VIDEO DESCRIPTION This painting tutorial will take you through easy to follow, stepbystep instructions on how to draw and paint this colorful tropical animal portrait image of "TOUCAN AND LADYBUG" with acrylic paint. You'll learn simple drawing and painting techniques that will help you to create this beautiful realistic portrait painting with a stunning brightly marked billed barbet starring at a tiny delicate little ladybug sitting on the top of its beak. The deep primary colors decorating the design on the oversized bill will provide an energetic look to the painting. Surrounded by the light glow from the atmospheric light, the small bug casts a shadow on the yellow section of the bird as they curiously look at each other. You can imagine that the bird is perched in a tree, on a stump, or somewhere secluded in the jungle canopy when he is visited by this illusive little flying insect. You'll learn how to create dimension in the shape of the face, bill and neck by using a simple layering technique with carefree impressionistic brushstrokes to create contour highlights and shadows that will define the small details and add texture and contrast to the elements. Use your imagination and customize this to resemble your favorite colorful bird, like a parrot, or maybe you put a butterfly or a baby bird sitting on the bill. The point is to just have fun with it! With the bright colors and curious expression being the focus, you'll be able to paint this portrait in a pretty way. Let this bird be a a symbol of playfulness and intelligence with its exciting colors and wise ways, and let the little ladybug symbolize good fortune, true love and innocence, making this a very sentimental and fun painting! You'll learn to create this realistic style painting that has a 3d photo quality to it, that will make for a beautiful painting to decorate your home all year long. You'll have fun painting it and you'll learn some valuable lessons along the way that you can utilize in future work. Let this humorous animal portrait bring a smile to your face with its thoughtprovoking visual narrative showing that opposites can become friends under the right circumstances. Using only 3 brushes and 7 colors we'll create this conversational masterpiece with a vibrant, beautiful, charming set of creatures just chilling together and figuring out what to do on this sunny day. So, let's get painting and let's get sipping!

IMAGE LINK FOR PRINTING:
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MATERIALS:
Canvas: 16x20 stretched primed canvas
Brushes: 1/2 inch flat bristle (large), #12 round synthetic (medium), #1 round synthetic (small)
Acrylic Paint: titanium white, mars black, chrome yellow, fire red, cobalt blue, chrome orange, green oxide
Other: #2 pencil, palette, cup of water for washing brushes, paper towel for drying brushes

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STEPS:
1. #2 pencil Draw outline of bird
2. 1/2 inch bristle brush Paint background with black, white and green
3. 1/2 inch bristle and #12 round brushes Paint base coat of bird with black, red, yellow, green, blue and orange
4. #12 round brush – Paint beak shadows and highlights with red, black, yellow, white, blue and green
5. #1 round brush – Paint details on eye with white, yellow and black
6. #12 round brush – Finish bird with black, white, yellow, green, red and orange
7. #1 round brush Paint ladybug with red, black, white, yellow and orange
8. #1 round brush Sign with black

LINKS AND CONTACT INFO:
Michelle's Patreon Page:   / michellethepainter  
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Email: [email protected]

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