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Fall Truck Painting | Just in time for the weekend! 🎨🍂 Here is a step by step fall truck painting tutorial. You could put anything you want in the back of your truck, but of... | By Emily Seilhamer Art | One of my top requests was a fall pumpkin truck painting so here we go. Take your mop brush and with some light blue and white, do back and forth strokes at the top of your canvas for your sky. I'm using 11 by fourteen canvas board today. Then clean off your brush and dip into some colors for your road. I'm just taking tan and dark brown and doing back and forth strokes all the way to the bottom. When you're done with the ground, keep the tan and brown on your brush but mix in a little bit of green. That's going to an earthy shade of green for some trees in the background. Bounce in a horizon line. You could also use a sponge for this. I like to use my brush. And your truck is going to be in the middle so only do a little bit on the left and right hand sides. Now see how the bottoms of the trees look a little funny. Grab a little bit more of your road color and you can just clean that up by doing a line underneath it. There we go. Dry it and we're ready to plant some trees. To do this take a size three round brush. And now something about the road. There's going to be some perspective so forms a triangle with the tip of the triangle up in that gap where the trees is and then it goes out towards the outer edges of the painting as you get towards the bottom of the canvas I'm going to mix some white in with my dark brown to make lighter colored trees and the trees that are furthest away from us are going to be really thin and a little bit shorter than all the other trees. Do simple branches we are going to be putting leaves on these and as they get down towards us closer to us the road the trees are going to get a little bit taller and also a little bit thicker. Also notice it goes along that triangle. So see this one's down even further. It's going to be even thicker and it goes out along the side of the triangle closer to the left side of the canvas as it gets down towards the bottom. Make the branches as fun as you want. Just make sure you're adding those Vs in there and they're they're not perfectly straight lines. So there's the left side. Let's do the right side of the road. Same thing. Thinner and shorter trees towards the back and then as it gets down to towards you, you're going to make the trees thicker. And you don't have to plant them all along the side of the road. Fill up the left and right hand sides of your canvas with trees. So I'm going to do one slightly over to the right here. Just remember that size is important to give it depth. So to make it look further away there is a tiny tree over there all the way on the right. That's a start. A nub trick to make your forest look like it has depth is add some dark brown trees to the mix as well. I like to do lighter trees in the distance because they're further away and then some of the ones that are really close to us are darker brown. We're getting there. Let's get closer to us on the road down here and the bottom corner. I'm going to do a really tall tree. The ones down towards the bottom left and right should be a much thicker and almost as tall as the entire painting. And don't forget to have some of the branches going off the painting as well. Another trick to making the forest look full is make sure you are overlapping your trees. Notice how I'm adding these dark brown ones in here that they are starting to overlap over top of the lighter brown trees especially the branches. That's okay. You want the trees to overlap to make it look like a full forest. Once you have all your trees, it's finally time to add some fall leaves. To do this, we're going to do something different. I'm going to take a cluster of cotton swabs and I like to take a rubber band and just connect them all so they don't fall as I'm using them. You could also use an Artist Sponge if you want but I want to try a new texture today. Pick your favorite fall leaf colors. I'm going to start with some dark yellow and use it the same way we do an artist sponge just bounce it. I wouldn't suggest going right in the paint and right to the canvas, I would bounce some off first so you don't get clumps of paint but once you get going, it's a nice little texture that gives you little dots. I'm also going to mix clusters of orange. You can overlap the colors. What's your favorite fall colors? I do love all of them but yellow and orange are some of my favorites. I'm even going to put some light brown clusters in there as well to make it look like it has some shading. Also the leaves are starting to turn so they do turn brown before they fall. Which speaking of falling leaves, don't forget to bounce in some color and texture along the bottom where the leaves would fall. I'm also going to do that along the edge of the road there going all the way back. If you want to add single leaves two in different areas, I'm going to take a single cotton swab and bounce in a little bit of light green. That color always brings out the fall colors. Now, one thing I will say about using cotton swabs though is the leaves turn out a little bit transparent so I like to take an Artist Sponge and just fill in a couple areas where I feel like it needs to be a little bit more full. There we go. Are you ready? Let's paint a truck to drive on our road. To start, pick a color for your truck. I'm not to do a little red truck this time like we did for Christmas but for fall I'm going to use a bluish green and I already sketched the shape it's the same shape as the Christmas truck but I'm going to show you how to free hand it still so start with a line above the horizon line and do a curved upside down U over top of that that's going to create your window and the top half or the cabin of your truck on either side of the cabin you're going to do two curve lines that go out and down on either side that makes the side of the truck and then connect the two with a straight line. Once you have that line or that shape, fill it in with your truck color and we're going to do one more level that curves out so we're going to have a curve that goes out and down on either side of that first curve and connect those with a straight line as well and that's the main shape of your truck. So, fill it all in with your green color. I'm going to do a second coat so you can do that if you need to. There we go. Now for