SUNRISE | Semi Abstract Acrylic Painting Demonstration Using A Limited Color Palette
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
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In this video I'm painting a very loose semi abstract seascape in calm and soft colors using only 3 colors plus black and white.
Using a limited color palette is very useful to create all the harmonious grays I used to paint this seascape. Further more it's also almost impossible to mix a colors that don't go well together. Do you use a limited palette? What is your go-to favourite colors? Let me know in the comments below.
Materials I used in the video: Watercolor paper (160lb/200gram).
Watersoluble crayons like Caran D'ache Neo Color II and/or watercolor pencils.
The acrylic colors are: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Black and Titanium White.
If you like this loose and expressionist painting style you might enjoy these two videos:
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Hi Marie Louise, I want to thank you for amazing works and feeling they give me. I wish you all the best. Erri fm Italy
You're so welcome! Thank you Erri, for watching and leaving me such awesome feedback!
Gorgeous !
Beautiful paintings, beautiful style. Thanks
Lovely atmospheric painting. Thank you for sharing....
Love this painting
Hi Marie Louise - my 'go-to' colours (in addition to black and Titanium White) are: Indantherine Blue, Quinacridone Burnt Orange and Indian Yellow. I guess that equates roughly to your Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna and Yellow Ochre. I also use Yellow Ochre quite a lot. Quinacridone Burnt Orange and Indian Yellow are gorgeous transparent colours and mixed together can produce an intense orange which I'm very fond of.
Hi Rhod, I would very much like to try your triad of colors, thank so much for sharing! I don’t have any of those colors at the moment but will put them on my wish list.
I always loved the story of how Indian Yellow was popular with all my art hero’s; Vermeer, Van Gogh and of cause Turner. How it was originally made from cow urine - you probably know the story..
What a glorious piece. I absolutely love it! You are an amazing artist, thank you and wishing safe and healthy in these times.
Thank you so much. Hope you stay safe also ☀️☀️
Thank you for sharing your great ideas! You're amazing! keep making videos please!
Thank you so much, I love watching you paint, I'm feeling inspired now x
Thank you so much Helen, I’m very happy it was helpful 🎨
Thank you for your beautiful technique. Joan Icker. Needed this inspiration for a large piece
It was great to see this painting framed. Thanks.
Thanks for watching :)
You created a lovely,calm painting.
Thank you Joan, I’m happy you liked it 🌷
I had stop using acrylics for a while and only did water color. But you have inspired me to use your technics. I love doing acrylics again! Thank you !!
Very cool, happy painting to you :-)
Beautiful! Thank you! 😊
Thank you for watching 😊
So beautiful! ❤️
Thanks Antonio 😊🎨
What a beautiful painting, my go to colours for moody landscapes are Paynes grey, Titanium white, Prussian blue, Raw umber. Thankyou for sharing 🙏
Those are lovely colors indeed, thanks for sharing Tia! I could easily spend a whole afternoon just making lovely mixtures of Payne’s grey and titanium white 😍
I started to have a go at masking off the borders in my journal to do limited palette paintings... it’s relaxing and surprising how successful these paintings are. Thanks.
That’s wonderful - keep up the good work 😊
Lovely painting thank u for sharing
You’re welcome Mumtaz🌷🌷
Just discovered you! Thank you so much for sharing your art and talent. I paint in layers too and its so refreshing and inspiring to watch you paint.
My pleasure and welcome to the channel!
Un très beau travail ! Il se dégage de l'intimité et de la douceur , la lumière est très bien rendue , Félicitations pour le travail que vous mettez en ligne , toujours de qualité ! 👍💖
Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris le temps de me faire part de vos commentaires - je l'apprécie vraiment! 🌷🌷
Hiya Marie Louise, Thanks very much for the lovely video and showcasing the process. When I first started off painting I used to limit my palette, to about 172 colours! Although the Botanical palette is very different my desert island palette would be: Azo yellow light, Cadmium yellow medium, Pthalo blue green shade, Ultramarine blue, Permanent rose, Cadmium red light, or Scarlet lake, Burnt sienna , Nickel Azo yellow/ Transparent yellow in some ranges, Burnt umber, Cadmium orange, BIG tube, 200ml of white. All the above are Winsor and Newton. I include an orange as it is brighter than any mixed orange and can be altered to make browns and sumptuous dark tropical greens.
