 So I'm going to start, I took this color, this is a golden burnt sienna and transparent red oxide. I just put a little bit in there, put a bunch of water, and that's what I got this, it's very washed out and I just wiped it over it to give it some kind of tone of base. There is a little piece right there that I am worried about. Anyways, alright so I'm going to use this as the color and I don't know how I'm going to make, I'm going to start with a little bit darker where all the shadows are, I haven't done this in a month so bear with me. I'll probably start with one of these bigger brushes, just to get the stuff like this like the shadows and the cheekbones and the neck, all these bigger and it won't be much darker than this so let's try to make this. I probably could get away with just using this so I'm going to just see what this is going to look like and I have something prepped here that is the same, this is a piece of masonite but with gesso on it and exactly what this is. So I'm just going to paint this, you see how light that is, I don't know if you can even see that. A lot of shadows here, sorry about that, but yeah this is very light, you can see it there but when it dries, and I'll get the dryer out, see what I'll do, dry this and then go back over it with a little bit darker and see if I can darken it. I'll most likely put some of this purple in it, golden transparent, I don't want to put black in it because that'll make it too, I would just say too rough, too aggressive I guess you could say, purple is such a good color to mix in brown, it's a good color to make shadows with, a lot of people think black or you can use a transparent smoke for shadows but to mix in with a color like this, you don't want it to be too harsh so I'm just going to add a little bit of this, just to give this a little bit of a different color, make it a little darker, because like I said I'm not trying to put down solid lines, as you can see this is very, you can't see that there's, I'm going to turn this light off, yeah you can see that there, that's good, alright, so now I put a little bit of that purple in here, let's just see, let's say if I'm going to do like this part here, or cheek shadow, see it got a little bit darker, what I normally do with that is I'll take a wet rag, kind of dampen it, maybe not, let's see what a, you know what, that really didn't do anything to it did it, alright, so let's do this, let's get a little bit, we're going to do this, we're going to put a little bit in here, and then we're going to add this actual color here, this transparent red oxide, and we want, we need a little bit of a little darker, now that's a lot better there, see if you don't want that little part, you're trying to blend something in, you just hit it with the rag, come back, give you a little bit darker, and that'll give you a nice, it's a nice line, but it's, it's not enough to, you know, like if you were gonna make a line, it's gonna be so stark, I guess you could call that stark, I do like this, I gotta remember how to do this, I haven't done this in a minute, see it just, it'll blend in, and it'll, it'll make it to where it's almost like a good, you know, gradation, for some reason I want to call it a graduation, you know, I'm just gradually bringing that in, like if you were to do the inside of the eye here, I'm just gonna block that in, and it's gonna go, it looks dark here, but there's so much water in it, that it's gonna go lighter, all right, so you tap it with the brush, the rag, and you got this nice little shadow there, remember this is all watered down, and what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna continue to just to put a little bit more color, probably a little bit more purple just to darken to the point where I'm not gonna do detail with it, because I'll probably do the deeper shadows with the airbrush, and then what I'll probably do is use some burnt sienna with this purple, this is a little bit more opaque, I would love some, what is that, raw burnt sienna, is that darker, I think that's a real dark, yeah, raw umber, maybe I'll use some of this here in a little bit, you see this is just a good like if you watch, what is his name, I want to say Sergio, he like they they block it in, like they literally will block in what they see, basically you're painting what you see, like the shadows, I don't know, it's easier said than done, give you kind of a map of where all your shadows are, oh I like that map, all right so I think I like this, I think I like this starting color and see it's not a lot, you don't need a lot, because like I said I'm just gonna be doing just these dark parts, use a big brush and where you need it, right now I'm going to mask this off, I'm going to mask this background off and paint it pink, and then I'm going to mask this off and paint it tiffani blue, because his daughter wants her eating a tiffani blue iced donut, so let's do that, what I'm going to use is this, this is contact paper I get from Home Depot, it's clear, clear matte, I'm going to use like shiny or anything, I don't know if that's any different, it might be thinner, excuse me thinner, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to back this up so you guys can see the cover of my laptop when I paint this, all right I'm not going to sit here and try to cover this whole thing, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of guesstimate right where her one ear starts and the other ear ends, good, she's just about