You should paint everything blue

Summary

In this painting tutorial, the artist demonstrates how to create a realistic apple by layering various colors beyond just red. Starting with underpainting in blue for shadows, the artist adds yellow and orange streaks to highlight the apple's natural tones. The red is layered later, allowing other colors to shine through, giving depth and texture. This process helps create realistic lighting and vibrant contrasts, with particular attention to making the apple's shine crisp. By the end, the apple is rich with color, shadows, and highlights. Viewers are encouraged to engage and suggest future content.

Takeaways

• 🍎 Apples can be painted in various colors, not just red, to create a realistic appearance.
• 🎨 Underpainting with blue can help establish shadows and add depth to the apple's appearance.
• 🌟 Adding yellow streaks or dots first allows for highlights to shine through the red layers later.
• 🖌️ Painting with darker orange layers helps in creating the illusion of depth and texture on the apple.
• 💧 Underpainting provides an opportunity to create texture that will show through the final layers.
• 🟥 When painting red over blue, the mix creates a natural purple hue, enhancing the shadow areas.
• 🔴 Leaving areas of yellow and orange exposed in lighter areas helps to create a more natural look.
• 📏 Sharp lines between shadows and highlights are crucial for a realistic, shiny apple effect.
• 💧 Ensuring the paper is dry before painting highlights prevents bleed, maintaining a crisp shine.
• 🖍️ Adding saturated red to the apple increases color vibrancy and contrast between highlights and shadows.
• 🌈 Using a dry brush helps in controlling paint application, especially in highlighted areas to avoid blending.

Q & A

What is the primary color associated with apples in common perception?

Red.

What technique does the artist use to start painting the apple?

Underpainting.

Why does the artist choose to use blue for the underpainting of the apple's shadows?

Using blue for underpainting allows the artist to create a cohesive piece when painting over it with red, and it also helps in creating shadows that appear more realistic.

What color does the artist use to represent the streaks of yellow and orange that shine through the apple's red color?

Yellow.

How does underpainting help in creating texture on the apple?

Underpainting allows the artist to create texture by making strokes, light lines, and dots that will shine through even after painting over them with red.

What color combination does the artist use to create a more realistic shadow effect?

The artist uses a combination of blue and red to create a purple shadow effect, which adds to the realism of the painting.

Why does the artist leave areas of yellow and orange exposed when painting the red layer?

Leaving areas of yellow and orange exposed helps to create a more natural and realistic image by allowing these colors to shine through the red layer.

How does the artist approach painting the highlighted areas of the apple?

The artist ensures the paper is dry to maintain a crisp line for the highlight, which is important for creating a realistic shine on the apple.

What does the artist do to add saturation to the apple's red color in the painting?

The artist goes over the apple with a more saturated red to increase the color intensity and create a more vibrant and contrasting effect with the highlights.

What is the artist's advice for painting into highlighted areas without blending too much?

The artist suggests using a drier brush to control the paint better and to leave finer details in the highlighted areas.

What does the artist encourage viewers to do if they find the tutorial helpful or have suggestions for future content?

The artist encourages viewers to leave a like, drop a comment, and share what they want the artist to paint next.

Outlines

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🎨 Painting a Realistic Apple: Color Techniques

The video script explains the process of painting a realistic apple, emphasizing that the color is not just red but includes a variety of other colors. The artist begins with underpainting using blue in the shadow areas, which later enhances the cohesiveness when red is applied. Yellow is added for the streaks and spots that shine through the red, ensuring these details are captured before the final red layer. The artist also uses darker orange to represent the layers and levels of color in the apple. Underpainting allows for the creation of texture, which will show through the final red layer, adding to the realism. The script details how the artist applies red paint over the underpainting, creating a natural shadow effect by mixing with the blue. The artist then focuses on adding saturation and contrast to the apple, ensuring highlights are crisp for a realistic shine, and finishes by adding more saturated red to enhance the color and depth of the painting.

Keywords

💡Underpainting

Underpainting is a technique used in painting where a monochromatic or colored base layer is applied to create form and establish the initial color scheme. In the video, the artist uses blue for underpainting the apple's shadows, which helps to create depth and a cohesive look when the red is applied later. This technique is crucial for building up layers and achieving a realistic effect.

