 Hey guys, we are back here with our canvas in our five steps to a fabulous canvas series this is part four and we are going to add some shading and Maybe some texture to our canvas. I may not add a lot of texture to mine It's already pretty textured, but I will maybe show you a few things So if you want to add some to yours if in the process of layers that you've already done you Haven't added enough texture and you want some more We're going to just use a few tools. I've got a small filbert brush here I've got deco arts Americana stucco tools and Then I have some deco art traditions glazing medium. I Have the deco arts traditions paints in Indian yellow aquamarine and Dioxazine purple I've got the deco art Americana paints in scorching yellow neon sizzling pink neon Toured orange neon and electric blue neon. Now. I don't know if I'm going to use all of these I might I might not but we'll see We're going to be mixing all of these with the glazing medium To make the colors more translucent so that we're adding shading and color To our painting to make it really pop without covering up completely all of what we've already done I'm just reading the directions And It doesn't really say how much is the recommended to add and I was just looking at that first before I told you guys I do think I want a fairly Translucent color of paint at least to start so I'm thinking I'm going to do about two-thirds glazing medium to One-third paint or something there about so definitely more glazing medium than paint. I'm not going to really measure it I'm just going to eyeball it. I'm going to start with a few colors So I'm going to start with Shake it's been sitting for a little bit. So let's give it a shake. So before I start the timer I'm going to mix up some colors or at least get my puddles ready and I'm going to start with four colors I know I have a lot more paint out than that, but like I said, I'm not sure I want to use all of this paint I know I want to use aqua marine. I know I want to use the neon pink I think I want to use one of the yellows I think I want to use the neon yellow and I think I want to use the purple I think I want to put out the Indian yellow, too Or maybe that no, maybe I take that back. Maybe the neon orange So this glazing lube is very more It's very much more More of a solid I'm used to using Like a Liquitex glazing medium, which is very much more fluid almost like water And I have to say I think I like the deco arts better just on the texture alone So we're going to start with those. I've got my baby wipes handy right here And I'm going to put this here. Are we ready? Deep breath Okay, and let's set the timer. Let's get going All right, I'm going to start with the turquoise I think it's aqua marine colors. Yeah aqua marine. I want to Here on the inside of the flower and then I think I want to just use my finger To smudge the line a little bit again, just like when we did the Neutralizing of the background I'm not too concerned at the moment about covering up the black lines or any of those marks because at the end In the last step, you'll be able to bring some of those back I'm gonna get out a baby wipe so I can keep my fingers sort of clean. I don't rinse off my brush Grab my rag. All right and I'm gonna go in now with a neon I Do like the texture of this Glazing fluid very much. I there's some blue on my brush so the neon pinks turning a little purple, but I'm okay with that I like that color anyways So I'm gonna go in here Oops Stick my hand in wet paint, which I already did Oops like that. I do think I want to do this And I like that because you're using a glazing fluid You can still see all these marks where we did our stenciling and our collage and things through All these layers of paint Okay, so next I'm not gonna clean my brush off I'm gonna leave the pink on there because I'm gonna go straight into purple and the pink will mix nicely with the purple without making mud If I go to the from the purple though To the yellow or the orange. I'm gonna just get brown So I don't really want if you want brown, that's fine, but I don't really want brown So I'm gonna be careful to not do that And while I'm trying not to think too much about what I'm doing. I am trying though to keep The paint sort of contained like that, but I'm wondering if I need to do this Oops, I love that. I'll just smeared blue everywhere, didn't it? That's better Ten minute warning that looks good Okay, here's my brush off try to get all of purple paint off Now if you're really concerned about time and you're really struggling with the 15 minute time limit Then you might want to just have one brush for each color and maybe each color in its own plate so that you don't have to worry about Stopping to clean anything. This is the neon orange Now the orange is a nice light bright white color White color like nice light bright color that will indicate sunlight and warmth and make your piece really pop and I like the idea of some of the Old neon orange that was in the base coat sticking through and showing up in our piece Along with some of this new Color and yes, you don't just have to stick to the inside if you get the impulse To add some of the paint around the outside of what you put on here Do that this like I said this orange is going to indicate sunlight So I'm going to try to keep it to the same side. So like if my son was here facing down Then all my shadows would be I mean my highlights would be on that side and my shadows would be on the opposite side And I'll show you how to do that. I'm going to clean my brush off again And we're going to go in with the neon yellow This time which is again another color that indicates lightness and brightness and warmth and So we're going to use it on that area of the canvas where we want the To pretend that the Sun is shining Okay, we're going to mix some of the yellow into some of the blue and We'll get a green Because yellow and blue make green right five minute warning and we're going to put that green here on the leaf maybe use a little bit to just highlight the stem Blend out some of the brush marks with our fingers So we have like a haze of color instead of just having blocks of color and the impulse to put some down here I like that So one thing you can do is take something like these texture tools or an old gift card or Something that's hard plastic This one which has teeth on it. Can you see that there you go? And I'm going to grab Excuse me one of my colors Probably one of my shadow colors. I think I'm going to go so the cooler colors on the palette or the blue or the purple and they would indicate shadow and Darkness or hint at shadow and darkness The opposite of your orange and your yellow colors I'm going to put some marks on the canvas and I'm going to Leave some of the marks And blend some of them out You have the baby wipe handy because if you put too much paint on there right away since your background is dry You can go in there right away You can take some of it off So I'm going to leave some of the lines crisp and I want to smudge some of them It makes it more interesting and I'm going to go in with some of my light bright colors And you can do some things like this But we can really make the top of this flower look really fiery by putting this orange color up there and take some of the two colors together With your baby wipe your finger again and leave some of the lines intact Smudge others Just do it very randomly That's really nice Don't be afraid to stand up and step back from your canvas. You have 15 minutes It's enough time Make sure you have all your highlights in the right place and they're all on the right side the correct side You know, you don't have most of them this way and then one coming from that way. There we go. I Like it. I like it a lot. So that is Step four let it dry completely before we go on to step five. I'll see you in the next video Don't forget that all my copyright notices and disclaimers are in the description below along with my contact information So if you'd like to send me a comment a question or concern my email address and PO box is in the description below Also, if you have a product you'd like me to try you'd like to send me something my PO box is in the description below Don't forget to please like share and subscribe and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later