Follow along with Mark in studio today as he shows you how to paint this gorgeous dynamic humpback whale. Discover how using suds can ultimately help you cover up mistakes, as well as adding exceptional movement. Follow along with Mark to create your own dynamic whale using acrylic paint! Your friends will be amazed at your painting prowess :) Parts of this process have been sped up, but luckily the magic of Youtube ensures that you can pause and slow down these parts in case you need more time.

This footage has been edited down from about 6 hours of footage, and we are still deciding whether to edit another longer, more detailed version which will become available as a download in the future. Let us know in the comments if this is something you would be interested in purchasing! We hope you get some value out of this tutorial, and many thanks for your continued support!

Materials needed for this project:

Canvas:
90 x 70cm preprimed stretched canvas, landscape orientation

Brushes:
Large house painting brush (approximately 5cm across), for blocking in background colours.
Synthetic flats in varying sizes for the detail. Approximately 12mm, 7mm, 4mm.
A largish fan brush to make some swirly suds

Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics:
Titanium White
French Ultramarine Blue
Pthalo Blue
Cadmium Yellow Light
Burnt Umber

00:00 What we’re doing today
00:23 Materials needed
01:04 Sketch in your whale
01:44 Mixing background colour
02:30 Painting the background (fast motion!)
03:46 Background surface of the water
04:13 Adding the suds
04:51 Working wet in wet
05:27 Brush technique to create bubbles
06:48 Fan brush technique on the surface of the water
07:20 Chalking in the whale outline to reestablish
07:40 Making the whale colour!
08:00 Sketching in the whale with paint
10:41 Painting the ventral pleats
11:40 Reestablishing the background (fast motion!)
13:20 Bubble behaviour on the surface of the water
13:48 Reestablishing the whale
16:30 Highlighting the whale’s lip
17:54 Adding detail to the ventral pleats
18:38 Adding nuance to the ventral pleats
19:36 Adding detail to the pectoral fins
20:38 Adding realistic scratches
22:20 Reestablishing the bubbles


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