the bumper I'm going to take a smaller round brush and just do a light gray color. You could also do silver metallic if you have it. Shade it a little bit with some black. It's just slightly wider than the truck itself. And while we have the black paint add tires. So just make a curved rectangle shape that's slightly in from the edge of the sides of the truck. There we go. So we have two tires. The truck the window. You could leave it blank and just have sky shining through. But I'm going to fill it in with a tinted white. So I kind of tinted it with some black and the color of the truck because it would be reflecting. And then I like to do back and forth strokes with black and white to make it look like the sun is reflecting on it. There we go. For truck details. Let's start working on the back of the truck. I'm going to start with a black line underneath my window. See how there's a little gap between the window in this line. Blend it in with some of your truck color there. And then so underneath that do two lines that line up with the sides of the cabin that's the sides of your tailgate this tailgate unlike the Christmas truck is going to be open so we can put pumpkins in it so I did my thick black line connecting the two on the bottom instead of the top and let's fill in the inside of it with just a combination of the truck color and some black to make it look shaded doing up and down strokes in between the two lines and even off the top there we go now open ready to put pumpkins in. Let's shape the bottom of this bumper a little bit and then grab some white paint to add a license plate. We can put a word on it later but just make a curved rectangle. So start thinking about what you want to put on it. And as a final touch take a detail brush and I like to use black and outline my truck. You can outline any part of it you want to make it stand out. I did the window, the edges, and the bumper. For the license plate I'm actually going to take a little bit of gray and lined that so it's not quite as dark. Oh and I almost forgot about tailgate lights. You can put whatever style lights you want. I'm going to do red circles and a little tiny white circle over top of that in each side of the truck on that bottom curve. There we go. Now, I'm going to also take a large round brush. Here's other details around the truck. Take some dark brown and do back and forth strokes behind each tire all the way to the bottom. That's going to give it a little bit of shading but also look like the truck is driving through the leaves. If you do too much of it or it gets too dark, you can always go back with some tan and do back and forth strokes in the middle of the shading. But then take your Q tips again with some color and just bounce in some leaves across the back. Cuz if you know fall leaves they go right into the road. They're not going to miss the road. So bounce it across the bottom of the road and even in the back. This is also a good time to decide if you want to add any more trees on the left and right hand side now that you have the truck in there. Even going to add some dark brown leaves up in the trees to give it some shading. And speaking of shading, don't forget to add highlights and shading to your tree trunks. This is optional. It's always optional how much detail you do. But anything like this is really going to make your details stand out. One detail I always like to do is add white pops of highlights with a detail brush anywhere you want the truck to pop. So I do that all along the tops, on the lights, even on the tires. That's an optional detail. Don't forget to add a mirror, just a little circle with a line curving to the window. Okay, now we're done with the truck. Let's fill it up with pumpkins. So, start with some white and a slightly smaller round brush and do a teardrop shape and then, continue making curved shapes on either side of that teardrop until you get the size of your pumpkin. If you watch any of my pumpkin painting tutorials this fall, you can learn how to do a bigger pumpkin. We're going to do the exact same thing. Except for in the back of the truck, I'm going to have a couple different sizes. So, that's going to be kind of a wide and short one. This one will be a big and tall one and then why don't I do a smaller one on the bottom right. It's up to you how many pumpkins you do but we're doing them white first so we can paint them a color. Dry the white and then you can paint it bright. I'm going to do a couple different color pumpkins so let's do a bright orange one here. Let's do a reddish orange on this one on the left and like in my beginner pumpkin painting, I'm going to have a tan little one right beside the orange one. There we go. For the orange pumpkin, do yellow highlights on each of the sections. On the dark red pumpkin, do orange highlights and add some shading. Take a detail brush with some dark brown and you can add the ribs of the pumpkin just by outlining each of those shapes and before the brown dries, take a little bit of orange and blend those in. You can even do a little bit of shading at the bottom of each of your pumpkins. Do the same thing with the red one. You can blend it in with a little bit of orange and red as well. For the little tan pumpkin. I'm not going to use quite dark brown. I'm going to do like a muted version of the tan color and do some shading there. With dark brown though, don't forget to add some stems. So you can outline the top of your pumpkin just a little bit and do a little tiny tilted rectangle at the top of each. However, you want to design it. I've seen people putting pets in the back of these trucks. I've seen sunflowers. So many fun things you can do in your own painting. So don't forget to make it your own. I'm a little pumpkin obsessed this fall so that's what I'm doing. I'm even going to do some highlights. Little pops of white on my stems. Let's do some on the tops of the pumpkins as well. Just a little hint. And last but not least don't forget to put a word on your license plate. The top suggestion was harvest and I love that. So that's the word I'm going to do. But I'm going to spell it a little bit differently. Just a how many people correct my spelling but in all realness you can shorten words on license plates if you need to either way I can't wait to see how yours turns out and if you like this tutorial and want to see the Christmas truck version of it I will make sure to link that video in the description below as well have fun and happy painting everybody.

