So we're going to be painting tonight. Everything we have here, you can get at Michael's dot com
And we've also got john here signs of me answering your questions live so if you have any questions make sure you ask them in the comments, and Johnny relaying them to me so john want to say hi.
Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining tonight. Thank you to Michael's for having us. We definitely appreciate it.
We are going to be doing a fun painting tonight. Jesse is an amazing teacher, which you will see. And in just about an hour. She will have you painting a beautiful painting.
One of the things that I'm excited to say is that from all of the comments that we received tonight. During the live stream. We're going to be selecting a random winner for a plaid.
gift basket. So we appreciate that. I'm sorry my, like, I think it was like my amber alert went off in the middle of this thing so
Crazy. Um, yeah. So everyone who comments. Tonight we are going to be selecting a random winner for a plaid gift basket of products and we are looking forward to having, having everyone on board tonight.
Hey guys.
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Yes, hope everyone staying safe. Tonight, we know that it's it's some crazy times out there and, you know, I think that we were getting alert about
About, you know,
Like safety.
Right, public safety and
curfews and that sort of thing. So it's, it's fun to be able to put all that aside for a little while and just pain and relax and, you know,
It's one of the great things about
Our so
That's right. That's one of the things that throughout this whole pandemic. We've just heard again and again is that people just want to take a minute and relax and get creative and and enjoy themselves. And so we're really looking forward to this opportunity.
Thanks john
Jesse, you have
People coming in from all right this Baltimore, Texas, California, Michigan, North Carolina.
City, Chicago, Ohio rescue Kenya, Indiana, it's there, just keep on coming
Awesome. Welcome everybody. We're so glad you're here.
Right. I mean, I think we're probably ready to start. People are jumping in.
Okay, cool. I'm just gonna start by letting you guys know the materials will be using tonight. So like I said, all the materials here, you can get at Microsoft. COM
So first, we've got this 12 by 12 inch canvas really any square canvas will do we have this pack of gold Taekwondo brushes. So this is the Super Value pack and then we're using full guard acrylic paint tonight. So the first one. We've got is pistachio which is this light green color.
We've got mossy meadow, which is sort of a medium green
We've got clover, which is the darkest of our three greens.
And then we've got pink melon or fire coral. This is a very similar color. So it's like a bright orange, pink color.
We've got light blue
Lavender or eggplant any sort of purple color you have will work for this one.
And I've also got with her way. And again, any white paint you have a word for this. So, um, if you're at home and you're having trouble getting paint, please feel free to substitute what you have
We just need three greens a pink light blue really any color. This is the color for the flowers and the cactus. So you can use red or pink, it's totally up to you. And then we're going to be using white to
So I also have some paper towels my water basin and then right here I have palette paper.
Which is just some wax coated paper that you could put your paint on. But at home, you can use a paper play a Styrofoam plate, you know, aluminum foil whatever you have a home is perfectly fine for this to put your paint on.
So the brushes will be using tonight, in case you want to pull them out of the package. Specifically, we're going to be using the three fourths inch flat brush, which is that big flat brush.
We've got the number 10 round brush, which is the biggest from brushing your pack.
We're also going to be using the number three round brush, which is the smaller of the rounds and then this small flat brush, which is the number eight flat. So in case you want to kind of get ready you can pull those out. Those are the brushes will be using for this evening tonight.
Okay, so let's get started. Again, we're going to be painting this cactus painting tonight. So we'll get started on by showing you guys how to just draw the outline of this practice.
So I'm going to start on my canvas, I'm going to find the center of the canvas will say about here. Let's get some paint on our palate.
I've got my number 10 round brush and I'm going to, this is a brand new brush. So I'm going to rinse the sizing off because when you buy a brand new brush.
There's like a coating on the bristles that keeps it nice and straight in the packaging, but we want to
Wash that out. So we have a nice left nice soft bristles. To get started, we don't want that. That crunchy coating on it. One more painting. I'm going to dry it off and then I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to grab the lightest of my green, which is pistachio.
I'm going to put just a little bit of this my palette. Maybe about a dime or nickel sized amount
And I'm going to take my round brush. I'm just going to water it down a little. So to do that, I'm going to dip my brush into I water basin.
I'm going to make sure I have a good bit of water on there. And then I'm going to put it on my palate and mix it into the corner of my green. So now we have this like really watery sort of inky paint.
So this is what I always do this when I'm driving my my drawing out my outline supply paint.
Feel free to use a pencil at home or a pad whatever you've got it got feels more comfortable for you.
But I usually always draw and paint and this is the way I do it. I use one of my latest colors and I water it down and I use a round brush just to draw me loose outline and then I can easily paint over it.
So now we've got our brush sort of setup and the Senate there carefully.
We're going to go back. We're going to find the center of our the bottom of our Canvas. So it doesn't need to be perfect. It just sort of what you perceive as the center just kind of find that
And I'm going to put a mark there with my brush so I can see where it is hopefully you guys can see that
Just put a little mark and the center of my canvas, and then I'm going to find, oh, about an inch on either side. You could even use your, your thumbprint to sort of measure it out.
And a half inch on either side. And I've got put a mark on either side of that.in the middle and again it doesn't need to be perfect. You can see mine's not perfect, just about that size.
And that is going to be the base of our center cactus.
And Jesse, what size canvas. Are you using because people are asking whether they could use a different size or not.
Yeah, I am using have a 12 by 12 just regular stretched canvas for my goals.
But you can use any size canvas for this painting and you'll just have to, you know, scale it a little bit. If I say like, Oh, an inch or an inch there.
You'll just have to sort of a proportionate based on how big your canvases. It shouldn't be difficult because we're not going to be doing rulers or measurements or anything like that. So any size games you have it can be squared me rectangle rectangular it'll be fine for this painting.
Okay. And again, right now we're using pistachio. And we've watered it down with water, of course.
And I've got my number 10 round brush and we're just going to sort of start sketching out our, our cactus. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect. That's what my favorite thing about painting plants and flowers is that
No flower know practice know plant is perfect or ever the same so however you paint it is, how it is going to be. And that's just perfect.
Alright, so now I've got I marked the bottom at the center and then I marked about an inch on either side. You know what a move my line in the little bit there. So it's a little bit narrower. And so that's going to be the base of my cactus shape my big cactus.
And then I'm going to find about maybe a third of the way down my canvas again just eyeballing it so it does me. Perfect. I'm going to put a little mark there. So your canvas should look something like this.
So now what we're gonna do is we're going to connect that line to these two lines in sort of a prickly pear cactus sheet. So I'll remind you guys with the finisher. And we'll look like to give you an idea.
So we're just going to go up and get wider and then come down and get a little bit more narrow and then why to get and then narrow again.
And that sort of going to be the big of our prickly pear cactus tonight.
So you can see my lines are not perfect because that is just how a cactus look is a little bit lately. It's a little bit irregular, so please again, don't stress it it's not perfect. However, you make it as perfectly fine shows you how I do it. So I'm going to try to use
Wipe, a little bit of my access paint off.
I'm going to try to use the tip of my brush so I'm gonna start here and I'm going to go out and then back in to wear my blindness here. So her show you how to do it, just very carefully, very slowly.
It doesn't need to be perfect. I'm going to go out and then I'm going to bring it back in to match that wine. Oops, a little bit to the side, but that's okay.
Again, it doesn't need to be perfect. So this slide is going to be painted over with plenty of paint on top of it.
This is just a rough sketch of the shape of our practice. So if you if you mess up, or you feel like you made a mistake. Do not stress. We're going to paint right on top of it.
Somebody the same thing on the other side. It'll be fairly proportional. I mean, fairly symmetrical, I should say. So we're gonna go naira when it comes out and then back in to meet the base. So just like this.
Number to go back in a little. So there we have sort of the, the base of our larger cactus. So now I'm going to draw a little smaller cactuses on either side.
So this cactus here. I'm going to find maybe the center between these two spaces. So hopefully you can see the corner of the canvas and where our little mark is here and I'm going to find sort of the center of that and again I'm just eyeballing it
And then I'm going to go about halfway up this cactus. So you can see here how tall my cactuses. And I'm gonna go about halfway
And I'm gonna put a little dot there. So hopefully, if you're using a different size canvas. This is still gonna apply to you. We're not using any any specific measurements, just as in proportion to whatever size your canvases.
So for this one we're gonna do something similar, but it's going to be a little round drop the top just to give it some variation
So we're going to make sort of a bold, the shape of the top and then it's going to go down into a point here. Here, I'll show you our mind to what the finished one looks like it's sort of round up here and then it comes down and it's me at the base.
Head Jessie. Would you turn the turn the painting hundred 80 degrees. There we go. We're going to turn it around.
We just had our we had our view upside down for folks. So there we go.
That is a problem, guys. Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
This is live theater, folks.
Yes, this is really live in case you're wondering. Absolutely live
There we go. Much better.
Okay, cool. So here, let's do a quick recap. In case anybody was confused about that. So we made a mark in the bottom center of our canvas just using some water down green
And then we made a mark on either side about an inch out from that, from that mark. So an inch, the left and an issue right now we marked that
And then we made a mark about two thirds of the way up our canvas, and then we just connected those lines. So now we have that nice symmetrical sort of prickly pear cactus shape.
And then we looked at this mark and we looked at the edge of our canvas and we found the center of that.
