport. Well that didn't happen, but it was darn close. There was snow, oh my gosh, the snow was probably up to my knees. And I had been, I came from Minnesota before that, so I was used to snow, but boy not like Alaska snow! Okay I think that's good. Um, let's see, I want to, oh I know what I want to do. Just a very few maybe grayish blackish, just a couple of little twigs in through here. I don't want much, just a little bit. Maybe a little bit of black. Oh I hope you guys are gonna be happy with this one. And I know you don't like to parts but this one has to be two parts. For one thing, I don't like making long videos because people have other things in their life to do, besides sit around and watch videos! As fun as it is, there's still life to contend with, and I know my life has just been extremely busy lately! And almost almost did not think I was gonna get this video made. But next one, next month I will do part 2, and I think you'll be quite happy with it! Well that's it! So now you can see top to bottom. Now I want you to look at this! Is this not fun? This is something else that you could do with this painting that would just be a great! I belong to the Grants Pass rock group, and what they do is paint on rocks and then they leave the rock all different places. It could be in a park, or in a building, near a building, parking lot, just any place, on the grass, in the flowers, and you can just leave these anywhere. But I decided to try this painting on a rock and so this is just the undercoating, this is gesso. Black white and grey gesso, and it will be the same painting we're going to complete. Now wasn't that a fun under painting? You're gonna like the rest of it I'm pretty sure. You know, why don't you do three or four of these and you know, just do them for gifts because they make a wonderful gift for someone special in your life! I know I'm gonna do that! And also, I tried something new on this video. I changed my camera angle, so tell me if you liked it better, or maybe not as much. I don't know, I'm just curious about what your thoughts are on it. And also, I want to say thank you again for all the prayers, and everything is going to be fine, it's just a matter of time. And also, go pick out some rocks and just try this painting on a rock and to see if you don't have a lot of fun with it. The rocks you can leave anywhere and people will just love them! So, well thank you for coming by to visit me today. I just really enjoyed my time with you, and I hope you come back next month when we finish this painting and put all the beautiful color on it. Okay, talk to you later. Bye bye