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Stacked Pumpkin Painting | This stacked pumpkin painting has all the fun fall colors! 🎨😍 It's not everyday I find inspiration on a trip to Walmart, but the pumpkin decor this year... | By Emily Seilhamer Art | It's not everyday I walk into Walmart and think that would make a good painting but the other day I walked in the fall decor section and there was this cute plastic stack of pumpkins that inspired this painting today. So first take an eleven by fourteen canvas board and pick a color for your background. I'm using my mop brush and I decided to do purple and tan. Purple is one of my favorite fall colors. Notice how I mixed more tan to make it brighter in the center of my canvas and then I brushed in some darker purple on the outside edges. That way it creates frame around the pumpkins. Now dry your background. I cleaned off my mop brush and then I took some tan with just a tiny hint of the purple and then back and forth strokes at the bottom of my canvas to give the pumpkin something to sit on. I don't want it to stand out too much but I'm going to make it a little brighter in the center of the table right here and then dry it really good. Now think of the different colors pumpkins you could stack. I'm going to take a size six round brush. Let's start with a deep red and a little bit of brown. Now to do the first stack, I'm going to do a U shape and slightly off center. This is going to be the front section of my pumpkin and turn it into a teardrop that has a rounded edge at the top but see how it's slightly pointed and then fill it in just with that solid color. To build on the pumpkin, I'm going to give it something that kind of looks like a mustache. I'm going to do a curve line coming out from either side but notice how the curve is a little bit higher up than the bottom curve. Both of those are level, a little bit higher in that first one and then I'm going to curve it up. This one's going to be a backward C that curves up at the top and notice how the curve at the top is slightly higher than the curved point on the middle section. Same thing on the other side. It should mirror that. That's going to be a letter C that's connected to that middle section and then fill that in as well. We have our first couple sections. We're going to level this off so we're going to do another C on the left hand side Do two curves, one at the bottom, one at the top, and then connect the two. Notice the bottom curve is slightly higher than the one before it and the one at the top is slightly higher than the one before that one as well. As we get to the outside edges of pumpkins, we're going to keep adding these sections but notice how they're getting a little bit thinner. So the middle section should be the widest one and then out towards the edges, they're going to get smaller and smaller. Almost like a crescent moon. On the other side, you can balance up pumpkin with as many curves as you want. I'm going to do some backward Cs on this side sticking with that pattern. There we go. To make the pumpkin look more three dimensional, we have to add highlights. To do this, take some orange and mix it in with your red and brush it on in the middle of each of your pumpkin sections. Make sure you're keeping along with the curve of the pumpkin when you're doing your brush strokes and keep a little gap in between each of the sections. If you leave a little bit of darker red and brown in there, it'll make it look like it's shaded. In fact, don't brush it all the way up to the top or the bottom either because that leaves natural shading as well. See how it's starting to pop up the picture? I love that. To really make it pop, you could take just bright orange and brush it coming down from the tops of each of the pumpkin sections and then, at the very bottom, don't forget to shade it. It's a little bit shaded but to really make it pop, you could take some dark brown and brush up a little bit of that as well. Make sure it's dry and then you can pick out the color for your next pumpkin. I'm going to do orange mixed with a little bit of red. Start off the same way we did before with a U shape. Notice how it's in between those two sections. And then make it a point. This one's only about two thirds the height of the one on the middle. It's going to be shorter. And then once you fill it in give it a mustache. Notice the curves are slightly higher than the one that we started with. And then start adding those backward Cs and letter Cs adding sections as you go. You can make it as wide as you want. Just make sure each of the sections come out a little bit higher than the one before them and that they should be also getting just ever so slightly thinner. So see how that one is higher but slightly thinner than the one before it. Fill them in keeping with the curve. These ones on the right and left side are going to be really thin and notice they are also much higher than the rest of them. That's going make it look round. To highlight the sections, take yellow this time. Yellow and orange make good pumpkin highlights and brush them on in the middle of each of those sections. Remember to leave a gap so it has that shading and you only have to do it in this mid section. You don't have to do it all the way at the top or at the bottom. To do a little bit of shading, you can also mix a little bit of brown in with the orange. I'm going to do only a little bit. I don't want my brown to get too dirty and then dry so we can add the top pumpkin. Now the one I saw from Walmart was a yellow. I'm going to do this more of a white yellow. And it's