And we made a mark and then we made a mark about halfway up our are already drawn cactus. So I just said right about there again doesn't need to be perfect because you know
However, it looks is how your cactuses look and it doesn't need it doesn't need to like any specific cactus. So now, like I said before, we are going to make this one's fertile ground at the top, and it's going to get skinny at the bottom.
So I'll start on the left side. And I'm going to go make it sort of round at the top. It's almost like a light bulb shape and get skinny.
And then around at the top.
And get skinny.
Everybody's very excited about the cactuses Jesse. They are absolutely loving it, and just review the colors. Also, one more time that you've used so far.
Yeah, so I'll leave you so far is we're just sort of sketching out that one of our cactus and right now we are using pistachio green
So any light reading will work for this really any other colors work for this because we're just sketching out in this going to dry really quickly because we've watered down the paint.
And paint on top of it. So any color about white will report will be fine for this, but we're using the light green pistachio.
And as everyone has been commenting these classes are all available on demand after the session is over. So if you return to Michael's website, you will be able to see the
Complete class. If you're a little behind the pace that Jesse is painting at that's no problem, just relax and go back. Watch the class after the fact. It's got the full supply list all the colors and you can do this at your own pace.
Yeah.
Alright, so now we're going to paint. We have sort of a little cactus poking into our frame here and that's really just a little bit of a dome. So this one's pretty easy.
I'm just going to paint a little dome on the bottom right, and that's just a little guy poking into our are seeing here.
So now to fill some of the space on top. We don't want that all to be blank. So we're going to draw some more.
Little pieces of prickly pear cactus coming up out of our paid practice to sort of fill that space.
So we just drew this sort of light bulb shape. We're going to replicate that sort of coming out of the right side of our cactus sort of coming out of this area here diagonally.
So we can I always like to lay it out a little bit so I don't just start painting my line and go rogue. I like to have sort of a map.
So I'll say, this will be the center of my little life old guy and I want him to go to about there. So now I know I'm not gonna, it's not going to get wonky halfway through.
So I'm going to connect it that way, just like we did our other light bulb shape. It's going to get big and then skinny at the bottom, just like that.
And then I'm even further. I'm going to draw a little bit of a tiny little likable guy coming off of that shape, too. So the same thing, just skinny big and then skinny again.
Because of course prickly pears are some are big. Some are small and they all are just sort of growing out of themselves. And so it just, it can, it gets bigger at the base and then they get the fruit gets tinier and tinier and tinier the further it goes up.
So I'm gonna do another one here and other sort of light bulb shape and I'm going to mark my canvas, I'm going to have it coming out of about there. And I'm going to make him go to about there on my canvas. Can you guys see that
And I'm going to do another little light bulb shape so fat on the top and then syndicate skinny towards the bottom
And then I'm gonna make a couple little guys coming at him to. So I'll do one on top just kind of fill that space. We don't too much negative space.
And I'm the one coming out of the side too. And he's going to kind of kind of go off the candidates just make it a little bit more interesting. All right, to wash my brush off because that is the outline of our prickly pear cactus and wash my brush off and make sure it's nice and dry.
And again, all we did is you just read the larger one was little guys coming off and then a couple smaller captions on either side doesn't need to be perfect.
Um, it just how I read one trick distill it you don't, you can match mine or you can draw your own prickly pear cactus. It's totally up to you. Feel free to match my design or, you know, be creative and make yours in any shape or size that you want. That's fine too.
So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to grab our fire coral or have pink melon, your, your bright pink color and we're going to put about a quarter sized amount of that on our palate.
And I'm also going to grab some weaker. Wait, am I put about a quarter size amount of that as well.
And Jesse just before you jump back in. Would you give them one more view of the final painting a couple
That as a reference.
So find your
Is what our final painting will look like.
Yeah, if you set that right above your brushes. Perhaps you they might be able to see that right in the upper corner.
Right here.
Sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah. There you go.
Okay. Cool. Awesome.
Okay, so just on my palate. I've put my bright pink color and I put wicker way. And again, these are our full card acrylics.
And I'm going to grab my three forced inch flat brush, which is just a larger flat rush. So if you're a painter on any any you know medium to large flat brush will do and I'm going to rinse off the sides and again
And again, just because you know when you buy a brand new brushes are shorter crunchy. The Brussels and that's because they put a coating on them to protect them in the package.
So you always want to just rinse out off with water. So you have your brush your Russell's nice and soft when you get started.
Okay, so I'm going to pick up a little bit of this bright pink color fire coral.
On my brush. You can see I put paint. About halfway up the bristles. You don't want to overload your brushes paint. Is it just makes it harder to control but halfway up and we're going to start painting the background myself a little space here.
So the liver going to paint the background is I'm going to start filling in around my green cactus and an X pattern. So here I'll show you how to do it. I'm going to make x's like that and start filling in the background pattern.
And we're going to do sort of a dabbing motion making exes.
And as we do that you can sort of, you know, goes in any direction. We just want to be sort of random directions and we want to put a good bit of paint on to our canvas.
And then I'm not going to clean my brush off my brushes still has the pink in it. I'm going to pick up a little bit of wait and see. I don't have a ton on there. So a little bit
And I'm going to start doing the same thing over my thing. And that's going to create sort of a textured look in the background and makes it a little more interesting than having just the flat pink.
And when you look around the cactus. You want to sort of, you know, make sure you follow that shape a little that, again, we're going to be painting on top of that, so it doesn't need to be perfect. I'm just gonna be making my pink x's.
This is a really relaxing part of the painting or sort of filling it in kind of like a coloring book just making x's and following all around your cactus.
And then we're adding the white in
And again, you never want to use when you're painting like this. You never want to use too much pain. So if you if your canvas is really wet and filled with pain. It's just going to take longer to dry. So, just enough to coat the canvas. That's about how much paint you want to use.
And it's easier for you. You can even go around the cactus and sort of paint right up to the edge. If it, if it feels a little safer for you not to go into that shape and then you can do your pink right up to that in the random pattern that's fine too, however you feel most comfortable
And again, we're just doing our pink color.
And it's sort of an ex motion.
And we're filling in the whole background so all around.
Those cactus shapes that we painted
We are painting our x
And you guys don't forget to comment and ask questions and let us know where you're from, because john is going to be picking a random person from the comments at the end of this to get $50 with a plaid product. So you can have all the paints that you need to paint this painting.
So again, we're just using our right pink color and we're painting in an X pattern all around our cactus fill in the background.
And then we're adding a little bit of light in to create some texture. So it's not just the flat.
The x x x x or you can kind of just swish in different directions, if that feels comfortable for you. We just don't want it all going the same direction we want it to go and lots of random directions to create that beautiful texture.
And again, if you want to peek around your cactus if that feels easier to
And then you can sort of do your
Your ex pattern over it, add in your wicker white
And the reason I always like to paint the backgrounds. First, you know, after I've sketched out my my shake whatever it is that I'm planning on painting.
I paint in the background first. And that way, it gives it a little bit of time to dry. So when I go to paint my cactus. I can easily if I were to accidentally get into my
cactus. A little bit like that I can easily paint over it with the green. So if we were going to Pedro cactus first and do all the beautiful detailing
And then paint our background who might get pink over and we'd have to go back and correct it, and it would just be kind of a pain. So this way.
If we mess up our pink. We don't have to do our it's easier to do our pink twice that are cactus twice if that makes sense. It's easier to touch up the pink, then it will be to touch up the cactus.
Again, just going all around.
Little cactus shapes.
And I'm adding in white, just a great texture. And if you want to use this pink color. You can feel free to make a purple background or a blue background to make little your sky is totally up to you.
When I originally painted this painting. I was sort of thinking of like a desert sunset. And so that's why I made this quarterly color background but
If you want to have a night sky or a bright blue sky. You can do whatever you want for your background. And you can do the same technique. Just do your ex shape with whatever color you choose. And then you're just going to make more x's while 20 of the white over it.
And again, we're using the bright pink color fire coral or whatever bright pink color you have, and we're mixing with her white into it.
Plaid Crafts: Everybody is loving these tips Jesse and they love the X strokes and just all the tips that you're giving and they are really having a great time.
Well, good. I'm glad everybody's enjoying it. I hope everyone's home they're taking a little bit of time for their self themselves tonight. Just a little break from everything to relax and sort of unwind.
Plaid Crafts: So what do you a couple of folks are wondering if they had a different color palette like for the background for folks are wondering, could they use a blue
Palette.
Absolutely yeah you know if you have, like I said, if you wanted to do like a blue sky.
You can totally do that. Like I said when I was painting this, painting. Originally I was sort of thinking of like a desert sunset. And that's where I went with this bright pink color.
Um, but whatever color you want. You could do a night sky. You could do a purple background. It's totally your preference any color will work for this.
I probably would avoid doing like a green background. Just because it'll blend in with our cactus and you won't be able to really see the cactus. Um, but other than that any color would be perfect.
Plaid Crafts: Great. We've got folks really enjoying it. We've got some mother and daughter teams painting tonight. We've got lots of folks who who are enjoying these Michaels classes, somebody just said, Jesse. This is my second class with you. You're the best.
Plaid Crafts: Oh, yeah.
Plaid Crafts: Yeah, nailed it just said my nine year old just got into painting to help with her anxiety and she's in heaven right now. And that's what it's all about folks, you know, I mean, this is not
Plaid Crafts: This is not rocket science. We just saw that rocket go up. And fortunately, none of us have to worry about that too.