If anyone likes the vibrant green gold it can be mixed easily from two colours above, Pthalo blue and Nickel Azo yellow, which are the two pigments used to make Green gold. Not only is mixing your own better but you also have two extra colours to choose from. Peace and love, David,
Hi David, The 172 colors must be an incredible and impressive sight when all setup on the worktable. Thanks for sharing your desert island palette - reminds me that I want to get out my permanent rose one day and give it another go. And you're right we always need a big tube of white - in fact we can't have too much white can we?! ;-)
Thank you so very much for introducing me to this type of painting I have had a lovely afternoon and produced 4 small paintings. You are so creative I feel inspired too.
I'm so delighted to hear it! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment and giving me feedback - I really appreciate it. Greetings from Denmark :)
@@TheDanishPainter Greetings from Devon UK
Hi Marie Louise, I really enjoy watching your videos. As a beginning painter it is inspiring to watch your works unfold. Your paintings are beautiful and exactly the sort of thing I aspire to create. One question though: you don’t seem to allow the paintings to dry between layers so how do you stop everything turning muddy?
I love this!!!! I love the softness of it. Because it's soft, but everything is still clear, not just muddy as I tend to make, or too dark as I also tend to make ;)
I love mixing greys....a while ago I saw an acrylic pouring artist i love to watch (Sara Taylor) and her gray was lovely and she mentioned how she mixed it and I fell in love with the different grays I can get and how fun it is to try it with different colors. Its fun to be surprised by the color...like I mixed ultramarine and burnt sienna and a tiny bit of yellow for a nice warm gray..but I wanted to see what changing the type of blue would do and so I used phthalo (sp) and I got the most gorgeous blue green that is one of my very favorite colors and of course can lighten it with white....but anyway. I know at 48 I should know all this...but I only forced myself to seriously try art in my early 40's as a way to deal with my chronic pain and ptsd without more meds, as I was done with that. Anyway...realized I could draw, which all my life had thought I could not..fell in love with all of it. But I'm very limited in how often I can do any of it with this body of mine, so self learning is slow going. But, it is something that has helped, body and mind, more then I can say. Honestly, even if all I can do on a bad day is swipe one color across a canvas or paper, it's enough...not sure why, but it gets other parts of your brain working and thinking differently and the beauty of color is alwayshelpfulto the mind I think which then helps the body. Anyway...sorry for the babble😳🙄😊...but I just meant to say how much I agree on mixing your own small palette of colors for a cohesive vibe, and also for the fun of seeing what magical colors pop up :)
Thank you once again for such awesome information and tips and amazing inspiration!!!!🥰🥰
Awww thank you yet again for taking the time to write such a thoughtful and in-depth comment 🥰
I love those blue/green shades when using phthalo green/blue also. And they go just beautifully with all the earthy tones I also love.
Glad you enjoyed the video & have a lovely week🌷🌷
@@TheDanishPainter thank you!! Hope you have a wonderful week too!!🥰
Marie Louise I think this is one of my favourites of yours. Or have I said that before? Ha ha. This one really showed the soft glazes that you put on top of each other. One thing I struggle with though is the drying time. Most artist teachers don’t demo this and I struggled picking it up with watercolours too. Then they become muddy. Down the track I’m hoping with your videos you could show mixing your paint and when you are drying. I noticed in this one you mentioned leaving it for a certain time and then wiping it. I know this is learning that comes from experience so I will continue experimenting with your style and tips. Thank you so much.