💡Cohesive

Cohesive refers to the unity or consistency in a piece of art, where different elements work together harmoniously. The video mentions that using underpainting with a blue base helps to make the whole painting more cohesive when red is added later. This is because the initial layer influences the final color and tone, creating a unified appearance.

💡Yellow Streaks

Yellow streaks are used in the video to describe the natural highlights that appear on an apple's skin. The artist paints these streaks first, so they can shine through the subsequent layers of red paint. This technique adds realism by capturing the subtle variations in color that occur in nature.

💡Highlighting

Highlighting in painting is the process of leaving or adding lighter areas to a subject to simulate the effect of light. In the script, the artist discusses leaving yellow streaks and dots as highlights to mimic the natural shine of an apple's skin. This technique is essential for creating a lifelike appearance and adding depth to the painting.

💡Shadows

Shadows are the dark areas in a painting that represent the absence of light. The video explains how underpainting with blue creates a base for the shadows, which then appear more natural when red is layered on top. The artist also discusses darkening the edges to create contrast with the highlights, which is crucial for giving the apple a three-dimensional look.

💡Texture

Texture in painting refers to the surface quality or 'feel' of the artwork, which can be simulated through brushstrokes and layering. The artist uses underpainting to create texture on the apple, making strokes and dots that will be visible even after the red paint is applied. This adds to the realism of the painting by mimicking the natural surface of an apple.

💡Saturation

Saturation refers to the intensity or purity of a color. In the video, the artist talks about adding saturated red to the apple to increase its vibrancy and make the color 'pop'. This is important for creating a realistic and visually appealing image, as it helps to capture the true color of the apple.

💡Crisp Line

A crisp line is a sharp, well-defined edge in a painting, which is used to create clear boundaries between different areas. The script mentions the importance of a crisp line where the apple's stem meets the fruit to create a realistic shine. This detail is essential for conveying the shiny nature of the apple's surface.

💡Layering

Layering is the process of applying paint in multiple thin layers to build up color and depth. The artist in the video uses layering to add depth to the apple, starting with underpainting and then adding red in various stages. This technique is fundamental to creating a realistic painting, as it allows for the gradual development of color and form.

💡Realism

Realism in art refers to the accurate representation of subjects as they appear in real life. The video's theme revolves around creating a realistic apple, using techniques like underpainting, highlighting, and layering to capture the nuances of color and form. The artist's goal is to mimic the natural appearance of an apple, making the painting look lifelike.

💡Brush Technique

Brush technique involves the way an artist uses a brush to apply paint, which can affect the texture and appearance of the artwork. The video mentions using a dry brush for adding saturated red to the apple, allowing for more control and precision. This technique is important for achieving fine details and a polished look in the painting.

Highlights

The color of an apple is not just red; other colors such as yellow, orange, and blue play a role in creating a realistic painting.

Underpainting with a blue color helps establish shadows, which provides depth and realism to the apple.

Using underpainting allows certain areas to shine through in the later stages of painting, adding cohesiveness to the artwork.

Yellow and orange streaks are used to represent areas where these colors naturally shine through the red skin of the apple.

By painting yellow first, the artist can leave exposed areas to let those yellow parts shine through once the red is added.

The technique of leaving areas unpainted allows highlights to be preserved, contributing to a more natural, realistic look.

Underpainting with various colors such as darker orange, blue, and yellow adds complexity and texture to the apple.

Adding light strokes, lines, and dots in the underpainting stage helps create texture and depth in the final painting.

When red is painted over the blue underpainting, it creates a purple hue, naturally forming shadows without needing to add darker reds.

The artist uses a scratchy technique with the red in well-lit areas to allow the yellow and orange underpainting to show through.

Layering more saturated red adds depth to the apple's shadows, making them more vibrant and contrasting with the highlights.

The area where the stem connects to the apple is a good opportunity to focus on color contrast and sharpness for realism.

To maintain crisp highlights, the paper must be dry to prevent the paint from bleeding into highlighted areas.

Apples have a shiny surface, so maintaining crisp lines for highlights makes the apple appear more realistic and vibrant.

