Underpainting for Oil Painting Sunrise

Video Transcript

"Next step; the canvas. Now you're going to need to have a canvas of course in your congeray of supplies and in this case we have a 12 by 16 inches canvas which is a really nice size because it's not overwhelming; at the same size it's not too teeny tiny so you’re not going to get carpal tunnel putting your paint on the canvas. And what you're seeing here is like wha wha what are you doing, it's not a white canvas; this already has color on it. What I've done here is apply a very, very basin under painting. What's an under painting? An under painting is whenever we; even before you start your serious painting you put on some basic color on the canvas and then you let this dry. See it's not coming off; this layer has already been drying, if you're using oil paints you'll need to do this several days in advance; if you're using acrylics, couple hours it's all you need and it'll be nice and dry for your painting project. What this'll do is will provide a unifying backdrop threw out the entire painting; you're going to see that while we're going to be blending a lot of colors today it's going to help immensely not to have to worry about making sure there's pigment over everything and with a sunrise that's a super pigment rich type of painting, so you're going to want to make sure that you have that threw out your project today. So very simply apply this with a very, very big brush; big round brush, big flat brush with broad strokes; put some basic purple, some lighter blue; blended them together and you're all ready to go with your painting."