Maybe, maybe some of you do. You don't worry about it.
Plaid Crafts: Maybe it's me maybe some of them do. I don't know, but
Plaid Crafts: We're not worrying about it here. We're just having fun and we're painting and relaxing.
Yeah, that's fine. Everything's about painting and about crafting and just are in general is it's a little bit of time to yourself a little bit of time to just sort of turn off your brain and and relax a little
Plaid Crafts: So how's everybody doing. Are we just let's take a minute to make sure people are caught up because I see that Jesse sort of got her background done on. Do we need to take a minute if we're people people able to keep up so far.
So I'm now john maybe if people are are sort of on track or 35 a little bit of a head. Now's a great time to be the size of your canvas.
So there's
A good chance to catch up to, because you can always go back and see the slides later if you're not caught up yet, you're still in your background.
But if you are caught up, or if you're a little bit of a little bit ahead of us. You can go ahead and just do sort of the same thing around the sides of your canvas.
To sort of finish the painting.
Plaid Crafts: Yeah, why don't you go ahead and do yours Jesse, because there are folks who need a little bit more time.
Yeah, no problem.
Plaid Crafts: And while we're here, I just want to, you know, I just want to take an opportunity for those of you who are enjoying this. We are
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So again, we are just painting the sides. Now, to allow people time to catch up case are still paying their background.
But if you are still catching up. Don't be stressed, you don't need to pay your sides right now. It is so easy to go back and do that at the end.
So just take this time to paint the front of your canvas to paint the background. We're just doing this now to kind of let people catch up. If people are ahead, now's a good time to just go ahead and paint the sides.
I usually don't paint the sides of my canvas till the very end, just because it's kind of messy. And so I like to wait till it's dry. Oh, we're just doing this. Now, like I said, it's give people a chance to catch up.
Plaid Crafts: Yes. And once again, guys, I know that everyone is is enjoying this. But if you do feel like you're getting a little bit behind. That's okay.
Plaid Crafts: The entire classes available on demand after the fact, on Michaels website and you will be able to go back and watch the whole thing with all the supplies and the colors and the techniques and everything.
Yeah.
And again, please feel free to substitute any of the colors. Any Pinkel do any three Greens will do on any white will do so it's hard for some people to get supplies right now, but please just paint along. Anyway, I'm using whatever you've got at home.
Plaid Crafts: And I will tell you this throughout this entire situation that we've had with the with the quarantine the pandemic Michaels has been amazing.
Plaid Crafts: With their curbside pickup their delivery options. So even if you're not at a place yet where you want to be feeling like you're going into store we really, you know, at at plaids offices. It's funny, we, we found ourselves going to Michaels to buy our own stuff.
We got going.
Plaid Crafts: Right, we were there felt like we were there every day to go and get our own paint, because we had stopped manufacturing for a while.
Plaid Crafts: And we could go to Michaels and do curbside pickup. So between their website and their various options. They are the place to go.
Yeah, we were buying canvas was there. We were there all the time getting our palate paper and everything so
Yeah, yeah, I got
Has been awesome.
Okay, do you think people are catching up john
Plaid Crafts: I think so we're gonna have to move on. So,
Plaid Crafts: Everybody get ready.
Alright, so we are going to start painting our campuses. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to wash off my brush. It's my walk up my big brush. We've been using
And how to make sure I get my brushes, nice and clean, which mean colors just so I don't like to let any P every dry in there. That's just a good habit to get into. When you're painting. That's how you keep your brushes nice just clean them one by one.
I got a bad habit of just leaving all of my rushes in the water basin and then they get frozen. It's all about the water. So that's not a good habit. It's better if you just clean your brushes as you go.
Okay, so I'm going to, I'm actually going to use this light green, which is the green that we use to paint the outline so we are using pistachio. And again, this is full, particularly, but any light green will do
I think it's even going to be a little different than my original painting. We're kind of mixing it up with some different greens. Some add a little bit more
And I'm going to use my large flat brush again. Again, there's my three fourths inch flat.
And I'm going to start just based coating on the center area of my cactus. So just nice light coating
You don't want to put a ton of paint on there. You just want enough to get full coverage, which is really easy.
Sagar acrylics are my favorite paint to paint with because we have such amazing, amazing coverage. They're really rich and creamy.
You know, it's really annoying when you're painting, something like this and you have to go back, multiple times to get full coverage on something.
You just kind of want to paint it and be done with it. Have it looked at the first time. So that's why I love well great acrylics that they really just paint so smoothly and cover so well. You can see the background. You'll have to do one code and there's no showing so you my green here.
A lot of times, especially with lighter pigments. It takes many coats to cover something fully like if you're using yellow or something like that. But this one is getting really great coverage right off the bat.
And I'm just going to go right up to the edge. I'm going to sort of use the the chisel the edge of my brush to get right up to the paint.
Again, nothing, nothing fancy here we're just painting in the line to get a nice coat of green sort of as our base to paint the details.
Plaid Crafts: WHAT SIZE BRUSH. Are you using right now, Jesse.
I am using the three fourths inch flat brush which, if you're using the craft smart Super Value pack. It is the largest flat brush in the pack, but any medium to large sized flat brush will work for this part.
And again, I'm using my edge my brush you get right up to the edge of my cactus.
And if your pink around the edges is still a little bit wet and if you do get a little bit of paint into your green. That's okay. It'll be really easy to paint over when it dries, or you can wipe your pink off your brush and go back over it with green
No big deal.
And we're just painting this large area and I'm using pistachio green the lightest of the greens. We have tonight. So any like rain will do. Or if you only had one brain. You can just add white to that green to make it lighter
So you have different shades. You will need the DIFFERENT SHADES FOR THIS PAINTING tonight, trying to keep going. I'm gonna fill in these two guys here on either side of my big cactus.
Again, nothing fancy. Just taking our time to
Fill in
The cactus shape.
Plaid Crafts: Now, if someone had a sponge brush Jessie, would they be able to use that or that difficult to do with with these techniques.
You can definitely be able to the background and sort of base coating with this.
We have a little bit of details will be painting later we're going to be painting the spines on the cactus. Those might be a little bit tricky. Um,
But I said, why not you can use. You can do a lot of things, the sponge brush. You can use the tips of them to your advantage. You can use the chisel edge of a sponge brush so it might work.
It'd be great if you had a sponge brush and maybe a little bit of a smaller brush to do those details, but I think you can do the bulk of this painting. If you have that at home short. That's all you got.
Plaid Crafts: It feels like the details might be a challenge with the with the sponge brush but maybe for the base coding for sure.
Yeah, yeah. For the base. You can totally the sponge brush. So again, we're just painting a nice even coat of our latest green, which I have pistachio green
And nothing fancy. We're just making it even co
On our larger prickly pear shapes and I'm getting using the edge of my brush to get right up to the edges.
It's taking our time.
To fill in these areas. And the more you paint the quicker you get at these sort of parts I need to remind myself just because I paint every single day here applied.
So I need to remind myself to sort of slow down and take my time and enjoy the process of just filling in
These areas.
So I'm going ahead and I'm going to clean my brush off now please take your time, keep filling those in each one nice even coat. You don't want too much pain.
I'm when I'm painting. I usually do sort of these quick paintings, especially for plaid we do our let's paint live once a month where we paint a painting and just about an hour. So I like to keep the quick
So I try to plan my paintings, where each code will dry quickly in between and I continue to paint on top of it. So that's why I like to just do nice even sin coats.
Because it dries quickly and then I can name right on top of it.
Plaid Crafts: Yeah, people are appreciating that you've given them a little chance to catch up. So
Good. I'm glad.
Plaid Crafts: So, Jesse. Here's an interesting question. People said, How did you get into working for plaid.
Oh, that is a great question. Actually john who's talking to you right now. Is it a family friend of ours, so I am an artist and I went to school for art.
And john told me about cloud and how they have content creators here who just get to make art all day are an inspiration using the product, so it's it's a dream job. I love working at plaid. But yeah, THROUGH MY FRIEND, JOHN here.
Plaid Crafts: It's one, one of the few companies where we hire people to actually be full time crafters for a living. So
Plaid Crafts: I know that's a dream job a lot of
TIME. YEAH. WHOLE TIME AND BENEFITS.
It's a real job. People are always like, it's not a real job. And I'm like, I promised it is a real job. It's, I have to pinch myself.
Plaid Crafts: Well, everyone is very jealous is a lot of focusing on that job.
I get that a lot.
We're lucky bunch here, that's for sure.
Okay, so I'm going to grab a smaller brush were just didn't keep filling in these smaller areas. So I'm going to go down to my number eight flap rush just going to get a little more manageable.
And we're going to keep doing the same thing. I'm going to rinse off the sizing because again it's a new brush.
We're going to keep using the same light green, where should I fill in these areas I've gotten down to a smaller brush just to make it easier in some of these tiny areas. The bigger brush might get a little, a little bulky and difficult to manage.
Plaid Crafts: So, Jesse. Do you thin down your paint at all. Are you using this directly out of the bottle.
I never found out my pain when I when I'm painting like this, I do not send out. This is directly out of the bottle. The only time I do send down my paint.
Is like we did in the beginning where I was painting the outline. I just wanted a nice flat light line. And that's why I send it down just to sort of an inky consistency.
But when I'm doing this sort of painting on top like the real painting. I guess you could say I never sent it down. I always just straight out of the bottle.