A more saturated red is applied in the final layer, enhancing both midtones and shadows, while ensuring yellow and orange streaks remain visible.

Transcripts

what color is an apple

you'd probably say red and you wouldn't

be wrong necessarily

but there's a lot more that goes into it

there's a lot of other colors and in

this video you can follow side by side

while I paint a realistic Apple using a

lot of other colors besides just red to

start we can do something called under

painting and so in this example I'm

using a blue color to underpaint the

Apple where the Shadows are going to be

by using under painting when I go back

in with red at a later time it's going

to make the whole piece a little bit

more cohesive another thing that

underpainting allows you to do is to

create little areas that are going to

shine through once you put later layers

of paint down so in this example I'm

using a yellow because if you look at

the reference picture there's a lot of

streaks of yellow and orange that shine

through the red color of the Apple

I know that I'm going to paint a layer

of red over the top of this but if I do

that I won't be able to paint yellow

streaks or little yellow dots on top of

the Apple so I add the yellow first and

so then when I go back through with the

red I can leave areas exposed to let the

yellow Parts shine through

the same idea as leaving a highlight on

painted if you leave the yellow there

and then paint around it or leave areas

on painted when you go back in with red

or any other color you'll leave areas

that shine through and it'll create a

more natural and realistic image so here

even though I know I'm gonna end up with

red I'm also going through with a layer

of Darker orange because there's layers

and levels of different colors in here

it's not just yellow it's not just blue

there's a ton of different colors

presented here and I want to capture as

many of those as I can underpainting

also gives me an opportunity to create

some texture on the Apple so you see

I've made some Strokes some light lines

little dots everywhere all of that's

going to shine through even if I paint

red over top and so this is my

opportunity to add a little bit of

realism to the Apple

now I've got all of those layers painted

I am finally going to go in with my red

and you'll notice immediately that when

I paint the red over the blue areas it's

coming out a little bit purple which

makes sense blue and red would make

purple and this means that my Shadows

are already kind of sorted I don't have

to go through and darken it with a

different color of red or anything like

that I already have a sort of Base

Shadow going on that is giving some

realism to the piece you'll notice here

that when I go and paint the red in the

left side of the Apple because it's in

more light I'm being a little bit more

scratchy I'm leaving areas of yellow and

orange exposed because I want those

pieces to shine through this is just a

first layer so you'll notice that it's

probably a little less saturated than I

will want it to be at the end but it's

going in the general direction and it's

always easier to keep adding paint than

it is to remove it in this case I want

to start darkening up some of those

edges really make those Shadows really

contrast the highlights of the Apple so

I go in with more saturated red and I

layer it over top of the bottom right

side as well as adding it to some of the

mid-tones of the Apple the indent at the

top of the Apple where the stem is is

another good opportunity to think about

your colors and your highlights you'll

notice that it's a really sharp line

between the dark shadow or the stem

comes out of and the top of the Apple so

one thing while I'm doing that is I want

to make sure that the paper is dry so

that none of the paint bleeds into my

highlight the more crisp of a line that

I have there the more realistic that

shine is going to look apples are shiny

fruits so I want that highlight to be

crisp if it was not a shiny fruit if it

was more of a matte finish then maybe I

could blend some of it in together but

if I want it to be shiny I need the

Highlight to be crisp so at this point I

think I've got a pretty good base layer

of red over everything but it is a

little bit under saturated so what I'm

going to finally do is go in with a

pretty saturated red and add saturation

all over it I start with the middle

because I know it's going to be sort of

the mid-tones where most of the color is

going to pop I add some to the

highlighted areas still leaving those

yellow streaks and orange streaks to

shine through and then I also add to the

bottom right and make sure that the

Shadows are quite vibrant and

contrasting with the highlights a little

bit of a trick when you're painting into

the highlighted areas is to make sure

that your brush isn't too wet you can

make it more dry and then it's a little

bit easier to control where the paint is

going you can leave finer details on

there and you don't have to worry about

everything blending together

helpful tutorial and if it's interesting

or useful to you leave a like drop a

comment tell me what you want me to

paint next I'm hoping to turn some of

the shorts into longer content so if you

have anything you're interested in let

me know thanks

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