Dry Brushing for Oil Painting Sunrise

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Now I'm going to take a flat head brush to work in some more magic on our pink highlights we've drawn in with our round brush. Flat head brushes are so named because they are flat at the top. So take out flat head brush and you're going to notice something very interesting about this brush; there's no paint on it, this is why we're going to be doing dry brushing. Dry brushing refers to going back over, in this case paint which is already on the canvas and not having additional paint. Basically I'm using this dry brush to move things around; why I want to move things around is I want these a little more wispy and blended into the background, they're a little too; say we have a kind of like background and then blob, blob background; let's kind of wisp that out a bit. So we're going to do this by having our flat head and kind of wisp it; working especially around the edges and usually I kind of like to make a small little like trough shape, like this; to do that all threw here because then you're going to get the cloud wisps that'll come up. And let's work this all threw out our clouds. You'll notice two things as you go threw out this process; the clouds will blend more and you're going to start getting a bit of a residue on your brush, that's o.k. You can usually go through this process several times, so whenever you start building up a thick paint on your brush that it becomes a real detriment to what you're trying to do here otherwise it's totally fine. So let's see; let's bring this down in here in addition to giving it more of a cloud shape, cloud feel it'll be blending into and better leveraging you’re under painting here. Now this effect is especially important towards the top part of the painting where the clouds; the cloud forms may be more obvious and then down below which is where things kind of straighten out more because the clouds you're looking at are starting to stretch into the distance, these are further away from you than the clouds up on top. But we can still do this effect; what's more we can add this with a little bit of paint on our brush if you want to add into some little areas hinting at the color above, that's fine too. See how this is going here; this is definitely different from this but is not nearly as intense as the color above, this is because we've been using media which will also assist with the blending process which will be very important as you start to put on some other colors in addition to our permanent rose derivatives.

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