Combining White & Yellow for Oil Painting Sunrise

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to go back onto our palette here, in between like the pink, orange, yellow bombs we have here, a mixture and this little guy right here, remember this guy, this is the Cadmium Yellow Light, this is our yellow highlighter. I have a little bit of media on my brush, take some yellow here, this is such a little amount of paint, I'm actually going to bypass my palette knife for once. Once I get a nice liquid mixture here, could be ready to put some of this wonderfully bright and strong yellow pigment onto our canvas. Now I'm going to actually take this very small brush, and start applying this to the most intense areas of yellow on the canvas; all around here. Now basically what I'm doing, doing a couple of things. I'm spending extra close attention to shape and color down here, because this is the most intense area on the canvas. And I'm also doing just what we've been doing, only with a smaller brush. This'll help me control my movements more, it'll also bring attention to it, because the brush strokes are going to be smaller, and that's good. This is like where the sun's about to pop up over here, we want there to be attention drawn to this, this is our, even though this is not the quote, unquote center of the painting, it is very much the focus of our painting. So I'm going to continue to apply small brush strokes. And I'm also going to be blending it in. It doesn't mean just because these are small, that you don't blend it. Actually blending even easier to do, look at that, oh look at that, that's great blending going on there, beautiful. You can be building out these shapes, again looking back at our photograph numerous times, to make sure that we keep everything correct, before moving on."