 Okay, for this next part, whichever canvas you choose to work on, a black one or a white one, we're going to just start out by laying in our base coat of colors. And I've got a variety of different little brushes here, a couple of fillberts, which is kind of a flat brush with a rounded tip, and a couple sizes. I've got one sort of kind of beat up flat brush. It's one of my favorite brushes. It is kind of seen in better days, but anyway. And then a round one. These aren't fancy brushes. They're not expensive brushes, and you can tell they're sort of well-loved and used, yeah. I'm going to use Ultramarine Blue, and this is my porcelain palette, aka white porcelain plate from the dollar store. All right, so Ultramarine Blue, white. The colors would be the same. And if you're working on a white palette, I mean a white canvas, I've got some blue, green, light. And as I'm setting up my palette, I'm going to try to keep light colors next to each other. This is Sap Green, which is kind of an olive-y green, yellow-y green. That sounds attractive. Okay, some Perroni, I don't know orange. It's orange. It's that color. I can't pronounce that. And then some yellow ochre. I have a few colors off to the side, and if I decide we need to introduce them, I will let you guys know as we go. I'm going to stand my inspiration photo. Well, I'm going to clip it to the white board here that we were tracing on before, and use that as kind of a clipboard. I'll see. Yeah, that'll work. And I'm going to prop it up off camera right there so I can see it clearly. I still have the book underneath me so that this doesn't flex too much. I'm going to start with the largest of my brushes, and like I said, this is a Filbert, and it looks like it says it's a number 12 if I'm reading through the paint blobs correctly. This is a Simply Simmons brush. And I'm going to start with blue because the blue sky is really most of the picture. And I'm going to just lay the paint on in sort of a swirling mark. That was kind of what Van Gogh was all about, right, his swirling kind of swirling marks. This is a painting where you kind of want the brush strokes in the painting. And this is also a painting where it's going to take multiple brush strokes to cover everything. Now I'm going to go into the tree a bit because there is some of the blue sky showing through the tree that's here on the painting. And like I said, I like the kind of swirling marks that are on here in the inspiration photo, so I'm going to keep doing those. And without cleaning the brush, I'm going to grab some white, and I'm going to just let them mix right on the palette because this is a daytime scene. It's not a nighttime scene, so we don't want it to be too dark. I'm going to just keep doing that. This is the first layer, so if you don't get stuff in the exact right position or even your swirls going the right way, don't sweat it. This is the first layer. Also don't feel like your pencil lines or your carbon paper lines. Don't be too precious about them. If, you know, stuff gets covered up, it's all right, we can bring it back later. I am going to pull out some aquamarine. I'm going to add that. Okay, I'm going to rinse my brush off. And let's go down here. And I'm going to start with the yellow ochre. And all the bits on the inspiration photo that are kind of a yellowy, golden-y color. I'm going to just lay in a base coat of the yellow ochre. And again, I'm just dabbing and I'm going with, this is a painting you want to do brush marks. This is about suggesting the shapes with the color and the marks. And not about painting a perfect rendition. So that's what we want. Once off my brush, I'm going to go in with one of my greens. This is the blue-green. And I'm honestly looking at the inspiration photo more than I'm looking at what I'm painting. It's normal for me when I'm doing something like this. And I'm just laying in the lighter greens where I see them. I'm going to, without cleaning the brush, I'm going to pick up some of the aquamarine here. Put a little bit of that in a couple of places. Okay, rinse my brush off again. I'm going to pick up the darker sap green. And I'm just following the painting around. And I just put a whole bunch of green there. And then I'm just going to do a little, but I'm just, this is just white. I'm pulling in some swirl swirls with my brush. I'm still using the same brush. That was, this is aquamarine. And I'm going to go to the round brush with the yellow ochre. My dots with the end of the brush. And I'm going to rinse it off. And I just, this is just, there's no paint on the brush. I've rinsed it off and it's just damp. And I'm just swirling it around in the wet paint. Okay, and then I'm going to take a little bit of white still with the round brush. Just a little bit of white, you know, dip it in the white paint and then tap it off on the side of your palette so you don't get too much. Yeah, I like that. All right, let's continue on, shall we? So while we've been fussing with this, this up here has gotten a chance to dry. So let's go in here to the church and let's start putting in some of, you know what, I'm going to switch to the smaller filbert brush. And we're going to start putting in some of the church building. And I'm