Plaid Crafts: Yeah and that thick that thick, you know, rich consistency is one is sort of a hallmark of the folk art brand. And it's something that we are very proud of and
So, it
Plaid Crafts: Really makes blending and and working with the paint a lot easier.
Yeah. And we have lots of mediums. If you were to do some trying to blend in. Or if you want to float colors and things like that. If you're a little more advanced if you've got some experience painting.
We've got plenty of mediums for that. I don't recommend ever adding water to acrylic paint for your painting for things like that. I would recommend using a medium if maybe that's what you're thinking of
Plaid Crafts: Oh yeah, there are. Yes, that's right. There are floating mediums and that sort of thing that that that you can use to help your pink glide a little bit better and so on. Yeah.
We've got an extender to, I think, that sort of thing. So you can add those because those are sort of similar to what the pain is made of. So they don't
Break down the texture of the pain at all. They just add to it. So they're sort of whatever's in the paint is also shares ingredients of what is in the floating medium and mediums like that. So when you put them together, they don't lose their consistency or lose their
Pigmentation I guess when you put water in it sort of just starts breaking down that pain and that's just, I don't know, I try to avoid that.
Plaid Crafts: will surely is on her fourth class with you, Jesse. And she loves them all so that's
Surely,
Plaid Crafts: And people are just talking about this is just such a break from what's going on out in the world right now and everyone is so happy to be relaxing and then and having such a great time tonight.
Well, good. I'm really glad you guys are all joining we're really lucky to have all of you guys watching along and we just love teaching you. We love painting with everybody. So thank you. Thank you for being here. We're glad that you're enjoying it.
Plaid Crafts: And we've got folks from around the world here. Jesse like somebody was just saying it's 7am where they are. So, you know, like
Plaid Crafts: A long ways away.
I'm early painting.
That's right.
Well, again, thank you for joining us.
And you can see all sorts of get into that detail there. I don't know if you saw, but I just did.
I started to put my brush in the middle and did a swirling motion to kind of get into that detail and again I'm just using the edge of my brush to get to that line. I'm using sort of a total emotion.
But you can you can do a data in motion to you could do maybe like that. If you want to get in there, whatever you feel comfortable doing whatever level of painting. You're at however much practice you have it'll get more and more comfortable.
To do things like that.
So that is the base coat rack cactus.
Hopefully you guys are all able to
Plaid Crafts: Keep everybody doing okay. They've got their cactus filled in.
So far, we got a good pace.
Plaid Crafts: Okay.
Plaid Crafts: Okay, we're doing all right, Jesse.
Awesome. Okay, I'm glad to hear it.
Okay so we are going to grab the medium of our greens, which for me. I have here on mossy meadow, but whatever the medium green that you're using is. That's what we're going to use. Now I'm going to put a nickel sized amount on my palate.
And I'm going to grab. I'm going to keep using my
Number eight flat brush. If you have a half inch flat, that's fine to just some sort of medium flat rush is what we're going to use here.
And I'm going to pick up some paint on here and we're going to draw. I'm sort of the big shadowy area should on our final painting of our cactus. So we're going to paint sort of that area there. So you can see
We're gonna learn a little bit about highlights and shadows. We're not going to get too fancy. Don't worry. Just a very beginner idea of how
To add highlights and shadows to your painting. So hopefully, don't get intimidated because I'm going to really break it down and make it super simple, but that's going to be doing it sort of a very pop already looking design. It's very graphic so repeating those shadows there.
So, and this star. Like I said, with my make medium green and I will start here on the right side of my large area.
And I'm going to start. You can see I'm about maybe three quarters of the way up my right side and I put a little mark there. So I know you can see here that sort of where we are here.
Plaid Crafts: And I'm going to show you using Jesse
I am using my number eight flat brush.
So you have a stadium sized flat brush, we have like a half inch flat at home. That works too.
Plaid Crafts: And we're using. I'm just remind folks, which, which of these shades of green. We've gone to now.
Yeah, I am using Masih meadow. So it's the medium of our green. So whichever sort of medium green colored, you have a good grass green. That works too. Um, reason the medium of our of our greens in our palate tonight.
Okay, I just wanted about three quarters of the way at the side of my cactus and I just made a little mark there and I started painting, but I'll, I'll hang on. So you can see that's sort of where we're at right now for marketing that spot.
And I'm just going to paint a line right up to the edge of my
cactus. All we're doing here is follow that line all the way down because we're going to sort of fill in that area with green just very lightly.
Hopefully your green is is fairly dry by now, because that's the great thing about folk art acrylics is or just acrylics. In general, really, that they they dry really nice and quickly so
So we're going to just paint on top of it. If it's a little wet beneath that's okay too.
You can just sort of blend it into that color that's okay, since they're both green, it won't get money or anything. It'll just be another pretty green color.
So we've all we've done new city. We just sort of fall off the edge of our cactus with our number eight flat brush.
And then next what we're gonna do is we're going to pull it out into the center. But then we're going to follow the shape of this side. So it's going to be sort of, it's sort of like that this line that we draw here. Can you guys see that on on their screen.
It's the can see here well to the left line. Hopefully that makes sense. So they're kind of going to match each other.
So here I kind of, I'll show you what I'm going to do it, you may want to watch first and sort of get an idea of what I'm doing.
I'm going to pull my brush. You can see I'm just holding my brush, sort of in the middle and have a very light grip on it. I'm not holding it like a pencil holding a sort of in the middle.
And I'm going to go out and I'm going to follow my sort of
S or sort of curved shape there.
Can you see how I did that. So I followed that shape.
And it sort of reflects that in our line there.
You can make this shadow as big or as small as you'd like.
But we're just going to fill that in.
And again, we're painting the shadows on our cactus and this is mossy meadow and our number eight flat brush.
We're just going to fill in that area. Just the same way we've been base coating the rest of our cactuses.
Plaid Crafts: People are really saying that it's easy to understand the way you're teaching Jessie so
WELL, GOOD, I'M GLAD I always hope so.
Yeah, this is great. Let me do this at plaid we oftentimes have a live audience. We have a lot of our friends and family, and coworkers are painting, along with us for our paint nights, so
It's, it's good to know. I usually can kind of, peek and see if people are getting if you are following along. So I'm glad to get the feedback. Thanks. JOHN
Plaid Crafts: Yep. And if you're, if you had a little trouble seeing what she did with the shadow don't don't fret, because she's got a couple more that she's going to do on the other little pieces of the cactus there. So you'll see you'll see her do it again here in a minute. Yeah.
So I'll just, I'll do a little refresh, in case you guys were still catching up or in case you missed one. I painted that wine. All we did was
I made a little mark about three quarters of the way up my cactus right there.
Is made a market my brush and then I painted down the side. I just follow the line and then we went out into the center and then we just sort of follow that shape.
Of that curve. So these kind of go parallel they reflect each other.
And then we filled it in after the Simple as that. And that's kind of the technique. They're going to be using to
Add some of the shadows to the record to the rest of our cactus and we're not going to be doing any blending. This is very graphic sort of pop already looking cactus. Um, so we're just going to be painting the shadows and the highlights and sort of blocky colorful areas.
So, yeah.
Plaid Crafts: People are asking if they're going to get to share their finished paintings. And the answer to that is absolutely you can tag at plaid crafts with your finished painting. You can hashtag us and we will see those we do a Fan Friday.
Plaid Crafts: Every week, and so we can share people's paintings and also you know we have a special group just for painting called let's paint with plaid. It is a Facebook group.
Plaid Crafts: Please join it because we have not only lessons like this, but we have another teacher here at our office named Andy Jones who goes live multiple times every week.
Plaid Crafts: So we are teaching people to paint. Many times a week on plaids Facebook channels so tag at plan crafts with your finished painting so we can see them and be sure to join our let's paint with plaid Facebook group.
Yeah, we'd love to see it. Please, please, please do. Because I love to see your base pay earnings after whenever you guys like John's out flat. I love to get on Facebook. The next morning, and look at that hashtag and see all the paintings there. We did the night before. So fun for us.
Plaid Crafts: And i and i and i can't say it enough that the the the curriculum that Michaels has put together with these community classroom, not only with plaid, but with a lot of other
Plaid Crafts: Companies as well is really been amazing. So just stay tuned to Michael's website so that you can see these these line of classes that they have
We're really lucky to be part of it. We're really
Happy to be partnering with Michael are so excited.
Okay, so we're gonna go down to our smaller cactus here on the left. And where do the exact same thing, the same technique.
Just following the shape instead. So I'm gonna go about three quarters of the way at the right side of my cactus. And I don't think I mentioned this really quick on for our cactus. I guess I should have started with this.
Whenever you're painting a painting like this, you need to choose where the light is coming from.
So for this cactus painting. I decided to light was coming. Whoops. The light was coming down from the top left, that's why I decided, like the sun was hitting it or if it's in a greenhouse. The light is hitting it wherever the lights coming from
It's coming from right here. So because of that, all of our shadows are going to be on this side of our cactus on the bottom right side.
So hopefully that makes sense. The lines coming from the top left the bottom the shadows will be on the bottom right, there'll be opposite always
So when you go to do our highlights later they'll all be on the top left of every shape because that's where the light is hitting it.
And that is just a super, super simple beginner way to just start adding sort of
Highlights and sometimes even reflections and shadows to your paintings. Just pick where you want the light source to be and that's where the highlights will be and the shadows will be on the opposite.