that right, so let's do that, this will be perfect, I'm going to bring it down all the way, take my trusty exacter blade, I've been using this stuff for years, I'm not a fan of frisket, it's too thin, this is just thick enough to wear, if you get a little bit more paint than you want, I mean it'll seep under because this, like I said this is just shelf paper so it's not like super super sticky but it's pretty sticky, I'm going to show you this, this is a little secret of that I do, so normally if you take, you try to take this off, this part's going to come down and stick to itself, what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick it to my arm, make sure it's stuck to your arm, make sure you're not pulling too fast because it'll curl up and stick to itself which you do not want, and if it does it during this video then you'll see why, all right, and then what you want to do, take it from this side, go directly to your piece and if you don't put it, if you don't stick it all the way down it won't stick to your, so you can see I'm moving it, it's touching, it's still, it's touching the piece but so I'm going to put it just, make sure her ears are covered up and her hair, and this is the thing, you don't have to press it all the way down, just press it where her hairline is, her cheek, that's a part of her neck and her necklace, I always have to cut a small piece down here to show, or to cover that up, that way it's a little easier to take off and you can save this, this is a whole good piece but what I'll probably do is do this, because I'll use this piece to tape off this, cut this out and paint the donut, move this down here so this doesn't move around, move this up, easel for a good 15 years, gosh, we'll probably have to put, all right so I'm just going to cut out just the outline, I'm not trying to get any of hair lines, I'm not trying to get any hair that comes out here because what you want to do is paint this first and then when you paint this you can just feel free to bring any hair out, if your portrait has hair going over it, you always want to paint your background first, that's what I always do, and you just barely push, you're not, I'm not, I'm hardly pushing on this, you can, you can kind of, you'll get a feeling of cutting it and if you feel like you're not cutting it, you have to, you have to push a little bit harder than normal, get a new Xacto blade, put a new Xacto blade in your, in your holder because you'll regret that because you not want to cut into this, I'm using MDF board and it's pretty soft so, so her ear goes, the earring goes all the way, all the way here, her jaw cut just a little bit in, her hand is just perfect, what is that? Let's see here, yeah, so I gotta cut, this is her neckline and if you look at it at an angle you can see where you've cut it, I'm gonna cut her neck and then I'm gonna just continue where her hand is, her hand stops right at her shoulder and then there's, uh, there's, she has a pearl necklace on or just a real big pearl piece, I guess what I'll do is I'll do that, I normally don't like to commit to doing something like this because I can just paint it over but since it's such a defined area I'm gonna go ahead and do it this time, I did not press hard enough for this, see that's why I hesitated and I always remember if you're not sure of where you cut and you cut again, go back over it when you peel this off because you don't want to leave any masking on here, I've done that to a car hood, like doing a mural on a car, I've left a little strip, I couldn't see it, finished the painting, they cleared it and then you could see that little piece, not good, not good, I'm just gonna layer this right, just gonna cover up just enough to mask this part of her shoulder off, just kind of overlap it, don't try to get it right on line because you never know, we could have just a little piece and you'll have a solid little line where you've painted, this stuff is always good to use, leftover stuff is good to use, that's why I tried to add it to your easel or on the wall normally I put it on the wall, am I in the way here, looks like it, I'll kind of let you see how I just hold it and I'm literally just tracing the outline of her hair, I suggest practicing, if you use this masking technique with this paper just so you can kind of get the hang of how hard to press, see once it's doing that I know now that my exacto blade is getting dull, see it didn't cut right here, so the minute you do that, normally I would be like there we go, see, get you just put a new blade in which I'm gonna do, because I do not want to have to keep over cutting my lines, all right we're gonna cut this, you know what we're gonna do, I'm not gonna cut this out yet, you know what I will, I'll cut it out but I won't take the donut out, I'm gonna paint this pink first right here, so I've got to be careful, give me a pencil, I'll draw this on here, you're really lightly, I need just this part of her fingernails, finger, I really recommend starting, starting your cut and finishing it before you start doing, drawing something in, or else you are not gonna remember where you stopped, I need to cut this part out, I'm just cutting the frosting out and the finger out, leave that and I'm gonna paint this part pink, I just hope that this isn't too pink, this is like super pink, this is some real deal graffiti paint, but it is acrylic, before I do that I'm gonna cover up my laptop and I have two windows open, so I'll be all right