going to be a little bit shorter as well about two thirds the height of the one underneath it. Start with that oval shape. I have it off center to the right this time. Then add a mustache. A little curve at the bottom and then start creating those sections there filling them in as you go. Once you do one pumpkin it gets easier. This one is just nice and dainty. So I am using a smaller round brush. Step back and eyeball it best you can to make sure it's center underneath both of the ones at the bottom. What I would do is make sure the very top edges come up a little higher than the other ones we've done because this one will have a stem. And to make it look three dimensional I'm just taking some of the dark yellow and brushing it down from the top and up from the bottom. And then I am going to take pure white then while it's still wet and brush it in between for highlights. It is easiest to do the highlighting and shading on all of these pumpkins when they're still wet by the way. But then dry it when you're finished. Now something fun about the stack of pumpkins I saw at Walmart is they had splatter paint all over them which I think is why I really wanted to try doing a painting of pumpkins with splatter paint. But before we try the splatter don't forget to cover your background. I'm just taking paper towels. Anything you have that's flat to cover the background. Even the points in between the pumpkins can rip off just the points of paper towels and stick them in there. And then splatter on as much as you want. I took just a little bit of watered down yellow and white that I had from the top pumpkin to stand out. Don't go overboard but it is fun. And then when you take off the paper towels you have splattered pumpkins. There we go. Now let's add a stem. I'm just taking some dark brown and white on a detail brush. Do a little curved triangle but instead of coming to a point why don't we have the stem go off to the left because then we can have a tall point without it going off the picture. You can outline the top edges of the curves of the pumpkin. Even add some curly cues. Have fun with it and design it however you want. And then when it dries you can add some shading on the one edge. I'm even adding some white highlights along the top edge. There we go. Now I really like them like this. But in the spirit of going along with the inspiration something else that this stack of pumpkins had was bright white and yellow highlights in the cracks of each of the pumpkin sections. So normally I would leave it but just for fun I wanted to see what it would look like because it really makes those sections pop. Just taking my detail brush and highlighting them. Getting brighter as we get up to the top. This top one I'm doing white section colors like that. Eh it grows on you. It is fun. I like it. Now let's decorate the stack of pumpkins. Now I have some leaves I had from Dollar Tree not going to glue them to the canvas although I am tempted. Instead I'm going to paint the bottom of the leaf with green paint. Let's try to use them like a stamp. I've been seeing a lot of people use leafs for stamps and art projects. This one is not a real leaf so I'm not sure if it's going to work but we're going to try it. Let's lift it up and see. Uh not too bad. We'll fix it up. This is going to make sure that they're all about the same size and gives me the shape to start with. Let's add one in the here. Any part of your pumpkin you don't like, you could decorate it with leaves. See, now I have a few. Not too bad. Let's fix them up. I'm going to add a little bit of white to the green I made with green and orange and just fill in that shape. You can use a detail brush and really make them detailed if you want. I just use that as a starting point for my leaves. I'm filling them in. Then, taking a smaller round brush. I'm adding a little bit of yellow to my green to make it look like the leaves are starting to turn a little bit. You can do all different color fall leaves too. Think about that. When I have them filled in here, I'm taking a detail brush with some white now mixed in with a tiny bit of green and just adding some simple veins down the middle of each of them. You can even make the edges stand out by adding some highlights to some of those points as well. Maybe even add some shading by adding little sections of dark brown. I'm not going to outline them like a cartoon just in different areas and maybe blend them a little bit. That's up to you. And final details. It's up to you how you decorate this stack of pumpkins. The ones I saw also had branches with berries. So let's add a couple very simple dark brown branches with the detail brush coming off. Notice how each of the branches are overlapping slightly with the leaves as well. Don't get too detailed but dry them and pick your colors for your berries. I'm just going to use all the colors that we used in the pumpkins to tie them in. And just do tiny little circles spacing them all out so you have a mix of colors on each of the branches if you're not comfortable painting a circle you could even use the back end of your paint brush or you could even use the back end of a pencil eraser. That's up to you how detailed you want to get. Let's add a couple yellow ones in here. Maybe a few green ones. And what do you think? Did I do the ones from Walmart justice? Let me know in the comments and if you want to learn how to paint some other pumpkin paintings I some more tutorials for you so I'll have those linked in the description as well. Have fun and happy painting everybody.

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