So again, just a really simple way to kind of start playing with highlights and shadows. So again, so that's what we started doing our shadow on the bottom left.
We do the same thing here. So again, we're using our number eight flat brush and we're using mossy meadow and I have gone about three quarters of the way up my little cactus here.
And I'm going to follow the right line we're just going to follow that green line where we already have it painted
Nothing fancy.
And we are going to do the same thing when we go out into the middle and then we're going to follow that line. And so it just sort of like follows the shape of the cactus. It gives it a little bit of dimension.
And the same thing. I'm just going to go on to the middle and I'm going to paint that line to match. You see how those sort of parallel
We're going to fill that in.
Plaid Crafts: Everyone's very thankful about having the instruction about the light source. And I think that's something that is probably pretty key in any painting that you make, because you really have to understand where light is coming from so that you're
Plaid Crafts: You're able to be consistent throughout your painting.
Yeah, whenever you want to add dimension to anything that's just a good rule of thumb, wherever your shadows are the highlights and we on the opposite side of those shapes. And I think a lot of people, which is fine, a lot of features.
Who just kind of do this quick fun painting. Just add their highlights wherever and that's fine too. Um, but once you sort of
Get more experience you start practicing and those paintings will start looking a little wonky to, you know, kind of start noticing, like, hey, those highlights
really shouldn't be there. But again, it doesn't matter if you're painting, you can have wherever you want, but this is just a great rule of thumb, if you want your pain to have dimension and to be a little bit more realistic.
So we still got our masia meadow in our number eight.
flat brush or do the same thing here, this one's gonna be really simple. It's just going to be the little right side of that guy there, you see that it's been since it's hardly any cactus showing just a little guy peeking in that's all that was going to be
So I sort of, you can see how they're all sort of looking like each other because that light is coming down. And so all the shadows are down here.
So for the ones appear. You can see these are just sort of all sort of up right and they're the same.
Position, so it's easy to know we can just match all the shadows. These guys are going and kind of different direction. So I'll help you figure out where those shadows. Want to go because they're not going to be quite the same.
So on this guy if the lights coming down from the top left this shadow is going to go up this way.
So I'm going to start here and make a little mark because that's where this this shape would start so that'll be the bottom
And we're going to paint the shadow up to about maybe there because that's going to be the underside. And we're just going to simply follow the bottom of this line. That's it.
We're going to follow the bottom of the line.
I'm gonna go right up there and I'm going to make it comes to sort of a point there. So,
And then you can even make it a little bit thicker. If you want, but we're just all we're doing is following
The shape of the bottom of this little piece of prickly pear.
I think it's called the fruit, but I'm not sure about that.
That might be, I guess.
Plaid Crafts: You're a painter, not a botanist Jesse So
Exactly. I never claimed to be a scientist.
I always try to everybody here is teases me, I always try to do a little research about whatever I'm teaching the paint so I can call all of the different
Pieces of that painting something accurate and then I start using fancy words and people always questioned me, but I try to Google it.
Okay, so you can see they're all we did was we followed the bottom side of that shape. And then we just made it a little bit thicker so we're just following the shape of the actresses. We already have painted
So for this guy. It's gonna be something similar. So again, we're going to picture, like say this white bottle of paint is the sun shining down
The shadow is going to be on the bottom side right this bottom side of him is not going to be in the light. So we're going to put a shadow there. I'm gonna do the same thing on the bottom side of this guy just like we did there. So I'm just going to follow the the bottom edge.
And I'm just going to sort of let my brush make the shape. I'm not going to put too much thought into it. I'm going to use the shape of my brush to my advantage. And the more you paint the more you sort of can understand which brushes to use for which
For which pieces of your painting.
I can see sometimes I like to, um, I'm going to be pausing I'm taking my time I do watch my brush out between shapes up being the same color, just because I don't like to get let any of the paint dry brush just to keep them sort of soft and fresh.
So now we've got our shadows on most of our shapes. We are going to add them to these little tiny guys appear so it can be something very similar
This one is going to be so sort of the base of him.
And then going down either side, you see that it's sort of a V. Because that part would sort of be so it's sort of a bulbous shape so picture that was like the shape of a light bulb.
It would sort of be on the bottom and be like sort of a couple either side is where the shadow would be
Already the same thing. I'm this guy, it's going to be sort of in the bottom here and then sort of a V shape.
Sort of cutting that round shape at the top.
There's a little be and on this guy. We're just going to do the same thing. We're draw a little line the bottom to see sort of going horizontal so he just needs a little shadow there.
Okay.
Okay, rinse my brush off and those are our medium shadows.
So now I'm going to grab my round brush to this is back to the first fresh be used. This is our number 10 round brush and I'm going to keep the same color I'm going to keep the mossy meadow.
And all we're going to do is first can add a little bit of fun details, where our cactus and we're just going to outline the shape. It's going to sort of make it pop. You can see how
On our finished painting. We've got this like dark fun extroverted like squiggly outline it sort of makes the panel is vibrating like it's really bold and funky. So we're going to add that to the outline of our
Practice, so I'm not going to make it perfect. I'm going to intentionally make it a little bit a wiggly which for some people, I think my father them, but that's okay.
It just started a style of this painting. If you want to make your outline. Perfect. You can absolutely do that. But I'm going to make mine a little bit legally on purpose just because I like the way that it looks. So I'm going to show you on this guy down here.
Somebody use the very tip of my brush so whenever I'm using around brush to draw lines I different the paint and then I swirl it
And that's how I can ensure that I have a nice tip so hopefully you guys can see how I have a knife sharp tip on my brush. I just swirl it on my palate to get that. So it's almost like a like a nice drawing tip now.
So I'm going to start here. I'm sure to start outlining. I'm going to put very little pressure on my
Canvas. And that's, I'm just going to push down and pull up and push down and pull up I'm going to sort of very the pressure as I'm drawing just very randomly.
On if you joined us for our elections. A couple of weeks ago, we played around with pressure a lot to drop shadows in our highlights so
It's sort of similar if you're practicing on the different pressures on your brush, then it's like, very similar. Now, so you will be sort of a step ahead of everybody.
Somebody the same thing. I'll just start here and I'm going to light pressure heavy pressure light pressure heavy pressure
And you can see I'm going right on the line between the pink and the light green because our pink should be should be dry by now.
If you are sort of going the same order as me. That's perfectly drive by now, so we can just go ahead and paint on top of it.
So I'm going to do light pressure and heavy pressure. Again, I'm should make it random because it sort of makes it it's a bold sort of vibrating love, which I think is really a really fun style of painting.
Plaid Crafts: So, the harder you press down the line. They thicker, your line is going to be. Is that right, Jesse.
Exactly. So you can even feel free to practice on you really can't make a mistake with this. So, don't, don't stress about it. Don't feel you're gonna mess it up because you can't
But feel free to practice on your plate or Anakin whatever you thought you can do sort of light line here and then press down for a thicker shape and a light line and press down. You see that the harder you press the thicker your line will be
So we're just going to continue doing that all around every shape on our cactus.
It's going to go around the big one and all the small ones really the same thing for all of them.
Just started drawing a squiggly outline to make our cactus pop
Plaid Crafts: So, Jesse. We have folks as young as five years old, painting tonight.
I love that.
Plaid Crafts: And eight years old. I've just seen.
Plaid Crafts: And so many families are getting together right now someone just said my wife signed us up for this and we're using our new craft room.
Plaid Crafts: I'm 11 I'm well I'm 11
Plaid Crafts: I'm just seeing these comments come in. So we look at that five from H William A. This is so fun.
Wow, cool.
Well welcome everybody. We're glad you're painting along it is never you're never too young to start painting, the sooner the better in my opinion.
The younger you are, the more practice you'll get and changing, so welcome guys are so happy to have you.
Hopefully this will be a fun painting for all ages, whether you've been painting for a long time, or your brand new I'm matter how old you are, hopefully you guys will enjoy this is a nice simple easy one. So,
Plaid Crafts: I'd like to know who the oldest person is we have because everyone's agent. So you've got something
Plaid Crafts: You want to share that john folks.
Plaid Crafts: I want to see us.
I saw 73 there so
Yeah.
Plaid Crafts: Daddy, Daddy is 70
Plaid Crafts: Okay, Gabby says she's 104. I'm not sure.
Maybe. So if you are. Congratulations.
We're so glad you're joining us
That was so cool guys thank you so much. That's so funny.
Okay. So just a reminder, we're still just outlining all of our shapes, we are applying variant pressure, so we're
I'm pressing very lightly sometimes and pressing a little heavier sometimes and that will be get thinner lines and thicker lines and that sort of the magic of around brush. I love the round brush because
No matter how big your brushes. You can get very thin lines for various declines, depending on how much pressure you have it doesn't matter the size of your brush.
Like I said before, you can see on my palate. I have such a really thin line there is I'm barely putting any pressure or I can do a thick line because I'm pressing down. So that's the exact same brush. I didn't do anything different.
It's just all about the pressure
So we are going to continue doing this all around the edge of our cactus.
We're just doing a nice bold outline
And you can see I'm sort of skipping the parts where I have the shadow, just because it's the same color so you won't see it. You don't necessarily need to go down that side too.
I'm just going on the sides are we don't have our shadow
Plaid Crafts: And what color are we using now Jesse, what's the darker green that you're using.
We're using the medium green and it is still mossy meadow.
Plaid Crafts: Massimino. Great. Yeah.