on that, that part, the laptop is just to the left of this painting, I have learned to cover up my laptop for so many years, they could paint up, I'm gonna get a little test, I'm gonna spray a little on a trash can first, get rid of that, not mix that paint, now watch how nice, this should look nice next to that, oh my god, that is crazy, that's some crazy pink, I think what I'm gonna do, did you see that right there, that piece, the gold, I think I'm gonna put that on here too, I'm gonna paint it pink and then I'm gonna put that stencil up against it and I'll do gold and fade it out, I think that'll look nice, yeah, so I'm not gonna sit here and like glass this, I probably should get, I have different tips for these, I'm not a fan of stock tips, as you can see, you get a lot of overspray, a lot of paint, like uneven, so I have, I have a cap, it's called a Lego cap, we sell them on our website, or I could use this thin, we call it the Klaus thin, because it's normally called a German thin, back in the day that's what it was called, or I could use a New York fat, but that puts out a lot of paint as well, so I'm gonna stick with this Lego because it's for low and high pressure, I believe that's what I feel like, and I feel like this might be a little bit of a high pressure can, just by how that's coming out, it doesn't say it on the can, normally it'll tell you like this, like this 94 can, it'll tell you low pressure right there, and it's very easy to paint with, real nice, real real fluid, but I'm gonna put this cap on here just so I can get it even, you can get a pretty decent thin line, but it does come out a little faster than that Klaus thin, the Klaus thin is very nice for thin lines, so dude just twist that on there, and you can see that's a pretty amazing cap, very nice, so and this being this masking, you're trying not to flood this because if you put too much it'll definitely go under, and you don't want that, you don't have to be fixing all your ears and part of her face, so I'm just gonna lightly dust this on first, and plus this being white it's gonna take a lot, so try not, you're not trying to cover the entire thing all in one, you're just gonna give it a light dusting, and that is bright, try not to go the same way, because you'll just get, you'll just get streaks, you see I'm just lightly dusting it, I'm not trying to cover the entire thing all at once, I'm gonna take the heat gun, hit this with a heat gun, and watch when you use your heat gun on this because it'll, it'll want to come up, it'll want to, it'll heat up and it'll want to bubble up, so hold your heat gun back a little bit, I mean I'm a good foot and a half, you're just trying to, you're just trying to make this stuff dry a little bit before you put your next layer down, so a nice thin coat, it's not like you're out on a wall outside, and I'm inside, so I would normally take this over to our spray paint area, but look at that, that's already dry, wow, that's actually very nice, so let's start where we begin, you guys see, if you can, you can tell I'm, I'm just pushing when I want paint, I'm not trying to paint up here, I'm not trying to paint down here, I'm just trying to paint right where I want it, what I should have done is put like hand paint a pink background with acrylic, and that would, that would really help this be a more solid pink background with this spray paint, that is some pink, you can see how that's wanting to come up here, you don't want that, and then again I didn't push this down, so it's, it's like, it's pretty good there, you guys this is already dry almost, like, so a little bit slower, and remember I'm going to put that gold over here, so if you see it kind of splotchy, and you're going to do something to the background, like a little bit of detail, put some other stuff back there, don't worry about it if it's kind of splotchy, splotchy, I want it to be a little solid, so that's just how I am, see the last time I paint in this room, like this, there we go, so now what I want to do is I want to paint this donut, asking but Jeff, what about the overspray from this color to get on the pink, we are going to take care of that issue, take this off first, so now we know this is where the donut ends, you can see where your masking is over here, so what I'm going to do, where's my tape back, tape tape tape, I'm going to take some of this blue tape, make sure that we do not touch that paint we just painted, we're going to make a little tape dam, yes you can say, let's do this, we're going to do it this way, hold on, let's get some paper first, get you some paper, what we're going to do is we're going to tape this to here, let's get that a little closer, so we know there's a pink haze everywhere, so now I'll just put this, and I know my line is here, this paper is just going right here, the tape is not over there and it's not going to get on this part, that way you can start another piece here, I'm going to use a different tip for this color, so this paint is already dry, that blows my mind, it's pink, you can also do this, you can also do the little tape dam what I was talking about, put the tape on where you're going to, where you want it to stop and just fold it so it touches itself there, so then you've literally made like this little, where the spray paint goes, it's just going to stop here and go out, we're going to use, I don't even know what color this is, do they even have the name, aha, iceberg, this is like perfect breakfast at Tiffany's