You are working so diligently and practicing a lot so I have no doubt you'll get the hang of it. And yes, the drying part is paramount to avoid mud and general mess. Good thing acrylics dry relatively quickly. I know some artists use hairdryers with much success and I also have one but rarely use it. I use the waiting time to ponder my next step with a cup of tea in my hand haha :-)
I love your use of neutrals. Acrylics can look a bit garish and this is something I really want to avoid. Have to say painting loose is so hard! I'm used to soft pastels and painting realistic landscape but trying more abstract acrylics. Your landscapes are exactly what I'm seeking, how to say a lot with so.little. Thank yo u so much for sharing your beautiful work.
Yes acrylics can easily look a bit garish and it's definitely something I want to avoid as well. I find that a limited palette and lot and lots of color mixing is crucial to avoid the garishness of acrylics. I use complimentary colors often to create a wide variety of neutrals.
Soft pastels are beautiful and something I hope to try one day!
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, it really means a lot.
Have a lovely weekend & greetings from Denmark.
I really enjoy and appreciate your work it’s very delicate and transparent.. I hope someday I will have my own artistic voice.. I’m still experimenting.
It evolves over time so you are on the right track. And keep experimenting, it’s so important and it’s what keeps us artists moving forward with our work 😊
@@TheDanishPainter thank you very much
🙂💕smukt
Hello Painters.
I love getting up early to enjoy a quiet and calm morning. Especially when I can watch the sunrise.
I wanted to keep the composition simple and the colors very soft using a limited palette of only 3 colors plus black and white.
Hope you have a safe and creative week.
- Marie Louise
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Hey recently got to know about your channnel.
And I'm glad that I found it because from a lot of days I have searching for tutorials on abstract seascapes.
And your seascapes are just amazing 😍😍.
A lot needed to learn from you.
Your 160gsm paper is quite heavy as mine gets easily ruptured 😅.
Anyways will be goinf through all of your videos for acrylic and will be sharing progress with you if that is feasible for you.
And yes I do have pallete full of colors. Not the limited one like yours. I have always struggled to choose color while doing abstracts.
Any pointer you want to add here would be great.
Sorry for this long comment.
You're just amazing artist.
Hope you have a great day ahead!!!
Thank so much Omkar. My very best tip is that I'd recommend a layer or two of gesso on your paper before you paint on it. Makes it much better and stronger and able to handle water/paint when using many, fluid layers.
Happy painting and thanks for watching :)
This is really lovely, c'est magnifique! I like the poetry in your paintings, and the simplicity also, yet I realise it is much more difficult to achieve than I thought, having tried to imitate your abstract landscape. I wonder if oil pastels would be ok to replace the "gelatos" that I have, as water soluble crayons?
I am delighted to have found you on youtube! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much Marguerite!
I think that yes you should absolutely try your oil pastels. They will behave differently because they are oil based and can't be manipulated with water. But if you leave your mark-making until you are finished with the acrylic layers that should'nt be a problem.
Welcome to the channel and have a lovely day :)
This painting is so beautiful! The softness of the colors and the composition is very soothing and inspires peace. May I ask why you switched from watercolors to acrylics? Thank you for sharing this 😊
I’ve just painted my first ever acrylic following your guide and it went not too bad, it’s nothing compared whit what you’ve make but I’m still proud. Now the paper I used it’s definitely not the best one… it began to break apart. Also the crayons that I’ve got are not water soluble hehe. I would like to share my painting in the comments but that’s not possible 😅
I have troubles mixing the colours, I know it’s just 3 colors but… I would really appreciate if you make some more videos where you show also how you mix your colors. Thank you very much and keep it going, you have a gift!
That is so nice and sweet of you, thanks a bunch! I'm happy to hear that your painting is coming along. Color mixing is a bit of work but will get easier with practice. I actually think you are doing a wise thing by practicing using only a few colors. Well done!
Nice! It would be so helpful if you listed your brush type you use as you paint.
I’m so happy to find your wonderful channel. Thank you for teaching.
I’m curious. Can these same techniques be applied to a pre gessoed canvas?
Or would additional layers of gesso be required?
Thank you and best wishes for you & yours safety & joy
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Yes you can use the same techniques on canvas - if you add a couple of layers of additional gesso. I like 2-3 layers myself :) Best wishes to you too & thanks for watching!