It's the medium of the greens in our palate tonight.
I'm just making my shadows a little bigger because I want them to be bigger. Now I changed my mind.
Okay, so all we've done is we've just outlined, all of our cactuses. And again, we were using the number 10 round brush and mossy meadow. I'm. Go ahead. I'm going to rinse off my brush now.
You sure it's pretty clean.
nice and dry and I'll actually water a brush either just goes on. We keep it dry it sort of a mixture brush last longer. You can keep it for a very, very, very long time.
Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to grab the darkest of our greens, which for me here tonight is my clover, but any dark green will do
And if you don't have a very dark green safe, you're using only one green color and you mix white to get the light one
If you have a good Dark Moon, you can add that to make it your green darker or you can just add a touch of black just a teeny tiny little black and that'll help make your green darker to for this part.
Somebody put a little bit of this and I palette.
So what we're going to do here is we're going to draw and even further shadow on our practice shape and it's going to pick up a little bit. Again, we're still using our number 10 round brush and picking up a little bit of the screen.
And I'm going to follow this line right on the edge, and I'm going to use pretty heavy pressure. Take a nice thick line. You can see here
I'm starting about maybe an inch below where this shadow begins and I'm blowing right on the edge.
And it's just adding another layer of dimensions. Another little detail. I'm just pressing down hard, you can see that I started then. And then I just went right into heavy pressure and I'm just following that line down side.
Of my area and that just gives it like I said another layer of dimension mixed are cactus, have a little more around like it's not flat.
Just touching that my line a little bit and went a little rope there at the bottom. That's okay.
There's no mistakes. It's always fixable. That's the great thing about acrylic paint to if you don't like what you did this. Hey, with a hairdryer and paint right on top of it.
Sort of continue doing that with all of our shadows. We're going to go to the further side of our shadow and we're going to do that line again. So start light pressure and then heavy
The same thing here, light pressure and then heavy towards the bottom
See how we're doing that.
Plaid Crafts: And you're using the number eight round. Is that right,
Yep, yep, which was using number 10 rounds.
Plaid Crafts: So number 10 round. Okay.
Which is the larger of the round brushes and our Super Value pack our craft smart set of brushes, but any medium to large round brush will do
To the same thing here. So for me, I'm right handed and it's more comfortable for me to pull from left to right. So sometimes I switch it up a little bit. Um,
If you're left handed, it might be easier for you to pull from right to left. So just keep that in mind when you're painting this
You just have sort of flip flop it. Like I said, for me, I'm right handed, so it's easier for me to pull from left to right, when I'm painting a stroke.
So instead of starting at the top here and pulling down to the left. I'm going to start with heavy pressure at the bottom and pull up and make lighter pressure as I go.
And again, that's just because like I said I'm right handed, so that feels more natural to me. But like I said, if you're left handed, it might feel more natural for you to pull down and do like pressure into heavy pressure. So it's all about what is comfortable for you.
I always say this whenever I'm painting paintings. I usually have my painting all over the place. As I painting. I'm turning it upside down. I'm trying to add. No, but
I have to remind myself to keep it nice and straight for you guys. When you're painting along because I don't think you want me
moving my painting all over the place. But if that's how it's comfortable for you at home to paint.
Feel free to do that. You can move your stuff you can paint and paint sideways. It feels comfortable for you to paint that like upside down. You can totally go for it. However, it feels comfortable for you to paint it.
So again, we're continuing. We've got our darker of the Greens, which is clover and we still have our number 10 round brush and we're just painting another line. I'm going to do light pressure to heavy pressure at the base.
Of each of our cactus shapes. So a little line there.
Do the same thing here, right at the base of RV will go and even darker shade. You can see that just sort of adds even more dimension to what was a really flat looking prickly pear.
Right. So if it hadn't been washed my brush off.
Okay.
So now in a rinse my brush.
We are going to, I'm going to put a little bit more of my latest screen which is pistachio. But whatever your latest green at home is I'm going to put a little bit about my palate maybe about dime sized amount
And I've already got some liquor white on my palate. But if you don't, if you're at a quicker white or if you're subscribed, or something like that. Feel free to go ahead and put somewhere with her white on and I'm going to mix that together about a one to one ratio. So one part pistachio.
And one part with her white I made to get some fresh trigger why that was a little bit dry.
So we're just lightning that pistachio again anytime you want to lighten the color. You just add a touch of white, a little bit goes a long way. So just keep that in mind for the future when you're mixing colors you can always add more, but you can't take it out.
Just mixing I'm adding a little more weight because I want to be pretty light. So I always like to start with a one to one ratio. And then I can lighten it or darken it depending on how it starting to look, depending on what color I'm going for.
And the color mixing here is going to be the first of our highlights for our cactus. That's where I'm mixing. It's just even lighter green
I can see here if you take a look at my brush my brush is just softening with pain. This is way too much paint on your brush for painting.
For painting and being able to control your brushes, you go so whenever I mixed with my brush like this. I always always always wipe wash the excess out of my breath. Before I start painting with it on. So if you have like a palette knife at home or something.
If you're sort of an advanced painter or if you've got a good bit of supplies. You can totally makes your pain with that, instead
And that way you don't have to get all that paint on your brush but I always just mixed with my brush when I'm doing these quick paintings
And you can feel free to that too. But again, I always always wash my brush. After I mix it with the breast was like that because I don't want, I don't want to paint with all of that pain in my brush just if you don't have as good of control.
Get us get a big like stopping mess whenever you try to paint with that.
Okay, so now we've got this nice pale green and remember our ladies coming in from the top left.
And so they made all of our shadows on the bottom right. So now I'm going to start paying our highlights. So where are they going to be
They're going to be on the top left, where the light is hitting them are going to pick up a little bit of this pale green. And again, this was pistachio and her white
And you can see I don't have a ton of paint on my brush. I never I try not to ever have, you know, a brush more than halfway down the bristles and I do a nice twirl to get that nice point
And we're going to the same thing. We sort of did with these green lines on the top left. So here I'll start with this middle cactus here.
I'm going to, I'm going to start, start on the inside to create more dimension. I'm not going to go right up to the edge. I'm going to do a line sort of right there.
So I'm gonna start with very light pressure and then heavier pressure and then light pressure. Again, I'm gonna go back over that line because I didn't have wide enough pain so light pressure heavier pressure and light pressure and I'm just sort of loosely following the edge of my cactus.
And we're gonna do the same thing for all of our little shapes. Again, it's good practice because we're sort of painting a very similar shape.
Over and over and over again. So by the time you get to the smaller pieces, you're going to be really good at it. So here we're doing the same thing here. Again, and it goes started into the into the middle of my cactus and I'm gonna do heavy pressure to loose pressure
Again on the top left.
Plaid Crafts: And are you which brush. Are you using now Jessie.
We are still on our number 10 round brush and I said that before you can use this brush this round brush for
Basically anything because you can use the very tip for fine detail you can press down for a lot of pressure for thicker line. So I'm a big fan of this medium sized round brushes and this is one of my go tues when I'm painting.
We're still
Plaid Crafts: Number 10 round. Okay. And some folks have been asking about the difference in the colors between
Plaid Crafts: The painting, you're doing now and the end. The example that you had before, like the, you know, the main part of the cactus. And I think that just shows that you can you really can choose from what you have and you know you can make it slightly different each time. Right.
Literally this painting is one of my designs from quite a while ago. This is
Something that I painted, you know, this past year. So I was trying to recreate it. And I decided I was going to go for a brighter palette. So I guess I would ever greens, you have a home.
Yes. Need a medium green a lighter green and a darker green to create this so however you want your greens to be you can do neon green or you can do really dark, you know, pine tree collard greens. It's totally up to you. It's however you want your practice to be
So this will tell us what you've got.
Us what you've got, like I said, I know it's difficult for some people to be getting supplies right now so
You've got your stash of paint at home, whatever you got will work even if you've got one green, like I said, you can add white to make it lighter, you can actually touch a black to make it darker and then you got three greens, so
I encourage you to paint along and regardless of of what you're able to get right now as far as supplies.
Okay, starting the same thing again. We're just painting the highlights and we have, like I just said, we've got our number 10 round brush and we mix a little bit of our pistachio green with some wicker white to get this really pretty pale green
And we are our light is coming down from the top left. So that's where our highlights are going to be on all of our shapes.
And we are doing different amounts of pressure. So we started late and then heavy and then light again or do the same thing for this little guy here.
I'm going to go a little bit into my light green there. I'm going to go light pressure heavier pressure and then light.
You can see my line sort of vary from cactus cactus or from a prickly pear shape to different shape.
And that's fine because you know no cactuses. The same its nature. So everything is different. It's completely organic and you can't mess it up. That's the fun part about changing things like this.
sort of the same thing here. So again, we've. This is a little bit different than the others, but not really who got our shadow here. So our highlights. It'll be on the opposite end. It's going to do light pressure heavy pressure light pressure again to get that fun bold highlight
And then the same thing here. This guy's a little opposite because he's going in a different direction. So we have the shadow on the bottom.
And if you think about it, if our lights coming in from appear
It will really go down that whole way that way that part right there won't really be in highlight. It's mostly going to be this part here that's going to be shining with the highlight
So we're just gonna keep it up there. We're going to still do the same thing. Light heavy, light, but we're just going to sort of keep our, our highlight up there because that's where it would be in real life.