just making marks and laying down paint and suggesting the shape of the building. And if it mixes with some paint on here, that's wet, that's fine. I'm going to try to leave where kind of the windows are black. If I accidentally, you know, paint over something though, I'm not going to be too concerned because we do have some black paint. We can always go over it. And this is a first layer. So I'm not, you know, I'm probably not going to get the shape exactly the way I want it on the first layer. I wouldn't expect that I would. And the nice thing about doing something in kind of the style of Van Gogh or inspired by Van Gogh is, you know, he was kind of all over the place with his shape. So, you know, it was not about feeling like you have to have a straight line or any of that. That's not bad for a first layer. Let's see, right over here, there's some white in the inspiration photo. So let's go with that and put that in. That works for me. I'm going to clean off my brush again. And I'm going to go in with my yellow ochre and I'm going to mix it this time with a little bit of the blue-green. I'm going to use my brush. I'm going to go in with some of my white, which is going to mix with the green mixture I just put on there. That's okay, because that's kind of actually what I want. My ultramarine blue, I used it all up, so let's put a little bit more out. I'll put some right here. And I'm just using the picture that we printed with the suggestion of marks and things that are on there to give me an idea where to lay some of this down. I'm going to put out some black. I'm going to stick with the small Thilbert brush for right now. And don't be afraid to, you know, get your fingers in there and really push the paint around. Get a baby wipe in there. I'm going to use my brush off and try to refine and firm up some of the shapes in this first layer. You don't have to, like I said, be perfect, but I like them to be sort of in the right place. I'm sorry, aqua marine. Doorways in a little bit of the wrong place, so I'm going to fix it. And that's what's going to happen. You're going to notice as you're painting this that the first layer, you didn't get it in exactly the right place. That's okay. That's why I said this is the first layer. Don't stress about it. You're not going to get things in the exact right place and that's okay. And right now I'm not even cleaning the brush all the time. I am really mostly just wiping the excess paint off the brush. Not even doing that always. I'm going to put these wires. I think it was power wires or something back in. I think that's what they were. I don't want them too straight. This painting is not really about them being too straight, so, and I'm going to not just have them be black either. I'm going to, let's work a little bit on this tree before we stop with this first layer. Try to get some of our highlights in the right place. There's actually a little bit of red right here. Put some there and we're going to put a little bit in our trees and just keep going like this until you get something that you're happy with for the first layer and let it dry until you go on to the next one. Now I want you to be aware of a few things and as I'm talking I'm going to just keep dabbing on some of this paint on here and working on mine. Every painting I have ever done and most artists will tell you this has an ugly duckling stage. They all do and so if you get even to this first layer and you think, God, that's a loaded crud. I'm watching my language. Okay, never fear, we all feel that way. Just, I don't want you to give up. I want you to keep working at your painting and keep adding layers. This is acrylic paint. Acrylic paint is all about layers of mark making. That's what it's all about. So the more layers that you add to it and the more marks that you make, the more interesting your painting is going to become and you'll be surprised at how much you like it when you're done. Just trust me on that, okay? And I want you to just keep working at it and keep pushing and pulling the paint and keep adding more layers of interest with your marks and your paint until the end and just keep going and at some point you'll get something that you really like. So I'm going to, I wanna stop. I think I wanna do something in here first before we stop. So let's do that, shall we? I'll go down here, okay? So your first layer is gonna look something like that. Honestly, that's pretty good, I kinda like it. Here's the inspiration photo and here's the painting. So keep going for your first layer, get marks and paint all over the whole surface and fill in all of your different spaces. Get things kind of outlined where you want them and then let it dry. And in part three, we will come back and we will keep working on our painting. I will see you in the next video. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Visit DecoArt, their websites in the description below. They've got some really great products and if you have any questions, comments or concerns, you can leave a comment on the video or you can look in the description for my contact information and send me or contact me in one of the ways, many, many ways there are in there. 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