In this step by step video, Ginger will show you how to mix acrylic paint with a heavy gel modeling medium so you will be able to create van Gogh's Starry Night with thick, rich texture and vibrant colors.
Note: If you watched the first part on YouTube, then you will want to start on part 3. There have been some questions about using Gesso or 3D Gel instead of the Modeling Paste and Ginger offers her views under the lesson.
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The "Van Gogh's Starry Night" is painted on a 9x12 stretched canvas using Ginger's Standard palette of colors with some extra "mediums" added for texture.
The Impressionist painters like Monet, Renoir, and Matisse used very small overlapping brush strokes in their painting. They were the first artists to actually paint on location, using oil paints that did not dry for weeks. These small directional brush strokes that overlapped using warm and cool colors gave real vibrancy and lift to the paintings.
See "Supplies Needed" below.
This is a "2-Cookies" lesson.
Supplies Needed:
- Show your support by supplies at FACEBOOK Ginger Cook Acrylic Painting Club {Pinned Affiliated Links at no extra cost to you}
- Titanium White
- Phthalo Blue(Green Shade if Liquitex)
- Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade if Liquitex)
- Napthol Crimson
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Oxide or Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Umber
- Burnt Sienna
- Black (just because Vincent used it!)
Palette knives for mixing paint
Modeling Paste - Liquitex
#10 Bright Brush
#4 Bright Brush
1/2" Angle Brush
3/8" Angle Brush
Artist Tape
9" x 12" Canvas
Chaulk
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have become a big fan of yours mam. I tried to recreate the Starry nights painting taught by you. I am happy with the result. Is there a way I can send u my work for ur review… Thank you. Love ur work!
Swanpna,
Please join our private Facebook Club (Group) so we can see your paintings. If you are a member of this website, you can send to Ginger for Personal Art Coaching and she will help you take your paintings to the next level.
I loved this video, I did the one that was painted on a hair dryer. Glad I found it again!
Is this acrylic or oil
Drew,
All of the paintings on this website are done in professional heavy-body acrylics. There is no oil paint used on any of our lessons.
Sorry to bother you but on the oleander Vincent van Gogh table books and pitcher ..I have one and two lesson videos but I can’t get three and four I’ve tried for over 3 hours now to find it today… now it was there yesterday and the day before..but I can’t go on with my painting becsuse I can’t get to video 3 and 4 is there anything you can do to help me.. thanks again …sorry to bother you ..
Helen,
Here are the direct links that will take you directly to step 3 and 4.
https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/lesson/vll-van-goghs-oleanders-and-books-part-3-of-4/
https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/lesson/vll-van-goghs-oleanders-and-books-part-4-of-4/
We are in the process of updating all lessons to the new format, but it will take some time before all 300+ lessons are converted.
Let me know if we can be of further assistance.
Jon
Thank you Jon ..
It did work. So excited to get back to painting on this oleander again. Hope ypy are having fun oon your cruise
This is probably a stupid question but I’m about to start this as a 24×36 and was wondering should I keep my strokes quite small or get proportionally larger to accommodate the size of the canvas?
Janet, if you are wanting to keep true to Vincent Van Gogh, you will want to keep the brushstrokes short. On a painting of this size, you will want the strokes to be about the length of the last joint of your little finger. Hope this makes sense. If you have more questions, please use the “Contact Us” form on this website.
Thanks, Jon, makes perfect sense! Since I hadn’t actually started the painting, I didn’t think I should use the “contact us” form but will in future
Janet
“Part five will not play, Jeepers!
This video can’t be played with your current setup.”
I have played all Parts up until part five, help I need to be able to finish viewing this tutorial
I would really be nice if you would use our Contact Us form for these type of issues, but since you are not leaving your email address, I will attempt to give you advice here. The Safari browser seems to generate this error. Some users have told us that they have been able to clear the error, by REFRESHING the browser several times. Others use either Chrome or Firefox. Hope this helps.