That's these highlights and shadows are sort of the only realistic part of this cactus. It's very bold and funky looking, but we're trying to keep it a little bit real
And the same thing for these little ones. So just a tiny little highlight there without much space. So we just want to make sure we get it in there.
Um, you don't want ever forget about those little pieces when you're painting like this. If we were to ignore those. It would sort of take away from the, from the reality of the painting, make it look a little less realistic. So it's always important to remember those details.
So I'm just going to do a little highlight there too. And then a little guy right there just to make sure we don't forget about those guys. Just a little, a little brushstroke there and I'm going to clean up my brush.
Plaid Crafts: So Jesse somebody was saying that she can't really see her white over her green is that because maybe the green wasn't dry underneath and then it blended together or what should we do
She can't see the white over the green. Yeah, maybe if you're green was um was dry was not drawing on your canvas like john said, you might have been taking the paint back up with your brush. So if you're painting.
What on let I can be a problem. Sometimes that's why I tried to sort of plan my painting so that I've never really painting.
On on a super wet area that's just been painted. So that might be why so you can just hit it with a hairdryer and try again. And you can touch it up a little. If you need to
Or maybe you need to lighten your green a little, maybe your mixture was a little too close to the pistachio color. So, try adding another
You know, little swipe of white to your light green color and mix that in. Because you want to be pretty different. You want to make sure that these two colors here that we
Are pistachio. And then the whole roof mix those should be pretty different. So they you can see them on your canvas. So try that. Hopefully that will help
Great.
Okay, cool. So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to add on our light blue color. So at home, you might have light blue. I'm actually using sky mist tonight. We've got
All kinds of colors going on, but any any light, we will do so if you've only got like a really dark blue with a cobalt blue that's you've got at home use that and just wait. We just need to have any light blue for this part.
As long as you've got, I say this I say that I'm having her paintings. If you've got red, blue, yellow and white because any painting.
You don't need black, you don't need brown. You don't need green noni purple all of those colors mean mixed
So you can mix this pink. You can mix the greens. If you've got red, yellow, blue and white. You can pay anything. So if you got those colors. Make sure you join in, because you can make any of these colors with those
So now we've got our light blue color and I'm still on my number 10 round brush.
And we're going to add another highlight just to keep adding that detail, doesn't the more detailed. To me, the more finished painting looks so we're going to add the sort of fun blue highlight on top of these on top of our light green highlight just to give it another layer of dimension.
So here I'm going to add a little bit of this light blue color again to my number 10 round.
And I'm just going to do a highlight right above where that light green one is so I'm kind of going to overlap it a little. So I'm gonna start really light pressure and I'm going to press down and pull up again and that just adds a really fun. Modern details were painting. I'm sure more
And we're going to do that on top of all of the light green highlights that we've just made.
So again, we're into heavy pressure and then light pressure and that's why we left a little bit of room between the edge of our cactuses and our highlight, so we can leave room for this little blue highlight
To me this evening here just right above that one.
And the same thing for this one up here.
Light heavy, light.
Light heavy, light.
When the same thing. We're just going to go right above these little lines here just really quick, just using the very tip of our brush to get that detail with that fine line.
And that's it, that's it for our highlights
Plaid Crafts: Okay, everyone is everyone doing okay. Everyone keeping up so far it looks like people are getting it. They were very impressed with the with the way the highlights work and everything.
Well, good. I'm glad I'm glad you guys are enjoying it.
Plaid Crafts: Somebody said, what should I do for the blue highlight if my cactus is already blue
Plaid Crafts: Well, I don't know.
That's a great question.
I would challenge you to do a green highlight then sort of
Switch it up a little. But really, any light colored. Like I said, this is not like a terribly realistic cactus. This is sort of funky and party so
Any light color will be great for your highlight, you can use paint or maybe orange or something, purple, maybe that'll be fun just any sort of non traditional color will just sort of make the painting a little more funky.
Which sounds like you're in is pretty funky already since you have a blue cactus.
That's right.
Plaid Crafts: But everyone is really enjoying everyone's really enjoying the lesson and saying how clear it is for them to understand. So, you're doing great, Jesse.
Awesome, thanks john
Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to do a little more mixing. So I'm going to grab my
Number 10 round brushes started my go to brushes. You guys can see we're showing you just to mix a couple colors, real quick.
I'm going to grab some more of my fire coral which mine's a little dry, you can see here, it's sort of got a scan on it. So I don't want to use that I want to put some fresh paint on my palate.
That's just gonna, it's going to end up being chunky, and we want it to be nice and smooth.
So to go next to it that's like. Again, this is the great thing about acrylic paint is that they dry so quickly so you can keep painting on top of your paintings
But you've got a fan going or something they could drag your palate. That's why I always add just a little bit of paint, because I don't want to, I want to waste it.
I'm going to grab some of this fire coral to put it down here and then I'm going to mix in some classic green or I'm sorry, some clover green, which is our darkest screen.
On mix those. And so if you're familiar with color theory. If you're a painter. If you're used to mixing colors, you start to have an idea of where colors are on the color wheel. So, of course,
There's red, blue and yellow, our primary colors and then our secondary colors are green, orange and purple.
So across from the call if you if you mix two colors that are across from each other, you will get brown every time. So sometimes you don't want brown
So it'd be careful when you're blending colors on your canvas that you don't mix.
Those complementary colors together. But when you want a brown. If you don't want to have too many colors or if you don't have a brown
Bottle of paint near you. You can mix those colors together and then you can get a nice beautiful brown
So tonight we're going to be mixing our green and our pink, which is sort of like red, pink is in the red family so it makes these two colors together. We're going to get a brown color. So that's what we're going to do first, and I mix those together.
You can see it that a brown here.
You see that brown there.
And it's looking like a little bit of a reddish brown. So I'm going to add some green. If you're mixing at home, and it's looking more like a greenish brown, feel free to add something which is again acting sort of as our red for this, this little color lesson.
You can see, you see that nice brown color. We've got there. We didn't need to pull out a bottle of brown paint, we've got everything we need right here that just goes to show you if you've got the basic colors. That's all you need.
So again, I'm going to wash off this brush because I don't like having all that pain and my brush.
went south nicely.
And I'm going to grab my this is my little one brush. We haven't used yet is our small liner brush, which I think is called our number three round brushes back
This is that the fine sort of liner brush. It's sort of a little detail brush in our craft smart Super Value back. So we're going to go ahead and run a rinse off that sizing again because we haven't used this one yet.
Plaid Crafts: And Jesse, just one more. Repeat for folks, which two colors, did you use to make your brown
Yeah, so two mics are brown. We use clover and fire coral. So if you've got a green and a red at home. That's what we've mixed together.
Our coral is, again, it's pink, but it's in the red family. It's just read mixed with white that's acting as our red and then green across each other on the color wheel so you mix them and you get round.
Plaid Crafts: And was it's basically a one to one kind of relation ratio. Sorry to start
We, we did one part on fire coral and one part clover. And like I said, if you're getting sort of a greenish brown, you can just add a little bit more fire coral, you're getting sort of a reddish brown you know a little bit more of your clover.
Plaid Crafts: There you go.
Just want like sort of a nice
Even medium brown
So now we've got that we're going to go ahead and grab our number three round brush, which is this tiny detail brush, we have in our set
And I'm going to pick up just a little bit of this on the tip of my brush.
So this brushes so tiny. You may pick up a little more paint than you normally would, just so we can, you know, get a little bit of a line going
So what we're going to do here is we're going to start painting the base of our spine.
So all of our pic you perfectly little thorns. You can see you've got a little bit of texture here.
And that's sort of what the signs are sort of poking out over growing out of I'm not really sure if spines grow or not. But that's what they're coming out of. So just a little bit of texture for the base of our forums.
So how we do that is all we do is we just do. Here, I'll show you right here where it's a little bit later. So you can see
You just do we're going to do like three or four little dab. So watch dub, dub, dub, dub, dub, you see how I did that super like super easy. If you feel like maybe you're slipping a little bit too dark, and you don't want that darker, more texture, you can add a little bit away.
Like mine's a little bit dark. So I had a little bit of white and that'll lighten my brown color. So I have a nice like topi tan color.
Yeah, I'm gonna rent I brush off because I just mixed with it.
So I'm going to do that over because I want to be a little bit lighter. I don't like how dark, that was a little too intense for me so that that that right over it.
This year I did there. I just took that round mixture which was fire coral and clover and I decided I always change our mind halfway through paintings every single time I do it.
I always just based on how things are going. You just might need to change your plan, a little
So I decided to add a little bit of weight to that, just to lighten on my brown so it wasn't so intense, because I don't want that to be the focus of our cactuses like the little texture on the base of the
On the base of the spine.
Surgeons all over our cactus. So wherever you want there to be a, like a little prickly spine on your or Thorn on your cactus is where we're going to do that little texture. So again, we're gonna go here that dub, dub, dub, dub.
So, three, four, maybe five little just dab. Just a little skirmishes don't think too hard about it.
Where she go randomly. And so, however, many of these you have is how many little
Thorns you're gonna have on your practice. So just keep that in mind when you're making your little dabs. So again, just, we're just taking the tip of our brush and just dabbing
Together and a little bundle and you can make them sort of even and a pattern or you can make them totally random.
It is up to you on a cactus. You know, they do a little bit of a pattern.
