How to Paint a Canvas Picture

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Ralph Papa of papagallery.com and today we're learning about acrylic painting. In this clip I'm going to show you how to paint a canvas picture using acrylic paint and with that I just have a palette here with just some basic colors and I'm primarily using blue, yellow and red which are primarily colors and mixing with water to thin them out. I'm going to mix and do the sky first. We're going to make a sky. I'm going to make a kind of a dark sky. Okay, and here I'm just doing the sky and I'm getting a base of blue and mix the blue with a little bit of white and a little bit of red; this is what I get a, the top third of it to represent the sky. Okay, here with the sky and you'll even notice that some of the paint is dripping down where I have some water in it and if you want to stop that drip, you can sometimes just level the canvass and it'll stop or you can just stroke over it with a little bit of more dry on the brush and you'll get it down to say, that's where you want the horizon line for this case. Mix up a little bit of green with blue to get a color of the water that's a little more turquoise like it would be here in the southeast part of Florida. And here I'm just going to drag my brush across where I have the horizon line and it's okay if I don't have all the canvass covered. But I'm just now leaving a little break in the canvass to sort of separate where some white caps would be and just continue on down doing the water. Oops. What I'm doing here is I'm putting it a base for the sand in a foreground just to get a separation between the, the sea and the sky and now we have the sand and I'm sort of blurring the line with the water's going to be coming up against the sand. What I'm going to be doing now is bringing the edge of the water up to the sand and overlapping the sand a little bit so it's more convincing as we get toward the shoreline and you know how we get that foam that sort of builds up. So we're just bringing the sand and we make some foam that's right in by the edges and as I get closer to the horizon line the clouds would be smaller; so I can almost make them like puffs in a distance. As I get up little higher, you know the clouds would be, you know, larger and sort of spacing it random, random shapes like that and then way up at the top we can even make them, you know, seriously larger. It will give you a feeling of, of distance. If we drag the brush across it, it will give us a night, like a cirrus clouds where they're almost evading into the vapor. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."