color, is that a paintbrush, yeah, let's put this, put this cap on here, check this one out, I need to practice, we're not going to spray over the any on this one, dust it on, now I think I should, because then I'm just going to have to, I'm just going to have to take this off again, I just want to, what I want to do is just get some gold, just to give it a little texture, what do you think here, I think that would be nice, I'm just drawing on the masking so I can see where her beard is and her cheek and her hair because it's kind of blended in, where's my gold, this is amazing right here, and if you ever get some paint like this, this Montana, this is Montana, and you try to spray it and it won't spray, take your cap off and they always have those little guards in there so that they don't spray and transit, and transit, all professional, this definitely is going to have to have, because this is just like super fat, this is what they call an orange dot, like I don't even want to spray it because I just sprayed it in my trash can and it was crazy fat and nice gold, all right so yeah I shouldn't have throw those pieces of paper away, so I'm going to, I'm going to take this little guy off here, get any gold on this guy, this is my tape, how can I, where's my tape all of a sudden, here we go, I'm going crazy y'all, I'm going crazy, just tore that piece of paper, I must be going loony, and I just tore a piece of paper right to put up here, now it's gone, I'm going crazy you guys, I'm going crazy, I'm going to make sure you cover that up because you don't want any of that gold seeping underneath here because it will, it'll find a way, overspray is an airbrush artist's worst enemy, so I'm going to want some tape for this, but we're just going to, I think I just want to spray kind of in a circle and fade it out, I'm not trying to go all the way over, I'm not trying to go from top to bottom, right, I don't want that, I would normally put some spray adhesive on this, but I, I don't want to get any spray adhesive on this because you'll be able to see it really bad, so, and with this gold, every time you use it, spray it in garbage first because that stuff un-mixes up, un-mixes up, all right, so I'm just going to do this, like I said, all right, so there's her outline, and I'm going to kind of, just want to come out to about here, but where's it, right here, we'll set it right about here, part of the ear, here, what I want to do is peel it outward, it's not moving because you will smear that paint, all right, so now we're going to do our best to line up these guys so that they're a little, like, in line, you're not just like putting it up here and it's going to be off like crazy, so, and this is a very small side, so you're not going to do too much of that, so you have enough room to line this up over here, just kind of go the left, see if you're lined up, I want to come all the way off of this because I don't like those parts that are, I have these little parts over here and I don't want them to, even if just a little bit, I don't like that, I actually think there's still a little bit of spray adhesive on the back of this to where it's still kind of sticking, so that's good, if you feel like it's coming up, just get like a pen or pencil and just, when you're spraying, just don't get in the spray's way because if you spray it like this, it'll make a shadow of the pencil and you'll be very upset, so I think we're good and I think we're pretty much lined up, first let's see, at the bottom, I mean, and that looks, that looks good, we're lined up, right, right, like that, I think it looks good, remember take your can, spray your gold, remember we're just going to hit, we're just going to hit right here because we're not trying to spray all this, remember we're just hitting just enough because it's not, it's not even out on this part, it's just barely shadowed and if you don't want too much over spray, spray it in this direction, because if you spray it like this, it's going to all come over here, so kind of either spray it directly or at this angle and this cap is really good for this because it doesn't give you a lot of paint coming out and I think I like that and it goes just out to the outside, there's obviously going to be some over spray right here but I think it'll look nice, remember push pull from up here, push just a little bit so that you're not moving and there you go and that looks good and we're all lined up, you see if I would have just put it up there then it would have been turned or kind of to the side, I think it's all lined up, I think that looks nice, I like it and I think we should take off this masking, I want to let this dry for a little bit because this gold, normally you do gold at the very end, the very very end, if your background is solid gold with that spray paint and then don't touch it for like three days, we're going to take this off and do it slowly like I said you can you can still use this if you need to, this is a big ass piece of masking that you don't have to throw out, I'm not going to keep this because it's got spray paint all over it, all right so there is your background, I might take, I have a couple of these pans, might be a little lighter but I might take take it and maybe outline a couple of these you know how fun would that be just a couple of them, maybe do a drip on some because there's the drip with the donut like that, we'll see I'll see what I want to do with that point but there you go, background