If you look at a prickly pear. I feel got a photo of one. It almost looks like I'm there aren't like nature has put them in a little bit of a pattern, but it's up to you. You can make them totally random. It's almost like a little bit of a grid sometimes
We're just doing our little
On texture right where our forums are going to be coming out of some I do it on my little guys, too, because those guys will have forums.
Again, I'm just doing random numbers going DEP DEP DEP DEP DEP and a little bundle very randomly.
Course not going in the exact same box like this that dub, dub, dub, and we want to be a little bit you know very little grouping.
Do some down here.
Everyone's all over our cactus. We're going over the highlights and over the shadows, because the thorns, of course, be coming out of every part of the cactus regardless of which part is enlightened which part is a shadow
That that
We're just tap tapping our little, and there are tiny brush.
Plaid Crafts: All the kids are loving the dab, dab, dab, dab.
This is the fun part, for sure.
That that that that super easy, super simple as a way to create a little bit of texture and it'll just sort of make when we go to paint dry thorns on top. It'll make them pop a little bit to
make them look a little more substantial.
So can. I'm just going in a very random pattern. I don't want to forget about my little pieces up here. So I'm gonna do a couple of on each of those has, of course, there'll be thorns coming out of those as well.
And if you're running out of this brown color, feel free to mix a little bit more. It was fire coral and clover and then I did add a little bit of white when I was done. So fire coal fire coral clover and white isn't make sure Mr Brown right now.
Clean up my brush so
Plaid Crafts: That is a glitch you switch to a smaller brush for the dabbing right was. Yep.
Plaid Crafts: Three.
It was our three round brush and it was sort of the, I want to say it was a smallest. Yeah, it's the smallest of the round brushes in our, in our craft smart Super Value pack so it's sort of like a nice little detail brush.
Plaid Crafts: Right.
That's what we use for that.
Okay, so next we are going to, we're going to hang on to this brush so don't spend too much time on that because just a nice quick I'm always think about it more perfect it is on
The less it'll look like a natural cactus. So, of course, you want to be really sort of loose.
On because that's how a cactus to be a nature. It wouldn't all be perfect. They wouldn't all be lined up you know perfectly on your canvas, so
Don't spend too much time on that. Just do your little dabs make it nice and random make them nice and spaced out and then just let it be if they are not going to be perfect and that's okay.
Okay, so I still have my number three round brush and I've cleaned it so it's nice and clean. Now, and you can see I'm going like this with my brushes I nice I like to use that nice tip. Does anybody use my fingers to make sure I have that nice pointed tip.
And I'm going to use my light blue
And I saw it like blew my palate. If you need to add some more, feel free to add some more or a famous has dried, a little, you might want to put some fresh light blue
And I have just dipped very tip of my brush in the light blue, and we're going to paint our thorn. So this is another really fun one. So the kids at home. I think will like this.
So we're going to be all of our little spiky foreign so look really sharp on there. And the way we're going to do that is we're going to use a similar technique we've been using the heavy pressure in the light pressure
In here. Let's practice on our palate, a little we're going to use a flicking motion. So we're going to start at the base. Have you guys can kind of see it is, it's a very light color. So it might be tricky, but
Um, we're starting to base and say say my fingernails, the base right here.
Or new flicking motion coming out of that very light loose. I think you guys probably can't see that. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to show you on my canvas.
So I have one of my little texture areas here. I'm going to start there and very lightly, I'm barely putting any pressure on my brush. I'm going to do a flicking motion.
Coming out of there. Oh, that was a big one. That's okay. You can see that looks like really spiky thorns. That's okay. I'm going to leave it as I like how it looks. It didn't mean for it to be that big, but we're going to have being Florence tonight and that's okay.
So do the same thing. And I'm kind of going to make them all going for each little
Area of texture. I'm gonna make them going in the same direction, so I don't have to make them all going in one direction for every single one.
But like for this bundle there ought to be going this way for this bundle and I'd be going that way it'll just make your panic, a little more
A little more realistic because they've got these little bundles of thorns and they're all kind of jutting in different directions, but they're all sort of the little plus or getting in the same direction, if that makes sense.
From the same thing here. I'm going to go sort of out this time like flick, flick there's these are super fun to do. Super easy.
I'm going to go up this time flick, flick, flick and they look like little like super sharp prickly thorns. Do the same thing. I'm gonna go to the left. Maybe flick, flick, flick
Me go maybe down this way. Flick, flick, flick. Let me going every direction because on a prickly pear. They just have these little 40 spines and they're totally random or kind of wild.
But again on each cluster. I'm going to kind of go on the same direction. And you can do two or three, um, you can sort of make it buried
In there we go. Flick, flick, flick
We're going to keep doing this for all of our little areas of texture that we've made with the brown
So when I do the ones in the side, I kind of like to make them going out because it just makes it look extra prickly kinda like I did there. So just a little preference. I like how it kind of looks like it's really spiky
So flick, flick, flick
Meetings will go this way like
Just really wild bikes coming out of your cactus.
Very sharp cactus.
Sounded like grass. Have you ever painted grass this way. It's a little blades of grass, maybe we're just going didn't look very light pressure and we're using a flicking motion.
And again, we are using our number three round brush and we're using light blue
Which have a little bit on the tip of our brush to do these flicking motions.
And it looks like really sharp little thorns.
And this is just more detail that you're adding to your painting, the more detailed, the better. I say,
Whatever geez to detail you can think to add, go ahead and add it because it's just going to make your painting look more realistic.
Plaid Crafts: Absolutely. Everyone's having so much fun with the little flicking
Plaid Crafts: Motion putting their thorns on
Good.
So glad this is a really fun part of the painting. Yeah, the details are often. My favorite part.
Plaid Crafts: And we're almost done right Jesse, because I know folks are there are some folks. It's getting late and there
We are finished out. Yep.
Plaid Crafts: Yep, we're finishing up and, you know, just a reminder that the complete classes available on Michaels website where you signed up for the class, you can see past classes as well. So please feel free to join in there and
Plaid Crafts: Thank you so much for the folks of you who have who have hung in with us this whole painting. I know a lot of people have been following along, because I've been seeing your comments and
Plaid Crafts: We know people are painting so be sure to share your finished painting with us at plaid crafts on Facebook and we are really looking forward to seeing it. There's a lot of you guys out there painting along and we're having a great time tonight.
That's awesome. I love that.
OK. So again, you feel free to take your time and keep going with those little Florence, a little flicking motions. We're going to go to our little blooms that are on the top of our
On prickly pear shaped his little flowers and this is optional. You don't have to put the flowers. If you don't want to. I just think it's a fun extra pop of color. So I'm going to be using folk art acrylic lavender or if you've got eggplant or any sort of purple color.
I'm going to put about a nickel sized amount on my palate.
And we're going to grab my number 10 round brush. I'm going to pick some of this purple up. And again, we're going to be using against my favorite round brush. You guys know that we're going to be using
heavy and light pressure to create these flowers. We're going to do this bomb right one first.
So we're going to start ready to send to be coming out from the center. It's going to go like that, sort of, you can see here, it sort of starts in the middle and then it goes out into the different kettles so we're going to go heavy pressure starting at the bottom. Pull up
Too much pain heavy pressure pull up heavy pressure pull up
And this is a really quick, simple way to make some little flowers, some little blooms on the top of our cactus. You can use any color you want. For this I'm using purple because, you know, sort of,
looks different than my background, but you can make blue flowers or pink flowers or orange flowers yellow flowers. It's totally up to you.
So again, ready to do one up here. We're going to do heavy pressure light pressure. This is sort of another flicking machine, it's kind of similar to our little thorns. We just made, but with a bigger brush so we get a bigger shape.
Sort of spiky pedals.
Again, I'm just, this is really loose heavy pressure light pressure
Pressure pressure and I'm doing sort of five, just like I like to make things sort of symmetrical doing about five pedals on each
You can make them going all around if you want. I'm just making it so it sort of looks like it's sitting atop the cactus so
Now I'm going to do. So I've got three here on all of my bigger biggest shapes and
I'm going to do one more. It's going to be the last one on my little guy right here. And you, Tony, Tony.
heavy pressure low pressure heavy pressure light pressure
And that is the end of our cactus painting. So last but not least, please make sure you sign your work of art.
Because I'm sure they're beautiful. I can't wait to get on tomorrow and see all of your paintings that you've shared with our hashtag cloud crafts.
So you can use your small brush to use your number three brush and pick up one of the lighter colors white or maybe one of the greens and make sure that you sign your painting on the bottom. So everybody knows your artwork.
For a cactus painting.
Plaid Crafts: So we do have one last bit of business. I'm going to. I've got my scroll bar here and I'm just scrolling back through and I'm going to, I'm going to close my eyes.
Plaid Crafts: You
Plaid Crafts: Stop the scroll
Plaid Crafts: And our winner is.
Plaid Crafts: Helen Guerrero Castro well
Congratulations.
Plaid Crafts: You can just message us. You can go to at plan crafts on Facebook and send us a direct message and that would be the easiest way for you to for us to get in touch. So we can get your address and send you your, your prize.
Awesome. Thank you guys so much for joining us.
We hope you had found painting long best tonight. Keep an eye out for more of these. Let's be classes on the Michaels community classrooms.
On please share your paintings with the hashtag plaid crafts and
Again, thanks for sticking around with us. We hope you enjoyed it. We hope you learn something and we hope you were able to take a little bit of time to yourself tonight to relax and sort of online. So thanks again for joining us. Bye guys.
Plaid Crafts: Thanks, everybody.
