Step by Step Paint an Elephant (& hangout) with Taytayski!
Come hangout in the recording of May 26th's live stream, and learn step by step how to paint an elephant! Please read ahead here for a supply list, quick jumps to get to specific parts of the painting and other information you need before you start.
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These videos are straight recordings of the Live Streamed paint nights with no editing involved. Feel free to fast forward, pause and rewind to your needs! I'll be sharing every paint night on my channel, from here on out :)
QUICK JUMPS:
10:20 to start with the rundown
15:40 to start the painting by mapping out the shapes
38:45 to start coloring in the darker areas
57:13 to add a medium blue
1:03:39 to add light blue
1:12:12 to add highlight
1:22:58 to start outline
1:45:20 to bump up your dark blue
1:52:30 for white highlight
2:00:52 to do the background
SUPPLIES:
In this case I used:
*11x14 inch stretched Canvas from Amazon:
https://amzn.to/39yoLNt
*Acrylic paints:
White
Black
Dark Blue
Light Blue
A paint brand I use:
https://amzn.to/3qgxx9E
*Brushes:-As long as you have a variety of sizes!
Small, Medium & Large
Extras:
*A palette of some sort (you can purchase cheap plastic ones from the dollar store, use parchment paper or a plate)
*A rag to wipe your brush on(paper towel, microfiber cloths, a chunk of an old towel etc)
*Water (can be in a solo cup, an old mug, mason jars, just nothing you would want to drink out of ever again)
*I paint on a desk easel, some people paint flat on the table!
Totally up to you.
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Thank you SO much for watching and feel free to DM me your finished Elephant on instagram if you followed along ( or email to [email protected] if you don't have instagram) and if you haven't already, find The Child tutorial on my youtube to try as well!
my info:
https://wwwtaytayski.com/
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or check out my store at
http://etsy.com/ca/shop/taytayski
ps: Making an account on Caffeine.tv is free and if you give me a follow(@taytayski) you will be notified every time I go live. It's soo much fun to be able to paint live with everyone and be able to ask questions real time! I highly suggest trying to make a live one :)