Just discovered you, love your work! Do you varnish the finished piece?
The work I do on paper I don't fix or seal in any way. I just keep the pieces in my sketchbooks until I want to frame them under glass.
When working on canvas I seal the paintings using many thin layers of spray varnish (for acrylics). The trick here is to do MANY THIN layers and to let them dry completely in between. The drying in between is crucial and also that the layers of varnish are VERY THIN so that the painting surface doesn't get too wet. If the painting gets too wet it could change or ruin the marks with water-soluble crayons and pencil. There is always a risk of changing or potentially ruining the marks if I try and hurry this part - so I always remind myself to be very patient with this step.
Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel 🎨🎨
Best, Marie Louise
Hello again, I was wondering if you ever do live tutorials?
I haven't yet but I might try it out in the future :)
I enjoy your videos. When you paint in Acrylic do you varnish the end product.
Regards
Hi Richard, yes and no. If the painting are on paper I don't varnish as they will be framed behind mat and glas. The painting on canvas get varnished and I usually use spray varnish for this. Cheers
Hi I wanted to ask are you watering down the acrylic paint or just using it direct on painting …..
Another gorgeous painting! Just wondering if your techniques are more suitable to paper or can they be used on canvas?
I use the same techniques on canvas. But I always prime the canvas very well with a couple of layers of gesso first. Helps give some “tooth” and facilitate the initial thin washes.
I varnish work on canvas with many and very thin layers of spray varnish. Amble drying time in between layers is crucial.
@@TheDanishPainter thank you, even if a canvas was already primed, would you still apply some gesso?
Yes but I didn’t used to add gesso when the canvas was pre primed. But after experimenting and trying many different approach’s Ive come to prefer a couple of additional layers of gesso.
@@TheDanishPainter excellent, thank you. Have a lovely weekend
Thank you and to you also ☀️
I am an oil painter. I have tried acrylics but not successfully.
Can you use this technique with oils?
Can you use the pencils and crayons with oils?
I love your work and your technique.
Yes you can use the same techniques with oils - just switch to oil pastels instead. Happy painting and thanks for watching :)
Thank you for another lovely painting. I too started as a watercolor painter and very often use acrylic paint in a watercolor fashion. I so enjoy your use of glazes but wonder how your paper holds up to the many many layers you use. Do you use 140 lb watercolor paper??? Thank you once again for sharing you art. It is an invaluable inspiration to me.
Thanks so much. I rarely plan to use many layers in my work on paper. But I often get carried away and then regret that I didn’t use thicker paper. I actually work mostly on canvas but love to make preliminary work on paper.
I do have more heavyweight watercolour paper from Arches and Stephen Quiller but I feel precious about those so tend to use the cheaper/thinner papers. I know I really should open those lovely papers up and start painting on them.
Thanks for your feedback and now I’ll seriously consider getting out those expensive papers and use them!!
How do you know to add the dark in the front and light in the back? You make it look so natural. But how do you know where to put which value - dark to light and light to dark!
I think it's a combination of trail and error and many years of experience and painting many hundreds of paintings. A quick tip I would give you would be to take black and white photos of paintings/photographs you like. Looking at them in B&W will help you learn about value contrasts which are really important in both abstract and realistic artwork. I made a video about values if you want to learn more you may take a look here:ruclips.net/video/BsX5DDuxKxo/видео.html
Hope that helps & happy painting :)
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Skønt billede 👍 ..... hvad hedder den blå farve, du maler med ? 😘
Tak for det Anita😊 Det er ultramarine blue 🎨🌷
Hi Marie Louise, could you send me the link for your course please. Thank you.
Hi Juliet, there is no direct link to the course yet (I'm sorting out the last details and technical stuff..)
There is more info about the new course on my webpage. And if you would like you can sign up for the newsletter to get informed when the course is ready. My page is www.danishpainter.com
Do you dilute your colors on your palette or do you wet your brush, or both?
yes a bit of both actually